reddogblitz
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14 hours ago, Roundybout said:
Luigi lives on!
Luigi is a punk.
Chuck on the other hand was a genius fluegal horn player, band leader, and composer. RIP Chuck. Thankfully he will live on in his recordings.
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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
Russia Gate is the epicenter of the deep state. Not Epstein.
They both are. Two things can be true.
How are the Dems and media in a "total panic"?
The people trying to play stall ball and kick the can down the road (grand jury testimony) seem more panicked. Media and D's look like they're having fun with this.
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11 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
We do that now…those who contribute help fund those that don’t. Those that are in good health subsidize those that aren’t. Private subsidizes Medicaid and Medicare. I appreciate the guess at 15%, but you’re suggesting 15% on top of federal and state income tax already in existence, plus all the other tax we pay already? Property…sakes…excise etc?
True.
I'm saying 15% (a wild guess) of your income for health care. Between premiums, co pays, inflated Rx prices I'm guessing we already pay that or close. What do you think it should be?
15% (or whatever) above federal and state income taxes. you no longer pay for health premiums. Many other government health assistance programs would no longer he needed. In my state we have Apple Care as a state funded low income assistance program. That would no longer be needed for example.
I'm not married to this idea and admittedly don't have all the details. But the current model is inefficient and over priced. Do you disagree?
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On 7/17/2025 at 6:21 PM, Big Blitz said:
They’ll say….they’ll be doctored!!!
They didn’t want them. They didn’t care about the Hunter Laptop from hell.
They didn’t care about Dementia Joe.
They care now.
Brilliantly played
I agree with you on all this.
But how does this give any justification to what's going on NOW.
I hate this new trend in the presidency where whenever something they do is questioned the response is, yeah my predecessor did stuff too. President Trump and the Republicans are doing it now and last 4 years was President Biden and the Democrats. Come on man, President Biden stunk and hid his dementia or whatever it is. He pardoned his son after he said he wouldn't. That was bad stuff. So why would any of that justify what President Trump does? Why would President Trump want to do anything like president did?
If President Trump is your guy and you think he's right, justify his decisions on their merit, not how he compares to a very bad President. Can yo do that?
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On 7/15/2025 at 3:24 AM, thenorthremembers said:
I think posts in this thread have done an adequate job of using actual pieces of campaign literature and video clips of Trump speaking about Epstein to show he didnt "campaign" on releasing the file.
Yes and no. In the interview he first says yes and then crawfishes and says he'd have to look at it first, lot of fake stuff. Ok. That's the yes part.
The no part is that he did campaign on "draining the swamp" and dismantling the "deep state". You know, no more powerful rich people breaking laws and with the help of the deep state getting away with it. Now not releasing info about a pedophile because he was your friend and some powerful people could go down so he punts sounds very swampy and deep statey to me and many others including many Republicans. Does it not to you?
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6 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
Just wondering, with regard to "everyone made to pay more"...what, if anything, should the average American be asked to pay to contribute to the system in terms of annual cost, co-pays and/or deductibles, prescription meds and the like?
Oh--and as Fergie points out, there is a growing field where physicians offer concierge services for a fee, catering to wealthier clients and discriminating against those less fortunate, and ironically, often most in need. In the new medicare for all scenario outlined above--does the government allow this sort of program to exist where the axis tips toward the elites and draws money away from the system that is fair and right for everyone else?
I think the reality is that most members of the medical profession enter into the profession to help people, but at the same time, but often possess the same prey drive for profit as any other business owner. In that regard, they look out for number one (as Fergie has stated numerous times), and that can come into conflict with what is right and just for a patient treatment plan and the greater good.
How do we balance that in the new system without setting guardrails in place that protect everyone?
Thanks for your response. You raise some interesting points.
As to #1, this is a really tough question. My original point with this primarily that since the passage of ACA prices for medical care have continued to rise a lot for people not on Medicaid or get a subsidy. Do you think I'm wrong about this? Didn't mean everyone should pay more. The average American is already paying quite a bit. Especially if you throw in the employer contribution to health insurance.
We all pitch in for paying for roads, social security, military, snow plows etc. so when we need it we have it and everyone can take advantage. Why not the same for healthcare? Everyone goes into the world's largest insurance pool. And no, it should not be free. Would be funded by income tax or something. I'll take a stab at it even though it would be low for some and high for others. 15%
#2 I don't care about this. If rich people want to pay their taxes AND their health care costs out of pocket let 'em. They'd be paying premiums (taxes) and taking nothing out. Win. Win.
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3 hours ago, Roundybout said:
Worse, a Jill Stein voterGuess away. We have a secret ballot in this country. Suck on it.
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41 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
Why didn't the dems question her these past 4 years
It's as obvious as the nose on your face. Democrats didn't want to release any information for the same reason Republicans don't. High profile politicians of their party and donors would be implicated as well.
I keep saying this, but it's Heidi Fleiss' client list 2.0. That thing never saw the light of day and neither will this.
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6 hours ago, Wolfgang said:
You voted for Kamala Harris?
Did I say that? Read much?
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On 7/21/2025 at 6:46 AM, JFKjr said:
So you're upset that he ISN'T 'delivering on campaign promises.'
You didn't vote for him, so obviously you didn't WANT him to deliver on any campaign promises.
But you're still upset! lol. And complaining that he's "not delivering."
Your logic is dust-filled.
I didn't vote for President Trump but I would have been 100% cool if he had lowered the price of gas on day 1. As would I have been if he had stopped the Russia Ukraine War on day 1.
Do you really think if someone votes for the losing candidate they have to be against EVERYTHING they do? How dumb is that? As an American I want what's best for America no matter who delivers it.
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On 7/20/2025 at 2:41 PM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
It’s telling me…
It wasn’t a block buster story, it was run of the mill gossip mongering;
Some people believe it is a real story;
Some people think it’s a bogus story;
Most people don’t really care and moved on 5 mins after the news broke;
Distrust in our media institutions is at an all time high.
That’s what it tells me, Sport.
Signed,
Chief
It irritates me because why in heavens name does Vice President Vance need to fly that big a$$ jet that costs $200,000 an hour to operate to call on a private businessman for a 1 1/2 hour meeting? Not to mention all the tons and tons of carbon he dropped on us little people. Wether it had to do with the WSJ story or not I don't know or care.
Vice President Vance likes to portray himself as Joe Tech and a champion of AI. Surely the White House has the capability of a secure Zoom type meeting. Use it instead like the rest of us schmucks do.
I can sum it up in 3 words. WASTE FRAUD ABUSE
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3 hours ago, B-Man said:
All that dark money is going to come in so they can elect that white boy they're getting ready to run.
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3 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
7. more people on medicaid. more on the exchange *which I used myself). Less people with no insurance: less ER visits for spider bites and bee sting,, less train wrecks who watched a lump in their breqst grow cuz they knew they couldn't afford treatment. But it was farfrom perfect. The EHR and quality indicators are a mess. I wish they had gone for medicare for all. But then it would have been repealed.
Why was McConnel lrubbing hid hands along with Cassidy who was a doc?
Thanks for your insight.
As someone who isn't in the medical field although I did work with insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Seems to me ACA is good deal if you're poor and get either Medicaid or a subsidy. Everyone else has just been made to pay more with no real improvement in services and in a lot of cases you couldn't keep the Dr. you like.
If you're going to try to sell Medicare for all,you at least need to make sure everyone understands Medicare is not free. You gotta pay $250 or so that comes out of Social Security and there are co pays. Bernie never mentioned this and thus many young people believe it to be free. Maybe we could get there if we started to lower the Medicare eligibility age incrementally. ie, now it is 65. Next year it could be say 62. The 3 years after that we drop it 60. 3 years later drop it to 55. Slowly move into it and build up the infrastructure along the way until everyone is covered.
Of course this would require a government that can think and act past the next election. A commitment that future leaders might stick to as opposed to throwing out all the old President's stuff with a large stack of Presidential Proclamations on inauguration day. So good luck.
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1 minute ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
I remember and admire the thumbs down
https://time.com/5379164/mccain-health-care-legacy-aca/
QuoteMany will remember McCain as the incidental savior of the Affordable Care Act, whose late-night thumbs-down vote halted his party’s most promising effort to overturn a major Democratic achievement — the signature achievement, in fact, of the Democrat who beat him to become president. It was a vote that earned him regular — and biting — admonishments from President Donald Trump.
https://time.com/5379164/mccain-health-care-legacy-aca/
That was to repeal it in 2017 after it had been law for 8 years. So you like the ACA I take it since McCain killed the chance of killing it which you seem to think is heroic.
Serious question: You were a doctor pre and post ACA. On a scale of 1 (sucked and hurt) to 10 (fixed health care for everyone), how much do you think it helped/hurt medical care in America all politics aside?
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@Joe Ferguson forever - Was also going to add the ACA passed 243-173 in the House of Representatives and 60-39 in the Senate. All yes votes by Democrats. They could have passed whatever they wanted and the ACA is what they chose to pass.
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3 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Obama wanted to do it. He said too many people would be unemployed in the insurance industry. Yhat's true bur short term pain is better than long term. lots of suits ducking the test. Oh, and he needed Kohn McCaine yo pass it from his deathbed. morbid but true.
I knew as soon as congress while working on the ACA decided to invite insurance companies to testify and help we were screwed. And we still are.
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1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:
Oh
Bill Clinton? Are yall still talking about him? He's a creep.
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Cancelling congress for the summer so they don't have to vote on releasing Epstein files?
Grab 'em by the republican.
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22 hours ago, muppy said:
I disagree. This is one time El naranja is 100% serious NOT TROLLING A BIT
You cannot make this chit up at all.
this is NOT how El presidente should be wasting Our governments time. Sports teams names
are you ******* kidding me?
I disagree.
President Trump is a major league troll and is trolling. He did all through his first term. He says something outlandish to get a reaction and change the subject. Here's an article about it:
Quote“A troll,” according to one definition, “is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people … with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
The goal of the troll is to provoke a reaction by any means necessary. Trolls thrive in communities that are open and democratic (they wouldn’t be invited into a discussion otherwise) and which operate in presumed good faith (there need to be some standards of decorum to offend). Presidential nomination contests are highly susceptible to trolling, therefore. Access is fairly open: There’s no longer much of a filter between the campaigns, the media and the public. And it’s comically easy to provoke a reaction.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-the-worlds-greatest-troll/
I don't know , was there any on topic discussions President Trump might want to disrupt when the message was tweeted? And he seems to have provoked you into an emotional response.
However, I do agree with you El Presidente should absolutely not be acting in this gross, petty, childish way. But we get to choose the reaction. He wants us to wig out and get mad and act crazy. Instead, on something like this, I prefer the reaction to laugh or shake my head or something and declare "there goes Trump again" and move on. I wish nore people and especially the news media and Democrat elected officials would do this. After much lefty consternation after a few days all is forgotten and we're on the next troll. At this point, It's a pattern one can smell from a mile away. Don't be a sucker.
And then toss in President Trump's decades long grudge with the NFL back to his $3 settlement in regards to NFL collusion or what it was.
If he wants to change a team name he shoulda bought one (if he had enough money).
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1 hour ago, Westside said:
I miss king Autopen. On second thought, nahhhhh.
I don't miss him either. Once the clown we have now is gone I won't miss him either.
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Troller-in-Chief is up to his old tricks. You gotta hand it to him. the dude can troll.
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5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Its a Sunday. July 20. He is your president for another 1,282 days.
And I’m at the beach enjoying all the winning we’ve done - and loving the Trump flags. Much more than normal it’s just beautiful.
5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:Today is the 6 month mark. We're now 12.5% through. We're gonna get through this. Makes me optimistic about the future.
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
even after they're out of insulin and out of food, they'll vote R.
I'm gonna call BS on this one. If they run out of insulin they ain't gonna live long enough to vote in the next election.
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46 minutes ago, Orlando Buffalo said:
I want the Epstein files as much as anyone and I am not pleased with him being just like every other politician, but as I said what evidence do you have Trump is a pedo?
Not sure this is evidence cuz you have to consider the source.
President Trump himself admitted to purposefully walking in on Miss Teenage America contestants while they were in varying stages of undress. He Also claimed to "grab them by the pu$$y". Does sound kind if pedophilia like behavior to me. Do you think it doesn't?
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WSJ - Dirty Donald to Epstein - "Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret."
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Posted · Edited by reddogblitz
I find this part of the story interesting.
They had been friends for years and then Trump rats him out. Your theory is plausible I guess . Trump didn't know about the shenanigans. Found out. And then did his civic duty to report it to authorities and help.
Or, knowing President Trump's need for revenge in all things big or small, makes me wonder if maybe Jeffrey double crossed him somewhere so President Trump got some sweet revenge.