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24th June 2018, 03:47 PM | #361 |
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OECD healthcare spending Public/Compulsory Expenditure on healthcare https://data.oecd.org/chart/60Tt Every year since 1990 the US Public healthcare spending has been greater than the UK as a proportion of GDP. More US Tax goes to healthcare than the UK |
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That's both hilarious and very disturbing. That his association with Trump is something he wants to avoid at all costs is hilarious. That it is quite reasonable to make the assertion in court that a defendant's relationship with a sitting President of the United States would be of itself detrimental enough to irretrievably prejudice a jury is very disturbing. It suggests some extremely uncomfortable things about the quality of the Presidency. |
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Here's the problem you're contending with. If there was a consensus among three people out of a few hundred million that "that there was a ton of monkey business with the FBI 302's ...", and then three months later, after an incessant barrage of warped and lying Faux News reports and the self-serving clamoring of Repugnican Trumpist cronies in the Congress that such a thing was true, that number increased to five people, it would be perfectly true that there was a "growing consensus. |
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Oh well if it is utterly vacuous. Certainly you could easily show us....
suggestion tho? Declaring that "Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!" does not count. |
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what if instead of a incessant barrage from "Faux News" (That is clever, did you make that up on your own?... "Faux News" sounds serious) or self-serving clamoring from "Repugnican Trumpist cronies" (Swooooon... I fear that I am arguing with the entire Algonquin Roundtable at this point) it actually was originally sourced from the Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who was appointed by Repugnican Trumpist crony Barack Obama?
Crummy Repugnican Trumpist cronies like Barack Obama! Grrrr! |
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Although perhaps not intended as a serious question it made me think. He seems to have some severe mental health issues and for somebody with issues like that he has done very well for himself. His brand of shooting from the hip, poorly thought out decision making has led to tremendous failures many times and without his complete lack of ethics he would have completely failed financially. So do we give him credit for being good at cheating because his mental health problems necessitate cheating as his only path to success? He does have a personality that seems to provide entertainment to a substantial segment of the population, so it seems that one might give him some profs as an entertainer. One idea is that Trump is controlled by his mental illness, the people to be disgusted with are the more normal people that have cynically supported him for their own self serving purposes. |
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It also relies on the fact that the people claiming "a growing consensus" are more often than not, news commenters, columnists, spokespersons, etc... They're what's known as the "movers and shakers" and just by bringing it up they can pretty much rely on Maureen in Muskegon now agreeing with them (about something she'd never heard of), thereby.... A Growing Consensus.
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The vilification of Mexicans has been one of the sadder aspects of all of this for me. It is disgusting that people that work hard and contribute to society are vilified by a pompous disgusting pig of a person that has routinely cheated people for his personal gain. It is even more disgusting that people find this behavior acceptable. |
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If you have a link where Horowitz provides figures that establish that there is a growing consensus "that there was a ton of monkey business with the FBI 302's and that McCabe (who actually lied repeatedly under oath) had a hand in it.", then please provide it. Or, indeed, any link at all that has data on which someone could reasonably base that assertion.
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It's like the time that Fox News ran a story about one class in one school singing a song about historically significant African-Americans, which included a verse about President Obama. Later in the day, the host of one of their opinion shows was ranting about students being forced to sing songs praising President Obama, comparing it to North Korea. Still later in the day, the news story had morphed into the "public outrage" over students being forced to sing songs about President Obama. In reality, the only outrage was what they themselves had generated earlier that day. |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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"I have tried to stay uninvolved with the Department of Justice and FBI (although I do not legally have to), because of the now totally discredited and very expensive Witch Hunt currently going on. But you do have to ask why the DOJ & FBI aren’t giving over requested documents?" |
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Probably because its an active investigation, and many members of the House (including most notably Nunes) have shown themselves to be both completely incompetent and unlikely to handle the documents in a responsible, unbiased manner (see, for example, Nunes' little journey around Washington and secret late-night visit to the white house.)
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"The hearing of Peter Strzok and the other hating frauds at the FBI & DOJ should be shown to the public on live television, not a closed door hearing that nobody will see. We should expose these people for what they are - there should be total transparency!" "Why is Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), perhaps in a near drunken state, claiming he has information that only he and Bob Mueller, the leader of the 13 Angry Democrats on a Witch Hunt, knows? Isn’t this highly illegal. Is it being investigated?" |
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I wonder if that "total transparency" will extend to televising his own questioning by Meuller, when it happens?
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It's telling that the most profound question he can think of can be answered with a one-syllable word.
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