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February 17, 2020

A little over 170 years ago the country elected Lincoln and this country had a civil war

and now the party of Lincoln..................has this, just think being "ordered" to support a fascist narcissistic traitor to the country..........................so that his fucking ego can install "fear" into his masses .........................he is fucking ordering them to win the popular vote......................

Blue State Republicans 'Ordered' To Win Popular Vote For Trump

Trump has "given the order" to blue-state GOP Chairs to get out the vote because he wants to win the popular vote this time.
By Frances Langum

This item in my local south-central Illinois newspaper caught my eye Sunday morning:

Illinois GOP leader urges strong party turnout for Trump

State GOP Chairman Tim Schneider told Sangamon County Republicans last week that even though President Donald Trump might not win Illinois in November, he should get as many votes as possible.

Talking to about 700 people at the $100-a-plate Lincoln Day Dinner at the Bank of Springfield Center, Schneider shared stories from the Republican National Committee winter meeting in January at the Trump Doral golf resort in Florida.

“And I was given the order down there,” Schneider said. “If we can’t win for President Trump here in Illinois, at least let’s drive the popular vote. The president wants to be re-elected. But this time, he wants to win the popular vote. So let’s get our friends and neighbors out that aren’t registered to vote, because we know that central and southern Illinois is Trump country, and we have to get those people out to vote.”

So while Democrats are looking to turn a tide of less than 80,000 votes to win back five-or-so states, Donald J. Trump is ordering blue-state Republicans to come up with almost 3 million votes so he can "win" the popular vote.

I suggest we stop him.

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/blue-state-republicans-ordered-win-popular

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Because his fucking ego is so big that his team decided to "Photo shop" picture of "Bush's " air force one taking off during the Daytona 500.................and this sick asshole takes a taxpayer vehicle around the track right along with the secret service in tow........................fuck him and his party................

November 3 2020 cannot get here fast enough..................or let's take to the street now.................

February 17, 2020

John Oliver Returns, Asks Why The Hell Medicare For All Is Even A Question

Because while Great Britain's National Health Service has its problems, it's still better than our health care system!
By Susie Madrak

John Oliver returns to do a deep dive into Medicare for All, and as usual, does a superb job. Via the A.V. Club:

Last Week Tonight returned this week, and Sunday’s show saw John Oliver back at it, somehow making a 20-minute segment about a seemingly intractable problem simultaneously infuriating, dispiriting, educational, inspirational, and entertaining. That even though, as Oliver pointed out when highlighting the English philanthropist who’s found that Americans are far more in need of free medical pop-up clinics than the rest of the world’s people, “Normally, Americans hate it when a British person comes over to diagnose what’s wrong with you.” Still, if any nation on Earth is in more need of a cheeky naturalized Englishman to airdrop reminders about why, say, Susan Collins (R-ME) is the poster child for Republican gullibility, complicity, and hypocrisy when it comes to Donald Trump (“She can tell Trump doesn’t learn anything because he kept having kids after Donald Trump Jr.”), it’s us in the U.S. And that goes double for Oliver’s main story about Medicare For All, the Democratic hot potato issue so radioactive to Fox News that they keep wheeling out “Sarah Palin’s fourth attempt at cloning herself” to scare its elderly viewership by essentially putting on a monkey mask and screaming “SOCIALISM! BOOGA BOOGA!*” (Only slightly more ridiculous than Fox Business host Kennedy sneering about “sicko socialism” when introducing her own nuanced examination of the undeniably complex health care issue.)

I have a unique point of view. I've had good insurance, I've had shitty insurance -- or none at all.

A few years back, while I was uninsured, I had six bouts of pancreatitis. (If you've ever had it, you know how awful it is. It's like having a heart attack, only you're puking up bile.) Every time I'd go into the ER, the doctors would nod seriously and tell me I had to have my gall bladder out OR I MIGHT DIE. Because I was too stupid to know I needed surgery, I guess. So then I'd tell them I had no insurance, and they'd send me right home.

That's when I found out that Obamacare included a bridge plan that covered preexisting conditions in most states before the ACA actually kicked in. I contacted my state rep's office (they'd never heard about it) and they called me back to tell me there was a three-month waiting period. Using my most desperate voice, I said, "Isn't there anything you can do? They're telling me I'll die without the surgery." They called me back again and it was done. (Yay, Obamacare! I got shingles after the surgery, too, but at least I was alive.)

Last year, I made it to the finish line: Medicare! (Yay!) I bought the top Medigap plan, one I can't really afford, because, you know, bad luck!

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/john-oliver-returns-make-strong-case

Note: there is a video that has already been posted on the Media Platform thread....................

February 16, 2020

Workers Face Retirement With Fear as GOP Refuses to Back Pension Protection Bill

BY
Thomas Conway, OurFuture
PUBLISHED
February 15, 2020

Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, Louisiana, paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.”

But now, Heck’s sacrifice may have been for nothing because his multiemployer pension plan is one of about 150 nationwide set to go broke. If that happens, the 78-year-old Heck will have to find a cheaper, lower-quality health plan and keep the beef herd he’s itching to sell.

The Democratic-controlled House passed—with bipartisan support—a commonsense plan to save Heck’s pension and those of another 1.3 million workers, retirees and widows. But Republican leaders in the Senate refuse to consider it.

n the meantime, the futures of workers and retirees like Heck hang in the balance. Many face retirement with fear instead of anticipation.

Multiemployer pension plans like Heck’s include workers from two or more companies in industries such as transportation, entertainment, construction and paper. Employers make contributions for workers as part of their compensation. Heck and others often give up wage increases or other benefits to fund those plans.

Many of the 1,400 plans nationwide are still healthy. But through no fault of workers or retirees, about 150 are struggling.

https://truthout.org/articles/workers-face-retirement-with-fear-as-gop-refuses-to-back-pension-protection-bill/