Friday, September 22, 2017

The Lives of Millions of Americans The Health Insurance of Many More Millions Depends On Three Senate Republicans Because The Rest of The Party Is An Enemy Of The People

The latest last chance effort for Republicans to kill many more Americans than were killed in 9-11, the Graham-Cassidy destruction of the Affordable Care Act takes the popular Republican Route of "sending it back to the state" where Republicans in state legislatures would have the power to kill what Graham-Cassidy doesn't do outright and giving state governments the incentive to do that by giving them less money than the ACA does.

I'm not going to go into the depravity of the bill except to say that it is everything bad in the last attempt that failed, dramatically on the vote of John McCain and adds to that.  Among other things it rewards the worst states which, like my own under Republican governance, didn't expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, something the incredibly awful and cruel Republican Paul LePage and the "moderate" Republicans who controlled the legislature and who still prevent expansion over the veto of the lame duck LePage.   Maine doesn't deserve such a "reward"for the depravity and cruelty of our Republicans and neither do Texas or South Carolina or other states who have consistently done the wrong thing.

It is, yet again, dependent on there being three Republican Senators who will not do what the large majority of Republican Senators are willing to do, destroy the health insurance of tens of millions of Americans, risk that of many more as the chaos in the insurance market drives up costs for even those who can get insurance and allows insurance companies to pressure state legislatures into allowing them to discriminate against those with existing conditions and expensive diseases and disabilities.  It will damage Medicaid which, in most places, in most cases, is the sole lifeline to people with disabilities and elderly people in nursing homes.

That Republicans are doing this in order to give enormous tax breaks to the richest people in the country, against the opposition of most people in the country shows the extent to which that party is one of the most anti-American forces in the country, today.  If this passes they deserve to reap the whirl wind, unfortunately they will avoid doing that and the Republican in the Supreme Court are giving them support.   Under the recent decision to allow Republican drawn gerrymandered districts they are making it absolutely clear that they don't want there to be a fair vote anywhere.  It is clear that they are as bad as the worst of the Senate.  From now on plain honesty demands that they be presented as the political thugs and enemies of the American People because that is what they are.

18 comments:

  1. "The New Testament, the ultimate defining authority of Christianity, is absolutely explicit that Jesus was a Jew."

    I think the expression I'm looking for is "mighty white of them."

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    1. Considering that every word written in the New Testament appears to have been written by Jews, maybe it was mighty Jewish of them.

      Is there any occasion for which you can't pull out an inapt cliche? I ask that question rhetorically because you don't think in ideas, you just move around your prejudices, consisting of such cliches.

      I think there is every explanation in how "the left" went wrong in it being in the hands of and peopled by people not much different from you. I think your obsession may be the product of intentionality, not yours, to provide me with such a good example of how the American left went wrong, pissed away its power and has been down and out for the past half century as elitist atheists came to dominate it.

      The left will never succeed as long as such idiots as you are kept as a burden. You've also got a lot more in common with David Horowitz than you'd ever want to realize.

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    2. Interesting to use a racist phrase in support of an argument condemning anti-semitism.

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    3. He heard it in a TV show or movie. It got looped with the other limited repertoire of tape loops which he regurgitates in lieu of thinking.

      I had a friend in college, a Phi-Beta-Kappa member who was working on her degree in music - she already had one in psychology, who told me that sometimes she suspected that the only value her college educations had was to provide her with references to cultural icons. Only in her case it was to things like the writings of Max Weber or Jean Paul Sartre or English literature, in Simps case it was to give him a piece of paper so he could land work scribbling things other people had already said about pop music. I'm beginning to suspect that's pretty much what most of having a college education devolved into in the post-war period, though there was plenty of it around before. Even among some of the most august names in science. I'm writing about that right now.

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  2. Vladimir Horowitz, maybe. That fascist piece of shit David? Nah.

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    1. Only in so far as before he died Vladimir Horowitz happened to be the same age as you. There was a measure of vulgarity to his career but nothing like yours.

      No, David Horowitz is a liar who was allegedly of the left before he took the tiny little baby step between your kind of left and the right.

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  3. Says the guy who like Donald Trump won't mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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    1. I happened to check what each of us wrote about on our blogs on Holocaust Remembrance Day, You didn't mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day on your blog. I wrote against the materialist view of human beings and scientific racism, among other things. You took time off of writing anything about the crappy pop music and movies you write about.

      What you don't like is that I take all of the victims and intended victims of the Nazi-Darwinist genocides into account, including those not committed by the Nazis. You only care about one group to which you belong, I care about all of them, including Jews. Like Trump, you want it all to be about you. I'd rather take the view of Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, that all of those people matter.

      I don't see any basic difference between the attitude that only "my people" matter and that of the Nazis, who only believed "their people" mattered. That is the Nazi thinking I will not engage in but which you and all of the others who claim that their ethnic group is the only one that matters, who, like you, can make jokes about "Gypsies" being interned at an abandoned shopping mall in Jersey.

      Face it, Simps, you've got a lot in common with the Nazis, they didn't care about "Gypsies" either.

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  4. Oh yeah right. Like you have the moral authority to call anybody, let alone a Jews, a Nazi.

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    1. I didn't call "a Jews" a Nazi, I noted that you shared the characteristic of ethnic exclusivity with them, you're the one who revealed that commonality between you and Nazis, I just pointed it out.

      You know, if you hadn't made that assholistic ethnic joke about a "homeland for Gipsies in an abandoned shopping mall in Jersey" I might not have thought it worth pointing that about about you. I was just pointing out that you, on a pseudo-lefty blog, could say such an assholistic thing and not get called on it.

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  5. I repeat -- you don't have the moral authority to call anybody, let alone one of my fellow Red Sea Pedestrians, a Nazi.

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    1. A. I didn't call you a "Nazi" I merely pointed out you have more in common with Nazis than you would ever want anyone to notice and B. I will never give up my right to call Stephen Miller a Nazi, it's only the truth.

      You have no moral authority to draw those kinds of lines, Simps. You don't even have the intellectual cred to talk about such things. You are a pathological and obsessive liar.

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  6. That Gypsy gag, as I've pointed out to you on numerous occasions, is a Paul Krasner joke making fun about American Jews obsessing over an Israeli homeland. The fact that you still don't get it illustrates why you know nothing about a) Jews; b) the historical imperative for the existence of the state of Israel and c) humor in general.

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    1. A. I have no idea what Paul Krasner said or didn't say on the subject, A1. I have no trouble believing you'd steal material from someone else without attribution, it's what you do, A2 I have no problem believing you'd get something someone else said wrong, you do about what I said on an average of more than once a day. Though that's mostly due to you having the Simelsian form of Baron Munchausen's syndrome.

      B. I've asked you before to define this "historical imperative" for the displacement of Palestinians and why, if there were such a thing, it wouldn't mean you should remove your pasty white ass from North America immediately

      C. I know the difference between humor and stupidity. Your stuff is the later. Humor around here is too subtle for someone of your stupidity to get. You couldn't get if if you were told to laugh by the New Yorker and the Village Voice and Duncan all together.

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  7. Good fucking lord.

    "'I've asked you before to define this "historical imperative" for the displacement of Palestinians and why, if there were such a thing, it wouldn't mean you should remove your pasty white ass from North America immediately "

    Good fucking lord.

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    1. You expecting said lord to answer for you?

      Just what is that "historical imperative" I mean, you must be able to identify it if there is one. Go on, Simps, I know you don't really have any idea what that phrase is supposed to mean but give it a try, you've got approximately one out of 86400 to get it right, based on a broken clock and all.

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  8. "C. I know the difference between humor and stupidity."

    No you don't. Not even close. And not a single sentient mammal would back up that claim

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    1. That not single one would be the couple that you and BG comprise? Because sentience being something you've managed to avoid and love being blind? I'd expect more than a single sentient being would back me up on that, more than a a couple, too.

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