ChickenLadyLovesLife

"Coldplay hasn’t made a single in years but today they made two." LOL

In the end he was only able to afford two out of three fingers.

I hope one of those was the middle finger.

The point is moot! Since the GOP is gutting medicare/medicaid anyway.

one of the richest countries in the world yet doesn’t have universal healthcare

We're working on that ... the "richest country in the world" part, not the universal healthcare part.

Not to mention the cost of the ride there! My mom had to go to the ER a few years ago. We called 911 and an ambulance came to our house and transported her to the local hospital. After she got out, she got a bill for the ride for $2800 (which is actually pretty cheap for an ambulance ride). Then, a few weeks later, she got another ambulance bill for $2800 from a different ambulance company. It turned out this second company was the one affiliated with the hospital, and this made them feel entitled to bill people for a ride even if a different company's ambulance showed up and actually provided the service.

My mom was all set to pay this second bill because she's from a generation where they just pay any bill that shows up no matter what. I was like no fucking way are you paying this, and I called up this ambulance company and allowed myself to get really angry on the phone. They threatened to send it to collections but they never did, maybe because I yelled "fucking do it!" to them over the phone. Just the shittiest pieces of corporate shit I've ever encountered, sending out completely illegitimate bills to old people because they know some fraction of people will just pay it.

They're the broken tables.

The chuds aren't going to do anything other than type away furiously. Same as the rest of us ...

The only thing trump has ever been successful at in his entire life is being a reality TV star. It's amazing that people don't understand that that's his role now, too. I guess he's also been successful at laundering Russian oligarch money, but that's his role now, too.

Unfortunately, running on this as a campaign promise would get you killed. What you need to do is promise amnesty on the grounds of "healing the nation" and then revoke that amnesty once you're in power. As Sun Tzu wrote, never surround your enemy on all four sides.

Reading actual SCOTUS rulings can be pretty wild. The one for the 2000 presidential election basically said "we're giving this to Bush for no particular reason but this is a one-time decision that should never in the future be used as a precedent" despite the fact that precedent from previous rulings is pretty much their whole thing. Even the stay they issued to stop the recount in Florida early in the process basically said "the recount must stop because it would impair the legitimacy of a Bush presidency".

The ruling against Roe v. Wade was just comedy. They were using English law from centuries before the United States even existed as precedent for their decision.

Operation Northwoods

One thing that's often missed about this in the hero-worship of JFK is that Kennedy's administration desperately wanted to intervene in Cuba militarily - just because Castro was a Communist - and they had been pressuring the CIA hard to find something to justify an invasion. This was the context in which the CIA finally said "well, we can't find anything, so how about we fake attacks on US citizens and blame it on Cuba?" It wasn't like the CIA came up with this plan on its own out of the blue and presented it to Kennedy for approval.

To their discredit, the CIA would certainly have done this happily if Kennedy had given the go-ahead, but he said "uh, that's a little too far."

Nothing could be more American than that pledge: it was something that was first propagated by a flag company that was trying to sell more flags.