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We all know what it means.

Your denial of it isn't my problem.

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keep that cocksure bluster going when you post here after your traitorous fraudulent pervert “President”......

He's your president. And you can join old mate in the never-trump brigade.

You kids just don't appreciate the value, in not having that Clinton kid in the driver's seat.

That era just had to end. Heavy sighs.

Whatever. Just keep that energy going through 11/4.

Apparently it is since you bring it up so often.

About as often as you and building 7 at the twin towers

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Whatever. Just keep that energy going through 11/4.

We're dealing with our own neoliberal shitheels over the pond.

Get your own farm sorted out. Pronto.

Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Road Other Countries Took to Single-Payer

It is a common refrain from Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail: The United States is the only developed country that does not provide health coverage to all residents.

“Canada can provide universal health care to all their people at half the cost,” he said at a recent Democratic debate. “The U.K. can do it. France can do it. Germany can do it. All of Europe can do it.”

Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.

It took Canada more than a decade to move from a patchwork of insurance plans to a single-payer system. At one point, doctors were so incensed that they went on strike for 23 days. Doctors from the United States and Britain flew in to help keep the health system going...

There are two numbers that Donald Trump has consistently cared about and watched like a hawk. And, in his mind, they are inextricably linked.

The first is his approval ratings. Nothing unusual in that. Ever since the end of World War Two and Gallup introducing its regular polling on this, every president from Harry Truman onwards has kept a wary eye on how they are being seen by the great American public - that is normal.

The second figure is the stock market. While other presidents have seen that as a barometer to keep a watch on, no-one has obsessed about Wall Street like Donald Trump. Or if they have, they haven't provided a running commentary in quite the same way that he has.

His calculation is that if the stock market is soaring, then his approval ratings will go up and QED - he will be re-elected in November this year. So even when the stock market has the wind in its sails, the president will inhale deeply and blow forcefully in the hope of pushing the Dow Jones industrial average even higher. And every time the Dow or the S&P 500 hits a new high, he tweets to celebrate it - 280 times to be exact. In other words, roughly once every four days of his presidency he has exalted the markets.

But with the arrival of the coronavirus, the markets have taken fright - and have been plunging vertiginously over the past couple of weeks. On Monday, the steepness of the decline was such that it set off a circuit-breaker alarm on Wall Street. Markets fell by more than 7%, and so trading was suspended for 15 minutes to give traders a breath to take stock. They took a breath. They took stock. And after 15 minutes the markets continued their plunge.

There were complicating factors that are way above my pay grade to explain - all to do with Russia and Saudi Arabia and Opec [the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries] failing to agree on cuts in production in light of the collapse in demand for oil as a result of everyone cancelling their flights because of the coronavirus. But the fright on the markets is real. And what they have heard from this administration has not been reassuring to them.

My mistake. Forgot you don’t even live here.

The messaging from the WH is that Trump has not been tested for the virus.

Biden Tells Man Accusing Him Of Gun Grab He’s ‘Full Of Sh-t’ — But I’ll ‘Take Your AR-14s’

Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Road Other Countries Took to Single-Payer

It is a common refrain from Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail: The United States is the only developed country that does not provide health coverage to all residents.

"Canada can provide universal health care to all their people at half the cost," he said at a recent Democratic debate. "The U.K. can do it. France can do it. Germany can do it. All of Europe can do it."