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Funny, he supports universal healthcare in israel at the same time.
What a worthless fucking cunt
And this is exactly why some people believe that they're not worth a damn either . You got assholes like this that aren't making any case at all to show they're any better .
Well then fuck off, Hakeem Jefferson or whatever his name was.
Fucking imbecile.
To put it in a weird context: I am like 50 and I was so conservative as a younger man that I was nicknamed after Rush Limbaugh. OK? I was a pre-Trump right-wing asshole.
And even I favored Medicare for All. As a conservative Republican.
Why? Because it made the most business sense. You mean I can control my health care costs, cover everyone in the country, cut out like 2/3 of the paperwork, anyone can see any doctor, and I can let HR do something other than insurance paperwork? You couldn't build a bigger political win-win-win-win-win.
That's actually the issue that drove me out of the party. Romney running against Obamacare (aka Romneycare) as if he didn't invent the fucking plan was my last straw.
If you're a business conservative against Medicare for All, you need a new CPA.
I'm glad you can see the light on this issue, I live and work in a very conservative area and anytime I try to bring the business advantage argument up with the people around me they just fall back on "commie socialism" and "death panels" and then shut down on me. At this point I'm convinced even their God king trump couldn't convince them it's actually the better option....not that he would but you get what I'm saying.
IMO, it's not just a business advantage, it's a small-business advantage due to lack of bargaining power at small scale and the proportion of revenue (overhead) per employee. Big companies can bargain for better deals from insurance markets (bigger "risk pool"), and make way more per employee so it's not as big a deal. So, it's an tangible manifestation of "main street not wall street," if you feel like turning talking points back around for folks.
Hakeem Jeffries is not a politician I currently support.
Well then replacing Jeffries is a priority.
Jeffries is the quintessential neocon corpo democrat. He, and others like him in the house and senate need to go. If you're a "democrat" and don't support universal healthcare, then you're just another obstacle to be removed.
In other completely unrelated yet shocking news:
Time to get rid of these clowns and get some people with better ideas in their place.
Even fucking Israel has universal healthcare! And we help pay for it (by paying for a portion of the military they don’t have to)!
YES. And it pisses me off so much. Why the fuck are we subsidizing Israel's high standard of living -- one of the highest in the world, with universal healthcare and publicly-funded higher education -- at the cost of our own?
I am so tired of these old evil motherfuckers literally trying to buy a stairway to heaven with our tax dollars because they got the idea into their fat old calcified brains that God™ would conveniently forget all the evil they've done if they just make themselves friends of Israel and bless Jerusalem. Leave it to lawmakers to socialize the [perceived] cost of their own sins.
Cool. Fuck him.
Hakeem Jeffries is not a candidate I currently support.
Who would've thought the hand picked replacement of the establishment and Pelosi would be a worthless sold out piece of shit?
Not a single challenger. Not for Jeffries, not for Schumer,not even for goddamn president. Not a single white populist in the party either, discounting Bernie, that I'm aware of, and he's Jewish anywy.
The Party is broken.
I think it is functioning exactly as it's top donors intend.
Fuck Hakeem Jefferies. Traitorous scum should forfeit every penny paid by his salary and the rest of his money taken as damages.
Probably can't even quantify which of his assets are salary, insider trading, or bribes.
Dear Constituents,
Fuck you motherfuckers.
Sincerely Hakeem "I've had my picture taken with Netanyahu" Jefferies.
Also
Find someone who looks at you like Hakeem looks at a war criminal.
So Hakeem is getting his own private insurance and not accepting the one offered with his job? I would like to see the paperwork on that.
The Democrat party showing once again they know the best way to fail and disregard their voters.
Because they serve their donors. Tie voters are an inconvenience at best.
Bye Hakeem bye
This guy doesn’t even pretend. All of his mannerisms point to him being an elitist, out of touch POS.
This motherfucker needs to go. ENOUGH!
OH AND SCHUMER TOO! OUT!
Then out he goes.
This is the corporatocracy in action. An unpopular GOP congress who refuses to check their own party's Unitary Executive, and a Democratic Party leader who refuses to back a measure popular with citizens. Who wins? Health Insurance companies. Who loses? The poor who can't afford health insurance, and those who have health insurance and can't afford their deductibles, so they go without recommended healthcare.
Get him out.
Hakeem Jeffries has no business being in government.
Any government.
Any country.
Any level.
@inclementimmigrant Of course not, because then people would ask the uncomfortable question of why the Dems didn't implement it when they were driving the bus.
So continue to support DSA and those Dems who DO support univesal health care. Support them BEFORE the primaries. Support them by voting for them IN the primaries. And support them in the general election should they make it.
But just a quick reminder: A centrist Democrat will still stand up for more of your rights than a fascist, and this is where the "vote blue no matter who" comes into play. At every stage, support the candidate(s) that will protect our rights the most.
The time to act is BEFORE the general election.
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This is the reason I’m switching from democrat to independent! These fucks are hardly better than republicans.
That's silly. Stay registered Democrat and primary those corporate shills right the fuck out. Install progressives and take over the party.
Depends on the state but many let independents choose which primary to vote in.
I mean, as far as I'm aware the only reason to be registered one way or the other is to be allowed to participate in closed primaries.
"Hardly better" ?
I'll gladly criticize the DNC and upper Democratic Party leadership all fucking day long, but I say this as a quasi anarchist / socialist-libertarian: they are fucking leagues better than the republicans who are racist and xenophobic to their core, stealing unimaginable amounts of money from everybody they can, are defending a goddamn cabal of child raping pedophiles, and are doing their fucking best to establish a fascist state.
"oH bUt hE dOeSnT lIkE uNiVeRsaL hEaLtHcArE!!" yea fuck him, but to compare that failure to people actively protecting child rapists? Fuck offfffffffff.
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I stay in the Democratic party simply so I can vote these assholes out with voting for their progressive challengers while donating and volunteering for them.
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I’ll repeat the most complete response I’ve seen to this:
GTFO.
Sweep him aside.
Someone deserves the Luigi treatment.
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