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no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
The Republican bill passed by 1 vote.
Now it goes into the Senate.
Another “boomer remover” (this is what young people named COVID in the beginning).
@fquigley
I think that Ukraine is being used by the West as a battering ram against Russia which is nothing new, this tactic is a couple of centuries old.
I also think that the West is using that “outdated” Heartland Theory as a blueprint.
Another benefit to the West is that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine has turned (with the help of the West) into a mutual meat grinder which may leave both Russia and Ukraine without young people to draft for military service in case of WWIII (another attempt by the West to conquer “Eurasia”).
The West thinks of them as expendable Untermenschen and of their resources as the property of the West which they, unfortunately, don’t understand (especially Ukraine).
How to solve it?
I have no idea – praying to God to give Ukrainians and other East Europeans some brains might help or it might not.
Eastern Europe hasn’t been doing well after it acquired its freedom from the accursed SU.
Reader
Do you have a position on the Ukraine War? You mention Fascism in America. Ukraine is the forerunner.
@Sebastien Zorn
The latest:
Chaos Erupts in Oval Office as United States Formally Accepts the Qatari Jet [scroll down on the website for the Oval Office video]
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-chaos-erupts-in-oval-office
BTW, he is lying about Qatar’s huge investment in the US which keeps getting bigger and bigger – from a little more than one trillion dollars to 5.1 trillion today.
The whole GDP of Qatar is 220 billion dollars a year.
Here is Murtadd to Human about Qatar and its “gift”:
https://www.murtaddtohuman.org/the-art-of-the-deal-vs-the-quran/?ref=murtadd-to-human-newsletter
@Sebastien Zorn
The way they are going, I am not sure there will be midterms, it looks more and more like a putsch.
Even if they will lose the midterms – they will have won because it will be too late to reverse the huge damage, and by that time many old people may simply die for the lack of medical care.
Right now they are doing perfectly fascist things, and they are enabled by the voters, by the Democrats, by the mass media, AND by the Supreme Court!
Obviously, if they see no resistance, it will let them lose the brakes entirely.
We can only hope that enough Republicans vote against it, so the bill won’t pass.
@Reader If they hurt the elderly, the Republicans will lose the midterms.
@Sebastien Zorn
It is not only Medicaid they are after.
This is from today’s news (just some of it) by Aaron Parnas (Substack):
I like his reporting, I started noticing those substack people recently, and I think I will only keep him because he posts really important and relevant news (I am a free subscriber at this point) while the others get into long discussions – I can’t watch several hours of videos a day just to learn a bunch of opinions and hear calls to unite and protest.
I agreed with everything until he got to Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which I think is a domestic policy disaster with regard to Medicaid. Most people under 65 on Medicaid already work and it’s irrelevant, anyway, because all it does is pay for health care, which should be denied nobody anyway. Israel, like the rest of the developed world, has universal health care. Many employers do not provide healthcare insurance. The premiums are too expensive for many people.
I once called Blue Cross/Blue Shield and asked how much hospital insurance alone was. It was very reasonable. But then, I was told it doesn’t pay the doctors who get $500 an hour and they would bill me separately. Many people have employers who get around payroll tax by making their employers file as independent contractors. Many people who work, make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but need every penny they make. The amounts the government says are liveable wages are always many years behind the times and don’t take into consideration different costs of living in different places, eg., rent. For example, in NY State, you can get paid for taking care of your own elderly relative at home but you get paid too much to be eligible for Medicaid! I knew somebody’s house keeper/nurse who refused to be paid that way because then her family would lose their health insurance! Moreover, if anybody gets sick, and isn’t treated, they can endanger the whole population. Years ago, many people would just go to emergency rooms when they got sick and not pay the bills. This was very common. It costs the health care system much more.
However, it was Reagan who imposed tax on tips and social security. I agree with abolishing this. It penalizes the most vulnerable. And not taxing over-time encourages productivity. It was Reagan who cut money for school lunches and said ketchup was a vegetable. I also oppose, if true, the reports I have been reading of the Trump administration abolishing farm to school lunch programs in public schools. This is not a thing every town can or will replace.
I mistrust megabills. I think they are a cheat. Many politicians don’t read them. That’s how the Patriot Act got passed.
Every item should be debated and voted on separately. The constitutional framers intended change to be slow and incremental precisely because they saw that quick panaceas could be the road to mob rule and tyranny. See the Federalist Papers.
I think, if they want to cut costs, the first measure of business should be to pass legislation requiring House Representatives and Senators and their staffs to get the same health insurance as the rest of the country.
The reason this stuff is out of kilter is that the people who design the amenities for most people aren’t the people who use them.
This is why the Repubican party is split on these issues, as well it should be. This Republican party has been billing itself as a working class party. And to some extent it is. This Democrat party is the party of Communists, Islamists, and the Certifiably Insane. We need a two party system, again.
Medicaid is a good system. It pays for everyone on it to have insurance and pays the premiums and copays for approved services. Guess who first proposed “Medicaid for All.” Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the 1960’s! He was also very pro-Israel and tenant’s rights! The best of all worlds. We have no one like that, today. Well, maybe me but I’m not running for office. 😀
a satirical illustration:
Monty Python Flying Circus – Architect’s Sketch (Dan Cleese, who will be performing in Israel next month, apropos of nothing)
https://youtu.be/e2PyeXRwhCE?si=NVg5aQifbl6oRd65