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What's the benefit of subsidising insurance companies with the consumer as a middle man instead of directly? One key difference is that people at high risk or with existing conditions would be left entirely without any negotiating power. Letting them die reduces cost, but is that your point?
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
What's the benefit of subsidising insurance companies with the consumer as a middle man instead of directly? One key difference is that people at high risk or with existing conditions would be left entirely without any negotiating power. Letting them die reduces cost, but is that your point?
I think they'll do what they did last time: publish tens of thousands of pages of documents that were already public and contain nothing of relevance, mostly just bureaucratic boilerplate.
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think they'll do what they did last time: publish tens of thousands of pages of documents that were already public and contain nothing of relevance, mostly just bureaucratic boilerplate.
Some details: www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...
Here are 6 'Beautiful Bill' tax changes that will benefit wealthy Americans
Tax season is approaching. Tax breaks that were extended as part of President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" will mainly benefit high-net-worth and high-income people.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Some details: www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...
What an informed response to simple facts. Why don't you elaborate on how healthy insurance costs are not increasing in your imaginary world, and how billionaires pay their fair share? I'm quite sure you've never said a word about any of that.
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What an informed response to simple facts. Why don't you elaborate on how healthy insurance costs are not increasing in your imaginary world, and how billionaires pay their fair share? I'm quite sure you've never said a word about any of that.
Not true. Regular Americans pay vastly higher taxes than billionaires, and will pay much more than before for health insurance. The import tariffs are also an additional tax, hitying normal people, not supporting them. Tips are peanuts by comparison.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not true. Regular Americans pay vastly higher taxes than billionaires, and will pay much more than before for health insurance. The import tariffs are also an additional tax, hitying normal people, not supporting them. Tips are peanuts by comparison.
That's quite some trolling. USAID wasn't fraud. It was a life saver for millions. THAT is what Trump and his billionaire supporters wanted to destroy, to help to fund the billionaire tax cuts.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
That's quite some trolling. USAID wasn't fraud. It was a life saver for millions. THAT is what Trump and his billionaire supporters wanted to destroy, to help to fund the billionaire tax cuts.
Why don't you give a few examples from anywhere in the world and at any point in human history where assistance has been provided on the order of billions of USD per year ($20-45B/yr for USAID) and where there has *not* been a fraction of fraud or other issues?
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Why don't you give a few examples from anywhere in the world and at any point in human history where assistance has been provided on the order of billions of USD per year ($20-45B/yr for USAID) and where there has *not* been a fraction of fraud or other issues?
The people in Africa are just too dumb to know when their family members are dying of diseases previously prevented or cured with US-funded vaccines or medication and when not? Got it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The people in Africa are just too dumb to know when their family members are dying of diseases previously prevented or cured with US-funded vaccines or medication and when not? Got it.
They brought it back, though.
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
They brought it back, though.
I think the point is that to refile the case within 6 months of dismissal, an indictment must have been made before statutes of limitations expired. In this case, no indictment was actually made in any legal or real sense, so 18 U.S.C. § 3288 wouldn't apply.
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I think the point is that to refile the case within 6 months of dismissal, an indictment must have been made before statutes of limitations expired. In this case, no indictment was actually made in any legal or real sense, so 18 U.S.C. § 3288 wouldn't apply.
This is correct, "... a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment" www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations
www.law.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is correct, "... a new indictment may be returned in the appropriate jurisdiction within six calendar months of the date of the dismissal of the indictment" www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
The government has 6 months after dismissal to refile the case, despite statutes of limitations having expired, because they filed the original case in time. 18 U.S.C. § 3288: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations
www.law.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The government has 6 months after dismissal to refile the case, despite statutes of limitations having expired, because they filed the original case in time. 18 U.S.C. § 3288: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
It wasn't an error. It was the only choice, given that the grounds for dismissal were procedural in nature and not based on likelihood of guilt. The government has 6 months to refile the case, because the case was originally filed in time, 18 U.S.C. § 3288: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
18 U.S. Code § 3288 - Indictments and information dismissed after period of limitations
www.law.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It wasn't an error. It was the only choice, given that the grounds for dismissal were procedural in nature and not based on likelihood of guilt. The government has 6 months to refile the case, because the case was originally filed in time, 18 U.S.C. § 3288: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
Their focus is on gaining influence, not direct ownership or business activities. That's where USAID's terminated spend on vaccines, food, medication, etc. left a void. It's hard enough to get people in Africa to trust white people for obvious reasons, but support directly saving lives is powerful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Their focus is on gaining influence, not direct ownership or business activities. That's where USAID's terminated spend on vaccines, food, medication, etc. left a void. It's hard enough to get people in Africa to trust white people for obvious reasons, but support directly saving lives is powerful.
It saved countless children's lives and kept a void from forming for Russia and China to compete to claim. Now that the void is ripe for the picking, Russia and China are free to take the natural resources and orient the growing economies against the US and the West.
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It saved countless children's lives and kept a void from forming for Russia and China to compete to claim. Now that the void is ripe for the picking, Russia and China are free to take the natural resources and orient the growing economies against the US and the West.
A cold, refreshing glass of water has much healthier energy content: none!
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A cold, refreshing glass of water has much healthier energy content: none!
Yeah. They aren't particularly talented.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yeah. They aren't particularly talented.
We can make it super simple and tiny. Just block everyone everywhere from accessing Twitter. If it can't take the load or gets hit by a DDoS attack, access attempts will continue to fail just as stellarly.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We can make it super simple and tiny. Just block everyone everywhere from accessing Twitter. If it can't take the load or gets hit by a DDoS attack, access attempts will continue to fail just as stellarly.
That's not what it says. If the president is convicted and removed, the VP becomes president.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
That's not what it says. If the president is convicted and removed, the VP becomes president.
Government regulation of private businesses isn't a popular concept pretty much anywhere. Even the EU is rolling back a lot of existing regulations.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Government regulation of private businesses isn't a popular concept pretty much anywhere. Even the EU is rolling back a lot of existing regulations.
Russia has been keeping busy throwing around money in different parts of Africa. It isn't hard to buy support from poor people, particularly with the US withdrawing financial support.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Russia has been keeping busy throwing around money in different parts of Africa. It isn't hard to buy support from poor people, particularly with the US withdrawing financial support.
Didn't Twitter take the feature down when they saw what the attempt at transparency and honesty revealed?
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Didn't Twitter take the feature down when they saw what the attempt at transparency and honesty revealed?