Is episode "Past Tense" an omen of a Donald Trump presidency?
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^I've been told that when a man sits like that it is "alpha".
Really? Or is it just being a jerk?
I just felt it funny she was sitting like that. It looked awkward
Based on what?
Depends on who you ask. MRAs call it "alpha". The people they sit next to call it being a jerk.
I would say it's down to money
A few google results
Average US house price
Gives a result ~US$190 000
Average UK house price
gives a result ~GB£250 000 or US$312 000
So when the average UK salary is about
GB£25 000 or US$31 000 which means the average house is 10x a persons salary
When you search average US salary you do get to a figure of around US$31 000 so the cost of the average house in the US is about 6x a persons salary. Which is a massive difference from the 10x the UK has.
Ah OK...... That would make it more difficult then.
Jolly good thing that the housing bubble is the only thing propping up most western nations.
President Trump at least claims he's going to stand up for the "forgotten" people who have lost their jobs to automation and foreign trade. I believe he will take only token action, but going by what he's says I see no reason to think he's going to lock up these forgotten poor in concentrations camps. The pessimistic scenarios for President Trump would involve mistreatment of foreigners, rejection of science, and some sort of urban/rural civil war. I don't think any of those will come true. They are more consistent with Trump's rhetoric than Past Tense is.
You forgot making health insurance unaffordable/unavailable for millions of Americans that have it now, taking action that raises the cost of every American's health care, and endangering women's health, just to name three hardly unlikely outcomes.
The USA has more land space as well, UK is a very densely populated nation, (the 50th in the world) the USA is not. (176th)
I hear you, but I wouldn't say "I forgot." We could write a huge list of concerns, but I'm thinking of concerns big enough to cause a pivotal event that a time-traveler would know from history.
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You're really projecting. You don't even know what replacement plan the Republicans will propose in Congress.
I know what Trump campaigned on.
The last time the GOP made a healthcare proposal the result would have been lost coverage for millions. The man who spearheaded that proposal is now HHS secretary. So yes, it's projecting from THEIR own actions.
You can argue that plan wasn't serious. You can point to statements from the president that no one will lose coverage (while still being cheaper...which really isn't possible but okay). You cannot accuse someone of being irrational when they assume that a political party is going to keep pursing the same policies it has for years.
TLDR; you have a point, but you also made a baseless personal attack. Focus on the former while (please) dropping the latter.
Haven't they had something like 6 years to come up with a replacement for the PPACA?
I think it's more complicated now that Obamacare is dug in. They are considering how to repeal Obamacare without interrupting existing coverage.
So? My point still stands they've had years to come up with a replacement plan that would overcome any potenetial issues such as disrupting cov erage.
The penalty hurts poor folk. Now, if I had been Obama--I would have pushed for a higher min wage when I had the votes. The DNC only made a big deal about living wages after they lost control of Congress. ACA was based on Heritage institute thinking--and that is where the penalty came from--it was in fact a right-wing concept to force poor folk to buy coverage. Better to support mercy hospitals like Cooper Green in my state--that has all but been shut down.
Obama also sided with free-trade Republicans against his own party.
I would have gotten better wages--then pushed for single payer. If there aren't enough votes for that--you run on that.
ACA lost the DNC the control of Congress.
I watched Bill Maher last night--and he is really straining at gnats. He talks up how great the intel community is--when they are just un-reconstructed Cold Warriors
I for one am glad that John McCain isn't President. I'll take a pro-Russian Trump to McCain. That man never saw a war he didn't like. Had he been in the White House--it would have been Able-Archer 83 every week.
People voted for Obama to keep McCain from turning Iraq into another Vietnam--and voted for Trump because they didn't like ACA.
Obama also sided with free-trade Republicans against his own party.
I would have gotten better wages--then pushed for single payer. If there aren't enough votes for that--you run on that.
ACA lost the DNC the control of Congress.
I watched Bill Maher last night--and he is really straining at gnats. He talks up how great the intel community is--when they are just un-reconstructed Cold Warriors
I for one am glad that John McCain isn't President. I'll take a pro-Russian Trump to McCain. That man never saw a war he didn't like. Had he been in the White House--it would have been Able-Archer 83 every week.
People voted for Obama to keep McCain from turning Iraq into another Vietnam--and voted for Trump because they didn't like ACA.
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