President Donald J. Trump

[paladin1991]

That would be great.  There's a big mob dancing and singing in front of the camera now

So wonderful that so many are able to use their 10 minute breaks fm their work shift to cavort in front of the camera.  BTW, which leftist organization is footing the bill for this camera feed 24/7?

[Dr. MD MD]

Spicer hit it out of the park! I think he was the right choice to deal with the press.

[GravitySucks]

So wonderful that so many are able to use their 10 minute breaks fm their work shift to cavort in front of the camera.  BTW, which leftist organization is footing the bill for this camera feed 24/7?

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/arts/celebrity/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/arts/celebrity/watch-shia-labeouf-launches-24-hour-four-year-anti-trump-project-titled-he-will-not-divide-us

[Yorkshire pud]

Spicer hit it out of the park! I think he was the right choice to deal with the press.

Is that an alternative fact?

[Dr. MD MD]

Is that an alternative fact?

No.

[Dr. MD MD]

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/arts/celebrity/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/arts/celebrity/watch-shia-labeouf-launches-24-hour-four-year-anti-trump-project-titled-he-will-not-divide-us

He should title it Career Ender. 

[Yorkshire pud]

No.

You define 'hitting it out of the park' as lying about four out of five points of fact then? Or do you usually think 1+1= 5?

[Jackstar]

lying about four out of five points of fact

How is this any different than when a Clinton--or a Bush, or a Blair--was doing it?

[Dr. MD MD]

You define 'hitting it out of the park' as lying about four out of five points of fact then? Or do you usually think 1+1= 5?

You're whole MO is lying. You're an ideological zealot who works for the queen.  :

[Jackstar]

DO YOU DISPUTE THAT??

"I... don't want to get into numbers..."


I DO!

[Jackstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_l3o2jSkY



He's still rolling. Not even stopping to reload. It's like a 80s action flick. BLAM BLAM BLAM it never stops giving.

[K_Dubb]

He did a good job.  Never really understood his appeal before, but today was superb compared to Saturday's clown show.

If the contact between the Trump campaign and Russia Brennan darkly hinted at a couple weeks ago turns out to be that Flynn phone call, it will be one more nothing-burger.

[Juan]

Now there's a girl with a ukulele

[Jackstar]

Saturday's clown show

[K_Dubb]

I particularly enjoy how each time someone in the new administration is invited to pander to one interest group or another -- women, blacks, gays, whatever -- in the facile, cheap and useless way we're used to, they decline the easy path and turn it back to all Americans.  No grand, overarching policy to this effect was ever announced to my knowledge, but it looks to me like somebody behind the scenes is controlling the message with an iron fist.  Who would have thought?

[CornyCrow]

Good question.   Why not let the Supply and Demand Curve dictate prices?  Well for one thing on the supply side we are dealing with an essentially monolithic medical industry that despite having many practioners or "providers" acts as one in conjunction with the insurance industry to set fees for physician face time, drugs and diagnostics.  There is no real competition as in the used car business where if you don't like the prices charged by Happy Harry's Gently Used Car Emporium you can go to Honest John's Cherry Pre-owned Auto Sales.  On the demand side, very few go a lifetime without requiring some sort of medical treatment as born out by actuarial tables so the demand is essentially steady state or increasing and is really only inluenced by population fluctuations e.g. changes in the greater population or within a particular population demographic such as when we Baby Boomers entered our golden years at which point we started falling apart physically and sometimes mentally mostly from the effects of riotous living or due to the law of entropy.


Put simply the variable on the demand side is either steady or growing and the supply side is a variable idriven by medical school output and migration of foreign physicians to the U.S.    How can the purchasing power at each price level be determined when the competition factor is negated and demand remains constant or increases but is not effected by consumers unwillingness to pony up the money at some break point.  Does someone really have the option to hold off on being treated for a bleeding ulcer until costs come down. 

I know you knew all this but somehow this reality has gotten lost in the discussion.

So, to even things up are you implying that single payer is the best way to go? 

I do think that, if prices were made known, people with children would choose the lowest prices for inoculations for their children.  For routine prescription renewal, I think most people would choose the lowest cost doctor.  I think it would help lower prices.

[Yorkshire pud]

How is this any different than when a Clinton--or a Bush, or a Blair--was doing it?

Where have I defended any of them? Ever? In round figures?

[Jackstar]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

[Yorkshire pud]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

You brought it up, not me.. :

[Dr. MD MD]

You brought it up, not me.. :

Obvious cuck is obvious.

[Yorkshire pud]

Obvious cuck is obvious.

Here boy...here...

[Jackstar]

You brought it up, not me.. :

I'm adding "disingenuous liar" to your list of offenses against decent society. Your faggot emoji won't save you from the gas chamber.

[Yorkshire pud]

Lol...this guy is on a roll of delusion..

Donald Trump's press secretary has told reporters he would be honest with the American people, but also that the White House may sometimes "disagree with the facts".

[Yorkshire pud]

I'm adding "disingenuous liar" to your list of offenses against decent society. Your faggot emoji won't save you from the gas chamber.

Cruel words Jacky, cruel. 

[Dr. MD MD]

Cruel words Jacky, cruel. 

I doubt a single American goes on a British political forum every single day desperately trying to sell their ideology. Official cuck much? 

[Yorkshire pud]

I doubt a single American goes on a British political forum every single day desperately trying to sell their ideology. Official cuck much? 

Sell? I'm giving it away. I have 'The firm'* backing me up.



*The inside name for the Royal Family.

[GravitySucks]

So, to even things up are you implying that single payer is the best way to go? 

I do think that, if prices were made known, people with children would choose the lowest prices for inoculations for their children.  For routine prescription renewal, I think most people would choose the lowest cost doctor.  I think it would help lower prices.

You mean like it was before Obamacare, when insurance companies could tailor plans to the market and had to compete with each other. Obamacare was designed to drive the prices up so people would beg for another government fix - single payer.

[CornyCrow]

You mean like it was before Obamacare, when insurance companies could tailor plans to the market and had to compete with each other. Obamacare was designed to drive the prices up so people would beg for another government fix - single payer.

I agree with your assessment and told the same thing to my husband.  Most Canadians are happy with their single payer, but in the UK the system is really stretched and there seem to be many complaints. 

Before Obamacare, though, medical bills was the biggest reason for bankruptcies in the US.  Something had to be done.

[Jackstar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts



Look at how quickly this Wikipedia page filled out. They must have had every Jew in Brooklyn banging away on their keyboards ever since Saturday.

[Jackstar]

I doubt a single American goes on a British political forum every single day desperately trying to sell their ideology. Official cuck much? 

It's like he gets blown every time he posts.