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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Enough of the bull$hit. It's not that HRC and cronies think Bernie can't get single payer passed [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)24. You don't need to consult anyone. It's an open forum. You can do mind-reading
tarot-cards, astrology, pick lottery numbers, whatever you want.
And I can then point out the absurdity of trying to read the minds of Clinton supporters when there are Clinton supporters here that you could just ask.
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Enough of the bull$hit. It's not that HRC and cronies think Bernie can't get single payer passed [View all]
brentspeak
Jan 2016
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I've noticed that Bernie fans have gotten into mind-reading lately. Very entertaining.
DanTex
Jan 2016
#1
Evidence? Look at her corporate sponsors. Why would she go against all that money?
Feeling the Bern
Jan 2016
#122
Just because you don't have the discipline to go against money doesn't me she doesn't
kjones
Jan 2016
#168
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I am not running for office saying I will
Feeling the Bern
Jan 2016
#169
Please proceed...since you've lumped us all into a psychic activity. Or is it just rhetoric...
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#8
Yes, it's a psychic activity. There are Clinton supporters on this board, you could just
DanTex
Jan 2016
#12
I didn't realize it was partisan...I thought we were talking reality. Oh, well, yet again.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#19
Sorry, I mistook the "you could just ask us" as an invitation to consult/ask?????
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#28
I think that we are talking about the same thing and calling it different names.
JDPriestly
Jan 2016
#100
There is no "Carte Blanche" to sue for bad medical outcomes, or even malpractice.
Dustlawyer
Jan 2016
#131
OK, but "single payer" also has a specific definition, which means that there's only one
DanTex
Jan 2016
#132
The GOP did not have single payer doctors and nurses arrested at a hearing
nationalize the fed
Jan 2016
#121
It's quite easy to read the minds of her REAL (that is, corporate) supporters.
Odin2005
Jan 2016
#17
Good lawd this is a dense thread. The poster knows of what he speaks, as do I.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#22
Of course not. That would be way too civil. Bernie has "supporters", Hillary has "cronies".
DanTex
Jan 2016
#40
Fact, single payer is going nowhere? Now who's playing with tarot cards?
passiveporcupine
Jan 2016
#53
Because many of them are capitalist centrists, and it is about wealth for them
passiveporcupine
Jan 2016
#65
OK, Bill Gates. I don't know his politics in detail, but its a little silly to say that he's
DanTex
Jan 2016
#67
Yes, seriously. You think he opposes single payer because his investments would lose money?
DanTex
Jan 2016
#71
Here's something that isn't mind-reading. It's something that bears remembering.
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#39
why would Hillary support her donors? You'd have to be some sort of mind-reader to guess that.
virtualobserver
Jan 2016
#147
Spot On - The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Are Motivated By - Only Profit
cantbeserious
Jan 2016
#3
Do you have anything to add...like how it should have been written, et al, or just that if
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#26
The Healthcare Industry is filthy rich and flush with money to buy poliricians.
Odin2005
Jan 2016
#11
Here are some stats. There are more if the hits keep on coming. I'm sick (ooops) of this.
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#14
that's certainly a good part of it--they don't want to disrupt the system that much to try to get SP
Fast Walker 52
Jan 2016
#30
"Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees"
m-lekktor
Jan 2016
#31
it's like with Libya/Syria/Iran--it's not that she repeatedly fudged everything by being clever
MisterP
Jan 2016
#32
I don't think they are against it as it is that they have not figured out how to monetize it yet.
LiberalArkie
Jan 2016
#33
It's Sanders' fault that the Dems were too fucking stupid to rely on regular--
eridani
Jan 2016
#103
So that has exaclty what to do with the fact that single payer advocates were not
eridani
Jan 2016
#107
And what difference would their testifying have made? We would still have been facing
pnwmom
Jan 2016
#108
It wouldn't have changed a single Rethug vote. They announced within a few weeks
pnwmom
Jan 2016
#110
So? When Repukes are a minority, they never quit asking for what they want at top volume
eridani
Jan 2016
#111
OK, so now it's that we'll be less disappointed that Hillary won't be able to pass anything?
Lordquinton
Jan 2016
#116
He took the NRAs position against the Brady bill and for the PCLAA, as you well know. n/t
pnwmom
Jan 2016
#123
Hillary HAS AN ANSWER as to what it will mean for her to be president, besides the first woman!
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2016
#59
No--it IS that everyone KNOWS Sanders can't pass single payer. Except Bernie fans. nt
MADem
Jan 2016
#136
This is a really good post. It is fair to ask how each candidate would be
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2016
#138
That's the same exact rhetorical bull you used to serve about marriage equality for it but pragmatic
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#152
you realize that Hillary tried to do that in the 90s and get destroyed by the stupid
MariaThinks
Jan 2016
#165