Comments by RandomMember (page 28)

Not nearly as radical as you might think. (1) The ACA will not be repealed and it will be improved so as to be less of a burden to upper-middle-class workers who are self-employed. Single-payer will never make it through an all-democratic congress (2) The Trump corporate tax cut will be reversed to pre-Trump levels. (3) Dreamers will be allowed to stay and we'll construct a path to citizenship.

^^ I'm AARP, too.

@jackslash wrote: "But if you "see" dancers outside the club, it becomes much more like having a girlfriend" ___________________ Depends on whether you are paying her, or not. If you're paying her, it's much more like prostitution than a GF.. That goes for SBs, too. That's a gentle reminder to most of the AARP crowd here who are glorified johns paying for sex.

"I think they need to do something about college tuition's this would be a good way to do something bipartisan which isn't really US politics anymore." _________ +1 The younger generation is getting crushed by student debt. Congrats on getting through grad school.

Okay, you got me on the education plan, IME. But single-payer healthcare is by far the biggest issue.

As usual , @Mark93, your post fails the 30second fact check in the most important features. For example incremental fix to ACA (instead of single-payer) and no mention of free college tuition. Go take your chloroquine, nutcase

Cost of typical bypass surgery: $123,000

@ime I'm in the market for a new assault rifle but I'm a complete newbie. What should I be looking for? Can you buy them at Walmart or Amazon? Or should I wait for the next Klan rally? Thnx!!!

Trump comments on his "cognitive test" ar Walter Reed: https://youtu.be/omTd0bvQT_M

"President Trump and senior administration officials on Wednesday ramped up pressure on schools to reopen in the fall, and downplayed the recommendations of their own health experts." ----------------------------- Translation: If your kids die, or if your kids bring the virus home and it kills grandma, it's doesn't matter as long as I get reelected. Not sure if this Economist election forecast is behind a paywall for the rest of you: https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president As of July 8 ,2020 Biden has a 90% chance of winning the electoral college and a 98% chance of winning the popular vote.

Big plus: We're both working from home and going into the office occasionally as needed. Everything else is worse. No swimming and the highlight of our days is getting take-out food. Since we're both healthy (knock on wood) I'll rate our lifestyle at 7. Investing strategy right now is a nagging worry -- but that's another topic.

CC should be revealing this stuff about sex dolls to his therapist. He should also inquire why a kid in his early 20s hangs out with the AARP crowd on a stripper forum.

*rationale

Many different subtopics here, but I'll focus on the US withdrawal from WHO. I have some first-hand knowledge of the kind of high-quality scientists that work for the WHO and the father of my long-term GF during college worked for the WHO. He was a Ph.D. biologist and would travel the world studying tropical infectious diseases. He was dedicated to his work and about as apolitical as you can get. These scientists deserve support and withdrawing from the WHO during a pandemic hurts Americans and everyone else around the world. My understanding is that it goes into effect a year from now and that Biden would never allow the US to withdrawal. What is Trump's rational? He's been an utter failure to act rationally to crisis and he's scapegoating a bunch of scientists that could help us out of this mess. Scapegoating for his failures is a common theme for this idiot. Another common theme is contempt for science. The TUSCL conspiracy theories about collusion b/w China and the WHO are also idiotic.

We need an expert opinion and perhaps @CC will check-in, soon.

I've never heard of Desean Jackson. Given the OP, I assumed Desean is black, and after checking, I was correct.

According to @Skibum, Kanye was born in Kenya. So he's not eligible to run.

@Dirk: "Also as more people die out, the more virulent genomes or variants of the virus also dissipate.." ____________ Yes, I remember reading that somewhere. In the movies, mutations make the virus more deadly; in real-life viruses become less deadly for the reason you mentioned.

LOL @Papi. That sounds just like Trump's idiotic, content-free, and banal Mount Rushmore speech. Spoken like a true community college grad!

By the same logic, if @Mr_O is fucking 14-yr-old girls, it's not so bad if Ghislaine was the one herding the girls up in front of the high school.

I made the same point as @Icey in another thread but @Mr_Obsessive just won't shut up.

BTW, this should be in politics room

Yes, grievance politics is more contagious than Covid. Did it ever occur to you that you might just be incompetent?

I would say 9+ and I would definitely pursue her with pictures like that on SA. If I really want to nitpick, I would say her breasts are too large for her frame.

@GammaNut wrote: "The current fantasy is that evil white people trapped Africans...blah blah...but that's the current revisionist narrative" ---------------------- There is no "current revisionist narrative" and I remember countless articles in the NY Times and WaPO about the role of Africans in the slave trade -- especially during Obama's term. Oversimplifying what is and what is not fantasy is what you can expect from a bigot like GammaNu, who calls other TUSCL member "porch monkeys." I don't have a well-formed opinion on reparations. However, the fact that Africans played a role in the slave trade doesn't absolve American plantation owners from the brutality and horror of slavery. It's instructive to have a minority opinion on a site like this and you can sense the tangible fear that whites have over black and brown people gaining power. In essence, that's why we have a clown-bigot like Donald Trump. I hope that black and brown people vote in record numbers this fall.