Analysis: Ted Cruz is now totally cool with trolling the military
Ted Cruz wants to be president. Badly. So badly, in fact, that he's willing to mock the US military to own the libs. Or something.
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Chucktshoes
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This is an odd criticism of Cruz coming from folks of a political leaning that have spent literally decades defending themselves from the charges that because they voice strong criticisms against the way the US government operates or the way it uses the military it hates the country or the troops.
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mdmost
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My criticism is Ted Cruz is the last person who should be the gatekeeper of what is masculine and also should be the last person calling anyone a “pansie” after his little act of being Trump’s lapdog. He is basically just now a troll. I’d prefer a little more out of the senator from my state. He’s trying to emulate Trump in the hopes of staying relevant for 2024.
Chucktshoes
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Sometimes even the most flawed vessels have something of value to bring to the table.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Trump called his wife ugly and ultimately he was cool with that.
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He was executed for murder 4 years ago. Now someone else's DNA has been found on the murder weapon
Attorneys representing Ledell Lee's family commissioned DNA testing of the handle of the wooden club that was used to kill Debra Reese. They said the results showed the DNA of an unknown man.
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It's mind boggling to me how appeals and request to test dna evidence are so often denied for convicted black men.
And even know, the Governor and AG stand by the execution saying it was lawful and they executed the right person who was lawfully convicted buy a jury, even though dna evidence has come up that shows a different person's dna on the murder weapons and hair found at the crime scene all because 4 eye witnesses said Ledell Lee was scene leaving the house.
Wyoming: Rural ambulance crews are running out of money and volunteers - CNN
EMS services are only considered essential services in 10 states, none of which are in Rural America.
In Rural America EMS services are mainly provided by Volunteer EMS services. These volunteer services are running out of both volunteers and money to be able to continue to operate.
Because they are not considered essential services they are not funded at the state level. Individual towns often provide the equipment, but in many cases the equipment is also donated.
The way EMS services work, they don't get paid unless they transport a person to the hospital. Meaning any call they respond to that does not result in a trip to the hospital results in zero pay.
In addition to to that, many services go unpaid because the person they transport is uninsured or their insurance won't cover the costs because they are "out-of-network".
In rural America, the average transport to the nearest hospital is a 2 hour drive. So a 4 hour round trip for the voluntary EMS.
In the event of private ambulance services. Such as one mentioned in the article that provides services to a country in Wyoming the size of the state of Vermont, they lost more than a million dollars last year. And have opted out of renewing their contact in June. No other bidders have applied to replace them.
The story is the same for much of Rural America. With ⅓ of rural counties within one non profitable year of going out of business.
EMS services are only considered essential services in 10 states, none of which are in Rural America.
In Rural America EMS services are mainly provided by Volunteer EMS services. These volunteer services are running out of both volunteers and money to be able to continue to operate.
Because they are not considered essential services they are not funded at the state level. Individual towns often provide the equipment, but in many cases the equipment is also donated.
The way EMS services work, they don't get paid unless they transport a person to the hospital. Meaning any call they respond to that does not result in a trip to the hospital results in zero pay.
In addition to to that, many services go unpaid because the person they transport is uninsured or their insurance won't cover the costs because they are "out-of-network".
In rural America, the average transport to the nearest hospital is a 2 hour drive. So a 4 hour round trip for the voluntary EMS.
In the event of private ambulance services. Such as one mentioned in the article that provides services to a country in Wyoming the size of the state of Vermont, they lost more than a million dollars last year. And have opted out of renewing their contact in June. No other bidders have applied to replace them.
The story is the same for much of Rural America. With ⅓ of rural counties within one non profitable year of going out of business.
Carl
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I read this today for the first time.
Oh boy.
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein April 27, 2012
Oh boy.
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein April 27, 2012
Dtknuckles
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My thoughts on this is
1. The tweet is just empty virtue signaling
2. The adds both suck, they are just propaganda
3. considering the murder that happened at Fort Hood. And former classmate I knew being raped in the Navy, I think they could use a bit of “wokeness”
Mitch McConnell plans on using the filibuster to stop the January 6 probe in it's tracks in the senate. This means we will need 10 Republicans to vote in favor of the probe in the senate. A feat that has a very narrow chance of happening.
The problem with for profit systems, especially when you have six sigma leaned down everything so that a system is only profitable when it's under staffing and under paying, is that if they are no longer profitable, in free market capitalism, they go away. This is what we are seeing with rural healthcare, Covid only accelerated this process, but it was well underway before Covid. Our rural hospital systems were slowly phasing out of existence because the people they serve don't have a lot of money, and often rely on Medicare and Medicaid. As more and more people get left behind in the economic race for limited resources that are hastily being gobbled up by anyone with money, we will start seeing more and more hospital systems fail, likely starting in the inner city, as people lose their ability to pay for health care. If we agree that these hospital systems are necessary because they provide healthcare where no other provider will establish practice, and we look at how rural schools are failing to produce people who are able to compete and go to medical school so they can go back to their home towns and provide services, we are going to continue to strip rural communities everywhere of medical care. And once they've closed the rural clinics that are "under preforming" then they will start with inner city medical services that are less profitable. We already agreed that it's not okay to deny someone medical care because they cannot pay. But what about denying someone healthcare, or making someone drive an hour or two to find medical care--which could cost someone their life or functionality, especially when we are talking about a stroke patient--based on their zip code? Because this is what we are saying, that people living in certain, more profitable zip codes are the only ones that get adequate medical treatment due to the placement of the hospital systems in communities. We are allowing our nation's health to be put up for sale by ruthless for profit systems that don't care about medical outcomes, just about the final profit as evidenced by the fact that the third leading killer of Americans is medical errors (see article below).
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I read this yesterday. And it's spot on. Sadly, back in 2012 it was widely dismissed.
Even today saying the republicans have passed the turning point is widely dismissed. Many report they are at the turning point. That ship has long sailed.
Then again, that 2012 article is still widely dismissed by republicans. Because they believe the democrats are indeed communists, their policies are not legitimate.
I only see things getting worse this decade, not getting better.
Carl
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Just this past weekend, 21 athletes in China died from exposure during a single event, a cable car in Italy crashed to the ground for no apparent reason killing 13, “the last dictator in Europe” hijacked a plane in act of state-sponsored piracy, and there were more multiple shootings in the US than I can count.
Yeah, not getting better any time soon.
This is the first time I have heard about this. And it only goes to show how divided we are as a country.
Voters in seven rural counties in Oregon approved a ballot measure for leaving Oregon and joining Idaho.
These are the reason given by conservatives in rural Oregon for wanting to become part of Idaho::
- Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms because normal rural Americans are outnumbered in Oregon.
- Addicts will be attracted to Oregon from all over the world by the 2020 drug discrimination law.
- Oregon refuses to protect citizens from criminals, rioters, wildfire arsonists, illegals and the homeless.
- Low taxes: Idaho is the state with the 8th smallest tax burden, and Oregon ranks 33rd.
While this measure is likely not going to get anywhere like countless other attempts like this throughout history it does have one of the best shots to date at it with how fractured Americans are between rural and urban errors in their values and politics. It also has going for it the fact that they are not trying to create their own new state, but join a neighboring state.
debianlinux
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Seems appropriate and legitimately centered around the idea of separate states, if you ask me.
Carl
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Dtknuckles
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You got to laugh at this one.
Chucktshoes
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I’ve been telling you about this exact type of a divide the entirety of the time I’ve been on this board. It shouldn’t be a surprise. I wasn’t just pulling it out of my ass. The majority of us that do not live in the heavy urban areas don’t want to. And we don’t want our lives controlled by those of you that do.
The rural/urban divide is very real.
The rural/urban divide is very real.