Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

  1. I became a single payer system when I realized at age 10 that it wasn't already in the US. And realized why our system is so fucked up compared to Germany. Even Canada has better clinics and hospitals, and is much cheaper. We pay up more than double just for coverage which in other countries is just tax that's half our premium costs often even less, and no deductibles nor copays. And the services like in Japan are excellent. A Japanese friend broke his wrist while visiting here, and he laughed about how antiquated our clinics, that we had a 1950's technology and old x-ray machine, while their clinics have ultra sound, MRI, and even CAT scans in their clinics. And when he went back, he had to have is wrist re-broken and recast because it was set wrong here in the states. I continue to get my Rx from Germany; its not an extreme necessity Rx cold sore outbreaks, but only thing that helps. I get two versions of the antiviral same price to 1 filling of 20 pills in the US $160, I get 300 pills mix of 2 versions for the same price a little over 1 year supply; and I get choice, 2 types; one is better if I catch the symptoms early, and the other is better if catch the symptoms late. Here, I get one or the other at any given time. And max filling is 20 pills which may treat 2 outbreaks before having to refill. If I had to get other Rx I would get it from Germany or elsewhere. US is becoming among the worst places to live in.
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  2. First off, culpability to gun manufacturers on what someone else uses the gun for can only be assigned if the gun maker sales the gun directly to the person if they fail to do background checks. Most manufacturers don't sell directly to buyers, they sell to retailers. A person who uses a car to kill a bunch of people, there is no culpability on the car maker. Unless a car malfunctions, defects, like a gun defect that explodes in the holster or explodes upon firing the weapon, then they could be culpable for making a defective product. The gun that shoots and hits its target is exactly what proposition the company is making, there's no defect, no culpability. A law that would assign culpability where there isn't any would not be held up in court, its not constitutional nor in process or nor in federal constitution; specifically stated in the prohibition on corruption of blood where your actions of your blood relatives cannot be held against you just because you're related to them; their actions are their own deeds. It's considered illogical, as it is, to make someone or entity culpable for others' actions. And the only culpability would be if they sold it directly to a person without following the law such as ensuring and passing a background investigation, or if the weapon malfunctions, such as explodes or fires when it shouldn't or doesn't fire when it should.
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  3. I find it odd so many Mormons now a day majority vote GOP. My grandma was a die hard liberal social democrat, and my great aunt finds GOP policy repugnant as it is. But those born on or after 40's tend to be mostly right wing loons. I do know the same right winger Mormons, and most of them find Trump repulsive and embarrassing. They shy away from talking about him directly most of the time.
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  4. Mormons still don't care for Trump a dump. But tribalism and propaganda among many of them hold their nose and still endorse the fuck up. They shy away from talking about him because they know he's a disgusting freak show.
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  5. Basically... be a fraudulent party for the sake of a phony delusion of choice. GOP=DNC one in the same oligarch freak show begging to for essentially a repeat of French 1790's.
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  6. +willemdee I'm just writing in Sanders anyways. There really isn't any viable 3rd party... yet.
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  7. Fishing Soutwest Florida, No one needs to say it. You did it.
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  8. +Patrick McDonnell And now our prisons. I'm not so sanguine on natural monopolies of utilities being controlled by private companies, part of why our energy, sewer, water, and waste infrastructure is not only need of repair, but a jigsaw puzzle that doesn't work that efficiently with each other's boundaries. But our prisons and much of our military being controlled by private sector groups is simply a recipe for plutocracy.
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  9. Her delusion to think she's still relevant is as bad as the narcissism of Trump.
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  10. Hillary doesn't really have a home state. She's been too busy carpet bagging her entire life, to stay in one place for long. She has home dumps. Where she took dump at place long enough to get what she wanted, and moved on.
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  11. "Democrats don't know what direction to go." We the people know, it's the established bribed soaked corrupt turd baskets that want to be the pretend opposition and collect their millions in bribes.
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  12. +daguzify I'm in Idaho so my vote pretty much doesn't matter. So I'm probably just going to write in Sanders... vote for all democrats if there is even a contestant as there often isn't for some senators and representatives both federal and state. If my state somehow matters if Trump gets the nomination I would hold my nose and vote for Hillary... probably. Likely though it doesn't matter in my state.
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  13. I think lots of minorities are spooked by Trump or Cruz so they think the safe bet is Hillary. Unfortunately, I think if it's Trump as the GOP nominee, voting for Hillary is the most unsafe. She doesn't excite the base at all, and she even turns many off. We'll see. Trump is a lunatic and could potentially get more independents to go democrat. But I doubt it. Many I hear say they'd rather vote Bernie, but if it's Hillary vs Trump, they'll vote Trump. Which doesn't look good. The polls show too that Bernie outdoes both Cruz and Trump compared to Hillary. So they're actually, likely unaware, doing themselves harm. But what's knew. Has been happening for the past 40 years now. Hence why we're the only major 1st world developed country without universal single payer for all citizens, no more reduced or 0 tuition for higher education, and shattered pension retirement system as most companies have done away with defined pensions for the gimmick casino of a 401K instead with even lower wages making it even more difficult to put meaningful amount into a 401K account, just doing the usual 4% matching doesn't provide you with anything near most defined pensions paid out, and of course the ridiculous trade agreements with various countries some are often under tyrannical and/or corrupt control of their aristocracy with little to no labor protection, environmental protection, or any quality inspections, trading with essentially slave economies with our economy just causes a race to the bottom eventual equilibrium; that's something effecting some to a lesser degree than others all developed 1st world countries; but several have strong trade standards like Germany France, Sweden, Japan, to avoid to heavily the hit on the race to the bottom, but they're still being effected.
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  14. +kranercurve Are you volunteering to be his food tester? I hear they need one, after the fifth one dropped dead after testing his breakfast. Good luck.
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  15. +Nicolainjumse Nørregaard You kind of have to hide as a normal person at these things from the Drumpf brown shirts will beat you up.
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  16. +DoorknobHead To be fair, NPR interviewed some people on the spur of the moment, and many didn't know who he was, and once they enlightened them on various platforms like universal health care, reduced to no tuition cost to students, etc. many liked him. He wasn't very well known in those states.
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  17. I don't think so. It's not easy to get on the ballot in many states, and the trend in the US isn't all that great on 3rd party candidates. Ross Perot was among the most successful and he only got 20%. And he was blamed by the right wingers for giving the election to Bill Clinton til this day. I think what he did was demonstrate how terrible the DNC has become. Now that has woken people up. Now is the time for him to consider and actually promote a 3rd party if not take back the DNC from the bogus phonies that are in there now; right winger politician toadies in really shitty disguise... well the disguise has been burnt to a crisp now. What he does going forward, if he continues to try to cow tow... then I would consider him to be bogus opposition too. But I don't think so. I think he's rather fed up, and may run 3rd party next time if we get another bogus choice.
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  18. Reminds me yet another set of Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, just as the predecessor of mafioso plotters before that were the filth of Dick Cheney and Donny Rumsfeld.
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  19. I do it anyway already. The only Rx I need for something that isn't critical, I buy from Germany. Same price for 20 pills, I can buy 200 pills, a year supply for the same price I pay for the same medicine and actually a mix with another type of similar medicine that is more effective in different conditions. $160 which includes shipping costs for entire year supply. US that's one filling of 20 tablets same price. We get so fucked in the US on wages, medicine, college, and just about everything anymore.
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  20. This went over most of our heads. Understand the current system is simply consolidating wealth into a fewer and fewer people and entities over time; investment chasing investment money, which kills the last bastard holding the bag when a bust happens, allowing the other with cash on hand to gobble up stuff on the cheap, and this keeps cycling over and over thus fewer and fewer companies competing. This investment money chasing investment money is largely fueled by the race to the bottom wage structure in global exploitation of off shore to the most destitute and/or often despotic countries; thus less actual underlying demand over time, forcing investors to chase other investors in to booms and out of busts causing the consolidation of wealth and its income. But... lost me on the businesses and how that's actually changing the structure of the current system.
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  21. He's Pete the Puppet Parrot for the Plutocrats! Petey by short, as he is short, and short on any substance, and shorter still on honesty.
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  22. All he was enlisted by some billionaires aka oligarchs was to confuse the vote for people who wouldn't do as the media wants to pretend is a shoe in... this time around it's Biden. He has no way of winning, he has no policy anyone wants in fact he even stated his campaign would be about policy. He's just a joke.
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  23. Looking at the states Trump won, the turn out was still historically low over all. People simply didn't show up. 45% in a presidential election not voting is essentially not even democracy. People just thought fuck it they all suck, its not worth my time. It's similar to why 63% didn't bother to show up in midterms.
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  24. Same here. At a soda pop bottler, and were way slower than last year. Bright side, some of our machines suck ass, so we're still producing M-Thursday, with Friday usually not all day or not at all. Which is bad. We should be seeing a pick up. Last year, it was constant. And by May we were working Saturdays until August. We also had a late fall busy period in November through first part of December. When 2017 it was October and didn't slow down until middle of January 2018. Lots of 12 hour shifts and short one day weekends.
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  25. The amount that goes into payroll is equal to the amount paid off... for social security some of it was "saved" in non-trade-able US bonds that the government holds and collects 6% interest. Medicare and medicaid has began drawing down on such bond savings as it pays out more than it takes in. And social security is now paying out roughly equal to what it collects. And is forecasted without changes pay out more than it takes in payroll taxes. https://www.ssa.gov/budget/FY19Files/2019PTF.pdf
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  26. My concern is that this time debt burden has boomed not just to real-estate and credit card debt. This time its those two at record all time highs, but also at record all time highs that are more than double what they were in 2007 1) Vehicle loan debt surpassing credit card debt 2) Student loan debt which has doubled since 2007 3) Stock market margin debt that reached all time high in 2007 at $378 billion peaked highest ever in 2018 at $668 billion (damn near double). 4) Non financial total business debt went from 2007 $3 trillion to now $6.2 trillion 5) Collateralized business loans or CBL (subprime business loans like the subprime mortgage loan mess) is now over $1.1 trillion and growing, it was only a little over $200 billion in 2007. 6) Total domestic residential debt was peaked at $11 trillion 2007, is now $15 trillion. 7) And again Credit card debt surpassing 2008 1.02 trillion peak, is now at $1.05 trillion 8) Mortgage debt surpassing 2007 $9 trillion is now at $10.8 trillion It's an 8 headed monster instead of just a two headed monster. This is the making of the most epic disaster crash since the great depression. http://www.finra.org/investors/margin-statistics https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/mortoutstand/current.htm https://ycharts.com/indicators/debt_outstanding_domestic_nonfinancial_sectors_total_business_sector https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/business/economy/clo-corporate-loans.html https://www.thebalance.com/average-credit-card-debt-u-s-statistics-3305919
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  27. Funny thing is the opposite for my dad, he can't stand the fat fuck on dead AM radio as he calls him, and various overt propaganda on stations like Fox. Back in 2003 he affirmed to me something I said in passing that the Fox so called news station seemed like an advertisement for GW Bush. He has long since cut the cable, and only has radio for news. So you would think talk radio would have turned him right, but it just pisses him off so he simply doesn't listen to the news very often. I just recently heard someone at work made a smart ass comment about Trump to his boss, my boss too now, after the election of Trump. I guess my boss is a hardcore right winger, and he made the comment prior that "now we have someone who won't take vacation while in office." Man was he wrong, Trump has done nothing but take vacations. The coworker said "As if GW didn't take vacations." It enraged my boss so much, he pushed and tackled my coworker. He later apologized to the worker, and treats him more than well. And I like my boss. He's a good guy, hard working and very fair. He's in his 60's. It's just like a cult. It has whipped otherwise good people into a weird ass frenzy of anger. Weirdest shit ever. I remember when that fat ass Rush had a tv show. I was watching it, my dad came home from work, and we watched a little, he then walked told me you should probably turn that trash off. He began to even cut back on listening to the radio, he asked me if I ever heard of this bloated gas ball Alex Jones... I really hadn't, just new he was a nut. My dad just said they're putting nothing but trash on radio and tv, i just can't listen to that nonsense. He's not a saint, he believes in some weird ass conspiracies about the elites wanting to make everyone poor, and at some point diminish the population by some means. But the effect either way is to just anger older people.
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