AOC Thread

[mtangelsfan 9,321]

9 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Ask @calscuf, he's using it for his gun owner survey. 

I figured he was just using his mouth.

[yk9001 6,240]

This was the Christopher Walken post of the politics board.

[Taylor 12,317]

Apparently, Alexandria's boyfriend was granted a Congressional email account.

 

Congrats, FS79!

[Fireball 1,535]

8 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Apparently, Alexandria's boyfriend was granted a Congressional email account.

 

Congrats, FS79!

  That has to set some red hats ablaze. 

[fan_since79 9,693]

Hope you guys don't need a hip replacement or anything else that might cost money when you get old.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/aoc-aide-no-covered-hip-replacements-for-oldsters/

The universal health coverage, planned as part of the “Green New Deal,” would apparently not cover hip replacements for the elderly or private rooms in hospitals. At least, that is what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s senior counsel and policy advisor, Dan Riffle — a former marijuana activist, whose Twitter slogan is, “Every billionaire a policy failure” — tweeted Tuesday:

Private rooms, 5th Avenue offices, hip replacements for octogenarians, the public plan will no longer cover them. Cosmetic surgery…For the public plan to work, it can’t pay for literally everything, which means there will be a market for things it doesn’t.

Apparently getting pushback on this, Riffle tried to recant:

I take it back. We’ll do the hip replacements. Many reconstructive surgeries are ill-advised for folks past a certain age b/c recovery is too difficult, but apparently that’s not the case with this particular one. I do policy, not orthopedics.

[UndertheHalo 8,206]

My guess is that single payer healthcare will only provide for flu shots and old people death panels. 

[Lou 32,229]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Apparently getting pushback on this, Riffle tried to recant:

 I take it back. We’ll do the hip replacements. Many reconstructive surgeries are ill-advised for folks past a certain age b/c recovery is too difficult, but apparently that’s not the case with this particular one. I do policy, not orthopedics.

you do weed, buddy 

[gotbeer 8,058]

13 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

My guess is that single payer healthcare will only provide for flu shots and old people death panels. 

[gotbeer 8,058]

Will ‘basic income’ become the California norm? Stockton starts $500 no-strings payments

[Taylor 12,317]

I think Stockton's $500 monthly stipend is a bribe, not an example of basic income.

[Tank 19,423]

the immediate downside to this program is that you have to live in stockton.

[Tank 19,423]

I wonder when the first lawsuits in Stockton will be filed over “only” getting $500 or being passed over on the list. 

I’m gonna venture a guess at around March 15.

[junkorama 4,078]

On 2/15/2019 at 4:18 PM, mtangelsfan said:

I figured he was just using his mouth.

He was, but he quickly determined it wasn't sensitive enough to make such small measurements. Amirite, @calscuf? 

[Vegas Halo Fan 9,428]

On 2/16/2019 at 11:34 PM, Tank said:

the immediate downside to this program is that you have to live in stockton.

I had an unsolicited inquiry about a job there a while back, an administrative role in a chain of local health care clinics. When I asked around here, I forget who said it, but someone said that it was "like living in Damascus", literally the worst place in California to live.

[fan_since79 9,693]

“I think it’s (Trump’s proposed border wall) a moral abomination…I think it’s like the Berlin Wall. I think it’s like any other wall designed to separate human beings and block out people who are running away from the humanitarian disasters. I just think it’s wrong.” (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Feb, 20.)

Really, Alex?! 

[fan_since79 9,693]

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) responded to questions from supporters Sunday in an Instagram Live session, explaining her Green New Deal and why “we’re screwed on climate” and are dying.

“The whole premise of the Green New Deal is that we’re screwed on climate,” she said. “Like, I’m sorry to break it to you. If we do nothing, there is no hope, period. That’s just a principle across the board. If we do not act there is no hope. The only time we can hope is when we act. But when it comes to climate in particular, we’re actually screwed.”

She continued: “There is a global threat to the planet. A global threat. At this point, we don’t even have to prove it — just walk outside in winter in a lot of places, and it’s either way worse than you’re used to, or way warmer than you’re used to. Hurricanes, storms, wildfires, we are dying now.”

[UndertheHalo 8,206]

She is correct. 

[junkorama 4,078]

52 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY)... 

 

[calscuf 10,122]

I love how the dude that lives in a beach city whose average temps are now close to the levels of the surface of the sun thinks nothing is wrong with the climate.

[Adam 12,680]

If an asteroid were heading for our planet and its ETA were 12 years from today there would be global pandemonium 24/7. That there isn't, convinces me that she's not correct. And if she were correct she should have put her name on a bill that was at least somewhat realistic.

[calscuf 10,122]

Nipple!

Man I miss the porn board.

[UndertheHalo 8,206]

13 minutes ago, Adam said:

If an asteroid were heading for our planet and its ETA were 12 years from today there would be global pandemonium 24/7. That there isn't, convinces me that she's not correct. And if she were correct she should have put her name on a bill that was at least somewhat realistic.

Great comparison dude! 

[Adam 12,680]

Thanks! I can't take full credit. I saw something similar on the tweet machine

[Adam 12,680]

This is what the 4th or 100th time the climate doomsday clock has been reset? And the new driving force behind it is some 28 year old broad with nice tits? Cmon man

[fan_since79 9,693]

The report of the Club of Rome said back in the 70's that there would be no oil left in the world by 1990. I used to believe this crap when I was a lib.