Can't happen again.
Washington passed the Faithful Presidential Electors Act in 2019 and Chiafalo v. Washington was decided by SCOTUS this year.
Can't happen again.
Washington passed the Faithful Presidential Electors Act in 2019 and Chiafalo v. Washington was decided by SCOTUS this year.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Are we talking about the fake documents crazy rudy tried to pass off today via the NY Post? Or is it not even worth discussing?
I didn't see them mentioned here much, but they were immediately debunked by every credible source and deleted from Facebook, forcing the dumbfuck MAGA crowd to cry more about "censorship!" and "conspiracy!" and "we're going to PARLER!"
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Probably why I didn't see it. I have most of them on ignore.
This has already been covered, but that's not the way it's done in Wisconsin, apparently. Regardless, the initial image that was posted had the truth down in the fine print:
It's a guesstimate obtained from a model that is based on other data, not on any kind of actual registration data.
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Any other attractive married Dem hawties need a little polling boost?
Cal Cunningham up 49%-39% over Tillis in new SurveyUSA poll.
He's *improved* since the texting scandal -- he was up 7% in the last poll.
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Nope, the innovation was in 2004 by sony Librie/ Sony Reader.
followed by the Amazon Kindle, a device which, upon its release in 2007
Though the actal inital innovation and process started by E Ink Corporation in 1997 and earliest ideas of this kind of device were found in novels dating back to 1930's.
Project Gutenberg was started in 1971 which has its foundations in e-readers.
1993 -BiblioBytes launched a website to sell ebooks over the internet, the first company to create a financial exchange system for the net.
1998- NuroMedia released the first handheld ebook reader, the Rocket, which allowed ebooks to be downloaded from a PC via a serial cable.
1998- SoftBook launched its SoftBook reader.
So where is the innovation? Improvments and marketing, sure.
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lol, hey here's a shock... premiums increased.
i mean they have increased almost every year since the begining of time...but hey....ACA right??
Premium increases dropped from where they were prior to ACA.
Record profits were not off the ACA book of business it was off the 168 million private plan and medicare books of business.
you can easly see this in every one of their 10k earnings statements. You can see this with companies that don't participate in ACA.
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Sure you can, its called subsidies. you lose your job you qualify for subsidies under ACA. if your income goes low enough you qualify for medicaid.
Both could go as low as $0.00 premiums.
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interesting because the individual mandate has exsisted since 1966 under Medicare.
A mandate where you are forced to purchase insurance that you cannot even use till you are 65.
I wonder why the republican party is not trying to liberate us from the forced participation and purchase of insurance???
BTW medicare was not a GOP idea....
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LOL if they take all 3, in Jan that 1.8 trillion will go right back up to the original amount democrats wanted...3.3 trillion.
As for the poll, the problem is 98% of republicans will blame pelosi even if trump burned the bill on live tv and said "fuck the poor".
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Thats not the same thing.
The insurance mandate was absolutely a conservative think tank alternative to single payer. That's just fact. There were some good things about ACA, but it is not a great plan and it kept being made less and less effective by the Repubs. They really gimped it before it even was launched by removing the price controls the consumers were supposed to have, like being able to create cooperatives and access to nation-wide markets.
Its great a lot of people were able to get insurance, but the truth is, it wasn't;t good insurance and there was a significant amount of people that made too much to qualify for assistance but not enough to really afford it, so they were stuck paying the penalty.
The simple fact of the matter, is that we should have universal healthcare, and the Repubs are against it because they are too stupid to understand it, so instead we got their idea that they turn around and hobbled. It's shit and being angry about it, is justified.
"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
He is talking about taxes...
Topic No. 751 Social Security and Medicare Withholding Rates
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751
He is pointing out how the mandate is similar to Medicare withholding rate. The difference being, that the mandate was at the end of the year, paid by you instead of withheld by your employer, and you have to pay it, even if you never reach the appropriate age... be it 65 like now or 60 as Biden proposed...
Medicare tax is paid by those who might not be even able to afford their own insurance. The demonizing of the mandate, hinges on the fact that the cost for Medicare isn’t something people get riled up about. But... what are we on... day 45 of no payroll taxes going to pay for Medicare?The one I am talking about was the mandate introduced with the ACA and states that you must be covered by insurance or face a Tax fine. It's regressive and punishes those who fall between the cracks of not being eligible for Medicare Expansion, but can't afford private insurance. A thing Biden plans on bringing back, and it's a mistake. A public Option if introduced should be able to be competitive enough to outpace for profit insurance companies. Not that I have any faith we will even get the Public Option.
Oh and no to the ability to compete. This is once again bordering on a GOP talking point, that ignores who is currently on Medicare versus those with insurance. Medicare covers the highest risk pool of potential patients... they can’t beat insurance profits, because they can’t deny you expensive care.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
In other news, Biden's lead briefly went down to +10.2 but is back up to +10.4. The image says +10.3, but just do the arithmetic.
God damn it... in Australia you get a democracy sausage... wtf? Why don’t we have that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
The democracy sausage is great. I won't go to a polling station that doesn't have one.
We also have mandatory voting (with fines for those who don't vote) but we do it on a Saturday so it doesn't interfere with the working week.
Plus we have a preferential voting system - we try and elect the least worst candidate (or the least disliked). Sometimes it works.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Literally the same here. Even though we have a psycho Tory party in charge over here right now, I got an email this morning saying 'you better register to vote because it's a legal requirement'. I find it baffling that the American system has always disincentivized people from voting.