If US Health Insurance companies are so great at the service they provide, why don’t they take their business internationally? All these other countries must be so exasperated with their useless, inadequate federal healthcare programs.

Oh, wait, they’re not.

I’ll walk that back - I think at some point I mixed up the hearings on RFK and Gaetz, so I gave the wrong name there. I apologize for that.

But even then, for RFK I read articles specifically highlighting the Democrat initiative to hold the floor; and the final vote came out along party lines (excepting some R senators that rebelled). So it sounds like the unanimous consent topic you’re referring to is on regular Senate work, not the confirmation. You specifically said they’ve “fast tracked his appointments” and I’m trying to understand that claim. To me, I’m more convinced that Democrats have political experience telling them that Indivisible’s plan is too easy to backfire, too easy for media to twist against them, and get them forcibly removed from office; especially since their efforts at filibustering have shown they’re not beyond putting in effort.

Given there’s clearly a differing view on what we’re talking about, I’ll apologize for calling you a liar, but it still doesn’t seem like a claim that makes sense to me.

Why the lies?

Democrats used every second of their allotted talking time to block Gaetz’s confirmation as much as they could while holding a minority. You genuinely need to look up the meaning of the word “unanimous”.

Republicans obstructed democrats for so long by preventing a majority. The American people enabled that by voting them in.

Not so easy, since many of them respond “FUCK them.”

I think there’s still a case to make that police should worry about the current landscape.

A large proportion of the Jan 6 crowd were violent offenders even beforehand. The more they’re emboldened by Trump, the more of them there are. This even lead to that Nazi rally that the local community had to chase off; and that psycho in NH that had a shootout with police and wounded a deputy.

These people stay at home when they recognize their hate isn’t appreciated, and don’t think a president will pardon them. For many in law enforcement, it’s not if, but when.

Don’t just insult; provide the full chain of events. He’s moved to shut down programs that were investigating his interests in Ukraine, and in the FAA’s case, suing him for conduct with SpaceX, while stealthily staying away from the massive overspending in the DOD - which goes directly to him.

Even if there was anywhere near as much money as claimed going to waste, not one cent of that goes back to American taxpayers under Elon’s control. The man abuses his own employees, and cares only about himself.

I also wish more culpability was on them.

I understand that we want local action to urge changes. But honestly, if we stopped giving them weapons, I’m fairly sure another far eviler world superpower would snatch up the chance for a new ally.

Israel had its September 11 moments, and being a more vulnerable nation, turned it into an outlet of rage. More can be done by convincing Israelis this approach harms more than helps them, even creating new terrorists, rather than just washing America’s hands of it while the killing continues.

The world has tons of qualified candidates and tons of people out of work. Nowhere have I seen any indication DEI leads to hiring of “idiots”. That has been the domain of nepotism.

From what I’ve read, Feb 5. I mostly divorced from Reddit, but /r/50501 has decent info.