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Get your flu shots while you still can!

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Well, a few days later and we see Trump’s worst idea ever: Matt Gaetz as AG.

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Please keep the columns coming, Mr. Rather. I think we'll all need to be paying close attention to what's coming. Here is my attempt to pitch in: https://open.substack.com/pub/barrycoburn/p/theres-hope?r=1bxgle&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Mr. Rather, are you there? Now, more than ever, we could all use some words of comfort. I am afraid for all of us. What do we do now? How do we move forward safely in this nightmare scenario we find ourselves in?

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So how many of you who call Kennedy a conspiracy theorist have taken the time to listen, really listen to him on podcasts? His beef is with pharmaceuticals that aren't thoroughly tested before they are released. He & his children are vaccinated. As for his beef with the FDA, why are we the wealthiest nation in the world yet the sickest? In Canada dyes are forbidden in cereals, but in the USA Dyes are everywhere. Read the side f a box of cereal and tell me none of those additives are dangerous. I am disappointed that he joined Trump, but Dems didn't want him & he really wants to help improve health in the USA.

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Trump and Kennedy aka dumb and dumber

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These men in the GOP are AGAINST us!! They want to take America back to a very dark time in our history: suppression!!

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Vote Blue!!!!💙🇺🇸

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I totally agree on all points, but with a huge *however!*

the USA is the only industrialized nation with a corporate, for-profit health care (wealth-scare) system driven with a fake 'health insurance' (wealth assurance, death assurance) industry. I know we are too brainwashed to really listen or comprehend, but we must: our lives and the lives of our children are at stake. Landmark 2009 Harvard Medical School study (look it up online) found that the U.S. system needlessly kills "at least" 45,000 citizens through profit-based wealth-scare decisions.

Not only does our system kill at least that many citizens needlessly (how about calling it what it is - mass murder?) but you can imagine the number who are maimed or have their lives shortened because some high school graduate or business major in a huge (needless) glass building tells doctors and nurses what they can and cannot do. On top of that, think about the millions of families who have lost their homes, their pensions, and their life savings because of wealth scare.

The insurance industry (a corporate, for profit industry) has NO BUSINESS being involved in medical care.

We need what every other industrialized nation around the world has (meaning civilized, Western-style, democratic, not tyrannies like China, Russia, and the like). They all have UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

And we are taught to hate that as 'evil socialism' and 'communism' etc when in fact if Jesus were here today, he would totally recommend it. It would become the 11th Commandment. No better yet, it would become a key component of the middle commandment: "Do Not Kill."

Answering ignorant questions:

1) "Is it socialism?" *** Whatever you want to call it, it is a foremost commandment of Christianity and Judaism. Treat others as you want them to treat you, The Golden Rule.

2) "how would we pay for it?" *** It more than pays for itself, as proven by the fact that every other industrialized nation has universal health care and it is better, cheaper, faster, and more live saving by far. The wealth/death assurance industry ("health insurance" with an evil grin) steals between one third and one half of every actual medical dollar stolen from our US national GDP, to pay the middlemen. Get rid of the middlemen. Example of how it more than pays for itself: after saving half the money by just eliminating the thieves in those big glass buildings, who do NOTHING for your medical care but steal money, the next thing is to realize: PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE, especially pre-natal and general women's health, saves a trillion dollars a year.

3) "why should I pay for your medical care?" *** it's the old 'socialism' (ridiculous) argument again. When you walk out the door and step on the sidewalk, that's socialism. Here we don't mean the hateful, dishonest, fox noise disinformation, but the real meaning in a moderate sense. The sidewalk is our collective taxes (money) at work for all of us. Go to your car parked on the street; the street is socialism. Drive to the corner. See those red lights or stop signs? All 'socialism" - making our combined wealth work together for all of us, so our children can cross the street safely, so we can drive a few blocks without being killed in a reckless car crash. That is why we have laws. It works in every other industrialized nation... why not step up now, and let the Progressive Democratic Liberal Pro-Human (call us what you will) party overcome the evil medieval barons of big guns, big industry, big wealthscare, and make us all a million times better off with universal health care.

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2🐷💩s

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The super crazies are about to take over the country.

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What a disaster Kennedy would be, as well as his boss if elected

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Agent orange wants chaos. So he appoints worm brain kennedy to destroy public health and get rid of vaccines. He wreaks havoc on the economy with a huge tax on everyone (which he calls tariffs) and eliminates our labor supply (the ones who do the actual work - which he calls immigrants). He then sells our national secrets to oligarchs who pay him big bucks for that information. The US slides downward as agent orange blames Democrats and some of his own supporters (as he always has done - he calls them disloyal). And we return to the 2017 inaugural address “Only I can save you” from this shit-hole country. Immigrant oligarchs Leon Mush (South Africa), Peter Thiel (Germany), and Rupert Murdoch (Australia) will all laugh as they fly away from the mess they created.

Vote for Harris/Walz or bow to the oligarchs.

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Let's see..... how many GOP parents and grand-parents want to give up on the Polio vaccine being administered to their little ones? I'd vote for my family's healthcare and, OBTW, that's not the vote that Trump is making.

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In the main Trump is the solution.. but agreed he has to be careful who he appoints.

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You mean besides the microphone incident with his mouth? Or maybe the Liz Cheney comment he made. Or was it the incident where he called Puerto Rico garbage….the list goes on.

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