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Jean in Florida's avatar

Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Apparently the privileged & Congress disagree with me. Think healthcare in the USA sucks now? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

When a service like healthcare is privatized, the driving factor is profit, at the expense of care. Now the Republicans who hold the majority in all three branches of our government want to privatize all the government services. That means they will prioritize profit over service. Who will suffer? Not the stockholders. The citizens will, while the very wealthy will enjoy their stock dividends. Follow the money.

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Jean in Florida's avatar

And this time find him guilty & remove him.

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cliff Krolick's avatar

Will you be in DC for the Million Person Rally to impeach this king, shut down the gov't till simple demands are pressed ahead

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John M. Canteberry's avatar

I've thought a "Seniors March of Dignity" is past due!

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William Farrar's avatar

There is so much synchronicity going on. Here from Today's Mindwar https://www.mind-war.com/p/who-wants-a-patriarchal-crypto-empire

"The project to isolate the United States, destroy the post-WWII world order, end the dollar and replace it with Bitcoin, and divide and conquer America through bigotry, is operating with no significant interruption.

To repeat, Europe should kick the US out of NATO before America does it. Europe must establish its own army and its own nuclear umbrella. A strong Europe will provide the American resistance a way to squeeze out the American Reich. A weak Europe will portend a new Dark Ages for all of us.

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justin SG's avatar

YES William!

If Trump KNOWS he is a Russian asset, that's EVIL.

If Trump DOESN'T KNOW he is a Russian asset, that's WORSE!

You can almost always predict Trump’s actions by asking yourself WWPD - What Would Putin Do?

See Senator Merkley express the obvious outloud...👇

https://bsky.app/profile/justinsg.bsky.social/post/3ljpzeyxi5k24

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William Farrar's avatar

Yeh, thanks for the link Justin. Yeh Merkley is one of the good ones, one of the brave ones like Chris Murphy.

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Kathleen Dolphin's avatar

Fox News brought us here. Mitch McConnell brought us here. Squashing Progressive Dems by mainstream Dems brought us here.

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John M. Canteberry's avatar

Their greed and lust for power is insatiable. They will not stop until they have it all unless they are forced to stop by a determined and united citizenry.

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Gene Wood's avatar

Love the song, the lyrics hurt .. but a good tune to mock the felon and his greedy billionaires ..

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Susan Scott's avatar

You hit this one out of the park. Impeach is the only solution. Even death would just give us another moron.

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Kathleen Dolphin's avatar

Impeach? Seriously? Arrest and ship to Gitmo. He's committed treason

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Read Feathers of Hope and pass it along.

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Marjo Tesselaar's avatar

wonderful song it says it all, thank you.

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Jackie's avatar

Thom, my brilliant Captain my Captain this really is one of those let that sink in moment. A lot to take in for sure. This is so wrong. The whole world is watching. Kamala! No, too late! I didn’t vote for this. Letting it sink in Thom. So happy I know you. A mind like yours is a take it in every chance you get, Thom. Thinking is important. Common Sense we all know about. Thom. Thinking, hard not too. Sinking in alright.

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Jackie's avatar

Thom, Captain my Captain by golly I think you’ve got it! When does the greed stop?

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This Woman Votes's avatar

This right here? An anthem of absolute rage, wrapped in a haunting lullaby of American decline. A bitter, gut-punching indictment of the GoFundMe death spiral that passes for a healthcare system, where the sick beg for mercy while the ultra-rich sip cocktails on their tax-free megayachts. Every line drips with the grotesque irony of a nation that calls itself the land of opportunity but forces its citizens to crowdfund survival.

This isn’t just a song, it’s a requiem for the American Dream. It’s the dystopian musical number playing over the credits as the country circles the drain, while Tom Selleck sells reverse mortgages to the desperate and Congress cashes another billionaire’s check.

It’s got everything: the raw imagery of a mother begging for her child’s life, the brutal contrast between struggling families and joyriding billionaires, and the unrelenting hammer of the chorus drilling in the truth only the wealthy get to exist. That bridge? It’s a firebomb straight to the face of "bootstraps" propaganda because we all know the dice are loaded, the game is rigged, and the only people who win are the ones who own the casino.

This belongs everywhere: screamed in the streets, blasted by speakers at protests, and turned into viral videos with footage of medical bankruptcy horror stories. The more haunting the delivery, the better. Picture a choir of voices, maybe a single acoustic guitar, and then a massive, crashing finish like the final warning shot of a revolution.

Seriously, someone needs to put this to music. It's the protest song we didn't know we needed.

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justin SG's avatar

To whom goes the credit for this fine song?

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Thom Hartmann's avatar

Louise Hartmann

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Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

Nicely done. We sank so low because people like Thom Hartmann and Rachel Maddow provided cover for the warmongering and privatization of the Democrats, while Fox News and Tucker Carlson provided cover for the same for Republicans. Thus the parties merged into one giant morass of racism, genocide, Zionism and corporatism. Why would Thom post incessantly about Russiagate but barely even mention Biden's genocide in Gaza? This type of bias and the resulting austerity and suffering imposed upon Americans combined with out being such easy prey for the techno-feudalists in becoming literal phon-ies has resulted in a propagandized and divided country. Here is my explanation in more detail: https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-backat-itself

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Michael Smolens's avatar

That song is possibly the most brilliantly presented summary of our world today in such a creative way - thank you and it should be posted on bill boards everywhere with a very loud speaker (I tried to cut/paste the graphic at the of this but it would not allow me to do it - if every presented in 'real media' - it should be there. BRAVO

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