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Trump threatens voters with universal healthcare. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 187 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

would be nice if the democrats were a 10th as socialist as the GOP says.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

    Yeah, last time that happened dude changed things around and was so popular with the people the other party had to put a rule into place to not let people elect someone more than twice.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

    Yeah, and the last time someone ran on that platform, they were elected to the Democratic ticket in the midterms by a blowout, then the Democratic party ignored the will of the voters and nominated their donor-approved candidate, who then went on to lose one of the most important elections in US history to a pedophilic Russian asset, who then dismantled the US government, sold it and every state secret to the highest bidder, ushered in an authoritarian ultra-conservative regime, and then performed a self-coup to seize and consolidate power.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

    look. I voted bernie in the primary but he did not win the popular vote much less blow it out and the dnc did not ignore the will of the voters. There was a lot of bs but an actual ignoring of the vote totals.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

    Wilding v. DNC is the court case where the DNC admitted that they don't have to abide by the primaries because they are a private entity and can nominate whomever they want.

    There used to be transcripts of this everywhere.

    I'm all for everyone voting for the "lesser of two evils". I think everyone should go vote in the primaries. I also think everyone should pay very close attention to the DNC bureaucracy and minor rule changes and what everyone around them is saying and voting for.

    Because seeing everything up close, in a world full of lies and deception, is what most people need to understand the truth. So they can make the hard decisions they will need to make.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    so thats a nice theoretical but its not what happened in 2016 with bernie.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    I mean, you can readin the transcripts where the attorney for the DNC says as much to the judge in open court. I am not theorizing.

    Like I said, anyone reading this should vote in the primaries and watch the DNC's bureaucracy closely and understand what is going on, whatever that may be, for themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Bernie had the legs knocked out from under him in 16' and the DNC straight up stabbed him in the back in 20'. "Joementum" was manufactured propaganda AFAIC because Biden was in a distant fourth and one minor win in South Carolina does not a lead make. The DNC is just as afraid of socialists as the GOP, but not because they are diametrically opposed to the platform, but because they are afraid they might have to actually work at governance.

    GASP!!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    yeah Im not debating them being against him. Just that they did not straight up ignore the vote totals or such like that. I think that is a big thing between the republicans and democrats with people saying they are the same. republicans have gotten to where they are straight out violationg laws outright and as a matter of policy including the constitution and even their supreme court make decisions based on chicanery and self interest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    see, but from where i sit Bernie had Iowa, and New Hampshire (of all places), and Nevada (I think? it's been a decade, sorry) I think there was another one, But suddenly Biden tags SC and all of a sudden OH BOY HOWDY HERE's JOE! (hurr durr) CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE BIDEN EXPRESS, NEXT STOP FUCK YOU PROGRESSIVES! Pthhrrrp! JUST because SC happens to have a fairly high delegate count? Like Maybe not be counting ya chicken's eh? But yeah, I know the tail wags the dog, and all they had to do was hint at it and corpo media would spin the Fuck out of it SMDH...

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (10 children)

    The DNC arguing in court that they don't have to abide by primary elections isn't the same thing as the DNC actually not abiding by the primary elections. The DNC absolutely abided by the primary elections in 2016, and there's no evidence to the contrary.

    Sure, the superdelegate system was overwhelmingly for Clinton, but Bernie was already behind in the elected delegate total. Either way, in 2018, the DNC changed the rules so superdelegates can't even vote in the first round anymore, so will only get a vote if a convention is contested.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    You are right, arguing in court that you can cheat all you want is not the same as cheating all you want, and nothing was proven because instead of airing it out in court, the judge said "well yes, you can cheat all you want" and it was over.

    For the rest of your statements, I'm not getting into the specifics of rule changes and time changes and all the bullshit that happened in 2016. The minutia of bureaucratic processes and small sub-rule changes would be lost on anyone trying to find truth.

    The court case though, that's big and obvious and simple, and it's very telling that your only argument against it is 'arguing in court you can legally cheat, is not the same as cheating', followed by 'nobody proved anything because they could legally cheat and the case was thrown out'.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (8 children)

    For the rest of your statements, I’m not getting into the specifics of rule changes and time changes and all the bullshit that happened in 2016. The minutia of bureaucratic processes and small sub-rule changes would be lost on anyone trying to find truth.

    Literally my entire argument is that even without the influence of superdelegates Bernie didn't win the primary election. If your argument against that is "I'm not getting into the specifics," that is pretty telling.

    I voted for Bernie in 2016 and 2020. I think he would've wiped the floor with Trump. I don't like how the DNC picked sides in 2016 at all and do not support the DNC. That doesn't mean Bernie didn't actually lose the election, because he did.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    that is pretty telling

    Be a big girl and come up with your own words.

    I won't let you lawyer up the place confusing people with the meanings and influence of the seemingly minor procedural points I bring up that had a huge effect. A court case, with a plain statement, is easy to digest.

    But literally statements made by the DNC lawyer aren't enough for your lalalala fingers in ears bullshit? How about the words of the chair if the DNC? If the head of the DNC says Hillary and the DNC leadership cheated, will you hear it?

    I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process... By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Jesus dude, go back up to the top of the thread. We're responding to:

    the last time someone ran on that platform, they were elected to the Democratic ticket in the midterms by a blowout, then the Democratic party ignored the will of the voters and nominated their donor-approved candidate

    And then:

    I voted bernie in the primary but he did not win the popular vote much less blow it out and the dnc did not ignore the will of the voters. There was a lot of bs but (no) actual ignoring of the vote totals.

    Can you show me where the DNC ignored vote totals? Even the link you shared (which is all info that's already known to all of us) only says the Clinton campaign influenced DNC messaging. Straight from Donna Brazile's mouth:

    I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.

    The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.

    Again I voted for Bernie twice and am no fan of the DNC. They fucked up royally during and before (and since 😂) this election cycle. They still didn't "ignore the will of the voters" in 2016 or alter the outcome of any of the primary elections. Bernie did not win the 2016 primary election.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    A candidate who hadn't been nominated yet (Hilary) had "control of the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised" and was given power to "make final decisions on all the other staff" and that's still not enough for you?!

    Because you want emails stating "I, Eric of the nominations, doth pledge fealty to thee, Clinton, on this day, one month prior to the nominating day, and for unofficial and cheaty-pants reasons!"

    Well, let me tell you, if I put all my friends in staff positions, and am the defacto leader of the organization because I decide all spending, strategy, and fundraising, I won't need emails reminding me that I can do what I want at the organization where every fart gets approved by me before it squeaks and before even that squeak I had decided the dinner plan and the guts it would pass through as well, so I know how it will smell.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I'm really struggling to understand what you're trying to convince me of. I know all this happened at the DNC. The 2016 Democratic primary happened in each state. Bernie didn't get as many votes from Democratic primary voters as Clinton. The national DNC did not change votes or override votes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    That the cheating is plain as day and twice as big? I said they cheated. You said they didn't. I showed you the biggest cheating anyone could ever conceive, so big it involved taking over the every input and output of the DNC, and running it like it was her personal household, and you're saying that's not cheating because there is no record of people taking about directly manipulating vote totals.

    If you can walk into "Hillary's vote hut" and use "Hillary's vote pens" to vote on "Hillary's vote paper" where the votes are tallied by "Hillary's employees chosen from her friend pool" and then hear the results on "Hillary's patented news delivery service" and quabble with me about "evidence of cheating" then I can't help you.

    Your viewpoint of what "cheating" means is so obscure and narrow that in the beginning of the chain, which you referred me back to, I genuinely thought you didn't know all this because surely anyone who knew all this would understand that a complete and total takeover of the apparatus for voting and campaigning, was evidence enough of cheating.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    I think it's somewhere in between the two, but I followed Bernie's advice and didn't hold a vote in protest, because that would have been disastrous for... oh, yeah, it was.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Sorry to ask this here, but what is the little green +1 next to your user name?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    It's a Voyager app thing that means that you (yes you specifically) have upvoted that user's posts and/or comments once or more than once but you've also downvoted.

    Here's how yours looks in my client:

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    • [–] 47 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    The message is for his supporters, who don't want everyone to have things, just a select few that they think they're part of.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    "We don't want everyone to pool their resources to pay for everyone's healthcare! We want random groups of people to pool their resources to pay a for profit middleman to pay for some of their healthcare!"

    The only explanation for being against single payer is that you want to hurt "them". Not that you actually are, you're hurting a whole bunch of people, probably including yourself, but you want to hurt "them".

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    • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    Zero sum game thinking.

    "If other people are getting health care then there won't be any left for me!"

    That's why people hear that and agree / are afraid

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    My brother, staunch Republican asshole, didn't want universal healthcare because he might have to wait longer for an appointment.

    It didn't matter that it would cost less, have better outcomes, and people die without it. It was only about his convenience.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Has he never waited a long time for an appointment? I had a three month wait to see a cardiologist.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    He had plenty of long waits for appointments, but facts and reasoning weren't involved.

    Case in point: A 3 month wait in Canada - must be caused by universal healthcare = healthcare rationing = bad. That same 3 month wait in the U.S. = Freedom!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think that argument is interesting in the US because when I lived in a very conservative area health insurance was extremely expensive and covered very little. I had to wait months to get seen by my doctors, even for urgent issues, and every time I walked through the door of my doctor's office it cost me $200.

    Now I live in a purple area where a large amount of the population is on Medicare or Medicaid. My insurance is worlds better and hundreds of dollars a month cheaper. I've rarely had to wait more than a month to see my doctor and if I am waiting a long time it's usually because the issue isn't urgent and I'm trying to get an appointment that fits in optimally with my schedule, not just take the next available appointment.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    No no no, you're thinking the wrong (non-racist) way.

    "Everybody gets healthcare!'

    Means all the non white people also get healthcare. Now we wouldn't want that, wouldn't we?

    (This is a joke/shitpost. Universal healthcare should be available to anyone regardless of skin color)

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    • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Its a dog whistle for racists. What he means is "brown people will get free healthcare". He's a disgusting racist.piece of shit, so you have to read every word through that lens.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Its kept general so everyone hating any group can go 'fuck yeah', whether that be brown people, homeless people, immigrants, gypsies, punk rockers, gingers, kpop-lovers, people-who-wear-dino-suits, etc

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    • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    My country is now beyond parody...

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    • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    As a Canadian who hears this on the regular, the threat is that the seniors will have to pay for the healthcare of the irresponsible youths. With their skateboards and lack of helmets.

    And seniors are terrified of..... Everything.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    We'll be thrown into a system where everybody gets two scoops of ice cream!

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    • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yes he did say that BUT those that fervently support him will see it differently "they will take your money and your children's money and give free healthcare to the immigrants, give it to me i have a better plan with it" and unfortunately you can't cure stupid no matter how much we progress in medicine.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    People are afraid their taxes will go up to pay for universal healthcare. They're not as worried about the fortune they already spend to kill brown kids on behalf of an expansionist regime, or the other fortune they now spend on fuel (and by virtue, everything else that needs to be transported to them) because their government attacked one of the regime's critics.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    NEVER interrupt a terrorist when he’s making a mistake.

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    [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You know you’re shit when the leader of the opposition sells your party better than you can.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Goddammit. That sucks.

    You mean the government funded by OUR tax dollars actually spending OUR tax dollars ON US instead of their rich buddies, their dictator buddies, or themselves?

    (rather than our tax dollars blowing up A CHILDREN'S FUCKING SCHOOL in Iran, or shooting sailors in the water from fishing boats we sunk in Venezuela, or giving the money to genocidal mideastern shitbags wanting to own everything?)

    Yeah, I'd hate to see our money spent on keeping us alive and healthy rather than using it to fuck up the entire planet.

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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    What's next?

    Free secondary education?

    Is this the kind of world people like you want?

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    [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh no we will be like every functional county on earth.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    And they're horrified by that. He's saying it to scare them. They're always afraid of the "undeserving" getting things from tax revenue. Only their side is worthy.

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    [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    "everyone" is code for black/brown/poor people.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    if dems want to win they should hire the republicans PR team, those are the promises we want.

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    [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    I thought he was rewriting Romney Obama care so everyone got healthcare anyway.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    In Mexico, our president promised that in her presidential campaign. And she is working hard to get there, even though, my impression is she won't make it, because it's not an easy endeavor. Can't imagine why a whole society would not want this. I know they are not idiots.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Gonna need a link on that one (don’t necessarily doubt it - because nothing is out of the question since years ago - I just want to know and share that this was real)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I can't find an actually good source, but it was widely reported--but back in 2024 when he was running against Kamala. E.g. https://www.salon.com/2024/08/16/warns-that-if-kamala-harris-wins-everybody-gets-health-care/

    It definitely feels astroturfy that this particular quote is getting spread around right now. Someone wants you us to think the Dems are gonna do something about health care, but they don't want to make the claim directly, because that invites debunking. This way it kinda slips under the radar.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    And he's definitely wrong about this one.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Ohnoes! The horror!

    What will we ever do without our bloodsucking insurance middleman denying the procedures our doctors say we need and that we fucking pay for in hundreds of dollars per month!

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I don't know why I don't believe these things. They are always so bat shit crazy I figure that can't be real. So I looked it up and sure enough he said it in 2024. SMH. I'm not including a source because doing a search came up with dozens pretty much right of the bat.

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    [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Republicans would rather deny healthcare to their own family and the boogyman "illegal immigrant that's somehow also taking all the jobs" than provide it for those that need it.

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    wHoS gOnNa PaY fOr It?!?

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77208425

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Surely his addled brain just farted or something.

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    [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    N... gonna have healthcare, don't you fucking understand?

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    [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Anybody got the source handy?

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Yeah right

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    We're fucking doomed!

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    [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    Trump found a line that will get centrists to stay home.

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