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Aug 29Liked by Ken Klippenstein

Pointing out the lack of healthcare discussion is actually truly alarming, there's so much crap going on that I didn't even recognize that either.

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I was shocked. It’s like THE issue in this country

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Aug 29Liked by Ken Klippenstein

What's the difference between Biden and Harris? There actually doesn't seem to be much of one. Y'all babble on about health care but what you're really talking about is health insurance. Not the same thing. And another thing, all, and I mean all effective health care systems are run by the government. The "private sector" has generally only a small role to play. Israel and the Ukraine? A part of the US's on-going effort for global hegemony which we can neither afford nor would we know how to administer if we got it.

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Agree there doesn’t seem to be much difference but we can’t really know because there’s been so little discussion of policy at all

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Yes and it's interesting that in his final tome on his time in Washington Henry the K did a remarkable job of bemoaning the low quality of American politicians.

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Aug 29Liked by Ken Klippenstein

For better or worse it's just a vibes election. Trump won't engage in policy and Harris has no interest in the double standard of doing it all herself to one-sided criticism. Since the media won't press Trump on policy, she should just take her licks for being vague and focus on the vibes. As if some 9-point plan for Ukraine is going to turn North Carolina. Everyone reading this right now knows who they're voting for, so let's just get real and focus on turnout.

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Aug 29·edited Aug 29Author

I partly agree but I think Biden’s sagging popularity sort of forces Harris to articulate why she would be different

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Aug 29Liked by Ken Klippenstein

Climate is first.

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Should be!

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Aug 29Liked by Ken Klippenstein

Question 5: Acknowledgment- will the Harris administration give Hunter’s hog the presidential medal of freedom? Many people are saying it’s better than the congressional Medal of Honor in many ways.

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Recall Trump giving Miriam Adelson, the Israeli who wants America to approve of that country annexing the West Bank, the Medal of Freedom? That was astounding, the personification of ethnic cleansing being awarded the highest civil honor of the country that is supposed to be for liberty and justice for all.

This is the world turned upside down and I think it is the hope of many Trump supporters that he will do more of this overturning. It is anger to such an extent that a person will vote for chaos simply for the sake of change.

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While it has always been true to some extent that we the people do not know what our country is doing, since WW2 this has been spreading so that now it applies generally, and Uncle Sam certainly knows more and more about what each American is doing. The CIA is a serial disaster that specifically conducts dirty operations and there isn't any expectation that the citizenry will know what it is doing.

Now we have the notorious 800 military bases around the world with a military budget that is almost $1 trillion a year that serves Americans only in that it is vast jobs program that produces nothing that Americans can use and as opposed to national health care, gets increased automatically every year with almost unanimity in Congress, proof positive of the corruption of that body.

I want to know what Harris will do to free us of the democracy of lobbies that decides what legislation is passed and what will be funded. This is front and center regarding Israel, whose supporters rule the world of big campaign donors who are united in their determination to snuff out free speech, particularly on campus. In short, what does Harris propose as legislation to overturn the outrageous Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court that set money in politics free?

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4 questions? Too Jewish

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Congressional elections even at the local level are all show and no substance, with expensive mailers and no town halls or meeting with constituents.

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I wish I had a GIF of Matt DaBaby shaking his head in his hands as she failed to really answer any of these questions.

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First, its not healthcare, its insurance coverage.

Second, there will be no peace in the Middle East.

Third, the Puppet Masters are keeping a close eye on Kamala’s retorts. They are evaluating if she can withstand a barrage of Trump insults without getting flustered. If she fails in the debate... an October Surprise is assured.

Fourth, RFK jr provided the much needed attention to the details behind process foods. I found his talk compelling as it was not a “talking down to...”. He told how we got there and what can be done to combat and reverse this situation. It also sabotaged the accomplishments of Dems in the healthcare industry because they just want more drugs to treat the symptoms and not the causation.

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