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The Evil Party continues self-validation (updated 6apr22)

05 April 2022

George Rebane

A reader posted the link to conservative writer David Horowitz’s essay ‘Understanding the Progressive Mind’. Here he points out that “too many conservatives fail to appreciate the radical evil that lies at the heart of progressivism by, e.g., giving progressives credit for good intentions and assuming that the disasters caused by their policies are inadvertent.” We have made the case for years that these disasters have been anything but inadvertent.

A more compelling argument as to the evil that imbues the basis of the Democrats’ objectives, means, and methods is on display today with our policy to do everything politically possible, within the context of NATO, to diminish and delay military support to Ukraine. This perfidy is accomplished with the lamestream propagandizing Biden’s lauded fear/desire not to prompt Putin into pushing the WW3 button. Few people understand more thoroughly than Garry Kasparov the impact this prevarication has on Russia’s foreign policy and future expansionist aggressions under Putin. Kasparov’s op-ed, ‘Biden Told the Truth, Putin Has to Go’, in the (paywalled) 4apr22 WSJ is an important analysis of the West’s response to date. He makes the case that “Ukraine’s sacrifice will be in vain if the West’s moral confusion gives Russia a chance to regroup.” I’ve decided to make it available to RR readers here – Download Kasparov 4apr22 op-ed

[6apr22 update] Insulin price controls – butt stupid socialist economics on parade. Don’t know exactly where the needle lands on their stupid-to-evil scale, but the Democrats’ Affordable Insulin Now Act will have exactly the wrong impact on every part of the R&D-to-pharmacist counter cycle. In the longer term everyone, especially the diabetics, will be hurt as the monies will be mal-distributed between patient, government, big pharma, insurance companies, and, yes, ultimately the taxpayer. This is yet another Democrat vote buying program directed at the desperate, destitute, deluded, and dumb. (more here)

Posted in Agenda 21, Critical Thinking & Numeracy, Current Affairs, Our Country

95 responses to “The Evil Party continues self-validation (updated 6apr22)”

Don Bessee

05 April 2022

This was foreseeable and predictable –
Smiley Allen Martin, the second man arrested in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six, has a criminal record stretching to 2013 and last year was the subject of a plea by Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s office that he not win early release from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury. Despite a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings urging that Martin remain in custody, he won his release and was in Sacramento on Saturday night recording himself on a Facebook Live video brandishing a handgun hours before the shooting.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article260131840.html
😉

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Paul Emery

05 April 2022

George
Can you provide a lost of a FEW OF THE “EVIL ” progressive countries that fuel your post. For example do they include France, Denmark, Ireland,Germany, Sweden, New Zealand etc as examples. That would give solid examples of the nature of the evil you articulate in your post.

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George Rebane

05 April 2022

PaulE 409pm – Have no idea what you are asking or claiming I said.

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Scott O

05 April 2022

Paul continues to show up here and throw mud in his own face.
The title of George’s post is talking about “The Evil Party”.
Democrats, Paul – please try to keep up.
They’re not all evil, of course. A lot are just useful idiots. And folks like AOC are just extremely limited in intelligence and life experience.
The folks at the top of the food chain in the Dem party are as crooked as a dog’s hind legs. Been that way for decades. Funny how true leftists used to be against it. The Dems learned how to ‘enlarge’ their big tent to include the radical left and the perverts.
That’s not to say there aren’t lefty evil pervert wackos in other socialist countries.

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Paul Emery

05 April 2022

George
You refer constantly to the evils of progressive governments that you claim are Marxist and you repeatedly say that the progressive Democrats are taking us down the road to Marxism and Communism. Your post refers to that by claiming that the progressives are “radical evil” as you put it. So all I want are some examples of countries that have gone down that path that I can look at. Perfectly reasonable request unless you believe we are the first ones to go there.

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Scott O

05 April 2022

Psul – “So all I want are some examples of countries that have gone down that path that I can look at.”
Oh, gosh – let’s see: Russia, China, North Vietnam, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba…”
Too bad we can’t provide ones that Trump ran.
“Perfectly reasonable request unless you…”
– don’t count reality.
You know it wasn’t that long ago we made fun of the country sitting on one of the world’s largest oil reserves that had to import petro products.
And lately we have the president of the US on his knees begging Venezuela to pump more oil.
Do try to keep up, Psul.

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Paul Emery

05 April 2022

Scott
None of those countries with the possible exception of Venezuela went from being a Democracy to being Communist. That is what George and the RR’s contend will happen to us under the Democrats. That contention is not factually accurate.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2022

what is a woman?
https://fb.watch/ccHt3cKi1E/

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Don Bessee

05 April 2022

So the ponytail of ignorance throws this gem ‘ went from being a Democracy to being Communist’ WTF ??
😉

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Joe Peyote Coyore

05 April 2022

re: [4apr22 update] Psul’s future looks less than dim
That contention is factually accurate.

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Scott O

05 April 2022

from Psul – “That contention is not factually accurate.”
And before that he admits it did ‘possibly’ happen.
So did it? Or didn’t it?
It’s got to be a difficult intellectual process to be Psul’s brain.
Or ‘possibly’ not.
The point here is how we are as a country trending.
Does it really matter if we get to hell ‘democratically’ or by other means?
Maybe Psul is really upset that teachers in Florida can’t groom children.

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Joe Peyote Coyote

05 April 2022

Scott 0 @ 7:28 pm
“Maybe Psul is really upset that teachers in Florida can’t groom children.”
Or maybe Psul is upset that only 40 cars showed up for Sunday’s KVMR’s Caravan of Love. The first 50 cars got a gift bag full of KVMR’s goodies. I showed up, got my free surprise gift bag, and drove straight home.
Sucker born every minute.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2022

‘John Durham, Michael Sussmann, and the Broader Clinton Conspiracy
Texts from Sussmann prove his lies’
https://technofog.substack.com/p/john-durham-michael-sussmann-and?

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Scott O

05 April 2022

“Or maybe Psul is upset that only 40 cars showed up for Sunday’s KVMR’s Caravan of Love.”
The main problem Psul has is that everything he hated Trump for has been proven to be worse in Psul’s choice for POTUS.
He got played, because he’s a low IQ voter and now he’s beginning to get a glimmer of how bad he looks.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2022

on topic…in rap
https://fb.watch/ccLdYSLfP0/

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Scott O

05 April 2022

re BT 7:45 – New info re Sussmann’s possible criminal activity is “disturbing and revolting” according to Democrat Party/Biden/Clinton officials.
“We whole-heartily condemn and and distance ourselves from this dastardly individual”.

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George Rebane

05 April 2022

PaulE 547pm – You seem to be stuck on a principle that you have often visited – if it hasn’t happened, it can’t happen. Perhaps your unyielding devotion to that shibboleth should be rewarded with it being named after you, something like Emery’s Edict would serve nicely.
But I do venture that the overwhelming share of thinking people would not apply it to existing democracies, given how obvious the road to tyranny is from such collectivist codling governance. Yes, Venezuela is an example, but a more serious one that does not violate Emery’s Edict is Germany, a democracy that in 1933 elected Hitler as chancellor and made the Nazi Party dominant in the Reichstag. What the Jews and communists served for the Nazi Party as the objects of wholesale hatred, today we have conservative Christians (especially white and male) filling that need for the Democratic Party.

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Biil Tozer

05 April 2022

lets bring Elon into the discussion.
https://fb.watch/ccPZQ1JhSW/

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Paul Emery

06 April 2022

George
You’re not implying that Hitler was a Marxist are you? The gist of my discussion with you is countering your contention that we are on the path to Marxism with such policies as national health care etc.

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scenes

06 April 2022

Psul Sez:
“such policies as national health care etc. ”
Of well, whatever ‘national health care’ is. It means a quite different thing depending on the country and means nothing without details.
But, at least that isn’t simply hacking up another anti-Trump hairball, so there’s one other topic. National-health-care-like-I-saw-in-Denmark-once. Just the thing if you spent a lifetime working for cash and using the emergency room for Medi-Cal coverage.
If you copy practically any other (all?) country’s setup, I want to be there when Psul tells the healthcare workers that they have to take a 50%+ haircut in income.

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scenes

06 April 2022

This time I’ll be respectful as I’d like an answer:
Mr. Paul Emery states: “You’re not implying that Hitler was a Marxist are you? ”
That’s a better question than you might think.
Could you explain a few fundamental differences between business practice, especially large business, court systems and law enforcement, contracts, banking, personal property ownership, between Nazi Germany and the USSR?
It’s an interesting thing to flesh out and I believe you’re just the man for writing up a quick summary about the matter.
You are quick to argue about it, so I’d be willing to benefit from your knowledge.

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scenes

06 April 2022

GeorgeR: ‘The Progressive Party’, as opposed to The War Party, La Raza, Pentecostal Christians, etc.
At one time, I simply thought of them as a population who shared lower-than-average risk tolerance. The general notion that people should receive food/shelter/healthcare/cellphones regardless of their ability or willingness to do useful things is understandable. Of course, you do end up with the issue of rewarding non-usefulness, but that’s a problem for later I guess.
Naturally, if that much money changes hands via the heavy hand of gubmint, grift naturally happens. No avoiding it and most of the Progressive heavy hitters financially benefit.
The amazing late-model new and improved group is what you might think of as The Chomo Party.
We know live in a world consisting of men-in-dresses, Diaper Furries, K-6 teachers wrangling books with gay porn, Drag Queen Story Time, sex change indoctrination for kids, and Sam Brinton. Maybe it’s something in the water.
There’s no point in hassling Psul about it since it’s likely he has no interest in dressing up in an animal suit while wearing diapers (at least not yet) and won’t defend it. Of course, he’s going to vote right down the line with those folks, so maybe it’s a difference that makes no difference.

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Joe Peyote Coyote

06 April 2022

Correction @ 7:39 pm
Only 40 people showed up to the Caravan of Love, not 40 cars. My free grab bag of KVMR gifts to lure me to the start of the event included a bunch of junk. Seeing nothing in the Love Bag worth while, I drove to the parking lot of McDonalds, stood outside hoping to give the KVMR Caravan of Love goodies to a homeless person or some soy boy who may actually appreciate the contents there of. No such luck, could not find one person who was interested, even for free. I then tossed the bag into the outside garbage can in front of McDonalds rather than leave it on top of the garbage bin where one with a sane mind could mistake my intentions as littering.
Correction in the spirit of being truthful. 40 people at the Love Caravan, not 40 cars. So, however, are not truthful. One dude with a ponytail claimed he would not respond to any name other than Paul or Paul Emery. However, Dr. Rebane calls him/her/it PaulE and others call the eunuch Psul, and the dementia liar still responds. Unbelievable. Psul is a lying sack of shit. One thing for certain is the LIAR Manbun of Ignorance does not know what a woman is nor has ever heard the noises a satisfied woman makes.

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Gregory

06 April 2022

Punchy 808am
Hitler mastered identity politics. So did Lenin, Stalin & Mao.

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George Rebane

06 April 2022

PaulE 808am – Hitler was a collectivist first and always. And as Gregory @925am points out, he was also a master of identity politics. As Konrad Heiden documents in his detailed biography (Der Fuehrer, 1944) of Hitler’s early years, Adolph was indeed enamored of Marxism during his political awakening in Vienna. The split came when Hitler adopted Germanic national socialism and racism of the Aryan stripe, while the communists were devoutly internationalists and considered Hitler’s ilk to be primitive political provincials. Seeing what Mussolini (himself a communist expatriate) was doing to reconstitute the glories of Rome with fascism, Hitler also adopted that form of collectivism as his Plan B.

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Steven Frisch

06 April 2022

Actually Paul is almost completely correct; there are almost no examples of nations that have moved from a democratic form of governance, particularly one with any lengthy democratic traditions and institutions, to communism. By pointing this out Paul (aided by Scott) is highlighting the fundamental flaw in George’s historiography.
This is clearly not the case in North Korea, which was a colony of Japan, Vietnam, which was a colony of France, Cuba a colony of Spain then a dictatorship, Russia under the Tsars, China under Imperial rule as until 1911 and then a declared democracy for a brief few years.
Yes, Venezuela technically had a brief flirtation with democracy in the late 1940’s, one installed by a military coup followed by an election, that a brief few years later was overthrown by another military coup, and then was overshadowed by the discovery of oil and a string of kleptocratic governments, of which Chavez and his successors were merely the last in the string.
To characterize Germany under the Weimar Republic as a nation with a truly strong tradition of democracy would be wildly inaccurate.
First there was not even a German federal state until 1871. Although the formation of the German Kaiser Reich in 1871 was based explicitly on balancing power between a monarch and democracy, the balance of power was heavily weighted to the Kaiser.
Germany under the Kaiser’s was a constitutional monarchy similar to Great Britain, but the Reichstag, which was popularly elected, did not have anywhere near the powers of the British Parliament, most notably no power to remove the Chancellor, who was the head of government and functional equivalent to the Prime Minister.
The power of the Reichstag was also balanced by the Bundesrat, or an appointed federal council, which had the power to veto legislation by the Reichstag with no recourse.
The German Imperial constitution provides no provisions for a constitutional court, although it did allow for the creation of law courts, but it had no power to overturn the actions of the Kaiser, the Reichstag or the Bundesrat. Consequently German courts thus did not act as a balancing factor the way the British common law doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty did, or the more explicit American constitutional as interpreted post Marbury v. Madison did.
The Weimar Republic lasted a brief few years, under the strain of the post WWI chaos in the streets, disdain for the government for signing the Versailles Treaty, and the cycles of inflation, but it was not a nation with strong democratic traditions.
And this really points out the truth of Paul’s point…the boogey man that George advances, the fall of democracy to communism due to some kind of creeping conspiracy, is not only unprecedented, it is highly unlikely.
But then again, fascists must have a boogey man to scapegoat in order to advance authoritarian tendencies in governance, which is George’s real agenda. Today we are far more at risk of falling to fascism in the false form of a balancing factor to communism, than to communism itself.

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fish

06 April 2022

Posted by: Steven Frisch | 06 April 2022 at 10:08 AM
……..psssst…… Beobachter!

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George Rebane

06 April 2022

StevenF 1008am – Thank you for that contribution Steve – timely, expected, and revealing as always.
To the recently arrived reader – notice how our leftwinger cum big government socialist continues his attempt at accusing those who promote smaller government, lower taxes, fewer regulations, more personal freedoms, minimally regulated markets, entrepreneurship, and personal responsibility as being big government authoritarians and collectivist fascists. Now, one might wonder what all our globalist Left and their Democratic Party promote.

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fish

06 April 2022

Posted by: George Rebane | 06 April 2022 at 10:54 AM
Perfectly understandable George……when a guy’s sinecure demands belief in something…..

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Steven Frisch

06 April 2022

Well George if your advocacy were for the promotion of smaller government, lower taxes, fewer regulations, more personal freedoms, minimally regulated markets, entrepreneurship, and personal responsibility from an intellectually consistent and honest perspective, such as that once taken by leading conservatives in our country, without scapegoating others with allegations of communism and socialism; and if your positions were not modified by open support for armed insurrection against the government in cases like Bundy Ranch, the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, and the January 6th insurrection; and were not polluted over the years by promotion of right wing and crypto-fascist organizations like the Tea Party, the Constitutional Sheriff’s, the Oath Keepers, the John Birch Society (who even knew they were still alive)and the Proud Boys; and if you were not an open advocate of a widening of the “The Great Divide” as a means of separating Americans by race class, and culture; and if you were not regularly engaged in open fandom of such illiberal leaders as Viktor Orban and Vladamir Putin (through your support for Trump and his coddling of Putin), then I would be forced to treat you with some respect as I do traditional conservatives who I may disagree with but whom I can engage productively.
You are no traditional conservative, as you have stated many times here.
You are an illiberal populist, who supports expanding government interference in private lives and thus the size of government and busting the budget when done by your preferred leaders, are happy to impose laws and regulations on others while protecting your own personal freedoms, support government regulation and preferences in the markets when they benefit the things you thing of as sacrosanct such as fossil fuels.
You don’t get to have it both ways, you don’t get to sport the patina of traditional conservatism while possessing the mind of an insurrectionist.

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fish

06 April 2022

Posted by: Steven Frisch | 06 April 2022 at 11:40 AM
….so much verbiage….so much projection…..! If it wasn’t you I’d feel embarrassment for whoever wrote it.
I suppose we can take solace in the fact that after today’s output we won’t need to expect another Frischian “drive by” until July.

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Steven Frisch

06 April 2022

I can’t help but note that although George critiqued my response on the illogic of contending that democracies are at risk of converting to communist dictatorships based on identifying his beliefs with fascism, he did not refute the basic premise, that Paul is indeed correct, it almost never and may never have happened.
False fear…boogeyman…which begs the questions, why prop up a false premise?

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2022

I prefer the term ‘American Marxists’ to communists. We have our own unique brand of Marxism heavily promoted, advocated, and practiced by our Leftinistas. China has their own nationalist (and racist) brand of Communism, as opposed to the Red Scare from Lenin. The Jacobins of the French Revolution had their own kind of hatred for the religious, and Cambodia has their own cultural revolutions. So, it is hard to find the 100% perfect brand of Communism, totalitarianism, statism, fascism, etc. India definitely is a nationalist state and the Japanese as a culture are quite racist to people who do not look like them.
I prefer the term American Marxism because it is our own unique of way of hating on America and abhorring her past and to form a more perfect Union.
BTW, who were the indigenous people of England? I believe they were the Anglo-Saxons, but I could be wrong. Those indigenous peoples gave us common law and the Magna Charter, those horrible white men. Imagine having individual or property rights in an American Marxist society. Silly notion, but that’s just me.
Now we soon will have a Supreme Court Associate who does not believe in natural rights, which is diametrically opposed to both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. And equal rights under the law is….bad, berry berry bad. Only in American Marxism! I personally put all the blame on the indigenous peoples of the British Isles.

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Paul Emery

06 April 2022

Youu are wrong about the Anglo-Saxons being the indigenous people of England.
The earliest were the Celts. Here’s a link with more information for you:
“Celtic Britain consisted of the Iron Age from approximately 600 BC – 50 AD and this was the age of the Celt in Britain (England) as the Celtic culture established itself throughout the British Isles. They arrived in Britain as separate tribes that migrated there and were loosely tied by a similar language, religion, and cultural expression.”
https://celticlifeintl.com/the-celts-of-england/

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scenes

06 April 2022

Steve F. “there are almost no examples of nations that have moved from a democratic form of governance, particularly one with any lengthy democratic traditions and institutions, to communism. ”
there are almost no examples of nations that have had a democratic form of governance, so that’s a pretty easy call I think.

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scenes

06 April 2022

BillT: “BTW, who were the indigenous people of England? I believe they were the Anglo-Saxons, but I could be wrong. ”
Those were groups that entered after Rome pulled out, a combination of sword, trade, and demographics…as per usual.
‘Celts’ generally aren’t an ethnic group but a shared language family. There’s the modern business of pretend ‘Celtic’ which is usually violin playing so far as I can tell. A lot of the mess is steppe tribes moving hither and yon. People tend to invent Celtic religion and traditions that are mostly bullshit as there isn’t much in the way of sources, aside from things like mean words from Roman writers.

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fish

06 April 2022

Since we’re talking about the evil party….

Sacramento mayor wants Gavin Newsom to spend $3 billion on crime prevention in wake of shooting

Wonder what Daryl Steinberg has in mind for all that cash!?
Wonder, wonder, wonder?
Seems like keeping violent felons in jail would be a decent start…..nahh….that’s just crazy talk in this post Floyd era. Lets blame guns…..the rubes always fall for that!

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scenes

06 April 2022

more BillT: “Those indigenous peoples gave us common law and the Magna Charter, those horrible white men. ”
My own take is that there’s a form of mass behavior, accepted ways of doing things, a bit of written down folderol (like the US Constitution) that you can basically blame the English and their diaspora for. We tend to say things like ‘democracy’ like it really means a particular set of rules, but I’d say that the rules and poli sci explanations were mostly to give names to things that were generated organically. I guess it’s like how guitar players can play and not know much (or any) music theory.
It’s all wogs east of Calais, and outside of the Five Eyes things will always be a mystery. They do build nice buildings though.
That ‘democratic’ system isn’t all that old though, things do break down eventually, surveillance improves, your land gets invaded by Vikings or Middle Easterners, the center cannot hold. There’s no reason for anything like ‘freedom’ to stick around, especially when your initial culture gets displaced. Why should it?
I just assume that once President for Life Sam Brinton takes the seat of power, we’ll get puppy buggering on the hour on the telescreens. It was a good run while it lasted.

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2022

Punchy Punch Ponytail Punch.
your link is more than misleading. The Celts arrived much later those awful people who are a big black mark a black mark on the human race. 600 BC is NOT indigenous. No way. But, they did paint their faces blue…so that makes perfect sense. The Anglo Saxins were the indigenous peoples of Merry ole England. Today in Scotland, those neanderthal knuckleheads in skirts actually passed a law that says women cannot legally commit the crime of rape….so all your rapist brethen in Scotland say they are women are placed in with real women with vaginas to rape the immates at will and without consequences. Scotland would never put a rapist in a women’s prision because women cannot commit the crime of rape, lol.
What planet do the Scots live on? plus, if one like moi says those male rapists are not women, I will be tossed in jail for commiting a hate crime, loss of employment mandatory, and treated far more severly than the male rapists raping women in prison. Talk about Chained Heat.
600 years BC? I will bet ya that the Celts are not the indigenous people, but you would most likely Welch on the bet. Go paint your face blue, you purple pimple women hater.

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Steven Frisch

06 April 2022

Top 10 Countries Where Insulin is Most Expensive (2018 RAND Corporation):
United States — $98.70
Chile — $21.48
Mexico — $16.48
Japan — $14.40
Switzerland — $12.46
Canada — $12.00
Germany — $11.00
Korea — $10.30
Luxembourg — $10.15
Italy — $10.03

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scenes

06 April 2022

” I will bet ya that the Celts are not the indigenous people,”
They aren’t really a people, just a set of memes, so you’ll probably need to stick to DNA studies to figger it out.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/9000-year-old-cheddar-man-has-living-descendant-still-living-same-area-006961
Some people are from families that just don’t get out much.

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fish

06 April 2022

Posted by: Steven Frisch | 06 April 2022 at 03:28 PM

WAIT…..! I know this one…..to make it cheaper…..let’s have the government buy it!

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scenes

06 April 2022

fish: ” WAIT…..! I know this one…..to make it cheaper…..let’s have the government buy it!”
No need. Simply declare what the price is.
I was thinking we could declare that gasoline is 50 cents/gallon and that concrete is $2 / cubic yard delivered.
Naturally, insulin prices are all about some screed saying that ‘712 GOP CONGRESSMEN DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE BILL THAT WOULD MAKE IT FREE!!!!”
I’m always willing to hear about how to improve the health system, typically by people who know bupkis about the inner workings, but it always seems to work this way: 1) Produce a system with a broken free market. 2) Be amazed at the prices. 3)Let’s nationalize it. Without digging in, it’s a boring argument.
If universal, single payer (or single provider) healthcare is a good idea, let’s do it in California. The state is certainly large enough to be self supporting in that area and it’s political dominated by Goodpeople, so why not? Go for it. Maybe Steve could start the Sierra Healthcare and Business Council and hire more young women.

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2022

Punchy Punch Puncher of ManBun.
i will will the bet, but never see a dollar. We all know how tight the Scotts are with their money. They squeak when they walk.
Now, I do like the pretty Irish lassies, even thought they have awful tempers and talk kinda funny. As far as the little Irish men go…there is some truth to the saying that God created whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling anything. The Irish and the Red Man have that thing in common…liking Irish lassies and piss poor whiskey.
Good luck getting prying a wooden nickel out of a Kilt wearers’ fist. still, bet is on.
And Greek Sailor Boy jokes are off limits. That would not be very Frisco value friendly.
oh yeah. is it just be or have others noticed Punchy looks like a Roman?

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Steven Frisch

06 April 2022

All we would have to do is allow the federal government to negotiate prices with drug makers…which is what most of the countries on the list above do.
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive

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George Rebane

06 April 2022

Re Insulin prices – “The gap between list and net prices can be huge, and many discounts don’t flow to customers at the counter, a real if smaller-than-advertised problem. In 2019 patients paid less than $30 out of pocket for 74% of all diabetes prescriptions, according to IQVIA’s analysis. More than nine in 10 were less than $75. But folks can get stuck paying exorbitant prices if they aren’t insured or must burn through a large deductible before coverage starts.” Also see https://www.iqvia.com/form-pages/general
re SteveF 328pm – Quoting prices that few if any pay, is that called fake news?

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fish

06 April 2022

Posted by: Steven Frisch | 06 April 2022 at 03:56 PM

……and why isn’t that being done? I mean the “good guys” hold all three branches…..you would think it would be easy. Especially after implementing the Unaffordable Care act…..

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fish

06 April 2022

…..and why isn’t that being done?
Hmmm…..Steve’s probably dashing off a brief note to his representative right now.
Good for him…

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Paul Emery

06 April 2022

Time for a history lesson.
Bill claims: ” The Anglo Saxons were the indigenous peoples of Merry ole England.”
Not true according to the BBC who say:
“The term Anglo-Saxon is a relatively modern one. It refers to settlers from the German regions of Angeln and Saxony, who made their way over to Britain after the fall of the Roman Empire around AD 410.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/anglo_saxons/saxons.shtml

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Barry Pruett

06 April 2022

Ah Steve. I have been waiting all day to finish work and talk to you. I think that the labels used by the commenters here are all wrong. Everyone is arguing about Marxism versus Fascism. “Progressive” versus conservative. And so on. I am of the opinion that it is far simpler and far more logical to dispense with the labels and view actions of government on a sliding scale. On the one side is pure totalitarianism (USSR) and on the other side is pure liberalism (John Lennon’s Imagine). We are always some where on the scale between the two extremes. True liberals should by definition favor all policies that lean towards liberalism and away from totalitarianism. I don’t think that our dividing lines are progressive and conservative as both have totalitarian tendencies. Our dividing line is now a part of the country that wants to go down the totalitarian road while others desire to go the way of John Lennon where everyone does the right thing for the right reason at all times and without any government compulsion and we live in true peace. By going down the totalitarian road, we risk the extraordinary and inevitable evils of such systems and we give up on the dream of humanity. You are a liberal guy, and I know that you believe in this dream as well. To George’s point, is not smaller government actually a move towards liberalism and away from totalitarianism? I can’t see how bigger government lends itself to true liberalism. I look forward to your response.

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