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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 10:59 am
(November 4, 2016 at 10:50 am)vorlon13 Wrote: As a farmer, I pay much more to the county I live in for property taxes than I do in federal income tax (by more than 2X) so I have quite an interest in the local races.
-however-
I'm almost 60, my health insurance premiums are in the 5 figures, my coverage was just canceled, I'm looking for new coverage, I have to find a physician that's covered by the plan and isn't put off by some 'lifestyle' concerns and has some experience with 12 Steppers and [sigh] geriatric medicine. And I think it's clear I ain't been too fucking happy about changes to the health care system . . . . .
TIL that one of the staff is a 60 year old farmer.
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:02 am
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You're not likely to see effective change so long as the people who provide the services and bank on the proceeds have us by the played out scrote of our unavoidable mortality. I know that hillary supporters -think- she;s taking a hard stance on big pharma, for example...but it;s clear by big pharmas donations that they don;t see anything to fear from a clinton presidency. I'm willing to propose that they have the smarter people crunching that situation..and if big pharma is cool with hillary...it isn't going to work out the way that she's implied or that her supporters have imagined.
It's a sad truth, in this case and many others, that civil servants are completely outclassed and outplayed. Might have something to do with settling, constantly, for second rate human beings when we pull the lever on the slot machine cleverly disguised as a polling booth.
(I'm much more politically active in county myself - at least here, when some asshole councilperson pushes an asshole plan designed, exclusively, to benefit their asshole operation... I can flip them the bird every time I drive by their house)
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:06 am
She's sane and Drumpf is a fucking mental case.
That's really all there is to it unless you're a racist, misogynist, pig. And this country has plenty of them.
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:08 am
(November 4, 2016 at 10:59 am)Tiberius Wrote: (November 4, 2016 at 10:50 am)vorlon13 Wrote: As a farmer, I pay much more to the county I live in for property taxes than I do in federal income tax (by more than 2X) so I have quite an interest in the local races.
-however-
I'm almost 60, my health insurance premiums are in the 5 figures, my coverage was just canceled, I'm looking for new coverage, I have to find a physician that's covered by the plan and isn't put off by some 'lifestyle' concerns and has some experience with 12 Steppers and [sigh] geriatric medicine. And I think it's clear I ain't been too fucking happy about changes to the health care system . . . . .
TIL that one of the staff is a 60 year old farmer.
No idea why I found this post so funny... xD
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:10 am
I even chuckled.
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:11 am
(November 4, 2016 at 11:06 am)Minimalist Wrote: She's sane and Drumpf is a fucking mental case.
That's really all there is to it unless you're a racist, misogynist, pig. And this country has plenty of them.
sane?
A paranoid compulsive liar ??
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:15 am
Stop being such a virgin. What politician does not tailor his/her message to each audience.
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:16 am
(November 4, 2016 at 11:08 am)Bella Morte Wrote: (November 4, 2016 at 10:59 am)Tiberius Wrote: TIL that one of the staff is a 60 year old farmer.
No idea why I found this post so funny... xD
(November 4, 2016 at 11:10 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I even chuckled.
I can drive a tractor!
I chop down trees!
I can build a fence, set posts, barbed wire, everything!
I raised 100,000 bushels of corn this year, that's 2,800 tons of the stuff.
I just paid a guy $2000 to run his track hoe around a cornfield and fix all my terraces that washed out during the 7" deluge last summer.
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:19 am
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Tailoring a message is a generous way to describe her many competing, duplicitous, and sometimes mutually exclusive positions.
I appreciate the value of political expediency and capital, but at some point you're playing the game solely for the sake of the game. We've had about enough of that shit, haven't we?
(@ Vor, that's what I'm talkin about, have somebody else bust his shit fixing your fields, I got some poor schmuck to fucking -destroy- his disks on a little 20 acre patch for what amounted to barely more than the cost of fuel  )
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RE: The positive case for voting Hillary Clinton for president.
November 4, 2016 at 11:32 am
(November 4, 2016 at 10:36 am)Tiberius Wrote: (November 4, 2016 at 10:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: b-mine
I just want to point out that I noticed this..... and also....
See, this guy gets it, and he's a newbie 'murican. What the fuck is wrong with the rest of us, lol?
Yeah, I can't wait until I'm actually allowed to participate in our democracy, lol. 
You just wait until we build that wall and send you back to Mexico, furriner.
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