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QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 24, 2017 -> 06:47 PM) Next week. I ... may as well dive head first. But according to my instagram friend Luis Robert, he is still in DR.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 25, 2017 -> 09:12 AM) I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot from Constitutional Conservatives about this! The Trump Organization Says It's 'Not Practical' to Comply With the Emoluments Clause It's hard not to agree, it would be impossible to vet out. It's why it wouldn't be an issue if he actually put it at arms length, including not constantly using his own hotels for all travel.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 25, 2017 -> 09:13 AM) Bernie's refusal to accept that he simply lost the popular vote and pledged delegates has done so much lasting damage to the Democratic Party. It went from "the super delegates will ruin this for us!" to "Super delegates, vote for me!" I really don't think it will, but it is an ongoing thing that annoys me, so I feel free to ridicule.

The new "runner takes the pot" fundraising is pretty innovative and a number of places doing them. Really smart stuff. DailyKos/MoveOn all stepped up out of the dust, swing left, dsa, flippable. All better bang for your buck then DCCC and DNC (because they aren't set up for the same things those places are)

I have never donated to DNC or DCCC as I've never seen the point and they always give away s*** tons to seats that already get a lot of money. But they are important for recruiting candidates, less so for deciding who to fund to win.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 24, 2017 -> 09:50 PM) Well they better damn well vote it down. I mean you are talking about crippling 50 million Americans or more? That means 50 million homeless people coming up? Wow. The reason it freaks me out that they passed it without a score, is that they got a bunch of their 'moderates" to go along after the right of their party modified it to allow pre existing conditions and EHBs to be stripped. All in the name of getting something done. If that happened so easily in the house, it can happen in the senate. Because all it says is they don't care about the outcome, they care about action, and they care about getting 1 trillion for tax cuts for the rich.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 24, 2017 -> 09:52 PM) Any 22-35 year old (young working adult) that is not obese is probably enjoying an active lifestyle: playing basketball, softball, tennis, s*** maybe baseball and pick up hockey) and guess what, in that span that young working adult is probably going to break something or tear ligaments. And with costs the way they will be, those injuries/surgeries would be enough to put a person on the streets homeless. Fix healthcare, America! We shouldn't all be homeless someday because we are tossed on the street after a broken leg or illness. What's it going to cost to have a baby if there are any complications at all??? Greg I totally agree with this first paragraph. Wasn't so long ago that when friends got door'd on their bikes or broke their arm in football we'd be sitting there calling nursing major friends trying to figure out how we'd fix it without taking them to ER where they'd get a 10k bill.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 25, 2017 -> 08:49 AM) The Dems that stand in the way of single payer are going to get run over...the lesson Of Obama's first election and Sanders is to get thousands of small donations instead of owing allegiance to Big Pharma and the insurance industry. The takeaway I have is that the worst thing Bernie sanders did was make his followers believe that the DNC and DCCC are powerful institutions. The same people donating to DNC/DCCC were donating privately to Quist through DailyKos or SwingLeft. The continued b.s. that they are the only ones doing anything just poisons the well. Parallel there between bernie sanders groups and the millionaire who believes they earned everything through sheer force and never had a helping hand.

I am really angered over this Gianforte assault. The assault is crazy, the audio when I listened last night was worse than I imagined. But the response, where they lied and basically justified that he was a liberal journalist is just too much the playbook right now. ANd right away Ingraham goes on to justify it. And right away the MRC head justifies it. The National Review team and many republican ops came out against it. But the unchallenged platform *from republican politicians* that people like Bozell and Ingraham get after crap like this is ridiculous.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:29 PM) There's so much outrage today about this new health care plan. Look, it hasn't passed yet. If it's not reviewed closely and rejected by the House then that is as bad as Trump proposing it. Just reject it if it's so bad. Why would it pass into law? It was passed by the house.

Clearly the worst thing you can do is give Jose Quintana run support.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:12 PM) Not a great start for Q but on the bright side following on Game Day it seems like only a couple of these balls have been hit hard. I'm also not that concerned about ERA, peripherals are much more important IMO. 3 doubles and a home run were hit softly?

QUOTE (yesterday333 @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:08 PM) if its not overwhelming its not worth it... I remember this tough talk too, when unless we were getting Benintendi and Moncada, you weren't getting Sale. Something negative worth saying on Q, his best games have come against some truly terrible offenses.

Wellp.

Among other bizarre things this doesn't do just based on previous GOP history, it did not fix the Medicaid cliff, where making enough to leave medicaid is extremely disincentivized compared to ACA

The CBO also makes clear that it is paying for the tax cuts that fund non-coverage provisions with 880 million dollars worth of cuts to medicaid.

SO basically argument in waiver states: You can be charged based on health status if you do not have continuous coverage (when you lost and reapplied, health is a factor). Creates incentive for healthy to drop and reapply for coverage to pay lower premiums. Healthier people paying less puts pressure to raise premiums on those with CONTINUOUS in the community rating groups, pricing out those with pre existing conditions. Those people cannot shop around, as soon as they drop they'd be at the whims of being charged for their medical status. Pretty brutal.

Holy crap I didn't think about that. My wife had BCBS through Tennessee because her company was in Nashville.

Bill is great if you can guarantee you will be healthy and can guarantee you can live in a state that won't waive benefits.

Man I always miss good Q.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ May 24, 2017 -> 03:02 PM) How can the Bulls get Deaaron Fox. I would like him on our team. On an unrelated note, what are the odds that Bosh is a Bull? Ha, I'm on same page. I think he would be perfect. Would take sacramentos 5th at least, and I dont' see how we get that. Assets: Lopez Portis Zipser Valentine Grant Mirotic ...yuck. Maybe Lopez could get you a 15-30 first round pick if you are lucky, and then you trade 2 firsts this year and a first next, along with Grant. Really hard.

What is Leury now, 3rd in homers on the team? What a crazy year. Reminds me of that crazy AJ power surge in 2012.

I thought I was getting "in case you missed it" tweets on Quintana. Took me a while to realize we were playing.

I'm kinda surprised Leitao is overseeing this major push, just since he's not really "new" and wouldn't have any fresh new angle to sell. Wonder if school really opened up some purse strings to coordinate with the new stadium. Did they pay the La Lumiere guy a lot for an assistant?

I mean, I don't know. On the soxtalk end, I think we got drunk on thinking top prospects were always available because of Sale/Eaton. I think Q will get a haul of prospects. But I think it's more likely we see a Cole Hamels type return than a Sale/Eaton with two top 20 prospects.