Thursday, August 08, 2019

Bernie talks healthcare and Elizabeth talks climate change -- these are real issues

First off, music writing?  Please read Elaine's "Will CDs go the way of cassette tapes?" and Ann's "Everyday People."  And if you're a candy lover, read Ann's "Candy, a TV movie and Bernie Sanders" and try to think about the candy you loved as a child.

Here are some Tweets from Senator Elizabeth Warren:


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Aug 7
    I'm kicking off my Iowa road trip today! As we head into Iowa, I'm sharing my new plans to invest in rural communities. It's time to put their interests ahead of giant companies and Wall Street.
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  •  2 hours ago
    When I first ran for Senate in 2012, my team and I drove from event to event in a bright blue used SUV. It was great—but I think driving across Iowa in this takes the cake!
    . is still going strong on day two of our Iowa road trip. 💪 Honk if you're ready for big, structural change!
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  •  2 hours ago
    Congratulations, ! Looking forward to fighting alongside you for a world where LGBTQ+ communities can live without fear or discrimination.
    Excited on my first day as president to join an incredible team. We fight to be treated equally under law. We fight to have our families treated fairly. We fight for society to recognize & respect us for who we are. We fight for the day we can stop fighting. Please join us.
    24 replies87 retweets757 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    Last week I announced my endorsement of my friend for President. She isn't afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Elizabeth is the leader we need right now more than ever.
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  •  3 hours ago
    My heart aches for Pebbles LaDime Doe, Kiki Fantroy, and their loved ones. The murder of Black trans women is a crisis that we must call out—and address head-on.
    Earlier I tweeted that Kiki Fantroy was the 13th black trans woman murdered this year. It turns out Kiki was the 14th and Pebbles LaDime Doe was the 13th. She was murdered August 4th and we didn’t know because / (ABC) misgendered & dead-named her.
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  •  4 hours ago
    Today I was asked whether the president is a white supremacist. I said yes.
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  •  6 hours ago
    Here’s a statistic that Donald Trump and the Republicans should pay attention to: Our country is losing a football field’s worth of natural land every 30 seconds. We must make our public lands part of the climate solution—and I have a plan to do just that:
    Every 30 seconds, a football field worth of America’s natural areas disappears to development. New report explores how the U.S. could protect 30% of our lands and oceans by 2030. Via :
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  •  7 hours ago
    Stopped for a quick drink at a lemonade stand in Harlan, Iowa. When life gives you lemons, make big structural change!
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  •  8 hours ago
    We’re building a grassroots movement to save our environment and restore opportunity to every corner of this country.
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    Today released her plan to Invest in Rural America.👩🏾‍🌾🛣 This is a critical piece of a , and the…
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  •  8 hours ago
    Yesterday, we stopped in Pacific Junction, Iowa, to see the damage caused by this year’s extreme floods. Climate change is real—and we’re already facing the consequences. We need to take action now.
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    • After last week's debates where Tulsi Gabbard exposed herself as a fraud, I'm done with her.  I'm considering Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders.  Here are some Tweets from Bernie.



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     6 hours ago
    The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1. A vial costs $6 to make. Drugmakers sell it for $300 a vial in the United States. That level of greed is scandalous, it is outrageous, and when we win it is going to end.
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    6 Miles: Life and Death
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    People across America are dying because of big pharma's insulin prices. saw this travesty and took direct action.
    6 Miles: Life and Death
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Watch this video of our trip to 🇨🇦 with Senator . He is right, the greed of insulin manufacturers is scandalous and we must work to stop it!
    3:40
    The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1. A vial costs $6 to make. Drugmakers sell it for $300 a vial in the United States.…
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  •  3 hours ago
    Black students graduate with some $7,400 more in student debt than white students. After 4 years the gap widens to $25,000. Our plan to cancel student debt would cut the racial wealth gap for young Americans from 12:1 to 5:1. We must .
    552 replies886 retweets3,638 likes
     
     
  •  4 hours ago
    Insurance companies want you to think millions of people will lose health coverage under Medicare for All. They're lying. In fact—tens of millions lose their insurance every year in our dysfunctional system. Under Medicare for All, no one will lose coverage or be uninsured.
    285 replies1,285 retweets5,290 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Pharma's greed is killing our family, friends, and neighbors. We must accept no substitute for Medicare for All and make health care a human right.
    6 Miles: Life and Death
    23 replies223 retweets862 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    The American people pay 10x what Canadians pay for insulin. 1 in 4 Americans with diabetes has said they've rationed their insulin. Not only are Americans getting ripped off -- the greed of the pharma industry is killing people, and it's got to end.
    3:40
    The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1. A vial costs $6 to make. Drugmakers sell it for $300 a vial in the United States.…
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  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    The Pharmaceutical industry is killing Americans for profits. A administration will be their worst enemy.
    6 Miles: Life and Death
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  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    It was an incredible experience to cross the border into Canada with diabetics who saved up to $10,000 in lifesaving medicine. Pharma’s greed is killing people in this country and it has to stop.
    3:40
    The inventors of insulin sold the patent for $1. A vial costs $6 to make. Drugmakers sell it for $300 a vial in the United States.…
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    • Those are some important statements.   Go look at Tulsi's feed.  I believe her sister does the Tweets.  Whomever does them, notice there's nothing about Medicare For All, climate change or the outrageous cost of insulin.

    Tulsi's running a vanity campaign.  She needs to bow out.
    Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Thursday, September 8, 2019.  Tulsi continues her vanity campaign, a man dies in Iraq because the US deported him (that's on us, let's stop pretending it's Donald Trump -- our Congress could've stopped him, our courts could have stopped him, this is our tragedy, our crime), and much more.



    US House Rep Tulsi Gabbard continues her vanity campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She'll never get the nomination and her continued 1% polling is an embarrassment.  As she continues her vanity campaign, more catch on that she's not anti-war.  As Kyle Anzalo observed this week on FOREIGN POLICY FOCUS "There's plenty of war that Tulsi is in support of."

    We're so desperate for an anti-war figure that we're willing to applaud someone who'd continue The Drone War?  Tulsi is a fake.  Last week, as Kyle notes, she voted to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.  BDS attempts to do what the anti-apartheid movement did to South Africa.

    So basically Tulsi's condemning Dusty Springfield.  Considering Tulsi's anti-LGBTQ past, that's not surprising.  Dusty, for those who don't know, didn't just sing "The Look Of Love," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and countless other hits.  Dusty also stood up and was counted.

    Do people not know this?  You won't find it in her CRAPAPEDIA entry -- no surprise there, sexism will always reign at CRAPAPAEDIA -- but Dusty stood up.  If this is news to you, you can stream a BBC report here about the 1964 tour in South Africa where Dusty refused to play to White only audiences.  She was a huge pop star and 25-years-old and when the South African government tried to force her to play to White only audiences, she pointed out that the contract she signed legally guaranteed mixed audiences.

    The BDS movement needs support, not condemnation.  We discuss it when we speak to campus audiences.

    I'm disgusted with Tulsi but she's a reactionary.  She's on the wrong side of history and she should pay for it.

    I was part of the anti-apartheid movement -- a tiny part -- and was ridiculed for it by a number people when I was in college.  The campus paper waged a war on me when I countered the remarks of an idiot White person from South Africa who told the campus paper how wonderful life was for Blacks in South Africa.  For defending the rights of the persecuted, the campus paper attempted to ridicule me for months.  All it did was create sympathy for me and raise the issue more.  I still see those idiots from time to time today, pretending to be so left and liberal but we both know that they are racists to their core.  They only 'changed' because the times did.  If they had their way, they'd still support apartheid.

    I can think of one woman who spearheaded the campaign -- and is a public person today -- and how she now pretends to be so lfet and so loving but she's not.  Not only was she in favor of apartheid back then, as late as the 90s she was marrying a known racist who she had to make promise not to use the N-word in front of the press.  There are a lot of fake asses out there.

    People like her, they didn't grow, they were just shamed into silence and that's what appears to happen with Tulsi over and over.  She didn't really grow on the LGBTQ issue, she was shamed into silence.  If she'd grown, she'd have some story to share about it.  But she has none.  And blaming her beliefs on her father?  She's as ridiculous as Joe Biden.  Or did we all miss her tribute to homophobe father on Father's Day?

    Tulsi needs to go.  She's not anti-war.  She's repeatedly on the wrong side of history and she never learns, she just retreats into silence.


    1.  Jul 28
    Tulsi and others who voted for atrocious anti-Palestinian resolution HR 246 are feeling heat and that’s good. But this is a pathetic attempt to justify a wrong and indefensible vote that attacks and smears nonviolent BDS movement because “two-state solution something or other.”
    2:23
    Watch this for why I voted for HRes246 and why I'll always defend our right to free speech -->
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     8 hours ago
    Replying to   and 
    I've muted about 5 people who scold me whenever I dare to criticize—no matter how tepid said criticism is—our lord and savior, Tulsi Gabbard. You guys literally were rationalizing why BDS is bad after her vote. You lack the mental capacity to fight past that cognitive dissonance.
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    Again, people are catching on to Tulsi.


    1.  7 hours ago
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    is pro-peace? opposed H.Con.Res55 Rep.Jim McGovern’s (D-MA)resolution which directed the President to withdraw U.S.troops from Iraq/Syria who were deployed on or after August 7,2014 THAT'S WAGING PEACE? THINK!
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     8 hours ago
    If is Pro-peace HOWCOME OPPOSED H.Amdt.1215 to H.R.5293 Rep. Jim McGovern’s(D-MA) amendment,which would have prohibited funds from being used for the engagement of U.S.Armed Forces in any combat operation in Iraq/Syria RECORD VS SPIN IS THAT'S WAGING PEACE?
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     Last week at the debates, Tulsi was an embarrassment.  Jay Inslee and Bill de Blasio tried to talk about the Iraq War and war on Iran, not Tulsi.


    1.  18 hours ago
    While I was in Congress, I cast many votes that I was proud of. I voted against and vocally opposed the Iraq War. And I know we cannot allow the Trump administration to thrust us into another disastrous war in the Middle East today.
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    Tulsi didn't want a serious conversation in the debates.  She wasn't the only one, the Sally Jessy of cable 'news,' Don Lemon, didn't want a real discussion either (see Ava and my "TV: Swindling the audience").


    In other news . . .

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    PLEASE READ. THIS IS HORRIBLE. "A 41-year-old diabetic man who grew up in Detroit died Tuesday after being deported to Iraq, the...
     
     



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    U.S. Deported a Detroit Man to Iraq, Where He’d Never Been and Didn’t Speak the Language. He Died on the Streets.
     
     
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    Immigrant rights advocates say diabetic man died after being deported to Iraq | TheHill
     
     

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    1.  15 hours ago
    ICE deported a guy to Iraq who was not born there, never lived there, spoke no Arabic, and HAD TYPE 1 DIABETES. he died
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  •  3 hours ago
    • Jimmy Aldaoud, a 41-year-old Detroit man who had spent most of his life in the U.S. and was deported to Iraq in June by the Trump admin, has died. The death appeared to be linked to the man's inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes.
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     11 hours ago
    41-year old Jimmy Aldaoud was deported to Iraq by the Trump administration in June after living in the US ever since he was a child. He died on the streets of Iraq yesterday.
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