I’m not a mathematician, but it appears to my untrained eye that 2/3 of Americans want Universal Healthcare

What does that look like in implementation?

Medicare For All is generally unpopular among senior citizens. Medicare buy in is more appealing, but does little to curb price gouging in provision of care. State ownership/management of care facilities is easily subjected to scandals that cost political advocate their jobs (the VA being a classic modern example).

So what’s the plan?

Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?

COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven’t seen anything remotely that bad.

Artemis II never landed on the moon. It was just a flyby. This makes it more equivalent to Apollo 10 and the famous exchange

Stafford: “Oh—who did it? … Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air”.

Young: “I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine”.

Cernan: “I don’t think it’s one of mine”.

Stafford: “Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away”.

Cernan (later): “Here’s another goddam turd. What’s the matter with you guys?”

He’s just trying to find the shrine that lets him de-age seven years.

forced rewrite of the constitution

Military dictatorships, famous for their commitment to balance, fairness, and term limits

you need 2/3rds of the senate to remove him

Caeser was removed with far less

When will this idea die?

The same day “leftists never vote” does, presumably.

Stop wasting time on idiots and people happily guzzling propaganda.

Politicians chase the voters they want.

Start planning a campaign with SIMPLE SLOGANS

Wow, brilliant. Have you considered doing this for a living?

Or deep on the hook for the O&G industry.

Fred Durst about to sell me a $2500 commemorative edition America Bible lettered in gold ink, wrapped in rich Corinthian leather, and including a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by our President.

It’s not just about how useful the dollar is to Iran, it’s about making it less useful to other countries also.

For Iran, specifically, there’s no incentive to accept reparations payments in a currency they can’t easily collect or exchange. Yuan makes sense, because China is one of their biggest trading partners. Bitcoins make sense because they’re easy to launder and can be transferred independent of the NATO-based financial systems.

If Iranian oil is back on the market there will be a lot of interested buyers.

It’s more Qatari and Kuwaiti oil at issue. Iranians are just rent-seeking off the most expedient shipping lane.

The petrodollar wasn’t going to last forever youre right but there are many parties interested in ending it sooner than later.

The petrodollar is arbitrage between Middle Eastern raw materials and the western banking system. It could move to the PetroEuro without a meaningful change in foreign policies. Or the PetroLoonie or PetroPound for that matter. All of these countries are in agreement that the Persian Gulf states need to play a secondary role in the global economy.

What Iranians are hoping to change isn’t the primary currency of the region, but the balance of power between US/EU colonizers and local people.

The very act of securing the Straight and collecting rent on passage is a huge step in that direction, regardless of what currency they collect their fees in. It’s a material change, not just an accounting shift.

trump wants this to be “his war” but the truth is Bibi just dragged him

Nobody dragged the US in. We’ve had civilian leadership itching to attack Iran since '79.

Netanyahu simply threw the first punch, convinced their Iron Dome made them impervious to consequences. Americans piled in fully of their own accord.

Everyone who trusted Americans has been assassinated already

I’ve got Merrick Garland on the phone. He says actually there’s nothing we can do. It’s all perfectly legal and you’re a criminal for going on TikTok to suggest otherwise

Except the markets have been bleeding out for months.

A falling tide sinks all ships

I live here. Can’t exactly boycott my own backyard

They are intention demolishing the Petrodollar.

I think Climate Change and explosion of alternative energy sources is doing that.

They’re just trying to evade Western financial restrictions. Dollars aren’t useful to a country that’s cut out of the LIBOR and SWIFT banking systems.

it’s for Russia

Americans shitting the bed in the Middle East every day for fifty years

“Yeah, uh, actually that was Russia. Russia did that.”

11D chess. He’s going to turn Iran into another stupid rich petrostate full of corrupt plutocrats.

Iran is going to be another Hong Kong or Singapore by the end of the century.