All of a Sudden
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@kjayhawks said in All of a Sudden:
@BShark yikes I hate to hear that buddy @benshawks08 id love to do that if I had any money, great way to help. I got to middle class and then they taxed the hell out of us so it’s like lower class now lol
Oh, I wasn’t saying PAY the bills. The “fun” thing about our current healthcare system is that it all revolves around insurance companies making as much money as possible and paying as little as possible for any actual care. So, in my case, I’ve spent about 80 total hours on the phone in the last year either with a healthcare provider or the insurance company making sure the bills we’ve been sent are accurate and have actually had the insurance fully applied, initiating appeals when insurance denies coverage 2 months after the service had been provided, following up when bills that were under appeal went to collections even though the weren’t supposed to, resolving issues where insurance says they’ve paid but we still get a bill, or where the healthcare provider says they’ve sent it through insurance but haven’t, etc. A good hunk of that time is just waiting on hold and telling the same story over and over again until you get bumped up to someone who can actually do something about it.
But we literally got an $8000 bill that I said, uh, shouldn’t insurance pay for that, and the hospital said, yeah probably, we will re-send it to them, insurance said, no we won’t pay for that, I said why not it was necessary care, they said, oh yeah you’re right, we will pay for it, then we got the same bill again, and I did that all over again, then the bill went to collections so a fourth party entered the chat, until finally, last week, this bill from December of 2023 was finally resolved and as it turned out, we never actually were supposed to have had a bill in the first place. That was about 15 phone calls each lasting 30-90 minutes.
What I was trying to say was if you want to help someone going through serious medical stuff is to offer to take one or two of those phone calls for them. Sit on hold and retell the story over and over again until someone can actually fix it. No money necessary, just some time and patience that is often running short for those going through tough times.
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@benshawks08 Having gone through this with a relative that had insurance vs one that didn’t, honestly not having insurance has been the better experience. Of course, I’ll have to negotiate the bills…
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@BShark The individuals at all of those places are great and helpful. They all WANT to help people, but the systems are set up to make that as difficult as possible. I could see how cutting out part of that system might actually be easier if not maybe a little more expensive (when you factor in years of premiums I doubt it is).
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Digging into the numbers more today, literally every demographic group except college educated women moved toward the GOP. And maybe most interestingly, the income curve inverted. Kamala carried voters that make over $100k, Trump everyone else below. That hasn’t happened maybe ever? And that’s with D’s far outspending R’s in almost every single swing state. Seems just an organic ass kicking.
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I can see how people didn’t want to vote for Harris. Lots of valid arguments against her for sure. I will never understand how someone can look at anything Trump has said or done and in good conscience vote for him. Clearly too many people like me working for Harris. Because it did seem like the big play was, “you’re not gonna vote for that guy, right?”
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Yeah, they had to make a positive, affirmative case and promptly face planted. It was very bad juju for her to do interviews and say, actually I agree with everything Biden has done over the last 4 years, wouldn’t change a thing given the right track/wrong track number was like 70% wrong track. It was basically more of the same but with different branding and boy that was a mistake
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@approxinfinity Yeah, I heard that too. If Trump was really serious about deporting so many it’d be a huge middle finger at a population group that helped elect him.
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The good thing IMO it’s less of a wild card for Trump to be in office than Harris. Most of the country prospered under Trumps first term.
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@kjayhawks unless he gets his 20% national sales tax. That would be super super bad
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@FarmerJayhawk said in All of a Sudden:
@kjayhawks unless he gets his 20% national sales tax. That would be super super bad
Now that would piss people off (rightfully)
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@FarmerJayhawk I haven’t seen anything on that but yes as @BShark said there would be many upset
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@kjayhawks it’s very very bad https://fortune.com/2024/11/06/trump-tariffs-trade-taxes-economy/
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Question for the people that did vote for Harris, do you think it hurt that they lied about Bidens health for so long and threw her in the mix so late without her winning the democratic primary? Everyone on TV seems to be losing their minds about how bad it he American people must be, do t think that a way to sway more voters.
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@FarmerJayhawk the only thing I’ll say is all that was supposed to happen the first time and it didn’t. It’s really hard for me trust a lot of news sources these days on either side for that matter.
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@kjayhawks his tariffs last time cost me thousands per year because we started tariffing Canadian steel for some reason. This would be so, so much worse. The worst part is Congress has given the President the authority to do almost whatever he wants with tariffs. He was on Rogan saying tariff is his favorite word and the Chinese won’t retaliate if we tariff their products (they did and farmers got a government bailout because the Chinese basically banned imported soybeans from the U.S.)
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@FarmerJayhawk well I’m not going to act like I have a ton of knowledge on tariffs. I just know I wasn’t spending $300 week on groceries and all the increases on everything else.
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When I was growing up, we would have friends visit us in June who were not from the midwest. They’d come for a week and inevitably there’d be weather. We’d get a Tornado watch and they’d freak out. Tornado watch sounded scary. All they heard was “Tornado”. They didn’t realize that it just meant there were conditions that could produce a Tornado. And they’d ignore the fact that there were no storm clouds. They’d ask ‘where’s the shelter?’
And one time we were under a severe thunderstorm warning and they kind of disregarded it. And we tried to warn them… They didn’t understand that severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes at a rate higher than tornado watches. They didn’t realize that a ‘warning’ isn’t if a storm is coming — it is — the only question is when.
They learned quickly when 70mph winds blew over a huge walnut tree, lightning struck our front porch and we had walnut-sized hail for about 5 minutes.
I think a lot of people saw Harris as a tornado watch and Trump as a severe thunderstorm warning… and didn’t really get what that meant.
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@kjayhawks well yeah we didn’t have supply chains reacting after a global pandemic and let’s not forget Trump wanted $2,000 checks before the 2020 election. I firmly believe inflation wouldn’t have been much different had Trump gotten reelected. These things don’t happen instantly. Policy decisions months before affect inflation today.
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Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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@FarmerJayhawk and Trump had a role to play in the wars he promises to end.
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@approxinfinity and he will have a bigger role in the future wars. Brush up on your Chinese and Russian.
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Yes Trump was gonna start all sorts of wars that didn’t happen the first time as well. While the Biden administration had the worst military pull out in recorded history.
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I didnt answer just thumbed up earlier @kjayhawks but yes Biden stepping down after primary season was a shit show.
Harris shouldnt have been vp. Should have been someone electable and future of party.
Walz wasnt the right running made. Didnt need a next door neighbor friend. Needed a fighter.
Biden f’d up by running because the country didnt get to choose a democratic nominee and the American people didnt get to hear an agenda hardened by primary season. I dont see Biden stepping down as heroic. I see him and his camp not stepping down earlier as selfish and shortsighted.
We did not know or trust Kamala and she would probably not have been the dem candidate anyway.
We need assholes from the democrat side that speak their mind plainly and address the concerns of average Americans.
Then the dems can be apples to apples and send Trump back to wonkytown.
Nancy Pelosi was that kind of asshole.
But we dont have that now.
Just a circus train wreck.
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@approxinfinity I’m running next time. I’ll be on the dictator ballot.
My motto will be "You assholes WILL vote for me. I hate everyone but everyone will worship me. Grovel at my feet, peasants "
Wait. This sounds familiar.
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Fun way to troll Trump. Biden resigns so Kamala would actually be #47 so all the merch would be wrong.
Will never happen because Biden, Obama, and Harris all hate each other buuuut would be fun anyhow
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I dont know where to go from here. I will never be on board with Trump but I cant vote for a party that doesnt show up. I know the view seems simple from the peanut gallery but how hard is it to beat a felonious narcissistic doddering raping insurrectionist simpleton for the presidency? You have to be pretty poor at communication, planning and execution to let that happen.
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@FarmerJayhawk that would be pretty funny but thats one of weird parts. Most of them seem to hate each other. Biden’s presser idk if it was yesterday or today but he looked competent for the first time in 3 years. He didn’t stumble up the mic, act completely lost or stutter/munble 3/4s of it. It’s actually kinda creeping me out a little bit. Definitely raised a lot of eyebrows as to what is his actual health.
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Well… Trump talking about how proud Melania’s parents would be to see him win a second presidency certainly had no vindictive undertones, may they rest in … somewhere.
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Theyre all narcissists, really. Trump is just the worst of the bunch.
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@approxinfinity that’s really the issue, if they would actually put someone up that seems even remotely like a decent vote. I haven’t voted in every election but I’ve only only considered voting for Obama which I did in his first term. Hillary Clinton was a terrible idea from the get go but I actually think they may have won in 2016 had Sanders won the primary which a lot of democrats accused that of being tampered with themselves. Harris wasn’t very well know and just didn’t seem to fit the part in the slightest.
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@kjayhawks yeah Biden’s an egomaniac who absolutely believes to his core he would’ve won (he’s wrong). The backstory behind the Biden/Obama feud is Michelle and Hunter Biden’s ex are really close. Then Hunter cheated on her with his sister in law and a stripper
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@approxinfinity said in All of a Sudden:
Well… Trump talking about how proud Melania’s parents would be to see him win a second presidency certainly had no vindictive undertones, may they rest in … somewhere.
Her dad is still around! He’s about the same age as his son in law… so
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@FarmerJayhawk alright well i dont know what the hell he was mumbling. Ive heard five lifetimes of gas spill out of that windbag.
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@approxinfinity if the rumors are true, she might not have told him either way
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@approxinfinity I’ve always said people that get to Elite of status are usually crooks and not good people. I worked on a former congressman’s car for over a decade when I was at the dealership. We became buddies on a first name basis and he never had anything positive to say about our government without getting into details. They want to line their own pockets regardless if there is a D or an R by their name. They give zero fu*** about the commoners just keep paying those taxes.
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@kjayhawks almost makes you want to run?
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@approxinfinity I encourage it with the caveats that it’s both very expensive and very miserable walking doors 6 days a week for months
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Interesting demographic shifts within the parties underway https://x.com/patrickjfl/status/1854645395856482568?s=42
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Jack White summed up everything that isnt to like about Trump fwiw: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCCoN6ipAdw/?igsh=MWkwOGtlenlqdjc3OQ==
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Dems have abandoned blue collar working class and they are now paying for it.
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We are all paying for it.
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Oh also my friend in Missouri told they voted to approve a ban of rank order voting, so yay, we can continue to play not to lose… at least in Missouri.
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@approxinfinity Missouri gonna Missouri
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President elect Ass-Face is making all my political dreams come true.
Hiring talk show hosts(same as), pedophiles and sex traffickers. He’s doing this to make it seem like they’re worse and more stupid than him.
They’re not. There will never be anyone as bad and as stupid as him. Close second - the ones that worship him.
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@nuleafjhawk I really think you stop watching MSM, I think it’s getting unhealthy for you. I don’t know Jack crap about Hegseth. But the MSM is screaming Trump picked some random Fox News guy to be his Secretary of defense!! OMG!! OMG!! Me being able to think for myself and admitting not knowing much on him looks him up…… Graduated from Princeton and Harvard (must be a complete idiot as MSM suggests). He had 20 plus year military career, won several military awards, obtained the rank of Major and was a platoon leader in Guantánamo Bay that houses some the most vile scum of the earth. Again sounds like a complete dipshit to me. I honestly think he is a little too extreme towards the right for me to like, but I hope it works out.
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Hegseth doesn’t believe in hand washing which seems kinda bad
But really, he’s not qualified to run the Pentagon. An Undersecretary job would be better. He’s just never run anything remotely close to the size and scope of DoD.
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@FarmerJayhawk that’s Gross, very logical assessment.
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@kjayhawks he a nut job, but I’m more worried about the pedophile sex trafficker attorney general
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Who was 2 days from getting his case info released. Surprise surprise!
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think Gaetz has any real chance to get confirmed. It’s hard to describe how much he is loathed on the Hill
