[–] RightSideUp17and6 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
when the left competes to outleft the left, whaddayagot: socialism. Democrat Party is gone. No longer (and probably never was) for the working folks. The elites (protected from US with walls and armed guards( run it and now it is for those "unwilling to work" a la OCD, I mean, AOC.
[–] QDPie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yay - they are waking up! And once awakened, they become a force. I used to be a Dem. I KNOW --- once you start to see how you've been played, you get really really really pissed. So one awakened Dem can equal 10 long time conservatives. Welcome them home!
Tim Pool said something though, at least I think he did, "Everyone wants medicare for all in some form." WHY?! NO! No, we don't! Medicare sucks! Private healthcare, when you are allowed to set up a medical savings account (MSA) is the best way to go. That way, when you're young and healthy, you can pay into an MSA and have super cheap basic medical insurance. As you add to your family, you can increase the coverage, but your MSA carries over year after year. Not only is it tax deductible, there's that wonderful thing called compound Interest.
I was in my 30s before I ever had health insurance. My parents were poor and we didn't have any insurance. We had the local doctor and we only went if we were on fire, broken, or bleeding.
Something I want the younger generations on here to understand -- this whole Health Insurance thing is the result of massive propaganda, heinous acts by Big Pharma, and collusion between corrupt congress and the medical fields. Health insurance was a luxury. You never saw conversations about it on the news. You'd hear of someone in the hospital, but the hospital didn't charge them 10 years worth of salary to stay for a day and a half.
I know times are different blah blah blah, but a lot of this is an agenda. A lot of this discussion is about making Big Pharma richer. That's why they fight all the alternative medicine. People forget that at the turn of the 20th century, it was Medical doctors who were called quacks and snake oil sales men, and it was common sense medicine like "go to bed, drink more fluids, have some chicken soup, put that in a splint, get some fresh air" that was more respected.
I'm not saying there aren't great advances in medicine and wonderful doctors and nurses who have tremendous knowledge. I'm just saying to take a step back from the brainwashing about how we need to spend precious tax dollars and precious after tax dollars on medicare for all.
Just take an afternoon and go visit your local VA hospital. THAT IS GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE, and I'm telling you, when we all decide THAT is what we want, they really do have carte blanche to start knocking us off. Death panels? Not a stretch if every hospital and medical facility resembles a VA hospital.
[–] Awokcanuck 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Pool was not a trump supporter, but he is certainly heading that way. He has a big audience to bring along!
[–] MolochHunter 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
yyyyyyyyup
this was me about 3 years ago
[–] anarcheril 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Good ol centrist Tim, its just about time for him to board the Trump Train.
[–] Pinecones 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This was really good. A democrat I could listen to that actually makes sense. He also mentions several times, how are we going to pay for this? Very rare to hear a dem ask that question.
Couple of points. One,many believe that the reason dems want open borders is so they can get their votes. No. Living in a border state for decades, I can tell you that once they're here, they live pretty much in the shadows. Tim points out (and I concur)that they want them here to be an underclass that they have control over. Brave New World, epsilons? I don't believe that the ones that can vote, do. They don't want attention drawn to themselves. And they learn that most of the citizens don't want them here. Once they get here, they still have to look over their shoulder. Control
Two. Drug cartels. Imo, they own some of our politicians. And their job is to do whatever it takes to keep those borders open. Even if they sound like morons to try and convince, We the People, that open borders are a good thing. I thought at first they're out of touch with general population. Maybe not. The ones under cartel influence have no choice. Control again. And this is why the current Congress will NOT pass immigration reform.
I got really pissed watching and seeing the bigger picture in all this. I keep going back to Meganon. Once this is all said and done, you won't be a Democrat or Republican, you'll hate them all! Until Trump, had no idea how useless Congress is!
They vote, don't think for one second they don't.
[–] themagarhino 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
And the point. They have been lied to their whole life. They have not looked critically at what is now happening. Now they are being abandoned and they are lost. But, they have been trained to hate people on the right. They are frustrated and scared because they have to relearn how life actually is. Patience and grace will red pill these lost souls. God Bless them all.