What is that execrable little shit talking about with regard to healthcare? The fact that Joe Biden didn't completely overhaul our system and give us socialized medicine? What a child.
Also, few things make me want to slap someone like smarmy comments such as "a simple yes or no will do". As if he's being shrewd, and nobody understands that he wants the implicit premise of his juvenile question validated—that Vladimir Putin is equivalent to Joe Biden. People like him are an albatross around the neck of the left.
During the 2020 election season, Joe Biden ran the following ad:
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I was sworn into the United States Senate next to a hospital bed. My wife and daughter had been killed in a car crash, and lying in that bed were my two surviving little boys. I couldn’t imagine what it would have been like if we didn’t have the healthcare they needed immediately. Forty years later one of those little boys, my son Beau, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only months to live. I can’t fathom what would have happened if the insurance companies had said, for the last six months of his life, “You’re on your own."
The fact of the matter is, healthcare is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When I see the president try to tear it down, and others propose to replace it and start over, that’s personal to me, too. We got to build on what we did, because every American deserves affordable healthcare.
I’m Joe Biden, and I approve this message.
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Pretty unobjectionable, right? Unless you're one of the people who really did want to tear it up and start all over, like many on the far left.
(He may very well have been talking primarily about the right, who at the time were having to at least give lip service to "repeal and replace", because many of their voters actually relied on the ACA. But to be fair this was during the primaries, so he may also have been taking a shot at those who wanted to ban private insurance and force a single payer system.)
Anyway, this lead to some guy at Vice—who once wrote for that paragon of respectable and responsible journalism, Gawker—to pen an article with the following headline:
“Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare.”
Yeah.
And of course, said albatrosses around all of our necks—i.e. the online left's biggest fools, like this little boy from the Guardian—have taken this and run with it.
Predictably, I suppose, queen of irresponsible leftist takes Taylor Lorenz—whom I am normally inclined to at least feel sorry for on the assumption that she takes a disproportionate amount of abuse for being a woman—earned my callous disregard this time around with the following reaction to the Biden News:
"May he rest in piss and burn in hell."
Yeah.
These are the people we have to rely on to keep Republicans out of office. Maybe we need new coalitions.
based on Bongino's flop sweat and both of their bugging eyes, nervous laughter, and a mountain of public evidence: I think you're missing a third option on Epstein. They've more evidence for how deeply involved Trump was with Epstein and his operations (and maybe even his death while he was President) and now they have to be a part of the conspiracy they previously thought was fiction.
It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder why, given the fact that this is a slow-growing cancer and Biden had regular checkups - the most recent of which was only in February - his extremely advanced condition is only being revealed now. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether those checkups included a PSA test and, if so, how long those around Biden knew of the results. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether those around Biden were intent on allowing a man they knew to be terminally ill to run for a second term. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether they knew this during the first term.
It is not a personal “insult” to ask any of these questions of Dr. Jill Biden.
Do not let your distaste for Donald Trump, Jr., cloud your judgment in this regard. There is reason to suspect that Biden’s condition was known and kept from the public, and this is not a partisan issue, it is of significance to the entire country, and journalists like you should be investigating and demanding answers, rather than focusing on the fact that some people you don’t like are asking the questions.
I do agree that this Jones person is horrible, and that taking glee in Biden’s condition is reprehensible. That is distinguishable from asking or wondering whether the condition was covered up.
What is that execrable little shit talking about with regard to healthcare? The fact that Joe Biden didn't completely overhaul our system and give us socialized medicine? What a child.
Also, few things make me want to slap someone like smarmy comments such as "a simple yes or no will do". As if he's being shrewd, and nobody understands that he wants the implicit premise of his juvenile question validated—that Vladimir Putin is equivalent to Joe Biden. People like him are an albatross around the neck of the left.
Ah, ok. Here's the answer to my initial question.
During the 2020 election season, Joe Biden ran the following ad:
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I was sworn into the United States Senate next to a hospital bed. My wife and daughter had been killed in a car crash, and lying in that bed were my two surviving little boys. I couldn’t imagine what it would have been like if we didn’t have the healthcare they needed immediately. Forty years later one of those little boys, my son Beau, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only months to live. I can’t fathom what would have happened if the insurance companies had said, for the last six months of his life, “You’re on your own."
The fact of the matter is, healthcare is personal to me. Obamacare is personal to me. When I see the president try to tear it down, and others propose to replace it and start over, that’s personal to me, too. We got to build on what we did, because every American deserves affordable healthcare.
I’m Joe Biden, and I approve this message.
------------------
Pretty unobjectionable, right? Unless you're one of the people who really did want to tear it up and start all over, like many on the far left.
(He may very well have been talking primarily about the right, who at the time were having to at least give lip service to "repeal and replace", because many of their voters actually relied on the ACA. But to be fair this was during the primaries, so he may also have been taking a shot at those who wanted to ban private insurance and force a single payer system.)
Anyway, this lead to some guy at Vice—who once wrote for that paragon of respectable and responsible journalism, Gawker—to pen an article with the following headline:
“Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare.”
Yeah.
And of course, said albatrosses around all of our necks—i.e. the online left's biggest fools, like this little boy from the Guardian—have taken this and run with it.
Predictably, I suppose, queen of irresponsible leftist takes Taylor Lorenz—whom I am normally inclined to at least feel sorry for on the assumption that she takes a disproportionate amount of abuse for being a woman—earned my callous disregard this time around with the following reaction to the Biden News:
"May he rest in piss and burn in hell."
Yeah.
These are the people we have to rely on to keep Republicans out of office. Maybe we need new coalitions.
based on Bongino's flop sweat and both of their bugging eyes, nervous laughter, and a mountain of public evidence: I think you're missing a third option on Epstein. They've more evidence for how deeply involved Trump was with Epstein and his operations (and maybe even his death while he was President) and now they have to be a part of the conspiracy they previously thought was fiction.
Owen Jones’s myopic hatred of Israel is not a problem for me. My problem is that he is such an arrogant, annoying, awful gobshite.
It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder why, given the fact that this is a slow-growing cancer and Biden had regular checkups - the most recent of which was only in February - his extremely advanced condition is only being revealed now. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether those checkups included a PSA test and, if so, how long those around Biden knew of the results. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether those around Biden were intent on allowing a man they knew to be terminally ill to run for a second term. It is not an “unfounded conspiracy” to wonder whether they knew this during the first term.
It is not a personal “insult” to ask any of these questions of Dr. Jill Biden.
Do not let your distaste for Donald Trump, Jr., cloud your judgment in this regard. There is reason to suspect that Biden’s condition was known and kept from the public, and this is not a partisan issue, it is of significance to the entire country, and journalists like you should be investigating and demanding answers, rather than focusing on the fact that some people you don’t like are asking the questions.
I do agree that this Jones person is horrible, and that taking glee in Biden’s condition is reprehensible. That is distinguishable from asking or wondering whether the condition was covered up.