Sickness

Thom Hartmann visits and reveals an inconvenient truth about Medicare and Medicare Advantage and the fraud that is our healthcare system. The first part of the interview discusses the ills of our healthcare system in general. We discuss the Medicaid Advantage fraud at18:33. Thom Hartmann describes our fraudulent healthcare x...

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  • September 15, 2021

If I had to watch this, you do, too. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, who sounds like Mr. Haney and looks like Arnold Ziffel, shot a video that made the NRA—which is dissolving faster than an Adderall suppository in the pulpy crevasses of Donald John Trump’s bottomless backside—bray about “triggering” the libs....

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  • May 25, 2021

More than 225 million doses of Covid vaccines have been delivered, more than enough to fulfill Joe Biden’s goal of 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days. If we just maintain the recent pace averaging 3 million shots a day, we should have about 240 million vaccinations, 20 million more...

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  • April 7, 2021

We must make the Texas Electric grid failure strike 3. Economist & Professor Dr. Richard Wolff discusses his new eBook, The Sickness System. Dr. Richard Wolff explains Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Topics: The misery that Texans...

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  • February 19, 2021

The not-guilty verdict ending the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump was as expected, but it revealed something even more sinister about the Republican party. After the Senate trial ended, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, made a public display of the hypocrisy in the GOP. He prattled on about the former...

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  • February 15, 2021

So this morning, Melania Trump helpfully pointed out to all us plebs who the real victim of the assault on the Capitol is: Melania Trump. That’s no surprise. Trumps are always victims—of the whiniest sort. If Donald Trump ever sincerely took responsibility for anything, I’d start checking random D.C. basements...

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  • January 11, 2021

We wondered a few years back when we were saying Buckle up…what he would do.  We wondered what his enablers would continue to back.   Would he start a war?  Would he declare martial law?  Now we know the beginning and we still don’t know the finale.   He is trying to...

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  • October 29, 2020

by Andi Pringle Voter suppression used to be largely structural, with efforts cloaked in fake laws and rules made up to justify the closure of polling places, the purging of voters from the rolls, and the spread of voter ID requirements. But this year, the Republican party is relying on psychological...

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  • October 6, 2020

“Literally Thursday night President Trump told people at a dinner: ‘The end of pandemic is in sight ‘“ It’s not a plot, he’s just that stupid, and he’s also that conniving. A bad combination. x As you say, it's doubtful he'd ever want to pull off the scheme, and risible...

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  • October 3, 2020

Get ready people because the reality of losing our democracy is real.   I said this in 2016 and people scoffed.  It is a reality.   The sides are lining up.  Brother against brother, Mother against child, husband against wife.  This may even be worse than 1860 considering the people of that...

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  • September 24, 2020

Professor, Economist, Dr. Richard Wolff visits with us to discuss Capitalism and COVID-19. A young Nebraskan said he has to ditch the GOP. Richard Wolff visits. Aaron Hurt disses the GOP x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls:...

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  • September 22, 2020

This was as low down as a species could go.  Notice I did not say human.  Donald Trump said as a diversion of course, but was faith shaming and worse than that, doing exactly what God said not to do.  “Judge not lest ye be judged”. Matthew 7:1-3 He is all...

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  • August 7, 2020

Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau has quite wisely declined to risk sickness and death just so Trump can have a photo-op “celebrating” the new agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico — which is pretty much the same as the old agreement, the most important part being that Obama’s signature...

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  • July 7, 2020

For reference: A group of 25 Republican lawmakers is renewing their quest to have Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf impeached, despite an evident lack of appetite among GOP leaders and the majority of their fellow legislators to pursue the idea. State Rep. Darryl Metcalfe, chairman of the House Environmental Affairs and...

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  • June 18, 2020

There’s only six months left in ‘Trump Time’, so the continuum is still safe, so far. Profiteering and looting might be less safe in the interim. Already under fire for his role atop a shadow task force aiding the administration’s response to the coronavirus, senior White House aide Jared Kushner is now being handed...

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  • May 7, 2020

Waiting for de jure to be impaneled in a time of tactical chaos, free of strategic thinking, Jared Kushner is Slender Man, de facto POTUS* of the not-so-deep, shallow state. “Jared is running everything. He’s the de facto president of the United States,” a former White House official told Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, Throughout the...

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  • May 6, 2020

From the book The Man Who Knew Too Much, there is a quote that reads “I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything,” –G.K. Chesterton The Party that detests the government seems obsessed with getting in office and breaking it...

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  • May 1, 2020

Received this e-mail from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Harrisburg Republicans just voted to force Pennsylvanians back to work against the advice of doctors, scientists, and frontline labor leaders. They put profits over people in the middle of a global pandemic. If not for Governor Wolf, we’d be staring down a...

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  • April 16, 2020

The New York Times has an article up about how Florida Governor Ron De Santis let Spring Break go on during a viral pandemic. MIAMI — You could find Beatriz Diaz at this spring’s Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach, giving out hand sanitizer. It was early March. She knew...

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  • April 12, 2020

I write this from my experience this week.  My husband was doing some regular chores around the house Wednesday and nothing seemed wrong at all.   I had asked our daughter where he was when I didn’t see him outside where he had been.  She said, “ I think he laid...

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  • April 12, 2020

The bum’s rush to Biden after he won a SINGLE primary (in his entire career) that he was expected to win, with every possible institutional advantage, in a conservative state may be incredibly dangerous.  Let me offer a few “what happens if” scenarios that I think are very plausible. 1)...

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  • March 2, 2020

This will have an impact as well as I think Pete is not far behind on his endorsement.    The endorsements will be coming fast and furious I predict.    The ground game is about to change with these past candidates coming in to endorse.    I am all for...

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  • March 2, 2020

No, I did not attend a boring seminar on quantum mechanics or bend my brain studying the theory of relativity. I spent Christmas Eve and Day in Albert Einstein ( with whom I share a birthday) Hospital recovering from what was termed, a cardiac incident. Short of a heart attack, I...

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  • December 27, 2019

In some ways, Sinclair Broadcasting — which owns nearly 200 television stations across the country — may be more pernicious than Fox News, because most of the time its affiliates seem like real stations. They’ll get the hot scoops at county fair corn roasts about people’s favorite way to eat...

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  • August 19, 2019

Press Release | Progressive Democrats of America For Immediate Release CONTACT: Rebecca Sharer, on behalf of National Nurses United, rsharer@fenton.com, 703-585-0404 Ben Palmquist, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, 510-838-1259 Dylan Dusseault, Business Initiative for Health Policy, 727-743-7809 Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America, 818-749-9497   WASHINGTON, DC – May 21, 2019 – 209 economists...

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  • May 21, 2019

Well hell, if there’s one thing I hate, it’s coming off looking like an idjit, but as Britney Spears sings,:Ooops, I did it again.” For years now, I’ve been  ridiculing the end-of-days nuts, and survivalist goofballs who blow their entire credit limit on basically glorified MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat)....

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  • November 2, 2018

Grab your air-sickness bags. No, seriously. I mean it. Or skip ahead to the end. And by “end” I mean the end of your now-squalid, irreparably damaged life. Okay, you’ve been warned. Courtesy of the soul-killing bastards at Daily Beast: According to a copy [of Stormy Daniels’ memoir] obtained by The Guardian,...

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  • September 18, 2018

I had a little trouble feeling patriotic this July 4th, and it’s not just because our president is on the take with Russia.  No, I had a real sickness in the pit of my stomach because this happened just one week prior: ICE agent ICE confirmed to The Intercept on Tuesday that...

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  • July 6, 2018

Upfront: If you think that anything is justified against a person simply because that person is wealthy, this is not an article for you. If you think it’s okay to lie, mislead, or otherwise attack a person simply because of their financial status, consequences be damned, then you should probably...

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  • May 29, 2018
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