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Anonymous wrote:It's also saddening when puberty blockers are government/state covered but IVF is not covered by insurance. It's saddening when poisonous food dyes and high prescription drug prices are addressed by President Trump instead of the two previous Democrat presidents.

It's not discussed often enough that on some core issues (foreign and domestic), Trump is actually moving the Republican Party to the left.

It's even sadder that men who want their own pair of breasts to fondle get full coverage for their breast implants, but female breast cancer victims can't get even partial coverage for reconstructive surgery. A woman's abusive husband can get full insurance coverage for "facial feminization" surgeries which amount to endless cosmetic procedures, but the woman whose face he beat in will have to come out of pocket to have her nose reconstructed. The greed and freeloading of the trans movement, the sex-based double standards while insisting sex doesn't exist, and the resulting burden on the rest of us to make do with less coverage and bear higher insurance costs is the aspect that turned me against that particular cause.

By law, reconstruction surgery after breast cancer must be covered. I've had several hundreds of thousands of dollars in reconstruction covered.

No, honey. Just no. Allow me to educate you on how America works for women who aren't white with generous insurance plans like you.

First, the only federal law that potentially mandates coverage for breast cancer victims is the WHCRA. Only if the WHCRA applies might an insurance company even potentially be required to cover mastectomy and reconstruction under federal law. Otherwise, you're sh-t outta luck if you don't live in one of only a few states with expansive breast cancer coverage requirements.

Second, all sorts of very common insurance plans are exempt from the WHCRA, including some government plans, religious orgs' plans, Medicaid, and Medicare.

Third, the WHCRA does NOT require health plans or health insurance issuers to cover mastectomies at all. That's right. If an insurance plan opts not to cover mastectomies, it is NOT required to cover anything mastectomy-related such as reconstruction for women.

Fourth, even if a health plan/insurance issuer opts to cover mastectomy, there are still exceptions under which it can decline coverage of reconstruction.

Fifth, even if a health plan/insurance issuer covers both mastectomies and reconstruction, the fine print is key. Even women who "have coverage" are regularly left with out-of-pocket costs that are so high that they cannot afford reconstruction. Insurance companies can and do pull stunts like technically "covering" reconstruction, but then defining this narrowly to carve out all sorts of physical complications that women who aren't upper middle class with family help can't afford to pay for out of pocket. Again, this effectively denies coverage to women with such insurance plans.

In comparison, men who claim to be trans enjoy absurd levels of drama-free full coverage for frivolities because they'll die from hearing the word no. I personally used to handle pro bono matters from a number of LGBTQ nonprofits before I decided these grifters don't need my services to be free with all the other free stuff they get. A typical matter would feature a "trans woman" on Medicaid because the same transgender identity that they claim is not a mental illness nonetheless entitles them to disability and Medicaid. I got really good at spotting the expensive work. There's nothing like having a man sitting in front of you with several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetic procedures from browbone shaving to lip filler to jaw surgery to lipo to BBLs to breast implants to cheekbone implants to laser hair removal to skin bleaching to even human hair wigs that cost $1,500 each and his next surgeries are already on the calendar. Meanwhile, he hasn't worked in years and he is being referred to me because a shelter "discriminated" against him by asking him to consider leaving in 90 days after he physically assaulted staff repeatedly and walked around with his penis out.

Rapacious trans lobbyists and Democrats have put such ludicrous, excessive federal and state packages of "gender affirming" benefits for men who claim to be trans and taxpayers don't even know the half of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

One city riot doesn't define anything. Just a bunch of idiots screaming. Most aren't Democrats. Just young people looking for camera time.

So the riots and burning vehicles are just the youths looking for camera time?

President Vance, incoming.

Democrats are purposely gaslighting Americans that this entire nightmare is no biggie.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

One city riot doesn't define anything. Just a bunch of idiots screaming. Most aren't Democrats. Just young people looking for camera time.

Democrats are the ones encouraging the “idiots screaming” while the nation watches.

I know a lot of Democrats. None are encouraging "idiots screaming". Go night, night now.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

One city riot doesn't define anything. Just a bunch of idiots screaming. Most aren't Democrats. Just young people looking for camera time.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

One city riot doesn't define anything. Just a bunch of idiots screaming. Most aren't Democrats. Just young people looking for camera time.

Democrats are the ones encouraging the “idiots screaming” while the nation watches.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

One city riot doesn't define anything. Just a bunch of idiots screaming. Most aren't Democrats. Just young people looking for camera time.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

We are watching, in real time on the streets of Los Angeles, what democrats mean by resistance to Trump:

- it means using violence against federal workers and destroying property (public and private).

The Democratic Party is the party of violence.

Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

Anonymous wrote:Are the Ds out to sea? I LOATHE trump. But where are we in 2024?

The Border?
Tariffs?
Taxes and Spending?
Social Justice?
DEI?
Russia / Ukraine?
Energy?
EV policy?

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Anonymous wrote:New Rule: Democrat Devolution | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Real Time with Bill Maher - June 6, 2025

Good to see Dems having open discussions about what went wrong and picking up the pieces from the Biden mess.

The GOP won't be able to have their inflection point until the dust settles from the mess Trump leaves behind in 2029. This puts the Dems four years ahead of the GOP in their efforts to become functional again.

I posted the video.

Yes, right after you democrats apologize for ramping up violent crime in the cities, banning people through social media payoffs from the government, turning on your own citizens, collapsing our big cities (none of which are in very good shape and 90% of which are run by democrat mayors and councils), threatening people with losing their jobs for not taking the vax... while importing mass poverty with no vaccination constraints, 86'ing common sense, lawfaring all your political enemies, catering to Beijing's every wish, losing Ukraine and Israel, and putting a senile dementia patient in the White House and refusing to remove him even though he was "a well-meaning man with a poor memory" with his hand on the nuclear button.

Um, I think you need to apologize for fake news.

In 2023, DC hit the lowest violent crime rate in 30 years.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/dc-violent-crime-is-lowest-in-30-years-as-us-attorney-predicts-further-drops/3797354/?amp=1

If you don’t allow people to report crimes, it’s easy to make the crime rate low.

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Anonymous wrote:Against Trump.

not going to work. We need more. The weekly show with Hohn Stewart had some nuggets. For example, on immigration - there is a certain about this country needs to help support social security and fill jobs Americans won’t do. Quantify that and don’t shy away from it. What Biden allowed on immigration was just dumb (we now know why) but Trump is overcorrecting.

I can't stand when someone who purports to be anti-Trump normalizes his actions like this. You call what he is doing overcorrecting. Overcorrecting?

Yes, Biden changed some of the policies and, for example, had to spend resources fixing some of Trump's atrocities like reuniting the families separated by the widely condemned and failed "zero tolerance" policy. But there was an increase in migrants during the Biden administration for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with Biden:

1. The resumption of (accumulated) migration after a having come to grinding halt during the pandemic
2. Devastating natural disasters in countries byond the usual migrants' home countries and crisis after crisis in places like Venezuela and Haiti.
3. Post-pandemic misery throughout the world

Biden focused on a humane (does not violate human rites!) policy that focused on legal immigration. He also:

1. Detained more people at the border than Trump had (yes, of course, this is because more people were coming but it is such FAKE NEWS to say he had open door policy and even supposed anti-Trumpers repeat it)

2. Repaired and continued Trump's border wall (despite having said he would not!)

3. Started the MISGUIDED and totally erroneous policy of detaining Venezuelans at the border because of their tattoos. The initial intelligence and CBP policy started under Biden!!! Of course Biden, not being a dictator or a monster, respected the Constitution and required due process so when after months of detention, asylum seekers had hearings, a judge could look at the evidence and either deport or not.

Only Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem et al would send a gay make-up artist, with no criminal records but instead a history of constant persecution, to a mega-prison in a third country because he has tattoos of Mom and Dad with crowns on them.

THIS IS AN ATROCITY.

This is not overcorrection. You normalize an atrocity by calling it that. If there were only one Andry Hernandez Romero, it would be too many. It would be a shocking situation. But we know from multiple media sources and, more recently, the (conservative!) Cato Institute's reseaech that there are dozens of LEGAL immigrants with NO CRIMINAL RECORD.

Whatever flaws someone had before or will have after pale in comparison to what is happening now.

If you want to lose the next election too then keep acting like there wasn't an immigration problem.

What you are seeing now is an "OVER-REACTION" to that immigration problem.
Suspending due process is horrible violating our own asylum laws is horrible but all of these horrible things are an over-reaction in response to the immigration issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Against Trump.

not going to work. We need more. The weekly show with Hohn Stewart had some nuggets. For example, on immigration - there is a certain about this country needs to help support social security and fill jobs Americans won’t do. Quantify that and don’t shy away from it. What Biden allowed on immigration was just dumb (we now know why) but Trump is overcorrecting.

I can't stand when someone who purports to be anti-Trump normalizes his actions like this. You call what he is doing overcorrecting. Overcorrecting?

Yes, Biden changed some of the policies and, for example, had to spend resources fixing some of Trump's atrocities like reuniting the families separated by the widely condemned and failed "zero tolerance" policy. But there was an increase in migrants during the Biden administration for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with Biden:

1. The resumption of (accumulated) migration after a having come to grinding halt during the pandemic
2. Devastating natural disasters in countries byond the usual migrants' home countries and crisis after crisis in places like Venezuela and Haiti.
3. Post-pandemic misery throughout the world

Biden focused on a humane (does not violate human rites!) policy that focused on legal immigration. He also:

1. Detained more people at the border than Trump had (yes, of course, this is because more people were coming but it is such FAKE NEWS to say he had open door policy and even supposed anti-Trumpers repeat it)

2. Repaired and continued Trump's border wall (despite having said he would not!)

3. Started the MISGUIDED and totally erroneous policy of detaining Venezuelans at the border because of their tattoos. The initial intelligence and CBP policy started under Biden!!! Of course Biden, not being a dictator or a monster, respected the Constitution and required due process so when after months of detention, asylum seekers had hearings, a judge could look at the evidence and either deport or not.

Only Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem et al would send a gay make-up artist, with no criminal records but instead a history of constant persecution, to a mega-prison in a third country because he has tattoos of Mom and Dad with crowns on them.

THIS IS AN ATROCITY.

This is not overcorrection. You normalize an atrocity by calling it that. If there were only one Andry Hernandez Romero, it would be too many. It would be a shocking situation. But we know from multiple media sources and, more recently, the (conservative!) Cato Institute's reseaech that there are dozens of LEGAL immigrants with NO CRIMINAL RECORD.

Whatever flaws someone had before or will have after pale in comparison to what is happening now.

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats should instead of being about total resistance to Trump, show they can work with him. They should support his tariffs, which are opposed by so many Republicans in Congress.

This would help bring back those Obama voters that switched to Trump.

Those swing voters you are referring too swung away from Trump in 2020 and they'll swing away from him again in 2028. Until one of our parties put forth a legitimate POTUS again, these swing voters will continue to flip flop every four years. Odds of us not being able to do better than Trump and Biden in 2028 are slim so there is reason for optimism.

If you honestly think you’ll regain the presidency with the same policies as 2024, you’re in serious political trouble.