What did I miss?

Admiral Frank M Bradley gave those illegal orders.

Update his Wikipedia page to include murder.

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One big thing you'll see in Europe is more decentralized systems like in Germany are far more resilient than centralized systems, and far less prone to abuse the minute a conservative party takes control. It's especially vicious over there where anti-immigrant politics are far more violent.

The sole reason why it took such a stranglehold over the discussion of UHC is because it mesmerized a single Senator from Vermont who has never had to appeal to women or minorities to win an election in his life and who refuses to believe Republicans would ever dare do racist and sexist things.

..a Republican administration takes over and promptly hacks it to bloody pieces. Any other form of achieving universal coverage would be superior to it.

There is a reason why so many countries with UHC avoid single payer. It's the most expensive option, it would eliminate millions of jobs, cause immediate rationing of care from lack of qualified medical personnel, and you would be immediately slitting the throats of the poor and women when...

they'd back off for a little bit and then drip drip drip and every lead up to a big speech it was like "old man Biden will show how dementia rattled he is and the plot will be exposed!" and then he'd do well

but no one can hit it out of the park every single time, and when he didn't...

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris were ripped to shreds for trying to piece together a version of it that might kind of sort of work because it was never a serious proposal, it was an article of religious faith for the cult of Bernie Sanders and they tried editing the Bible, which you NEVER DO.

Medicare for All is an incredibly stupid idea because you guarantee immediate supply shortages that piss off everyone, it cannot be funded without a significant tax increase on everyone, and it will *immediately* be gutted and twisted by Republicans, but thankfully it seems to be fading as an idea.

yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...