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So people want content with a gruff but lovable lead and an overly cute and highly merchandiseable sidekick?

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The hospital-based tweets are just going to get weirder
Sorry to disappoint this a pic from a few days ago, I'm several days from getting home to mah boy
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Reporters at both the Times and Post love to write The Definitive Story of the Campaign. It is the path to lucrative tv bookings and book deals. The problem is not a single person has yet to vote in this election. Not one vote. The story has barely begun.
Every four years there's this gold rush for this journalistic prize. It would be like writing the entire history of WW2 the day after Hitler became chancellor. You end up missing some stuff, including the ending you might not see coming.
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Every election year without fail. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry. By election day Republicans said they were all to the left of Mao. So just advocate the ideas that will help the most people and motivate the most voters and fuck what GOP says.
If Republicans can run on a wall I see no reason Democrats can't run on educating everyone and keeping everyone healthy without tying ourselves up into knots over it. But so far I'm seeing multiple Democrats fail miserably in this regard. Still afraid of Republicans and the media
I want Democrats to just say what our party and movement and a majority of Americans want. Whatever marginal vote you lose from fiscal squishes you'll make up in motivating millions of other voters.
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I'm posting this stuff because I'm like the health care "ideal" situation. Good coverage who can afford the incidentals and it's still super fucked up as I'm sitting there w a serious situation to be asking about billing. And I'm on the lucky side! It's fucking sick.
A few people just have a hard time understanding: it's not about me. I'm fine. My concern is for others, ya know, empathy?

I can't even imagine someone taking their spouse or kids to hospital and getting these questions. I've been there when it was my parent.
In America if you're sick you should be able to go to the doctor, not have to wait for it to get to ER stage. It's like saying a kid can only go to school if they're in a critical situation. No, just go to the doctor. Everyone.
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