I've never been more proud of my country, New Zealand.

At first I was skeptical about our left-leaning government's pandemic response, then I saw our right-leaning oppo call for ending all restrictions before our double-vaxxed rate passed 90%. That would've killed thousands.
It's a surreal moment, the first time you realize that one of your country's two largest political parties is fine about needlessly killing thousands of people, including potentially oneself, just for their poll numbers.

Anyway, I'm cresting a wave of joy right now...
And I haven't been doing lines of cocaine like a certain former US president's son does now every time he appears on camera.
Most of my American friends know this 1991 song "The Weather With You" by Crowded House.

It's a Kiwi gem.

Some of the lyrics:

"Well, there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Well, do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released?"
I won the lottery by being born in NZ. Have spent many years wanting & even making plans to move to the US & become a dual citizen. I'm not ruling it out but for once in my life I'm content to be right where I am.

NZ is relying on the American-made Pfizer vaccine. THANK YOU.
I hope NZ and the US become even closer in the coming years. In WWII, US Marines were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here."😉 At times, our RNZAF fighter pilots escorted US ships while the equipment lost at Pearl Harbor was being replaced.

We are best friends.🇳🇿🇺🇸

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18 Dec
Thread: How I approach a news story before commenting on it.

In 2019 Rogel Aguilera-Mederos drove a truck that lost it's brakes, accelerated as it went downhill, then crashed into stationary traffic, killing 4 & injuring others.
In the public and media frenzy to denounce the 110 year mandatory minimum sentence, a lot of signal is being lost to noise.

Pertinent facts are being omitted or downplayed in media coverage, as far as I've seen at this stage.

Misuse of the term "accident" is part of this.
Aguilera-Mederos & his millions of supporters use the term accident to imply that his actions were not at least partially at fault in this collision. Certainly his employer is partially at fault & must be held accountable. But that doesn't mean the employer is solely responsible.
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18 Dec
I watch a lot of these clips and this is a good one. If you've been wondering why Mark Meadows is so dumb and so craven, here is the answer.

The lesson: We must NEVER let this happen again.

There's a ton of important points in the above clip about Jan 6 and the Republican party's authoritarian path in general.

It's got me thinking again about why I decided to run for the hills on 1/6. We all have choices and we are accountable for them - to ourselves at least.
I'm just a random spectator and in no way involved in any of this but I still recognized I was at a crossroads. I could either stay in/adjacent to Cult 45, or I could take a stand against it.

Hardly anyone I knew from the cult has left it, like I did.
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16 Dec
I so enjoy watching the downfall of T****ism and FOX rn.

To those who exist in reality like me, & have patiently waited for this thing to get going, I say cheers! 🍾

To those under the thrall of a deadly ideology, I say bad luck. Y'all fucked around & now you're finding out.
Exhibit A.

You gotta watch this clip, it's delightful.

Thank you @GeraldoRivera for simply stating facts to the cowardly Hannity and Bongino.

Geraldo's finest moment on screen, I'd say.

I can only add a few current 1/6 related media clips so am picking them as I go. Hundreds of good interviews & other clips from mainstream media, emerging media & podcasters.

Exhibit B.

Anything by PhD level psychologist Dr Mary L Trump is gold:

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13 Dec
A lot to note in this clip. The newspaper is being consistent with other candidates (& AP guidance.)

Note how smooth he tries to be as he lies. Even MORE attention to Mehmet Oz will be good for Democrats. He's a handy distillation of all that is wrong with today's R party.
Mehmet Oz could have used his profile to help save lives in the pandemic so far. If he really wants to do all the things he claims to voters in his campaign.

The lack of such a record should be a core plank of the campaign against him in the PA Sen race.
I have long disregarded Mehmet Oz as anything approaching a credible medical voice in the public sphere.

He trained and worked as a cardiothoracic (heart and lung) surgeon. Let that sink in.
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13 Dec
Since Meadows dropped that first bit of his book concerning T**** knowing he had Covid on 9/26/21, his utter stupidity and incompetence has been on display.

He came to power in NC just like his buffoonish protege Madison Cawthorn. Without merit.
Having read up on the b/g and record of both Meadows and Cawthorn, I think they are a textbook example of how white supremacy in the South works (largely under the radar) to send not only racist/fascist but also incompetent men and women to Washington, DC.
But make no mistake: Meadows' incompetence is to our gain. I think the lid has finally been lifted on the shocking evidence the Jan 6 Committee already has & will deploy for both political & prosecutory purposes.

Locking Rs out of the 2022 midterms is a matter of life & death.
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IMO this info was attainable without leaking because it can be extrapolated if all you know is the billed amount. In any case, hospitals have to use markups in order to cross-subsidize services that are never paid for. This is a poor argument for single payer, among many.
To clarify, hospital billing markups are not, IMHO, an effective argument for a single payer system. They get portrayed as price gouging, but if you look at them in a politically neutral way, they're more just a reflection of overall provider costs.
I live in a country (NZ) with what Americans would call a single payer healthcare system. It has major problems for individual patients and the country as a whole.

In both countries, AFAIK, a provider is not allowed to turn away a patient in immediate emergency need...
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