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Alexander Smirnov has confessed that he lied about the Biden's receiving pay-offs from Burisma. Somehow, I doubt that Republicans are likely to back off on their claims even though the one who first made them has admitted that they were lies created with the help of Russian agents.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/david-weiss-fbi-informant-alexander-smirnov-plea/index.html
"The price for a single medicine can range by thousands of dollars depending on the drug plan."
The law should require that medical services, products, and pharmaceuticals are offered at a single price to all buyers. Drugs should be like hamburgers: One price for all.
When every buyer negotiates a different price, those with more negotiating power pay less and those will less power pay more. Thus, small insurers and the uninsured subsidize the larger insurers. Not fair!
Trump's TCJA tax-cuts for corporations and the rich do not appear to have achieved their claimed purpose of significantly increasing aggregate investment, according to a Brookings Institute analysis. Thus, "moderately raising the corporate tax rate would not adversely affect the economy" and "Cutting the tax rate even more now would create substantial federal revenue losses that largely finance windfall gains to business owners who have already made investments."
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-much-did-tcja-raise-investment/
A gas explosion destroyed two homes in Haymarket, VA yesterday. No human lives were lost but three pets are "missing."
"Honestly just to see everything go away in an instant, you realize you have nothing," said Jarret Struniak.
Please note: **No homes have ever been destroyed by exploding heat pumps.**
The Thymus, which is essential to our adaptive immune systems, is often casually removed during surgery on other organs. While we could once excuse this practice as the result of ignorance (There is *always* more to learn), today, there remains no valid excuse in most cases.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-useless-organ-that-doctors-often-remove-could-actually-fight-cancer
Garbage In, Garbage Out: There is little value in opinions based on misinformation...
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion
According to Punchbowl polls, "Most K Street leaders (i.e. Washington Lobbyists) believe Kamala HARRIS will win the 2024 presidential election," including a majority of Republicans. Also, "Most believe Kamala Harris will win MI, NV, PA, and WI, while most believe Trump will win AZ, GA, and NC."
See: https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/Harris-PA.pdf
Did you know that 23 Economics Nobel Prize winners recently signed a letter saying Kamala Harris’ economic plan is ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s?
Signers included: Acemoglu, Akerlof, Banerjee, Deaton, Peter Diamond, Douglas Diamond, Duflo, Engle, Goldin, Hart, Imbens, Johnson, Maskin, McFadden, Merton, Myerson, Nordhaus, Phelps, Romer, Roth, Shiller, Stiglitz, & Thaler…
Today, Vance denied that Trump lost the election in 2020. Today, he supported Trump's lie by saying: “So, did Donald Trump lose the election in 2020? **Not by the words that I would use.**”
It is ludicrous that such a vile lie is given credence. Of course, I mean Vance and Trump's lie. There's something very wrong with our country. The fact that such people are able to find acceptance from so many is clear evidence that we have lost touch with what should be our values.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-says-trump-did-not-lose-2020-us-election-2024-10-16/
