Hormone replacement therapy, mental illness treatments, birth control, and soo much more!
True freedom means binding the government’s hands on prescription med prices and not allowing them to negotiate.
Even when the government is the one paying for prescription medicines, you would not want the government to negotiate prices? What would you have them do; just pay whatever Big Pharma decides to charge?
Is this one of the most egregious whooshes?
No, I seriously have no idea what you mean by saying what you did.
I think Mijin meant to put a smiley face after that. Subtlety is easy to miss.
Ah, okay. I thought they were advocating that idea.
As I noted upthread, based on cites in Wikipedia, he has a well-established history of making sexist comments (not just on his show), as well as speaking in defense of men who engage in sexual harassment of women.
The fact that he keeps saying things like that, and then tries to defuse it with “it’s a joke” means, to me, that he really doesn’t get it. The fact that a public figure, and a putative candidate for the presidency, is a serial harasser not only bothers me, but it should bother anyone who cares about other human beings.
Can’t imagine why posters aren’t more upbeat about a guy who’s virtually unknown except for a badly failed Congressional primary run and offending women and adherents of conservative religious denominations with offensive comments, plus is ineligible to hold the office he’s now running for.
Just the fresh voice we’re all seeking!
Noted.
Yeah, I think Uygur would have a problem with women……it’s the America’s Ex-Husband problem……he’s the kind of guy that reminds women of a jerkish ex-boyfriend or husband.
Sumarizing the thread:
He can’t run:
Even if he could run, he can’t win:
Even if he could win, he shouldnh’t win.
Seriously what is it that makes people think that the presidency is an entry level job? Some sort of Dunning Kruger effect that since they don’t understand how the presidency works they assume that anyone can do it? Uygur seems relatively savy regarding policy, but doesn’t show any evidence that he can run a campaign, rally a country, or negotiate a consensus. I want somebody who has been in the trenches of politics and seen how its done, and shown he can do it too, not some fly by night who thinks he can be 5 star general since he won the his gaming club’s risk tournament.
You forgot the option that he thoroughly expects not to win. On the issue of whether he expects to overcome the not native born issue, he first said it was a toss-up, then changed that to he can do it if Elon and Arnold join his crusade (not to become President, just to get the Supremes (the “not-Diana Ross-and” ones) to rule in his favor. He said this in a loud voice, how could it not give us all hope?
His reason for initiating a campaign he expects not to win is all there in… Oh right, nobody wants to spend an hour listening to an interview. Lucky for me.
Read what he said: “Stop bickering about social issues” means to stop fighting for trans rights, gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights… really, any rights beyond the rights of MAGAs to have it all their own way, just to “stick it to the man” in some idiotic fashion, as if his own rights wouldn’t be on the chopping block, too. It’s almost as if he thinks MAGAs will view him as White enough to not get the wall.
And, no, that doesn’t make him a Progressive. “Agreeing to disagree” in a way that allows human rights to regress isn’t what a Progressive does.
When someone has a history of genocide denial and has named their show after a group that committed a genocide the assumption of good faith is gone.
Thoroughly noted.
You took “stop bickering about social issues”, which in modern america are largely manufactured culture wars on the right to mean…give the right completely what they want and eliminate civil rights.
Disingenumuch?
How is that a response to what you just quoted?
I’m saying that it should be possible to criticize corporate America, and the legalized bribe system of US politics, without being accused of being an anti-semite. Agree?
The fact that your only answer to “why should we pay attention to him” and “why is he running” is “the only way you can ‘get it’ is to listen to an hour-long interview with him” is tiresome. Surely there must be some other website, some article, something that one could read – in substantially less than an hour – to understand his motivations and platform, beyond “it’s not fair that naturalized citizens can’t be president” and “big money donors have too much power.”
I kind of did explain it in post #1. Read that.
Yes, I can be tiresome.
That’s exactly how I took it, and I genuinely don’t see a different interpretation. Yes, sure, bullshit like what bathrooms trans people use in public is manufactured by right wing demagogues. So? That doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Dismissing people standing up for their civil rights as “bickering” demonstrates that the speaker does not, in fact, value those rights very highly, or at least, feels that those rights should be sacrificed in pursuit of the speaker’s own preferred political issues.
Or some status quo that embodies an acceptable social situation regarding political issues, plus “peace and quiet.”