LaRussa anthem story making national headlines

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6 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

We will certainly see next January when the Republicans control every branch of the US government but executive, and a weakened likely lame duck one at that.  It doesn't matter whether I agree with you or not, the die is already cast.   And the gun control votes in terms of cross-sectional American public opinion polling are a lot closer to 50/50 than the abortion rights issue (70/30 against getting rid of Roe v. Wade depending on survey phrasing).

The only interesting developments to watch will be if DeSantis can actually wrest the nomination from Trump and if the Dems can field a single viable presidential contender in 2024.

 

The gun issue + the Roe v Wade decision might actually keep the Senate from flipping.

Oh, and DeSantis is 100% winning the nomination. I doubt Trump even runs.

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22 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

It pretty well killed my father and a ton of other service members and vets through organized and international negligence.   It pretended things like radiation sicknesses and Agent Orange didn’t exist so they wouldn't have to treat people for them.  My dad was ignored for his Agent Orange related illnesses until the mid 80s, and then was killed by an aggressive Luekemia related to Orange.  Currently VA wait times are artificially kept down by either disallowimg visits for certain illnesses or just not allowing people to schedule at all to keep them from being counted.

If the VA were a private system they would have beed sued out of existence and closed decades ago.

Man, that's a tough story with your dad.  He is probably about my age.  I had no experience with VA back in the 80's, but what you said is also an indictment of the Viet Nam War and its use of Agent Orange.  A private hospital with private insurance might have been just as deadly.  I know they were in the late 90's and beyond in their treatment of servicemen who handled uranium tipped weapons in the first Iraq war.  Same thing happened.  Leukemia, aggressive treatment, death.  I have personal knowledge of this.  I don't know if VA would have been any better or any worse.  My VA experience, which is mostly in the last ten years, has been positive.

RIP to your dad.