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Let us assume Sanders becomes president and works a once in a lifetime deal with republicans in congress to pass single payer healthcare but he must also ban all Muslims from entering the country and deport every single undocumented person. This would be his last and only chance. Do you think he would or should accept this deal?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,702 posts)That's such a ridiculously impossible hypothetical that it doesn't warrant a response.
Thenewire
(130 posts).
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,702 posts)I could be, but maybe I'm not. Maybe I'm just someone who doesn't like to waste time contemplating silly hypothetical situations that could never happen.
TexasTowelie
(112,204 posts)It lists the Bernie Sanders Group as your favorite group and shows that you made 26 posts there.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,702 posts)Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)As a Hillary supporter, your hypothetical situation is bullshit. Bernie is a GREAT Senator, and a great candidate. He may not be the one I support, but I certainly don't support shitting on other candidates with bullshit posturing such as this.
Dial back the rhetoric.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,702 posts)???
mythology
(9,527 posts)This was a really silly question.
I have plenty of questions about a Sanders presidency (likewise for both Clinton and O'Malley), but I'd be happy to vote for any of them, and this isn't a valid question.
artislife
(9,497 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Thenewire
(130 posts)So Sanders supporters must at the very least understand that neither of these proposals are possible. I fail to comprehend the fanaticism around your candidate. From an outside perspective it is very similar to those who worship Trump.
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Old Codger
(4,205 posts)That you are flame bait and really have nothing to say that is worth listening to or reading therefore you post silly hypothetical inane things for some unknown and irrational reason that no one really gives a fat fuck about ..
think
(11,641 posts)That you would even ask such a question is revolting....
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)are perceived as assuming too much sometimes and sometimes assuming too little. That's an assumption, but what else could be assumed but the eminently assumable?
We can't assume this deal you are assuming. Who presents it to the president? Is it Dick Cheney's plant in Prague the afternoon Atta had coffee? Is it Baghdad Bob? Is it Vada Pinson, left-handed center fielder for the 1960s Cincinnati Reds?
Assume nothing and sin no more.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)....if he can also balance a ball on his nose while playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on a kazoo while riding a unicycle blindfolded.
Then and only then....yes.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Do you think he should send all republicans to the moon or just to Antarctica?
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)obsessed with it.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Yours?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)What a ridiculous question.
Of course, just what policy is Hillary fighting for that we can ask a similar question about?
There really isn't one, is there?
TheFarS1de
(1,017 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)you a handful of magic beans in exchange for your family cow?
Do you take that deal?
artislife
(9,497 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)was a brook trout? Did you ever consider that?
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)chopping down a cherry tree.
This thread is better than a Salvador Dali painting.
bvf
(6,604 posts)First time I've ever bookmarked a thread based solely on aesthetics.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Don't be silly- everyone knows you need a herring to chop down a tree
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winter is coming
(11,785 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)for what they want.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)I have not seen here.But keep trying, you seem
to suffer from something very strong that you
smoked.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)do not know what any of this is about in my opinion.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Let us assume Hillary becomes president and works a once in a lifetime deal with republicans in congress to pass Wall Street regulation but she must also
Wait what
.. hahaha!
Let's start over.
Let us assume Hillary becomes president and works a once in a lifetime deal with republicans in congress to pass limits on dark money politcs but she must also
Wait what
.. hahaha!
artislife
(9,497 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)Gets single-payer AND saves the Kobayashi Muslims!
Did I win?
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 24, 2016, 02:59 AM - Edit history (1)
Is there ANYTHING Bernie can't do?
Paulie
(8,462 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)DUers never disappoint.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)His platform which includes both single payer and a fair policy toward immigration reform.
Your question is absurd.
Bernie does not make dirty deals like the one you suggesst.
I would say what I really think, but I don't want to hurt your feelings.
So I will just say that we should all relax.
The times they are a'changin'.
There is a meeting of the minds between the generation that came of age in the 60s and the yong voters of today.
The times they are a'changin'.
A lot of people are going to be left behind if they don"t get with the turning tide.
It"s part of the pulse of the history of America, yet another plunge forward toward justice. It is a recurring pattern.
My guess is that we will get immigration reform first and then a single payer program that will be phased in over time and be very popular.
We will move back to non-profit health insurance coverage, but not all at once, move the age for eligibility for Medicare. down, that is lower ir, and permit the government to negotiate drug prices.
Gradually profit will be reduced as will administrative costs in our healthcare system. We will introduce lessexpensive, more reliable technollogy into healthcare, and single payer will be a part of the process of enhancing and reducing the cost of healthcare.
Many righties are thinking nervously about a past reality that, as I write is becoming irrelevant.
Our choices will notbe those you propose.
Feel the Bern!
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)That is simply not a deal that would happen. Not. Never.
It's sometimes quite astonishing the hypothetical idiocies people here will concoct.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Because aliens don't wear hats.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)I so needed a laugh, but I don't think that is quite what the OP was aiming for ...
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)They'd rather have a Muslim takeover than let single-payer happen.
Truprogressive85
(900 posts)Do you hate Muslims and immgrants ?
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Fuck yeah!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)He's too decent to make a compromise that egregious, and more important, he has called upon us to back his play - to write and call Representatives and Senators, to march and otherwise exert massive social pressure.
Because one thing is sure. The ONLY thing the oligarchs are afraid of is us when we get together.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Yep, your taxes is gonna go up and you go to the doctor and no copays no deductibles and no paying 500 a month for insurance (I have heard some pay far far far more than that even.) All for around 100 dollars a month in payroll taxes. I know that has to BERN!!!!