@ghotiphaze Reimbursement to medical care gives will fall to such level, that PAs will be burger flippers in the doc's office to supplement their own and practice income. Buy are certain numbers of burgers and you bill will be somewhat discounted--just as your right to medical care is currently.

Meanwhile, across the aisle:
When Trump won the primary I was asked if I was worried. I said no because he was incompetent. His administration would be a revolving door of back biters and ass kissers...check.
I said the Secret Service would quit in droves since none in their right mind would take a bullet for him...OK, I don't know if they're quitting but when the football guy is taking selfies with Mar a Lago guests and the detail at Trump Towers is relegated to trailer trash, I tend to think that was a hit.
Now for the new:
Anyone else think it curious the skunk ape took nearly three weeks vacation just as a grand jury was impaneled against his family? Any bookies taking odds Prez Pennywise is going to "hike the Appalachian Trail" and wind up in a non extradition country?
Health don'tcare. So many folks lose insurance that insurance companies run massive layoffs, premiums skyrocket forcing more off insurance, all the PAs in doctors office (always at least two when I see the doc) will be forced to pay back $100,000 student loans flipping burgers, clientele at doc's office will diminish to about one a day, and what do you think the price of that personal service will be? And do to insurance premiums?

@edg you're in a class with Jeanne Dixon and Miss Cleo. My $4.95 for this minute is in the mail.

some of your predictions will be wrong. Which ones I'll reveal in 3 years.

@Mark from Queens I've always though Trump fell his way to the top through out his entire life and the presidency was yet another example. Every billionaire wanted their own candidate and split the ranks for the one guy who didn't necessarily need them to go through. I don't think Trump really wanted anything other than more publicity, but when he started winning, he couldn't back down.

And I know a lot of people here probably get tired of me talking about Pence, but his section never seemed like a coincidence. I've always felt he was there for a reason. Trump is a Trojan horse. Pence is who they really want, and they'll get him somehow if they can.

As for Her, well I don't share the faith that she's going softly into that goodnight. Anyone with eyes and ears could have told the Democrats she shouldn't have run last time, let along that the whole primary should be rigged to insure she wins, because she just didn't have a chance.

I know that outside the feeling for Her is even worse, but the Democrats are doubling down on everything and still refusing to admit she sucked as a candidate. Sure there's an odd dissent here or there, but there's never any serious discussion of purging the Clinton influence to follow. I hope I'm wrong, but I think there's too many in the party who think the Presidency is Her due and even as long as she can stay mostly upright behind a podium, will run the same garbage again.

I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be shocked if I'm not.

and still doesn't. Every week that passes and he's still there I'm amazed. He's done and is still trying to do everything possible - the most insane, ridiculous things - to say in essence, "send me away."

I think at any moment he'll bail, for the right price. Meaning, he's setting up Pence, provided he can extort of him the access to contacts and inside information he craves for his "business deals." He's totally transparent and never been about anything other than himself and his money. Ultimate conman piece of shit.

There's no way Hillary will be the nominee. The serious backlash is going to start soon against her, once this embarrassing epoch of Russian Red Herring Mania passes. Her hubris, entitlement and arrogance and the DNC cheating Bernie gave us Drumpf. Everybody in the country knows it, except for the brainwashed Neoliberal Loyalists and the MSM lapdogs who are too craven to go there. She'll be more loathsome, to an even wider swath of folks, 3 years from now.

I have no inclination about a Dem nominee in 2020. There's too much genuine backlash against the photo-op/public relations set of Harris, Booker, etc. For whatever kind of mainstream appeal and identity politics bullet points they may or may not have, they're all corporate tools/Wall St shills completely sold out with too much baggage. No amount of PR can sell another fraud candidate. Bernie's genuine authenticity came across in a big way in the primaries to the electorate, and is too sharp a contrast to the cheesy pretenders they'll throw up.

At this point I'd like to see a movement, or at least more talk between both Left and Right, to boycott the elections. Was hoping for that last time, when $hills was looking like the unopposed anointed one, until Bernie threw his hat in. Then I went in for him. He actually could become the nominee and win, with massive support across both parties.

If this past election cycle isn't a turning point in revealing the farce and charade of the duopoly in all its transparency, resulting in serious swaths of dissent and revolt, in whatever ways it may manifest, then we're really doomed.

There's a real malaise all over the country. No one wants to talk about politics or believe what is happening. Trust in our institutions is at all-time low. People feel there's nowhere to turn. If only that led to a people's movement - still could.

The best result of all this shit would be for people to turn off the MSM for news and talking to their neighbors and strangers. Then the framework of seeing the whole thing as the 99% vs. 1% becomes clearer.

@WoodsDweller @WoodsDweller

Trump's dementia becomes obvious

The word dementia requires loss of cognitive facilities. Drumpf has an advanced, hereditary case of amentia, congenital lack of cognitive skills.

On the other hand, McCanine's condition is properly classified as dementia, because his cognitive facilities, as warped as they have been, is now being ravaged by GBM (acronym lovers, look it up). I concur completely with Kaitlin Johnstone's total lack of McCanine empathy.

especially about the future.

Politics? Maybe one last time. TBH I'm expecting each election to be the last, that they won't even bother with the theater any more.

We're on track for an ice-free Arctic sometime in the next three years. It will depend on the weather. Once we see that, the rate of Arctic warming, already the fastest on Earth, will go into overdrive. The jet streams will fall apart and weather will become unrecognizable. Three to five years will see the beginning of the collapse of agriculture. It won't fail everywhere, all at once, but we won't be feeding seven billion people any more. Or five billion for that matter.

I would not be surprised if El Trumpo is the last American president, or maybe Pence. A permanent state of emergency won't allow for elections. Maybe we'll just have a good old fashioned military dictatorship by the Joint Chiefs.

EDIT: But back to politics. Trump's dementia becomes obvious and he is removed via 25th amendment, and all the investigations are for naught. Pence runs for reelection and wins against a Democratic field split between a corporate Democrat (80%) and a Democratic Socialist (20%). Democrats manage to struggle across the finish line in enough races to keep the Federal government in gridlock. Nobody willing or capable to deal with the overwhelming crises in store.