@NateForUtah This is Nate.
Nate wraps himself in the Pride Flag to try and hide himself from his extensive antisemitic and anti-Mormon past.
Don’t be like Nate.
Proud to have the endorsement of the Utah Stonewall Democrats. The first Pride was a riot, and they know I don’t back down from a fight. I’ve spent years pushing for LGBTQ+ rights in the Utah Legislature, standing up when it wasn’t popular, and taking on the people who wanted to use queer Utahns as a political punching bag. That’s why they’re with me, and I’m proud to carry that fight to Congress.
Oh for crying in the sink. I am sick to tears that every time I’m able to string a few thoughts together, the best “insult?!” people can come up with is that I must be using AI.
I’ll admit that I Googled Vizzini’s “classic blunder” quote from the Princess Bride so I could make the sly reference accurately. But the rest was all rage typing.
Why don’t you just get back to ripping apart the Utah Democratic Party from within? I never tire of watching the Democrats’ circular firing squads.
Last night, I hosted a meet and greet at Fisher Brewing to speak directly with constituents about the need for growth and accountability. We need leaders who won't hide from the people we represent. Whether you're a supporter, on the fence, or otherwise, I want to hear from you. I'll see you at state convention on April 25th at Jordan High School.
That fictional person?
If Nate were smart, he would have said, “This is fake.”
If he had keen political instincts, he would have said, “If true, this is abhorrent.”
If he were diplomatic, he would have said nothing.
He’s none of these things. He went the puerile route. He fell victim to one of the classic blunders for a politician in Utah—disqualifying himself and making him unfit for office. It’s not just the one post dude. Do I need to start pasting every antisemitic and anti-Mormon thing he’s said?
The fact that you are so incessantly defending him is just staggering.
You must really, really dislike Ben McAdams to feel comfortable defending such a demonstrable bigot. And you have the gall to call me an idiot.
Only actual morons of an anti-Mormon persuasion would have believed the bumper sticker was real. So he’s an idiot for falling for it.
And to suggest that the proper response FOR A POLITICIAN IN UTAH is to think, “I’ve got a brilliant idea. Let’s call Mormons morons,” in ANY context is unfathomably dense. Black hole dense.
BUT, put in the real context of Nate’s long history of anti-Mormon and antisemitic rhetoric shows that he hasn’t changed. He hasn’t “evolved” or “matured” as he claimed.
And you are among his very rapidly diminishing support base. Even a majority of Democratic Party leaders have said he should set aside his campaign—if not resign his seat. So the fact that you’re defending him so hard suggests that you think just like he does.
@andrewjolson@NateForUtah So the problem is that he fell for a fake bumper sticker? And that he was saying that person was a moron and wasn’t representative of Mormons? Are you seriously this dense?
@Kylypso@NateForUtah Very funny that you excluded the actual context that the bumper sticker image is fake and was intended to smear Latter-day Saints. So @NateForUtah made an anti-Mormon attack on an anti-Mormon attack. Grow up more.
Oh, wow! Would you look at the ACTUAL context. The bumper sticker is a completely fictional digital creation intended to smear Latter-day Saints. So @NateForUtah is so eager to believe any anti-Mormon lie that he called NON-EXISTENT Mormons “morons.”
Read the proposed Community Notes, or at least the comments, before spouting off. Or run the photo through your favorite AI to see if it’s real. Guess what? It’s FAKE.
Only an actual moron would think it’s real. Oops.
@andrewjolson@NateForUtah Oh wow would you look at that, when you actually look at the context of that post he was calling blatantly racist mormons morons, not attacking the church or its membership in general.
The correct answer is “none of them.” Because the riddle never said “integer,” “whole number,” “positive integer,” or “evenly divisible with no remainder,” it just says “number,” therefore:
1) Every number greater than 5 and less than 15 is divisible by 3.
2) Every number across infinity is divisible by 3.
3) Every number across infinity is divisible by every other number across infinity, except for by zero.
4) Every integer across infinity is divisible by itself and 1.
5) Accordingly, among all of the numbers across infinity, there are exactly ZERO numbers that are “divisible by ONLY 3.”
@10jmcda@NotTheirScript Incidentally, his family believed that the long delay was due to his age (72). I’m glad to know that your treatment was prompt.
Canada told this man’s wife to kill herself with MAID because they had “no treatment” for her stage 4 ovarian cancer.
They lied about HIPEC surgery. Lost her chemo requisition. Her oncologist never even met her in person. ERs sent her home with opioids while her lungs filled with fluid.
So they evacuated her by ferry from Vancouver Island to Seattle.
America got her into the system immediately. Started chemo. Gave her the surgery Canada said wouldn’t work.
Every time she went back to Canada, she nearly died again, going septic in Canadian hospitals until her husband literally unplugged her from machines and evacuated her back to the US.
They finally got him a green card in under three months with the help of a Congresswoman. Now they’re in Texas.
His wife is heading into her THIRD remission. She squatted 175 lbs for five reps last week.
Canada’s answer was death. America’s answer was treatment.
That’s the difference. 🇺🇸
@10jmcda@NotTheirScript With regret, that is absolutely not a lie. Not even in the slightest. Canada ranks last or near last in most timeliness-of-care indicators among high-income universal healthcare systems. Do a Google search of that claim if you don’t believe me.
@bobbyhutch74@NotTheirScript I don’t recall whether they requested proof. They may have. If so, I would have provided my U.S. passport or drivers license. I was expecting something north of $100. I would have gladly paid it. I was stunned by the $50 charge.
@andrewjolson@NotTheirScript Well well well, so this is how we get service around here. Did they ask for proof that you weren't a resident? If this works I'll be using this in the future
Because I can string my thoughts together in a cogent and coherent way, the best refutation you can come up with is “AI” and “blatantly retarded?” You are an unserious person. Do better. You failed to see my criticisms of the U.S. system or praise for the Canadian one. But please, find fault with any of my claims. Or even pick one at random. Do a simple Google search. You will find that everything I stated is verified. You cannot refute one thing. And having done a cursory review of your posts and replies, it’s clear that you’re either a troll or an ideologue. Either way, you literally have nothing to add to any topic of even slight importance—except venom, intense bitterness, malice, and toxic hostility. You are everything you allege others to be.
Having spent the majority of my life in the U.S. with the exception of 5 years in Montréal (and 2 years in Japan), I’ve had the opportunity to study and experience both systems and offer contrasts.
The Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems differ fundamentally in structure, financing, and incentives, which complicates direct “apples-to-apples” comparisons of quality and effectiveness.
Canada operates a single-payer, tax-funded (“free” is an utter misnomer) universal system with no direct patient billing for medically necessary hospital and physician services—though gaps exist for drugs, dental, vision, etc.
Meantime, the U.S. relies on a mixed private-public model with employer-sponsored insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and a large uninsured or underinsured population, leading to higher administrative complexity and market-driven capacity.
These differences affect what each system optimizes for: Canada emphasizes equity and broad coverage at lower overall cost; the U.S. emphasizes innovation, rapid access, and advanced technology.
Meaningful comparisons are nearly impossible as they require adjusting for confounding factors like demographics, lifestyle, reporting differences, and socioeconomic determinants of health. Also, no single metric captures “overall quality” of healthcare anywhere in the world, enabling each nation to tout their own strengths and minimize weakness.
Even life expectancy alone fails to offer meaningful comparisons as it does not account for the relative homogeneity of the two nations. The United States is significantly more racially and ethnically diverse than Canada on most standard demographic measures, and this is only one factor of many that can impact life expectancy.
These factors make anecdotes important as they empower people to contemplate which type of system they would rather live under.
Interestingly, polls consistently show 38–42% of Canadians say they would go to the U.S. and pay out-of-pocket for routine or emergency care if needed. And many do so for faster access, advanced options, or treatments not yet funded or available in Canada. This is the fact-pattern that is illustrated so well by the above video.
The converse is not true. No data exists showing that those in the U.S. would rush to Canada for care. Why would they? Indeed, they don’t.
I’m confident that if you or a family member had a need analogous to the family in the video, you’d seriously consider making the journey as well.
The southern flight is not limited to patients, of course, as meaningful numbers of physicians are also attracted to the opportunities the U.S. provides. This has resulted in Canada having to implement a range of inducements to retain physicians—going so far as introducing “Return of Service” agreements which require physicians to remain for a period of practice tied to training and funding. U.S.
@ElonDerFuhrer@NotTheirScript I’m blinded by the eloquence and the well-grounded reasoning of your arguments. If I recall correctly, the appropriate response would be something along the lines of, “I know you are, but what am I?” But I’ll admit that I’m somewhat rusty in debating at this level.
@NotTheirScript@andrewjolson Too bad America has such a shitty education system as well, or you stupid useless pieces of shit would be able to rub two facts together.
You are wrong on the law. Under U.S. law, a hate crime is a criminal offense (such as assault, arson, or vandalism) motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias (thoughts) against a victim's actual or perceived race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. These acts are often prosecuted with harsher penalties because they target characteristics protected by federal civil rights laws. Therefore, a hate crime is the bias of the perpetrator towards the actual victim—not because it’s done “with the goal of inspiring fear/terror in an entire population.”
@VigilantFox Bill Maher is so stupid. Hate crimes are typically performed with the goal of inspiring fear/terror in an entire population of people which is why they are punished differently than ordinary crimes. It has nothing to do with thought policing, it has to do with intent.
Actor Seth Green thought Bill Maher would love to hear how Trump inspired him to read 1984.
What happened next was something he didn’t expect.
Instead of trashing Trump, Maher flipped the script and gave Green a blunt observation about “liberal dogma” that he had “never thought about in that way.”
It all started when Green brought up “thought crime.”
GREEN: “When was the last time you read 1984? I read it in 2016 when Trump was running… But the main thing was getting down to thought crime… where you thinking something is an arrestable offense.”
MAHER: “But that’s a hate crime.”
GREEN: “Well, this is it, right? We’re edging that territory.”
MAHER: “We’re not edging. It’s been decades since we said we believe in this country that there is such a thing as a hate crime. Now, that’s basic liberal dogma. I consider myself a liberal, but I never agreed with that. A hate crime is a thought crime. It’s a thought crime, and I don’t think we should go down that slope. A crime is a crime. If you kill somebody, you should be punished for it. The law should not be involved in what is in your mind.”
GREEN: “I hadn’t really thought about it that way, but that’s a fair point.”
@John98226017553@UKHokie93@BonillaJL@PaulBegala@ScottJenningsKY@grok “Your” is a possessive adjective used to indicate that a noun belongs to or is associated with the person being addressed, (e.g. “Is this your car?”). You meant to use “you’re” which is the common contraction for the phrase “you are,” as in, “You are an idiot.”
WATCH: @PaulBegala tried to suggest the money spent by DoW on steak and lobster was proof evident of corruption, and that these premium foods were NOT, in fact, consumed by forward-deployed troops. @ScottJenningsKY is rightly astounded.
PAUL BEGALA: (Pete Hegseth is) a beautiful little snowflake. No, he's gorgeous. And we all just love him. And I'm so proud that he's so pretty. That's not important. You know what's important? He has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steaks, 6.9 million for lobster tail…
SCOTT JENNINGS: Oh, you’re not serious. Come on.
BEGALA: $225 million for- for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on Earth spent in their defense.
JENNINGS: Oh, do you believe…
BEGALA: All for himself. Lobster tails?
JENNINGS: Do you believe…
BEGALA: While our troops are eating MREs?
JENNINGS: No, no, no, no, no.
BEGALA: Lobster tails?
JENNINGS: Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster? It’s for the troops!
BEGALA: Wait- he can’t eat 16- oh, what? Oh, really? The troops are getting lobster!
JENNINGS: Frequently, in theater.
BEGALA: Oh, my God.
JENNINGS: Troops who are going to war getting a great meal. You know that!
BEGALA: Oh my God. They aren’t getting lobster. You are so full of it!
KAITLAN COLLINS: I will say…
JENNINGS: You are gonna get killed over this. You are gonna get killed over this.
BEGALA: You are so full of it!
JENNINGS: Internet, do your thing!
This man owns this house, it’s been vacant for a few months but he’s in the process of renovating it. He got a call from a contractor that was scheduled to work on the home that he couldn’t access the driveway and that there were a few cars parked there.
The man was confused because he hasn’t had any tenants there for a while and goes over there to see what’s going on. When he arrives he sees the cars parked there and finds out it’s the next door neighbors cars. At first the woman was ok and agreed to move them but when he demanded she moved them now, her dad and husband start getting involved and threatening him. They even threaten to call the cops on him because he doesn’t want them parking in his vacant driveway.
I feel it’s his house, if he gave them permission, that’s one thing but they took it upon themselves to do it anyways. Was she right to park there since nobody lived there?
Paramount Pictures holds the copyright and ownership rights to the 2008 film Tropic Thunder. While directed, written by, and starring Ben Stiller, the distribution and intellectual property rights belong to the studio. The film was produced by Red Hour Productions and distributed by Paramount.
Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.