@InezFeltscher @FischerKing64 Thank you. I’ve argued this for years but we’ve lost track of what insurance was originally intended.
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Auburn grad '78 War Eagle. Yankee fan since '60. Retired/FL snowbird - classic/alternative rock - conservative in thought and deeds.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Catastrophic insurance is actually what “insurance” is supposed to mean. Routine costs (doc visits, occasional urgent care, prescriptions, the sort of stuff that people predictably use) were paid in cash - and were cheaper because of it. INSURANCE was supposed to be for unpredictable costs, like getting cancer or hit by a bus. And catastrophic insurance was fantastic for that purpose without breaking the bank. “Insurance” for predictable, routine costs that most people incur is just called “paying overhead on top of expenses,” which is why most people carry accident insurance but not maintenance insurance on their cars.
It wasn’t consumers who were stupid.
Launch! - Blue Haired Liberal@DBZYuYuYasha
@InezFeltscher Catastrophic insurance basically isn't insurance. That's why it was effectively banned. Most consumers don't understand how it would work and therefore it's not fit to sell.
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@JudicialWatch @TomFitton It shouldn’t take a non government organization to lead this effort but such is not the case. Great work, Tom.
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Judicial Watch has cleaned nearly 6 MILLION dirty names from the voter rolls to ensure the rule of law in our elections, and now we’re at the Supreme Court to affirm that federal law forbids counting ballots received after Election Day. @TomFitton
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How much? 😲 That's more than I could spend on dinner in a decade.... wow😲
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer
JD Vance is raising money tonight at Joe Lonsdale's place in Austin, per invitation.
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@JesseKellyDC Leaving for what? Mass immigration? Higher taxes? Gender choice? What is that independents represent?
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Every single poll shows the exact same numbers. GOP voters are holding strong for Trump. Independent voters have left him in droves.
Guess which voter decides elections.
Don’t do the “polls are all lying!” thing people do when the numbers don’t look good.
Seve.Was.A.Wanker@TweeterB239
@JesseKellyDC You believe those numbers?
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@ianbremmer Mueller knew from the get go there was nothing there but played along anyway. The response may be inappropriate but somewhat understandable.
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trump often says what he really thinks. and you’d rather he didn’t.
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@ggreenwald Funny - until this week he was a leading voice warning us of the threat. But let’s forget that part.
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Would Fox News even allow their viewers to hear directly from Joe Kent as he explains that Iran posed no imminent threat to the US and how it was a war for Israel?
Arthur Bloom@j_arthur_bloom
Mark won't put him on television because he doesn't want Trump to see how much opposition there is to the war from Trump's base, he's a coward
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@TheLastRefuge2 She’s a former dem who saw and exposed the corruption of the previous administration. An unforgivable sin for those left holding the bag.
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All of this correct, and she did so much more.
The biggest move was to take the National Intelligence Council out of the CIA and put it into the ODNI office.
The NIC is the group who forms all of those so-called national security threat assessments. The NIC write all of the intelligence assessments from the broad spectrum of all intel agencies.
The NIC was the small group chokepoint to structure false intel that would frame policy.
The NIC is where Eric Ciaramella and many more operated, including the latest NSA intercept that was turned into a fake whistleblower intel report.
Barbara M Boyd@BarbaraMBoyd
WHY IS THE DEEP STATE AND ITS MEDIA ARM GOING AFTER TULSI GABBARD? A thread. 1/ The attacks started the moment she was confirmed as DNI. The NYT, WaPo, Guardian — coordinated barrages. But look at the *pattern* and ask who benefits. 2/ WAVE ONE — THE IRAN TRAP (March 2025): Tulsi testified that the IC assessed Iran was NOT building a nuclear weapon. That is literally her job — she read the community's assessment. It was NOT her personal opinion. But the press plastered it everywhere to wedge her from Trump. 3/ WAVE TWO — THE WHISTLEBLOWER SMEAR (Feb 2026): The Guardian and NYT ran coordinated stories claiming Tulsi 'hid' a complaint for 8 months. Tulsi fired back: the IG found the complaint NOT CREDIBLE. Sen. Tom Cotton: 'just another smear campaign.' She followed the law. Every. Single. Time. 4/ WAVE THREE — JOE KENT (March 2026): Tulsi appointed Kent to lead NCTC. This same man spent YEARS warning Iran was a major threat. Then he abruptly quits, does a Tucker Carlson tour, and NOW says Iran is no threat and Trump was 'dragged into war by Israel.' An about-face so complete it's almost choreographed. The press immediately tied the Kent chaos back to TULSI — not to Kent. 5/ WHY TULSI? Because while all this noise was being made, she was quietly doing THIS: ✅ Declassified JFK, RFK & MLK files ✅ Released proof Obama's team MANUFACTURED the Russia hoax ICA ✅ Declassified Biden-era docs labeling political dissidents as 'domestic extremists' ✅ Cut ODNI bloat by 40%, saving $700M/year ✅ Revoked clearances of Clapper, Brennan-linked figures ✅ Investigating Crossfire Hurricane, COVID origins, election security 6/ THE DNI HAS UNIQUE DECLASSIFICATION POWER. No other cabinet official can do what she's doing. She is the only person in government with the authority and the will to expose the institutional criminality of the intelligence community — and they know it. 7/ Joe Kent didn't embarrass himself. He was deployed as a heat-seeking missile aimed at Tulsi — to give the media a 'Gabbard chaos' narrative, create distance between her and Trump, and pressure her resignation before she finishes the job. 8/ The London press, the NYT, the WaPo — none of them are covering what she's actually DONE. They're covering the noise designed to stop her. Tulsi Gabbard is directly over the target. That's why every gun is pointing at her.
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@jsolomonReports Picking all winners in the March Madness bracket has better odds.
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California co-leads states suing EPA over greenhouse gases justthenews.com/nation/states/…
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$4+ average gas price coming to the united states imminently.
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@PatriciaHeaton Hard to come to grips with what’s going on up north. It’s move to the left is on steroids
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Here is a truly Kafka-esque story from Canada - this professor deserves support for standing in truth throughout this ordeal.
Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱@elderofziyon
Paul Finlayson, a well-liked, non-Jewish professor at a small Canadian university, was suspended, silenced, and ultimately lost his career after expressing support for Israel in a online exchange with a Pakistani fan of Hamas soon after October 7. He writes that the university removed him without clear charges, barred him from communicating with students or colleagues, and allowed false rumors to spread that he had committed violent acts and was arrested —all entirely fabricated. Another faculty member who had publicly expressed support for Hamas seems to have been instrumental in this nightmare. The university and union all turned against him without giving him even the chance to defend himself. The result was not just discipline, but reputational destruction. A longtime lecturer was isolated, silenced, defamed, and slandered. Finlayson may not be Jewish but this is a horrific story of extreme antisemitism where even expressing a pro-Israel opinion can be career-ending. See his full account here:. And get angry. freedomtoffend.com/p/the-small-un…
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@libsoftiktok How ironic. The very thing she’s against would solve the concern she has.
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Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) claims that President Trump STOLE the election.
I was told denying election results is a threat to our democracy…
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@RealJamesWoods Both sides want this bill defeated. Their little cat and mouse games keep the coffers filled and grifters employed. Eliminating either of the parties essentially destroys the other. A game we all pay for.
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I believe if only American citizens voted in America, the Democrat Party would cease to exist.
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@FmrRepMTG So anyone who crosses the president is blessed? Quite the gallery you’re collecting.
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Joe Kent is a GREAT AMERICAN HERO.
God bless him and protect him!
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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@coachbrucepearl @CBSSports @TNTSportsUS One win against a team they should have beaten would probably make all this rational unnecessary. Never leave it the hands of others.
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These thoughts are compelling, not complaining! @CBSSports @TNTSportsUS
JBR@JBRBracketology
Closing thought on why I had Auburn in the field: -6 of 7 Auburn metrics were <= 44 (#44 was the last at-large team selected) -Auburn is the first team to ever miss the field (NET era, since 2018-19 season) with every metric <= 46 as of Selection Sunday -Excluding teams that won 3+ conference tournament games, Auburn is the 1st Power Conference school to ever miss the field with both a NET and resume avg < 45.0 -Auburn is the first team to ever miss the field with a resume average < 50.0 and a true road win at a 1 seed -Auburn had three notable elite wins over SEC regular season champ Florida (A), SEC Tournament Champ Arkansas (H), and Big East double champ St. John's (N) -Auburn alone had six wins vs the at-large field. SMU, NC State and Miami OH combined had seven wins vs the at-large field -Auburn played an extremely difficult schedule, #4 overall/ #15 Non Conference SOS, and the metrics account for this Obviously, I could have gone with consensus and had Auburn out. But consensus also had West Virginia in last year... The Committee tends to throw us at least one curveball at the bubble. I took a shot, I was wrong. I can live with that.
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@MattWalshBlog Not sure how this ends but it feels like cannibalism. A questionable strategy in an election year.
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The conservative commentariat now spends most of its time talking to itself about itself. It is increasingly divorced from the issues that impact actual Americans. It can’t even pretend to care anymore. I’m disgusted by the whole thing at this point. All I can say is that on my show we do researched deep dives every single day into the actual issues, including the stuff that the news cycle ignores. We will continue to do that. I’m not getting sucked into this black hole of bullshit. I didn’t sign up to star in a soap opera. No interest.
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@ITGuy1959 @mirandadevine It’s become a grifting game of staying in power, for both sides. There’s no desire for one side to win over the other or the more dreaded compromise. Either option kills the vitriol that garner headlines and campaign $. We’ve been played.
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More confirmation of what we all knew was happening with the Mueller debacle.👇
It’s worth remembering that when Mueller was appointed, Republican members of Congress joined the Dems in heaping praise on Mueller as a bastion of integrity who would run a strictly impartial investigation.
And later they did the same bipartisan singing of high praise with Saint Fauci, who was possibly one the most evil figures in all of human history.
As a collective body, they are absurdly gullible, just plain dumb, or just plain hate their voters. It has to be at least one of these things.
Miranda Devine@mirandadevine
Scoop up! Mueller probe whistleblower alleges sick "Get Trump" atmosphere, overt political bias, false information used to spy on Trump campaign, "overzealous" prosecutors, demeaning anti-Trump cartoons on the walls, and drinking in the office. nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-…
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@NYPostOpinion Unfortunately it will take a major catastrophe for most to acknowledge this truth.
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