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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Just try serving me, or God forbid my French wife, that awful shit on my favorite holiday, and you're going to find out...

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“Meatless Mondays could soon be followed by Tofu Tuesdays, at least among more frugal shoppers,” reported CBS News.

For some fun, google "Meatless Monday." Revisionism is great, isn't it? Apparently it's now a "new" idea to promote the health of individuals "and the planet," and not a WW2 austerity measure.

Orwell was just off by a few years.

I just got a notification from my insurance carrier (Aetna)that they will no longer cover lab costs and it's now only added to my $5000 deductible, after they dropped prescription coverage, calling GoodRX one of their "may options" for prescription alternatives.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
They will not cover labs at all or it comes out of the deductible? It was unclear to me.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Federal Reserve Encourages Americans to Replace Thanksgiving Turkeys With Soybean Products
To combat soaring meat price inflation.

Would they mind if I go out back and murder one with an evil gun? Would that be OK?

That sucks Marzy. Aetna is horrible. I had them a couple times in the past with different companies I worked for...always fighting with them to allow claims. My company's current payroll provider is trying to get me to switch to them brokering the company's insurance through Aetna = dealbreaker.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I just got a notification from my insurance carrier (Aetna)that they will no longer cover lab costs and it's now only added to my $5000 deductible, after they dropped prescription coverage, calling GoodRX one of their "may options" for prescription alternatives.

The purposes of insurance companies is to make money, not provide insurance. When it stops becoming about making money to them, they become the USPS.

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Originally posted by jljones:
The purposes of insurance companies is to make money, not provide insurance. When it stops becoming about making money to them, they become the USPS.

First Guy to Sell Insurance

Interesting...

The Disturbing And Shocking Plan To Replace Kamala Harris
By Barry Shaw

Viewing America from outside the country adds a semi-neutral perspective on news and events. I’ve been told there’s value in hearing an outside viewpoint about people more intimately tied to the emotional maelstrom of unfolding events. Conversely, I find it helpful to receive information from people in the know, which adds to the volume and depth of my research. When it comes to Kamala Harris’s floundering, I’ve been hearing shocking gossip.

I received this gossip directly from a Washington insider, It will be difficult to confirm until it happens, if it happens. I hesitated before sharing it with you. I still have doubts over the wisdom of writing about it, but it points to cogs currently in motion behind closed doors.

On November 18, CNN published an article entitled “Exasperation and Dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris’s frustrating start as vice president.” The article speaks about “a rocky relationship with some parts of the White House.” It refers to “signs of disloyalty” from the vice president. This could have to do with Harris’s views on Biden’s almost daily faux pas or the fact that Harris has failed to do what is required of her, with the border crisis as one glaring example.

The suspicion of an impasse between the Biden and Harris camps came to the fore with gossip/information I received last week.

The bad blood between them stems from Jill Biden, wife of the President, who, I heard, hates Kamala Harris. It goes back to when Harris accused Biden of being a racist during the televised Democrat presidential debates.

That hurt for two reasons. Biden has a troubling past over race issues based on his incriminating comments throughout the years and his close friendships with Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. Given the racial climate of left-wing politics, Jill Biden knew this could have seriously damaged her husband’s chances of reaching the White House, a goal she was as determined to achieve as her husband.

Jill Biden also knew that Harris had intimately attached herself to the radical wing of the Democrat Party and that this could have swung the decision against her husband, particularly if her husband’s past became a major issue.

In the end, Harris was never a major contender. The establishment insiders worked to keep her low in the polls and, eventually, she dropped out of the race.

Even then, when names were being selected to be Biden’s running mate, establishment insiders favored Amy Klobuchar but were persuaded that picking Kamala Harris as potential VP had a more successful PR ring to it. With Biden as their president, they had to raise the ante to beat Trump and Pence. They surrendered their bias and chose Harris.

But now, as things have soured between the two camps, they are looking at Biden’s mental deterioration and lack of stamina and are running scared that Biden may soon have to resign as president, in which case Kamala Harris will walk into the Oval Office.

One of the things that scares them as much as it does the Republicans is that President Harris would promote a member of the Squad to become the next House leader, replacing a probably retiring Nancy Pelosi.

So, behind the scenes, the cabal is plotting a succession acceptable to them. It begins with the premise that Harris must go before Biden does.

Two names were mulled over. They see Pete Buttigieg as a malleable young figurehead, figurehead being the operative word. The movers and shakers wanted someone in the Oval Office, like Biden, who will do their bidding over policies and budgets. However, Buttigieg is too much of a lightweight. He just proved himself to be a failure as Transport Secretary. He spent over two months at home feeding the baby as hundreds of freighters and tankers were unable to offload their cargo because thousands of truck drivers went missing.

The other name that is a constant is Hillary Clinton. This is probably due to Hillary Clinton constantly pushing herself for the job. The problem with Hillary Clinton is that, although they consider she’d be a capable vice president, would she be able to beat Donald Trump in 2024 should The Donald decide to take his title back? The answer is no.

The answer is clear, the problem is solved, according to my source, by selecting Michelle Obama. Money, the machinery of power, the media will be behind her.

The reason she could not be persuaded to run for President in 2020 was that she was afraid of being defeated. That problem is solved if she is eased into power in stages. First, she will be called upon to fill the vice-presidential vacancy a departing Kamala Harris would leave. And then, probably before the 2022 mid-term elections, Biden will be asked to step down gracefully by those pulling the strings, and by Jill Biden as well, to allow Michelle Obama to become the caretaker president leading up to 2024.

This will, they hope, swing the polling in their favor for the Primaries.

Race and gender will be an even louder drumbeat leading up to 2024 with Michelle Obama in the White House. By 2024, the propaganda will be so loud that it will be considered treasonous for the people to vote against a Black, female president in 2024.

Democrats will ensure that race will remain the front and center issue in American society. This is the scenario that is being plotted behind closed doors in Washington DC.

https://www.americanthinker.co...e_kamala_harris.html

Well that's all fine and dandy, but he never really addresses how you get (,)La out?

We would all love to know who really is holding Biden's leash. After all, it's the organ grinder that chooses the music, not the monkey.

Yes, what possible mechanism exists to remove Harris against her will?
I suppose she could be harassed to the point that she would resign, but that seems to be the only possible way short of wild conspiracy stuff.

“ selecting Michelle Obama”

What I’d like to know is how is anyone able to arbitrarily pick a civilian that never ran for office and was NEVER the choice of any American voter? How are these traitors allowed to install someone without even a semblance of a voting process?

^^^^ They can't. The Constitution clearly defines the succession lineup and anything short of that is Conspiracy Theory conjecture.

Many on the Left and even the middle would be ecstatic if M.O. were chosen as a replacement V.P., and certainly wouldn’t care in the slightest that she was no more qualified for the office than her husband had been for the presidency. What qualifications for the office did Harris have? Running for office hardly makes one qualified. I could run for President and might even garner as much support as she did during her campaign. They would, of course, have to get rid of Harris first, but that’s what the speculation article above assumes would happen by some means.

Big difference between "Yeah, we don’t like Harris so she’s fired and someone else is in," and "Now that Harris resigned, how do we replace her?" The first is not possible, but the second is—regardless of how unlikely.

Too many moving parts, IMHO.

- Harris would never willingly accept the humiliation of being moved aside.

- To assume that Biden (or any Dem who thinks they can act through Biden) would quietly allow a replacement President to be installed is...wildly optimistic at best.

- Bringing Moochelle in is not only moderately likely at best, but would be a DNC-wide confession that Biden and Harris suck.

- There's only so much time to pull this all off.

- Congressional Dems (and Biden) seem to be on the same page in thinking that their odds will never be better to pull off major legislative changes before 2024 and seem to have fully committed themselves to rolling the dice on major legislative changes before 2024. Steady pressure from the squatter in the White House might make that work; trying to change horses in midstream is extremely unlikely to make that work.

Incidentally, how many people who think this theory about shuffling people around also thought that Biden would be shunted aside for Harris sooner rather than later? Harris' troubles now seem to make it clear that those peoples' crystal balls are a little cloudy.

OK since the 25th amendment was ratified in 1967, both houses of congress have to vote to approve a new VP.

Even if they can pay ",la" enough to willingly step aside....

One theory I have heard, thought not a constitutional scholar by any means, without a VP to break the 50-50 tie in the Senate, stalemate, i.e. no new VP until the next presidential election, unless some cockbag rino voted with the socialists....

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Many on the Left and even the middle would be ecstatic if M.O. were chosen as a replacement V.P., and certainly wouldn’t care in the slightest that she was no more qualified for the office than her husband had been for the presidency. What qualifications for the office did Harris have? Running for office hardly makes one qualified. I could run for President and might even garner as much support as she did during her campaign. They would, of course, have to get rid of Harris first, but that’s what the speculation article above assumes would happen by some means.

Big difference between "Yeah, we don’t like Harris so she’s fired and someone else is in," and "Now that Harris resigned, how do we replace her?" The first is not possible, but the second is—regardless of how unlikely.

Enough with this stuff, guys.

Move on, please. This endless speculation drives me crazy. It always ends up the same way- with ridiculous scenarios being posted in this forum. Cut it out.

Move on

Joe’s Secretary of Transportation, so proud of his accomplishment.
Ships as far as the eye can see and only one oil pipeline torn open by an anchor.
Oil spill clean-up crew was able to get real world experience.

Idiot.

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Biden Appears To Have A Ron Burgundy Moment By Reciting ‘End Of Quote’ Straight Off Teleprompter

President Joe Biden appeared to have a Ron Burgundy moment Tuesday after reciting “end of quote” off the teleprompter during his address on gas prices.

Biden announced that the administration met with major retailers, including Walmart and TJ Maxx, in order to solve the supply chain crisis by moving products in and stocking the shelves more quickly. During this segment of the address, Biden can be heard reading “end of quote,” apparently off the teleprompter.

“You may have heard the CEO of Walmart [Doug McMillon] yesterday on the steps we’ve taken, he said and I quote ‘the combination of private enterprise and government working together has been really successful.’ He went on to say ‘All the way through the supply chain there’s a lot of innovation because of the actions we’ve taken things have begun to change…’ end of quote.”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/1...ompter-ron-burgundy/



https://youtu.be/cktk6jaOEzQ?t=2313