Medicare for All
I add: ears. Also, "Drug Price Negotiation" and "Rural Support" and "Innovation". Price negotiation ought to include subsidizing the production of some kinds of drugs.
Proposing "Ensure legal protections for the queer community." and "Protect the transgender community." and "More medical support and research."
I like that she addressed the issue of mid- to late-term restrictions on abortion.
noting Kat Abughazaleh: "I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress." — Bluesky
Wrong. The Biden administration pushed hard for B3 (aka the $3.5T Spendapalooza) even though it was really Bernie agenda originally.
Did she really? I don't think so. She pushed spending programs even more profligate than Biden's.
I do not recall the Knucklehead being kept out of sight, and certainly not because he called Republicans "weird". On the contrary, it was that quip that got him the nod. Before that, he was not even on the short list.
On the contrary, they saved us from the even higher inflation that B3 would have caused.
The Dems took the wrong lesson from Trump's 2016 victory and swerved hard to the left. That overreach paved the way for Trump regaining power in 2024.
She also did not even live in Illinois until last July and she is still not living in the 9th district. Instead, she is living in the 7th district, which is also represented by an octogenarian, but it is a mostly black district, and so less favorable to her.
Why doesn't she have health insurance? With Obamacare subsidies, anybody making any reasonable income can afford premiums for something like a silver plan. What's her excuse? Does Tik-Tok influencing really pay so poorly she can't even afford subsidized premiums?Kat Abu said:
[Citation needed] that P((net worth ≥ $1,000,000)∧(birth year < 1969)) ≈ 0.5.
I am not sure electing an air-headed Tik-Tok influencer will make Congress more in touch.
I thought the fire marshal was a middle school principal. Don't they have health insurance?
I am all for new blood, but Dems need to do better than air-headed carpet bagging Tik-Tok influencers who can't figure out how to operate healthcare.gov.
Trump is bad on climate, no doubt. But we will need oil (and gas) for a few more decades.Kat Abu said:
GND is a bad proposal. It had a lot of stuff that is only tangentially, or not at all, related to climate policy. It is more of a Trojan horse to smuggle in a host of left-wing policies like federal job guarantees or the climate paramilitaries that she mentions here.
Then why does the GND FAQ talk about eliminating things like cattle farming and air travel?
GND FAQ said:
In other words, utopia (which means "no place"). And how to fund the at least $60T price tag? Modern Monetary Theory, aka Magic Money Tree. GND is not a serious policy. Note that it has been more than half a decade since the initial resolution, and the likes of AOC and Markey still have not written up any detailed proposals about how to implement the whole thing practically.
It's easy to be generous with other people's money. In practice, child-free people making $40k or $50k end up subsidizing expanded child tax credits for parents making six figures (eligibility is up to $400k for those filing jointly). In what universe is that fair?
Of course if you give people more money they will have less poverty. But money does not grow on trees. Somebody must pay for it, and much of it is paid for by child-free people with modest incomes, while people with children making up to $400k get subsidized.
Again, somebody has to pay for this. It's not free money. Parents already get more than enough subsidies.
She is exaggerating quite a bit here.
Does JS want to retire? If KA seems like a strong enough candidate, JS might well do so. That's what Nita Lowey did back in 2020. She was 83 at the time, having served for 32 years.
Nita Lowey She died last January.Not that stupid old canard!
Seung-Hui Cho. He killed 32 and wounded 17 with a couple of handguns. On the other hand, a lot of these are sensible. Banning an entire class of rifles is not.
Then it's not technically "single payer". It's more like ACA with a public option. Single payer would be a system like in Canada.
Medicare is not a single payer system either.
Any system will have things that are covered and things that are not. And Medicare has networks and private supplemental insurance as well.
I agree with here here.
While pharm companies need to be able to develop new drugs (very expensive) and also turn a profit, these costs should be more evenly shared. If we negotiate prices (as we should) Canadians will have to pay more (as they should). Right now, US patients are subsidizing Canadians and others.
Her announcement video is in the style of her numerous other TikTok videos.
So she does not have much choice in where to live.
She has narcolepsy, and she worked for Media Matters until Elon Musk sued MM. As a result, she got laid off, and she has done some pieces for Mother Jones and Zeteo, and she won't even have that income while she campaigns.
KA is not alone. Run For Something - its executive director Amanda Litman says that signups since Election Day are 27,000, close to the total number over 2017 and 2018.
Thank you for advocating for a handgun ban. I totally agree.
Not advocating that at all. Instead of mindlessly banning guns for everyone, we need stricter rules on who is allowed to buy and possess firearms.
Not very apparent. He let Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema stymie B3.
I do. She said that she would govern just like Joe Biden, even about Israel's siege of Gaza, she used Bidenite campaign managers, and she kept Tim Walz out of sight after he called some Republican politicians "weird". She also showed up with Liz Cheney and talked about having a gun. It's almost as if she was trying to get Republican votes.
Between fake Republicans and real Republicans, voters will choose the real thing. It's like Gavin Newsom appearing in a podcast with Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk - neither side liked him.
With "moderation" left undefined. I'd like to see actual policies polled on.
As opposed to a reality-show host?
Not much of one, since she won't need very big carpetbags to visit her district.
Have you watched any of her videos?
That's common among right-wingers: acting as if everybody has an upper-middle-class income or an upper-class one.
That was a leaked draft version.
It's no worse than self-protectors subsidizing the protection of people who are too lazy to protect themselves.
That's what they want for everybody to believe about them, that they are perpetually on the edge of bankruptcy because of all the drugs that they develop.
