POS Joe Walsh

[ZiprHead]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

I had a similar experience with my grandmother, where, when in the hospital I was thinking, every person should have at least this level of health care. She was covered, thanks to decades old pension stuff that doesn't exist for my generation now. But someone shouldn't be prevented from living if it is reasonably possible that the person can live. The hospitals are there, the doctors are there, the only thing we are lacking as a nation is the modicum of empathy to enforce a system that stops paying for medical care as needed / out of pocket, but rather, pays to support the medical system itself upfront with the taxes we pay.

Joe Walsh can burn to death in a fiery single car accident. What an asshole! I'm just glad it wasn't that Normal Guy Joe Walsh.

 

[jonatha]

Joe Walsh can burn to death in a fiery single car accident. What an asshole!

More appropriate would be to die a lingering death from cancer that is not covered by his insurance, and not required to be treated for free by the hospitals.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Joe Walsh can burn to death in a fiery single car accident. What an asshole!

More appropriate would be to die a lingering death from cancer that is not covered by his insurance, and not required to be treated for free by the hospitals.

No...
No, I like the fiery car accident. Single car, trapped inside, gas from his tank seeping slowly towards an open flame, he screams for a rescue.
And the bystanders say: “Sorry Joe: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to put any effort into prying your car door open.”

 

[marc]

Not just him. On Crooks and Liars they show many comments on the FOX News story of Kimmel's monologue. So much lack of sympathy, and this is the 'pro-life' party.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

More appropriate would be to die a lingering death from cancer that is not covered by his insurance, and not required to be treated for free by the hospitals.

No...
No, I like the fiery car accident. Single car, trapped inside, gas from his tank seeping slowly towards an open flame, he screams for a rescue.
And the bystanders say: “Sorry Joe: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to put any effort into prying your car door open.”

"Don't worry Joe, the Free Market is working on a solution!"

 

[laughing dog]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

What do you expect from a person who would not pay his child support?

 

[ZiprHead]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

What do you expect from a person who would not pay his child support?

He's not obligated to pay for someone else's support.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So much lack of sympathy, and this is the 'pro-life' party.

When I was a believer, there was a point where I was absolutely convinced that the secret to salvation was not to accept it. That the entire point of HELL was that no true Christain could enjoy Heaven if they knew anyone was facing infinite punishment for finite sins. So the loving thing to do would be to offer to take someone's place.

Man, the other Christains stood in line to tell me how wrong I was.
They all seemed to boil down to 'I got mine,' if they're in Heaven, they trust God's judgment. Never considered how they'd feel if THEY went to Hell....


But more and more, it seems that conservatives just look for ways to justify being selfish. They SAY love your neighbor and loyalty to community and such, but in the end they 'got theirs' and screw everyone else.

 

[marc]

So much lack of sympathy, and this is the 'pro-life' party.

But more and more, it seems that conservatives just look for ways to justify being selfish. They SAY love your neighbor and loyalty to community and such, but in the end they 'got theirs' and screw everyone else.

One thing that stands out to me is those that say Faith is needed, not acts, but they still want everyone else to act according to how their faith dictates.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

But more and more, it seems that conservatives just look for ways to justify being selfish. They SAY love your neighbor and loyalty to community and such, but in the end they 'got theirs' and screw everyone else.

One thing that stands out to me is those that say Faith is needed, not acts, but they still want everyone else to act according to how their faith dictates.

The whole "faith only" thing, I believe stems from dealing with the weighted life test, and possibly going to hell over a minimal overage of infractions over a period of a life. So saying one needs to be "reborn" is just trying to hand wave away such a test and believing that one could go to hell because they pulled out in front of a truck one too many times.

Certainly, these people, as you say, want to dictate not only how people act, but encode their religion into law to force people to act as such. In North Carolina, they passed a law preventing municipalities from passing laws to allow certain amenities against discrimination. How fucked up is that?!

 

[Ford]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

That story hit home for me on several levels. First is the obvious...simple human empathy which Walsh seems to lack. Then the fact that Jimmy has roots here in AZ. I know people who worked with him in his radio days and have talked to his sister. He's by all accounts a decent guy.

He mentioned a children's hospital and the NICU, and I know a thing or two about children's hospitals (having done fundraising for Phoenix Children's and St. Jude in Memphis). These places are not just hospitals that take care of sick kids. They are at the cutting edge of medicine in many respects because they need to be. In fact St. Jude is not "St. Jude Children's Hospital" but "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital."

An enormous amount of their resources go to developing ground-breaking treatments for cancer and other more rare ailments which they then share with other children's hospitals across the country. When St. Jude started, a diagnosis of leukemia (for example) was pretty much a death sentence for your kid. Now it is still scary, but the chance of survival is very, very good. That treatment was paid for by other people across the span of decades. If this douche nozzle's kids or grand kids get some life threatening illness, their chances or survival have already been increased by other people's money.

Fuck that guy.

 

[RavenSky]

Joe Walsh can burn to death in a fiery single car accident. What an asshole!

More appropriate would be to die a lingering death from cancer that is not covered by his insurance, and not required to be treated for free by the hospitals.

^^^ That

I rarely wish horrible things onto people, but this mother-fucker deserves it.

And yes, Kimmel's story hit me hard, too. Especially when it was on the heels of this conservative asshole:

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, who during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday claimed that “people who lead good lives” don’t have to worry about dealing with pre-existing conditions — like a stroke, or heart problems or birth defects.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/ala...-good-lives-dont-have-preexisting-conditions/

 

[RavenSky]

More appropriate would be to die a lingering death from cancer that is not covered by his insurance, and not required to be treated for free by the hospitals.

^^^ That

I rarely wish horrible things onto people, but this mother-fucker deserves it.

And yes, Kimmel's story hit me hard, too. Especially when it was on the heels of this conservative asshole:

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, who during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday claimed that “people who lead good lives” don’t have to worry about dealing with pre-existing conditions — like a stroke, or heart problems or birth defects.

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/ala...-good-lives-dont-have-preexisting-conditions/

I truly hope that these attitudes are highlighted over and over and over during the re-election campaigns of every single piece-of-shit asshole who is trying to repeal ACA. Even the Trumpster-bumpkins aren't going to like hearing that they are not "good people" who deserve to die because they have heart disease or whatever.

(and yes, I accidentally replied to myself instead of editing my post. That's how pissed off I am by Joe-the-asshole-Walsh and all the rest of the sociopathic conservatives)

 

[Lion IRC]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

The Good Samaritan paid for someone else's medical care.

 

[RavenSky]

http://people.com/babies/jimmy-kimmel-joe-walsh-heart-surgery/

Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son being born with a heart defect and about getting health care with a pre-existing condition.

Joe Walsh had this to say.:
“Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.”

The Good Samaritan paid for someone else's medical care.

For once I agree with you.

I tweeted a bunch of bible verses at the hypocritical asshole earlier today

 

[braces_for_impact]

So much lack of sympathy, and this is the 'pro-life' party.

When I was a believer, there was a point where I was absolutely convinced that the secret to salvation was not to accept it. That the entire point of HELL was that no true Christain could enjoy Heaven if they knew anyone was facing infinite punishment for finite sins. So the loving thing to do would be to offer to take someone's place.

Man, the other Christains stood in line to tell me how wrong I was.
They all seemed to boil down to 'I got mine,' if they're in Heaven, they trust God's judgment. Never considered how they'd feel if THEY went to Hell....


But more and more, it seems that conservatives just look for ways to justify being selfish. They SAY love your neighbor and loyalty to community and such, but in the end they 'got theirs' and screw everyone else.

I think the Christian group is beginning to self select. They're hemorrhaging members. By many accounts the Internet has a lot to do with this of course, but according to many polls, so does the religious rights involvement in politics and against homosexuals. The right says it gets tired of being lectured by coastal elites. I think the rest of the country is tired of being lectured by hypocrites using an outdated and hateful theology - and trying to legislate everyone else to follow their bigoted preferences. So as more and more Christians leave the flock, those that remain are the cream of the crop for hatred and prejudice.

 

[BH]

This Joe Walsh guy is the type who would throw a fit his money was taken in taxes and spent on saving a little baby's life with a heart problem but would probably want the law enforced to a "t" requiring people to stop and render aid if he was in a car wreck. If it is wrong to make him pay a cent or two in tax with other people in the county or state or whatever to save a child's life then it is wrong to make people have to stop and at the very least call 911 when they see a car wreck. I think the golden rule, parables about turning the other cheek, forgiving, and showing mercy are good as general principles but someone like him has to get hurt to make him change. I am not saying do anything illegal but sometimes you run into folks who will not learn by loving means. He might change his tune if he was out in the front yard having a heart attack and someone walking by who knew what he told Kimmel told him to go fuck himself he wasn't getting any help because he begrudged the baby help. If he survives maybe he'll learn to shut up and have some mercy if he wants others to show it to him in the future and he'll learn to shut his butt and not talk out of it. Sometimes you just have to be a bigger asshole to teach an asshole not to be an asshole.

 

[barbos]

So if Kimmel was poor and had no insurance they would have let newborn to die?
I am just asking about mechanics of the system. I understand that expensive operation is the only option to prevent death.

 

[bilby]

Not just him. On Crooks and Liars they show many comments on the FOX News story of Kimmel's monologue. So much lack of sympathy, and this is the 'pro-life' party.

They are only pro-life for people who haven't been born yet. Once you have been born, fuck you.