Hasan Piker admitted he wasn’t familiar with Vermont’s failed attempt at single-payer when Ezra Klein of the New York Times brought it up on Friday. That ignorance was blatantly apparent. Piker had just called single-payer “the only solution.” Klein asked what happened when Vermont tried it. Piker said he didn’t know the example.
Klein then explained how the plan collapsed once the real costs became visible. Employer contributions that had been hidden in private insurance turned into direct taxes. Vermont abandoned Green Mountain Care in 2014 after state analysis showed it would require an 11.5 percent payroll tax and income taxes as high as 9.5 percent. Governor Shumlin killed it, warning the tax increases risked economic shock.
That exchange matters. Piker pushes Medicare for All as the obvious fix while showing he hadn’t even looked at the closest U.S. attempt to do something similar. Whether he was genuinely unfamiliar or just unprepared, the result is the same: the details that sank the Vermont plan never entered Piker’s argument until someone else supplied them. He was left silenced because his narrative has already failed.
Single-payer keeps running into the same problem. The money doesn’t appear. It gets shifted from employers and insurers onto taxpayers in plain view, and voters notice. Vermont’s Democratic governor had the votes and still walked away once the numbers were clear. That isn’t a right-wing talking point. It’s what happened when a state actually tried it.
Piker makes his living telling people the socialist system will work this time despite never having before, not even recently. The Vermont example is public record. Not knowing it, or not addressing it until pressed, completely undercuts his pitch. His ideas stay popular in his audience. The record of implementing unsuccessfully does not.
Piker counts on his followers being unaware of the proof of why Medicare for All doesn’t work. They oblige and he keeps them in the dark.
Your so full of baloney congress had already approved billions to overhaul our long overdue upgrade to our air traffic control system which has been underway under sec Duffy direction since early in this administration. Something the fool do nothing Buttigieg never even considered
Why do u insist on twisting every situation to its worst possible view rather than support the continuation of important work?
Imagine having 53 Republican votes, a House that sent you the SAVE America Act again and again, a President practically begging you to move it, and when Bret Baier asks why it never happened your answer is "we accomplished a lot."
John Thune actually said that… and then he followed it with "this is the way the founders designed the Senate." No, John. The filibuster is not in the Constitution, it is a Senate rule that men like you hide behind when you do not want to own a vote. The founders designed a Senate that votes. You built one that waits.
Here is the reality. Voter ID and proof of citizenship are not radical ideas, they are the bare minimum, and most Americans in every party already agree with that. The President put it plainly, the Republican Senate "can no longer be the place where things are sent to die," and he said not passing the SAVE America Act, sent up five times by the House, was devastating to the party in the midterms. Five times. How many times does the House have to do its job before the Senate does theirs?
And yet here we are with about 50 days left before the gavels change hands on January 3rd, and the man in charge is on TV defending the rulebook instead of using it. Make no mistake, the incoming Democrats are not going to be this polite about the filibuster. They will kill it the first time it stands between them and something they want, and then we will get a sad speech about norms from the same people who never had the stomach to use the power you handed them.
I have spent years in this election fight and I will say it again… voter ID alone does not fix what is broken inside the machines and the rolls. But it is the floor, and these people could not even get the floor poured when they held every card. That was a choice, made by people who are comfortable in the minority because the minority never has to deliver anything.
So who exactly is Thune working for? Not the people who gave him that majority, and not the President who asked him to finish the job.
John, you still have the votes until January. Bring the SAVE America Act to the floor, carve the filibuster out for it, and make every senator go on record. Or step aside for someone who will.
Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT.
There’s no other word to explain people whom voted for Democrats this recent election : Ignorance!!
I extrapolate they were to lazy to look at the facts deeper than first level thought, much like the Germans whom followed Hitler. Man’s rhetoric rather than the teachings of Christ .
We must respond powerfully and with courage speak aloud
🚨 INSANE: 186 House Democrats voted AGAINST automatic deportation of criminal illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud.
What is wrong with these people??
Welcome to hell, Americans! Now the Muslim Brotherhood is offering you liberty—look at Europe! WE the people tried to warn you USEFUL IDIOTS to wake up, but you keep burying your heads in the sand.
American from Iran is standing in front of our fallen soldiers on Veterans Day warning us that Muslims are using Democrats to take over America
“America. Today is Veterans Day, and as an Iranian who came to this country for the freedom and ran away from Islam, ran away from IRGC, I stand by these people. These people, they put their life in danger and they lay down here for the freedom. For the freedom that the countries like Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, trying to take it away from the people of America. For voting Democrats to bring in Islam in this country.
— There's so many countries like Libya, Iraq, Morocco, Lebanon. They used to be Christian. When Islam takes over, they slowly turn to the Muslim country with the Sharia law.
— IRGC killed my own people, 60,000 people over 2 nights when they came out for freedom. And now these people, they care about the price of the egg and gas. The price is gas, the gas price is high because it's bothering them. But guess what? That's the price of the freedom.
That's the price of the freedom that you are giving it to for not having the terrorists in this country. The United States military taking the action on Iran because it's a danger to the whole world and United States citizens.
And I tell you, the bottom of my heart, as an Iranian who was brainwashed from the IRGC propaganda against America
I used to say death to America. Now I'm loving, loving the flag right there. Now it's my second home. It is my job to encourage the citizens to stand by America. Not Islam who wants to take over this country and turn it to the shit show. Wake up, America, wake up”
I can’t tell you how many videos I’ve seen of people from Iran and the Middle East begging Americans to wake up to the Democrat party because they see the Islamic takeover happening
What’s it going to take for liberals to finally understand they’re being played by radical Islam
By the time they wake up it’ll be too late. We need to identify all that are a threat and listen to this radical ideology and mass deport them from our country
Important post for anyone interested in the truth. People have been deceived, especially young people. Their strength is that they care about the welfare of others - but these people take your strengths & they use them against you.
I had tears in my eyes while watching . I am so pissed do the irrational idiots that don’t understand that inflation is the percentage of gain of goods and services in a month and the cumulative total on the Biden administration was 21.4%. That’s what Trump inherited. How do you reverse inflation? There’s only two ways: create a recession, which is deflation, or grow the economy. You dumb asses, grow the economy, bringing in good jobs from overseas by using tariffs will make this country strong again. People’s wages rose to the highest level. Not everybody, cause it has to trickle down based on economic growth, which was at 3.4 GDP. Poverty was reduced to the lowest number. Look at gasoline prices. Oh, they went down like he said. Trump was right again, but nobody wanted to report it because we have a real problem with morals and ethics and what’s right to do in this country and now we have elected a bunch of socialist Muslims into Congress , you can’t be that stupid. It’s done for power or control and the majority of the American people fell for it, like a bunch of dumbasses.
Imagine being the richest man in the world, where all you had to do was keep your mouth shut, play ball with the cartel, and let every media room and politician worship the ground you walk on… and instead you put everything you built on the line and step straight into the fire to save the American ideal.
Look at what they are doing to Elon Musk right now. You have left-wing professor Scott Galloway going on stage to applause, calling Elon a "traitor to the West," invoking the Rosenbergs being lined up against a wall, and doubling down on it today while incoming Democrats in Congress are already drawing up their subpoena lists to go after his companies and punish him for DOGE. Think about how upside down and rotted that is. Calling the man a traitor.
Let me put it to you like this. What has Elon actually done to earn the hatred of team evil? Two things. He built technology that makes the world better, landing rockets, connecting families in disaster zones from space, and building real things here in America, and he stood up for the people unwaveringly, with honor and humility, when nobody else with his reach had the spine to do it. He bought the town square so you could speak again when the government and Big Tech had a boot on your throat, and then he walked into Washington for free to show you where they were stealing your money.
Stop and think about what this man actually sacrificed for you. He didn't need the headaches, the death threats, the firebombed dealerships, the weaponized advertisers, or a target painted on his back and his family's back every single day. He could have stayed in the cool kids club forever and never lost a dime. I know a little something about what happens when the machine decides to destroy your life for telling the truth, and watching a man who had everything to lose step in front of the train anyway tells you everything you need to know about his heart.
Now here is the part nobody wants to talk about… we are making the exact same mistake with Elon that millions of people made with Trump, cheering from the couch and waiting around for one man to do all the heavy lifting while the wolves tear him apart. And spare me the BS about 25-degree chess. I do not want to hear another pied piper influencer tell you to sit back and trust some secret master plan while team evil sharpens the knives in broad daylight. There is no 25-degree chess when they are openly talking about walls and subpoenas. Elon deserves our defense and he deserves our loyalty, right now, in public, where it actually costs something.
Standing up for @elonmusk means you do not let a single person around you repeat the "traitor" lie without shoving the truth right back down their throat. It means calling every Republican in the House and Senate and telling them straight up that if they hide under their desks like paper tigers while Democrats run subpoena lawfare on Elon, their careers are finished. It means backing the people who build, starving the parasites who only destroy, and putting ten million loud Americans between him and the mob so they learn real fast that if you come for him, you deal with all of us.
Stop waiting for one man to save you while you watch him bleed for it. He stood in the gap for the American people when it cost him everything. Stand in the gap for him now.
Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT.
Love,
What all of you good people are thinking
I wish liberals would watch this. We all lost.
11 mayors, 98 in city council, 32 in the state house or representatives, 14 in state senate, 6 in the US House of Representatives.
Those are the number of Muslims “elected.”
This is how they take over.
You literally voted against yourself and everything you stand for. No gays. You want to be a victim and oppressed? Welcome to the handmaids tale.
Egypt was a Christian nation. Conquered.
Yemen was a Christian nation. Conquered.
Morocco was a Christian nation. Conquered.
Iraq was a Christian nation. Conquered.
For 1400 years, Islam has been conquering countries and the next big one is AMERICA.
You voted to be conquered.
History repeats itself over and over.