The absolute chutzpah of these fucking Pod Bros who were on track to lose us one senate race not even a month ago and were basically saved by the women Graham Platner abused.
One tweet pretending they had no idea it was coming and then right back to lecturing everyone with the next fuck up candidate, like nothing ever happened.
We’re going to lose a winnable senate seat in Maine because of Bernie Sanders.
We could have had a normal primary, but here we go. 2016 Dem primary part 763.
Hillary Clinton proposed universal healthcare in 1993. During her 2008 presidential campaign, she proposed the "American Health Choices Plan", which would have included a public plan option similar to Medicare. In her 2016 campaign, she wanted to expand the ACA by adding a public option.
"Centrist Democrats" don't need to do anything. The DSA and people like you need to accept responsibility for your ignorance. Touch grass.
People have been slow to realize this strategy, but in every race where they have a competitive primary, the Fight Agency Left has basically been flooding the zone with (very charitably) junk polls that all say whatever helps their campaign.
Mills #1 argument against platner was electability and then they magically put out a bunch of garbage polls that showed that #actually Platner was more electable. And then all the supporters / surrogates/paid influencers all tweeted about it in unison.
Pauline Hanson is one of the worst speakers in all of political history and she had not improved in decades. An absolute shit for brains moron getting by on racism
@lili_shtupp@Cincinnatus56 They looked down on him when he was VP, and he told them to eat shit when they wanted jobs in his administration. Rather than reflect on why he might have done that, they decided to just undermine him for four years and then blame him for SCOTUS, Russia and Palestine. 🙄
You know the truth? I don't really care that much. The fact that Platner is completely, manifestly, unquestionably unqualified to be a United States Senator bothers me almost as much as the tattoo does.
If we have to win this one senate race “at all costs” and nothing else matters, how come we didn’t need to win the 2024 election at all costs? Where was this mindset then when the stakes were a million times higher??
If your litmus test never included bodily autonomy, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and protection of DEI and the VRA, my litmus test doesn’t include protecting your favorite podcaster.
In 2012 i was diagnosed with a deadly blood disorder known as TTP. I was in the hospital for a month. A white nurse almost killed me because she thought i was drug seeking. I kept telling her my central line in my groin was hurting& she wouldn’t give me any morphine just Tylenol.
I went septic later on that night because of the central line. I went into SVT and had to go to cardiac ICU for a week. I was 18. My TTP flared up again in 2016 and i went to the ER. I told the (white) doctor that i had TTP and that i needed to be admitted. He had my records right in front of him. I was just there 4 years earlier, the same hospital diagnosed me.
He told me that i didn’t have TTP…i had ITP. He sent me home with steroids and pain meds. I cried and cried and sat at home all weekend until i could get to my hematologist. I called them and they had me come in immediately. Got labs drawn…my hemoglobin and platelets were VERY low. They did a direct admit: I had to get 14 bags of platelets and 3 bags of blood. My hematologist and his NP told me if i would’ve waited any longer i would’ve died.
More recently in 2022 i went to a freestanding ED because i thought i had the flu. I was in pain, my blood pressure was elevated, i had a fever. I told the black NP that i have TTP and asked them to do a cbc and ADAMTS13 level if they could. I got pain meds, waited for the (white) doc to come and see me. He told me ny labs were “fine” and that i just had a stomach virus. I didn’t believe that so i asked him what my platelet count was. He told me 30k (normal platelet count in non chemo patients are 150k-400k) i almost lost my shit on him.
He went back and further with me for 10 minutes about how i wasn’t having a TTP flare up and i told him to call the fucking hospital that I’m usually treated at and find me a bed. He begrudgingly did it. He came back not even 10 minutes later and said that the hospital i usually go to was full (it was around Christmas time) but after the on call hematologist at the level 1 trauma center downtown saw my blood work they wanted me to come in IMMEDIATELY. Hematologist told me if i would’ve waited any longer i would’ve been dead before Christmas.
Every time that I’ve almost died it was either at the hands of a white nurse or doctor. They don’t take our pain or complaints seriously! They think we are drug addicts. I literally became a nurse because of this. We need black doctors. That lawsuit is just a bunch of fucking racists who are mad. Fuck them.
@smonter42@drterrysimpson Are you suggesting that academic results are the best indicator that someone an effective communicator?
That they're kind? Patient? Ready to listen to a person's worries and fears? Comfort then through pain? Through grief?
Many very smart people make terrible doctors.