The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[dxmnkd316]

I was bartending even where someone who works for Emmer (a 20 something female) was talking to a couple other local GOPers and they seemed upset about that...and also seemed shocked that the GOP can't seem to make much headway. She seemed nice but they all sounded so completely out of touch. (this was a Boat Show private party deal so by nature it was rich white dbags)

Because their brains look like swiss cheese. They're all amygdala and no frontal cortex. They literally can't logic their way into knowledge. It has to violently attack them and make them afraid. It's the only way their stupid lizard brains learn.

It's the same reaon they have two jokes, they always punch down, and it's always based in fear.

[dxmnkd316]

The second point is why this Sanford-Fairview merger is potentially troubling. Sanford doesn’t have a great history with it.

Even withtout the potential merger, I hate everything about what M Health / Fairview is. Everything. I am firmly, firmly against public universities having for-profit enterprises.

[SJHovey]

Even withtout the potential merger, I hate everything about what M Health / Fairview is. Everything. I am firmly, firmly against public universities having for-profit enterprises.

I don't know, the University of Minnesota makes a boatload of money out of it's start ups and monetizing its research.

[aparch]

But then we have the meat. Just loading up on sodium and preservatives. Though this is likely due to the ever popular “guy on welfare buying Wagyu and lobster” stories.

As someone who grew up on food aid in Michigan, this is an appalling list and action by the Iowa GOP.

No fresh meat? So, no ground beef for sloppy joes? For hamburgers? For meat in spaghetti?

No sliced cheese? So cheese for a sandwich can't be pre-sliced?

For a state that whines about it's farmers, this bill seems to be a direct shot against them.

[dxmnkd316]

I don't know, the University of Minnesota makes a boatload of money out of it's start ups and monetizing its research.

I see your point, but I don't think that's what Fairview-M Health is. You think they're doing research in the clinic down the street? Do you think they're using any Fairview-M Health research in a way that's different from any other clinic?

[dxmnkd316]

As someone who grew up on food aid in Michigan, this is an appalling list and action by the Iowa GOP.

No fresh meat? So, no ground beef for sloppy joes? For hamburgers? For meat in spaghetti?

No sliced cheese? So cheese for a sandwich can't be pre-sliced?

For a state that whines about it's farmers, this bill seems to be a direct shot against them.

This right here is what struck me the most. How does banning fresh meat help the state of Iowa? Hello?!? Pork ring a bell to anyone or is there too much corn in your ears?

DUmb-as-ses

[unofan]

As someone who grew up on food aid in Michigan, this is an appalling list and action by the Iowa GOP.

No fresh meat? So, no ground beef for sloppy joes? For hamburgers? For meat in spaghetti?

No sliced cheese? So cheese for a sandwich can't be pre-sliced?

For a state that whines about it's farmers, this bill seems to be a direct shot against them.

Fwiw, every single lobbyist other than the local arm of heritage and some libertarian think tank from Maine are either registered against it or undeclared, including some major GOP donors.

Also, to do it would require a waiver from the Feds, which is doubtful under the current administration.

[SJHovey]

I see your point, but I don't think that's what Fairview-M Health is. You think they're doing research in the clinic down the street? Do you think they're using any Fairview-M Health research in a way that's different from any other clinic?

I can't speak to what research Fairview might be doing. I was simply commenting on your disapproval of public universities having any for-profit enterprises. I think there are some merits to having a for-profit part, for certain things.

[Kepler]

I can't speak to what research Fairview might be doing. I was simply commenting on your disapproval of public universities having any for-profit enterprises. I think there are some merits to having a for-profit part, for certain things.

Well, the profitability is not in itself a merit because it comes with strings. The research contracts that universities take on implicate them in a lot of shady sh-t. But they are cocaine to the bursar and the provost.

[Swansong]

It isn't against farmers. It's a direct shot at the "I saw a guy buying t bones with welfare" garbage. Remember, cruelty is the purpose, and if you look at it through that lens then it makes complete sense.

[St. Clown]

I don't know, the University of Minnesota makes a boatload of money out of it's start ups and monetizing its research.

They’re for-profit Johnny Appleseeds.

https://mnhardy.umn.edu/apples/varieties

[St. Clown]

I see your point, but I don't think that's what Fairview-M Health is. You think they're doing research in the clinic down the street? Do you think they're using any Fairview-M Health research in a way that's different from any other clinic?

I thought all hospitals and insurance plans sold to Minnesotans within MN had to be non-profit. If that’s the case, then either any “excess revenue” is then symphonies off to fund other U projects or, like the iffy non-profits such as BCBS of MN, higher wages to the execs.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I thought all hospitals and insurance plans sold to Minnesotans within MN had to be non-profit. If that’s the case, then either any “excess revenue” is then symphonies off to fund other U projects or, like the iffy non-profits such as BCBS of MN, higher wages to the execs.

That law changed a few years ago

Ask me how I know haha

[St. Clown]

Ah, that must be why my company switched to UHC a few years ago.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Ah, that must be why my company switched to UHC a few years ago.

My deepest apologies