2024 U.S. Presidential election

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A friend posted on Facebook that when Kamala wins she will be the 1st President in our history with experience in all 3 branches of government: judicial (Attorney General of California), legislative (Senator), and executive (Vice President).

Darned unqualified woman.
The AG is part of the executive, not the judicial branch.
 
The AG is part of the executive, not the judicial branch.
In addition, I think Harry S. Truman was the first and only President to be in all three branches. He was a judge in Missouri before becoming a Senator, then VP, and finally President.
 
Not hardly. I’m complaining about the ridiculous billing process and gaming between the provider and the insurance company. I pay insurance premiums so it wasn’t a benevolent fairy that funded the rest of the bill. I also think $1300 seems a bit high for a nurse practitioner to observe a sweaty intern putting 4 stitches in my finger.
Youre right. It’s definitely a wink wink game between providers and insurance companies. For the most part. Providers bill a large amount knowing they’re going to get less reimbursement from the insurance company and being fine with that. Sometimes however the doctors really get screwed when the rate the “experts” at the insurance company deem is appropriate grossly undervalues the service and everything that goes into it.

As to your intern example: sweat is extra.
 
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Obviously lots of debate about that nature of China's economy but key sectors (natural resource extraction, heavy industry, infrastructure development) are dominated by state-owned enterprises, and there is still central planning in the form of five-year plans. China has definitely adopted many capitalist features of the last 50 years or so, but whether it has "mostly" abandoned socialism is hardly a settled question (and one with different answers depending on how you define socialism, capitalism ,etc.).

Also, after the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a fire sale privatizing previously publicly owned assets, the infamous shock therapy of the 1990s, which among other things led to a 10-year reduction in life expectancy for Russian men. Not sure that's the example you want to use.

Incidentally, in Norway the state controls about a third of the value of all publicly traded companies and state-owned enterprises dominate energy and other key sectors, and they have by many measures among the lowest income inequality and highest standards of living in the world.
Norway has a population of 5.6 million (roughly equivalent to Minnesota or Colorado) with minimal ethnic or religious diversity, and a highly concentrated economy to boot. Not really comparable to the US at all.

In the larger, more diversified European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy, etc.), the "welfare state" results have been decidedly more mixed.
 
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I’m sure no bad actors will buy a $100,000 watch for the purpose of gaining influence. Bribes? What are those?
 
I’m sure no bad actors will buy a $100,000 watch for the purpose of gaining influence. Bribes? What are those?
This is for low-level rubes. $100,000 isn't gonna get you any favors from Trump. Remember, the supreme court gave him immunity for almost anything he does in office, it's been specifically pointed out that he can now accept money for pardons. Bribes will barely need to be concealed, if at all.
 
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In addition, I think Harry S. Truman was the first and only President to be in all three branches. He was a judge in Missouri before becoming a Senator, then VP, and finally President.
Fun fact!
Did you know that Harry S. Truman actually had no middle name? His parents gave him the middle initial S to honor and please his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. Since the S did not stand for a name, Harry didn’t use a period after it for most of his life. Soon after he was elected president, the editors of the Chicago Style Manual informed Truman that omitting a period after his middle initial was improper grammar and a bad example for America’s youth. From that moment on, the 33rd President signed his name Harry S. Truman or put all the letters in his name together as in Harrys Truman.

 
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I’m a bit of a watch collector and I can tell you that this is a piece of junk. There are a ton of flaws but the first is that it has a gripped bezel but it likely doesn't spin. There are no markings to use it as a counter, so a rotating bezel would be useless anyway. It's really dumb. Is there some value in the scarcity? I guess, but there is a reason that a Rolex or a Patek demands such a high price and isn’t just marketing. The best watch brands in the world make an incredible product that is also a piece of art. This Trump watch is a grift from the master grifter.

Here is a good review.

 
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