This is an actual tweet from conservatives last fall.
Party like it's 1928! ??? pic.twitter.com/Bg2BQssm3k
— Young Conservatives (@YoungCons) November 17, 2016
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astrayPost + Comments (132)
Archives for December 2017
Aetna, CVS and data thoughts
CVS has agreed to buy Aetna for a lot of money. This raises a lot of questions including, what is the value proposition?
Aetna already uses CVS as its PBM, so would a merger yield much more effiencies? Maybe, but not obvious. https://t.co/cLmMRugBJC
— (((Martin Gaynor))) (@MartinSGaynor) December 3, 2017
There is the obvious value proposition that CVS has 10,000 physical locations on the same information platform. I am spitballing and harkening back to my days as an insurance data geek and there are three inter-related items that could generate an incredible amount of revenue for the Aetna/insurance side of the deal. This is a risk adjustment data gold mine.
Birds of a Feather
And there you have it:
Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama. We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2017
Good morning, juicers.
Monday Morning Open Thread: Remember Joy?
What happens when your dog experiences snow for the first time ever pic.twitter.com/qYwe1Q4RdO
— Jo Ellery (@elleryface) November 30, 2017
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What’s on the agenda as we start the new week?
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I wish the NYT & other news media would stop calling Social Security & Medicare "entitlements." Millions of Americans worked for decades & paid in for decades to receive Social Security & Medicare. It would be better to call them "social insurance" or "old age insurance" programs https://t.co/ChnQq3qJ7h
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) December 3, 2017
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Late Night Fustercluck Open Thread: Billy Bush Goes to Canossa
… and he didn’t even have to kneel in the snow for three days. Color me not impressed!
This, from Billy Bush, on Trump & Bush's own personal reckoning, is remarkable: https://t.co/pkAOt9SiAh
— Robert Draper (@DraperRobert) December 4, 2017
NYT, two days from now: “Close friends of Trump have heard him suggest in recent days that Billy Bush might not be a real person…” https://t.co/YyctQpZxQr
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 4, 2017
3) This is the same doomed-faustian bargain that many politicians have made since 2015 and making now, in enabling Trump as he violates every personal & patriotic standard they claim to believe in.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) December 4, 2017
6) BBush is now forthright about how calculating he was, and the damage he thereby both caused and endured.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) December 4, 2017
And let’s not forget he’s a Bush. Nephew of GHWBush and cousin of W.
— Steve Spaulding (@SteveESpaulding) December 4, 2017
In fact, Billy’s relationship to the Bush Crime Family is the only real point of interest, as far as I can tell. For all the vast social ineptness of various politically-oriented Bushes, they have demonstrated a keen sense of what the zeitgeist requires, whether that involves banking gold for the Nazi Party or volunteering to shoot down Japanese warplanes. If Billy thinks it’s time to make a public show of renoucing Donny and all his works, it’s a strong indicator that the Permanent Republican Party (such as it is, in these fallen days) still thinks it can shake off the Trump/”populist” (racist) stink with the aid of a few well-placed sacrifices. Since the Bushes have been intimately involved with the CIA since it was the OSS, one can but assume they have some knowledge of what’s been going on behind the Putin curtain…
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Russiagate Open Thread: Cheap Japes Edition
What did #MikeFlynn get his Family for
Christmas? ??
He went to Jared’s #FridayFeeling #Resistance pic.twitter.com/1oDlP3QjXf
— Luna Lovegood ???? (@LunaLuvgood2017) December 2, 2017
Y'know, it's easy to gloat, but I think it's kind of beautiful General Flynn is flipping because he knows his son @mflynnJR is too weak for prison. That's the heartwarming lesson I take out of this.
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) December 1, 2017
President Trump asked FBI Director Comey to go easy on Flynn.
Months later, Flynn got a great deal.
President Trump must be pleased!
— Adam White (@adamjwhitedc) December 1, 2017
'Something was desperately wrong with this guy': US Army general who served with Flynn weighs in on his downfall https://t.co/TNRVHtYTiR via @MilDefInsider
— Crispin Burke (@CrispinBurke) December 3, 2017
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Must-See TV
Possibly while peeking through your fingers, as with any great horror movie…
Mueller’s eventual interview with President Trump will be a spectacle, should be broadcast live!
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) December 3, 2017
(Drudge pulled his tweet, but not in time)
100% sure you could convince him to do it.
100% sure it would be spectacular. https://t.co/4JwWO4p2Dj
— Josh Grubbs (@JoshuaGrubbsPhD) December 3, 2017
Make it Pay-Per-View, and suddenly the US goverment would never have money problems again.
— Alex Edwards (@ohgodscrewthis) December 3, 2017
Trump erupted at Manafort for suggesting he not go on Sunday shows: "I’ll go on TV anytime I goddam f-cking want" https://t.co/zv3SQFAzgF pic.twitter.com/Qwsrm6uEkr
— The Hill (@thehill) December 3, 2017
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Apart from spitballing the optics, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?
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