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Tab Berg retweeted
Public policy should be measured by results, not intentions alone.
The Problem Solvers Caucus believes laws should be reviewed, evaluated and refined as conditions change, so they achieve their purpose without unnecessary costs or unintended consequences. #caleg
Tab Berg retweeted
Absolutely huge loss for reasonableness. One of the best. Everyone knows it - even the Dems who will not admit it publicly.
I just called my opponent to congratulate her on her victory. While there are still many ballots left to count, our team no longer sees a viable path to closing the gap like we did when we flipped this seat in 2022.
I am fully committed to working closely with my successor to ensure our constituents are well served during this transition. I will continue to serve as the representative for the 7th District through November 30.
It has been the honor of a lifetime serving our community in the Assembly. I am incredibly proud of my team and what we have accomplished over the past 4 years.
We passed the Phone-Free Schools Act, critical legislation supporting charter schools and educational choice, and a landmark bipartisan bill protecting kids from the harms of social media. We held the Supermajority accountable by auditing California’s $24 billion dollars in homelessness spending. Finally, we fought to keep our community safe from dangerous policies that were allowing the early release of sexually violent predators into our neighborhoods.
Most importantly, we made constituent service a top priority by successfully resolving nearly 3000 cases, sending nearly 30,000 unique response letters, hosting dozens of community events and town halls, and recognizing countless individuals, small businesses and nonprofits.
I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know that Nicole and I look forward to remaining active participants in service to this amazing community that we call home.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
Tab Berg retweeted
Merab Dvalishvili is like a brother to me. Seeing that video of him getting attacked made me sick to my stomach. Those cowards must pay for what they did. A premeditated attack, with their phones already filming. A bunch of degenerates. The UFC banned Dillon Danis after HE got attacked, jumped by 20 guys when it was just him and his brother and they did nothing to them? I really hope the UFC bans Usman Nurmagomedov and his friends from ever stepping foot in inside the UFC. He tried to elbow Song Yadong after he jumped the cage… Just because he has the last name doesn’t make him above anyone else.
Tab Berg retweeted
Revenue At Homeless Nonprofits Doubled To $37 Billion In A Decade While Homelessness Rose 31%
ciceroinstitute.org/research…
Tab Berg retweeted
I hope you all understand this is a scandal...👇
Revenue At Homeless Nonprofits Doubled To $37 Billion In A Decade While Homelessness Rose 31%
ciceroinstitute.org/research…
Tab Berg retweeted
Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
Tab Berg retweeted
Okay.
We try not to use the word “hate” around my 5-yr-old, so I’ll say that I really really really don’t like this. And it’s very shitty.
You might think this is a funny troll job. You might think Cindy Hyde Smith was the worst senator in our history. You might think MAGA is cruel. Fine.
But many people in that office you walked into, whom you’re trying to “own”, are probably hard/dedicated workers making not that much money who come in every day and take calls from constituents in Mississippi. They listen to their problems and try to communicate solutions or act as a go-between for Mississippians and their elected Senator.
And all of them just lost their jobs.
So for clicks and likes you’re what…putting them on camera in an embarrassing way at probably one of the most difficult and vulnerable moments in their lives.
Cool. Hope you had fun.
And this is absolutely not a partisan post, I have no reason to defend Sen. Hyde Smith.
I was at USAID headquarters reporting the day DOGE announced their DC staff had to clear out their desks, and right wing trolls were there laughing, mocking dedicated public servants on their final day at work. It was disgusting, and I said as much as the time. To the trolls.
You can absolutely celebrate Scott Colom’s historic electoral win without sinking this low.
Tab Berg retweeted
I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this
Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:
“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”
He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”
They don’t want representatives, they want obedience
Tab Berg retweeted
Incredible stuff.
A Maryland mall closed down over 20 years ago and the lot has been sitting vacant since. A developer planned to invest $5 billion in a data center.
Instead, a China-tied group worked with a local activist to block the development.
freebeacon.com/china/grassro…
Tab Berg retweeted
The last time the California State Assembly will have had this few Republicans was 150 years ago.
Tab Berg retweeted
Objectively, what happened to Merab was criminal behavior.
If I walked up to someone on the street with a group of guys and attacked him, I'd be facing serious charges.
It's all on camera. This isn't one person's word against another's.
They walked up to him as a group, turned him around, slapped him, and then proceeded to beat up him and his friend.
Tab Berg retweeted
I started listening to it too. It was truly awful.
I am listening to, or was listening to until I couldn't take it any more, NRO's The editors post-election episode. You all sound like radical environmentalists who argue whether human beings are solely responsible for global warming. Then one guy (the obvious Vanceguard guy who hates the Iran war, you all know who I mean) argues for that position and the others (again with one possible exception, you all probably know who I mean) gives lip service to some but not all of the other causal factors, but still lose the forest for the trees.
Get away from your microphones and look up Mill's methods (a topic in logic). Learn it. Live it. Love it. Then reassess your entire approach to what actually happened.
If you need a hint about the right way to think about the election and, accordingly, what needs to be done going forward, go back and read David Bahnsen's piece in NRO on the same topic. You don't even have to look outside your own organization; you published it.
Good grief, NRO podcast people. Learn how to make a good intellectual argument.
Tab Berg retweeted
Mark, you started by saying we have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or to provide in this country. None. Then your conclusion is to propose that the people who cannot see the costs should be the ones to run it.
There is a reason nobody knows what anything costs, and you listed it yourself. Medicaid, Medicare, supplemental plans, Medicare Advantage, self insured employers under a tax code that hides the premium in the paycheck. Every layer you named is a government program or a government created structure, and in every one of them the person getting the care is not the person paying for it. That is where the price went. Prices exist where buyers pay. Remove the buyer and you get exactly the fog you are describing. Universal care removes every buyer who is left.
Then look at what you are asking for. Every private contract in the industry published by federal order. Every claim in the country handed to state and federal researchers. The DOJ turned loose on the pricing structure. Bipartisan legislation to work out what care we need to provide and what it should cost. That is not a market reform. That is the state seizing the information of an entire industry so it can set the terms of trade for every doctor, hospital, and patient in the country. You call the conglomerates Too Big To Care. The entity you want running it is the only one with a monopoly on force.
And the number. The post you are replying to has CBO at $3 trillion a year in new federal spending, 21.4 percent of payroll, with the author conceding it is illustrative and not scored. You respond that nobody knows the real cost and we should find out after we commit. No investor you have ever met would fund a company on those terms, and you have never funded one that way yourself. Only government gets to spend money first and discover the price later, because only government can send the bill to people who did not agree to it.
The information asymmetry you are describing is not a reason to negotiate blind. It is a reason to stop having a single buyer negotiating at all. Put the patient back in the transaction and prices appear on their own. Cost Plus is proof that you already know this.
Mises showed a century ago that a planner without prices cannot calculate, Hayek showed why the knowledge he needs is never in one place, and Rand showed why he has no right to try. You are proposing to prove all three wrong with a commission while you admit no one has any idea how much all of it will cost. Do you think they did not know what they were talking about, or do you just not want to find out?
We have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or costs to provide in this country. None.
States cover Medicaid at some level, but not all offer the same care. Nor do they all receive federal support in the same way.
Traditional Medicare requires supplemental and drug coverage. All of which differ by plan, and are offered by mostly huge conglomerates we should break up and are Too Big To Care
Medicare Advantage is all offered by those same Too Big To Care conglomerates. Every contract with a provider differs and while those contracts have pricing that is transparent, the fees and other charges are not.
67 pct of employees that get coverage from work get it from a self insured employer. I can tell you with absolute certainty that most get it from the same conglomerates as well. As a results they have zero idea how much they are paying for medical care or medications (even with recent legislation)
Every thing that is covered and paid for in this country has an actual cost, across the direct costs and indirect costs, that is hidden by the Too Big to Care conglomerates that should be broken up.
Market Dominant hospitals and most non profit hospitals are not innocent. They play along when they have to, use their own leverage when they can. Increasing the cost of care.
And the PBMs that are owned by the conglomerates have bastardized the cost of brand and specialty drugs in a way that should be investigated by the DOJ.
Put simply , HUGE dominant distributors are forced by PBMs to pay RETAIL Price for drugs that make them unaffordable to everyone.
If we want universal care, we can say the Feds will negotiate , but the information asymmetry is so insane, they will be negotiating blind.
The first thing a bi partisan legislation should do is require that all healthcare contracts be made public with no redactions other than personal information
AND
All claims be de-identified and available exclusively to state and federal researchers to determine what care and medications COULD cost.
Then we can start to extrapolate what care we need to provide and then determine what it costs and whether it will save or cost us money.
In parallel we can determine how we will deal with the technology and processes to handle implementation of some version of universal care
Tab Berg retweeted
"That day was the first time she had left her apartment since the pictures came out. 'And I’m scared.'"
She wasn't the one getting death threats. I was. Here's one, from one of her former employees (who somehow thought Erick Erickson was still with RedState).
My kids were being harassed at school and work. Randos were sending me addresses via DM they thought were mine, but were actually addresses of family members.
Not to mention the hundreds of tweets and DMs calling me whore, c**t, slut, sending wishes that violence would find me.
Katie Hill was 32 and one of the fastest-rising Democrats in Congress. Then nude photos of her were published without her consent. She resigned within weeks, and when she sued, a judge ordered her to pay about $220,000 to the people who had published them.
The photos came out of her marriage to Kenneth Heslep. The Daily Mail ran images of her smoking a bong and kissing a woman. RedState reported she and her husband had been in a relationship with a female campaign worker, and accused her of an affair with a male congressional staffer, which she denied.
In the video below, she gives her last speech on the House floor. “I’m leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching.”
She says she was told there were “hundreds more photos” that would be released “bit by bit until they broke me down to nothing.” That day was the first time she had left her apartment since the pictures came out. “And I’m scared.”
Then she turned to the White House. A man who “brags about his sexual predation,” she said, “sits in the highest office of the land.” Her last vote in Congress was to move forward with the impeachment of Donald Trump.
She sued the Daily Mail, RedState’s editor and a radio producer, and lost. The bill came to about $105,000 for the Daily Mail’s parent company, about $84,000 for RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar and about $30,000 for producer Joseph Messina. She announced she would file for bankruptcy.
Did Katie Hill lose her seat over a relationship she admitted, or over photos nobody should ever have seen?
Tab Berg retweeted
#BREAKING: Andy Barr wins Mitch McConnell’s open Senate seat in Kentucky
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
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#BREAKING: Byron Donalds wins Florida governor’s race
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
