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Washington, DC
Joined September 2020
The first meeting of the YVF Board of Directors is complete! 🙌🏾🥳
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Funny how nobody says police officers, firefighters, or soldiers are being forced into “free labor” because we fund those services publicly. But the second you suggest everyone should be able to see a doctor, suddenly they’re libertarians.
Replying to @iElijahManley
Oh, WONDERFUL. A congressional CANDIDATE has discovered that "Medicare for All" fits perfectly on a campaign flyer — and absolutely nowhere else. Let me walk through this slowly. For the folks who apparently let their economics class expire like an unused gym membership. Healthcare is a SERVICE. Not a right. A TRUE right costs other people NOTHING. Your right to free speech only requires that everyone leave you alone. Zero dollars. Zero labor extracted from a single person. But healthcare? Healthcare requires doctors, nurses, researchers, lab technicians, pharmacists — human beings who spent DECADES training to provide it. Calling it a "human right" does not conjure any of those people out of thin air, nor does it convince them to work without compensation. Words are not magical incantations, no matter how many yard signs you print them on. Here is the part that short-circuits this argument entirely: the only way to GUARANTEE provision of a service is to FORCE someone to provide it. That is not a right. That is a claim on another person's labor. There is an older word for that arrangement, and it is not flattering. Now — stay with me here, because this next part is DELICIOUS — the left spent the last few years CHEERING for Luigi Mangione, the young man who allegedly murdered a health insurance CEO because he was SO outraged at insurance companies profiteering off sick Americans. T-shirts sold out. Trending on social media. Practically a national holiday for some people. And now you want to hand those SAME companies a LEGALLY MANDATED captive customer base of 330 MILLION Americans, funded entirely by tax dollars, with no ability to opt out? You jobbernowl — that is not "taking on" big insurance. That is handing them the biggest monopoly contract in human history and billing ME for the delivery. Here is an idea: why are you pushing Medicare for All instead of MASSIVELY EXPANDING Health Savings Accounts? HSAs put every medical decision in the PATIENT'S hands — not a bureaucrat's, not a congressman's. Oh. Right. That gives power to individuals instead of the government. Carry on. Quick math, since we apparently need it: Medicare for All has been estimated between $32 TRILLION and $43.9 TRILLION over ten years. For reference — the ACA, the LAST time we were told government was going to fix healthcare — drove insurance costs 38% ABOVE their pre-ACA trend line. Thirty-eight percent. UP. After we were promised it would come DOWN. If someone did that to your bank account, you would call the police. So the government-expanded healthcare experiment ran. Costs went up. Access did not improve proportionally. The solution is now... DRAMATICALLY MORE government healthcare? What did you do, donate your brain to science before you were finished with it? Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. Quinn's Law #9: To a liberal, INTENTIONS matter far more than OUTCOMES. The intention sounds compassionate. The outcome is a $43.9 trillion waiting list, staffed by doctors who did not attend medical school for twelve years to be told by a federal algorithm what they will earn. On January 10, 1963, Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr. read Communist Goal #30 into the Congressional Record: discrediting free enterprise and promoting the view that government central planning is superior to a free market. I am not calling you a communist. I am asking you to look at the checklist and tell me where your platform diverges from it. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can do the math on a $43 trillion price tag without needing it printed on a bumper sticker first. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — if healthcare is truly a "human right," tell me exactly WHO is legally obligated to provide it, and what happens to that person when they refuse. Tell me. JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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🚨 Endorsement Alert — I’m proud to have the support of Oakland Park Mayor Tim Lonergan and Oakland Park Commissoner Letitia Newbold, two public servants who represent the very best of local leadership. Under their leadership, Oakland Park has become a thriving, beautiful city on the move. I’m excited to partner with Mayor Lonergan and Commissioner Newbold to bring Oakland Park residents’ voices, concerns, and issues to Congress.
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I joined thousands of our neighbors on Fort Lauderdale Beach for the No Kings protest today. I asked many what brought them out, and here’s what people had to say.
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A shoutout to @DolphinDems, one of our dynamic democratic organizations here in Broward County— actually, the largest! Great to join you all tonight.
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“Ten year old who witnessed shooting” shouldn’t ever be a sentence in the United States, but it’s our reality. This breaks my heart 💔 This baby shouldn’t have to experience any of this. Ten year olds shouldn’t have to be heros.
Ten year old student who witnessed shooting: "I heard [shots] again. I just ran under the pew and then I covered my head. My friend Victor saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit... He's really brave, and I hope he's good in the hospital."
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🚨 You can’t fight corruption with corruption. In District 20, it starts with holding our own acceptable. It’s time to clean house.
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I’m the son of a blue-collar working class family that climbed out of homelessness to pursue our American Dream. Now, I’m running for Congress in FL-20 to restore the American Dream and uplift your voices and stories in the halls of power. elijahmanley.com/
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In South Florida, we know people who make big promises. But when the time comes to fight for us, they are nowhere to be found.   Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick promised change. But instead, we got more of the same. I’m running for Congress because FL-20 deserves better.
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I spoke to state senator elect @Barbarasharief today about the fentanyl crisis affecting young people and rural communities. She expressed her interest in sponsoring a bill to mandate that bars and establishments in Florida possess Narcan and fentanyl test strips. I’m excited!
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The state of Missouri has murdered an innocent man. May justice rest in peace.
The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams
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Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two extremists. Oh wait, they both want to steal your money and give it to their corporate overlords.
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Make @BrowardTransit 24/7 with rapid buses (every 10-15 mins)?
96%Yes
4%No
27 votes • Final results
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This is extremely dangerous rhetoric that will endanger the entire human species. We already know from FACTS AND SCIENCE that hurricanes are becoming stronger and more frequent as a result of global warming. We know that sea levels will rise. Only a death cultist would disagree.
Hurricanes 🌀 have been a fact of life in Florida throughout recorded history. Do not fall for the propaganda that it’s a new danger or we can stop hurricanes by eating bugs, banning cars, mandating lab grown meat etc.
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Very proud of you Steven for trying to represent your community, and for the authenticity. A lot of people fail to understand that many of us are working class and running for public office is a sacrifice, an expensive one. You’ll be back stronger! 💪🏾
Statement from Steven Meza on HD-98 race, suspending campaign.
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It looks like @iElijahManley’s account has been permanently suspended for… Wait for it… …saying that Nazis should get punched. Can’t make this up.
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“For the kids who wonder whether another day of life on this earth is worth it, I tell you: Yes, it is. If our policy makers won’t say it, if our school board members won’t say it, if our governor and our legislators won’t say it, we will say it ... here and at the ballot box.”
Replying to @therecount
“You might have heard some of the fascist propaganda coming from DeSantis and his goons ... But that's not the vibe we're about here in Broward County.” — Broward County resident Elijah Manley yesterday, backing a resolution to establish an LGBTQ History Month in public schools
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I’m super excited to join @Leaderswedeserv Advisory Board as we help young, fearless progressives run and win campaigns! I’m excited for all the incredible work we are about to do across the country. 🙌🏾
Great news! We just added some incredible new members to the @Leaderswedeserv Advisory Board! 🥁 Congressman @RobertGarcia Congresswoman @lucymcbath Fmr ED of @emilyslist @emilyanncain FL Democratic Party Chair @NikkiFried Fmr Ohio Dem Party Chair @DavidPepper Former Miss Texas and Candidate for TX House @AverieDanielle Missouri house candidate @RayReedMO Organizer and fmr FL House candidate @iElijahManley
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This fall we start recruiting, running, and winning. We want YOU to help us make history 💫 RUN 🗳️
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