re: Abdul El-Sayed Is Not A Real Doctor?

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Abdul El-Sayed Is Not A Real Doctor?

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He earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Columbia University

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You can criticize his politics without lying about the man

I know several people personally that don't work in the area that they completed there college or post graduate degrees in. Attorney that works in a CPA office, Pharmacist that runs a lumber yard, a geologist that works in sales. Finishing an MD program makes you an MD. I'm sure he would have to do a lot of things that he didn't do post graduate to do any doctoring but it doesn't make him any less a doctor. Don't care for him but that's the truth.

I think he’s a good dude. He wants to stop the trump/israel endless war racket, make billionaires pay more, and reverse the upward flow of wealth that Trump’s policies poured gasoline on.

I suppose next you’re going to tell me he personally flew a plane into the World Trade Center.

Why does anyone concern themselves with this guy. He's underwater to Mike Rogers by at least 5 points and Roger's hasn't even really started campaigning against him

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A reasonable person would think a physician is a doctor who practices.

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This thread title doesn’t say he’s not a physician. It says “not a real doctor.” Words matter.

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So according to Michigan, he is not.

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According to Michigan, he may not be a physician. Again, words matter.

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Is this your extensive list?

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I'm just listing what I believe should be the capabilities of a doctor physician. Someone I believe has spent years studying methods and techniques of surgery and spent time in residency perfecting his profession not to mention the thousands of dollars spent to reach their goal.

When you people argue for the validity of an Abdul El-Sayed (an Islamo-Marxist) by hanging a "doctor" designation on him, I see it as an attempt to cheapen the profession practiced by "real" doctors. An indication of a D.E.I. Woke mindset perhaps?

I once had an Oncologist Cancer Specialist save my life by removing a cancerous growth in my body. I have immense respect for these medical professionals. Apparently you don't

Have a great day heathen.

It’s very misleading to call him a doctor. If you can’t go through residency, you are a doctor in degree only.

Easy there, Professor. You’ve been carrying the word “trite” around lately like a kid who just got his first pocketknife. We’ve all seen it. You can put it back in your pocket now.

You also managed to build yourself a nice little straw man.

I said tax realized capital gains more like ordinary income for people at the very top. Pick a threshold if you need one: $1 million in annual taxable income. “Ultra wealthy”? $100 million plus net worth works fine for the discussion. Neither statement requires the government to perform an annual valuation of every closely held business in America. I never proposed that. You did, on my behalf, because it gave you something easier to argue against.

And no, changing the tax consequences of borrowing against appreciated assets does not require Congress to “limit what wealthy people and banks can contract to.” Banks can make loans. Wealthy people can take them. Congress writes tax law governing what gets taxed, deducted, recognized and transferred every damn year.

Then there’s this beauty:

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Anything includible in the estate is subject to a 40 percent tax.

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No, bubba. In 2026 the federal estate-tax exclusion is $15 million per individual. The 40 percent figure is the top estate-tax rate, not a tax slapped on “anything includible” in an estate. And the reason passing appreciated fortunes matters is that inherited assets generally receive a basis based on their fair market value at death, potentially wiping out income tax liability on appreciation that accrued during the decedent’s lifetime. That’s the part of the tax code I was talking about.

As for “why should dying be taxable?” Dying isn’t taxed. The transfer of an enormous fortune is. We tax transfers and transactions all over the economy. Whether that particular transfer should be taxed, and at what threshold, is a perfectly legitimate policy argument. Pretending the government is sending a tax bill to a corpse is just the usual maga bumper sticker rhetoric, it ain’t analysis bubba.

Also, notice how this conversation works.

You ask me to define every noun, choose every threshold, write the legislation, solve valuation questions and defend hypothetical provisions I never proposed. Meanwhile, you haven’t put your own cards on the table.

So enough of the little law-school cross examination baw.

What tax rate do you think someone making $10 million a year should pay? What should the estate tax exemption be? Should inherited appreciation escape capital gains taxation through stepped up basis? Should carried interest continue receiving preferential treatment?

Give us your numbers and your policy bubba.

You’re sittin in the cheap seats yelling “DEFINE IT!” at everybody else is just yur usual porch gnat nitwit shtick.

And, if we’re reaching for the word of the week, it’s getting a little trite bubba.

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I truly hate to say it, but he is a doctor.

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true, but then again, so is Fauci