Yes, this is all true but the inclusion bad plans was to satisfy conservative Democrats who wanted more " market-based options"
But those plans are the most hated!
We should not have permitted them, and just offered more generous subsidies.
But Dems wanted to keep the bill "budget neutral"
20.10.2025 14:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Right now the current shutdown of the government is over whether or not we should
"bring original Obamacare back"
(With basically everyone agreeing we that we shouldn't)
And Republicans are out here like: what if original Obamacare but worse?!
20.10.2025 13:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And exactly 0 families going for the low monthly have the 9k.
It's the most sick trap post aca.
Huge mistake by dems to allow these plans and their extremely high deductibles to exist.
But dems were trying to keep the government spending totals down to pass the bill...
20.10.2025 13:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
And it's such a profoundly stupid thing to say
" An affordable catastrophic plan"?
Such a thing does not exist!
It's the sort of thing. Someone who's never thought about it or your median voter would buy into..... But two SECONDS of thinking show how stupid it is
20.10.2025 13:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The times was desperate to get a win for trump
20.10.2025 13:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I didn't know this but this daily guy is an editor at the New York Times.
This is like a real life version of that fake quote that conservatives banned about 4 years
" I've never met a Nixon voter"
They imagined media saying to each other... A thing that never happened but that they claimed...
20.10.2025 13:41 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
This is like that apocryphal " I've never met a Nixon voter" quote that conservatives bannedied about for decades that never actually happens
20.10.2025 13:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Silent hill ass town
20.10.2025 13:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
People want to imagine some oceanβs 11 stealing of the votes when really
The most damage shit Trump did was unleash his hordes on loyal poll workers so they wouldnβt show up but his toadies would.
Coups are old school, people.
20.10.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No worries, president Dealz is on itβ¦.
20.10.2025 13:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When HRC said certain people were miserable and deplorable, those people and many of their friends got pissed off at HRC, before Comey and cheating Putin did their thing. As a reminder, this is miserable and deplorable in action. She told the truth.
20.10.2025 13:02 β π 58 π 14 π¬ 3 π 2
Rarely known, but in Florida Children are not born with any genetic conditions, they are placed on hold until that person is 50 and THEN they take effect
20.10.2025 13:08 β π 69 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Spoken like Floridaβs natural disaster insurance program (which is also fake, doesnβt work, and will need a bail out from every responsible stateβ¦)
20.10.2025 13:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Additionally, (not that this matters) but its totally at odds with their other message:
βWe donβt want βable bodied young menβ SUCKING DOWN FREE HEALTH CAAAARRRREEE!!!!!β
Should the young get health insurance or are they welfare kings (who also donβt use the services)
20.10.2025 13:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Are we not abundancing any more? Rents up is good?
Didnβt get just spend YEARS getting lectured about the need for rents to fall?
20.10.2025 13:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When is the last time anyone read a socialist or a communist in the Washington post?
There are 87 mcmegans on staff before we even get to the op-ed section
20.10.2025 13:02 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"We need
Diverse
Inclusive and
Equitable
colleges!!!!"
McMegan
20.10.2025 13:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βWhen it comes to dealing with womenβ is so WEIRD.
I appreciate the questions but what Cuomo did wasnβt sytruggle to βdeal with womenβ
It was targeted sexual harassment and assault!
βHave you learned to stop sexually assaulting others?β Is too direct?
20.10.2025 12:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I know mamdani is doing these interviews but he so routinely crushes them I never see them.
Andrew canβt get within a mile of a TV set without me finding out
20.10.2025 12:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βBecause THE LEFT HATES the constitution, I will alsoβ¦break the constitutionβ¦β
20.10.2025 12:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Playing the long gameβ¦.
20.10.2025 12:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
"everything would have been different if we had done this one thing..."
They sound just like us! I mean... Evil us, but i get the feeling
20.10.2025 02:23 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A enclosure for a small lizard with fake plants. And the walls are painted and textured like rock. And there are lots of hiding places and warming lights. And it's a very cozy home for a lizard.
I have posted my lizard before.
But usually when she's in her window hammocks so I decided to show you what her enclosure looks like.
20.10.2025 01:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
there's been a rather ingenius, insidious, deliberate effort via propaganda and social messaging to get people to shift their anger and trauma about covid away from the officials who failed them, to the people asking them to mask.
19.10.2025 21:46 β π 253 π 90 π¬ 4 π 1
A caramel colored Porsche 911 1967 above average condition
I went to a VW show today.
I drive a Volkswagen golf R Mark 7.
And there was this beautiful classic Porsche
And I've never moved so fast as when my 3-year-old went to touch it
19.10.2025 22:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Like 3 donors were the majority of his fundraising and he made one of them shadow president for 3 months for funsies!
19.10.2025 21:19 β π 33 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesnβt seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.
19.10.2025 19:43 β π 2523 π 499 π¬ 23 π 27
And arm/shoulder goals too
GOOD LORD! THOSE PIPES
19.10.2025 21:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"you cease, we fire" is how i have heard it called
19.10.2025 21:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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