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      25 days ago

      Oh, no doubt… Nothing of consequence is gonna happen as long as the Orange Mangina is in the White House and the DOJ is being run by a power hungry harridan. Just got to wait until the power center crumbles under the weight of it’s own corruption.

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        just curious–what makes you think it’s going to crumble all by itself, after all the things they’ve said and done that should have ended the GOP as any kind of group capable of getting votes at this point, but didn’t?

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          It’s going to hit by the beginning of the year - once those ACA subsidies go away.

          When MAGA’s “meemaws and pawpaws” start to drop dead from not being able to afford their doctors or meds anymore, I forsee a ton of shattered lives and rage at the GOP… even though the actual problem with the ACA was that the Democrats let the insurers write it - and I do recall Nancy Pelosi saying “Let’s just sign the bill, we will read what’s in it later…”

          Ooooo, fuck us up the arse with a sanded fist, lady. And they have.

          It was a 15 year long financial boondoggle for the insurance industry.

          They’ve had obscene profits at the expense of the taxpayers while brokering poorly delivered medical “care” based on statistical fiat of averages and actuarial table data. (That, in and of itself, is a different issue that goes back decades and a topic for another day…)

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            I forsee a ton of shattered lives and rage at the GOP

            the shattered lives are already here. been here since 2016.

            but you’re not recognizing how fucking cowed these people are. sure, there will be rage. but the rage won’t be at the GOP, it’ll be at the mexicans. the african americans. the LGBTQ, the women, the D voters, the non-christians— take your pick. we’re coming up on TEN YEARS fucking decades the GOP has been blaming literally every problem they cause on the very people who are trying to prevent those problems, and the R voters still lapping it all up like hogs at the trough

            the mistake you’re making is that, in thinking rationally, you’re assuming that other people must think rationally too-- THEY DON’T

            don’t you remember covid and fox news saying something like “old people should go back to work to save the economy” – and apparently people who watch fox news had zero problem with someone saying something as hilariously evil, wrong, stupid and infuckingsane as that.

            i wish i had your unflappable (if misguided) optimism

            happy new year