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Damn, if only Republicans hadn't shut the government down when Dems proposed simple, direct, and popular extensions to Medicare funding. Why are Republicans so content letting Americans suffer?
They're not content, they're insistent
GOP doesn't wanna govern with the Democrats, and they keep blaming Democrats for everything. Fuck 'em. Let the GOP pass their damn budget themselves. This isn't a government anyways.
If the Democrats were even half as nefarious as the GOP says, Trump woulda been killed like years ago.
Article runs down where we stand right now:
Trump 45 - 35 days. 2018/2019.
Clinton - 21 days.
Obama - 17 days. 2013.
Carter - 17 days. 1978.
Today - 13 days and counting.
So still a ways to go. 5 more days and it's top 3.
The [Johnson] Shutdown, it causes real pain for real people, veterans, the elderly people who rely upon these services
Wow you know what else causes real pain? The lifetime of crippling medical debt, collapse of coverage for the sickest among us, and skyrocketing premiums for everyone else. Y'all just seem to want it so badly.
Republicans had 15+ years to come up with the "replace" side of "repeal and replace" and have nothing to show for it. What a farce.
I seriously think Americans just need to opt out of health insurance when the renewal period comes around.
I know it's a fantasy and would never happen but could you imagine if half the country all of a sudden just opted out of insurance? The stocks would crash overnight.
There would only be two outcomes, either a massive change in healthc.
Or more realistically a the GOP would pass a law making private insurance mandatory to save their money laundering scheme.
Fuck I hate health insurance I can't believe there's a fucking single person out there that would defend this fucked up system that we have but yet there are millions
Is my life's dream to dance on the ashes of the health insurance industry
That's not an option for many people, and that's what's scary as hell. For some it'll be impossible to ever price them out of insurance, because they need the care regardless of the debt they rack up. If insurance offsets even 10% that's a win.
Meanwhile in the healthy population, many will balk at the premiums, decide to drop the insurance and the whole house of cards falls down. GOP already got rid of the insurance mandate and that was a very popular move with their base. Slim chance mandatory coverage could be re-instated again.
Now the party is stuck and likely to let the entire system collapse. Maybe they'll bail out the hospitals and insurance companies along the way, at a much higher cost than getting people the care they needed, but it seems inevitable.
Barreling, swooping, tumbling, smashiiiiiinnnnggggg
One thing I hate is how Democrats are always left fighting a crappy fight...
Republicans, propose horrific shit.
Democrats, can we have slightly less horrific stuff plz?
Republicans, ok i guess...! Deal!
Public: pikachu face
That's why Democrats keep losing... Even if they win this AOC funding fight... So what? Healthcare is still as awful as ever, it'll just be slightly less awful...No-one in the public will think of this as some massive Democratic victory that'll make them change their vote.
Where are the Democrats fighting for actual change, actually, shoot for the fucking moon and settle for the sky...
Democrats just never feel like they are fighting.
This isn't some both sides horseshit, the Republicans do fight. Except they fight for genuinely horrific stuff and for the billionaire class.
Who are the Democrats fighting for? Are they fighting at all?
They don't have a leader or any vision. You can't fight for a dramatic change without a unified vision and strong leader that is willing to do things that may seem unpopular to some. By trying to appeal to everybody, they appeal to nobody. Watch/listen to this interview with the DNC Chair that Join Stewart did, it's pretty obvious what the problem is: https://youtu.be/SLi6gB0_hpE.
It's the classic scenario of it's hard to build things up, and it's easy to tear things down. The GOP can obstruct and block and delay and demand concessions with any one of the 3 houses: house of representatives, senate, and presidency. For the Dems to pass anything they need, drumroll please, all 3 houses. And they have had that for, drumroll please, 6 years out the the last 44 years.
Why must the democrats do anything? The GOP could negotiate or accept the changes entirely. This isn’t on the dems.
This is not governing, this is a hostage situation.
The state of things as they stood was a problem to begin with, so why would anyone want to continue that in exchange for we totally pinky promise to talk about what you want later'?
It's partially your fault, asshole.
Partially?
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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