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That's Mr Richard Fuckwads, for you, bitch!

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Sure, the GOP still wants to repeal Obamacare. Because every bill they have brought up also contains the beginnings of repeal of traditional Medicaid. Either by gradually reducing funding, or converting the program to block grants. Which will probably allow states to move money from Medicaid to anything remotely associated with health care, like repair of failing sewer systems in Republican led cities. And states will need those extra funds for something besides health care for the poor since many of them have been on the tax cut rampage the last few years. It's already caught up with several of them, like Kansas and Oklahoma.

I am hearing reports that my state, North Carolina, may be finally facing a big budget deficit this year. The only reason it did not hit earlier is that the state jacked up sales tax, including sales taxes on luxuries like electric power and LP gas for heating. No, the GOP will not be satisfied with simply repealing the ACA (and ignoring the rest of their promise to replace it with anything). They want to start cutting traditional Medicaid. The tax give away will likely start affecting Medicare soon also. The GOP is counting on the Democrats to join them in a waiver, but I hope they do not. That will only result in the national debt expanding even faster and much more than the fake number of $1.5 trillion. Nothing will convert a die hard 68 year old on Medicare to the Democratic side more quickly than raising their Medicare premium by $50 a month so you can give Trump a tax break. That alone will erase the tax benefit most of them will get.

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I regret not having more upvotes to give

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♫ Mar-a-largo,Indict me a-Largo,how empty Bannon seems,and auto-suck dreams

Putin's cargo,comes to Mar-a-Largo,but where's the kompro?My dossier will know.

The Put'-tide,rolling in on a bike,is lonely, but the Fifth Reich. ♫

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Those two pictures - makes me seriously afraid that someday soon my eyes will be scarred by Trump in a Speedo.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp...

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Seema Verma - would Vermin be amore appropriate name?

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In this case, it's not God so much as her follower.

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Not quite -- it was the Heritage Foundation's "free market based alternative" to the Clinton health plan.

But then some Democrat went and passed it, making it socialism.

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Would you believe it was actually a typo again, and I am now certain that my brain is just fucking with me now?

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I hope I live long enough to see tRUMP, McConnell, Pence, and Ryan and the rest of the twats frog-marched out of D.C.

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Sorry! I just came here for the HOT OBAMA pic.

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Wyatt Koch = Rich N. Fuckinweird.

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Nailed it

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> your REarrest, REconviction, and REimprisonment

FTFY

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