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now, now, this is an anti_jailhouse_rape joke zone.

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I think the media has been beaten down by Trump's lies and shamelessness. Trump campaigned a better healthcare plan than the ACA, where more people will be covered for lower costs and get better benefits.

He said in interview after interview he would have a plan ready shortly after taking office.

Only healthcare plan that was proposed was the AHCA, which was entirely done by Congress.

Yet the media still retweets Trumps lies about being able to put together a better plan than Obamacare. It is infuriating.

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I'll never take that deadly shit again. If you're interested, I offer the esteemed Lord Jim a few salacious details of the situation down yonder.

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What? You want the graphic, sordid details of opiate withdrawl?

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You are indeed correct about that, good sir. And I am getting my ass beat.

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They pulled out $18 million in federal funding. That's a helluva 'tip'.

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Pfft! They don't have any balls, mate!

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“...but Trump wants Republicans to pass a bill before his reelection effort that would do what Obamacare does — provide coverage to millions of Americans.”

That’s easy then. Eliminate the ACA first. Then you shut down the insurance industry. Doesn’t have to be for long, either. Shut it down at 11:59pm on Labor Day and reopen at 12:01 the morning after. Once it reopens, millions of people will have health insurance and it will be all because of Trump.

#winning.

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What, behind the Creature from the Black Lagoon? What am I looking at?

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I don't think "quick & painless" is Pootsie's style.

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Great headline, Doc!

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Donald Trump says that what he's going to replace "Obamacare" (more correctly known as the ACA) with is going to be better. But he doesn't have a replacement. The ACA has nothing waiting in the wings for its exit. The GOP reasons that people without money are not real people anyway, and so don't need healthcare assistance. The real people are wealthy enough to be able to pay for their healthcare. Screw the rest of these fake people. They are merely here to vote, and to vote as they are told to vote. If they die, there are always more.

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Death by rocksalt.

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Perhaps they all do deserve to suffer tremor to the point of quite literally NOT being able to stop twitching/shaking/intractable spams that eventually also begin to ache miserably. And to suffer nausea and abdominal pain, intermittently interrupted by violent puking and/or copious diarrhea that results in symptomatic dehydration and electrolyte imbalances. The profuse sweating that drenches the entire body, clothes and/or bed linens exacerbates the aforementioned deficiencies that, unfortunately, are not relieved by intermittent episodes of feeling chilled to the bone and shaking like a leaf. A headache manifests, sometimes tolerable, other times pounding intolerably, probably related to the fact that blood pressure fluctuates dangerously during withdrawal, potentially spiking to the point of inducing a stroke. Overwhelming anxiety consumes what mentation not miserably focused upon the myriad physical agonies remains, literally to the point of contemplating suicide. Perhaps attempting it. I did.Words diminish the absolute HELL that Oxy withdrawal is. I DO wish it upon the Sacklers. They have done harm to me that is beyond repair. I HATE them.

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