Just rename Obamacare “PornTitties” and watch Trump endorse it. “One of our TREMENDOUS programs people are hearing more and more about. They say, ‘thank you, Sir,’ with tears in their eyes when they show me their PornTitties benefits card. Radical Marxist Communist Socialist Cannibalistic Democrats HATE PornTitties because YOUR FAVORITE PRESNIT came up with it. Nobody talked about PornTitties until I did. We like them, don’t we, the PornTitties?”
Pollsters were astonished to find that when they told members of their focus groups exactly when the Republicans wanted to do the group refused to believe them. So I suspect not matter how many times you tell the public that Republicans want to end their health plans people won;t believe it. Thet can't believe any politician would be that cruel
It would be nice if someone, somewhere in the Dem strategy dept., paid attention to such things. I, alas, am a cynical old woodnymph and I shall believe it only when - if - they do.
I have an idea for the Repugnants. Give everyone the same healthcare plan that they get being in congress. Also too the retirement they get no matter how short they are in office or inept they are.
The republicans’ worst nightmare has come true. The ACA is now almost as deeply embedded into the American economy as social security and Medicare are. And repealing it is nearly as unpopular as talk about repealing either of the latter two.
Welcome to the new third rail, Trump. My advice: grab it by the 🐈⬛.
Well, why will this country NEED the ACA after the Bloated Yam is back in power?
Half this nation's population will be in detention and labor camps, either cracking big rocks into little ones 17 hours a day, seven days a week, or "rented out" to major employers to pay for their "upkeep" in those camps.
They'll get their medications and doctors' visits at the camp dispensary. Anyone with anything more serious than a migraine headache or a pulled muscle will probably face a modern version of the Nazi "T-4" program to empty hospitals and senior centers in the late 1930s and beginning of the war, so the Reich's hospitals could accommodate wounded Aryans chopped up in battle.
The other thing I want to know is if the Bloated Yam will create "Lebensborn," where White Nationalists and Incels who whine on the Internet about not being able to bop young women who look like Morgan Fairchild in her prime, can do just that, create a blond child with big muscles, big shoulders, and later, a bigger husband. The only problem I can see for the Bloated Yam is finding enough Morgan Fairchilds willing to raise an entire baseball team of Aryan kids for the glory of "White Culture."
By the way, I presume that "White Culture" is defined as domestic beer, NASCAR, WWE, evangelical xenophobic Christianity, wife-beating, step-child abuse, the NFL, methamphetamine, down-low homosexuality, secret liaisons with black hookers, and, of course...mayonnaise.
Very true, but they want the Morgan Fairchilds to at least PRETEND they're enjoying it and say something to the effect of "You make my boat float, big boy." Even if they're thinking, "I hate this guy, he has the sexual skills of a Chieftain tank."
Another thing that amuses me about Trumpetoons through history is that while they profess a demand for "racial purity," they have had no trouble raping their way through slave rows to get their jollies and add to their ration strength.
In New Orleans, they hired black mistresses who taught them "the arts of the goddess Venus," so that when they married their "sweet, innocent, virginal wife," they had some idea of what they would be doing with her, as her entire training in the subject was "grit your teeth and think of England."
the planter's kid, after marriage, would set up his mistress in a small business, and thus cover the costs of the child they inevitably made.
An aside: how did these young swains meet these young women? At organized "Quadroon Balls" in New Orleans, where they would be introduced to each other. They got the name, because many of the girls were what they called "quadroons" at the time.
After slavery ended (good riddance), Trumpetoons continued to be "educated in the arts of the goddess Venus" from professional black women. That was how Birmingham baseball announcer and Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor got his nickname. He passed a city ordinance to ban the use of hotels for interracial couplings. One of his political opponents tipped off both the cops and the local newspaper about an important Birmingham resident bopping a black woman in a major hotel.
The cops -- and the newspaper -- raided the place, to find Connor himself and his black mistress in deshabille. The Public Safety Commissioner used his baseball announcing skills to berate the cops, and the baseball announcer used his powers as Public Safety Commissioner to cover the whole nasty affair up. Everyone present was impressed by the size of Connor's testicles, hence the nickname "Bull."
For reasons that baffle me, the "Quadroon Balls" take place again in New Orleans, enabling young men and women of certain ages to meet. When I heard of an entire ballroom filled with women dressed like Vivien Leigh, looking like a young Jasmine Guy, available for romance, I was amazed.
"Wow," I said. "So all I have to do is go there, properly dressed, and find a young lady who says, 'Why, yes, I'd love to go to a baseball game with you, and then back to my apartment later!"
To which I would reply, "Come with me, my little parsnip..."
"The only thing you don't know is the history you haven't studied." -- Harry S. Truman.
Actually, New Orleans has apparently resumed hosting "Quadroon Balls" as an opportunity for upper-crust young men and women to meet in a more civilized environment than an overheated nightclub.
When I was told about this back in 1992, I immediately had a vision of an army of young women who looked like Jasmine Guy, dressed like Vivien Leigh, who arrived in the ballroom in their Maserati.
All I would have to do would be to go there and find the girl who could say, "Matt Williams led the National League in RBIs in 1990, the Yankees should never have let Reggie Jackson go, I didn't know JP Morgan ordered the scars from that bombing in 1920 in New York left in the side of the building, Andrew Johnson was a prize jerk, and I'd love to go with you to a ballgame and then back to my apartment."
To which I would say, "Come with me, my little parsnip," Then we'd have a good giggle over my valiant attempts to dance with her. But we'd still go to the ballgame, back to her apartment, and get married a few years later.
Trumpetoons are too stupid to realize when women hate them. They assume that "no" means "yes," that "get your hands off of me" means "keep feeling me up," and "stop or I'll scream" means "I'm screaming in ecstasy." They have trouble with the English language.
Seriously, I once dealt with a Trumpetoon on Facebook who insisted that if the Bloated Yam gets back into power, all the laws passed by Biden are automatically null and void. One of my pals in the debate, a real live Constitutional lawyer, sent screenshots of relevant sections of that document.
The pal asked, "How far did you get in school? Eighth grade?"
He showed his stupidity, saying he only got to that very grade, and said that when he got his many "F"s on his report card, he thought that meant "Fabulous."
It's proof of devolution: the GOP has had Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and George Kontos.
"Idiocracy" in action.
The incompetence staggers the brain. The closest I can see are:
1. Tsar Nicholas's Cabinet during the Great War.
2. The Nazi leadership in WW2.
3. The three British Prime Ministers who preceded Winston Churchill.
4. The Popes who provoked the Protestant Secession.
5. The British leaders who lost America.
6. The "Best and the Brightest" who got us into Vietnam. (They were Democrats, so we have some equal honors here.)
Remember when people thought they wouldn’t repeal Roe and Casey, throwing millions of women’s health care into chaos? Listen to what this fascist trash says. If it hurts someone and maybe they cut their own taxes, they’ll do it.
Use the ads with the woman in stirrups and the guy getting the prostate exam from the creepy Uncle Sam, but replace Uncle Sam with Pendejo. (I'd say creepy Penderjo, but that would be redundant)
Right? Hanging this on him with “Trump took your right to an abortion, wants to take your health care and has already tried to steal your country from you. What’s next for this 91-time indicted criminal?”
“I just don't know what [Trump’s] thinking or how we would go about doing that. That fight, as you know, was six years ago now. And so, if he’s got some ideas, we’re open to them.”
They did come close to the "repeal" part, but they never ever had anything in the "replace" arena, since it can't be done. As demonstrably flawed as it is, the ACA threw everything possible at the problem with about the best results you could possibly expect without resorting to the obvious solution of getting rid of privatized insurance. The GOP knows that, at least the smart ones do, and they know they got nothing.
Their rallying call was always "repeal and replace" but they never had any plan for or intention of replacing anything. Yet they came within one vote of ending it, and the right wing hacks on the Supreme Court eliminated some of the best parts, especially the Medicaid expansion. Which a few states still have not approved. But even that court shield away from repealing the whole law a few years later, fearful of the very real blow back that would ensue. One of the few times the court has actually acknowledged the harm to society their decisions would entail. Something they do not consider on gun rights over human lives.
Howzabout Senile Old Dark Brandon Joe implements USAmerica Super Patriot Freedom Care, which creates a single payer healthcare system funded entirely by the U.S. government? Surely the MAGA would love some Super Patriot Freedom Care.
If they had the exact same ACA we have right now, and renamed it "Trump Care" [*puke*], everyone in the red states would never shut up about how great it was.
A few years back, I had insurance with a company that was actually called "Freedom Care" -- which tips you off right away that it was crap. When I called about a particular procedure and asked about coverage to the ACA, the unfortunate customer service rep paused for a good fifteen seconds and then said, "It's... compliant", which I correctly understood to be the absolute bare minimum compliance, and then only after they couldn't drag their feet any more.
I believe that there was an expose on this “Freedom Care” that’s supposedly also for the incarcerated. I could be thinking about this so forgive me if I am in error. Still it uncovers the shitty care out there.
i've been an ACA person since 2013 (mostly part time now). can't tell you how many crap plans i come across/people get succored into thinking they're ACA. i was able to get an immigrant couple a special enrollment period because they'd been completely bamboozled by a short term crap plan.
They have too many mottos already. “Just Die.” “Women, Die!” “You’re different?- Go Kill Yourself, Kid!” “Prisons 4 The Poor.” “Your Taxes For My Jet.”
What I want to hear is DeSantis’ health care proposal. Once he wins the Presidency and installs Ladapo as the Surgeon General of the United States, I am guessing we will see health care like we have never seen before. Hydroxybonercream for all! Mercury treatments for mental health! Bloodletting to release the evil demons of broken bones and cancers. Er, sorry, cancer doesn’t exist — bloodletting to release the bad humours!
Awww why are the Republicans so pissy that the mad carnival barker is playing the old hits? You need his violent death cultists to win and you sold your souls for it!
They're kind of slow at figuring things out. I suppose they've finally realized that Trump is going to drag them down to bottomless electoral perdition in 2024, what with the likely dozens of felony convictions and all -- but of course they see no way to jettison him because the Trump-cultist fanatic base would rather destroy the party itself than give up on their man. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
And they seem to think that, when Trump is gone, however that happens, his cult will simply pivot to the next Republican Strong Man the party points them toward.
But do cult members want the next best thing? And will they accept the next best thing?
It's a good question. I suspect that anyone else would struggle to achieve that special mix of angry, weird, and crazy Trump has. But I don't think the Trumpistas would just slouch back to someone normal. People's views can and sometimes do evolve away from delusion and bigotry, but for most, it takes years. The republic may not have as much time as such people would need.
Just rename Obamacare “PornTitties” and watch Trump endorse it. “One of our TREMENDOUS programs people are hearing more and more about. They say, ‘thank you, Sir,’ with tears in their eyes when they show me their PornTitties benefits card. Radical Marxist Communist Socialist Cannibalistic Democrats HATE PornTitties because YOUR FAVORITE PRESNIT came up with it. Nobody talked about PornTitties until I did. We like them, don’t we, the PornTitties?”
I can see “Republicans killing your health insurance” as a big rallying cry for Democrats, and hope it will be, complete with quotes from Trump.
Pollsters were astonished to find that when they told members of their focus groups exactly when the Republicans wanted to do the group refused to believe them. So I suspect not matter how many times you tell the public that Republicans want to end their health plans people won;t believe it. Thet can't believe any politician would be that cruel
It would be nice if someone, somewhere in the Dem strategy dept., paid attention to such things. I, alas, am a cynical old woodnymph and I shall believe it only when - if - they do.
"Obama, his superior in every possible way"
I'm gonna have to disagree here. Pendejo has exceeded Obama in terms of
mass
girth
number of chins
volume of ketchup thrown against a wall
proudness for recognizing "camel"
number of indictments against members of his administration
number of personal indictments
number of porn stars paid for sex while his wife is home with his newborn child
number of walls built were blown over by the wind
Someone suggested he should be charged with destruction of federal property for all the White House china he threw against the wall.
I have an idea for the Repugnants. Give everyone the same healthcare plan that they get being in congress. Also too the retirement they get no matter how short they are in office or inept they are.
I think they have to serve 6 years to be vested in the pension, unless my info is THAT BAD. But that neans a sux year old would qualify.
I don't know the length of time off the top of my head, but there is a vesting period
Why, that would mean George Santos won't have health insurance and a sweet pension waiting for him when he gets out of prison.
The republicans’ worst nightmare has come true. The ACA is now almost as deeply embedded into the American economy as social security and Medicare are. And repealing it is nearly as unpopular as talk about repealing either of the latter two.
Welcome to the new third rail, Trump. My advice: grab it by the 🐈⬛.
Well, why will this country NEED the ACA after the Bloated Yam is back in power?
Half this nation's population will be in detention and labor camps, either cracking big rocks into little ones 17 hours a day, seven days a week, or "rented out" to major employers to pay for their "upkeep" in those camps.
They'll get their medications and doctors' visits at the camp dispensary. Anyone with anything more serious than a migraine headache or a pulled muscle will probably face a modern version of the Nazi "T-4" program to empty hospitals and senior centers in the late 1930s and beginning of the war, so the Reich's hospitals could accommodate wounded Aryans chopped up in battle.
The other thing I want to know is if the Bloated Yam will create "Lebensborn," where White Nationalists and Incels who whine on the Internet about not being able to bop young women who look like Morgan Fairchild in her prime, can do just that, create a blond child with big muscles, big shoulders, and later, a bigger husband. The only problem I can see for the Bloated Yam is finding enough Morgan Fairchilds willing to raise an entire baseball team of Aryan kids for the glory of "White Culture."
By the way, I presume that "White Culture" is defined as domestic beer, NASCAR, WWE, evangelical xenophobic Christianity, wife-beating, step-child abuse, the NFL, methamphetamine, down-low homosexuality, secret liaisons with black hookers, and, of course...mayonnaise.
It's Trump and incels. It won't matter whether the Morgan Fairchilds are willing or not.
Very true, but they want the Morgan Fairchilds to at least PRETEND they're enjoying it and say something to the effect of "You make my boat float, big boy." Even if they're thinking, "I hate this guy, he has the sexual skills of a Chieftain tank."
Another thing that amuses me about Trumpetoons through history is that while they profess a demand for "racial purity," they have had no trouble raping their way through slave rows to get their jollies and add to their ration strength.
In New Orleans, they hired black mistresses who taught them "the arts of the goddess Venus," so that when they married their "sweet, innocent, virginal wife," they had some idea of what they would be doing with her, as her entire training in the subject was "grit your teeth and think of England."
the planter's kid, after marriage, would set up his mistress in a small business, and thus cover the costs of the child they inevitably made.
An aside: how did these young swains meet these young women? At organized "Quadroon Balls" in New Orleans, where they would be introduced to each other. They got the name, because many of the girls were what they called "quadroons" at the time.
After slavery ended (good riddance), Trumpetoons continued to be "educated in the arts of the goddess Venus" from professional black women. That was how Birmingham baseball announcer and Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor got his nickname. He passed a city ordinance to ban the use of hotels for interracial couplings. One of his political opponents tipped off both the cops and the local newspaper about an important Birmingham resident bopping a black woman in a major hotel.
The cops -- and the newspaper -- raided the place, to find Connor himself and his black mistress in deshabille. The Public Safety Commissioner used his baseball announcing skills to berate the cops, and the baseball announcer used his powers as Public Safety Commissioner to cover the whole nasty affair up. Everyone present was impressed by the size of Connor's testicles, hence the nickname "Bull."
For reasons that baffle me, the "Quadroon Balls" take place again in New Orleans, enabling young men and women of certain ages to meet. When I heard of an entire ballroom filled with women dressed like Vivien Leigh, looking like a young Jasmine Guy, available for romance, I was amazed.
"Wow," I said. "So all I have to do is go there, properly dressed, and find a young lady who says, 'Why, yes, I'd love to go to a baseball game with you, and then back to my apartment later!"
To which I would reply, "Come with me, my little parsnip..."
Well THAT'S some disturbing history I've not heard before.
"The only thing you don't know is the history you haven't studied." -- Harry S. Truman.
Actually, New Orleans has apparently resumed hosting "Quadroon Balls" as an opportunity for upper-crust young men and women to meet in a more civilized environment than an overheated nightclub.
When I was told about this back in 1992, I immediately had a vision of an army of young women who looked like Jasmine Guy, dressed like Vivien Leigh, who arrived in the ballroom in their Maserati.
All I would have to do would be to go there and find the girl who could say, "Matt Williams led the National League in RBIs in 1990, the Yankees should never have let Reggie Jackson go, I didn't know JP Morgan ordered the scars from that bombing in 1920 in New York left in the side of the building, Andrew Johnson was a prize jerk, and I'd love to go with you to a ballgame and then back to my apartment."
To which I would say, "Come with me, my little parsnip," Then we'd have a good giggle over my valiant attempts to dance with her. But we'd still go to the ballgame, back to her apartment, and get married a few years later.
Morgan Fairchild libelz!! She HATES Trump.
Also you can pry my mayo from my cold dead hands! (I’ll be alive but my arteries will be clogged and make my hands feel dead and cold.)
I was referring to the look and the type.
Trumpetoons are too stupid to realize when women hate them. They assume that "no" means "yes," that "get your hands off of me" means "keep feeling me up," and "stop or I'll scream" means "I'm screaming in ecstasy." They have trouble with the English language.
Seriously, I once dealt with a Trumpetoon on Facebook who insisted that if the Bloated Yam gets back into power, all the laws passed by Biden are automatically null and void. One of my pals in the debate, a real live Constitutional lawyer, sent screenshots of relevant sections of that document.
The pal asked, "How far did you get in school? Eighth grade?"
He showed his stupidity, saying he only got to that very grade, and said that when he got his many "F"s on his report card, he thought that meant "Fabulous."
Oh sweet Jeebus. You can’t help but wonder how they are even able to post on FB being as how they couldn’t even pass the 8th grade.
Then too, we have MTG and Bobert in congress o there’s that for evidence of the dumbing down of the nation.
It's proof of devolution: the GOP has had Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and George Kontos.
"Idiocracy" in action.
The incompetence staggers the brain. The closest I can see are:
1. Tsar Nicholas's Cabinet during the Great War.
2. The Nazi leadership in WW2.
3. The three British Prime Ministers who preceded Winston Churchill.
4. The Popes who provoked the Protestant Secession.
5. The British leaders who lost America.
6. The "Best and the Brightest" who got us into Vietnam. (They were Democrats, so we have some equal honors here.)
7. The French generals of 1914...and 1940.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSh8i46W0Q&ab_channel=DavidFogliano
Remember when people thought they wouldn’t repeal Roe and Casey, throwing millions of women’s health care into chaos? Listen to what this fascist trash says. If it hurts someone and maybe they cut their own taxes, they’ll do it.
The ads are already writing themselves.
“Trump is coming for your health care” is going to trump (pun intended) “but Biden is old” at the ballot box.
Use the ads with the woman in stirrups and the guy getting the prostate exam from the creepy Uncle Sam, but replace Uncle Sam with Pendejo. (I'd say creepy Penderjo, but that would be redundant)
I forgot about that commercial! Good times!
Right? Hanging this on him with “Trump took your right to an abortion, wants to take your health care and has already tried to steal your country from you. What’s next for this 91-time indicted criminal?”
How can we entrench power and send profits to our donors.
The only two modes of the modern Republican Party.
“I just don't know what [Trump’s] thinking or how we would go about doing that. That fight, as you know, was six years ago now. And so, if he’s got some ideas, we’re open to them.”
If he's got some ideas?
Trump hurt. Hurt back.
End of idea file.
They did come close to the "repeal" part, but they never ever had anything in the "replace" arena, since it can't be done. As demonstrably flawed as it is, the ACA threw everything possible at the problem with about the best results you could possibly expect without resorting to the obvious solution of getting rid of privatized insurance. The GOP knows that, at least the smart ones do, and they know they got nothing.
They were trying to repeal their own plan. Romney, and Obama later, used the Heritage Foundation proposal.
I'm sure private insurance has settled comfortably in by now also, too, and won't appreciate too much boat rocking from the help.
Their rallying call was always "repeal and replace" but they never had any plan for or intention of replacing anything. Yet they came within one vote of ending it, and the right wing hacks on the Supreme Court eliminated some of the best parts, especially the Medicaid expansion. Which a few states still have not approved. But even that court shield away from repealing the whole law a few years later, fearful of the very real blow back that would ensue. One of the few times the court has actually acknowledged the harm to society their decisions would entail. Something they do not consider on gun rights over human lives.
This could have affected shareholder equity.
Still waiting to see what the "something better" they were going to repeal and replace ACA with. I know they will get to that any day now.
exactly, ain't gonna happen, ever.
It's the ol' "take away things people like" strategy that has worked so well for them.
Howzabout Senile Old Dark Brandon Joe implements USAmerica Super Patriot Freedom Care, which creates a single payer healthcare system funded entirely by the U.S. government? Surely the MAGA would love some Super Patriot Freedom Care.
If they had the exact same ACA we have right now, and renamed it "Trump Care" [*puke*], everyone in the red states would never shut up about how great it was.
A few years back, I had insurance with a company that was actually called "Freedom Care" -- which tips you off right away that it was crap. When I called about a particular procedure and asked about coverage to the ACA, the unfortunate customer service rep paused for a good fifteen seconds and then said, "It's... compliant", which I correctly understood to be the absolute bare minimum compliance, and then only after they couldn't drag their feet any more.
I believe that there was an expose on this “Freedom Care” that’s supposedly also for the incarcerated. I could be thinking about this so forgive me if I am in error. Still it uncovers the shitty care out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82QYlbiawJI
i've been an ACA person since 2013 (mostly part time now). can't tell you how many crap plans i come across/people get succored into thinking they're ACA. i was able to get an immigrant couple a special enrollment period because they'd been completely bamboozled by a short term crap plan.
Call it the DJT USAmerica Super Patriot Freedom Care at it will be a slam dunk.
The Republican Party might as well adopt as its motto the words of Milton's Satan: "Evil, be thou my good."
They have too many mottos already. “Just Die.” “Women, Die!” “You’re different?- Go Kill Yourself, Kid!” “Prisons 4 The Poor.” “Your Taxes For My Jet.”
And then there's James Joyce's Buck Mulligan, that joker: "He that stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord. Thus spake Zarathustra!"
What I want to hear is DeSantis’ health care proposal. Once he wins the Presidency and installs Ladapo as the Surgeon General of the United States, I am guessing we will see health care like we have never seen before. Hydroxybonercream for all! Mercury treatments for mental health! Bloodletting to release the evil demons of broken bones and cancers. Er, sorry, cancer doesn’t exist — bloodletting to release the bad humours!
hope gavin gives him shit about that tomorrow!
Awww why are the Republicans so pissy that the mad carnival barker is playing the old hits? You need his violent death cultists to win and you sold your souls for it!
You buy the ticket, you take the ride!
They're kind of slow at figuring things out. I suppose they've finally realized that Trump is going to drag them down to bottomless electoral perdition in 2024, what with the likely dozens of felony convictions and all -- but of course they see no way to jettison him because the Trump-cultist fanatic base would rather destroy the party itself than give up on their man. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
And they seem to think that, when Trump is gone, however that happens, his cult will simply pivot to the next Republican Strong Man the party points them toward.
But do cult members want the next best thing? And will they accept the next best thing?
It's a good question. I suspect that anyone else would struggle to achieve that special mix of angry, weird, and crazy Trump has. But I don't think the Trumpistas would just slouch back to someone normal. People's views can and sometimes do evolve away from delusion and bigotry, but for most, it takes years. The republic may not have as much time as such people would need.