Was second in line for Dept. of Foreheads In a slight variation from the string of rich Republican donors, Fox News has-beens, and utterly unqualified toadying loyalists that President-elect Donald Trump has been naming to cabinet positions lately, Trump's apparent
And all those chronically ill Republicans that will be dying are just collateral damage. If they don't have the money for doctors, they must be unworthy of living.
you guys! we have to fight. i'm an ACA navigator person. i'm depressed beyond belief - i'm likely losing my job, my expertise, my industry and my health insurance. but i'm damned if i'm not going to punch somebody before that happens (i would like it to be the michaels lady but i bet i'll miss her...).
fight. sign up. tell people to sign up. talk to your congressperson if you like them. fight with them if you don't. fight. engage.
It's especially important to engage in direct action, because the network news shows just aren't touching this, for whatever reason. Because the Republicans are poised to eliminate the safety net--Medicare, Social Security, Obamacare, Medicaid--through a simple legislative trick, when they come back from their long winter hols in January.
This should be a headline: the biggest headline in decades. If not a headline, this should at least be a paragraph in a news story about the Republican agenda for 2017.
But it all appears to have vanished into some network black hole somewhere.
Even though it is probably the most consequential story in America today (after the election of the fascist and his team of loons and savages, at any rate) because it involves a radical attack on the safety net that will touch tens of millions of lives immediately, and everybody in America in the long run, the nets apparently feel it would be unkind to the Republicans to let people know what they're actually up to.
So they're not. Literally not touching the biggest story out there. Literally giving it the death treatment.
So if ordinary citizens don't raise absolute call-your-member-of-Congress-scream-email-blog-phone-megaphone-billboard-sandwich board-get-out-there-and-howl-all-kinds-of-hell, Paul Ryan and the Republicans are quietly going to kill our safety net when Congress reconvenes in January, Donald is quietly going to sign the death warrant, and we're going to wake up to find that this is a done deal. And, as the old saying goes, it is easier to burn down a barn than it is to build one. Once they dismantle the safety net, it's gone.
Apparently the nets have decided that it's more important to preserve their "access" to a sympathetic Congress when it comes to little things like licensing, mergers, taxes, and regulations, than it is to do due diligence as journalists, and report on pressing, crucial, life-changing issues in the ublic interest.
Did I happen to say, Fuck them? Fuck them all: fuck Jeff Zucker, fuck Andy Lack, fuck Les Moonves, fuck Rupert Murdoch, fuck NBC, fuck ABC, fuck CBS, fuck Fox, fuck them all?
I think I may have forgotten to say that.
Anyhow, that having been said: Call your representative. Call your senators. Raise hell, before the death of Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and Social Security is a done deal and there's not a thing you can do about it any more.
I'm just upvoting for the cat picture. The rest of the thread is as depressing as hell.In the words of the lovely and charming Hilz, "more cat pictures!" Well she didn't actually SAY that - it was implied, if you know what I mean.
Hair FUBAR will undoubtedly have his FCC eliminate TV coverage.
And without those wasteful government-funded orphanages, they'll all be free range certified, added value!
And all those chronically ill Republicans that will be dying are just collateral damage. If they don't have the money for doctors, they must be unworthy of living.
Whew. Only 3 million dead this time then.
you guys! we have to fight. i'm an ACA navigator person. i'm depressed beyond belief - i'm likely losing my job, my expertise, my industry and my health insurance. but i'm damned if i'm not going to punch somebody before that happens (i would like it to be the michaels lady but i bet i'll miss her...).
fight. sign up. tell people to sign up. talk to your congressperson if you like them. fight with them if you don't. fight. engage.
this is fucking important.
"Certify orphans as food"The ginger ones are delicious, but not very filling... no souls.
"I hope the guy I voted for who said he's going to gut Obamacare doesn't gut Obamacare," is my new favorite thing.
He's a Christian, I'm sure.
Y'know, that doesn't sound too bad, I must say.
Soylent Green is made out of people!!!1!11!!!!11!!1!1!!!
It's especially important to engage in direct action, because the network news shows just aren't touching this, for whatever reason. Because the Republicans are poised to eliminate the safety net--Medicare, Social Security, Obamacare, Medicaid--through a simple legislative trick, when they come back from their long winter hols in January.
This should be a headline: the biggest headline in decades. If not a headline, this should at least be a paragraph in a news story about the Republican agenda for 2017.
But it all appears to have vanished into some network black hole somewhere.
Even though it is probably the most consequential story in America today (after the election of the fascist and his team of loons and savages, at any rate) because it involves a radical attack on the safety net that will touch tens of millions of lives immediately, and everybody in America in the long run, the nets apparently feel it would be unkind to the Republicans to let people know what they're actually up to.
So they're not. Literally not touching the biggest story out there. Literally giving it the death treatment.
So if ordinary citizens don't raise absolute call-your-member-of-Congress-scream-email-blog-phone-megaphone-billboard-sandwich board-get-out-there-and-howl-all-kinds-of-hell, Paul Ryan and the Republicans are quietly going to kill our safety net when Congress reconvenes in January, Donald is quietly going to sign the death warrant, and we're going to wake up to find that this is a done deal. And, as the old saying goes, it is easier to burn down a barn than it is to build one. Once they dismantle the safety net, it's gone.
Apparently the nets have decided that it's more important to preserve their "access" to a sympathetic Congress when it comes to little things like licensing, mergers, taxes, and regulations, than it is to do due diligence as journalists, and report on pressing, crucial, life-changing issues in the ublic interest.
Did I happen to say, Fuck them? Fuck them all: fuck Jeff Zucker, fuck Andy Lack, fuck Les Moonves, fuck Rupert Murdoch, fuck NBC, fuck ABC, fuck CBS, fuck Fox, fuck them all?
I think I may have forgotten to say that.
Anyhow, that having been said: Call your representative. Call your senators. Raise hell, before the death of Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and Social Security is a done deal and there's not a thing you can do about it any more.
It's not your money. You paid an insurance premium and didn't make a claim.
But Viagra will be subsidised.
I'm just upvoting for the cat picture. The rest of the thread is as depressing as hell.In the words of the lovely and charming Hilz, "more cat pictures!" Well she didn't actually SAY that - it was implied, if you know what I mean.
Well, she is.
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