Remember: Republicans’ alternative to the ACA was “Don’t get sick. And if you do, die fast.”
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Remember: Republicans’ alternative to the ACA was “Don’t get sick. And if you do, die fast.”
Or worse: uninsured people don’t get meducal treatment and spread bird flu or the next COVID to you!
So what happens when they get sick? They go to ERs and clog them up for people with actual emergencies, then skip out on the bill they can’t pay, which forces the hospital followed by insurance companies to jack up costs for all of us.
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🍊 on Canada: Canada was meant to be the 51st state. It’s just drew an artificial line that was drawn in the sand.
🍊 on Mexico: Terrorists! Rapists! Drug cartels! Build a wall!
I feel like the worm in RFK Jr.’s brain ate an important part.
I can’t deal with Bluesky’s 300-character max. I have too much to say.
Oh, THAT’s who Trump & Musk remind me of.
I don’t think “But these Nazis support Israel and only want to ethnic cleanse Latinos from America and Muslims from Gaza,” is the winning argument Republican Jews think it is.
They posted this from the official White House account, not just some retweet of a joke. Zero jokes. He’s crowned himself king. That’s where we are now.
People are about to learn the difference between imperfect government and malevolent government. And it’ll be too late to do anything about it.
The official position of the White House is now, “We’re not gonna fire our Nazi friends every time the press outs them as Nazis, because then the press would win.”
Marko Elez: I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask? Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.
Vance: I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.
Trump: I'm with the VP.
I’m often proven right, but rarely this fast:
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No, I don’t want Amazon to provide me with a doctor through my phone. What hellish dystopia is this? What Idiocracy?
🍊 declares war on sun unless it agrees to rise in the east and set in the west. Sun complies. Another victory for 🍊! #MAGA #ArtOfTheDeal
I wonder how people who worked hard to earn and maintain their government clearances feel about someone who “has been in regular contact with Putin for two years” (WSJ) and half a dozen college kids having raided the United States Treasury of all Americans’ social security and bank account numbers.
One day there’s gonna be a movie about these six kids Elon has doing his bidding, and it’ll give us a dramatized glimpse into the inner turmoil of their friend group regarding which one broke and sold our data to China or Russia and for how many dollars. Adam McKay might direct it. Or Aaron Sorkin.
Please stop pointing to any day the market is down 0.29% as proof 🍊 sent the economy into a freefall. It goes up and down every day, all day.
The stock market isn’t the economy.
It’s rich people betting rich people will stay rich. Their confidence in their richness keeps the market climbing, irrespective of how many or how badly Americans are hurting financially.
He was an early partner in PayPal, but has long since left. But yeah, he definitely knows enough about being a bank to be dangerous.
If Ticketmaster or Home Depot has a data breach, we get a message to change our passwords, get a new credit card, and an offer for credit monitoring.
What do we do when one private citizen has all our personal data?
And how long will it take the world’s hackers to crack some 20-year-old’s system?
Did you ever get a tax refund via direct deposit?
Then the IRS has your account number and routing information. The IRS that’s under the treasury. The treasury that Elon Musk just got all the data out of.
Elon Musk has your bank account and routing information.
And remember when 🍊 got away with directing his minions to sack the Capitol? Now he’s got Elon and his dirty half-dozen sacking every federal building, one at a time.
Kind of feels like there should’ve been some consequences last time if we wanted to prevent this all from happening again but worse
Remember how mad Republicans pretended to be about Hillary Clinton‘s private email server?
And then 🍊 just got away with stealing classified documents and refusing to give them back. Now Elon has all federal data on his computers.
I’m not the only one thinking this, right?
In 1935, Hitler stripped Jews of their citizenship, which allowed him to do whatever he wanted to them, since they had no legal protections.
Yesterday, 🍊 signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship, which, if SCOTUS allows, could strip citizenship from Americans born to immigrants.
In 2016, 🍊 insisted the 4.7% unemployment rate wasn’t “real,” that it was “actually 10%, 20%, or higher.” Then, when the February ‘17 rate was 4.6%, he paraded it around insisting, “It’s real now.”
Be ready for that kind of gaslighting again. We kept saying not to normalize it, but now it’s normal.
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