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    here’s the thing though: they’ll abolish the ACA, and when people start complaining, they’ll just blame everything on mexicans.

    and trump voters will 10000000% believe it

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      blame everything on mexicans

      I’m sorry, it’s all my fault and I take full responsibility. I’ll make tamales with atole for the victims of my reckless Mexican behavior. 😔

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        Holy shit I love all types of Mexican food and I’ve never heard of atole. Looking it up.

        Edit: Fuck your fake coffee!

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          Hah! It only looks like coffee but is closer to a thick smoothie made with corn dough, vanilla, and cinnamon. It makes me feel very cozy during the winter, it’s delicious.

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      “Illegals smuggle our patriotic, expensive insulin out of the US, and we gotta build a wall facing the other direction to keep them in this time! We’ll use tariffs to get Mexico to pay for it!”

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    by jan we will be so consumed by the flavour of the month culture war (trans muslim librarians are coming for your pizza gate!) that they wont even notice its happening.

    by the time they need it they’ll forget who even took it away.

    by the time they vote they’ll just think trump saved them from leftist death panels or some shit.

    edit: oh shit, the q-anon nuts are going to sprout again arn’t they… le sigh

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      trans muslim librarians are coming for your pizza

      So what type of pizza do they like? Gotta get ready for January!

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      oh shit, the q-anon nuts are going to sprout again arn’t they… le sigh

      I’m over giving a fuck about them at this point. It’s tired, old hat, doesn’t really even bother me anymore. I know they’re saying shit to enrage people but when you see enough of it, it eventually just stops registering. I’m sure they’ll still find takers for their stupid games but i also suspect others are also moving on from giving a fuck too. How long can you really play games like that before you finally see them for what they are? Bunch of miserable twats trying to drag everyone else down to their level. I take comfort knowing i live a happier life than them, that all they have is hate. It’s actually kind of sad, really

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    Oh god dammit.

    It just occurred to me that unless there’s some state thing Im unaware of, when I divorce, once the damn ACA gets pulled she won’t have insurance and I’m on the hook for medical shit for 5~ years.

    God fucking dammit. Just another reason these goddamn Nazi bastards needed to be taken care of before the election.

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      Hah! Look at you, thinking you’ll be able to divorce in a few years from now. Haven’t seen project 2025?

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        I’m going to just assume that this is a man so he’ll be able to divorce just fine. Getting rid of no fault divorce is just for women so they are kept in the marriage where they’re abused.

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        I’m attempting to get the divorce done before that occurs.

        And I can prove fault if necessary I just really don’t want to dig that shit up again. The memory of discovering the affair was bad enough.

        And like the guy below said I’m a dude

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          Yeah, I assumed you’re a dude. But it doesn’t matter. About a year from now, it’s fair to assume that divorce is at least on the table/ chopping block, if not already outright banned by the new theocracy

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      Well I kept saying that and the responses were- without fail- “you first, tough guy!”, “go back to twitter, ammosexual!”, “if we dont respect free speech for Nazis then they wont respect ours when they gain power!”, and “you’re the REAL Nazi!!”

      So I hope trumptards get every single fucking thing they voted for.

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    Well last time they tried to get rid of it, but John McCain sank that effort as if failed 49-51. Just before he died of cancer.

    Now all the John McCains have been purged from the GOP and they will have a bigger senate majority, and likely a significant house majority too. So if there is an effort to repeal the ACA, it’ll very likely pass.

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      Non stop fillibusters for 4 years?

      Is that our only hope?

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        You mean filibuster. The Democrats didn’t eliminate it under Biden out of fear for what Republicans would do when they took power again. Guess what?

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          And I was pissed off about that but now have to reluctantly give them credit for that. Turned out to be the right call.

          But if they actually use it, the way McConnel did when he was in the minority, then the Republicans will finally get rid of it. They don’t need it, as they will never again be the minority party.

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            There is no way we don’t get a massive recession or worse in Trump’s presidency. MAGA won’t care, but a lot of the idiot moderates always blame the incumbent party and will vote in a Democrat.

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              Pretty much, honestly I think Kamela would have won if they just put up a reel-to-reel film reminding people Covid-19 is Trump’s fault

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        They should get out of the way. It appears the majority want this.

        It would seem that many need a reminder of how bad it can be.

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          Do the majority of people want ACA appealed or do the majority of people not understand what’s coming for them?

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            ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guess we’ll see hu?

            Either way, they’ll get what they voted for.

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            Given all the people who wanted to “Repeal Obamacare and replace it with the ACA!”

            The latter

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        All it takes to eliminate the filibuster is a bare majority. Democrats did it selectively to carve out exceptions for the few promises they actually wanted to fulfill.

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      That has gotta be hugely unpopular right?
      People would absolutely flip out if we go back to “preexisting conditions”.

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        It will be hugely unpopular. It’s not clear whether that will translate to Trump or Republicans becoming unpopular though.

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      The Affordable Care Act, the US public marketplace for private insurance. Ignorantly referred to by conservatives as socialism.

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        Years back, before Republicans realized it’s good (as they eventually do with all social programs), I had an aunt say “I’m on that Obama care and it’s awful!” So we asked which plan she’s on and she just kept saying “I already told you, it’s Obamacare.”

        I think the average Republican voter does not understand that it is private insurance

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          the average Republican voter does not understand

          You can just stop there, and be correct about almost any topic.

          I had to explain tax brackets to my mother.

          She’s got a degree to teach math. And I know she actually went to college since I can remember sitting in the back of her classrooms when she couldn’t find a babysitter.

          She used to do her own taxes and my grandparents taxes.

          But, as a teenager, I had to explain why a potential $2 raise doesn’t mean she’s losing more money in taxes than the raise is giving her.

          She also doesn’t believe the welfare cliff exists, despite our family being precariously perched atop it when I was in elementary school.

          At this point I think she’s just heard the same stupid shit repeated over and over, she doesn’t even question it anymore.

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            I had to explain to my mom the other day about server wages and she didn’t even believe me at first.

            Not to defend server wages in any capacity, but the utter fact that she didn’t know the wage nor the federal minimum wage absolutely astounded me. And when she tried to tell me to vote for Trump because of no tax on tips, I told her, “then just tip in cash,” she was stuttering and moved on from the topic.

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        Not even close to socialism or affordable. Currently paying $2400 a month on an ACA plan because my employer’s benefits don’t cover the services my disabled child requires.

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          Jfc, that’s my mortgage at least 4 times over. Any money spent on your kid is well spent, but it’s horrible that you must sacrifice that much.

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              Mine is just over $1000 in an urban area for a town home. We got lucky though and got in right before things went stupid in 2020, so that’s part of it. Also made the move and investment of a heavy down payment because we saw rent was going to become unlivable, and sure enough it happened.

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              Not in the US. Suburban Wales, UK.

              It affords a 3-bedroom terraced home. It used to be cheaper before our previous UK government fucked interest rates.

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                Holy shit that’s amazing. 3 bedrooms WITH a terrace?

                AND you get free healthcare?

                God you guys live like kings

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                  Terraced in this instance means there are two other homes, one either side, that we share walls with.

                  Having good neighbours is essential.

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            I’d do it all over in a heartbeat but it would be nice if it wasn’t so damn expensive. Compared to the literal millions of dollars all my kid’s surgeries, hospital stays, home nursing, medical supplies, prescriptions, and equipment costs it’s a small price to pay. So I guess I should consider myself lucky.

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              “Shit could be worse” never ceases to be true.

              Best wishes from me, sounds like you have a handful.

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                Referring to the place you live as hell while having free healthcare and a $600 mortgage on a 3 bedroom house has demoralized every American who read your comment.

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                  Tongue in cheek, of course.

                  The free healthcare has nosedived over the last 2 decades. It’s still free, but wait times for everything are insane unless you are actively dying. People can wait years for routine procedures & treatments. A regular GP appointment is weeks, unless you snag an ‘emergency’ appointment by phoning in at 8am sharp and beating everyone else doing the same.

                  If you need an ambulance and aren’t having a cardiac episode or similar - good luck and hope someone can drive your ass to hospital. Wait times are hours at minimum. A long time to be writhing around in (non life threatening!) pain.

                  Yes it is free. Unfortunately it is underfunded and overworked.

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        calling it socialism is correct, they just fail to realize that’s what good governments do

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          Not really? Its a marketplace and some regulations on how insurance companies can conduct business. It doesnt really have anything to do with having the common people have economic control

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          Socialism isn’t “government does thing”. It’s when large groups of people get together and tell the institutions “you’re going to do what’s best for us, and not what’s best for the .001% at the top”. This goes for interacting with the government, too.

          There are effects of this that can be felt, like “socialized medicine” or other public services… but they are not what socialism is, just what socialism does.

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      Affordable care act, also referred to as Obamacare. The name Obamacare was coined by republicans the actual name of the legislation was the affordable care act