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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Never count on the ftfy
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https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/860152196813533185
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# ? May 4, 2017 16:34 |
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/politics/house-vote-republican-health-care-bill.html Vote going on now. 2 Democrats voted yes, so it'll likely pass. e: down to 1, so the live tracking is a little off clearly Azhais fucked around with this message at 19:18 on May 4, 2017 |
# ? May 4, 2017 19:16 |
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AHCA passes with 218 R votes, most likely, and no D votes.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:19 |
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loving incredible. gently caress the GOP and everyone that supports them.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:20 |
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Does the thread title need updating then?
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:23 |
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RIP all those americans who will die slowly. As god intended.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:27 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Does the thread title need updating then? That reminds me, I should update my will.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:28 |
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Welp, was hoping Paul Ryan would get utterly embarrassed again but I guess it's heading to the Senate where it'll die or get amended and returned to the House at which point the HFC will probably throw a tantrum because the bill no longer has provisions for converting the poor and sick into a crude biofuel anymore Once again I hope people are keeping track of who signed away their healthcare while explicitly keeping the protections for themselves
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:28 |
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im sure the optics of republicans throwing a keg party after voting to kill 30,000 people a year totally totally totally will not reflect badly on the party in the mid term elections
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:29 |
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https://twitter.com/TehDeminz/status/860198669408251904
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:30 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if the house accepts the changes the senate proposes - they get to say they fought for the "perfect" version but had to compromise and claim they're dealmakers or whatever. Even an amended version will throw 20+ million people off insurance, make it useless and barely affordable for everyone else, and kill around 50 thousand people a year.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:30 |
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Craig K posted:im sure the optics of republicans throwing a keg party after voting to kill 30,000 people a year totally totally totally will not reflect badly on the party in the mid term elections It's a race to see who can look worse https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/860196932374978560 I'm sure singing Sha Na Na as a bill that kills people passes will be fine. Nobody in the GOP will twist this. StupidSexyMothman fucked around with this message at 19:36 on May 4, 2017 |
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oldskool posted:I'm sure singing Sha Na Na as a bill that kills people passes will be fine. Nobody in the GOP will twist this. It's not like the bulk of the people that vote Republican and will be affected by the bill changes seem to care at all. What are they going to do, vote Democrat, like some sort of Godless heathen?
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:38 |
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Azhais posted:It's not like the bulk of the people that vote Republican and will be affected by the bill changes seem to care at all. What are they going to do, vote Democrat, like some sort of Godless heathen? If enough GOP voters die due to easily preventable illness the Dems win.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:42 |
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oldskool posted:It's a race to see who can look worse Literally nobody will care about this by the next election, if anyone even cares now.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:42 |
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HappyHippo posted:Literally nobody will care about this by the next election, if anyone even cares now. if it passes the senate yeah ppl will care cuz there will be trump voters dying on tv to curable diseases and poo poo and that makes republicans look bad
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:49 |
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oldskool posted:It's a race to see who can look worse Is there video?
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:53 |
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Typo posted:if it passes the senate yeah ppl will care cuz there will be trump voters dying on tv to curable diseases and poo poo and that makes republicans look bad I'm sure the 5% of voters that don't just look for the (R) or (D) will be very inspired to change their votes
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:54 |
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Typo posted:if it passes the senate yeah ppl will care cuz there will be trump voters dying on tv to curable diseases and poo poo and that makes republicans look bad Good luck finding one of those Trump voters dying of curable diseases to go on TV and admit they were wrong. They are pigheaded as gently caress. Their dying words will be "Clinton would have been worse."
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:54 |
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BarbarianElephant posted:Their dying words will be "But her emails"
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:56 |
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HappyHippo posted:Literally nobody will care about this by the next election, if anyone even cares now. They will certainly have forgotten, as their Lords and Masters will have distracted them with a new ethnicity to hate.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:58 |
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HappyHippo posted:Literally nobody will care about this by the next election, if anyone even cares now. By about the time when the 2018 election cycle starts you'll start to see the individual market implode and all the red states that elect to abandon defined health benefits go into effect. That means millions of additional uninsured and under-insured people. Healthcare will be front and center in that election. It would be one thing if the consequences fell onto the democrats base but AHCA is aimed directly at the republican base.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:58 |
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Craig K posted:im sure the optics of republicans throwing a keg party after voting to kill 30,000 people a year totally totally totally will not reflect badly on the party in the mid term elections This, but unironically. Optimism is dead to me now. oldskool posted:I'm sure singing Sha Na Na as a bill that kills people passes will be fine. Nobody in the GOP will twist this. Yeah, apparently there's some reference behind it about Republicans singing the same song as the Democrats passed a bill that later doomed all their seats, but... still doesn't look great.
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# ? May 4, 2017 19:57 |
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Bueno Papi posted:By about the time when the 2018 election cycle starts you'll start to see the individual market implode and all the red states that elect to abandon defined health benefits go into effect. That means millions of additional uninsured and under-insured people. Healthcare will be front and center in that election. It would be one thing if the consequences fell onto the democrats base but AHCA is aimed directly at the republican base. They will blame Obamacare and ask for more time to sort out the mess.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:00 |
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You don't need Trump voters to win. You need to improve turnout of Democrats and lower turnout of GOP voters. The AHCA will do both.
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clockworkjoe posted:You don't need Trump voters to win. You need to improve turnout of Democrats and lower turnout of GOP voters. The AHCA will do both. It'll certainly lower turnout of voters.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:00 |
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Typo posted:if it passes the senate yeah ppl will care cuz there will be trump voters dying on tv to curable diseases and poo poo and that makes republicans look bad BarbarianElephant posted:They will certainly have forgotten, as their Lords and Masters will have distracted them with a new ethnicity to hate. Bueno Papi posted:By about the time when the 2018 election cycle starts you'll start to see the individual market implode and all the red states that elect to abandon defined health benefits go into effect. That means millions of additional uninsured and under-insured people. Healthcare will be front and center in that election. It would be one thing if the consequences fell onto the democrats base but AHCA is aimed directly at the republican base. I'm talking about the singing by dems "looking bad," as the post I quoted was suggesting. People will care about healthcare, they won't care about some lawmakers singing Sha Na Na.
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there is literally no way to make a fuss about democrats singing without it being "they're singing while republicans are doing terrible things, that's bad" which is...a hard attack line for republicans to use literally the only audience for this is democrats worrying about if it looks bad you know what looks worse? taking away health insurance from 25m people
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:06 |
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Wouldn't this be a good time for Democrats to start pushing Medicare for All? "Yeah the ACA had problems, mostly we couldn't explain why its great. Instead of the ACHA, how about a country where no American will go into bankruptcy from medical bills? A country where medicine prices aren't marked-up 1000%? How about never having to compare byzantine loving health care plans that very sneakily don't cover your rear end?" I mean, laugh at me for being naive, because I can't understand why Democrats won't get their loving act together and offer a constructive vision of the future.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:08 |
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Is it to much wishing death upon the Republicans who voted for this since they probably just doomed a bunch of people to death because they won't be able to afford insurance?
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:10 |
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I agree. The Democrats will find a way to gently caress up an easy win.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:11 |
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I'm Canadian so I am on the outside looking in on this and I'm not very sophisticated about U.S. policy and the goings-on of the House of Representatives, but watching your politicians sing that song was loving disgusting.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:11 |
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Rad Valtar posted:Is it to much wishing death upon the Republicans who voted for this since they probably just doomed a bunch of people to death because they won't be able to afford insurance? No. I legitimately hope they die painfully. I hope people start shooting them. It would just be self defense at this point. Everyone who voted for this bill today is a murderer.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:12 |
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Grimes posted:I'm Canadian so I am on the outside looking in on this and I'm not very sophisticated about U.S. policy and the goings-on of the House of Representatives, but watching your politicians sing that song was loving disgusting. Yes the democrats, who to a man voted against this, are really the bad guys here aren't they?
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:13 |
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We will probably see a spike in more personal bankruptcies; ACA did cut them in half: "Expanded health insurance helped cut the number of filings by half" quote:Filings have dropped about 50 percent, from 1,536,799 in 2010 to 770,846 in 2016 (see chart, below). Those years also represent the time frame when the ACA took effect.
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:13 |
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Grimes posted:I'm Canadian so I am on the outside looking in on this and I'm not very sophisticated about U.S. policy and the goings-on of the House of Representatives, but watching your politicians sing that song was loving disgusting. Context is important here, which doesn't make it any less stupid, but it wasn't really "loving disgusting"
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:14 |
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evilweasel posted:there is literally no way to make a fuss about democrats singing without it being "they're singing while republicans are doing terrible things, that's bad" which is...a hard attack line for republicans to use Democrats and Republicans have much different standards, you know this
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:13 |
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Azhais posted:I'm sure the 5% of voters that don't just look for the (R) or (D) will be very inspired to change their votes Hillary would have won the election if it were not for Obama->Trump vote flippers
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# ? May 4, 2017 20:15 |
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HappyHippo posted:I'm talking about the singing by dems "looking bad," as the post I quoted was suggesting. People will care about healthcare, they won't care about some lawmakers singing Sha Na Na. ok I see, I agree with you there
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