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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

gradenko_2000 posted:



she went from medicare 4 all to FREE COBRA PREMIUMS

:thunk:

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Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

Yeah Bernie's biggest personal priority coming into the 2020 primaries was definitely "don't let people blame you for trump winning again, even if it means losing". And, shockingly, coming in with a loser's mentality ultimately led to a loss.

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

Scuttlebutt was that hillary was blackout drunk and couldn’t do a speech, which I totally believe. She’s known for being able to knock a few back, but that’s way too humanizing so the campaign never touched on it at all

Nucleic Acids
Apr 10, 2007

Rectal Death Adept posted:

i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

“Biden’s camps aren’t camps because they’re nicer” is a pretty common refrain even in D&D.

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Fortaleza posted:

Scuttlebutt was that hillary was blackout drunk and couldn’t do a speech, which I totally believe. She’s known for being able to knock a few back, but that’s way too humanizing so the campaign never touched on it at all

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Nucleic Acids posted:

“Biden’s camps aren’t camps because they’re nicer” is a pretty common refrain even in D&D.

very impressive of biden to convert every single camp into a luxury resort in, what, two months?

Raiad
Feb 1, 2005

Without the law, there wouldn't be lawyers.


Rectal Death Adept posted:

i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

why would they regret it, it got them what they wanted and they will never suffer any consequences for their role in it

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

Yeah as long as the Biden camps can be dressed up even slightly, "well it was worse under Trump and any improvement matters" will be the common line among anyone who really doesn't like to let their thoughts linger on the gross poo poo the party does.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp

gradenko_2000 posted:



she went from medicare 4 all to FREE COBRA PREMIUMS

thru sept!

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


SKULL.GIF posted:

is cuomo being removed/convicted yet for being a sex harasser?


"this is what's in the bill" --> ? --> "aoc no longer supports M4A"

It's part of her pattern.

Over the last year she has altered to:

-Changing her wording to "access" to healthcare
-Being firmly against forcing the vote or using any of the small power she has to push against the establishment Democrats that are very obviously against M4A weakening the idea that it is possible
-Talking about the "reality" that she hopes to have it in 30 years or whatever which may as well be effectively never
-now talking up COBRA and other various small potatoes as wins

It's a very strong series of surrenders while not pushing forward for the actual policy that has been mostly been abandoned. This isn't a one off.

Eggplant Squire has issued a correction as of 19:16 on Mar 13, 2021

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1369658946382929921

Duss's dad is also ex CIA

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

yeah AOC saying that she hopes to get M4A in the next 30 years was imo the perfect distillation of her transformation into a congresscritter. the not so subtle assumption that she'll still be sitting in the House doing the Good Work for 30 years, yet strangely has gotten nothing she campaigned for done in that time period is exactly how members of congress think.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAlEoLRuTA

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


Meanwhile absolute silence on Steven Donziger being held under house arrest in the US for over a year by a private law firm acting as prosecutor (because the real prosecutor refused to bring charges) all on behalf of an oil company.

GodFish
Oct 10, 2012

We're your first, last, and only line of defense. We live in secret. We exist in shadow.

And we dress in black.

spacemang_spliff posted:

lol we’re the new axis power

Always have been :v:

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


If you actually care about policy AOC is worse than an establishment Democrat at this point since her entire role now is to take the anger and frustration of people under 40 and channel that back into the party. She's offering the false hope she is working towards solutions instead of the reality that she is just explaining why the stuff she was outraged about half a year ago is cool now and why her constant losses in the face of both Republicans and Conservative Democrats are actually victory wine.

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
All you need to know about aoc is that she was telling everyone who was mad that she wasn't doing anything that she was building up her political capital to make change. Then she was rewarded for not making waves and voting pelosi by getting kicked off all the committees and now she's very excited about access to COBRA for 6 months.

Mao Zedong Thot
Oct 16, 2008


Rectal Death Adept posted:

i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

why would they care? they just stopped talking about it in the media. mission accomplished

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Rectal Death Adept posted:

i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

They no longer care about camps. The minute Biden won immigration policy became a problem too complex for any one administration to solve, and sometimes putting kids in concentration camps for weeks a time is just necessary. Plus the camps aren't even that bad now, you get a deluxe conex box with bars on the windows to keep the kids extra safe

Bootleg Trunks
Jun 12, 2020

Rectal Death Adept posted:

i bet liberals are now regretting that they made the border camps front and center on the national stage

Orange man was so bad though

Excuse me but biden has always been progressive and implying otherwise is madness

Mao Zedong Thot
Oct 16, 2008


Eggplant Squire posted:

If you actually care about policy AOC is worse than an establishment Democrat at this point since her entire role now is to take the anger and frustration of people under 40 and channel that back into the party. She's offering the false hope she is working towards solutions instead of the reality that she is just explaining why the stuff she was outraged about half a year ago is cool now and why her constant losses in the face of both Republicans and Conservative Democrats are actually victory wine.

this is the purpose the left serves, from progressive caucus, to dsa, to dirtbag left. etc. all just carry water for the party ultimately.

Falstaff
Apr 27, 2008

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

Oh Snapple! posted:

Yeah as long as the Biden camps can be dressed up even slightly, "well it was worse under Trump and any improvement matters" will be the common line among anyone who really doesn't like to let their thoughts linger on the gross poo poo the party does.

Given that the camps are already being expanded and filled beyond the prior covid-based limits, it's probably more like "it would have been worse under a hypothetical second Trump term," which is the perfect defence because as a counterfactual it can be as bad as you can imagine.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Falstaff posted:

Given that the camps are already being expanded and filled beyond the prior covid-based limits, it's probably more like "it would have been worse under a hypothetical second Trump term," which is the perfect defence because as a counterfactual it can be as bad as you can imagine.

yup, any evil instantly becomes good as long as you can imagine a way to be more evil

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Falstaff posted:

Given that the camps are already being expanded and filled beyond the prior covid-based limits, it's probably more like "it would have been worse under a hypothetical second Trump term," which is the perfect defence because as a counterfactual it can be as bad as you can imagine.

Under Trump 2 they would have been turned into sausage, so anything short of literal Soylent Green is acceptable and any criticism is just supporting Trump

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp

Trabisnikof posted:

...assumption that she'll still be sitting in the House doing the Good Work for 30 years, yet strangely has gotten nothing she campaigned for done in that time period is exactly how members of congress think.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
I'm holding out a shred of hope that the next two years in the governing party and things actively getting worse will radicalize Aoc. but, it's not looking great. aoc you are on the clock.

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

wow he got awarded twice

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
She's more likely to become a right wing reactionary than ever coming back left.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Grey Fox posted:

also what happens if the Supreme Court decides to gut Obamacare?

dems reinstate the financial penalty for the mandate, duh.

the scotus case rests on the premise that without the penalty the ACA is null & void. There'd be One Easy Fix that both the insurance industry + biden would love to have an excuse to use.

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




SKULL.GIF posted:

"this is what's in the bill" --> ? --> "aoc no longer supports M4A"

imo it's just really funny that she's celebrating it as though its a major victory

a helpful bear
Aug 18, 2004

Slippery Tilde

etalian posted:

One of the funniest bits from 2016 was how Crooked Hillary didn't even give a concession speech after her campaign choked while all the Crooked Hillary supporters sobbed for hours at the campaign HQ.

Sad!

Yeah and wasn't that after she made a big deal during debates of trying to make Trump say he would concede the election if he lost?? Lol

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable
I imagine the last insurance provider will drop out from providing ACA plans before scotus says the one weird trick of taxing !NULL makes the whole thing unconstitutional.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


gradenko_2000 posted:

Bernie throwing Teachout under the bus for writing an entirely correct article about Biden being a corrupt motherfucker was a huge red flag during his campaign
:abuela: and pals were right all along, Bernie is a misogynist. He certainly loves his pal Joe.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Trabisnikof posted:

Meanwhile absolute silence on Steven Donziger being held under house arrest in the US for over a year by a private law firm acting as prosecutor (because the real prosecutor refused to bring charges) all on behalf of an oil company.

One largely unnoticed thing: the Supreme Court told idiot Steven Donziger to get hosed. No, the courts of the US won't help you enforce a 9 billion dollar fraud attempt :laugh:

To be more specific, Donziger had expert evidence and court decisions ghost written, and bribed a judge and several politicians to get the ruling he wanted. It all unravelled when he lost a RICO lawsuit in a US court over the case, and ever since then has been bouncing between various nations like a pinball, trying to hang the judgement on Chevron (he's barred from doing so in US courts).

Speaking of which, I wonder if Steven Donziger is still running around trying to hang that $9.5 billion judgement on Chevron. Most of the courts in the western hemisphere have told him to gently caress off at this point :laugh:

(this is literally everything ever said about him there, in case your wondering what the succ discourse is about this case)

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
A seventh woman has stuck Cuomo


https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1370788012049715203?s=19

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

Clip-On Fedora posted:

Our entire ruling class look like Apostles from Beserk in their “human” forms.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

comedyblissoption posted:

How does the subsidy change my costs?

The government will cover 100% of your COBRA premiums. You could still be on the hook for any co-pays and deductibles.

lol. lmao.

bfd. :rolleyes:

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

does the new bill pick up 100 percent of the family premiums, or only the employee's?

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comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

SKULL.GIF posted:

is cuomo being removed/convicted yet for being a sex harasser?


"this is what's in the bill" --> ? --> "aoc no longer supports M4A"
maybe one day you will see what others see when someone says we should not vote on m4a or challenge the leadership and instead sheepdogs for temporary cobra subsidies and "access to healthcare"

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