The next time a Dem gets in? They'll make the revenge tour in 2020 look like a blip on the radar. They're going to go balls to wall, no sugar coating shit with their agenda.
They did not get rid of all ACA credit, just the extras given from Biden with Covid. At the same time, premiums have increased on the marketplace drastically. I imagine they'll end up compromising on ACA credits but it won't make up for the massive premium increases for the most part.
Prices of insurance are going up because the government keeps fucking arround with it. Massive subsidies completely divorces real costs so insurance has no incentive to keep premiums down. At the same time hospitals and other providers have intentionally opaque pricing because of various government interventions and endless intentionality confusing contracts with the health insurance companies.
You want to lower health care prices?
Abolish that AMA's monopoly on accreditation. In 1997 they lobbied to lower the number of doctors to be trained, that cap has not been lifted. They are lobbying for jeet doctors to because the head of the AMA is Indian now...
States should abolish the certificate of need that prevents new and smaller hospitals and providers to be built because it conflicts with another.
Allow people to buy insurance across state lines, but also enforce anti-monopoly rules. Cigna for instance should not own express scrips inorder to force users to fill prescriptions with them instead of their own local pharmacy.
Pass a law to mandate the real costs of drugs, services, etc have to be published instead of how it is now where nobody knows what anything costs except the hospital administrators and even then they might not.
MRI costs real money, but no one actually knows. What you have to pay for it depends what you're being scanned for even if it is the same scan and radiologists time.
If the right doesn't do something the left will 100% throw everyone in the Trump administration in jail, prosecute ICE agents, go after his supporters, import 50 million illegals and pack the supreme court. that's not being a fatpacks doomer that's reality.
Too add to this, the scenario Lincoln was faced with in 1861 is explained with the proper 2026 context.
It is Febuary 1, 2026. Federal Agents in LA are beseiged by locals. They have arrested numerous illegals and are holding them pending deportation, but they can't get them out of the federal building due to mass protest. Instead of clearing the protestors away, the LAPD, acting on the orders of the California Governor, orders the federal officers to release the residents of California kidnapped by ICE. They have a court order, signed by a federal judge, saying the detainess are to be released.
Ice refuses.
The LAPD storms the federal building, and takes the federal agents as prisoners.
That was the situation Lincoln was facing when the South Carolina Militia stormed Fort Sumter. It went way beyond an argument over law and procedure and had crossed the line into outright force being applied by the local government against the United States.
If the right doesn't do something the left will 100% throw everyone in the Trump administration in jail, prosecute ICE agents, go after his supporters, import 50 million illegals and pack the supreme court. that's not being a fatpacks doomer that's reality.
Two, I showed my boss a clip where Trump gets distracted and turns to the side, so the little girl waiting for candy in front of him taps his arm to get his attnetion. My boss joked that the Secret Service later tacked her to the sidewalk. I had the morbid thought that there are probably parents out there that would hide an IED to their kid's candy back just to kill Orange Man. And if not parents (e.g. postmenopausal cat ladies), some unsuspecting nephew or niece.
This might be rainbow-deserving, but I'm thinking anyone trick or treating at the White House has been pre-screened for that very reason. It reminds me of the day President Trump worked at a McDonald's that wasn't actually open to the general public over security concerns with only certain people being allowed to come be served by our current president that day.
The rioters know exactly how much they can and can't do before they get arrested and constantly push that line to see if they can provoke a confrontation that would work out in their favor. Big Kudos to those agents who successfully resist the efforts to bait them in that manner.
Nothing is more fun than to take what was meant as an insult, embrace it, and instead turn it into something funny or a badge of honor. If the social media post where Trump questioned if a king was going to replace him after the last round of No Kings protests was genuine, that's another good example as well.
According to the official DC Police Union X.com account, "Keep in mind earlier this week, several DC Council members argued that reinstating the juvenile curfew was inappropriate because it 'criminalized young people.'" (archive)
The same argument has been raised in the City of Detroit when they enforce the existing curfew laws during their 4th of July events and for Devil's Night. But nobody seem able to offer any sort of valid reason why teenagers need to be roaming the streets during those overnight hours.
Once Dems create a gib or expand its eligibility, they become absolutely unwilling to make reductions even when it's the most reasonable or right thing to do. Ditto for their policies that support or otherwise enable illegal aliens. That's the biggest problem. I'd like to think most people believe SNAP has its purpose, but the system needs changes to ensure it's helping citizens with true need first and foremost.
He instructed his lawyers to head to the court so that the judge can explain what mechanism the administration 'must' use to distribute the funds. Which to my understanding there isn't for several reasons beyond just the shutdown.
My understanding is that pending any potential appeals, Trump is willing to fund EBT; however, (1) the problem is easily solved by congress passing a clean CR, and (2) There are existing court decisions/orders telling him he can't bypass congress to fund or defund programs, so this creates a legal catch-22 that needs to be clarified more definitively by the judge(s) insisting EBT must be funded outside of an explicit appropriation passed by congress.
Those are full ACA plans and I think Medicaid gets involved at lower incomes. The state implementation of Medicaid has different names in each state. For example, in California it's Medi-Cal.
I could be wrong, but I thought I heard something that subsidies are showing as zero because the shutdown has created uncertainty as to how much the subsides will be - whether it's the old formula based on both income family size or Biden's (what was supposed to be) temporary COVID enhancement that focuses on family size alone.
Edit #2: In states with Medicaid expansion, people whose incomes don't exceed 133% of the Federal Poverty Level can qualify for Medicaid.
Not to mention, "taxing the rich," is little more than a mantra. In practice, nobody can agree on what income level counts as "rich" and those earning that much money have tax professionals who can help them legally reduce their taxable income below the threshhold for additional taxes.
I thin it depends on which black neighborhoods are adjacent to the suburban communities. Around here, the suburbs adjacent to the ghetto rats almost always have some sort of incident even if it's something as minor as bullies snatching candy from smaller kids. Around my neighborhood, thankfully, the adjacent black neighborhood that trick or treats here each year is a better clss of black people where the kids frequently have two parents with them and both adults and kids say "Thank you," and act polite as they go house to house.
The problems come when white people are told either black people do no wrong (and that turns out to be false) or that its racist to acknowledge the existance of bad black people.
As an example of the ongoing double political standards, I offer this screenshot:
Leading text: He can golf in prison. Or not. I just want him in prison.
Meme text: Only in America could a billionaire make us pay for his golf weekends and tell us we can't have food, health, science, or art.
The leading text is telling: The same people who want "due process" for those with standing orders for deportation also think it should be acceptable to throw political opponents in jail without due process.
It also depends on the reason in some places. Areas with strong auto accident lawyers/activists have managed to get insurance companies to pay more for a treatment if it's auto-accident related than if it's for other reasons. Other than entitlement, nobody seems to be able to say why medical procedure x should produce a payment of $400 for an auto accident patient and just $200 for anyone else, for example. There's too many special interests with their hands in the healthcare pie and they have no intention of giving up even one cent of their existing slices.
Zohran Mamdani went on a late night nightclub tour in New York last night. The fourth stop was at a Papi Juice "house party". "PAPI JUICE IS AN ART COLLECTIVE THAT AIMS TO AFFIRM AND CELEBRATE THE LIVES OF QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR."
I can't remember who it was, but someone was quoted in this thread saying something to the effect that "foreigners and American society's deviants will always ally with each other, no matter how contradictory it might seem, because they're united in their shared hatred of you."
If the right doesn't do something the left will 100% throw everyone in the Trump administration in jail, prosecute ICE agents, go after his supporters, import 50 million illegals and pack the supreme court. that's not being a fatpacks doomer that's reality.
Sorry that you're so simple to trick into raging about Anti-Fascism. Do you support Fascism? If you don't, well, you are now Antifa. I guess you're a terrorist then.
Too add to this, the scenario Lincoln was faced with in 1861 is explained with the proper 2026 context.
It is Febuary 1, 2026. Federal Agents in LA are beseiged by locals. They have arrested numerous illegals and are holding them pending deportation, but they can't get them out of the federal building due to mass protest. Instead of clearing the protestors away, the LAPD, acting on the orders of the California Governor, orders the federal officers to release the residents of California kidnapped by ICE. They have a court order, signed by a federal judge, saying the detainess are to be released.
Ice refuses.
The LAPD storms the federal building, and takes the federal agents as prisoners.
That was the situation Lincoln was facing when the South Carolina Militia stormed Fort Sumter. It went way beyond an argument over law and procedure and had crossed the line into outright force being applied by the local government against the United States.
Even with all Newscums posturing, he knows that WILL be a line of no return.Once that happens, he has essentially declared war on the federal government.
I do not think he wants that.
He will keep obstructing and signing unenforceable edicts into law, but if he were to have that scenario happens on his watch, Trump can officially declare the Insurrection Act(cause it literally is) and ignore the judiciary and legislative bodies.It would be men with guns from then on out.
Antifa is a moniker for a general principle or goal, not a real organization. By itself, it has no organization and is mostly connected to Anarchists and the so-called black block, but this again is reductionist to who they are and who would use the moniker.
It is like saying that Laissez-faire is an organization. No, it might be a pillar of an organization or movement, but it is not the organization itself.
Sorry that you're so simple to trick into raging about Anti-Fascism. Do you support Fascism? If you don't, well, you are now Antifa. I guess you're a terrorist then.
Yeah, but non-Germans use it in different contexts, but in reality, it is connected to the anti-Nazi protesting in Europe, where the idea was that it did not matter who you are, fuck the Nazis. So if you were willing to "protest" the literally Neo Nazis, you were part of Antifa for that.
However, I will also again reiterate that the black block has plenty of times used it as part of their retardation to.
Newsom isn't a serious person. He can get away with it in California, because California. But he hasn't had an honest day's work in his life. That is before the cuck shit. How is someone in say, Iowa, supposed to relate to a silver spoon brat when they farm Corn for a living?
Nothing is more fun than to take what was meant as an insult, embrace it, and instead turn it into something funny or a badge of honor. If the social media post where Trump questioned if a king was going to replace him after the last round of No Kings protests was genuine, that's another good example as well.
Ultimately, it boils down to the fact that it's just not a very effective insult to begin with. Unlike, say, caricaturing Biden as a walking corpse, curly-haired babyface Vance makes no allusions to his substance as a person or a politician. It's the easiest kind of "insult" to take in stride because at worst it's just saying he has a somewhat funny-shaped face, which is kind of true but also entirely irrelevant to anything meaningful.
