Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

So many bastards, so little time.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

We’re not going back!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

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  3. 3.

    West of the Cascades

    @Chris: “You can’t win, Trump. If you strike the ACA down, it shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

  7. 7.

    Chris

    @clay:

    I don’t know, he could imagine quite a lot.

    (I also would like a “like I’m five years old” explanation, incidentally: I just wasn’t going to pass that chance up).

  9. 9.

    Another Scott

    @Major Major Major Major: See the “Silver Loading and You” post this AM.

    In brief, as I understand it, the tax breaks (paid for by Uncle Sam) will mostly make up for the price increases as a result of not paying the CSRs to the insurance companies. Depending on how the insurance companies planned for the lack of the CSR, your income, competition in the area, etc., it may turn out that Gold plans are cheaper (and better) than the “benchmark” Silver plan. So many people will come out ahead even if the CSRs are never paid again.

    But the details matter to be able to determine whether your particular circumstance will be better or worse.

    And we can’t assume that Donnie and the Teabaggers won’t continue to try to wreck Obamacare. We have to continue to fight them every single day.

    HTH.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  10. 10.

    Fake Irishman

    @Another Scott:
    And the upshot of this is as the market settles over time (hence the assuming no “repeal” and the need to keep fighting them every single day) the most popular and cost-effective plan for people between 200 and 400 percent of the poverty line across markets will tend to become Gold instead of Silver. These are solidly middle class folks who get some help from the current ACA, but often are on the hook for high deductibles. They’ll come to expect gold plans as a new standard. And they’ll likely have more political power than the poorer people on Medicaid.

    So killing CSRs perversely both makes the ACA more generous and more politically popular. Hence the clip.

    Now I’m just hoping America can confront the darkness in its own family history without getting a hand chopped off…..

  13. 13.

    Ohio Mom

    @Fake Irishman: And if all this comes to pass, forever after Republicans will claim that Trump DID improve health coverage.

    We won’t ever be able to convince anyone that this isn’t exactly as true as it might appear because only people who have been following David on this blog would have the background knowledge to follow our argument, and they of course won’t need convincing.

    I guess this is an irony I could live with.

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