Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

So many bastards, so little time.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The revolution will be supervised.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Let there be snark.

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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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