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Your Petty-Ass President Has Declared Obamacare ‘Dead,’ but in a Karmic Twist of Fate, the People Who Put Him in Office Will Probably Suffer Most
We know that “the truth” is a relative concept in the Trump White House, so no one was surprised when President von FuckFace (kudos, Stephen A. Crockett Jr.) declared that Obamacare was “finished,” “dead” and “gone” Monday. It’s true that if Obamacare were a person, he very well might be on his deathbed, since Donald…
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I Watched CNN Debate Night: The Fight Over Obamacare. I Would Like Most of Those Minutes Back
In theory, a cable news network holding debates between members of different parties arguing over the merits of their respective policies seems like a novel idea. However, because we largely consume for-profit media, these debates often prove to be more about spectacle than anything substantive. Therein lies the problem with “infotainment”: the intent is geared…
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7 Whole Years and Still No Health Care Plan From the GOP
You can do a lot in seven years if you really work at it. The world has seen a seven-year war; cicadas come out of the ground every seven years; Maxwell drops a new album about every seven years. In other words, a lot of global, amazing and world-altering things can be accomplished over seven…
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All Health Care Is Obamacare
Despite our reasoning skills, development of complex languages and cross-cultural ability to learn the Electric Slide, humans are basically animals, and all animals share fundamental traits. Take dogs, for instance: I have an enormous, bumbling, spoiled brat of a Great Dane named Omar. When Omar was a small puppy, he would bounce to his food…
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Watch Mike Pence’s Matrix-Like Deflection of Obama Wiretapping Claims Made by Trump
Vice President Mike Pence knows that President Mother Russia was lying when he took to the keyboard with his little fingers to type those crazy claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City. In fact, the vice president pulled out some Matrix-like dodging moves when he was asked flat out…
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House Republicans Release Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Plan
The wait is finally over. House Republicans have finally released their master plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known (to the shock of millions) as Obamacare, in the form of two bills that would replace federal insurance subsidies with individual tax credits and grants to help states create their own policies.…