The government cannot afford to keep subsidizing people’s lifestyles. If you want to be healthy then you need to pay for it. Because we have to build a giant gold ball room baby! It’s going to be gorgeous and we are not invited.
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To all you morons down-voting: this is called sarcasm.
I'll admit my finger was hovering the downvote button until I reached the mention of the Epstein Ballroom
I think I'm going to call it "The Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
I should have used the name!
Also we need to give huge bailouts to fellow fascists.
Lol what
Look, if you keep paying for cancer treatments, you're just gonna have more people with cancer around. Meanwhile, Qatari jets ain't gonna fly themselves!
I'm sure their "plan" is to just let people die. They don't care about anyone except their inner circle.
That's too generous. They only care about themselves. The inner circle is valuable for what they can do for them, full stop.
This is the biggest welfare scandal in the US right now. Congress is refusing to go to work, but still getting fully paid.
Quaint that you think any of them need a paycheck anyway. They're well beyond ever needing any wage.
Public servants above a certain level need to be restricted to investments in index funds, the insider trading nets them more than kickbacks and PAC donations.
This administration is doing just fine at manipulating index funds.
Really, federal congresspeople shouldn't need investments at all. A savings account or government bonds are enough. We can pay them a bit more to compensate if needed.
But they shouldn't have any corporate dependency.
It's not about need, it's always about greed. And they hate working for their actual pay.
Don’t be bothering him with such petty things, don’t you know he has SOOOOOO much on his plate with the peace talks and whitehouse renovations. Why do you bother an old, troubled mind with such terrible things?
/s for those that need it
QANON started as a joke on the Internet. Yes, the sarcasm tag is needed even when it's obvious to some.
the_donald started as a joke on the Internet. (And those who pointed out the joke were extremely quickly banned.)
I saw that all trade talks are off with Canada. So that will free up at least 15 seconds per day.
Do they have a game plan for what they're going to do after they implode the entirety of the countries government economy or are they just stupid? Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral. Like yeah sure they're full of crazy people and this stuff used to be just empty rhetoric for they had the power to realize it but this doesn't seem like the smartest plan
Their game plan is to put all their money in crypto, foreign currency, and gold, which they are betting will hold its value after the US economy implodes. Then the entire US will be up for sale at "cheap" prices, relative to their currencies, while everyone with dollars gets screwed.
Yes, they might utterly destroy the finances of most of us in the pprocess, but they don't care! They just want to own it all.
They want people to die. Literally.
Project 2025 is the game plan but keep in mind not everything is planned.
Republicans have full control and the Great American Fire Sale is ongoing. They just got started.
Like this could easily destroy the entire Health Care industry, not just the insurance companies by creating a death spiral
It's not that the industry is dead - it's just that health insurance companies are insanely parasitic and are about to kill the host. The death-spiral already started and there simply isn't enough money to rebuild or 'reform' a privatized healthcare system where insurance companies sit at all the choke points.
It's called Obamacare, so obviously Obama is to blame!
I love how many like the ACA but absolutely HATE Obamacare. That moment of realization on their faces never gets old. "Why would they call the ACA Obamacare?"
Don't worry the Republican better healthcare plan is about to unveilied. First we need to get through infrastruture week