Have the day you voted for.
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Well I didn’t vote for it and my premiums are still going up $800 a month.
Welcome to Democracy.
Where your life is run by Idiot America.
Not a democracy; most Americans want single payer
Americans want many things but are rarely willing to do anything for them… specially if a medicum of their effort may benefit someone else
So instead of a society, you get a Mad Max style race to the bottom
Did you cast a vote for Harris?
Tired of these talking points. So many leftists held their nose and voted for Harris. Not only do we not get adequate representation, but we also can't voice or opinion lest we "depress the vote"?
She was a dogshit candidate who depressed her own vote like when she tapped her brother-in-law from Uber and stopped pushing popular positions like workers rights, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/kamala-harris-tony-west.html
It's not a mystery.
For real.
Yes, Trump is the one fucking us. Yes, Harris wouldn't have fucked us this hard.
But these aren't problems we would have if the DNC had decided to do an actual primary instead of just handing their reins over to a senile old man and his hand-picked successor. That isn't how democracy works and its a big part of why we are so fundamentally fucked right now.
Or even, short of a primary, holding a single position everyone fucking wants instead of using horror of the other guy to push their distasteful oligarch fellating agenda on america against basically everyone's wishes.
They're more interested in beating us than beating fascism, and that means they're on team fasch. Never blue. Never again. Not at any level.
nooooooo, surely if everyone continues to hold their nose and vote for the controlled opposition things will change
/s
Even if they voted 3rd party instead Trump would still have won, what point do you think you're making?
exactly...so you have to usurp the party from within, same as MAGA did with the GOP.
this is how the DSA operates, only progressives in the room that know what the fuck they're doing
Scenario:
You need to clean your messy floors. There's a broom in one corner, and a dustpan somewhere. There's a vacuum cleaner in the closet but it's not plugged in and the filter may need cleaning. There's also a man with a gun to your head, telling to to ro exactly as he says, or he'll pull the trigger.
The liberal solution is to make sure the gun, the closest tool and only one in easy reach, is working at peak efficiency, and criticize all the others as impossibilities. Then maybe suck the guy off, even though he wasn't asking for it, just out of gratitude for helping you clean.
She was dog shit, for sure. What kind of shit was Trump?
Personally… I LOVE that Trump won. I’m exiting the country in < 6mo, and you losers can sleep in the bed you made.
Yes.
i looked it up, you voted for Drumpf
Just letting you know I block this toxic entitled bullshit on the assumption that you're a Russian troll.
I think if you dislike a person you should block them.
"A self-inflicted full-blown crisis"
It's certainly a personal crisis for me.
I can't even fully describe all the many rotten layers of putrid stench there are to my healthcare situation for 2026 right now. But needless to say, I am one of the millions of people who may go without health insurance next year.
In my entire adult life, this year is the only year where I've come anywhere close to "breaking even" in terms of the cost of health insurance being worth it (i.e. the amount they've paid out is roughly equal to what I've paid in and the amount I've paid in is about what I'd have had to pay for my own healthcare bills if I didn't have health insurance at all). It's always been a one sided deal otherwise.
That issue aside, the insurance plans are going up hundreds or even a thousand dollars or more per month. At the same time, the federal tax incentives (aka subsidies) have ended. Those dramatically reduced the final cost of the plans, to the point where some plans were free for some people and without them it makes the already dramatic price increases astronomical. In addition, the new plans have higher out-of-pocket expenses in the form of higher co-pay, co-insurance, deductible, max out of pocket, and less coverage. Then of course the actual prices of all the drugs, supplies, testing, services, and so on will almost certainly go up simply due to "inflation".
All that to say, I'm looking at the numbers and having to make hard choices about what I can afford in 2026. Health insurance is looking less and less feasible. It sucks because without it, one health incident could literally be financial ruin. But of course with it, one health incident could literally be financial ruin, just slightly less likely. And the other aspect of it is that in the USA, health insurance basically is a ticket to access healthcare. Without it, you pay up front in full or you can forget it when it comes to things like doctors' visits and prescription drugs.