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Starbeach

(266 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:32 PM Sunday

This is halftime. Get America ready for the second half.

Which is the vote on the ACA subsidies. This is a pause in the campaign to save health care. The Dems have cemented their identity as guardians of the right to medical care. Everyone knows where we stand and that we will fight for them. Everyone knows who won’t . Let’s get a date for the vote.

This is halftime. Game not over.

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johnnyfins

(3,235 posts)
1. Chuck? Is that you???
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:34 PM
Sunday


You actually think there will be a vote?



"But, but, but. The MAGAs made a deal"

hatrack

(63,959 posts)
2. And minutes after the measure passes, King Turd will eagerly sign the bill into law!!!
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:36 PM
Sunday

More piping-hot Hopium, with a generous dollop of unicorn dung - wheeee!!!!

standingtall

(3,144 posts)
4. Well if this is halftime there is already an insurmountable lead and the 2nd half is merely a formality
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:40 PM
Sunday

We are not getting 60 votes you can forget that. The couldn't even work out a deal for a simply majority vote. If Democrats are the guardians of healthcare then they have done a piss poor job of it.

FHRRK

(1,302 posts)
5. If it is halftime
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:40 PM
Sunday

Then we just marched down the field in the final 2 minutes, first and goal from the one, all three timeouts, and the coach took a knee three plays in a row, let the clock expire without using a timeout.

This is a steaming pile of shit, don’t try and tell me it is a meatball sandwich.

herding cats

(19,962 posts)
6. I remember being this young and naive.
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:42 PM
Sunday

Sadly, reality stripped me of such and now I'm just a betrayed middle aged cancer patient left waiting to die once I can no longer afford insurance to cover my treatments.

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yaesu

(8,807 posts)
8. After falling for another fascist scam the stadium will be empty when it comes to midterm voting. nt
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 11:51 PM
Sunday

Oneironaut

(6,145 posts)
9. The promise for a vote and the idea it would even pass is a comical farce.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:34 AM
Monday

It’s over. Sorry.

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