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BootinUp

(50,671 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:57 PM Nov 10

Don't lose sleep over the shutdown deal - Lucian K. Truscott IV

Do not pass “Go.” Do not collect $200. Take your anger over the result of this shutdown directly to November, 2026, when we’re going to kick their asses and take back the House and Senate both.

Republicans, following the instructions of Donald Trump as they always do, allowed Democrats to make the fight over financing the government about one issue: Health care subsidies for Affordable Care Act. Trump thought, oh, they want to hold out for a big Obamacare giveaway? Let them. People hate Obamacare!

The people he knows, maybe, but not even all of them. Fifty fucking percent of Republicans favor extending the ACA health care subsidies, according to a KFF poll take during the middle of the shutdown. Democrats? 94 percent, natch. Do you think we might need some votes from independents to win next November? 76 percent of them want the ACA extensions.

With RFK Jr. defunding the CDC, cancelling vaccine research, and promoting cod liver oil to “cure” measles, we own the health care issue. Refusing to vote to reopen the government unless the ACA subsidies are extended is maybe the single most popular thing Democrats have done since…jeez, I don’t even know when. It was smart to begin with, it was smart yesterday, and thanks to blinkered Republican small-minded shitweasal idiocy, it will be popular when they vote against the subsidies in December, it will be popular at the time the same fight comes up in January when we go through this whole charade again, and it will be even more popular by next November after Trump has spent the better part of a year screeching that he wants to kill Obamacare altogether.

Continued https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/dont-lose-sleep-over-the-shutdown

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Don't lose sleep over the shutdown deal - Lucian K. Truscott IV (Original Post) BootinUp Nov 10 OP

Folks also need to stop amplifying Republican Party talking points. lapucelle Nov 10 #1

Excellent. Been waiting for someone ..... RussBLib Nov 10 #2

How many will die waiting a year to vote? quaint Nov 11 #3

Your solution? One that doesn't make others suffer BootinUp Nov 11 #4

No solution, I believe we should be sensitive to others' situations quaint Nov 11 #5

The author was not doing that imo. Nt BootinUp Nov 11 #6

I did not see any solution from the author other than we should just wait. quaint Nov 11 #8

I don't see it that way. I think you take snippets BootinUp Nov 11 #9

Just this: I read the whole article. quaint Nov 11 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author quaint Nov 11 #7

lapucelle

(20,907 posts)

1. Folks also need to stop amplifying Republican Party talking points.

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:10 PM

Nov 10

Someone here today claimed that "the Democrats are monsters".

RussBLib

(10,380 posts)

2. Excellent. Been waiting for someone .....

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 11:31 PM

Nov 10

.....to point out that this scenario still favors Democrats, big time. GOP is backing into a corner, and our Dems must be loud and persistent about how much the GOP wants to keep you poor and sick.

Don't be discouraged. I understand the anger, but I think it is misplaced. The GOP deserves our ire, not our Dems.

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