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[–] 79 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Good news! The democrats will win a landslide victory in 2026 and guarantee you health care!

Until 2028 when they need to compromise with the republicans on a spending bill.

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Somehow everything the Democrats promise takes until very close to the cycle after they're elected until they even talk about it. Then, of course, they need your votes again so they can do the thing they promised the first time. Then (Insert Needed # of Dems here) will have some problem with it so it falls through and Dems lose the next cycle because of some reason that is the voters' fault.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    dems(*DNC) dont want to lose thier only single issue voter cards: healthcare,,,etc. which is why they always try to use it as a carrot, and drops it or half-ass it when they get elected.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe if voters weren't so goddamn fickle, they wouldn't feel the need to do shit like that. If they didn't do that, they'd just never get elected period.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    doubtful, if they are just having newsom, for '28. especially with Walz dropping out in minnesota, is problematic, because the gop/conservatives are trying hard to get a GOP elected in that state. if he can back down from a race this easy, it would be easy for republicans to keep threatening people til they dont run anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Even if support for democrats is at a landslide level, there's a whole lot of things that the Trump admin can do to avoid them getting a victory, starting with voter suppression and ending with lying about the results.

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago

    They do not want you in Iran.

    They do not want you in Japan.

    They do not want you here or there.

    They do not want you anywhere.

    They do not want you. Understand?

    Just calm the fuck down, Uncle Sam.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago

    No problem, those weren’t for you anyway. They’re for Exxon, Chevron. Elon, and all of Trumps friends and sycophants to divide up amongst themselves.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Amen - I could retire early and comfortably if I had guaranteed healthcare. As it is, I'll have to work until I die.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Republican's response:

    A little bit of Venezuela in my life
    A little bit of Greenland by my side
    A little bit of Cuba is all I need
    A little bit of Canada is what I see
    A little bit of Mexico in the sun

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck my life. I just found out my medicine (life saving, cannot live without medicine) has gone up in price 10x because of new insurance I got this year. Fuck me, right? In other countries, it's pennies, here it's hundreds of dollars.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    try contacting the manufacturer, maybe they have a program to help make it affordable.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    sometimes its not much of a discount in most cases, if its something like expensive one like biologics. he might want to look into coupons, many sites have them, but EXPENSIVE name brand ones are still too expensive.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I would have loved a North American Union with free trade, freedom of movement, and shared currency between Canada, the US, and Mexico, maybe even Cuba as well if it didn't infringe on their communism. But that was a dream from a more naive time when we could've been better neighbors.

    These days it's enough to demand that our borders and healthcare costs don't increase. No new wars, no new territories, and we need to let Puerto Rico choose between statehood and independence.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Puerto Rico can't currently choose between statehood, continued territory status, or freedom. Not because they don't have agency, but because there's no consensus among Puerto Ricans. There are advantages and disadvantages for all three options. As I'm not Puerto Rican, I don't have a say in the debate.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    The majority voted for statehood... but as long GOP controls congress, they dont have a chance because they'll lost their advantage.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Too bad you can't invade healthcare

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Women are so hard to read...

    /s

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Best I can do is a couple of forever wars.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    Hey US Americans, quick reminder that quality, affordable healthcare is available abroad; I use it and you can ask about healthcare here or in travel.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If I ever get cancer then this is the route I’m going to cure it. Fuck this country when it comes to how they rob you if you have cancer.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    I am right there with you. In Cambodia, I was friends with a group of old guys from the US and all four of them were able to treat serious medical conditions by avoiding US "healthcare". One of them had won a years-long battle against cancer right before i met them which he never could have afforded in the US.

    Would have died years ago in the US, instead he was sitting around a table eating sushi and drinking beer with friends.

    My health problems have largely been dental, and Thailand dentists unequivocally superseded the quality of care in the US for less than 1/3 of the cost at the relatively expensive bangkok clinic, BIDC.

    If you ever want info about health care abroad, reach out to me at Travel.

    There's some good healthcare info in this post, too.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Hope you got a nice vacation out of it too. My great uncle died in Thailand during the Vietnam War so I’ve always wanted to go there for that reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Thanks, i live abroad full time so it's all been a vacation for the past 15 years!

    Cambodia was great: angkor wat is fascinating, the towns are all chill and i got to hang out with those old guys at a great sushi bar/microbrewery while they told all their stories.

    I've backpacked and lived all over Thailand more than a few times, i recommend it fairly constantly. Great food, people, nature, waterfalls, you'll appreciate giving it a go.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    "Don't worry, we're gonna take Cuba and get all of their doctors to give us the healthcare" /s

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Healthcare make line go down in the short term

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    What she also wanted to do was fund a Nazi with a blue checkmark.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Revolution was and is your only solution, since no judge or court will do something.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Just engage in the army and kill people for free health care.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I can guarantee that if the Americans try to take Canada a whole lot of them will have all their healthcare worries taken care of.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    dont hawaii, guam or puerto rico either.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Trump: We have healthcare, the best healthcare actually. Better than anybody else. Some people say… you get it

    The healthcare at home: Venezuelan oil

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    We have healthcare, the best healthcare actually

    We actually do. We have some of the best healthcare in the world if you can afford it, and healthcare stats that make it absolutely clear just how few people that is.

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    WE

    Ste the , 'bad guys'

    We might never be seen as , "the good guys " again

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    hes using this to distract from the epstein files, which hurts alot of gop and billionaires, coicdentally they were suppose to release the files around the time of the attack.

    hes doing everything to make it stick so it can overshadow any news on the epstein files, the MSMS are totally complicit.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Invading a sovereign nation, kidnapping their leader, and saying "we run this country now" is not a fucking distraction.

    Threatening to do the same to several nations that used to be our allies is not a fucking distraction.

    How can people be this fucking ignorant

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Too bad, you get "boots on the ground".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "if I were to give you free healthcare, ok not free... lightly subsidised healthcare would you stop asking about the Epstein list and about all those kids I raped?" Tick one answer below:
    (A) Yes.
    (B) No, keep going to war and doing other shit to distract us!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    OK healthcare and Cuba. Just you know, for vacation.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Best we can do is more gun violence

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Get invaded by Canada, Cuba or Greeland (Denmark) and you'll get first class healthcare (you'll have to give up your guns though). Get invaded by Mexico or Venezuela and the situation is a bit complicated, but you at least get basic medical care for free.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Mariah Carrey has entered the chat.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Where do we meet in the streets? My shoes are on

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Too bad there isn't a party in this country that wants healthcare.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I recall one party trying really hard to improve things, and the other trying really hard to make sure they could still use healthcare to punish people

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    I recall one party trying really hard to improve things

    I recall that party finding just enough no votes like they always do. No party wants healthcare.

    If democrats supported healthcare with a quarter of the tenacity with which they support netanyahu, we would have free healthcare for everyone in this country.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago

    I'm blocking you because you post too much politics to what I think should be non political communities. Bye.

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