I read a bunch of articles about a month ago that all found the same thing: states with more racial diversity spend less on social welfare programs, and have residents more strongly opposed to social spending, because they believe it goes to the “wrong” people.

The Republicans should have been demonizing sick people years ago

This was one of the most brilliant things about the ACA. Not perfect, and still market-based, but it put forth the idea that any subsequent plan or revision of the plan would have to include pre-existing conditions. This was literally the biggest change from our completely wild, wild west system, before.

Yeah, fuck me for getting fucked up by birth control and letting it almost kill me. I deserve to be uninsurable for the rest of my life.

Silly, that’s what the death panels are for.

It’s all Reagan’s fault. His pre-Dickens worldview that poor folks are poor because they are lazy and shiftless caught on, and now it has spread like a fungus through the body politic. Now, 30 years later, these Ayn Rand cosplayers dominate the political landscape and spread their “just world” hypothesis over…

Yup. My recurring kidney stones are totally my fault (they’re a physical manifestation of my evil feminist ways, after all).

Or, you know, get old.

It’s too little too late. Too many people agree that covering people with preexisting conditions is a good thing, even his own voters agree. The Republicans should have been demonizing sick people years ago, so that having a preexisting condition is treated with the same pariah status as a transgender person by their…

So many of my comments in real life and here and elsewhere on the web boil down to “Jesus, look at this fucking asshole right here”, and I mean to one day change that and cleanse myself of this all-consuming hatred, but Jesus, look at this asshole right here.

The chyron makes a lot of sense given what he’s saying...

You can live a healthy life and still get cancer. Or MS or ALS, or several other diseases. Or, you know, get in a car accident.

Trump has finally pushed my “I’m not an activist” husband into a marching in the streets, constant political posting, having political conversations with coworkers guy.

And TBH, I don’t think it’s because she finds Trump so vile but because openly supporting Trump would ruin their brand. I find both of them unacceptable.

Yeah, he has some quotes about him too. Supposedly Giselle told him he needs to shut his mouth and I’m guessing she’s behind him not going to the White House.

She has plenty of her own wacky pseudo-science opinions (including claiming that sunscreen is more cancerous than the fucking sun) so she would probably have voted for Jill Stein if she could. Peas in a vapid pod those two.

Regarding Giselle... How the fuck do you stay married to someone who supports Trump? I almost broke up my with my boyfriend when we were having a “devil’s advocate” argument about him. Like, where is the respect? I can’t even fucking imagine. (I know, they are rich and beautiful, and have kids... Ugh) Don’t get it.

wow can’t believe you just came for Bill Gates like that

Congratulations to Ms. Heard on her relationship with a member of Trump’s science and technology council who underpays his factory workers, has spent over a decade making insane promises to start commercial space flight which never come to pass, and who once revealed a plan for a high-speed rail line between Los…