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AZJonnie

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4. 🖕 All these fuckers in the RepuQ party do is LIE and GASLIGHT the voting public day-in, day-out 🖕
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 06:53 PM
Oct 16

The "negotiations" obviously already happened, everyone has known for a LONG TIME that the Affordable Care Act subsidies were expiring, and that letting them expire was not an option for Democrats. You've known that they would NOT vote to keep the government open if you assholes would not extend them. Because they didn't want MANY millions of people to be priced out of healthcare coverage, almost surely resulting in DEATH for thousands of people in upcoming months and years, and hundreds of 1000's of medical bankruptcies

You GQP chucklenut bastards have been WHINING about the ACA for 15 years. At no point have you offered any serious replacement of your own. Know why? BECAUSE ACA CAME STRAIGHT FROM RIGHT WING THINK TANKS. It is EXACTLY the "free-market solution" you shitheads would've proposed, but Democrats beat you at your own game. So now you've got NOTHING but whining and gaslighting.

So, how bout you go eat a large bag of dicks, all of you fucking asshats?

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Wow. A Republican political leader lied. Shocking. hatrack Oct 16 #1
Is it a lie? quakerboy Oct 16 #15
Have that vote now - you are getting paid....do your job. walkingman Oct 16 #2
dear dems - repubs have ALL the votes they need to end shutdown. rinse and repeat 24/7 dont argue in the media nt msongs Oct 16 #3
🖕 All these fuckers in the RepuQ party do is LIE and GASLIGHT the voting public day-in, day-out 🖕 AZJonnie Oct 16 #4
I don't Rebl2 Oct 16 #5
Don't Do It DallasNE Oct 16 #6
Exactly. Raven123 Oct 16 #7
Another thing this shows DallasNE Oct 17 #29
Thune's position hasn't changed at all, and ABC News should not repackage it this way Prairie Gates Oct 16 #8
They're not repackaging - they are quoting from the MSNBC interview this morning BumRushDaShow Oct 16 #9
It is repackaging because Thune's position has not changed at all Prairie Gates Oct 16 #10
"Are they going to report every time he says the same thing on a new day as if it is something new?" BumRushDaShow Oct 16 #11
They are reporting it as if it is a new offer Prairie Gates Oct 16 #12
He is asserting it as an actual "offer" to the media as a P.R. stunt and defensive move BumRushDaShow Oct 16 #13
Yes, I understand what he's doing and so does ABC, which is why they should report it Prairie Gates Oct 16 #14
ACA Repeal by another name bmichaelh Oct 16 #16
The subsidies HAVE to be packaged with the CR, otherwise.... reACTIONary Oct 16 #17
Honestly it doesn't matter angrychair Oct 16 #18
GEE. WHO TO BELIEVE? Skittles Oct 16 #19
He wants to pass the bill, then he will negotiate after the shutdown ends JohnnyRingo Oct 16 #20
alternate headline: barbtries Oct 17 #21
"but that he couldn't guarantee an outcome" Javaman Oct 17 #22
In the meantime, we keep sitting at home.... COL Mustard Oct 17 #23
Eventually, their endless lies may catch up with them dlk Oct 17 #24
Keep it shut down until the midterms if necessary MichMan Oct 17 #25
Wow! Thune is in lockstep samplegirl Oct 17 #26
Thule knows it wouldn't pass lonely bird Oct 17 #27
bullshit! mike_c Oct 17 #28
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