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· Aug 19
Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3)
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One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!
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It'll be like they like him and want him to be our king, huh?
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It'll be like they like him and want him to be our king, huh?
So dear leader genuinely thinks that people can just call up ye olde insurance company and say, "give me your best price on medical insurance kind sir!" and they turn around and say, "here's a jolly good policy and for you it'll be just $29.99 a month!" or something?
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So dear leader genuinely thinks that people can just call up ye olde insurance company and say, "give me your best price on medical insurance kind sir!" and they turn around and say, "here's a jolly good policy and for you it'll be just $29.99 a month!" or something?
To misquote John Wick on this:
It is not that he caved, it is the manner in which he did it that vexes me so.
Doing it LESS THAN A WEEK after giving the republicans a total drubbing electorally is a mistake. Doing it when the pain was getting acute but still focused on the GOP was also a mistake.
It is not that he caved, it is the manner in which he did it that vexes me so.
Doing it LESS THAN A WEEK after giving the republicans a total drubbing electorally is a mistake. Doing it when the pain was getting acute but still focused on the GOP was also a mistake.
Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
To misquote John Wick on this:
It is not that he caved, it is the manner in which he did it that vexes me so.
Doing it LESS THAN A WEEK after giving the republicans a total drubbing electorally is a mistake. Doing it when the pain was getting acute but still focused on the GOP was also a mistake.
It is not that he caved, it is the manner in which he did it that vexes me so.
Doing it LESS THAN A WEEK after giving the republicans a total drubbing electorally is a mistake. Doing it when the pain was getting acute but still focused on the GOP was also a mistake.
@msnbc.com what a pile of shit that panel on with Katy Turr is right now.
Get a grip. Read the room.
Get a grip. Read the room.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@msnbc.com what a pile of shit that panel on with Katy Turr is right now.
Get a grip. Read the room.
Get a grip. Read the room.
How can they be like this.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How can they be like this.
Hassan is leaving, Fetterman doesn’t care and King isn’t a Democrat anyway.
I’ve left messages for the rest stating I’m done with the party.
I’ve left messages for the rest stating I’m done with the party.
Don't give another dollar to Democrats until @schumer.senate.gov resigns as Minority Leader
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hassan is leaving, Fetterman doesn’t care and King isn’t a Democrat anyway.
I’ve left messages for the rest stating I’m done with the party.
I’ve left messages for the rest stating I’m done with the party.
This. And call your representatives to make sure they know.
Don't give another dollar to Democrats until @schumer.senate.gov resigns as Minority Leader
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This. And call your representatives to make sure they know.
Feels like they’ve bought into the Tom Nichols (it’s not fascism just show people how it ought to be and things will return to normal) nonsense.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Feels like they’ve bought into the Tom Nichols (it’s not fascism just show people how it ought to be and things will return to normal) nonsense.
Apart from my day jobbe I have left messages for my senators telling them their leader must go and I would like statements to that effect.
I have also left a message for my congresscritter saying she should communicate that with her senate colleagues and vote against this in the house.
I have also left a message for my congresscritter saying she should communicate that with her senate colleagues and vote against this in the house.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Apart from my day jobbe I have left messages for my senators telling them their leader must go and I would like statements to that effect.
I have also left a message for my congresscritter saying she should communicate that with her senate colleagues and vote against this in the house.
I have also left a message for my congresscritter saying she should communicate that with her senate colleagues and vote against this in the house.
Resign. You’re a disgrace.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Resign. You’re a disgrace.
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I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.
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D&D seventh edition to reintroduce alignments with Incompetent Evil and Ineffective Centrism to reflect the manichean opposition of base reality
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
D&D seventh edition to reintroduce alignments with Incompetent Evil and Ineffective Centrism to reflect the manichean opposition of base reality
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The Senators who caved to Trump and MAGA
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Senators who caved to Trump and MAGA
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Anyone who votes for this is either utterly corrupt or just criminally stupid
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Anyone who votes for this is either utterly corrupt or just criminally stupid
Yes. Names. Every single one.
I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Yes. Names. Every single one.
Not one cent from me until @schumer.senate.gov is gone from that role. And I want everybody even associated with this deal primaried or to resign.
Fuck them all.
Fuck them all.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Not one cent from me until @schumer.senate.gov is gone from that role. And I want everybody even associated with this deal primaried or to resign.
Fuck them all.
Fuck them all.
Meaningless blather. Resign.
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.
I am voting NO.
I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Meaningless blather. Resign.
All of them need to be primaried and removed if they don’t resign in shame.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
All of them need to be primaried and removed if they don’t resign in shame.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The ‘pay your doctor direct, it’s cheaper’ bots are out in force tonight.
Sure your GP for a 10 minute visit for your Losartin script might be. Now spend a week in hospital on IV ABX for a diverticulitis flare up and let me know how you get on with the Swedish accounts team.
Sure your GP for a 10 minute visit for your Losartin script might be. Now spend a week in hospital on IV ABX for a diverticulitis flare up and let me know how you get on with the Swedish accounts team.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The ‘pay your doctor direct, it’s cheaper’ bots are out in force tonight.
Sure your GP for a 10 minute visit for your Losartin script might be. Now spend a week in hospital on IV ABX for a diverticulitis flare up and let me know how you get on with the Swedish accounts team.
Sure your GP for a 10 minute visit for your Losartin script might be. Now spend a week in hospital on IV ABX for a diverticulitis flare up and let me know how you get on with the Swedish accounts team.
It gets us nowhere I fear but I have left messages for each of the senators planning this capitulation.
I don’t donate much to races but not one damn cent until Schumer resigns. Not one.
I don’t donate much to races but not one damn cent until Schumer resigns. Not one.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It gets us nowhere I fear but I have left messages for each of the senators planning this capitulation.
I don’t donate much to races but not one damn cent until Schumer resigns. Not one.
I don’t donate much to races but not one damn cent until Schumer resigns. Not one.
Cowards.
What a betrayal of your Dem voters @democrats.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @shaheen.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @booker.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov You are clearly beholden to wealthy donors 😡
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Cowards.
I do not understand what this is meant to do if you can’t get insurance there is literally no amount that could be put into a FSA that could cover any actual healthcare event.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I do not understand what this is meant to do if you can’t get insurance there is literally no amount that could be put into a FSA that could cover any actual healthcare event.
Calling your senators and telling them to hold firm at least makes you feel like you’ve done something. I recommend it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Calling your senators and telling them to hold firm at least makes you feel like you’ve done something. I recommend it.