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Inspired by a White House post with similar image of "how immigrants stole healthcare" #healthcare #trump

Image ALT text is the Google Gemini prompt to generate the image. Hoping others modify the prompt and "flood the zone" with images highlighting the "work" being done for the American people.
create an image that looks like a movie poster from the Jim Carey movie how the grinch stole christmas featuring the grinch on a rooftop or chimney with the grinch holding moneybags and the caption reading "How the republicans stole healthcare" with one of the lower corners of the image featuring a stereotypical fat white male laughing as he lights his cigar with a burning $100 bill
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This seems more accurate.

Note the ALT text for the image is the single prompt I gave Google Gemini to generate the image. Hoping others have fun with modifying the prompt and "flooding the zone" with appropriate images highlighting the "work" being done for the American people.
create an image that looks like a movie poster from the Jim Carey movie how the grinch stole christmas featuring the grinch on a rooftop or chimney with the grinch holding moneybags and the caption reading "How the republicans stole healthcare" with one of the lower corners of the image featuring a stereotypical fat white male laughing as he lights his cigar with a burning $100 bill
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Becker’s Payer Issues is a trade-industry publication focused on the “payer” side of the U.S. health-insurance world — i.e. insurance companies, managed-care plans, and other organizations that pay for health care.
States ranked by uninsured increases as ACA subsidies expire in 2025 1. Mississippi: 65% 2. South Carolina: 50% 3. Tennessee: 41% 4. Texas: 39% 5. Georgia: 39% 6. West Virginia: 35% 7. Alabama: 34% 8. Kansas: 32% 9. Louisiana: 32% 10. Montana: 29%
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Remember this is the guy who said we’d all own self driving cars by now. Huckster clown 🤡
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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So let me get this right. With the average first time homeowner now 40 years old (source NAR), Trump thinks paying 3x the cost of your home until you're 90 to make mortgage companies and developers even richer is a great policy. I guess if you're a billionaire like Trump and his friends, he's right.
Truth Social post by Donald Trump that says Great American Presidents and show FDR and 30-year mortgage and Trump and 50-year mortgage
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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For those of you old enough to know Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Sgt...
Image of Sgt Schultz from Hogan's Heroes saying I hear nothing, I know nothing, I see nothing, I wasn't here, I didn't even ware up this morning!
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Wonderful cartoon from 2019 by @anntelnaes.bsky.social
You can see the entirety on her substack and please support her work!
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-canari...
Cartoon showing a human in a cage in a coal mine with the caption "So if you see a country without editorial cartoonists or one where they are not creating tough, pointed satire against politicians and polices, BE AWARE. A silenced cartoonist is an indicator of an unhealthy environment for freedom of expression. Editorial cartoonists are democracy's canary in a coal mine."
September 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Pity RFK Jr. can't do a google search and see there were 1/2 million excess deaths even before the vaccine was widely available. Even then he probably thinks NYC refrigerator trucks full of dead bodes were from dodgy sushi or brain worms.
Graph showing cumulative excess deaths in the U.S. during Covid. Note that before vaccines were widely available by Jan 2021 there were already 1/2 million excess deaths.
September 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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CDC grant terminations. R & D states hit about the same. D states sued and got much of it back. R states (who didn't sue) got screwed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
bar graph 1 showing roughly even grant terminations between red and blue states bar graph 2 showing R state grant termination almost 5x D state grant termination after D states sue
September 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I’m sure Americans will be torn about whether they want to hang out in Home Depot parking lot hoping for work as a day laborer or go pick lettuce in the hot sun all day
July 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Gallup:
* Most say tariffs will cost more than they yield in the short and long term
* 89% expect higher U.S. prices; 49%, more U.S. manufacturing jobs
* Republicans view tariffs more positively than Democrats, independents
news.gallup.com/poll/660002/...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are widely skeptical about the benefits of the recent tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on the United States’ trading partners, with majorities believing they will ultimately cost the U.S. more money than they generate — in the short term (70%) as well as the long run (62%). Most U.S. adults, 89%, think the tariffs are likely to result in higher prices on the products they buy, while the public is evenly divided over the likelihood that the tariffs will bring more manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Americans have little appetite for long-term disruption to the U.S. economy before they see any economic benefits from the higher tariffs.
April 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM