Hey gang. It’s nice when lefties win. Good results across the country. It’s too early to tell, but I think good results in Seattle. Well, the City Council races and a City Attorney who doesn’t hate Seattle’s poorest people. Across the state, it seems like a lot more W’s than L’s.
Also, I don’t know what’s happening with SNAP benefits, but you can donate to the Pike Market Food Bank.
MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson finally saw something that happened the day before. But only to dismiss it as “Blue states doing Blue Things.” Like Mississippi.
Then he went back on vacation and didn’t swear in a representative who won her seat 43 days ago.
Thinking about Dumbfuck’s sad boy posts last night. Let’s just say the Senate does come to some agreement and amends the CR. Sends it back to the House where Mike can’t take it up because then he’d have to seat a Democratic house member and Donnie won’t let him release the Epstein files under any circumstances.
Given last night’s results even in Red States, are Democrats requiring concessions on Health care to reopen the government in a
a. Stronger position
b. Weaker position
And if an Amended CR comes back to the house how many of the
BBCoops BBB super fans in the House can Mike lose?Just wait til Secretary Real World cancels everyone’s fly home plans for Thanksgiving.
Dang, Zohran Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair.. Film maker of little movies with unknown actors:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102456/
Did not know that.
First, let’s just clear up the false claim by the Actual Nazi Fucktard that this would somehow represent “caving” by Dems. This is what Senate Dems have been asking for since the House sent over their extremist, partisan garbage CR on September 19th. A compromise that restores the APTC would be a victory for Dems.
So an amended CR that restores APTC and keeps the ACA marketplace coverage plans alive into 2026 is what the House would have to vote on. And now that their constituents have received their renewal notices and seen their monthly premiums triple, plenty of House Republicans are ready to take the win.
It’s a win they probably need more than ever after the results they saw last night. But it will either require breaking ranks with MAGAT Mike and Fat Hitler, or a big reversal from the White House. And that might cost MAGAT Mike his gavel. Fat Hitler never loses, but some loyal soldier has to pay for it.
That’s why the Actual Nazi Fucktard retreated into ret-conning the CR. It’s “suddenly” possible that stripping health coverage and access for 40 million voters and their children is unpopular and that this upopularity is growing. Worse, polling indicates that while a smaller, but still significant majority of voters blame Republicans for the Shit Down, a much, much larger majority of voters blame Republicans for blowing up the ACA marketplaces that so many American families rely upon for their access to healthcare. This makes compromise on the APTC the most viable pathway out of the Shit Down for Republicans as well as for Democrats. So natch, the Actual Nazi Fucktard now “suddenly” needs to make that feel like a Democrat defeat, rather than a Republican defeat.
The fascist YOLOing may have just come to an end. And he knows it.
Biggest lesson to MAGA fascists from the SCOTUS:
When you sell your Supreme Court appointments to billionaires you get their agenda, not yours. And Harlan Crow hates tariffs even more than he hates minorities.
Local City of Newcastle appears to have ousted their MAGA leaning city council.
“Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is,” Musk wrote, referencing Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa. ”VOTE CUOMO!”
The DIS-pronouncing Nazi asswipe shithead elmo lost last night.
GOOD!
Huh, seems like that ‘young men are locked up for the GrandOldPedophiles’ take was premature. Realizing ‘Daddy Trump’ played you must be rough.
Roberts appears to be a no on a President levying Tariffs willy nilly and calling it an emergency power.
“That basic power of Congreas (taxation) seems to be to me to kind of at least….who pays the tariffs”
Solicitor General pretends it’s not taxpayers.
“(If) the tariffs are brining down the deficit is that not revenue generating domestocally?”
Solicitor general argues that these are REGULATORY Tariffs (a made up distinction) and not revenue generating.
“The vehicle is imposition of taxes on Americans.”
Grandpa is decidedly NOT taking it in stride.
Grandpa, they only ask you for ID if you’re buying alcohol and even then the cashier makes a judgement call. when was the last time you were at a store? Did they have barcode scanners yet? Gas stations?
As we pat ourselves on the back, let’s not forget any of the important lessons from last year either.
Fat Hitler’s disastrous win was a black swan. And down-ballot effects are real. So in an environment where the other party has embraced plutocracy and fascism, rejects the rule of law, and appears poised to militarily invade cities and seize authoritarian control over elections, Democrats just can’t afford to fuck around the way Joe Biden and his White House did, and the way single-issue voters did. We must all demonstrate a rational sense of priorities.
We are facing a national crisis of unfathomable proportion. All people of good faith have to come together and put our colletive interest in preserving democracy and the rule of law ahead of media manufactured fears, personal bias and personal ambition. Reactionary centrist Cuomo supporters lost. Reactionary centrist Spanberger supporters won.
Where do we stand? We must all stand together.
Freightwaves CEO: “We should be worried. Certain portions of the goods economy are collapsing right now. Year-over-year trucking volumes is down 17%. When you look at the industrial sectors, we’re down 30% year-over-year, which is Great Financial Crisis levels of concern.”
Some socialism and regulation is better than the Great Depression and or hyperinflation.
If you want a better and more stable economy, vote for Democrats.
Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them
In the midst of a housing affordability crisis, mobile homes are seen as a way for those with limited incomes to generate wealth and access homeownership.
For private equity firms, housing has been a fruitful investment. But in order to maximize returns on their investments, they greatly increase rents and cut costs.
Over the past decade, rents in these parks bought by private equity firms have risen 45%.
>> This is yet another reason that people are turning away from unregulated Capitalism, and looking at other options.
Gorsuch also appears to be a no on a President seizing Congress’ enumerated powers.
Barrett too.
Sixteen point shift towards Democrats in every county in VA last night.
Corpo Billionaire Media Reporter: “Who represents Democrats? Abigail Spanberger, Zohran Mamdani, or Mikie Sherril?”
Democrats: “Yes.”
Did you know they started letting immigrants into New York around the time of the 21st Century?
17 – Matt Walsh is correct.
7)Thanks to that, Sliwa lost Staten Island too. Most of his voters went to Cuomo, leaving the Republican in third place in the most Republican borough.
The Jury has the case.
@9 Tariffs are a VAT tax, which is a hidden sales tax, but parents notice when their kids’ school clothes suddenly cost a lot more.
@16 All of the above.
What folks on the right can’t wrap their heads around is that the Democratic Party doesn’t have a script all its candidates have to follow. It’s a big tent, and idea incubator. The GOP is a little tent that hasn’t produced a new idea in over 100 years.
@20 He’s right, it isn’t about a sandwich. When career federal prosecutors are run out of DOJ, and replaced by partisan toadies, who then go to a grand jury to get a felony indictment against a protesting sandwich-tosser, and rebuffed by the grand jury, then bring misdemeanor charges against him — something else is going on.
22,
Fifty years ago they pretty eagerly adopted apartheid after Democrats finally repudiated it.
In his first speech since the election, “Trump focused much of his time on what he views as three positive economic indicators: the stock market hitting record highs, wages ticking up and an easier environment for American-born workers to find jobs.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-touts-economic-agenda-gop-election-losses-rcna242161
He apparently hasn’t noticed that the stock market is getting a bit rocky, wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, and hiring has stalled.
23,
Part of what might be going on is grand jury tampering.
U.S. District Judge Nachmanoff overseeing the Comey trial severely reprimanded DOJ attorneys and has ordered they turn over the grand jury transcripts for his review.
Let’s give this a year and see what happens.
The mid terms will look very different from any odd numbered year election.
23)This might create a new field of expert witness if more people use sandwiches as a weapon.
27,
36 days of Shit Down produced a total wipe out, according to Republicans who aren’t afraid of Fat Hitler, like Vivek Ramaswamey.
A year will be a real gas.
DOOOOEEEEEEEEEET!😂🤪
29,
I hope you won’t be too disappointed.
But Jared Fogle remains in BOP custody at FCI Englewood in CO (maybe one of the Actual Nazi Fucktard’s “FB friends”?). His earliest possible release date is March 24, 2029. Assuming he survives.
31)Thought he had been knifed already?
32,
I know one way a guy like that can survive thirteen years inside locked up with narco terrorists and gang kingpins.
More recent photos show Mr. Fogle has taken to using quite a lot of dressing in his hair.
For “some reason”.
Laddies like the gays even better.
First-time buyers accounted for a record-low 21% of home purchases last year, NAR data shows — roughly half of the historical average. The entry-level buyer has been effectively “removed from this housing market” It’s harder for younger buyers to cobble together a down payment when they’re weighed down by student debt and steep rental costs.
Unregulated Capitalism just is not working, for more and more people.
This past Sunday you should have seen them. They were running into NYC from the Isle of Ginnies. By the hundred, and thousands, they were pouring in. Being there before the election, they probably voted for Mamdhani TOO!
If it went the other way….
“After last nights losses it’s clear the Republican party needs to move more to the center. They can’t let the extremists on the far right be the public face.” (Every consultant guest shot on the TeeVee)
Here’s to more troll-free Wednesdays.
Moms for Liberty had a bad election. Good!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-win-2025-downballot-races_n_690a717ae4b0ccb451d768e6?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
@37 We can’t let them get away with pretending to be moderates. We have to keep reminding people they all supported fascism.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
Keep it shut!
Good morning.
It continues to look very likely that the Comey indictment will be vacated before Thanksgiving. In a notice filed yesterday,
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.158.0.pdf
the chief AUSA serving Lindsay Halligan informed the court that, responsive to it’s request for complete grand jury transcripts they had ordered their transcription service for the first time to produce such a complete record, including comments made to the grand jury by Halligan before presenting her only witness.
That means that AG Bondi lied to the court when, in a last ditch to save the indictment, she attested that she had personally reviewed and “ratified” every detail of how Halligan had obtained the indictment. She could not have done so. No record of those details existed at the time that Bondi made that false claim to the court.
Comey is a bum. He deserves all this pain and more. But at least this unraveling of his prosecution serves as a road map to all the other defense teams facing these lawless, vindictive, politically based investigations and prosecutions from Bondi’s fascist ministry of revenge. And it’s going to prompt more and more DOJ prosecutors to turn and walk away from the Bondi dumpster fire.
And not a moment too soon.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-00639349
Nancy Pelosi is leaving the House. It’s about damn time!
Bessemt all over the news leading up to GrandOldPedophile’s Tuesday disaster, “We have the strongest economy of the last CENTURY!”
The Trump economy has passed the million pink slips mark in just ten months.
“The Trump economy has passed the million pink slips mark in just ten months.”
I didn’t know Trump owned all of those businesses and fired all of those people personally.
@47 He claimed he can do anything he wants.
Apparently he can only make life better for people like him.
As if they’re struggling any.. yawwwn.
Looks like GOPers would rather eliminate the filibuster than give in to affordable health care.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5592169-gop-filibuster-trump-pressure/
Well two can play that game; goose and gander. Democrats may never have 60 votes, but won’t need them to tax billionaires, pack the Supreme Court, enact single payer, and/or defund ICE.
#goosegander
@45 Not quite yet. She’ll leave the House the same day a Democratic majority is sworn in.
@47 Funny you should mention that. When private employers, over whom the sitting president has no control, lay off workers the president gets the blame. That’s how it’s always worked, and how it still works. You know, it’s starting to look like the economy may go into recession by the numbers. For half the states and two-thirds of Americans it already is. Midterms, here we come! WHEEEEEE!!!
MAGA Mike’s take on the GOP’s off-year election wipeout:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-00639349
Sure, Jan. Every time this guy opens his mouth, more of his credibility leaks away.
They sure might if the filibuster goes away.
Then a simple majority can grant statehood to both Puerto Rico and DC, adding four additional Democrats to the Senate, expanding the Supreme Court to thirteen, reversing the court repeal of the VRA, and a creating new electoral math for the next presidential election.
The fact is that Fat Hitler doesn’t understand where Republican legislative power comes from. He doesn’t understand the electoral college. And his mind is going. So he can’t be made to understand these things. Senate Republicans are not in any position to persuade him. So a fluff piece in The Hill that touts four out of 51 Republican votes needed to eliminate the filibuster is a nothingburger.
I wish it were not.
Ellis grants preliminary injunction barring DHS from substantive use of force against protesters in Chicago.
Projecting classic masculine strength and dominance, in the middle of Fat Hitler’s prescription drug grift press conference one of his chief toadies turns grey and collapses, ending the event.
WHITE POWER!
Sad when you’re the least important thing in the room.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4y5xaehfc2n
Do we wonder about that ‘increased support.’
Is it 20 Death Cultists who want to see every man for themselves Thunder Dome society and now it’s 22?
“Well now that we got our asses kicked and we’r me done in ‘26 might as well go full Ayn Rand”
Republicans just dropped their last lawsuit attempting to block redistricting in Virginia.
The cost of Fat Hitler’s MAGASTAPO deployment of NG units from Texas and Illinois to Chicago, where they have been barred from doing anything other than picking up litter, is now projected to cost U.S. taxpayers over $12 million. While House Republicans remain on vacation, refusing to meet with constituents, or the media.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), Millennial Congressman, as long as no House Business is getting done is trolling masterfully.
Sitting at a table outside the Speaker’s office with a sign.
Jury nullification in the sandwich guy assault case.
He’ll be drinking free tonight at the Jack Rose Whiskey Bar. Then comes the launch of his media tour.
Fuck MAGA. Fuck Republicans.
Can’t even get a MISDEMEANOR conviction.
That’s your DC US Attorney Jeannine Pinot Grigio.
Wasting time and money on a sandwich.
MAGA Mike Jesus Johnson’s political acumen on full display.
The rallying cry for the Dumb as rocks voter has been “Pass the CR and THEN work on ACA subsidies.
Mike announces today that he will not agree to even having a vote if/when the Government reopens.
Are you not getting paid as an air traffic controller. Call Mike.
The Epstein Files are clearly worse than you’ve imagined.
Probably not
nullification.
The defense was ‘Throwing a sandwich is not assault.’
They got an affirmative result of Not Guilty.
It was a waste of time and money to bring a case to trial a Grand Jury and experienced professionals in the office passed on.
AI is worse than an atomic bomb. No good will come from the net of AI.
Stock Market hit some highs today.
I, King Donald, has to have a 3rd term for the security of the Great America
@61 et al. …
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5593708-sandwich-guy-verdict-dc/
Embarrassing isn’t the word, more likely a harbinger, as juries of ordinary citizens rebel against overreach and worse.
The prosecution case, if it ever had any chance, was lost when they did this:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5593708-sandwich-guy-verdict-dc/
In other courthouse news, a jury has awarded a teacher shot in her classroom by a 6-year-old student $10 million.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abigail-zwerner-wins-10-million-lawsuit-shot-6-year-old-virginia-schoo-rcna240892
I mean it’s not like he’s sitting at the resolute desk soliciting a bribe. Wait.
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: “Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I’ve been asking for.”
Sean’s nyc friends are scared. That’s hilarious. Scared of what?
Fine with Pedos though.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/devastated-ted-cruz-issues-dire-warning-of-looming-disaster-for-republicans/
Every inflatable frog, rainbow unicorn, and flame throwing bag piper at the ICE facility in Portland has now got a Subway sandwich.
More courtroom fun.
Judge McConnell:
“USDA arbitrarily and capriciously created this problem by ignoring the congressional mandate for contingency funds.”
Denies stay orders SNAP benefits be paid TOMORROW.
Remember the Actual Nazi Fucktard?
Anyone?
Perhaps I can jog your memory with reminiscence over his frequent predictions about a Republican victory in the New Jersey governor’s race.
Here are some of his favorite pollsters and where they had the race Tuesday morning (Sherrill-Ciatarelli):
Atlas 50-49 (+1)
Emerson 50-48 (+2)
co/efficient 48-47 (+1)
Quantus 49-46 (+3)
Trafalgar/Insider Advantage 45-44 (+1)
All well inside the MOE according the some stupid Nazi dumbfuck.
Still MORE courtroom fun.
Permanent Injunctions on ICE in Chicago.
@73 Those things are ballistic missiles, you know. What if a Major League pitcher threw one at an ICE agent at 100 mph?
@76 Brady list him!
Lying and denying are among the basic tools of authoritarians.
I wonder if this ICE agent gets his federal salary while in jail for DUI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gih0jOOqES8
Narrator, “in fact nowhere in the country is gas getting close to $2.”
77)Major League? Probably a pitcher from AAA Tacoma(Personally if the Mariners are going to use that name for a PCL AAA team, only one place for it to play but ruined in 69, demolished in 79 and now a Lowe’s) or A Everett could do some damage throwing a sandwich.
Narrator, ‘Turkey is in fact $.27/lb more expensive and the math only maths if you leave out all the produce WalMart had on the same ‘cost chart’ as last year. Shrinkflate your feast to make it seem like you’re getting value.
Ha ha
“WW3 is going to be the craziest war with Donald at the helm. We’ll be fighting a Canadian-Danish-Iranian-Venezuelan-Nigerian-South African-Korean alliance alongside Russia, El Salvador, Israel, and FIFA.”
@ 84
WW3 is going to be the craziest war with Donald at the helm.
Silly libbies were saying the same thing two decades ago, when the Donald at the helm would have been Rumsfeld.
Noteworthy that Dick Cheney did not live to see the Third World War that silly libbies claimed he would cause.
I know this is going to shock you but…not Trans.
Dick Cheney did not live to see the Third World War
Thanks to Condi whipping empty suit Dumbya..
And Barack not wanting to do “stupid shit”..
@86
https://www.reddit.com/r/PastorArrested/
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing?
The Hurl of Sandwich
“Easy to throw. Easier to love”
“The Hero: If the Miracle is Whipped, You Must Acquit!”
“the ICE breaker.”
@ 77
Those things are ballistic missiles, you know. What if a Major League pitcher threw one at an ICE agent at 100 mph?
That federal officer was injured about as badly as Deutche Bank was after lending money to Donald Trump based on an inflated valuation of his penthouse residence.
@83
The turkey is 11 cents more expensive per pound and half a pound lighter
No Kings Hawaiian Rolls
No Pecan Pie
No whipped topping
No Mini Marshmallows
No Corn Bread
No Sweet Potatoes
No Onions
No Celery
but 2025 has instead….
Mac and Cheese
Great Value rolls.
If you don’t have comparable items, of course republicans can lie and say it’s cheaper.
@85 “Noteworthy that Dick Cheney did not live to see the Third World War that silly libbies claimed he would cause.”
I guess 4,492 dead Americans in a recreational war was enough for the draft dodging chickenhawk, huh?
GOP rep say Republican voters didn’t turn out to vote because they’re happy with how things are going. Sure, Lisa. If you say so.
90,
Of course the Actual Nazi Fucktard misunderstands the role of the prosecution in our U.S. criminal legal system.
A prosecutor does not represent the alleged victim. A prosecutor represents the people, and enters her appearance before the court as such, “for the people”. The injured party a prosecutor represents is the people. And our statutes and penalties are not in any way intended to compensate or provide a remedy to any victim of a crime. Rather they are intended to remedy the injury to law and order suffered by the people. Under our system a murderer may not satisfy a judgement by paying compensation to a victim or their family.
The kind of victim-centered criminal legal system the Actual Nazi Fucktard describes is closer to the family/tribal systems of justice practiced in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and the Near East. Western common law diverged from these concepts in the Middle Ages.
This is pretty fucking fundamental to western common law and legal traditions going back almost a millennium. This “sick burn” post of his is so stupid it makes my teeth hurt. Next he’ll be promoting trial by combat to get his beloved Führer off the hook.
Fuck MAGA. Fuck Republicans.
@79 – Yes, and it does to matter whether they are Republicans or Democrat authoritarians..
When the Actual Nazi Fucktard knocked three teeth out of his ex-wife’s face and ruptured her orbital socket, was it a criminal offense if she told his arresting officers that she didn’t mind and she “probably deserved it”?
Tariffs get all the attention, but another impact of Trump’s trade policies on U.S. is packages hung up in customs.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ups-now-disposing-packages-piling-123000141.html
Judge Jeanine Pinot Grigio just a few months ago acting like her job is still spout bullshit on TV.
* she WANTED to but could mot charge with a felony because a Grand Jury required to bring such charges said, STICK YOUR BULLSHIT CASE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3m4yzqyofus2g
War mongering. Nobelishing.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-strikes-congress-6c0061bf5a9c417e66f76fcc6ee57405
Kristi Dogslayer’s DHS has been caught lying again:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5593310-homeland-security-text-message-retention-lawsuit/
Dishonesty seems to be her agency’s forte.
Former GOP senator Jeff Flake articulately describes how Trump’s hold on the party will dissipate; the RNC responds with pablum.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5594031-gop-dissent-growing-trump/
As Trump’s ratings sink ever lower, GOP flacks sound ever more ridiculous. How does Trump’s “great victory” in 2024 look now?
JD Vance wants 42 million Americans to go hungry until Democrats cave in to giving their health insurance money to billionaires.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5594443-vance-pushes-back-snap/
Of all the seasons for this Laker to be down for(mandatory 5 year inspection I believe), so it won’t be passing by the wreck site near Whitefish Point on Monday. The Arthur Andersen was the ship that sent in the distress call once the Toledo Express had disappeared moments after Captain McSorely had radioed in his last words, “We are holding our own” Had the ship aka Toledo Express not sunk, not only would the song not exist, she might have still been operating, Lakers are resilient, as proven by the Anderson, built in 1952.
https://www.keyship.com/s-s-arthur-anderson/
The “pro-life” party has now killed a half a million children in just 9 months.
@ 101
How does Trump’s “great victory” in 2024 look now?
Like 38 more months in the White House.
@ 102
… until Democrats cave in to giving their health insurance money to billionaires.
Since the dispute does not involve health care costs but where the money comes from to pay them, it’s Democrats preferring that they pay to the government and the government then gives the health insurance money to the insurers. No less money is paid to the insurers.
Which is a silly argument to make, but then the Democrats are The Party of Silly. Have been for awhile now.
Record highs on Wall Street today!
@106 go crawl back under your rock.
those 38 months left should be great!
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/11/trump-economy-october-monthly-job-cuts
Consumer sentiment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/consumer-sentiment-shutdown.html
Horses don’t care!
Show me your Vagina, now Bitch!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/11/07/anglican-church-archbishop-harassment/
https://democraticunderground.com/10143560765
a silly argument to make
A better argument: higher premiums suck, sux to be you. It’s the black guy’s fault. Otoh, isn’t our last tax cut great? It “benefits all levels”.
The continuing shutdown is straight-up the fault of Trump and Speaker Johnson; this article explains why:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5594333-government-shutdown-deal-democrats-trump/
@105 Like 38 more months in the White House.
And increasingly hamstrung at every turn, because he isn’t doing what he was elected to do, and his actual policies are wildly unpopular (not to mention illegal) … this sure looks like a doomed presidency.
@106 It’s not silly that Democrats are for keeping health premiums affordable for millions of working-class families, while Republicans are against it, which is gross, and no one’s posts are sillier or more clownish than yours. 🤡🤡🤡
@107 All this week it has looked like Wall Street is expecting a recession. The October jobs report was due out today, but of course isn’t being issued because of the shutdown. CNBC says economists believe it would have shown “a decline of 60,000 jobs and an unemployment rate increase to 4.5%.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/shutdown-means-missed-jobs-report-friday-what-it-probably-would-have-shown.html
And it’s not going unnoticed on the Street that the big tech firms whose stocks have led the market rally are shedding jobs by the tens of thousands.
Nor will it be.
Hard to imagine a sillier argument than this.
This is a big fallacy being forwarded by lying bigots and fascists about the APTC cuts.
The premim dollars contributed to insurance company income from APTC are already calculated into their business plans and have been for months. Eliminating 40 million subscribers from the system means that premium income must be recovered elsewhere. Every plan had contingencies in place ahead of the renewal period to adjust premium rates for all plans. Cutting APTC does not save one penny. It simply shifts costs from billionaires (the beneficiaries of the MAGA tax cuts) to premium payers like employers and individuals.
The only other differences (other than who pays) are that 40 million fewer Americans and their families have access to healthcare, and that the marketplace plans that survive become much more expensive resulting in still more people dropping coverage and losing access. Shifting still more costs onto the few remaining plans. And setting off a marketplace death spiral.
Which is of course the purpose of the APTC cuts. Slow but inevitable death to ACA, but in such a way that Republicans hope to avoid accountability. Because ACA is very popular.