Jonathan Gruber, one of the paid architects of Obamacare, said the quiet part out loud in 2013:
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies.”
They hid the cost on purpose.
Then this: “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.”
He admitted they chose deception over honesty because an honest bill would have died.
The Supreme Court later ruled the mandate WAS a tax anyway.
He said it on tape. In his own words.
Share this every time they lecture you about “healthcare.”
#Obamacare #Gruber #ACA #StupidityOfTheAmericanVoter #DemocratsLied #HealthcareScam
Mitchell Paige ran from gun to gun along a ridge on Guadalcanal, working four machine guns by himself after every other man in his section was dead or wounded, and single-handedly held the line against a Japanese regiment through the night. He was the other great machine gunner of Guadalcanal, alongside John Basilone, and like Basilone he lived to tell it.
Paige was a platoon sergeant, the son of Serbian immigrants, defending a ridge that guarded Henderson Field, the airfield the whole battle for Guadalcanal revolved around. On the night of October 26, 1942, the Japanese launched a massive assault against the Marine line, thousands of men coming out of the jungle in the dark, and the weight of it fell on Paige's section. In the ferocious fighting his machine gun crews were cut down one by one until every other man was dead or too badly wounded to fight, and Paige was alone on the ridge with the enemy pouring toward him.
So he fought all the guns himself. He ran from position to position along the crest in the dark, firing one machine gun until it was knocked out or in danger of being overrun, then dashing to the next, keeping up a continuous fire so the Japanese could never tell that a single man was holding the whole line. He moved, fired, moved again, hour after hour, burning his hands on the hot barrels, refusing to let the position fall, because if it fell the enemy would be through to the airfield.
When dawn came and reinforcements finally arrived, Paige did not just hold, he attacked. He cradled a hot machine gun in his arms, its water jacket steaming, and led a bayonet charge down the ridge to drive the surviving Japanese back. The line had held. His single-handed stand had helped stop the biggest Japanese effort yet to retake Guadalcanal.
They gave Mitchell Paige the Medal of Honor. He survived the war, was commissioned an officer, and lived a long life, the last surviving Marine Medal of Honor recipient from Guadalcanal, the man who ran the whole line by himself in the dark.
“More than 750 wounded and 18 dead?”
That’s war, Ensign. Not a photo op.
You sat in the Senate and spent months accusing CENTCOM of lying, telling troops they can refuse “illegal orders,” and pushing War Powers nonsense while our guys were in the fight against Iran. In the fight!
How dare you!! That’s not oversight—that’s the same tired, seditious garbage you’ve been peddling for months.
You don’t get to lecture Trump or @PeteHegseth about “accountability” or “making the country weaker” after you spent your position eroding the chain of command and endangering the very troops you claim to care about.
Real leaders support the mission. You undermined it.
If you were still in uniform and pulled this stunt, the guys in the squadron would handle it themselves, I have no doubt. And I would help!
Stick to the Senate chamber and leave the actual fighting to the people who still believe in winning.
Vets know the difference between a warrior and a politician playing one on TV. You’re the latter.
Let’s see if I’ve got this right…
5 Democrat states are suing Trump to keep Somalians defrauding America.
19 states are suing him to allow forced sex change operations on kids.
22 states are suing him to hide voter data.
21 states are suing him to give SNAP benefits to illegal immigrants.
Stop calling them liberals and start calling them what they really are… traitors & communists. Let’s make that a trend.
Hey guys a billionaire heiress whose family got filthy rich offshoring American manufacturing jobs and turning the Midwest into the worlds biggest meth lab has a condescending girl-boss lecture from her adult daycare about how men are disappointing her.
Princess Koch’s conclusion is that men don’t work hard enough.
Not that millions of men had their livelihoods destroyed by DEI policies promoting untalented and unqualified women and ‘minorities’ like her. Not that HR Karens have killed productivity and energy in the workplace. Not that male-dominated professions have been systematically sent overseas to 3rd world slave labor markets by the millions.
No, we’re just lazy.
Maybe the problem isn't the men…maybe the problem is a fem-coded society that destroys men.
Novak Djokovic in his documentary on why he refused the COVID vaccine:
"Because I didn't need it. Why should I get the vaccine? I'm healthy, I'm an athlete. I had corona. I had immunity. I wasn't a threat to anyone. There was no reason for me to get vaccinated. It's my freedom to choose which that fundamental right that you have as a human being on this planet — the freedom to choose — which was taken from a lot of people."
"When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately;
Unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
When I hit a guy, I wanted him to know who hit him without his even having to look around and check a number."
Dick Butkus.
"Butkus hit me so hard my body almost liquefied.
He helps me up and says:
"You Ok?"
I said:
"Yeah of course."
Butkus says:
"Well if you’re OK, why are you in our huddle?"
He’d hit me so hard I’d followed him into the Bears huddle.
Butkus turned me around and sent me back."
Denver RB Floyd Little.
Women: “our hormones fluctuate so much that it’s normal to have thoughts of murdering our own children.”
Same women: “if women ruled the world, we’d have world peace.”
Beef prices aren't up becuase of tariffs you moron. They are up because:
1. 4 meatpackers have consolidated the entire industry and are currently under investigation for price fixing.
2. Cattle herds are at record lows because of leftist policy for the past 10 years intentionally trying to destroy the meat industry to prevent climate change.
3. We imported 40 million people in the past 4 years that are all subsudized by the government to buy beef from walmart.
This is all well known and the American left has been public about this for years. A temporary waver of tariffs on foreign beef to bring prices down during midterm elections is not proof that tariffs are bad or that the current situation is caused by tariffs.
Every American institution-- from media, to universities, to Hollywood, to the corporate world-- has spent the last three decades working to purge young white men from entry level jobs.
Now, they act like it's a big mystery why there are significantly less young men in the workforce.
Even more infuriating is the case of Officer Tou Thao
He spent nearly half a decade in prison for simply being nearby as George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl
Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.
You motherfuckers spent the last twenty years systematically purging young white men from the universities and the professional workforce and now you're acting confused as to why there are no young white men in the workforce.
Fuck you.
If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.
Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.
This chick got me banned from @cnn for saying I believed in the first amendment and boobs. Now she posts more pics of her boobs than Sydney Sweeney. She owes me a public apology.
Joe Jackson was a Georgia man who had already fought two wars before Vietnam. He flew B-25 bombers in World War II and 107 combat missions in Korea. By 1968 he was a lieutenant colonel flying something far less glamorous than a fighter, a C-123 Provider, a big, slow, twin engine cargo hauler. And it was in that lumbering transport that, on May 12, 1968, he did one of the most astonishing things any pilot did in the entire war.
The Special Forces camp at Kham Duc was being overrun and evacuated. In the chaos, a three man Air Force combat control team was accidentally left behind on the airstrip, three men alone as the enemy poured onto the field. The North Vietnamese had already set up guns right on the runway and were raking it with mortars, machine guns, and recoilless rifles. The strip was flatly declared impossible to land on. Aircraft that tried to get in were being shot up. Those three men were, by any reasonable measure, lost.
Joe Jackson volunteered to go get them, in his cargo plane. He could not do a normal approach, so he did something insane and brilliant. He rolled his C-123 into a steep dive from altitude, plunging toward the runway at maximum speed to give the enemy the smallest possible window, then slammed the big transport down onto the cratered, burning strip and stood on the brakes. The three trapped men sprinted from cover and threw themselves aboard. As they did, a North Vietnamese recoilless rifle round skidded across the runway straight at his aircraft and stopped just in front of it without exploding. Jackson shoved the throttles forward, hauled the loaded plane back into the air through the gunfire, and flew all three men out alive.
An American aircraft circling overhead happened to photograph his C-123 sitting on that runway in the middle of it all. It is said to be possibly the only photograph in existence of a Medal of Honor action as it happened.
President Johnson gave Joe Jackson the Medal of Honor in 1969. A veteran of three wars who, in a slow cargo plane everyone said could not do it, dove into an overrun airfield to bring three strangers home. He lived a long life and died in 2019 at the age of 95.
.@jonfavs, I know exactly what it feels like when your daughter goes off to a university to visit friends and NEVER comes home.
My daughter Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant who was incentivized and protected by policies that failed her at every stop, by Illinois and by the Biden administration.
So when I hear selective appeals to compassion, I have to ask: where was the compassion for Katie? Where is it for her family?
Katie is in a grave. I'll never see her again. Why?
Compassion cannot mean caring deeply about one person while ignoring the innocent people who paid the price for the policies being defended.
Selective compassion isn't compassion. It's ideology wearing a compassionate face.
I have a bright idea: If it has to be explained to somebody that rape is bad, you probably shouldn't bring that person to your country in the first place.
If this is true, one simple Q: why hasn’t California done it already? 🤔
Nothing is stopping you. Dems have total control of state govt. You & Gavin could show the whole country what a great policy socialized medicine is!
Answer: you know it would bankrupt the state & cause even more people to flee.