Obama Architecht David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program

David Axelrod, 2026: People’s ACA premiums are tripling.

David Axelrod, pushing the ACA in 2009: "I have no doubt that once this bill is passed and implemented, the American people will appreciate it.

It will improve the lives of people all across this country." https://t.co/AqaKw5XPTp pic.twitter.com/pzyESdjx5W
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Joel Pollak
@joelpollak
5h
Axelrod knew at the time they were imposing a flawed system on the American people, over the objections of the people. He and Obama wanted to make it politically very tough to change or to remove, so it would either have to be expanded or lead to single-payer socialized medicine.

Justin Ready
@JustinReady
12h
Hearing Obama administration alums talk about out of control health insurance costs is like listening to O.J. talking about the real killers.

This isn't directly related to Obamacare, but it's close enough to say it's related.

NIH employees were forced to write a loyalty oath to DEI principles.

Jan Jekielek
@JanJekielek
"Every single NIH employee had to write... a loyalty oath to DEI principles."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals that the woke ideology infected science over the past 20 years.
"None of it actually translated over to better health for anybody."
It's worse than we think.
"Over the last 15-20 years, the NIH incorporated into its agenda things I can only characterize as political agendas rather than scientific agendas."
"Probably the most prominent example of this is DEI."
"If you're a researcher outside the NIH, the ticket to getting extra, relatively easy funds was to promise to do DEI research."
"Much of that research had no real scientific basis at all" and did not translate into better health outcomes for minorities or anyone else.
And here's what worse:
"At the end of the year, the NIH would often have some money left over."
"The NIH program officers would go to the people who were doing these projects... and say, 'look, we have some money left over, if you propose a diversity supplement,'--meaning essentially some DEI add-on that wasn't actually good science--'then you can get access to extra money for your research.'"
"It was basically wasting taxpayer money that had no chance of improving the health of anybody."
"We've gotten rid of all that."

“Every single NIH employee had to write… a loyalty oath to DEI principles.”

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals that the woke ideology infected science over the past 20 years.

“None of it actually translated over to better health for anybody.”

It’s worse than we think.

“Over the… pic.twitter.com/RkxwZqTjTH
— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) February 12, 2026

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 12, 2026 03:27 PM (LdBR/)

2 2nd

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3 3rd

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4 4th

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 12, 2026 03:27 PM (LdBR/)

5 yayth

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:27 PM (CWTWj)

6 5th!

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 12, 2026 03:28 PM (LdBR/)

7 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 12, 2026 03:28 PM (LdBR/)

8 Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM (YwEeS)

9 It's not Trump care it's Obama care.. or the Unaffordable care act

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM (VE6XX)

10 Axelrod is the architect of Obama's library in Chicago?

No wonder it's such a mess.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

11 Justin Ready
@JustinReady
12h

Hearing Obama administration alums talk about out of control health insurance costs is like listening to O.J. talking about the real killers.

Ouch.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:31 PM (jc0TO)

12
Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM (YwEeS)

The Destruction of Western Civilization is the point.

It's like Che Guevara and trains. Blowing up trains is a lot more fun than making the gorram things run on time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 12, 2026 03:31 PM (y9nCu)

13 "But it's because Trump ended the individual mandate!"
-I seen it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

14 Yeah, my not for profit workplace had DEI has a big item for annual reviews and for hiring the candidate had to explain how they have worked to bring DEI to their field.

I was soooo happy when Trump made them drop that bullshit.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 12, 2026 03:31 PM (Sokdp)

15 Leftards: Obamacare is failing because Trump in his first term with a GOP-controlled Congress got rid of the penalty for not having health insurance!

Me: Then why didn't Biden* with a Democrat-controlled Congress put the penalty back in place?

Leftards: This ... this ... this is all a distraction from Epstein!

Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (qUkBO)

16 Before Fauci killed a million, there was the slow death via Obamacare.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (vbXSk)

17 It's not Trump care it's Obama care.. or the Unaffordable care act
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM

In fairness, it's McCainCare at this point.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

18 i remember barky saying "I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year." (politifact) (c june 200

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (CWTWj)

19 th

Posted by: Crusader at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

20 "Much of that research had no real scientific basis at all"

Definition of 'Woke.' Dogma with no rational foundation.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (N8ZBc)

21 The dirty secret of the Left = they are the ones who "hate" science

Why? Because it's bigger than them. It reveals truths they can't successfully deny or refute. Science is a dusting of God's fingerprint on the universe.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (S5fB5)

22
not for profit

AHHHHGGGHHH!

*eye twitches*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (y9nCu)

23 The left assumes they can get away with passing the blame for their terrible laws.

And they're right. Most of their voters are that stupid.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (zjgNU)

24 Obama himself said it was a step to "single payer."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (Cqx++)

25 David Axelrod. Thought he was dead, honestly.

Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (pDt9x)

26 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

27 "Science is a dusting of God's fingerprint on the universe."

Amen!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 12, 2026 03:34 PM (DgMqy)

28 When "The Bell Curve" came out, they cursed and hid its "science" like it was real climate data.

The Left don't want to know anything except what they know, which is nothing.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:34 PM (S5fB5)

29 The ACA became really popular because of the covid subsidies. They capped the growth in premiums for several years. So while inflation was hitting everywhere, it didn't hit the people "paying" for ACA coverage at all in their health insurance costs.

Denying that fake reality by ending the subsidies is something like an extinction level event for the program.

It's just wildly expensive and doesn't give any real value anymore.

Democrats will harp about how it's the GOP's fault, but ultimately, it's going to end up rebounding against Democrats since everyone knows that it's Obamacare to the point where Democrats have fully embraced the term for more than a decade.

"We should give even more power to government" after the ACA, Iraq, and the fraud discovered in the last year from government programs probably won't play all that well to the general population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

30 25 David Axelrod. Thought he was dead, honestly.
___

No, he just got rid of his cheesy mustache.

Posted by: Earth: The Final Season at February 12, 2026 03:35 PM (qUkBO)

31 David Axelrod. Thought he was dead, honestly.
Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM

He's hard to recognise since he shaved off his Hitler mustache.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:35 PM (jc0TO)

32 I always thought of science as the carnal man taking a stab at quantifying God's Glory.

Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 03:35 PM (pDt9x)

33 jinx

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:35 PM (jc0TO)

34 Unexpectedly!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)

35 Cool hash!

'If you thought C++ got too hairy over the years, prepare to meet Cqx++!'

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (N8ZBc)

36 Hey! That's great!

I'm all for DEI too! It's a GREAT concept.

Deport
Every
Illegal

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

37 I doubt I could have got hired at my work if I'd been applying during the peak DEI years. As it was I did some handwaving "I listen to and consider everyone's thoughts" for the DEI for annual self eval. and used the fact that I was WFH to take care of my dad as the excuse why I could not join any DEI groups or take any of the optional DEI training. Since I'd been there for over 20 years and was the institutional knowledge for how to fix things when code broke they let my lack of DEI enthusiasm slide.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (Sokdp)

38 Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
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I'm firmly convinced that there is a group of maybe as few as a couple of hundred people who believe they could run the entire planet IF they could only do away with the sovereignty of nations and states. The only way to do away with sovereignty is to remove all forms of descent and opposition. Beating the planet into submission is thus the goal. The couple of hundred people want wealth that is beyond belief and all avarice and plan to use the rest of us as worker bees and worker ants.

Posted by: Crusader at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (TN0g+)

39 "I always thought of science as the carnal man taking a stab at quantifying God's Glory."

Amen!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 12, 2026 03:37 PM (DgMqy)

40 The Dems/FNM then: Obamacare will reduce your payments by 3000% and solve the health insurance crises

The Dems/FNM now: Well obviously costs exploded un Obamacare, uh, the ACA. Whose to blame? Donald Trump

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

41 "Through family, I heard about a couple in WI who started a small business and were planning to expand. Now, with their ACA premiums TRIPLED due to congressional inaction, they've had to scrap plans to expand & grow."

Yea, that totally happened. Totally. A business owner was planning on expanding, but that Totally Real Plan was fucked in the ass by higher premiums. Sure it was.

Btw small businesses get significant tax and other credits for using ACA. A business using ACA is not in the same position as an individual. This story is total bullshit.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

42 David Axelrod. Thought he was dead, honestly.
Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 03:33 PM (pDt9x)

Wishful thinking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

43 Killer Obama, kill ObamaCare. Back the Ins. Cos. to the wall and give them the option; be reorganized or get with the program to dump ObamaCare.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (7X7ea)

44 Good thing it was just a tax. Otherwise bad stuff may have happened.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (YlWIZ)

45 "Since I'd been there for over 20 years and was the institutional knowledge for how to fix things when code broke they let my lack of DEI enthusiasm slide."

Like me, maintaining old legacy systems that nobody else wanted to touch. I didn't charge enough.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (N8ZBc)

46 And no one bring up when Trump said he supported "single payer".

At the time he was unfamiliar with the term, which is designed to fool the listener into thinking it's something agreeable. Otherwise they would call it "government care". Single Payer sounds like the "individual" is the one paying.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (S5fB5)

47 At one point the use of Antimony was forbidden by some medical schools, and students were required to take oaths to never employ it. Other schools encouraged its use as an emetic, purgative and to reduce fevers. It was also quite toxic, like other elements in the Materia Medica of the day, like Arsenic and Mercury.

DEI, however, has no actual use in the real world. Besides rejecting "white privilege" (which is a fancy way Progressives get to call someone N*gger and feel good about themselves)

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

48 "If you want your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (rj6Yv)

49 Hey! That's great!

I'm all for DEI too! It's a GREAT concept.

Deport
Every
Illegal
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)
_________

[Golf clap]

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

50 I seem to recall that the individual mandate was legally challenged, and SCOTUS didn’t strike it because that would have made Obamacare impossible to be funded (when they were selling it as cost savings).

Guess we can thank Justice Robert’s, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (Hkcdp)

51 All most people want is affordable hospitalization insurance.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

52
"I have no doubt that once this bill is passed and implemented, the American people will appreciate it.

================

Oh Grantor of Favors, what can I say? Call me ungrateful.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (n7rxJ)

53 Not surprising.

I really think we should just shoot all these fuckers.

Glowing statement though that be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

54 The more involved government is in healthcare the more it will cost.

Want to lower health care costs? Reduce government involvement in healthcare.

ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES OTHERWISE WILL JUST INCREASE COSTS

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

55 Expensive healthcare will always be the fault of Republicans. It's probably written as law somewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (jtM2q)

56 Oh Grantor of Favors, what can I say? Call me ungrateful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (n7rxJ)

'Ain't i right' by Marty Robbins.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (zZu0s)

57 What DEI doesn't equal.

Qualified.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

58 Faced with untenable medical costs, Obamacare addressed the cost problem in two ways:
1. Force more private money into the system (the individual mandate)
2. Force more public money into the system (the subsidies)

This is to be expected. Government can only provide an operational environment for problem-solving or throw money at problems. Since the environment that was not conducive to cost control was also conducive to wealth and power acquisition in government and industry, it did what it always does. This, of course, caused price to continue to rise.

The goal, I suspect, was to break the system to the point that the problem resolves to two possible choices: radical private reform or nationalization. The goal, if so, is obviously nationalization.

And the bitch of it is that it's working so well, and it doesn't matter what Trump does. If he cuts off the subsidies, people will clamor louder for relief because of the catastrophic costs and its cannibalism of the wider economy. If he doesn't, it continues to destroy the federal budget and cannibalize the wider economy.

The real question is "can Trump achieve radical reform that isn't nationalization?"

I am not optimistic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (ojr4c)

59 Bud Cort, star of the cult classic "Harold and Maude," has died at the age of 77. RIP.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

60 Our monthly health insurance premium more than tripled.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

61 Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
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The commie plan is to amass/steal power and wealth and fuck to why happens after that. Aside from their looting, the ones funding them are militant Islam, who plans to take over when the world is successfully globalized. They don't want to do all that work when the commies are doing it for them.

Basically they are ushering in Revelation and it's fucking weird that the Bible knew.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (S5fB5)

62 No death panels. Right?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (YlWIZ)

63 One other specific thing to point out here. We computerized our healthcare records.

For younger people, this was promised to reduce costs and obviously paperwork.

That didn't happen. At all. Why not?

The government increased the amount of paperwork it requires both directly or through health insurance companies

Want to make things cheaper and easier to understand? Get the government out of the healthcare industry

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

64 re "Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?"

the leftwing intellectual elite: just as some powerful people supported hitler while thinking they could control him, the modern left elite think they will be able to run the show once we have what is basically a one world govt. surely xi and putin and the ayatollah will be willing to follow the will of the elite like john kerry and al gore and blessed hillary of clinton

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

65
Bulg, how sad. Do you think anyone gives a shit?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (3ek7K)

66 Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
Posted by: steevy

Those melt-brain NGO elites that really, really want to bring back a form of aristocracy. Their goal is to break the Western economies to the point were the Unanointed (read: you an me ) are forced to sell property off to pay for our existence.

Ultimately, it's a plan for complete command and control over all... but China and Islamists have plans that they can't control.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (diia5)

67 54 The more involved government is in healthcare the more it will cost.

Want to lower health care costs? Reduce government involvement in healthcare.

ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES OTHERWISE WILL JUST INCREASE COSTS

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

======

Best we can do is get a DEI grad to study why TV costs are down and then give that person complete control of healthcare without input from the body politic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

68 The three most damaging Presidential lies ever told were:
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
"The average family will save $2,500/year."

JugEars McFuckstick KNEW these were LIES but kept repeating them over and over.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (MNCvZ)

69 Getting rid of Illegals will free up lots of hospital rooms

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (Ia/+0)

70 Before Fauci killed a million, there was the slow death via Obamacare.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2026 03:32 PM (vbXSk)

Obamacare is still killing people daily. Obamacare was a gift to the insurance industry, which developed Standard of Care. Standard of Care is there at the demand of the insurance companies that don't want to pay for anything better, and fear being sued for medical malpractice for doing anything less.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (rbvCR)

71 Healthcare is not pretty.

Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
RFK JR: “We still did live [recovery] meetings every day during COVID … I said I don't care what happens, I'm going to a meeting every day. I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (J+Psw)

72 Axelrod knew at the time they were imposing a flawed system on the American people, over the objections of the people. He and Obama wanted to make it politically very tough to change or to remove, so it would either have to be expanded or lead to single-payer socialized medicine.
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These are the same thing, for all intents and purposes.

With enough expansion, more and more of the total bill is footed by taxpayers, so rationing is imposed to greater and greater degrees to keep it from destroying the overall fiscal and economic health of the country.

Specific ownership - an unaccountable state or an unaccountable semi-private cartel - is almost beside the point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (ojr4c)

73 More like Deport Every Immigrant.

Kidding of course. Of COURSE

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (S5fB5)

74 Ah, so this was the EPA announcement. Good.

@BarackObama
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (diia5)

75 "When you reach a certain age, you should just be 'made comfortable' as you've outlived your usefulness and aren't worth the money for care."

- - - - - Shit Owebama Said

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

76 Want to make things cheaper and easier to understand? Get the government out of the healthcare industry
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

And out of the medical industry too. (The medical industry is for those like me that have no health for which to care.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (O3dBq)

77 There is almost an infinite desire for health care. So if you socialize the costs, and especially if you declare health care to be a right you've now signed up for an infinite expenditure.

Since that isn't sustainable the only possible outcome is rationing like we see in Canada and Europe.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

78 To fix healthcare costs, first get rid of all the govt intrusions like HIPAA and other reporting requirements that tie up healthcare workers in clerical work.

Put Elon on streaming pharmacy workflows. Pharmacies are the most inefficient things I've ever seen in action. Always a damn line. Always all the pharmacists and techs on the damn phone, or even still faxing shit around. Record-keeping out the wazoo.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (N8ZBc)

79 How to annoy Obama: ignore tire pressure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (YlWIZ)

80 David Axelrod's uvula has been bruised by more dicks than Jenna Jameson's cervix.

Posted by: ballistic at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (5aZAZ)

81 Bulg, how sad. Do you think anyone gives a shit?
Posted by: fourseasons

Hey, I'm just throwing it out there. I enjoyed that film quite a bit.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

82 68 The three most damaging Presidential lies ever told were:
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
"The average family will save $2,500/year."

JugEars McFuckstick KNEW these were LIES but kept repeating them over and over.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (MNCvZ)

This is a big f'ing deal !

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (VE6XX)

83
@BarackObama
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Everything that guy just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

84 re 57: qualifications are raciss

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (CWTWj)

85 Sticker shock: 85,000 Pennsylvanians drop Obamacare health insurance in 2026. Roughly 1-in-6 Pennsylvania Obamacare plan enrollees dropped health coverage for 2026 due to “unprecedented cost increases,” the state’s online health insurance marketplace reported Monday.

A better headline would read "drastically increased premiums for the Affordable Care Act makes the plans unaffordable for 85,000 recipients". Or maybe "Heartless Republicans hate non billionaire Americans and want them to die"

Caused by Republicans blocking all legislation regarding healthcare. And enabling legislation that instead sends all of that money to the rich. Those immigrant concentration camps aren't going to build themselves.

everyone pays the price because they still use Emergency Rooms and other types of care. The costs get shifted towards people with employer benefits thus increasing 2027 insurance premiums.

It’s not the ACA’s fault MAGA took away its premium subsidies which is what made the plans affordable

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (JCZqz)

86 I am not optimistic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:40 PM (ojr4c)

It was always intended as a poison pill to force single payer- just like illegal immigration.

These commies should all be... you know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (zZu0s)

87 Bulg, how sad. Do you think anyone gives a shit?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 03:41 PM

Peter Berkman cares.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

88 If "healthcare" includes abortion, RU486 and transition surgery you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (YlWIZ)

89 > I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
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Hunter Biden nods with understanding and admiration.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (jtM2q)

90
Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
Posted by: steevy

=============

This question was settled permanently for me when I read (somewhere) that violence and chaos ARE the goal, not mere characteristics of the revolution or unfortunate phases on the way to utopia.

The left simply glories in chaos, spectacular collapse, bloodshed, beatings, screaming, destruction. That's the benefit for them. It's not like anyone is trying to get rich. They just want to satisfy their blood-lust and revel in their orgy of chaos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (n7rxJ)

91 75 "When you reach a certain age, you should just be 'made comfortable' as you've outlived your usefulness and aren't worth the money for care."

- - - - - Shit Owebama Said
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Back in the day the GDR would dump its elderly in West Berlin rather than continue to provide for their medical care and much else besides because they outlived their usefulness to the State.

Countries like Canada simply kill them and come up with cutesy acronyms for it to make murder sound SO nice.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (O3dBq)

92 85 A better headline would read "drastically increased premiums for the Affordable Care Act makes the plans unaffordable for 85,000 recipients". Or maybe "Heartless Republicans hate non billionaire Americans and want them to die"

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (JCZqz)

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Why are these only partially subsidized plans now so much more expensive and offer less coverage than the pre-Obamacare plans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

93 Everything they did with Obamacare was just a way to get the camel's nose into the tent. They figured, and many of us agreed, that once in, it could never be eliminated, and would only lead to single payer.

We've stopped its growth, but AFAIK, have made very little progress to eliminating it. As soon as the Dems are back in power, they'll do whatever they have to to make SP happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

94 Yup. Healthcare is a scarce good with price inelasticity of demand. (did I say that right?) People will spend any amount to escape death and pain. Works for doctors and heroin dealers equally.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (N8ZBc)

95 re 82: you just didn't realize that you didn't actually like your doctor. dummy.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (CWTWj)

96 Legalinsurrection.com
Commassar Judge stops Hegseth from demoting Sen Kelly
Guess even the military has Political Commissars now

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

97 David Axelrod always reminded me of the love child of Adolf Hitler and Dr. Phil.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (ESVrU)

98 Judge blocks Secretary Hegseth from punishing Senator Mark Kelly for encouraging troops to disobey orders

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Send the sumbitch the blow it out your ass letter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (J+Psw)

99 Hey, maybe someone should check in with “Obamacare architect”Jonathan Gruber, see if he can explain to Ax in small words how it was the stupidity of the American people and lack of transparency that got this bill passed.

No really, the weren’t blaming this known to its authors sh$t show on Trump or the GOP back then, they were gloating about tricking the country into passing it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 03:46 PM (Hkcdp)

100 "When you reach a certain age, you should just be 'made comfortable' as you've outlived your usefulness and aren't worth the money for care."

Keep in mind healthcare costs increase dramatically near end of life.

If healthcare was each individual's responsibility people in these end of life states can decide how much they want to spend on healthcare and how much they want to leave for their kids. Their choice.

But when government takes over this role it has a very perverse incentive. Dollars spent on people in their last year or two or not going to benefit the pols and bureaucrats determining how to spend these dollars - money spend on grifting or even other legitimate expenses do. So why wouldn't they just tell older people to take the pain pills and die?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

101 I'd actually like to read some of those DEI Loyalty Oathes. One of the reasons DEI was able to gain a foothold is because no one looked at the cold hard facts and had to argue for its value. It was just instituted under the "Shut Up" policy.

An oath would force the supporters to outline their reasons for supporting it. All of which are weak and based on non-sequitur positions unrelated to their application in a particular field.

I think the Loyalty Oaths to DEI would be hilarious reading.

Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)

102 David Axelrod always reminded me of the love child of Adolf Hitler and Dr. Phil.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2026 03:45 PM (ESVrU)

Heh.

Once you see it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

103 Lot of Judge Blockage these days. Maybe Triscuits would help.

Posted by: tubal at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (pDt9x)

104 you know
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😉

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (S5fB5)

105 I'm firmly convinced that there is a group of maybe as few as a couple of hundred people who believe they could run the entire planet IF they could only do away with the sovereignty of nations and states. The only way to do away with sovereignty is to remove all forms of descent and opposition. Beating the planet into submission is thus the goal. The couple of hundred people want wealth that is beyond belief and all avarice and plan to use the rest of us as worker bees and worker ants.
Posted by: Crusader at February 12, 2026 03:36 PM (TN0g+)

Collectivist movements fight each other viciously, but they all agree on one thing: the individual is expendable, dissent is dangerous, and power must be centralized for the greater good.

If you run into these ideas, you know you are dealing with people who want obedient cultists, or at best, beaten down workers who have no ability to do anything but comply

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (rbvCR)

106 I guess it’s time for grandma to take that pill.

-Barry the shallow pond killer

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (KaptW)

107 > Who benefits from the suicide of the West?

The core motivation of all corrupt people is to remove any obstacle that prevents them from doing anything they want to do. It's why they accrue power. It's why they accrue money. Everything is in service of allowing them total freedom from manmade consequences.

Western ideals constrain man from many evil acts, so it must go.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (Yp6az)

108 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reveals that the woke ideology infected science over the past 20 years.
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Probably about right. 20-30. By the late 90s, the humanities and law had been fully destroyed and the destruction of university administration was right behind it.

By the mid 90s, the communists (in the form, mostly, of Critical Theory) had finished digesting the humanities and were swallowing the last morsels of law and enjoying the aperitif of university administration. Its hunger unabated, it turned its slavering maw to the sciences.

It took time to digest the sciences and the job wasn't done until the teens (some would argue that it's still not quite done), but it was well underway by the mid aughts. There was - and still remains - a fair amount of legacy (middle-aged and old people who still remember and practice the old ways) to overcome, but most of that is in industry, not government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (ojr4c)

109 Deport
Every
Illegal.

I like it! ‘Twould get me fired if I said it out loud, but I like it!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (aEVyE)

110 If healthcare was each individual's responsibility people in these end of life states can decide how much they want to spend on healthcare and how much they want to leave for their kids. Their choice.

It is for this reason that I support me having the option to end my own life. If government gets involved, though, then it's just a matter of time before they decide I'm not worth keeping alive.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (Riz8t)

111 "We've gotten rid of all that."
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What a confident assertion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:48 PM (ojr4c)

112 everyone pays the price because they still use Emergency Rooms and other types of care. The costs get shifted towards people with employer benefits thus increasing 2027 insurance premiums.

I've had a couple of the lefty LIVs I know complain about healthcare costs recently.

I've pointed out that they've said healthcare should be free for people in need, paid for by the rich. So when the hospital charges then 4X as much as it costs for medicine or bandages that means 3 other people "in need" got them free.

Needless to say the response to that was "but that isn't fair and I'm not rich!"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

113
85,000 Pennsylvanians drop Obamacare health insurance in 2026.

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How? I thought it was still an obligation. I know I have to sign some stupid thing every year when I do my taxes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (n7rxJ)

114 wait till you see how much the price of chips and soda go up when you can't buy them with food stamps

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (CWTWj)

115 109 Deport
Every
Illegal.

Except Robed tyrants seem to want to keep them all here

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (VE6XX)

116 You know who else required loyalty oaths?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (wVcYX)

117 How to annoy Obama: ignore tire pressure.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 12, 2026 03:43 PM (YlWIZ)

You don't need any air at all in the tire, if you use it to necklace a Communist.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (8zz6B)

118 Obama wanted his typically racist white grandmother to take a pain pill and die.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (S5fB5)

119 Obamacare saved me over $20k, because once my high deductible premiums were headed to over $1000/month, I dropped health care entirely, till I went on Medicare after 2.5 years. Thanks Obammy.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)

120 It was obvious at the time that increasing demand for health care, with nothing being done to increase supply, would never reduce costs by $2500 per family. That was an obvious lie to anyone with a lick of common sense.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (eStot)

121 wait till you see how much the price of chips and soda go up when you can't buy them with food stamps
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (CWTWj)
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Negative 25% is my guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (ojr4c)

122 113
85,000 Pennsylvanians drop Obamacare health insurance in 2026.

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How? I thought it was still an obligation. I know I have to sign some stupid thing every year when I do my taxes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (n7rxJ)

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The individual mandate hasn't been real law for a while. The reporting requirement still exists, but there's no penalty for not having coverage.

Because government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

123
Six years ago husband was in a hospital in South Carolina.

The fat black nurses would do nothing for him. There was a white nurse on her own time who would come in to tend to him.

It's scary out there.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (3ek7K)

124 In 2008 my insurance premium was around $200 a month to cover a family of 7 with a deductible of $1200. My premium to cover just myself now is $1,000 a month with a $5,000 deductible. Fuck you, Obama.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (2UnvF)

125 I'd actually like to read some of those DEI Loyalty Oathes. One of the reasons DEI was able to gain a foothold is because no one looked at the cold hard facts and had to argue for its value. It was just instituted under the "Shut Up" policy.

An oath would force the supporters to outline their reasons for supporting it. All of which are weak and based on non-sequitur positions unrelated to their application in a particular field.

I think the Loyalty Oaths to DEI would be hilarious reading.
Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)
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I would call it the "Shut up or else!" policy.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (rj6Yv)

126 Obama was counting on Republicans never having the balls to say no to ever increasing subsidies. He was right, for a while.

Hopefully some of them are learning the world doesn't come to an end when you stand up to communists.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (viF8m)

127
No really, the weren’t blaming this known to its authors sh$t show on Trump or the GOP back then, they were gloating about tricking the country into passing it.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 03:46 PM (Hkcdp)

You're welcome.

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Needless to say the response to that was "but that isn't fair and I'm not rich!"

To which the correct response is "Define your terms. What constitutes "fair" and "rich". Show your work.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

129 At the pharmacy:

"We need to positively ID you to dispense your medication."
'OK, here's my Real ID. Scan it in.'
"No, we prefer to perform ID verification using the game of Twenty Questions."

[twenty questions later ...]

"We'll get that ready for you right away!"
'The prescription I requested through your website yesterday isn't ready, but you emailed me today that it's ready for pickup?'
"It'll be only ten minutes or so. Excuse me now, I need to cover the phones."

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 03:52 PM (N8ZBc)

130 wait till you see how much the price of chips and soda go up when you can't buy them with food stamps

I saw lefties posting a meme that had a fat white shop keeper denying some poor dark skinned women and her kid a bag of chips.

Much fun was had when someone pointed out drawing the woman on EBT as black and the shop keeper white was RACIST which led to the lefties eating each other up in the comment.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

131 Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
RFK JR: “We still did live [recovery] meetings every day during COVID … I said I don't care what happens, I'm going to a meeting every day. I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM (J+Psw)

I was just about ready to go to AA meetings during Covid just to get real people time. I told a friend of mine that about December in 2020 and she just about bust a gut laughing.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 03:52 PM (rbvCR)

132 "Shut up or else" is the predicate for the Red Guard demand for a "Confess or die!" policy.

Posted by: mrp at February 12, 2026 03:52 PM (rj6Yv)

133 obamacare was literally designed to fail under it's own weight which would have let hillary implement single payer health care like she had been pushing for forever.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 12, 2026 03:53 PM (0N4FZ)

134 https://tinyurl.com/mrwuwbc4

Video above of Obama stating that the ACA would not add a dime to the deficit.

Further, the "extra" ACA subsidies that were not renewed were part of the INFLATION REDUCTION ACT!

Governments printing more money to pay for things they cannot afford is the CAUSE of inflation, not the solution.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 12, 2026 03:53 PM (HlyYF)

135 It was obvious at the time that increasing demand for health care, with nothing being done to increase supply, would never reduce costs by $2500 per family. That was an obvious lie to anyone with a lick of common sense.

I wouldn't say none of the supporters lacked common sense. They knew what was going to happen, and why. They thought the lie was a way for them to get free stuff, so they pretended to believe it. Nobody wants to announce to the world that they're a parasite.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

136 I'm waiting for David Axelrod's "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit!" moment, after which he denies ever wanting to impose ObamaCare at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 03:53 PM (s8OdJ)

137 'Twas ever thus.

Posted by: The guy who just started saying 'twas ever thus at February 12, 2026 03:54 PM (wVcYX)

138 Obama was counting on Republicans never having the balls to say no to ever increasing subsidies. He was right, for a while.

Hopefully some of them are learning the world doesn't come to an end when you stand up to communists.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 03:51 PM (viF8m)
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No, but it will come to an end for several million people, one way or another.

The medical cost problem *will* be solved, one way or another. It will be because it must be. It is killing the economy and destroying government finances.

There will be either radical reform that collapses costs and leads to significant unemployment and bankruptcy in the medical industry, or there will be nationalization that reduces costs through rationing but nonetheless causes significant unemployment and bankruptcy in the medical industry, just on a slightly longer timescale and with a fair amount less transparency.

My bet, for the last decade, has been on nationalization. Not because it's a good thing, but because it will be the easiest approach for government - even for those in government who don't want it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:54 PM (ojr4c)

139 Fair is fair.

Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:

"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

140 "It will improve the lives of ~~people~~ illegal aliens and other parasites all across this country."

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Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (+6Dls)

141 I remember pointing out to leftists during the Obamacare debate that if they though healthcare was a right there was nothing stopping them from joining a health insurance collective that shared costs equally or based on income whichever they actually thought was "fair".

The response was always...ALWAYS...but then YOU don't have to pay for it

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

142 You think healthcare's expensive now, just wait until it's free.

Posted by: Something someone said at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (TbWk/)

143 re 124: but thanks to obama and the dems you are paying up to $2500 less than you would have been. as charlie kirk would have said, prove me wrong (you can't and the dems knew that)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (CWTWj)

144 Nationalizing healthcare would give us the level of care we currently get from the IRS or Postal Service.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

145 Scott Jennings would be surprised that he's in my top 10 of men I'd marry list (if I wasn't already married and probably him as well).

You are on the list, too, Ace! Whether you want to be or not! It is in writing.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (WONhk)

146 My bet, for the last decade, has been on nationalization. Not because it's a good thing, but because it will be the easiest approach for government - even for those in government who don't want it.

The residents of countries with national health care can now go to the US or even some 3rd world countries for medical care, bypassing rationing. What happens when we're no longer available to provide a la carte medical care?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (Riz8t)

147 Nationalizing healthcare would give us the level of care we currently get from the IRS or Postal Service.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)
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Sure.

But everyone gets something, it's fair, we're all in this together, etc.

Better universal deprivation than inconsistent access!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (ojr4c)

148
We've stopped its growth, but AFAIK, have made very little progress to eliminating it. As soon as the Dems are back in power, they'll do whatever they have to to make SP happen.

Posted by: Archimedes

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To me, stopping its growth is HUGE. It should have snowballed merrily along to single payer by now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (n7rxJ)

149 Fair is fair.

Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:

"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

Biden and Kamamalalal broke it. Send the bill to them.

Posted by: LASue at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (lCppi)

150 the love child of Adolf Hitler and Festus.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

151 Cocaine off a toilet seat? Luxury!!!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (S5fB5)

152
It's my opinion, lol.

I think organ harvesting is a big money maker for people.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (3ek7K)

153 145 Scott Jennings would be surprised that he's in my top 10 of men I'd marry list (if I wasn't already married and probably him as well).

You are on the list, too, Ace! Whether you want to be or not! It is in writing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (WONhk)

Hell, I'd marry Scott Jennings and I'm not even gay.

Posted by: Probably has great family health coverage at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (TbWk/)

154
"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

"The government didn't do that. Your CONSTITUENTS made that happen!"

- - - - Mirror Universe Elizabeth Warren

Posted by: Zombie John McCain at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

155 121 wait till you see how much the price of chips and soda go up when you can't buy them with food stamps
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 03:49 PM (CWTWj)
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Negative 25% is my guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:50 PM (ojr4c)
________________________

That would be "Supply side economics". Initially, there would be an over abundance of chips and soda, thus lowering the price on semi-persishable items. Then, production would come down to accomodate joined by a smaller market thus increasing competition, and keeping the prices down.

So endeth the lesson.

Posted by: The Mantra of Reagan at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (dIske)

156 149 Fair is fair.

Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:

"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

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I'm assuming that most of the property damage was done by leftist agitators chasing after ICE vehicles and running into things.

Bill them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

157 ACA coverage is intentionally, wildly expensive.

By design.

Oh, and illegals get free healthcare.

A great cadre of people need to meet rough Justice at the business end of industrial wood chippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (Ruy1P)

158 Video above of Obama stating that the ACA would not add a dime to the deficit.
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Congressional hearings are mostly useless. But I would like to see one where they roll through video of all of Obama's lies on ACA followed by the actual results just so the people can what Obama laugh and say something like "The lies worked on all you idiots, didn't they? I'm outta here, I got Netflix checks to cash."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (Dv3i1)

159 "My premium was $100, now its $900! Woe is me!"

First, fuck you.
Second, your premium was always $900, it's just that someone else was picking up the $800 for you.
Third, fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (2UnvF)

160 You are on the list, too, Ace! Whether you want to be or not! It is in writing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 12, 2026 03:56 PM (WONhk)

So, one important question you have to ask yourself before you agree to marry Ace....how good are you with hair balls?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

161 The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

Sure thing. Get it from a Somalian.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (S5fB5)

162 And shyte......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

163 The residents of countries with national health care can now go to the US or even some 3rd world countries for medical care, bypassing rationing. What happens when we're no longer available to provide a la carte medical care?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:57 PM (Riz8t)
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Someone will fill the niche, of course. My bet would be on Korea or Thailand or Mexico. The already-extant private practices there will continue to expand, and medical tourism will grow. If you're rich enough, you'll travel and pay people equipped to cater to you, and pay whatever bribes are demanded to those who enable that catering. If you're not, you will die.

It's how communist takeover always go.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2026 03:59 PM (ojr4c)

164 Four seasons, something similar happened with my dad last Spring. We got to the ER at around 8am, only one other person waiting, brought to a room within 5 minutes. Then we sat. And waited. Waited as the ER filled up, waited as they helped everyone around us. A nurse would pop in and check stats, but nothing that moved things forward. I had to go home to check on my dog, then my mom asked for him to be discharged around 7pm so that she could take him to another ER. They were pissed off, gave her a hard time, but — that’s when a doctor finally came in and they started arranging him to be moved to the hospital, specifically the floor for lung issues (why we were there).

It was obvious that an old, white man ranked behind all others in the ‘heart of the city’ ER IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)

165 Old Headline --

Jonathan Gruber: "The Stupidity Of The American Voter" Led Us To Hide Obamacare's True Costs From The Public

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 03:59 PM (+6Dls)

166 "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
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Red state taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for blue state idiocy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 12, 2026 03:59 PM (Dv3i1)

167
To me, stopping its growth is HUGE. It should have snowballed merrily along to single payer by now.

Agreed, but we can't let up, because the left won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

168 Obama said illegals would not get a dime from ACA. Joe Wilson said You Lie and was run out of DC by the media.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 04:00 PM (S5fB5)

169 Fair is fair.

Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:

"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)

How many billions a year was a Somali fraud ring worth to the state, and what does he think fair compensation is for that loss?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 04:00 PM (rbvCR)

170 Joe Wilson said You Lie and was run out of DC by the media.
Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 04:00 PM

He lost his license, now he can't drive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

171 159 "My premium was $100, now its $900! Woe is me!"

First, fuck you.
Second, your premium was always $900, it's just that someone else was picking up the $800 for you.
Third, fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 03:58 PM (2UnvF)

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From the graph I saw, using $900 as an example, the overall cost would have been $1800 last year, $1700 the year before, and $1600 the year before.

Overall premium prices have been growing very vast for more than a decade, even fast in the last 8 years or so because of how the ACA was structured to go into effect.

But yes, since COVID, that premium would have only cost the individual recipient $100. All while the subsidies hid not just the inflated price but the massive cost increases going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

172 "It was obvious that an old, white man ranked behind all others in the ‘heart of the city’ ER IYKWIMAITYD."

Healthcare workers call it 'triage.'

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (N8ZBc)

173 ACA coverage is still subsidized. Something like 50% is still covered by the government.

It's just not as subsidized as it was post-covid now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

174 Axelrod knew at the time they were imposing a flawed system on the American people, over the objections of the people. He and Obama wanted to make it politically very tough to change or to remove, so it would either have to be expanded or lead to single-payer socialized medicine.

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Designed to fail ... and working as designed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (+6Dls)

175 Tim Walz wants US taxpayers to pay his state for damages:

"The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 03:55 PM (J+Psw)
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Fair is fair Timbo, ICE will buy you some street signs and you pay America back for stealing us blind your entire term in office. $25 Billion might about cover it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:02 PM (s8OdJ)

176
David Axelrod always reminded me of the love child of Adolf Hitler and Dr. Phil.

Looks like the guy in the cartoon sweeping up after the parade goes by.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2026 04:02 PM (Cqx++)

177 "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."

And what did he think they had broken?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2026 04:02 PM (8Xy/A)

178
Lizzy,

Yes. My husband is an old white man.

After that experience in the hospital he is adamant that we shouldn't take him to any hospital.

He is 80 and he said just let him die at home.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM (3ek7K)

179 Fair is fair Timbo, ICE will buy you some street signs and you pay America back for stealing us blind your entire term in office. $25 Billion might about cover it.

Of course, we'll have to lock you in a debtor's prison until you've paid us back. Fair is fair.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM (Riz8t)

180 Someone should dig McCain up, light the corpse on fire, piss on the ashes and throw the steaming pile into the Potomac.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)

181 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

https://tinyurl.com/36pz8hux

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)

182 Sure, sure, Tim, just as soon as your state pays for all the damage to ICE vehicles and ICE facility damages.

Hey, you told the mob to attack us, Tim…

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (Hkcdp)

183 re 155: yeah, come on, i know that. one of the last books i actually bought was a collection of essays on economics by hayek.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (CWTWj)

184 180 Someone should dig McCain up, light the corpse on fire, piss on the ashes and throw the steaming pile into the Potomac.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)

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"Oh, that darn McCain...he kept us from repealing the ACA! Darn him! Just drat!"
-Mitch McConnell, totally innocent in this affair

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

185 Someone should dig McCain up, light the corpse on fire, piss on the ashes and throw the steaming pile into the Potomac.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM

Have the grace to at least wait until his funeral concludes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

186 Fair is fair Timbo, ICE will buy you some street signs and you pay America back for stealing us blind your entire term in office. $25 Billion might about cover it.

Of course, we'll have to lock you in a debtor's prison until you've paid us back. Fair is fair.

Pity your wife, errr...ex-wife, won't be coming to visit you.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

187 Through my 5 y.o. I heard about a family of his classmate who had to drop their insurance and now cannot pay for his cancer treatments. He then asked me why Republicans don't want to help people?

This really happened, not making it up.

Posted by: Ripley at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (GUOwU)

188 Repeal this abortion now. WTF are the GOPers doing anyway?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)

189 "It was basically wasting taxpayer money that had no chance of improving the health of anybody."

"We've gotten rid of all that."
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:27 PM

As many have noted, the work of Doge (and particularly the defunding of USAID) was accompanied by a massive drop in Democrat donations. I think that David Strom was being sarcastic in Hot Air today when he said that "it shocks [him] like you couldn't believe," ( https://tinyurl.com/4xsdme56 ) but I actually did not see it coming. I underestimated the amount of corruption by an order of magnitude, and so I underestimated the amount being logrolled back to the Democrat party by an even greater degree.

If there's just 5-10% percent corruption, then a bunch of little crooks are just juicing their incomes and spending it on themselves; greedy bastards are not going to feel like they have anything left to give. If there's 40-80% percent corruption, then they're raking in so much dough that even tithing 10% back to their patrons would leave them with generational wealth. So when I thought it was the former, my estimate of the amount of Democrat donations that depended on corruption was off by even more.

Posted by: SciVo at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (Sy6m/)

190 180 Someone should dig McCain up, light the corpse on fire, piss on the ashes and throw the steaming pile into the Potomac.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:03 PM (abIsI)
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Eh that old cocksmoker is already in Hell performing his duties on the barbed cock of satan, so that much effort seems hardly worth it.

Posted by: ballistic at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (5aZAZ)

191 O was huge on shaping the nation's workforce.

Freedom of the Press Foundation: Obama used the Espionage Act to put a record number of reporters' sources in jail, and Trump could be even worse, 2017

Federal Times, Management
How the Obama administration shaped the federal workforce, 2016

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
'Obama labor board flexes its muscles,' 2015
President Barack Obama may end up doing more for the struggling labor movement than any president in three decades.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

192 177 "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."

And what did he think they had broken?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2026 04:02 PM (8Xy/A)
________________________________

I remember a comic in Mad Magazine from nearly 40 years ago. It made an impression and applies to Tampon Tim.

The comic showed a mouse standing on it's hind legs giving the finger to a bald eagle zooming in at speed with its two talons reaching forward for the mouse. The caption read:

"The Last Act of Defiance."

Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2026 04:05 PM (dIske)

193
I remember pointing out to leftists during the Obamacare debate that if they though healthcare was a right there was nothing stopping them from joining a health insurance collective that shared costs equally or based on income whichever they actually thought was "fair".

The response was always...ALWAYS...but then YOU don't have to pay for it
Posted by: 18-1

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I've always made the "What's stopping YOU?" argument on those rare occasions when I tangle with lefties. You think Black Americans deserve reparations? There are 44.1 million registered Dems; why can't you scrounge around in your couch cushions and hell your 401ks and cough up the dough? Make a $50 donation a requirement for registering Dem. There are tons of ways the Dems could do it, and take full credit!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)

194 BLM and cohorts burned billions of dollars in property and now he wants the Federal government to pay for damages?

Tell him.to go fk a stick

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

195 Pity your wife, errr...ex-wife, won't be coming to visit you.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

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Gwen? If I was married to that, I'd gladly go to prison.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 04:06 PM (2UnvF)

196 He lost his license, now he can't drive.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 12, 2026 04:01 PM (jc0TO)

Wait a minute....

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 04:06 PM (S5fB5)

197 imdb: David Axelrod's most renowned acting credits are in "Black-ish" (2015) and "Alpha House" (2014).

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (N8ZBc)

198 What's an Axelrod?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (F2jti)

199
A piece of shit?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (3ek7K)

200 Hey, remember when sicklyMcCain was allowed to cast the final vote on repealing Obamacare and he dramatically gave a thumbs down?
This was the choreographed performance for his HBO documentary about his career, meant to be the dramatic high point of the movie, last act of defiance.

If you dig him up, get that thumb, will you?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (Hkcdp)

201 194 BLM and cohorts burned billions of dollars in property and now he wants the Federal government to pay for damages?

Tell him.to go fk a stick
Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

I'd send him a bill for all the damage done to ICE vehicles etc...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (VE6XX)

202 17 It's not Trump care it's Obama care.. or the Unaffordable care act
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM

In fairness, it's McCainCare at this point.
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IT's NIXON'S War!!! Rheee....

Posted by: pudinhead at February 12, 2026 04:08 PM (Hpgos)

203
He then asked me why Republicans don't want to help people?

Junior, tell your teacher that I said she's a lying commie cocksucker.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 12, 2026 04:08 PM (y9nCu)

204 You are on the list, too, Ace! Whether you want to be or not! It is in writing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I hope your husband reads this and disciplines you severely.

Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at February 12, 2026 04:08 PM (oftw2)

205 Bertolt Brecht, the Architecht.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:09 PM (N8ZBc)

206 I pledge allegiance to the fags
and the United States of transexuals
with bottom surgery and buttsechs for all

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:09 PM (UjdFS)

207 The problem with "only hospitalization insurance" is that a hospitalization is not what bankrupts you. A chronic disease does.

With cancer rates rising and cancer dropping into the 30s and 40s, many folks are living with chronic disease much earlier and much longer. If they did not have full insurance, they'd be bankrupt 10 times over.

It's the problem RFK is trying to find and fix. He's not just focused on autism, but he's trying to figure out all the auto-immune issues that have skyrocketed as well...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

208 206 I pledge allegiance to the fags
and the United States of transexuals
with bottom surgery and buttsechs for all
Posted by: wth

Newsletter?

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 12, 2026 04:10 PM (Dv3i1)

209 What's an Axelrod?

Sigh. $20. Same. As. In. Town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 12, 2026 04:10 PM (Kt19C)

210 "If you're a researcher outside the NIH, the ticket to getting extra, relatively easy funds was to promise to do DEI research."

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I need $500 million to prove that The Sun is racist!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (+6Dls)

211 What I enjoyed most after Obamcare was passed was leftists going around braying "It's the law-deal with it!" I heard/read this more times than I can remember.

But now that doesn't apply to immigration law. Screw them.

Posted by: Ripley at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (GUOwU)

212 If you like your proctologist you can keep your proctologist

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (UjdFS)

213
68 The three most damaging Presidential lies ever told were:
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
"The average family will save $2,500/year."

JugEars McFuckstick KNEW these were LIES but kept repeating them over and over.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at February 12, 2026 03:42 PM

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I don't think Obama knows much of anything. He probably believes the ACA is great because everyone around him says so. He was trained to read a teleprompter and look convincing while he did so.

Posted by: Confederate Ghosts at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (azNOR)

214 Who benefits from the suicide of the West? What is the globalist plan?
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2026 03:29 PM (YwEeS)

The Destruction of Western Civilization is the point.

It's like Che Guevara and trains. Blowing up trains is a lot more fun than making the gorram things run on time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I pointed this out a few weeks ago, they destroy their home and then what? I have been around third world tinpots and drug lords' compounds. They live in a crap hole country, in a compound, surrounded by guards and barbed wire. It is no different than a prison, except that they are in danger from the populace rather than the other way around.

Their grandchildren will live in misery, and they don't seem to care.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (0U5gm)

215 preventing patients from affordable care act (ppaca)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (CWTWj)

216 The new ads at https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads are terrible and make the site unusable.

Posted by: Naqamel at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (lG+7p)

217 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

https://tinyurl.com/36pz8hux
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)
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Prosecute the cunting mother too. I think this kid was fucked in the head. Like seriously mentally ill to the point where he barely knew what planet he was on. I think it was the mother jacked him up on trans drugs and propaganda. She basically created a ticking time bomb and sent it out into the world. This kid should have been committed to a looney bin.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

218 216 The new ads at https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads are terrible and make the site unusable.
Posted by: Naqamel at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (lG+7p)

What ads ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:13 PM (VE6XX)

219 It's a tax!

Posted by: Across Dresser Justice Roberts at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (GGatE)

220 Due to some upgrade, I was not allowed to use my biometric login on a particular app having nothing to do with politics. It was years since I'd used the password so I had to look it up on the keeper. Turns out it was "DeathToHamas." I guess I'm a mean, racist sumbitch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (J+Psw)

221 181 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

https://tinyurl.com/36pz8hux
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Posted by: Aboot the craziest I've seen, eh at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

222 >>>At the time he was unfamiliar with the term, which is designed to fool the listener into thinking it's something agreeable. Otherwise they would call it "government care". Single Payer sounds like the "individual" is the one paying.
Posted by: ...
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Deceptive marketing and the Democrat party.
Hand in glove.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (7X7ea)

223 Prosecute the cunting mother too. I think this kid was fucked in the head. Like seriously mentally ill to the point where he barely knew what planet he was on. I think it was the mother jacked him up on trans drugs and propaganda. She basically created a ticking time bomb and sent it out into the world. This kid should have been committed to a looney bin.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

He took her out, first, in a bit of welcome karma.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (dK+Kv)

224 "I need $500 million to prove that The Sun is racist!"

I'll do it for $1M. Underbid!

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (N8ZBc)

225
The new ads at https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads are terrible and make the site unusable.
Posted by: Naqamel

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Don't click on "Continue reading." Just click on "Comments" and you avoid the ads.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:15 PM (n7rxJ)

226 The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here."

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Uh...what they broke? What exactly would that be? What was caused by federal agents that wouldn't have happened had the terrorist-rioters minded their own damned business?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 12, 2026 04:15 PM (qBdHI)

227 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

It's Canada where you're lucky that your wife isn't really a trans dude.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2026 04:15 PM (abIsI)

228 I need $500 million to prove that The Sun is racist!

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist > Stochastic Terrorist > Statistical Miasma at February 12, 2026 04:12 PM (+6Dls)

Geesh. Tell us something we don't know!

Posted by: NASA at February 12, 2026 04:16 PM (S5fB5)

229 >>This kid should have been committed to a looney bin.

It's more than clear from that video he was mentally ill. Severely mentally ill.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:16 PM (viF8m)

230 Disruptive, aggressive, or manipulative behavior can spread via social learning, fear, and lowered norms.

One toxic or dominant person can degrade an entire team or family.

This is driven by behavior and personality traits, not by intellectual disability (“mental deficiency”

. People with intellectual disabilities are far more often on the receiving end of negative group dynamics than the instigators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:16 PM (7X7ea)

231 *Thumbs down.*

Posted by: John McCain - Hero at February 12, 2026 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

232 The people most likely to dominate negatively and degrade group behavior are often those with personality traits from the “dark triad” (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) or certain personality disorders — not intellectual disability.

These individuals can:

Monopolize conversations
Create fear
Lower psychological safety
Cause others to become more submissive, cynical, or imitative

Studies on toxic leadership and “bad apples” confirm this pattern in workplaces, sports teams, and families.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (7X7ea)

233 Prosecute the cunting mother too. I think this kid was fucked in the head. Like seriously mentally ill to the point where he barely knew what planet he was on. I think it was the mother jacked him up on trans drugs and propaganda. She basically created a ticking time bomb and sent it out into the world. This kid should have been committed to a looney bin.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

He took her out, first, in a bit of welcome karma.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (dK+Kv)
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Ah, I didn't know that. I thought the shootings were all at the school. Good. That was an evil, dangerous woman. The world is better off without her. Sadly, he didn't just kill her and then himself.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

234 Disruptive, aggressive, or manipulative behavior can spread via social learning, fear, and lowered norms.

One toxic or dominant person can degrade an entire team or family.

This is driven by behavior and personality traits, not by intellectual disability (“mental deficiency”. People with intellectual disabilities are far more often on the receiving end of negative group dynamics than the instigators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:16 PM (7X7ea)

Are you bullying me?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

235 187. The ill child isn't covered through CHIP, etc?

In the United States, all children are legally entitled to receive necessary medical care for cancer, regardless of a family's ability to pay, insurance status, or the complexity of the diagnosis. Programs like Medicaid and CHIP cover 1 in 3 children with cancer, while hospitals

Further, (AI Overview) in 2025 and 2026, major initiatives to erase medical debt shifted from federal, industry-led efforts to state-led programs. While large-scale debt purchases by groups like Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt) continued, federal protections against medical debt on credit reports were reversed in 2025, moving the battle to state legislatures.

States like Arizona and localities such as Los Angeles County (really, much of the country) have used federal Covid relief funds to pay off hundreds of millions in resident medical debt.

The primary model remains buying debt for pennies on the dollar, but it is now largely supported by a mix of philanthropy and state-level government investment rather than a unified national policy.
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They want virtually unlimited Federal medical coverage and control of the $.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (NFX2v)

236 Ah, I didn't know that. I thought the shootings were all at the school. Good. That was an evil, dangerous woman. The world is better off without her. Sadly, he didn't just kill her and then himself.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (iFTx/)

Killed his brother, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (dK+Kv)

237 >It's more than clear from that video he was mentally ill. Severely mentally ill.

Posted by: JackStraw
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are you referring to that creepy 'laughing' video I saw yesterday

supposed to be the tranny shooter?

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (ZxPkt)

238
I don't think Obama knows much of anything. He probably believes the ACA is great because everyone around him says so. He was trained to read a teleprompter and look convincing while he did so.
Posted by: Confederate Ghosts

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Gotta wonder what Obama knows. He and Michelle are insulated in so many layers of dollars at this point they could live well without even knowing what year it is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (n7rxJ)

239 I'm very disappointed that you continually taint the memory of my father, who was a war hero and the best US Senator in history.

Posted by: Mega Mac at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

240 Every time I click on "Continue Reading" it shows me a full screen ad, and the URL is https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads and it fucking sucks.

No, I don't have any weird extensions, I don't run chrome, I don't even run Windows. Stock install of debian Linux. So no, it's not a virus.

Posted by: Naqamel at February 12, 2026 04:18 PM (lG+7p)

241 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

https://tinyurl.com/36pz8hux
Posted by: JackStraw
......

all hopped up on goofballs
high as a tick on flea dust

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:19 PM (UjdFS)

242 Brother-in-law was diagnosed with Glioblastoma a few months ago.

The medical industry put him through surgery and other stuff.

Chris knew there wasn't anything that would cure him.

The medical industry put him through a lot of treatments which Chris knew wouldn't help him. He told the family and doctors he wanted to go home and die in his bed.

That is what he wanted and two weeks later he died at home in his bed which is what he wanted.

Chris was one of the finest men I had the honor of knowing.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

243 204 You are on the list, too, Ace! Whether you want to be or not! It is in writing.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I hope your husband reads this and disciplines you severely.
Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at February 12, 2026 04:08 PM (oftw2)
...................................
He would probably sell me if he could!

In reality we get along really well and always have. Altho he told me today, after a return of stuff to a store I won't get into, that he doubted it would have gone as well as the lady at the store was all business and no sense of humor. He's a diplomat. I am a lunatic. Match made in heaven.

He does not trust me in public is basically what he meant. I could go off like a grenade at any minute, altho I hide it well.

He has NO IDEA I talk to Morons. My one secret I keep from him. Of course, being a systems guru he may spy on me and know. Hi!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 12, 2026 04:20 PM (WONhk)

244 >Every time I click on "Continue Reading
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don't click 'continue reading'
click 'comments'

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2026 04:20 PM (ZxPkt)

245 Chris was one of the finest men I had the honor of knowing.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

Sorry for your loss...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2026 04:20 PM (VE6XX)

246 If we are going to wood chip ObamaCare culprits, I insist they be inserted feet first so we can watch them scream.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 12, 2026 04:20 PM (wBaIH)

247 I forget who it was on the ONT, but I hate them just the same. Someone motivated me to play around with Grok, and I just got this description of Ace of Spades.

"It's like someone dug up the body of Rush Limbaugh, put him in a tactical vest, gave him a six pack and pushed him through a woodchipper, followed by pushing publish for the last 15 years"

Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2026 04:21 PM (dIske)

248 Are you bullying me?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

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*Gives Flounder an atomic wedgie*

Yes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 12, 2026 04:21 PM (2UnvF)

249 Six years ago husband was in a hospital in South Carolina.

The fat black nurses would do nothing for him. There was a white nurse on her own time who would come in to tend to him.

It's scary out there.
Posted by: fourseasons

This is what I was trying to warn everyone about!

Posted by: Zombie Scott Adams at February 12, 2026 04:21 PM (JCZqz)

250 ""The NIH program officers would go to the people who were doing these projects... and say, 'look, we have some money left over, if you propose a diversity supplement,'--meaning essentially some DEI add-on that wasn't actually good science--'then you can get access to extra money for your research.'"

It's even worse because people were being bribed to ascribe to DEI nonsense. Someone should audit this over the last 10-15 years and see how many RO1 grants this extra money would have funded?

Posted by: Thrawn at February 12, 2026 04:21 PM (9Ovst)

251 >>supposed to be the tranny shooter?

That's the claim.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:21 PM (viF8m)

252 "https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads"

I entered that exact URL in my browser: no ads displayed.

Firefox with strict security turned on, with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin extensions, on RPi OS (Debian derivative.)

Try it! When I first put those extensions in, it detected an AoSHQ ad trying to open my cam! You need protection here.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:22 PM (N8ZBc)

253 That is what he wanted and two weeks later he died at home in his bed which is what he wanted.

Chris was one of the finest men I had the honor of knowing.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 12, 2026 04:19 PM (3ek7K)

I am so sorry, fourseasons. It is a horrible diagnosis. May he RIP and his family be comforted by our Lord.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 12, 2026 04:22 PM (WONhk)

254 I don't think Canada would have committed him to a mental health institution for being diagnosed with a number of conditions and being on various medication. Their psychiatric care is probably worse that ours is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2026 04:22 PM (8Xy/A)

255
Every time I click on "Continue Reading" it shows me a full screen ad, and the URL is https://ace.mu.nu/#passage-ads and it fucking sucks.

No, I don't have any weird extensions, I don't run chrome, I don't even run Windows. Stock install of debian Linux. So no, it's not a virus.
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Yeah, that's why I'm saying DON'T click on "Continue reading." Just click on "Comments," which is like one line below. No ads.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:22 PM (n7rxJ)

256 That year, Taylor Swift partnered with Papa John's for a nationwide contest built around a simple concept: whichever school received the most online votes would win a live concert performance. The promotion was designed to energize fans, encourage school spirit, and generate social media engagement. Students across the country quickly began sharing links, campaigning for votes, and mobilizing classmates, parents, and local communities.

Initially, everything unfolded as planned. Schools created hashtags, students posted daily reminders, and the contest reflected the kind of enthusiastic online participation brands hope for when launching viral campaigns. However, as the voting gained traction, internet forums and social platforms began to take notice—and not all participation remained aligned with the original spirit of the competition.

A coordinated online push by trolls redirected the momentum toward the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Through organized voting efforts, the school surged to the top of the leaderboard. The sudden shift caught many observers off guard and transformed what had been a lighthearted promotion into a national talking point.

Continued

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (lnk1R)

257 The unexpected outcome sparked a wave of debate. Some questioned whether the coordinated voting was intended as a prank, an attempt to expose weaknesses in online voting systems, or a deliberate effort to put organizers in an awkward position. Others focused on the optics of the situation—wondering how a live concert, centered on sound and performance, would translate at a school serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (lnk1R)

258
Chris knew there wasn't anything that would cure him.

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Sad. Sorry you lost him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (n7rxJ)

259 Are you bullying me?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 12, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

Um that's retarded sir

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (S5fB5)

260 fourseasons, condolences for your loss.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (7X7ea)

261 All you have to do is look at a price graph of any health care ETF Like XLV it was trading at 27 on 12/31/08. It is now at 156. Mcain/Roberts care ,
did nothing but enrich the healthcare companies

Posted by: Big Alfredo at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (Vdukr)

262 181 If you haven't seen it yet here's a video of the pyscho trans killer in Canada. It's way past time to start calling trans what it is, mental illness. The more these people are coddled the more people will die.

https://tinyurl.com/36pz8hux
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2026 04:04 PM (viF8m)

What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Posted by: Aboot the craziest I've seen, eh at February 12, 2026 04:14 PM (TbWk/)
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Whoa. That was disturbing.

He sounded like the Joker from Batman.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2026 04:24 PM (ESVrU)

263 Canadian Sniper
in theatres this summer

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2026 04:24 PM (UjdFS)

264 I gave up on Brave last year when it caught a browser-infector. It ain't bullet-proof. It's derived from the same codebase as Chrome. Basically, Google drives that ship.

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:25 PM (N8ZBc)

265 Hey, remember when sicklyMcCain was allowed to cast the final vote on repealing Obamacare and he dramatically gave a thumbs down?
This was the choreographed performance for his HBO documentary about his career, meant to be the dramatic high point of the movie, last act of defiance.

If you dig him up, get that thumb, will you?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 04:07 PM (Hkcdp)

You'll find it lodged in his ass...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 12, 2026 04:25 PM (nbLIj)

266 Did someone say David Asshole Rod?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 12, 2026 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

267 I'm so sorry fourseasons

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2026 04:26 PM (S5fB5)

268 "I don't think Obama knows much of anything. He probably believes the ACA is great because everyone around him says so. He was trained to read a teleprompter and look convincing while he did so.
Posted by: Confederate Ghosts"

He made some really ignorant claims on national TV to push Obamacare about doctors intentionally doing unnecessary surgeries just to make money. Nobody ever called him out on it, including the AMA which should have been screaming and raising hell. He should have been hounded out of office for just that alone.

Posted by: Ripley at February 12, 2026 04:26 PM (GUOwU)

269
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (lnk1R)

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This story is looking kind of hilarious. But I don't get this: "The promotion was designed to energize fans, encourage school spirit, and generate social media engagement."

To what end? To further Taylor Swift's career?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:26 PM (n7rxJ)

270 To what end? To further Taylor Swift's career?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Yes. Could be why the trolls took over. Not all trolls are bad.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:28 PM (lnk1R)

271 The stupid folks at the WSJ are still trying to flog the "Tulsi Gabbard Whistleblower" dead horse. It's an alleged phone call between two foreigners and "Jared Kushner" was a name mentioned on the call. Obviously, everyone should be impeached or executed or something.

Same bullshit they pulled on Trump in term one, and they are trying the same gimmickry thing again. Losers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:28 PM (lIonU)

272 242. Posted by: fourseasons

Sounds like a wonderful person. May he rest in peace. 🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:29 PM (NFX2v)

273
Yes. Could be why the trolls took over. Not all trolls are bad.
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Then the story IS hilarious. What a dumb-ass stunt, getting a bunch of school kids to boost her already stratospheric career instead of setting a goal of academic excellence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 12, 2026 04:29 PM (n7rxJ)

274 Judge Bias-berg will next order Maduro reinstated as Warlord of Venezuela. My money is on next Thursday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2026 04:30 PM (lIonU)

275 wondering how a live concert, centered on sound and performance, would translate at a school serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2026 04:23 PM (lnk1R)

Crank up the bass, and wire a bunch of speakers into the floorboards of the concert room so they can feel it through their feet.
Friend used to work with a bunch of deaf workers and they invited him to parties. He said the music was so loud he had to wear ear plugs like he was at work.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)

276 I think the O knew what Valerie Jarrett and certain script writers told him.

It may continue on to this day. But, wow, lots of $ was made, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2026 04:31 PM (NFX2v)

277 nood

Posted by: gp at February 12, 2026 04:31 PM (N8ZBc)

278 So… did the Horace Mann school for the deaf win the contest?

Excellent prank.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2026 04:33 PM (Hkcdp)

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