Thank you Mike Pence

I'm not going to go on a crazy rant here, but what happened last night at the Capitol wasn't patriotism. It was people inspired by a little fascist would-be authoritarian dictator with small hands... and nothing more.

You were not heroes, you were pieces of flotsam. I hope as many of you as possible face the full ten years for violating the Statues and Monuments Acr. It's not 1776, it's 2021 and you are anachronistic and useless idiots who don't understand sometimes in a representative republic your side loses. You do not fully represent the will of the people (we don't either for that matter), you are not the silent majority(as you are neither silent nor a majority) and you do not have any right to contest the will of the people. 

You know who actually stood up and exhibited patriotism? Mike Pence. I dislike Mike Pence immensely but last night he didn't buckle and he didn't waver. He did his job in spite of Trump. He and others of his party that finally rejected the toxic lies of Donald J Trump were the patriots.

So I never thought I'd say this.. but thank you Vice President Pence!

More Grim Milestones this week... a quarter-million dead.

In case you haven't been paying attention we are hitting some unfortunate milestones with regards to the Coronavirus this week.

We didn't need a man like Herbert Hoover again!

Today - 11/13/220 we have +183,527 the most ever in a single day

Tomorrow we will hit 250,000 deaths (we are at 249,975 at this moment)

Texas - (where I live) leads the nation in new deaths at 216. Tomorrow it will hit 20,000 death and is already second to only New York. 

New Cases and Deaths per Worldmeters 11/13/2020

Side Note - Texas, which is full of virus deniers and anti-mask idiots is now the number one hotspot in the country. Stores have mask mandates but do not and have not enforced them in months and we are paying for it now... and they still deny masks work.

If you are a Coronavirus denier it is time for you to fucking get over it. If you are an anti-masker it is time for you to get over it. On 10/24 we had a little over 83,000 new cases and it was the most ever. 20 days later we have 183,527 in one day.

Your sad pathetic science denial is getting people killed. Your blind devotion to a man who has never studied biology or immunology or pandemic science is getting people killed. You are listening to an idiot!

I am talking about Trump. I am talking about willful ignorance and full-on cognitive disconnect.

Coronavirus is now the 3rd leading cause of death in this country. 

President Trump has failed you as a leader with his science denial and vain super spreader events. He has failed you as a leader by withholding the truth. He has failed you with his insane suggestions about hydroxychloroquine and injecting disinfectant. He has failed you by openly questioning and berating scientists who have spent years studying viruses and pandemic responses. He has failed you by putting money and profit before the lives of the citizens of the united states. 

Trump patting himself on the back for Pfizers vaccine which they say he had nothing to do with

Never once mentioning safety measures and never once offering guidance.

Never once mentioning that tomorrow a quarter-million Americans will have died

This failed one term lame-duck president is still putting himself before the American people. He should be sounding the alarm but he is too busy trying to subvert the will of the people. He has not attended a Coronavirus briefing in months!

I do want every legal vote counted, but it is obvious Donald J Trump has lost. It is obvious based on his response to this pandemic he should lose. 

Instead of legal challenges regarding the election, this asshole should be begging for the forgiveness of the American people. 

He should have resigned in disgrace months ago. He is unfit to lead by any stretch of the imagination. He is simply the worst President in the history of this country. 

He Should Be Ashamed...

and so should anyone who still supports him

The startling truth about Obamacare from personal experience.

I'm a liberal but I'm here to set the record straight, Obamacare is absolutely horrible. If you don't believe me, just keep reading!

Since being laid off last March due to the slowdown in the oil field and the pandemic I have been on the Affordable Care act. I got my coverage through healthcare.gov during special enrollment because of losing my employment.

My premium is a whopping - $1233.19 per month!!!

I mean after my tax credit of $1311 it's free... but still. 14,798 thousand a year, damn! that's a lot, even if I'm not paying for it.

My employer-based medical care only came to $6132 a year... so that truly is a shit load more expensive! 

Of course, that doesn't count the $14K additional that was my employer's portion that comes to $20,132 a year. Wait.... hmmm, okay so the ACA is actually a fuckload cheaper... but you know it is shitty, shitty coverage right!

I won't get to keep my doctor... oh wait, my doctor is on the plan. Well, she moved when the economy crashed, so I'll go ahead and blame Obama for that! It is an HMO though, so I do have to get my doctor's referral to see specialists and you know those Co-pays will eat my lunch! 

Except, I got a silver plan through the marketplace with BCBS. With two $5 Primary Care Physician visits before any larger co-pays kick in. And it's a 30% co-pay after that until my deductible is met. The estimate my out of pocket costs for the entire year at $1039 dollars. That is outrageous uh'm actually kind of incredible. Hmmm... but the prescription coverage must really suck!

I got 7 prescriptions today - I bet I got hosed! I bet I'm broke after this! I've never needed this many prescriptions in my life. I blame 2020...

1. Losartan HCTZ for my Blood pressure cost $302.89 before insurance - $0 after
2. Omnaprozale for Acid Reflux cost $194.89 before insurance - $0 after
3. Amocx-Clav for an Ear Infection $78.99 before insurance - $0 after
4. Escitalopram for for depression $159.99 before insurnce - $0 after
5. Fluticasone for Allergies 76.99 before insurance - $0 after
6. D-Amphetamine (Generic Adderall) for ADHD $194.99 before insurance - $10 after
7. Ofloxacin - also for ear infection $158.99 before insurance = $10 after

So, let's see... I paid $20 for prescriptions totaling $1,167.73!!! That is fucking horrible amazing. Hmmm, this isn't proving what I hoped to prove. 

My wife is getting surgery on a cyst next week, if we hadn't already met our deductible I bet we'd get hosed!

Okay, but this wouldn't work for everyone... if we covered everyone it would be bad for the country right. That's what they keep telling us, so it must be true. So they estimate that medicare for all would run around $3.2-$3.4 trillion a year. Well, damn... we can't afford that! I mean even if it helps my family that is a horrible amount to add to the countries healthcare costs. Shit. See I was right! Obamacare, and by extension Medicare for all would be a disaster even if it covered everyone.

So I'll go on record as saying it is a really, really, ba.... wait, you know what, let me check something out. Be right back!

<Pretend your listening to elevator music here>

Hmmm, it seems that in 2018 medical health spending was $3.6 trillion and expected to grow 5.4% each year until it hits 6.2 trillion in 2028.

• Medicare spending grew 6.4% to $750.2 billion in 2018 or 21 percent of total NHE.
• Medicaid spending grew 3.0% to $597.4 billion in 2018 or 16 percent of total NHE.
• Private health insurance spending grew 5.8% to $1,243.0 billion in 2018 or 34 percent of total NHE.
• Out of pocket spending grew 2.8% to $375.6 billion in 2018 or 10 percent of total NHE.
• Hospital expenditures grew 4.5% to $1,191.8 billion in 2018, slower than the 4.7% growth in 2017.
• Physician and clinical services expenditures grew 4.1% to $725.6 billion in 2018, a slower growth than the 4.7% in 2017.
• Prescription drug spending increased by 2.5% to $335.0 billion in 2018, faster than the 1.4% growth in 2017.
• The largest shares of total health spending were sponsored by the federal government (28.3 percent) and the households (28.4 percent). The private business share of health spending accounted for 19.9 percent of total health care spending, state and local governments accounted for 16.5 percent, and other private revenues accounted for 6.9 percent.

Gosh... hmm... I gotta rethink this whole thing!

I got it... I know why the ACA sucks... I am paying $50.44 a month for Dental. Fucking dental! That's where they get you!

In All Seriousness when I hear people say the ACA was too expensive I have to wonder the following things.

• Did they actually try to get it from healthcare.gov?
• Healthcare.gov is the only legitimate place to apply in most states.
• There are many scammers vaguely claiming to be ACA plans that are not actually ACA plans.
• Did they understand how the tax credit works? You don't pay it back unless you misrepresent your income.
• Trump's attacks on Obamacare are completely unfounded. He has promised to give us a new plan in "two weeks" literally for months, and nothing has been presented! 

For the record, this is my actual experience with the ACA. I am not paid to represent the ACA. I am just someone using it who is really tired of how it is portrayed, especially by people who are not on it and are only going by what they have heard and have never visited healthcare.gov even once to see what the truth is! I used my prescription benefit for the first time today, and that inspired this blog.

Trump is genius? - Not even a little!

I woke up to this bullshit on my Facebook page today:

Remember that check the Government gave us a few months back, the one you didn’t want? The taxes you’ll owe in Jan, Feb, Mar and Apr will be a lot less than that. Good thing you didn’t want it and put it in Savings. Using free money from the government to pay taxes. Trump is genius!!

Every time someone says Trump is a genius I wonder what their standard is. He is not a genius, stable or otherwise.

Uh'm unfortunately my wife and I were laid off because of the pandemic... you know, the one with 15 cases and soon to be none, and that was supposed to go away with the heat in April, that he now apparently knew was a lot deadlier then he told people? So I damn sure had to spend my stimulus check on groceries and bills for my family to survive.

Trump downplays the severity of the virus!

You think Trump is a genius? His tax cut added 1.5 trillion to the debt before the virus ever hit (you know, the tax cuts that were supposed to pay for themself in revenue?), now another 3 trillion so far due to the virus. 22 million people out of work and an economy that only looks good because it was built on deficit spending and stock buybacks.

As far as the stimulus covering your taxes, if your taxes are withheld correctly for your paycheck you don't owe much (if anything) at the end of the year anyway. That's the way it's designed.

If you owe, you didn't pay enough during the year. So basically, you got a stimulus check, if you were poor and desperate like my family at the moment you had to spend it. If not, you get to rub it our faces now. Either way, it was extra money that had to come from the government (even if you pay it back it was extra.. because otherwise, you'd have to come up with it now.) 

It also was NOT Trump's stimulus. He signed a bill for the first stimulus that was veto-proof on arrival from the senate. 

Side note: If you are one of those spreading MEME's saying no Democrats voted for a 2nd stimulus, here is a fact check for you.

Sooner or later someone is going to have to get that money back somehow, and you will blame them instead of blaming the guy who created the debt. That's how it works. Biden's plan still doesn't raise taxes on anyone making less than $400k a year, Trump's plan is apparently to keep digging a hole. Nothing more, nothing new, no admitting it hasn't worked.

There is no genius here! Not even close. Trump has been an unmitigated disaster!

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