Josh Fruhlinger
@jfruh.bsky.social
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I am the Comics Curmudgeon, among several other things.
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jfruh.bsky.social
i am disappointed that george pataki is not president yet
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walmsley.bsky.social
my take on primaries remains that there should be enough of them that I don't have to hear about the ones in states I'm not from
lakshya.splitticket.org
Graham Platner is a very high-ceiling candidate in Maine with a lot of potential. He's also extremely untested and while he looks promising for Democrats, it's pretty important to have a primary here to see if there are any red flags that bubble up.

Just let it go and log off.
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
"no no you don't understand. we deploy OUR shitposters against THEIR aura farmers. WE farm aura with normies. but secretly our aura farmers all have normie alter egos--yes, like batman--who can actually govern after we reconquer the cathedral. no, the other batman"
jfruh.bsky.social
the fossil footprint of this in the discourse is the appreciably population of ppl who are like "coronavirus is nothing more than a mild flu that was also BIOENGINEERED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY TO DESTROY US"
jfruh.bsky.social
yeah i feel like the initial trump response was "this is a foreign virus and possibly an attack on the united states" and fauci et al's natural reaction was "no no no that's not how this works" but it probably went too far!
jfruh.bsky.social
does teenage boy blood count as a drug
jfruh.bsky.social
yeah five years is a long time also, though. i'm not saying that they were all resist libs by 2021, but it's telling that the guy who probably did the most to swing the 2016 election trump's way is now one of his main enemies!
jfruh.bsky.social
i don't actually think the FBI did J6 as a false flag to be clear, i just think trump's idea that the FBI an institution wasn't on "his side" in january 2021 is not an incorrect read of the situation
jfruh.bsky.social
like ppl are like "why don't they blame TRUMP for the covid lockdowns, they happened while he was in office!!!" when in fact trump was quite visibly at odds with the public health apparatus for most of 2020!
jfruh.bsky.social
i swear i'm not sanewashing him but i do think a lot of "do these guys know who was president in 2020????" comes down to them assessing (in many ways correctly!) that big chunks of the US gov't apparatus were opposed to them for much of the trump I term
joycewhitevance.bsky.social
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
jfruh.bsky.social
turns out most people are willing to pay quite a bit in order to avoid a small but real chances of catastrophe, and for the ones who aren't, the relatively small penalty didn't change their calculus
jfruh.bsky.social
not debating anything you're saying here but just FYI the penalty for not having insurance was eliminated during trump I! the consensus is that it didn't change overall insurance rates, much to many ppl's surprise
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
SB79 is Union Victory at Gettsyburg for people who posted on NUMTOTS in high school
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
by 2028 we will have at some point imposed tariffs on China for every multiple of 5 between 0-200%
jfruh.bsky.social
well yeah but not to sound snarky but the gradations are the whole point of my initial post! there are some states that didn't expand medicaid and the map of how many people are on the ACA plans sort of corresponds to that but not really
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt
A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”
jfruh.bsky.social
i think most of those people would be on medicaid (which utah expanded!) not ACA plans
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airbudddwyer.bsky.social
feels like we're about to find out that everybody in Kansas is just uninsured or on a wild series of short term plans that aren't legally actually insurance per se called like OzCare
jfruh.bsky.social
oh yeah this is probably the actual utah explanation bsky.app/profile/pete...
petegain.es
Also lots of kids changes the equation maybe?
jfruh.bsky.social
this one is v puzzling to me. both states have a big poor all-rural congressional district; in nebraska (expanded medicaid) it has the highest ACA signup rate in the state; in kansas (didn't expand), it has the lowest????
jfruh.bsky.social
my current crackpot theory about utah is that ACA subsidies are popular among the state's many "small business owners" (people doing MLMs)
jfruh.bsky.social
also: you can get ACA subsidies if you're over 100% of the poverty level but in states that have expanded medicaid you can keep it up to 138%, right? i assume that explains most of the spike in plan enrollees, but not all of them?
jfruh.bsky.social
what's the explanation for why enrollment in ACA marketplace plans sort of, but not exactly, maps onto states that didn't expand medicaid. like why is utah such an outlier for instance
jfruh.bsky.social
oh yeah it's genuinely like 50-75% of manosphere stuff
jfruh.bsky.social
if i'm remembering right thiel established permanent residence in puerto rico as a tax dodge so he wouldn't even have that (for us federal politics anyway). and good for him
gothamgirlblue.com
Nothing is more important to establishing true freedom in the United States than reducing Peter Thiel’s influence down to his vote
sharonk.bsky.social
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about
jfruh.bsky.social
it's just the northern lights