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Hey, gang, it’s finally here! The assfucking that America has been waiting for since Harry Truman suggested universal health care is gonna happen — this week. It’s only taken the health insurance industry sixty years to get ready to ram home their own tumescent Big Bailout plan to make us take it, dammit: take it all the way, rigid and hard and, um, Too Big.
And Big Democrats are gonna make us feel grateful for a little lube called Public Option. If we’re very lucky. "Please, please, sir — can I have a dollop of Public Option?"
Would we like a distraction to dull the pain? Why, yes, we certainly would!
America, here’s several absolutely meaningless, terribly expensively-produced athletic contests the weekend beforehand! Or would we rather relax with I.V. Valium by watching other people competitively dance — or cook, or runway-model, or fashion-design, or choose a life-mate or tonight’s date — on our immense home theatre screens? Maybe you’d like to engage, with like-minded anxiety-ridden Americans, in some newly popular but old-fashioned race-baiting and -bashing. Is the anxiety over penetration really overwhelming? Perhaps every telenovela can be reshuffled the week before! Then our hunt for the new time-slots of our favorite true crime and true romance and true family and true first-responder stories will pay off with a little fictive simultaneity.
Are those enough to keep America distracted from what’s coming?
Because, America, this back-forty plowjob is gonna hurt. We will never be the same, and neither will the insurance companies once they gain access and ram it home. They are ready to possess us just like they own our electeds: wholly, and with malice aforethought. If you or someone you know got hurt when Big Insurance & Big Pill co-rapists laid down the pain on the donut hole, well — that was just the head, baby.
You really want that hole plugged? Here it comes.
There’s lots more reaming ahead. Fast, thick, hard, without mercy.
And it’s gonna happen — now. Bite the pillow called National Exchange, go to the happy place in your head called Universal Coverage, slather on all the Public Option you can scoop up in both hands. Then put yer butt up & shut up: Big Health is gonna own us, Big Insurance is gonna plug us, Big Pill is gonna make us their very own beeyotch.
And they are Big. And it is gonna hurt.
Oh — the safe word, did you ask? 202-224-3121.
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don’t hold back teddy – tell us how ya really feel :)
Woke up this morning on the wrong side of the bed about all this.
Hope the week goes better than I imagine it will.
Not holding my breath.
WTF, I posted this on Suz’s Late Late Night, just as good here, too.
I’m feelin a bit depressed and pissed about it all too, Teddy P:
Just read it. I hate to feel as bad about it all as you do, but . . .
Given the Mouse Circus Ass Clown Circuit today, and all the parade offered, it’s bad news, and trigger bound.
The Big Dog is backin Trigger Snowe.
And all the general analysis of who’s sayin what, just seems depressing, overwhelming, and, well, fucking losing.
Out gunned, we were toyed with up to the the moment of climax, so to speak, in this reaming. Or so it appears.
Without a full public option, ready NOW, folded into Medicare, we’re pretty fucked it seems.
Like the land grab of mortgages, elim of jobs that were NOT part of the Bank/Finan Bailout, this HC Not So Reform will lock us in and out.
I concur with your posits that it’s over. And given the positioning of Af/Pak/Iraq, and our sitches there, it’s obvious that the corporate behemoths have utter and complete control of it all.
We don’t and didn’t stand a chance, no matter WHO we voted for, it would seem, huh.
At this point, short of HUGE and massive civil demonstrations by millions upon millions, it’s over.
I don’t think our votes matter anymore. They are a token process to pacify us and fake us out, in a mistaken belief we have SOMEthing to say about who by and how we are governed.
Maybe it’s just a meloncholic merlot mixin in my mind, but I’m reading all the bad signs that seem all of a sudden to be EVERYwhere, because the media IS controlled by the puppet masters.
I guess, net neutrality, and freedom, is next. Gone. Censored.
At the national level, it’s ugly. Maybe locally, things will be better, but without jobs, and incomes, it’s over.
Blight at the local level. We’re seeing it here in Sacto, hell, seen it since ‘04 or earlier, with the housing collapse.
As I grow older, with mine, it’s gonna be real difficult for us. At my 56, and her 63, thought we’d have 20 or more years together, safely, with work for us thru our mid to late 70’s. Now, not so sure . . . .
Seems all of us are falling into the vortex of less in our life faster n light disappears into a black hole.
Dude, you are such an optimist.
Teddy, have you been reading the Rude Pundit?
We all have to keep breathing, yes.
Gee! Teddy ya think it IS that Big & Bad?? Single Payer H.R. 676 the only true reform America needs!
Just to put it all in perspective:
Corrupt U.S. Health Care System Far More Deadly Than Previously Realized
Just what does THAT say about America??
It says we have a 9/11 happening every single month.
And it will continue until it’s fixed.
That unfortunately is the Truth of the matter. Until this country wakes up and says enough is enough people will be dying by the thousands and most citizens will not even notice. Why because MSM will not report that the true number dying is 45000 per year every year for lack of medical care they should be getting. Maybe we need a new amendment that says health care is an inalienable
RIGHT for all citizens. Oh and for anyone within our borders that fall sick or injured gets medical care… no questions asked about citizenship! Just medical care to take care of the problem.
Teddy, you should write porn. This was very, very funny.
Thank you.
Shit. I thought that was porn. I am still both excited and pissed.
Settle….
I’ve long said that the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is that the Democrats are known to use condoms and lube.
Wow, Teddy. I wouldn’t want you mad at me!
Nor am I… but I am holding the phone.. doing my best not to scream!
hey, that’s my firefriend Teddy Partridge, one righteous mofo !
“Or would we rather relax with I.V. Valium by watching other people competitively dance — or cook, or runway-model, or fashion-design, or choose a life-mate or tonight’s date — on our immense home theatre screens?” ; obviously, the answer is relax for the overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens.
But they don’t need valium when they have television
um, yeah?
great video.
Hey Teddy, seem upset, were You that upset when the election times come. Everybody bitches because they won’t give us anything, and keep giving our money to the big corps. Yet the vote back in the same people who have been ruining our Country for Years. The same people that voted down Clintons bid on healthcare, are still ther trying to kill Obamna’s bid for healthcare.
Our Government doesn’t work. The Congress has caused every problem this Country has including the housing and banking crisis’s, and not fixed one. Yet we support the politicains, parties, and spending they both do. We backed the wars, wanted them to save the economy by bailing out the banks, and hoped they would pass the recovery act to get us jobs.
None of what they did, both parties has done anything but hurt the Country and us, “The People.” Yet we are looking to them to fix healthcare, and give us something. They have a record that they have given us almost nothing, while taking every dollar they can get from us, and spending it. We Pay for SS and Medicare, we pay for everything, so they are giving us nothing.
They haven’t even reinstated the regulations on the banks they voted out. They keep taking the SS fund money while complaining it is going broke. They complain the Government isn’t taking in as much money because people aren’t working, but done little to put the Country back to work. They bailed out the banks, but have let them get away with murder on foreclosiers, credit cards, and not lending like the money was supposed to get them doing.
You have every right to be upset. but channel it at the people who are causing our problems, and quit thinking they won’t do what You want, when they have never done what You want.
You may very well have “backed the wars” but I can assure you I did not.
that’s the problem with the word ‘we’ (We backed the wars) in ingles; supposedly inclusive but masking the reality of diversity.
Wish Michael Franti got more airtime.
But I gotta disagree with Iremember54 about “The Congress has caused every problem this Country has including the housing and banking crisis’s, and not fixed one.”
Don’t remember anyone saying that the responsibilities of a citizen in a representative form of government have been superseded by the need for consumption(even though that was the mechanism used by the capitalists to hypnotize citizen’s that their responsibilities had been supplanted by a different agenda.)
Say you want a revolution? I’m firmly convinced such would occur if we followed the words of Lennon.
If You don’t believe the Congress has caused every problem, You are the problem. Keep thinking Russian History while Your Country goes down the tubes, because You can’t see the real problems, because You are to busy trying to compare us to others. All this bullshit about Socialism is a cover, so we won’t see what is really wrong with this Country, and people like You fall for it hook line and sinker. We haven’t had a representative form of Government for a long time because we gave it up, when we let the politicians convince us that it is their job to decide for us, rather than vote the way we want them to.
The Russians didn’t revolt against LENNON they loved Him, and have Him preserved to this day in Lennon tomb. Anything He spoke or wrote, was to keep His people in control, and He was just like Your capitilist buds, He lived like a King while His people suffered under His oppression.
If They really wanted to push consumption they would have everybody working making big wages so they could buy more. Instead they don’t want to pay good wages, don’t want Americans working, have taxed and regulated small business to death, while promoting the big corporations.
The citizens gave up their rights, to a representative government, by letting politics rule, while they sat on their butts and just let everything happen. We won’t ever have a revolution because people like You actually think our Government works, and support everything that is wrong.
Dude, Lennon and Lenin are two different people, really.