Cue Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football

[Chasstev365]

Sure, JD: we trust you:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/vance-schumer-obamacare-premiums-shutdown-00589471

[Scrivener7]

1. Also, who gives a shit who Vance wants to talk to?

[Walleye]

2. I lived in NYC for over a decade. Bought my weed in Brooklyn. I know this game.

I’m not as unsophisticated as the magas. In New York, they say, well give me all the money then we’ll decide who it belongs to. Ha ha ha.

[Bluetus]

3. Translation: "Oh shit, you mean people are going to see their 2026 premiums

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inflated by 50%, and that starts showing up in 2 weeks? I thought Trump and Johnson said this shutdown was the GOP's biggest wet dream ever."

Now that they are coming to this realization, this is the time to hit them hard with,

"Look, the Republicans have been lying about this dispute all along. There is no way we can trust them to do ANYTHING in good faith. This is not complicated. All they have to do is rescind all the Draconian cuts they rammed through without a single Dem vote earlier this year. We will work with them day and night to get this done. It really isn't that hard. We can have a bill drafted, ready for a vote in 2 days. But we will not do ANYTHING on the basis of trust because Trump, Vance, and Johnson have not been acting in a way that deserves any trust.."