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Chuck Schumer: Shutdown Negotiator

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Ol’ Chuck once again caved to the Republicans for nothing. Over a month of pain to get to exactly where he was before the shutdown. It took eight Democratic accomplices who won’t face their voters for years, but Schumer got what he wanted: everything for his imaginary Republican friends The Baileys and nothing for his party’s base voters, who actually exist.

Maybe by this time next year, all will be forgotten and the Democrats sweep the midterms. But if that happens, I’m not sure what will be left to salvage. It’s only been ten months of this fascist administration, and it will take decades to undo the damage they’ve already done.

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Actually Affordable Health Insurance Plans

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It’s open enrollment season for those who rely on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, and people are being confronted with extreme sticker shock as premiums skyrocket because of Republican insistence on eliminating the subsidies that made the whole thing nominally “affordable” in the first place. Was it good even with the subsidies? Nope, but it was better than what came before, which was tens of millions opting to forgo health insurance entirely.

As a freelancer, I spent years relying on these plans. First when it was Romneycare in Massachusetts, then when it was implemented nationally and called Obamacare. The subsidies are what propped up this rickety system and stifled demands we finally join the rest of the modern world with single-payer health care.

Millions will get sick and die prematurely without health care, and (for once) the Democrats aren’t caving on the shutdown to protect the minimal coverage we do have. Still, any Democrat who’s not forcefully demanding Medicare for All should be primaried and have their own generous congressional coverage revoked.

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Smokey’s Shutdown Survival Guide

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Two weeks into a shutdown, and our national parks are getting the Bundy Family treatment. Dig a proper latrine and make sure it’s deep enough to hold all the shit coming out of Mitch McConnell and the White House.

Despite being Interior Secretary for nearly two years, this is my first time drawing Ryan Zinke. I missed a lot of opportunities to draw his fivehead, which has more of a Frankenstein/John Cornyn vibe than Stephen Miller’s Twilight Zone “To Serve Man” alien.

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Steve Mnuchin’s 2019 Economic Forecast

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I’ve been busy doing holiday things and have been blissfully ignorant of the week’s news … until this morning. Going back online is jarring. I just want to go back to making pot roast and prepping vegetables.

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