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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 117 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Samantha said her husband, a veteran with PTSD after two tours in Afghanistan, was struggling to keep their family afloat. “As a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you,” she continued. “You could stop this. You could be the one to say, ‘Military is getting paid.’

And still they don't get it. Still they're asking to be exempt from the horrors, not to end them.

A caller from Texas demanded to know the GOP’s plan to fix the Affordable Care Act. “Great question,” Johnson said, pausing before conceding that “Obamacare did not do what was promised” and that it’s “very, very complicated” to replace. He added that Trump “wants to fix the health care system,” saying they’d spoken “as recently as yesterday.”

Sounds like a whole lotta nothing.

And why isn't it funny? Well. Seeing him cry would have been even funnier.

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Johnson doesn't even have concepts of a plan

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