“I’m using affordable care act! I don’t want Obamacare!”
“I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No.”
Actor Craig T Nelson on how the government never helped him.
So help me there was some big deal right wing personality who talked about how the government shouldn’t subsidize education by saying that when he was a kid he wanted an education so he… went down to the public library and read books there. Not a hint of irony. Can’t remember exactly who it was, but the dissonance stuck with me.
If anyone doesn’t know, this is an actual quote from a town hall meeting in '09 when the ACA was on everyone’s mind.
I literally knew a girl who said this. She truly had no idea that they were the same thing, but rattled on about wanting it gone while benefiting from it.
I also knew an older woman who hated Obama and said “he’s arrogant for naming that after himself.” She didn’t believe me that her favorite channel was the one who named it after him unofficially and that its official name was ACA.
They truly just repeat bullshit until it sticks, and it usually works on the people who don’t bother to diversify their information sources. It’s so goddamn frustrating.
She didn’t believe me that her favorite channel was the one who named it after him unofficially and that its official name was ACA.
That can’t be true, because I’ve heard it called Obamacare 30 times. Everyone knows it!
