me and my mutuals about to leave a man who has been shot in the spine on the beach and teleport away without taking him to the hospital, because he is a liberal
My father’s funeral was yesterday. There are a lot of ways that I could attempt to eulogize him, but for the sake of expediency I’m going to go with an incident, towards the tail end of the Obama administration, where I was sitting in the living room reading, and he charges in in a big huff, says, “Look at what he sent me! Can you believe this guy?” and hands me this:
I’m so so curious what death panels could possibly be. is this a council that decides who dies ? what does this mean ?
A major Republican talking point/smear during the early Obama years was the idea that the Affordable Care Act would inevitably result in a slippery-slope towards the existence of dystopian bureaucratic review panels who would assess whether it was cost effective to keep any given person alive using state resources (colloquially referred to as “death panels.”)
The intended joke was that my father was LARPing as a hypothetical insane person who heard about the concept of death panels, misunderstood them as an actual plank of Obama’s platform, thought they were a great idea, and then spent eight years badgering the surgeon general about how to sign up for them as if it were akin to jury duty, before Obama personally intervenes to try and get him to stop. The tone of the conversation right before he handed this to me had undertones of a guy feeling backstabbed about a politician not following through on campaign promises.
(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don’t, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that’s not true. it’s the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms
Love the tags!
ah lads not the stagnation i’ve been tricked again
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