Court Upholds ACA. Bears Discover Cars.

Yup.  Supreme Court okayed the health care subsidies that help the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare') to work.

Naturally, the conservatives are whining.  And apparently "banana republic" is code for the UK.  Well, no.  But the conservatives quoted, especially the ones "concerned" about the cost! Oh My God, have no similar qualms about sending troops to Syria or Iran.  Because it's dee-fense.  That seems to be the excuse, anyway.

To be entirely Fair and Balanced:

• Not all conservatives are stupid
• Not all conservatives are racist
• Not all conservatives are liars
• Not all conservatives are sexist
• Not all conservatives want me, personally, dead
• Not all conservatives believe the labor movement should return to the golden days (spit) of 1910
• Not all conservatives are whining losers
• Not all conservatives want to impose their religions on everyone
• Not all conservatives are in favor of restoration of the Bourbons
• Not all conservatives are ranting xenophobes
• Not all conservatives are ranting homophobes, and those who are are not necessarily in the closet (it's hard to remember that when they keep getting outed)
• Not all conservatives believe liberals are conspiring against them
• Not all conservatives sling cant about small government and then try to criminalize as many acts as possible
• Not all conservatives are thieves
• Not all conservatives are rich, or think they will be rich tomorrow morning
• Not all conservatives lack empathy except for relatives and friends.

...but some are and do, and those form the stereotype of The Conservative, which is repellent.  Forties movies had the cliché of the Cultured Nazi, but I found that repellent as well.

(This is a piece of the rant that is simmering on the back burner while I absorb Ta-Nehisi Coates' essays on Confederate flag and race in America (there are more; these are a taste) and various postings from the last month.)