Baby Emu

The Democrats wanted Medicare for All. The Republicans wanted Free Market Healthcare (aka poor people die). Obama took a plan initially conceived by the Heritage Foundation (those project 2025 fuckers) and implemented by Romney for Massachusetts to say "hey, you can have a little free market, but we gotta cover other people too".

It was already a compromise. And the Republicans lost their shit and have proceeded to spend fifteen years crying about their own plan being rampant socialism and repeatedly trying to repeal it despite never actually having a back-up plan for healthcare, simply because they never really wanted compromise to begin with. The moment Obama got elected, they got into a meeting and vowed to tear down everything he tried to build no matter how much it agreed with their so-called values. Because racism, let's be honest, but also because any compromise they put forward is just a show.

"ooooh we could organise and do something but..... nah :)"

My mom had two Devon Rexes, siblings named Zeke and Zena. Zena was deaf and and just kind of did her own thing, but Zeke was a terror. My parents would come down in the morning and find all of the kitchen cabinets and drawers open in his quest for stimulation. We had to keep the toilet lids closed and be careful where we left glasses of water because he liked to play with water. All of my mom's t-shirts had holes in them because he made biscuits on her shoulder. Thought I'd share because Belphie's many misadventures (and baldness pattern) remind me of him.