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u/Aliensinmypants Feb 28 '25
Royalties on legislation is fucking hilarious... I mean I guess it'd be like lobbying but worse somehow
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u/MaximumScrawn Feb 28 '25
Many accusations are confessions.
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u/hfocus_77 Feb 28 '25
Wait until Musk and Trump invent ways to take the taxpayer's money and put it directly into their own pockets.
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u/Rin-ayasi Feb 28 '25
Already did. Isn't musk trying to secure a deal right now to use his "starlink" company to "upgrade" federal aviation infrastructure. Due to the sudden cases of plane crashes
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u/BionicTorqueWrench Feb 28 '25
No, the royalties are to be paid for the use of the name 'Obama', when they call it Obamacare. So, mostly to be paid by Republicans detractors. If they would just call it the Affordable Care Act, which is after all its name, then they wouldn't have to pay the royalties.
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u/phunktastic_1 Feb 28 '25
And the reaso ing is ridiculous. Conservatives named it Obama care. The actual name of the legislation is the affordable care act. Republicans just wanted to play into the party racism by naming it after a Black man so their voters would just hate it outright without trying to understand it.
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u/CathedralEngine Feb 28 '25
"But Obama did it!" will be the refrain when Trump starts collecting royalties.
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u/Arejhey311 Feb 28 '25
Ah yes, “Obamacare”. The name they came up with to create confusion around & discourage support of The Affordable Care Act. Makes total sense he’d collect royalties on legislation
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u/Mrtorbear Mar 01 '25
Just as a little fun fact - I worked as a contracted instructor supporting the ACA for about 10 years. We ended up choosing to own the 'Obamacare' moniker. Not sure if it was well-known or not, but we chose to own the name and consider it a nickname for the legislation rather than an insult.
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u/Horknut1 Feb 28 '25
They’re all so fucking gullible
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Stupid, useful idiots in repeatedly and reliably voting against their own interests for 50 years now.
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u/Adventurous-Ad-409 Feb 28 '25
Wow, DOGE is getting shit done after all: Last time I saw this post, Obama was getting $2.3 billion. Welp, I guess that means it's time for me to write my "why I left the left" speech so I can start e-begging for Thielbux...
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u/MeInSC40 Feb 28 '25
It’s sad that what should be humor just turns into bs adding to misinformation. I kind of wish the onion would stay away from politics altogether.
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u/VelveteenJackalope Feb 28 '25
They're literally a political satire newspaper, I don't know what you fucking want from them
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u/jkhockey15 Feb 28 '25
Call it whatever you want. Satire is just a form of lying and it just so happens those lies hurt our country. Regardless of the intention behind it, how is it any different from right wing media peddling misinformation?
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u/Mesonic_Interference Feb 28 '25
Call it whatever you want. Posting half-baked contrarian assertions on the internet is just a form of lying and it just so happens those lies hurt our country. Regardless of the intention behind it, how is it any different from right wing media peddling misinformation?
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u/hfocus_77 Feb 28 '25
The Onion was boring before their recent rebound. I pretty much only enjoy their recent stuff and stuff from over a decade ago. If conservatives believe the shit the Onion says we'll just add it onto the list of stereotypes.
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u/Badboy420xxx69 Mar 01 '25
A lot of right wing 'satire' isn't satire to them. They have weaponized for the fanatical bottom 70% of right wingers. Look at Babylon Bee, a lot of their headlines aren't even jokes, they are things that are meant to trick the old and the stupid.
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u/GrumpyTom Feb 28 '25
Since the heritage foundation came up with Obamacare, do they get royalties too?
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u/bunny117 Feb 28 '25
Coincidentally, that's exactly the amount that WAPO reported Musk had in new gov. contracts with the US government. 🤔🤔
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u/Solid-Ad7137 Feb 28 '25
Ignoring literally all the political layers to this onion, collecting royalties from a government program you named after yourself is a fucking wild concept.
Don’t know if that’s real or not, honestly don’t care enough to check. Just laughed at the idea.
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u/arknarcoticcrop Feb 28 '25
Also he didn't even name it after himself. People only started calling it Obamacare to disparage it and it caught on.
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u/LeroyoJenkins Feb 28 '25
If anything we Swiss should be charging the US royalties for Obamacare, it was based on our healthcare system (but then gutted and wrecked by amendments).
Muhricans, I'm going skiing, please pay your royalties, k bye.
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u/Less_Likely Feb 28 '25
I made up this thing that isn’t happening to get mad at, and it is still 1/100th if the actual real payout the guy who is running the country gets annually, who I support unequivocally!
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u/Stupid_Bitch_02 Feb 28 '25
Last I had heard it was Musty's business that the government paid $38m to but okay
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u/joealese Feb 28 '25
let's say it is true. it's still less money then trump cost us just so he could go to the Superbowl and NASCAR race in his first 2 weeks.
why aren't they more angry about that?
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u/adamttaylor Feb 28 '25
It would be really funny if he trademarked the word Obamacare and required payment whenever it was said....
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u/Dr_CleanBones Feb 28 '25
My thoughts are - if you believe this, you’re too stupid to walk and breath at the same time.
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u/laziestmarxist Feb 28 '25
This isn't really "atetheonion" so much as it is a bunch of liars manipulating idiots
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u/hatsofftoeverything Feb 28 '25
Even if it is true, 39 mil over 10 years? We have bigger fish to fry homie
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u/Yoda2000675 Feb 28 '25
The best part of things like this is that these people constantly throw out things like "cope, cry more, and he lives rent free in your head" but all they've done for the last 16 years is whine about Obama
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u/LeadershipFit2654 Feb 28 '25
I guess MAGA is only ok with people profiting from the presidency if its their cult leader
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u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 Mar 01 '25
The amount of people who continue to believe that Obamacare is anything but a bs nickname for the ACA will never not drive me insane
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u/Meanslicer43 Mar 01 '25
"It's not real, but it could be, so panic"
That's what this sums up to...
Can we just burn this country to ash and start over? Please?
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u/Sss_mithy Mar 01 '25
The Right seems to forget THEY NICKNAMED IT OBAMACARE it's literally named the Affordable Care Act. Now they're making weird arguments about something they wanted to make sure was named after Obama being named after Obama. How fucking stupid can these people get
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u/PotatoAppleFish Mar 01 '25
Leaving aside the total impossibility of the premise and taking this as given, it still looks pretty bad for Republicans. If he was getting royalties for the name “Obamacare,” then that’s the Republicans’ own damn fault for calling it that in their propaganda in the first place. It’s called the Affordable Care Act.
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u/WallstreetTengu Mar 02 '25
No, former President Barack Obama does not receive any royalties or direct financial compensation from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as “Obamacare.”
The ACA is a federal law designed to reform the healthcare system in the United States, and public officials do not earn royalties from legislation they help create or sign into law.
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u/Space_creator Mar 04 '25
Regurgitation of propaganda from Russian bots, filling our social media with insipid click bait.
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u/buttercream-gang Feb 28 '25
“Apparently this isn’t true but I still believe it could be!”
Wow