liberalsarecool:

nonasuch:

gallusrostromegalus:

sevdolo:

Yooooooo if you need ACA get on that shit!!

For the record? As a self-employed small business owner with a preexisting condition, my pre-ACA health insurace suuuuuuuuucked. My current plan actually provides substantially better coverage than the old one and costs half as much. I only wish I’d done it sooner– getting on the exchange was, tbh, entirely a spite-motivated action on my part, and probably the sole positive impact of 45′s presidency on my life.

Please boost. ACA/Obamacare sign-up for next year ends December 15.

luckystampede:

daisenseiben:

ethereal-insight:

tilthat:

TIL the Han Dynasty was founded by a sheriff who was transporting convicts when several escaped. Knowing the punishment for this was death, he freed the rest and organized many into a rebel band, eventually going on to help overthrow the ruling Qin Dynasty and install himself as Emperor.

via reddit.com

Talk about rolling with it

You ever fuck up so bad you overthrow a Chinese emperor?

Oh it’s worse. He wasn’t just a sheriff, he was a conscription officer. He was leading 900 men who he had press-ganged into military service. They hadn’t escaped, he was just a day late in delivering them. The punishment for being late was death!

So like he had been around the countryside basically kidnapping farmers and craftsmen and the like, to force them to fight for the emperor! Then, when he realized he wasn’t gonna make deadline, he was just like “Whelp. You guys can go home, or we can make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.” And most of them decided to stick with the guy who had just kidnapped them, because fuck the emperor.

I wonder what the emperor thought would happen? Like he’s having dudes kidnap people and train them to fight, then if the kidnapper is LATE, he’s supposed to just show up for his death anyway? There’s honor, and then there’s stupid. This guy was not stupid.