For Valentine's Day, Tell Your Loved Ones You Care More About Promoting Obamacare
The campaign to promote the Affordable Care Act will stop at nothing, not even puns


It really is never, ever, ever going to stop, is it? I'm referring to this belief that a significant amount of the problems and poor outcomes of the Obama Administration is actually due to bad marketing or communication and not flawed philosophies and incompetence.
Today, Organizing for Action, the pro-Obama nonprofit, is trying to destroy your relationships by encouraging you to send Affordable Care Act-themed Valentine's Day messages to your loved ones. They call it the "Adorable Care Act."
The Hill notes that OFA sent out an e-mail encouraging its mailing list to send out one of six animal-themed cards. And yes, of course, they all have terribly awful puns as part of their effort to encourage people to get covered:
"Treat yourself right this Valentine's Day. Get pamPURRED with health care," one says, featuring a bucket of kittens.
"Remember giving out valentines in grade school?" OFA Organizing Director Sara El-Amine wrote in the email. "This is a holiday that gives us all an excuse to send cute messages to anyone we want. This year, there's no better way to let friends know you care than by sharing an Adorable Care Act valentine."
If you attempt to click on one of these cards, it wants to connect to your Facebook account and collect "your public profile, friend list, email address, News Feed, birthday, interests, current city, photos, personal description and likes and your friends' birthdays, interests, current cities, photos and likes."
Just send a grant to Cute Overload and let them do the heavy lifting, guys.
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I want one w/ a picture of Warty. It's for Epi.
Awww, that is so sweet.
"I love you so much and I won't accept the fact that you don't have insurance. Get yourself covered."
"But I'm real short on cash, baby. Can you sell the nice things I got you and pay for my healthcare?"
"[Expletive] you".
Next up:
A poster of Uncle Sam pointing a gun: "I want YOU to buy health insurance."
Just for you: http://imageshack.com/a/img513/7139/5vbv.jpg
It really is never, ever, ever going to stop, is it?
It all ends in the grave, Scott.
Nothing is more pathetic than earnestness from political partisans...except attempts at humor to try and earnestly push their politics.
Sometimes, the humor is unintentional:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar.....-president
Freudian slip?
Creepy.
I can say with 100% certainty that anyone who sent me such a card would be off of my list forever.
Yes, but they (presumably) don't see how creepy this is to the rest of us. The phrase "tone-deaf" comes to mind. Their cluelessness will be their undoing.
This Fourth of July, declare your independence from a lack of health insurance! Sign up!
This Memorial Day, remember those who don't have health insurance, and pester them yet again to register.
This Flag Day, wave the red-white-and-blue as you sign up for health insurance!
etc.
ARGH!! For the love of God, MAKE IT STOP!!
4th of July: Did your parents recently celebrate their non-dependents day? Sign up for your very own blah blah blah
Memorial Day: Yes, mammorial check-ups are covered.
Flag day: Raise that flag proudly! Erection pills are covered.
Earth Day - lower your carbon footprint w/ our Death Panels!
This administration is composed of all the dumbest and most annoying people I went to high school with, apparently.
Pretty much.
If you attempt to click on one of these cards, it wants to connect to your Facebook account and collect "your public profile, friend list, email address, News Feed, birthday, interests, current city, photos, personal description and likes and your friends' birthdays, interests, current cities, photos and likes."
Imagine my surprise.
Go ahead. I dare you.
I so need a fake FB account to make others recoil in horror when they collect that sort of info.
For you Proper Gentlemen of Sports listeners, my handle will be "Side Rooster".
This is exactly why they allow custom genders now. So that the fake accounts can be that much more terrifying.
If I had a Facebook account, I'd add Bashir Al-Assad, Kim Jong Un, Charles Manson and Paul Bernardo as friends.
Maybe Vlad Tepes Putin as well.
This Arbor Day, TREEat yourself to health insurance.
*** curls up in fetal position ***
Stand up for Obamacare on St. Onan's day!
Exactly who do they expect to send these, and to whom? I would think that if you were and Obamacare cheerleader, by now you would have discussed it with everyone you know, to the point of driving them away forever.
They'll send them to each other as tribal reinforcement.
Exactly.
First they hack the O'Care Website for a list of those who gave up before they were enrolled...
First they hack the O'Care Website for a list of those who gave up before they were enrolled...
First they hack the O'Care Website for a list of those who gave up before they were enrolled...
ONE CLICK! I swear!
Of course I mentioned the [redacted] website.
Ye gods. If you politicize your life to this extent, please report to Disintegration Chamber #12 for processing.
"Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call...."
I'd direct them more towards the Agony Booth, to be honest.
That's the waiting room for Disintegration Chamber #12.
I want to work in the department that thinks this is a good idea.
No, you DON'T!
Don't be a dumb Mick. Sign up on St. Paddy's Day!
On St. Patrick's Day, Irish I had health insurance.
Sinophobe!
(Liver replacement is not covered.)
Pajama Boy wants a weasel in his drawers.
Or a Weigel.
Speaking of pampering yourself with healthcare, one of my cousins and my partner's paralegal have both gone on wellness binges since they signed up, because it's all FREEEEEE!!!!!!
This year, there's no better way to let friends know you care than by sharing an Adorable Care Act valentine
What frightens me is that they actually think this is true
No better way to show you care than politicizing yet another holiday? Where's barfman?
Your caring is validated by Barack Obama, PBUH.
'Just one more PR campaign will put it over the top, boss! I promise!
Listen, I got this really hot copy writer who's a sort of a relative! He's done spots for Apple! I can get him for a good price....'
Don't let your Chlamydia go untreated like this Koala bear's, get covered.
If we go back in time and steer these people towards a happy and productive life, instead of wasting it as a drone in a shit-weasel factory, will SilverFox316 stop us?
Only if you try killing Hitler first.
"I did it! Of course it wasn't easy, getting into the bunker during all that bombing..."
/xkcd
"If MLK had enrolled in Obamacare, he'd still ...."
...be dead"
"This beaver puts out, because she knows she's covered by Obamacare."
Next step:
'We're tired of reminding you! Sign up now or this panda cub gets it!'
How about some Busby Berkeley musical numbers?
Don't be stupid
be a smarty
Get health insurance
just like Warty
Best. Comments. Ever.
"Don't get buffaloed by those Tea Party boo-birds, get your ass covered, today!"
If you attempt to click on one of these cards, it wants to connect to your Facebook account and collect "your public profile, friend list, email address, News Feed, birthday, interests, current city, photos, personal description and likes and your friends' birthdays, interests, current cities, photos and likes
Surely, they already have this information?
On Super Bowl Sunday, remember Bronco fans, colonoscopy is covered.
This V-Day get your VD treated for that special someone! Sign up today, you can't be turned down!
Could this fall under unwanted advances, and thus sexual harassment?
You know what would have been great marketing? A well-functioning website that was user friendly. People not forced out of their policies/losing their preferred doctors. Plans that saved both the individual money and the taxpayers money. The cost curve being bent down, not up. More people having access to affordable care (no, "access" to insurance doesn't count).
Of course, this law and the fed gov are incapable of providing any of these things, so they're left with hokey marketing materials.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Subsizide the less-healthy people
Or Obamacare is screwed
Why do birds suddenly appear
Whenever you are near?
You need Obamacare to treat that bird flu...
Now that you've eaten the chocolate I sent
Liposuction would be money well spent
Sign up with ACA, and, just like that
They'll be able to help you remove excess fat
For Valentine's Day I got you a giant teddy bear
But now it's mad because you didn't sign up for Obamacare
http://www.thefastertimes.com/.....58971.jpeg
I think there should be a gallery of ObamaCare advertisements, using the real designs employed by the various state organizations....then gradually drifting into artist-inspired renditions of "where along these lines would this government go if they admitted how truly desperate they are becoming"...
...like the following =
Sign Up For Obamacare Now or We Will Kill This Dog
http://www.marksverylarge.com/.....over_l.jpg
or,
Enemies of Obamacare *Will Be Crushed*
http://blog.theacademictravele.....8/tank.jpg
"Sign Up Now For Obamacare..."
OR DIE OF THE COMING PLAGUE
http://static1.wikia.nocookie......ster_1.jpg
Why don't they buy more of those dot-gov Sammy Hagar commercials I hear on late night radio at work. The kids love love love Van-Hagar.
At least I think he's prodding me to buy health insurance- I can't really tell what he's mumbling through his guy fieri bro-fat.
Children Exposed to More Brain-Harming Chemicals Than Ever Before
If the children are contaminated with chemicals we should dispose of them in an eco-friendly way.
Suggestions?
I'd say fondue.
You can't wait too long, though, the kids get tough and chewy.
If the children are contaminated with chemicals we should dispose of them in an eco-friendly way.
Suggestions?
Disintegration Chamber 12 has already been mentioned upthread. Processing them into Soylent Green would also work.
"MORE: A link between pesticides and attention disorders?"
MORE: A link between luddite writers and voting D?
This is the way we all end up in the ovens comrades(fuck it, I use my own terms). Not through abstract policy battles. It will be because somebody that wants you(me) dead won the propaganda war. YOU BETTER CARE ABOUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US ALL.
U.S. Justice officials accuse Montana prosecutor of gender bias in rape cases
Aw shucks, the DoJ only wants a little talk ...
I would think that if you were and Obamacare cheerleader, by now you would have discussed it with everyone you know, to the point of driving them away forever.