Summer’s here and the time is right for playing dead in the streets. We’re old enough to remember a time when Independence Day weekend meant something other than lying down on the sidewalk holding a cardboard tombstone.
If anyone’s going to sink the Senate’s version of the health care reform bill, it will be the holdouts on the GOP side who don’t think the bill is a true repeal of Obamacare but rather a small patch-job on the ACA.
Still, opponents are motivated to do whatever they can to preserve Obamacare, whether that means dressing up in “Handmaid’s Tale” cosplay, holding a gay dance party for health care in front of Mitch McConnell’s house, or just playing dead.
Die-ins are nothing new, but we don’t remember having seen them on public transit before.
A "die-in" happening right now on Houston metro to protest possible repeal of ACA @HoustonChron pic.twitter.com/6StMP0E94v
— Mark Mulligan (@mrkmully) June 27, 2017
Activists hold "Die-In" in downtown St. Pete as Senate health care vote looms: https://t.co/d6qtq3uGns #pfla #ProtectOurCare pic.twitter.com/NQds4Fp1Py
— Progress Florida (@ProgressFlorida) June 27, 2017
Die-in to save #ACA in San Diego. #resist #SavetheACA pic.twitter.com/PVO04erAje
— Lara (@SandyEggoWriter) June 28, 2017
Protesters holding "die-in" downtown, urging Sen. Todd Young to vote no on GOP health care bill. pic.twitter.com/fx2D8Jf43i
— CBS4 Indy (@CBS4Indy) June 28, 2017
Protesters stage a "die-in" outside Sen. Perdue's office in Buckhead over healthcare. @wsbtv @DonnaLampkin pic.twitter.com/Jou4b9Ntpy
— Brian Lazaro (@brianwsb) June 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/annalingo/status/880121054768898048
Die-in protest in Columbia draws 65 to @RoyBlunt office seeking no vote on #BCRA #ACA pic.twitter.com/dMXfyx8VSO
— Rudi Keller (@CDTCivilWar) June 28, 2017
Protesters stage a “die-in” outside the office of @johncornyn to protest his support of the Republican bill to rep… https://t.co/mmHTOq0izS pic.twitter.com/PpqRzHgqI5
— KUT Austin (@KUT) June 28, 2017
"Die-in" protest going on now at San Francisco Federal Building pic.twitter.com/nb8eU41UZC
— Mark K. Thomas (@mkthomas777) June 28, 2017
View from the die-in to #ProtectOurCare #medicaidnotmillionaires pic.twitter.com/nffDULjL4m
— Ivy Schlegel (@professorives) June 28, 2017
Protesters participate in a ''die in" , representing what they believe will be lives lost bc of the new potential #healthcare bill #Fox35 pic.twitter.com/yd7kJAnngX
— Kirstin Delgado (@KirstinWINKNews) June 28, 2017
Orlando health care advocates stage die-in in front of Marco Rubio's office over Trumpcare pic.twitter.com/XWGGECjqBB
— Monivette Cordeiro (@monivettec) June 28, 2017
What do you do if the idea of a die-in appeals to you, but you also enjoy the cosplay angle? Consider the zombie walk for health care:
We had a Zombie Walk last night to keep up pressure to #KillTheBill #ZombieBill pic.twitter.com/7Q1iSCWOeb
— Indivisible Midlands (@IndivisibleSC_2) June 28, 2017
Die-in at the SC Statehouse in protest of the proposed #AHCA pic.twitter.com/syZ4DwWtwZ
— Lanier Smith (@lanieriloo) June 28, 2017
Protesters stage "zombie walk" and die-in at the SC Statehouse ahead of #AHCA vote in US Senate pic.twitter.com/Y5K1EJp6rg
— Lanier Smith (@lanieriloo) June 28, 2017
Seriously, though, nobody die.
https://twitter.com/Pamela_Moore13/status/878369321604481024
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Town hall crowd not interested in Rep. Tom MacArthur's tragic loss; 'Other babies will die too!' https://t.co/bYjJ5LE9yI
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 11, 2017
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