'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
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This is what I call "what America literally voted for".
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*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.
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That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.
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30% of America voted for sitting on their ass and going "meh, whatevs" in November.
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That's the reality of America's FPTP system.
If you did not vote for Harris, then you helped (directly or indirectly) Trump get elected.
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Eh those who stayed home also voted for this.
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That's the usual reality of voting though. It doesn't mean every American wanted it, but it still means America voted for this.
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Without voter purging and other forms of systemic cheating, he wasn't even close to winning.
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**supposedly
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This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
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Oh sure, my blue county would have certainly flipped the entire rest of the red state with my singular vote. If only Democrats had inspired me to believe in them, you wouldn’t have me as your scapegoat, even though not a single thing would change.
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inspired
Thank you for admitting there was no logic. You want your feelings pandered to.
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Move the goalposts much?
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Seeing as this is a reply to OP (a top comment), your reply makes zero sense. It literally can't be moving the goalposts. Just shows how you're squirming to get out of the repercussions of protest non voting. Which ironically is exactly the thought process that got you into protest non voting in the first place.
You can keep doing gymnastics. Ciao.
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This is what nominating the lesser-evil got us.
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As a party, the Dems suck. Absolutely. And in the long-term, as an opposition party, they are not great.
That being said, are the non-voters and protest non-voters children? The nonsense I'm reading about non-voters not being "inspired" or not being "captured" by Democrats to convince them to vote against fascism sounds like a description of a salesman trying to sell products, not the either-or choice being given to every adult American, which is, as a citizen, their own goddamn responsibility to be party to.
A non-vote is still a vote. You don't absolve yourself of the outcome by choosing not to participate, because if you can vote, you're already participating.
There were three real options this past election: MAGA, Dems, and I-don't-care-they're-equally-bad. So yes, not voting when fascists win means you supported fascism.
Obviously that does not mean non-voters are solely to blame. Republicans accepted fascists, those that voted R chose fascists, Dems suck as a party, and non-voters sat back and allowed fascists to take power. On the list, non-voters are the least bad, certainly, but they still bear responsibility.
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Ah the 'lesser evil' nonsense to make it sound like "b b b b b both sides same!"
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Damn, really sounds like some sort of political party should have tried to capture voters interest instead of pushing the status quo that has been suffocating folks for their whole life.
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This shit is so fucking lazy.
Biden enacted plenty of progressive asks during his term. Harris outlined plenty of progressive asks in her campaign as well.
Just because it wasn't 100% of what YOU personally wanted doesn't mean it wasn't good legislation.
Hope none of your family dies because of this, because if they do it's on you, mr protest voter.
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Are you trying to tell me that pushing to re-elect a guy who was falling apart at the seams and currently has advanced cancer, who previously won by virtue of the other guy's approval rating being in the toilet... then replacing him with someone who would have been completely blown out in a primary at the last minute so she couldn't even mount a good campaign who then got hobbled by her PR team into not mounting any sort of attacks of any meaningful value... are you trying to tell me that they did something wrong???
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So, between someone who doesn't allign 100% with my views and it's not a nazi and an actual nazi, much better to choose the nazi, right? I mean, I guess it's your vote so you can do as you please with it, but I reaaaaaally hope you don't get any of what's coming for you, because you know... you voted for all this so there is no empathy left in me for someone who's getting what they asked for.
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Dear non voters: You’re hurting no one but yourselves.
So I dunno who you thought you were threatening. But You’re dumb.
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And if they don't, let's be sure to actively allow much worse people to take over, that's sooooo much better.
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"Democrats aren't perfect. Let's allow the fascists to win."
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Willingly. We collectively deserve it.
You're disgusting, you're okay with genocide as long as you get your comforts. We protested evil then, and we protest evil now. You only protest inconvenience.
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You can stop parroting propaganda now, the elections over.
That genocide you are referring to has only gotten worse under this regime, not sure why you are patting yourself on the back so hard for retaining your moral high ground while fucking over our nation too.
Kinda fuck you honestly.
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You didn't protest evil, you stepped aside and said, "I'm ok if the world gets more evil". Your "protest" did nothing to stop or reduce the genocide, it's gotten worse. You've made it less safe for people who actually want to protest the genocide. Your only action was that you feel moral superiority in your own mind.
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You are not the fucking moral high ground. If this were a trolley problem, you've elected to kill five people instead of one. Even if the American left wasn't going to move on the issue, the situation would not have been nearly as genocidal. For Ukraine, for Trans and GNC, for the homeless.
Absolutely, unequivocally, and without remorse: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
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Oh yeah, you really helped stop the genocide. How many thousands did Israel murder this week because there's literally no one in the White House or congress even remotely trying to stop them?
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Preventing people from starving and dying in the streets isn't comforts.
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you’re okay with genocide
Blah blah blah.
Move on to the next boring catchphrase please. This is getting old.
Herp derp, I care more about two nations continuing an everlasting religious conflict on the other side of the planet than fascism in my own country.
We get it. You're dumb. You don't need to keep proving it to us.
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Whether you believe in the ends justifying the means or the means justifying the end.. the world you helped create was granting power to evil, putting evil in charge.
You straight up chose the side of evil. Congrats on being on the wrong side of history.
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Suck it up, honey, this is partially your fault. If you didn’t vote for Kamala, you can’t outspin this, Truth Hurts.
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On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.
"Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.
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Sounds correct but who is going to fight the wars?
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That's the trick! Poor people that have had their healthcare and food taken away can enlist in the army for a wage and free healthcare. The very people the government is killing with its social murder agenda are the ones that will fight the wars.
Unless they're disabled or old or trans or something, then they can just die. Win/Win as far as the fascist party is concerned.
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Cutting benefits for the poorest.
Recipe for civil unrest, riots.
Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.
Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.
Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.
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Yes, of course. What they always wanted was cheaper labor; they cultivated hatred of immigrants among conservative voters as a way to enslave all Americans, including their own electorate. They will make everyone poorer so they are desperate enough to accept putting their children in the mines and factories.
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Not only did the Soviets win the cold war, but the South won the civil war. Should we check to see if the Spanish somehow ended up winning thr Spanish-American war too?
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You mean more minorities. The prison industrial complex has been about slavery in all but name since the Reconstruction era.
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It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history
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Gonna be honest with you.
Americans don't have the balls.
Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.
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You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.
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Every day more people feel like they have nothing to lose.
It's only a matter of time until they take matters into their own hands.
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They don't have the balls or the outwards thinking. The only time they'll be thinking "We need to guillotine these bastards" is when they're being dragged into an ICE-truck. But of course the onlookers won't be thinking that.
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We all do the problem is everyone is doing their own things. There is no online community server to unite everyone to do together and collaborate yet
If one was made on Revolt, & another on Matrix then getting people in to do, inform, discuss, work together, & more then we can all make HUGE progress in a day. And then from every day onward
Many people are up for this, and efforts are being done to get it started but we need more people focused on doing it together
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Magats will think this only exist for dems.
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I’m sure their were boot lickers in those days too
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That only applies to the French. That can’t happen here. (Tm)
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It's almost like people think times haven't changed since then
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I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?
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Whatever they're told to think.
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"Thanks, Biden!"
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WTF? "Thanks, Obama" is just over now? I reject this updated reality! We must get Obama a third term to rectify this madness!
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They'll just die and be a cheap funeral.
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Time to invest in funeral services!
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Make America Great Again, they never said for whom.
While this administration justified its urgency for punishing tariffs on Canada and Mexico due to a fentanyl crisis taking life of thousands of good Americans, the same administration is about to take life of hundreds of thousands of good Americans itself to make billionaires wealthier.
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They didn't need to if you remember who it was great for before...
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As others have pointed out, this is social murder.
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So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution
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Will Americans get to celebrate 250 years next year? Stay tuned…
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They will be required to by dear leader.
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I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.
And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...
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They’ve largely disappeared, as the foreign disinformation campaign has successfully concluded. Only the most pretentiously loud and gullible are left.
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If i have to hear one more of them try to not explain what Donald is doing with “Biden“
Just no. That doesn’t explain anything. Explain Donald. Make that make sense. Explaining Biden just to describe how much they like Donald is just them chanting their brainwashing tape at this point.
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Them "wondering" implies they are capable of thought. They are not.
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Food and health. Wow
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They need all that Medicaid funding to help the legion of soon-to-be obese leopards.
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This evil Keebler elf and all the GOP are murderers and they should be treated as such.
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The red run welfare Oblast voters will enjoy their shit sandwich. Fucking morons.
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The US has run out of sympathy from the rest of the world. This is what you voted for, this is what you allow to happen, this is your due. Either fix it or learn to live without healthcare.
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When did I have healthcare again?
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It also restricts all forms of gender affirming care, including medication, from being funded by Medicare. 150,000 trans folk will soon be forcibly detransitioned, and for many, it is literally lifelong required medication because of past surgeries.
It's controlling, cruel and needless. But thats what conservatives want so here we are.
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Revolution.
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Never going to happen. Americans are pathetic creatures who would rather blame others than ever act.
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You guys literally wouldn't vote for someone who stood against this, and had many progressive policy goals.
You think you guys who sat at home are gonna pick up guns and fight? Lol.
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The appetite isn’t there, and won’t be until straight white men are facing serious consequences of their collective inaction and apathy. But that won’t happen until all minorities are “taken care of” by the fascists. It will all be too little, too late as well.
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Harris and Biden hemorrhaged votes from almost every single demographic. They lost everyone. But its everyones fault but theirs? Not any sort of systemic problem?
Come on now.
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Comments prove they're masters at keeping us divided against ourselves.
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Paygo is a poison pill the GOPux passed in 1990
We see the results
Unwilling to figure out a sensible budget, their incompetence triggers automatic cuts... Next up Debt Ceiling -
This is what American public wanted. 🤗
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49.8% of voters and roughly 22% of overall population.
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If you are between 100% & 125% of poverty and in a state that didn't expand Medicaid, you still get nearly free healthcare through Obamacare.
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Nearly free? I'd tell you to tell that to my dad, but he passed away after getting thoroughly drained of most of his savings thanks to his "nearly free" health care while dying of cancer.
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Okay, here's the data-- Family of 4. Male, age 30. Female, age 30. Male, age 10. Female, age 10. Saline County, Kansas. Annual household income $32,500 (just over the poverty level). The cost of health insurance is zero and the maximum out of pocket for the entire family for the full year is $4k. Click here for a screenshot.
Second scenario, same information, except the household income is $40,000 (just below 125% of poverty). Click here for a screenshot. You may notice the rates are the same!
Third scenario, same information, except the household income is $48,000 (just below 150% of poverty). Click here for a screenshot. Still very affordable!
I am sorry for your dad who died of cancer. If he had bad advice, I wish he got better advice when looking for his health insurance. The truth is, without Medicaid, most families can still get very affordable healthcare.
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What is your point, exactly?
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Maybe it matters to some people, but if I'm going to get affordable healthcare through Program A or Program B, I really don't care which it is. Families that are dropped from Medicaid for being above the poverty rate will be able to get almost the exact same thing (honestly, they'll have more options for providers) through Obamacare.
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Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.
And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.
As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.
All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.
This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.
I'm in the final stages of getting on SSDI and I just don't know what to do. If I work through the pain I'm going to be proving them right but i don't have a job and i have no idea how much longer they will drag this shit out on me.