Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  During the campaign Trump repeatedly said he wouldn’t mess with Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Towards the end of the campaign he stopped saying Medicaid. But just last week he was asked about cuts and said he wouldn’t touch Medicaid.

  I guess it’s all true because Congress is going to cut all three.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A bunch of trump admin people wrote project 2025 with the heritage foundation. Trump himself is a well known liar and was under criminal prosecution.

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    • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The amount of people I know that said they were voting Trump for “economic reasons” is far too high.

      I know they make less money than I do, so they’re definitely not the ones benefitting from Trumps economic plans. The absolute buffoons.

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      • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Most of them were probably lying. They were voting for Trump because they wanted to make racism and sexism legal again.

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      • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t know what they mean when they say economic reasons. Rent? Wages? Food costs? Apparently nond of those.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m well aware. My best friend relies on medication to function that would cost $1600 each month if not for Medicaid. Obviously he can’t afford private insurance. I was trying to reassure him that it might not happen with that information a couple days ago. He’s screwed.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      At this point its still surprising that people are dumb enough to believe his words over his actions…

      Not to me. At least half of Americans are not much better than apes. Honestly feels like we’ve got two different branches of the human tree coexisting. Like Neanderthals coexisting with homo sapiens.

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      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dehumanization? Sounds like something republicans would do.

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• Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No. Instead the “opposition” party is doing everything they can to chastize their own base for flooding their phone lines demanding they do something to stop the madness.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yup. They’re doubling down on performative bullshit, as always.

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  • singletona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    All while groveling on bent knee to the tech asshats that are paying trump off.

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• SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We did, it was Bernie. And we burned him :(

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What the Dems did to Bernie, and the procedures and rules they built around preventing another uncrowned presidential contender, is largely why I think it’s useless to vote for either of the two major parties. Sometimes it’s fun to think about how far forward the nation would be if he’d have had EO power, though.

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    • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yup, seriously fuck this country

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The problem was:

  1. Not everyone knew, due to them only really caring about politics each election year.
  2. Got the wrong news source.
  3. Thought since politicians lie, some part of what they promised won’t be done.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It sucks that we have a society overflowing with braindead losers.

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