We all knew this was going to pass.
If you thought otherwise I've got a bag for you to hold.
I’ve got a bridge to sell, when you’re done with them.
Florida real estate magnate here, a highly sought, beautiful lot that combines refreshing moisture and a healthy wildlife population has just come up
So people are just going to die right?
We’re going to have old people cut off from their health care, rural areas will have their hospitals closed, and people are going to die.
Why is the world such a sick place?
The world? No, it's the US.
Unfortunately, the gutting of USAID and foreign aid programs is projected to kill millions in the developing world.
And don't forget that RFK Jr. wants to let the new strain of bird flu spread. The world could experience a new pandemic in a few years.
A few years feels optimistic. I’d wager on by the end of this year, at the rate everything is getting defunded.
I think people vastly underestimate the effectiveness of annual mitigation efforts by multiple agencies that have either already been cut or on the chopping block.
Many of these agencies go unnoticed because they work well, but will be immediately obvious once they’re gone.
Well, no. It's the world, but especially the US.
It'll absolutely influence the rest of the world though :(
That soft power is increasingly disappearing and is unlikely to return to even a shadow of its former self in decades.
Listen to that one rep who said we're all gonna die!
We just need to accept the lord jesus into our hearts so that the hereafter will be assured! Fuck the present earth, it should go through trials like extreme weather, rampant sickness, wars etc - that's just a sign that the second coming is near!
/s
Because they can't get off unless people are suffering. And the current suffering is getting boring, so they have to raise the stakes.
Nah, it's dumber than that. They don't want suffering to lose money, they want all the suffering and misery in the world to be incredibly profitable.
Conservatives and religion. There's also a strong overlap between the two.
Reports states 25,000 people in US who uses Medicaid will die every year.
Are you telling me that the US gov. is corrupt? I don't believe it!
I don't know if this one is considered insider trading. The bill was public record and we all knew how he was going to vote. I guess he could have known the result before the official vote, But at the same time anyone can look up party affiliations and vote history.
Nah, just curious coincides. You have seen nothing, citizen. That's an order.
But he has an R next to his name. I thought the Rs were above the law. They can't do "crimes". Crimes are for poors.
No no. Crime is if you vote blue. If you vote Red, and kill a cop or rape a kid.. you get a pardon
Yeah, but it’s not insider trading. Everyone knows they fucked Medicare up.
Doesn't even matter anyways. It's legal for them to insider trade. Stories like this are nothing.
Guys chill, he's not a Democrat so this is legal and no need to assassinate him.
The whole system is broken. I wish I didn’t have to wake up everyday in it.
Wish I would have thought of having enough money to invest in stuff.
Bad title. "Caught" implies that someone will be holding him accountable.
Fuck this dude and his vote and all, but I didn’t need to be in congress to know that’s the GOP had the votes and motivation to fuck over Medicaid.
Why didn't Chuck Schumer do more to stop this?
He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.
But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.
Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.
House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.
Every democrat and one republican voted agianst this bill.
What else do you think they can do?
Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
Back left wing candidates
Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
other stuff that moderators don't like
I don't understand why literally every Democrat in the Senate didn't line up to filibuster this bill. Booker's performative filibuster was toothless. This could actually have done something to change public policy.
You can't filibuster a bill using the reconciliation process.
In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don't know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it
Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44
That's the house, and only because it was a bill passed back to the house, after previous passage, to review senate revisions. Otherwise they would have been allowed to debate much more if this was the first time the house had the bill.
That stuff that moderators don't like is about all we can do at this point. What legal recourse do we have? Voting? Lmao
He forced them to change the name so take that 😏
Maybe next time and everytime go out and vote blue so they have even a chance of doing something to stop it.
Elections have consequences.
Insider trading much.
It's time to come up with something better than the stock market, especially when morality and shame have left the building and have been replaced by greed and "lookin' out for number one".
The corruption is endemic, unsustainable, and will lead to collapse.
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