The Red States will lose their healthcare and find a way to blame Joe Biden.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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They won't blame Biden. They'll blame Obama because he's black
Someone made photos of Donald Trump being a hero on 9/11.
I happen to have been working in lower Manhattan at that time. During the recovery efforts, there were some restaurants and hotels that gave free food and/or lodging to the volunteers working at Ground Zero. No Trump property gave anyone so much as a bowl of soup.
they HAD to cut it don’t you know?
because BIDEN was such a bad economic manager they just didn’t have the money!
no the economy wasn’t doing well! the price of eggs!
bird flu epidemic due to lax regulations? NO it was BIDEN
global cost of living crisis that wasn’t isolated to the USA? pft if biden wasn’t horrible he’d have fixed it for us because the USA is better than everyone else
They aren't MAGA Republicans. They are just Republicans. Whatever remnants of sanity those people may have left is not calling the shots.
This is entirely the reason for the non-MAGA Republicans to lick boot, this is why they met Trump at those crossroads and sold their souls. They think fascism is a fair price if it means destroying a government that helps people not like them.
What could be worth more? American lives, or more money that billionaires could never spend in a lifetime?
The choice is clear.
If people hoarded cats, or junk cars, or Hummel figurines, or beanie babies, etc., the way these people hoard money, theyd be diagnosed with mental illness, and get psychiatric help.
But if a zillionaire has the unquenchable compulsion to destroy EVERYTHING to get just a tiny bit more, he's worshipped as a "job creator."
Its time to start framing this behavior as a mental illness, which should no longer be indulged or tolerated. It needs to be treated, and just like a cat hoarder's cats are removed by the authorities, confiscating much of their financial hoard is the first step.
I would thoroughly be in favor of a max money or max wealth concept. Congratulations. You win! There is no more money to collect.
You are now free to do something else.
Tax wealth, not work.
This is it, right here. Tax wealth and make multi billionaires impossible.
I'm stealing this.
Every year, take the richest person and redistribute 50% of their wealth.
Working hard or smart doesn't make you that kind of money.
Your point is very valid.
But even just one billion is more than a whole family could spend in multiple lifetimes!
The difference between a million and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars, while at the same time a million dollars is more wealth than a VERY large majority of Americans will ever see.
And doesn’t even buy a house in many places.
See how none of this makes sense anymore? The balance is ruined when cent I centimillionaires and billionaires exist. I'd even say nobody needs to be a millionaire in a sane world.
For your whole life, $1m is cutting it close — I think for the entirety of a good life in a country like the US or Western Europe, $10m is plentiful. $10m for your whole life, with current cost of living. Anything beyond that should be taxed to oblivion.
The difference between me and a millionaire is about a million dollars and I haven't died. A little destitute yeah.
Same. I was only pointing out that over a human lifetime, it adds up: a total of $1m would be equivalent to living 80 years (rough average lifespan) on $12.5k a year. It's not a lot.
Yeah thats not what I meant by millionaire at all. Thats not even a net worth.
Oh, I see. Yeah, a net worth that's perpetually in the millions is insane. You could basically live off the interest at that amount and not even need to touch the original money. It's crazy and frankly should be illegal.
Yes, exactly that. All these rich bitches complaining about nobody wanting to work literally dont work. They go wherever their interests take them that week and spew platitudes about work ethics and money movement.
When people and their loved ones are dying cause they have no access to healthcare, these same people are gonna start shooting those they think are responsible.
Nothing more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose.
Fuck around you maggots and find out.
Assuming they correctly know who is responsible.
Which is terrifying because the people who are actually responsible for this mess isn't the same as the ones the shooters think.
I have a fear what will happen instead is that the GOP will just send the military to deal with the civilians, as Project2025 envisioned.
Hosea 8:7 or some shit.
Not true. We've been losing people because of expensive healthcare for as long as I can remember, and so far only one insurance CEO has been capped.
This is disgusting. How anyone can act this way is beyond my imagination.
And of course this would be a massive harm to their own voters, because Medicaid expansion has been the only thing keeping most rural community hospitals afloat for a long time. If they cut it, then it's likely that many small towns are going to lose their only medical providers within a hour's drive or more.
Thus continuing the work COVID started and further reducing the voting bloc the right relies on to get elected... right?
As ever, working to build the post-apocalyptic wasteland that would finally justify their insistence that they need 500 guns and a fleet of milsurp Humvees to traverse the miles of crumbled roadways between their compounds and the last operating Fortress Hospital in the Dakotan Oil Wastes.
Alas, I think they found a new one in nihilistic young men who want to burn it all down.
I quote a famous Iowan: Let them die!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194217/maga-republicans-gut-medicaid-help-donald-trump So is this “woke” in Canada PP?