'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History

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.

That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

30% of America voted for sitting on their ass and going "meh, whatevs" in November.

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.

Eh those who stayed home also voted for this.

That's the usual reality of voting though. It doesn't mean every American wanted it, but it still means America voted for this.

Without voter purging and other forms of systemic cheating, he wasn't even close to winning.

**supposedly

inspired

Thank you for admitting there was no logic. You want your feelings pandered to.

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.

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.

Ah the 'lesser evil' nonsense to make it sound like "b b b b b both sides same!"

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.

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???

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.

Dear non voters: You’re hurting no one but yourselves.

So I dunno who you thought you were threatening. But You’re dumb.

And if they don't, let's be sure to actively allow much worse people to take over, that's sooooo much better.

"Democrats aren't perfect. Let's allow the fascists to win."

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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.

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.

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.

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?

This is what you voted for https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/republican-congressperson-wants-to-nuke-gaza-into-surrender/ar-AA1FiCdJ

Preventing people from starving and dying in the streets isn't comforts.

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.

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.

I will never, ever understand that logic. You had a choice, you made the wrong decisions, now own it. The more you justify saying that somehow orange turd mcgee was a better option makes you look like such a damn fool. And yes you said it by your action of "protest voting". You had infinitely more opportunities to protest and affect change if Kamela was elected. Now all of your opportunities are actively being removed and the people you wanted to save are going to be exiled for a new golf course because a lot of you of "moral high ground" contributed to this bleak future. Good job.

Suck it up, honey, this is partially your fault. If you didn’t vote for Kamala, you can’t outspin this, Truth Hurts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I’m sure their were boot lickers in those days too

WTF? "Thanks, Obama" is just over now? I reject this updated reality! We must get Obama a third term to rectify this madness!

Time to invest in funeral services!

They will be required to by dear leader.

Yep. The plan has long been work, get sick, die.

This is America

Lol the country has gone through two wars based around revolting... It can and will happen. Definitely not with this tho... You need people pissed off. Right now, we have some people pissed while a whooole lot of other people are not only happy with what's happening, but in a state of pure ecstasy.

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.

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.

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.

Is what I said false?

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.