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He speaks for me (bold mine).
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54896/republican-healthcare-bill-pass/
They had a party in Washington to celebrate that people with diabetes, or a genetic disposition to Parkinson's, or a congenital heart defect, would be made free because their insurance rates would be subject to the kind ministrations of Republican governors like Sam Brownback, or Republican state legislatures like the one presently sitting in the newly insane state of North Carolina. This was a thing to celebrate...
Goddamn them all. Goddamn the political movement that spawned them and goddamn the political party in which that movement found a home, and goddamn the infrastructure in which their pus-bag of an ideology was allowed to fester until it splattered the plague all over the government. Goddamn anyone who believes that blind, genetic luck is a demonstration of divine design. Goddamn anyone who believes in a god who hands out disease as punishment. Goddamn anyone who stays behind the walls and dances while the plague comes back again...
I can't deal with the politics now, though. This was a bill constructed to be as cruel as possible to as many people as possible for the benefit of the wealthiest Americans and to give a "win" to an incompetent and vulgar talking yam that flukes and circumstance have placed at the head of a once-great republic. It is an altogether remarkable piece of American political history that should follow the people celebrating it to their graves, to which they will be proceeded by thousands of their fellow citizens, who might not have, had there not been so much to celebrate on Thursday, in Washington, among all the tomb-white monuments.
No more need be said
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)babylonsister
(171,028 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)we get to live through the demise of a once great country.
When we grew up the future was brilliant and promising and open and optimistic.
Now the future looks like a dystopia. Death is waiting.
BadgerMom
(2,769 posts)goddamn boomers voted for this travesty.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I hate the idea that when people look at me they might think I'm a deplorable.
That's another thing that pisses me off. Being thought of as an Idiocrat!
BadgerMom
(2,769 posts)I'm a college educated white boomer woman. It should be a no-brainer that I voted for HRC. But enough women like me didn't that I feel I should wear a "Don't blame me" sign at all times.
GeorgeGist
(25,308 posts)and I approve this message.
BadgerMom
(2,769 posts)I'm also a boomer. Figured calling out my own demographic was fair. 👍🏼
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)This is not the country I grew up in. The first President I clearly remember was Ike. I've lived through GOP and Dem Presidents and Congresses. Not sure I'm going to make it through this one.
ramapo
(4,587 posts)Boomers elected Trump. Boomers elected Reagan. Boomers are sociopaths, and have one as president.
I'm embarrassed to be a boomer.
VOX
(22,976 posts)By age, gender and sexual preference, I'm de facto smack in the wheelhouse of Drumpf's biggest demographic. But my politics are fast heading past liberalism and into socialism. Two of my childhood friends are conservative, both went for Drumpf, even though we're all located in one of the most liberal states, California. These are otherwise educated, professional, basically nice guys with spouses, nice kids, no major vices, etc. I'm at a loss to explain it, it's as if they've been indoctrinated into a cult. They are not going to change. I severely limit my time with them now.
Things have been eroding steadily since the murders of JFK, MLK and RFK. RFK's death gave us Nixon. And you know what happened on the timeline after that.
Bleacher Creature
(11,250 posts)He apparently had some kind of surgery.
That was amazing.
mcar
(42,278 posts)It hits close to home for so many of us.
Bleacher Creature
(11,250 posts)And yes, it doesn't really miss many people. I guess that's why the GOP exempted Congress. May they never live that down.
Worktodo
(288 posts)I'm glad he's back. Here's the article on his surgery:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54870/healthcare-commodity-human-right/
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)They will have blood on their hands if this bill makes it through the Senate.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's up to us, as pathetic as that sounds, to remind everyone at every opportunity that these cruel, greedy, blood-gargling psychopaths voted to funnel more money into the overstuffed pockets of the wealthy while taking away health care for millions. I don't care if the subject is the national debt or Punxsutawny Phil, we have to remind people of today's vote. We know goddam well that our good friends in the liberal media will totally forget about it otherwise.
onethatcares
(16,161 posts)my mind thinks.
There is a genetic mutation that missed my house, thank you Mother Earth.
calimary
(81,083 posts)and Food Network.
CatWoman
(79,293 posts)Looney Tunes (classic LT) is on
Hekate
(90,515 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)hibbing
(10,093 posts)They truly are evil.
Peace
Botany
(70,433 posts)Never fucking forget that Trumpcare is not about Health Care but it is all about giving the very rich a tax cut by
taking away medical care and medical coverage from millions of Americans to pay for it.
Christopher Hayes ✔@chrislhayes
The bill cuts about a trillion dollars in funding for healthcare while cutting taxes for the top 2% by about the same amount.
7:12 PM - 3 May 2017
byronius
(7,387 posts)I remember the Fox News chyron calling Bush a Democrat.
Evil evil evil evil. May they all suffer for this.
dogzandcoffee
(2 posts)kimbutgar
(21,036 posts)Put it in the vent system and have them inhale all that freedom of having no healthcare or cure for their illnesses.
oasis
(49,317 posts)That's always been a part of GOP calculations in regards to health care in America.
TNNurse
(6,924 posts)were Trump people. So many will be too sick, too weak or dead to vote for these assholes in 2018.
oasis
(49,317 posts)his archers to shoot their arrows into the mass of warriors from both camps, engaged in hand-to-hand battle. "But your highness" said an aide to the king "Our arrows will kill many of your soldiers in the field". King Edward coldly replied "yes, but the arrows will kill many of the enemy as well".
GOP bigwigs just don't give a goddam who gets hurt.
Hekate
(90,515 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)I don't think too many of us will be celebrating there.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)They have used propaganda so effectively for so long their voters will not belive the truth or facts. This has been their secret to their success. How else can you make that many people support evil corporate whores who screw their own supporters while those same supporters cheer?
Akamai
(1,779 posts)All it has to do is hide the important issues from the American people and from the world, and they sure as hell of been doing that for decades upon decades. Great point.
In the absolute evil that is right wing radio should make all of the Republicans gag--if at any sense of morality.
llmart
(15,530 posts)if they don't report on it ad nauseum? This is how they treated the orange anus every.single.day! Constant trump this, trump that until I refused to turn on "news" stations any longer. He got so much free press. He could fart and the MSM would report on it. F***the msm and trump.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Here's the explanation
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/4/17/15325172/strikethrough-cnn-espn-trump-surrogates
The video is so good.
llmart
(15,530 posts)I don't have cable nor do I want it. The less TV people watch, the smarter they will be. Plus, they'll save money. Who wants to be a part of making tv executives richer while the rest of us all get poorer?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)And we both know the truth about Trumpcare.
Coincidence?
Coincidence? I think not! Your screen name is appropriate.
I don't have enough years left on this earth to waste them listening to what passes for "news" nowadays. Also, at my age I have long established core values that I've had since I was a young person, and it's highly unlikely that those are going to ever change. I have never once voted for a Republican in my life and I'm not about to start now, especially since the GOP of today is totally unrecognizable as a party that cares about the common good of our country.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)"Art is nature to advantage interest--what oft was thought but never so well expressed!"
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)"Amen to that, Charles Pierce"
dhill926
(16,302 posts)Initech
(100,027 posts)I don't use the word hate lately but I feel it today.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)They think they have a chance at "getting what's theirs." They think these Republican legislators care about someone other than themselves. They think they may be wealthy too, maybe not as much as their idol Trump, but better than they are now. And they are perfectly willing to step on those who are different to indulge their dreams of grandeur.
The Republicans have invested in de-funding and destroying public education in American and now they are reaping the results.
The people who vote for these idiots are dumber than domesticated turkeys. We have our work cut out for us.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)They try to foist this cruel bill on the masses while exempting their sad selves from it.
I am agnostic but people like this make me hope their really is a Hell.
Yep the Hell with the whole evil bunch including the semi literate joke in the WH.....and the dumbass enablers who voted for him.
Cha
(296,726 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)I am beyond disgusted.
Cha
(296,726 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)We won't forget.
The wonderful Charles Pierce.
llmart
(15,530 posts)My oh my. I cannot ever remember a President of the United States who had so many derogatory nicknames! What does that say about him? We should have a thread just to list them all, but then we could probably have an entire book with all of them.
HenryWallace
(332 posts)Says the Republican Party to America's Uninsured....
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Unwitting they are not. Evil and calculating they most certainly are.
90-percent
(6,828 posts)From the OP: "This was a bill constructed to be as cruel as possible to as many people as possible for the benefit of the wealthiest Americans."
They are so over confident of their lock on absolute power, they don't even bother to hide it any more. They don't even bother with lipstick for their pigs.
Cross check, voter suppression, gerrymandering, citizens united, and conspiring with an enemy government to influence our elections are all out in the open and part of our "normal" political infrastructure.
Dems got to win elections by a margin of ten points because the deck is stacked and the playing field is tilted.
At long last, REPUBLICAN PARTY, have you no sense of decency?
-90% Jimmy
pansypoo53219
(20,948 posts)credit card publikkkans.
Native
(5,936 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)I want these bastards brought down, as soon and as conspicuously as possible.