“I didn’t vote for this!” - Every dumbass that voted for this.
Paygo is a poison pill the GOPux passed in 1990
We see the results
Unwilling to figure out a sensible budget, their incompetence triggers automatic cuts… Next up Debt CeilingThe US has run out of sympathy from the rest of the world. This is what you voted for, this is what you allow to happen, this is your due. Either fix it or learn to live without healthcare.
I learned to live without healthcare a long time ago
Yep. The plan has long been work, get sick, die.
This is America
Well they dont want you to die, then you can’t work.
When did I have healthcare again?
If you are between 100% & 125% of poverty and in a state that didn’t expand Medicaid, you still get nearly free healthcare through Obamacare.
Moron.
Is what I said false?
Yes.
I replied to someone else, showing how I am correct. Link.
Sure you are, lmao
Nearly free? I’d tell you to tell that to my dad, but he passed away after getting thoroughly drained of most of his savings thanks to his “nearly free” health care while dying of cancer.
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.
So obsessed about things named after America that they are in track for the second American revolution
Will Americans get to celebrate 250 years next year? Stay tuned…
They will be required to by dear leader.
I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?
Whatever they’re told to think.
“Thanks, Biden!”
WTF? “Thanks, Obama” is just over now? I reject this updated reality! We must get Obama a third term to rectify this madness!
They’ll just die and be a cheap funeral.
Time to invest in funeral services!
As others have pointed out, this is social murder.
Comments prove they’re masters at keeping us divided against ourselves.
I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he “needs to be hurting”. The others are probably blaming Biden.
And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called “leftists” that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built…
If i have to hear one more of them try to not explain what Donald is doing with “Biden“
Just no. That doesn’t explain anything. Explain Donald. Make that make sense. Explaining Biden just to describe how much they like Donald is just them chanting their brainwashing tape at this point.
They’ve largely disappeared, as the foreign disinformation campaign has successfully concluded. Only the most pretentiously loud and gullible are left.
Them “wondering” implies they are capable of thought. They are not.
They need all that Medicaid funding to help the legion of soon-to-be obese leopards.
Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.
And now we’re going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.
As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing…… I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.
All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.
This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.
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.
Revolution.
Never going to happen. Americans are pathetic creatures who would rather blame others than ever act.
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.
And too tired trying to make it paycheck to paycheck to care for their family so they bury their head in the sand.
Lol the country has gone through two wars based around revolting
We didn’t have cable TV and pizza delivery back then.
You guys literally wouldn’t vote for someone who stood against this, and had many progressive policy goals.
You think you guys who sat at home are gonna pick up guns and fight? Lol.
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.
“Fascism is better than Biden/Harris”.
Yeah…Americans are stupid.
You: “going into the slaughterhouse is better than being jabbed by the cattle prod. I dont know where these wood walls came from but I’m not into jumping. I blame the ones of us making a fuss about the walls, or complaining about the smell of blood. They are to be blamed for everything thats wrong here.”
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.
This is what I call “what America literally voted for”.
*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.
Without voter purging and other forms of systemic cheating, he wasn’t even close to winning.
**supposedly
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.
30% of America voted for sitting on their ass and going “meh, whatevs” in November.
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And where did that 30% live?
Naahhh we aren’t doing that. If you want to do that, source it and then we’ll talk. I have no way of knowing where they all live, but if you do, it’s your argument, get to making it.
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It’s your argument, dumbass. Bring the facts or fuck off. It isn’t my job to prove your own statement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)
Since it’s such common knowledge, this should hardly be a challenge.
Bring the facts or fuck off
You being ignorant isn’t my problem, fuckface. You wanna play the blanket statement game, I point out how stupid you are, you wanna pretend google is hard to find that’s your problem
And where did that 30% live?
Doesn’t matter. 30% of Americans refused to do their civic duty.
No, if y’all wanna claim a lack of a vote is a vote for the other guy then you gotta follow that through or you’re just being a cunt for no good reason
Eh those who stayed home also voted for this.
That’s because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.
“I’m not into politics. It doesn’t impact my life.”
— Gulag prisoner 4217657
That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system. No need to make things more democratic if we’re blaming the majority of people.
That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system.
Or, you know, I’m being realistic about how things work in the real world. Or do you think that letting the fascists win is going to change the system for the better?
Whether or not you think its ‘oligarchy apologetics bullshit’, 2/3 of voting the population either explicitly or tacitly supported this shit. So yeah, I’m going to blame the majority for the outcome of a majority vote. Ignoring that fact is just going to make getting any meaningful change that much harder, and its hilarious to watch people justify their inaction in the face of the result of their choice.
How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change? I don’t care whether you think it’s right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.
How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?
How, exactly, does ignoring a majority of Americans allowing fascism to take hold create meaningful change?
How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?
I don’t know, short of trying to show people the errors of their ways in tacitly supporting a fascist. But what other options do we have? Lie to them and say “it’s totally not your fault that trump was elected, even though you chose not to put forth the bare minimum effort to stop him”? I get that electoral politics isn’t enough (and we all need to be out in the streets doing what we can to resist), but I’m tired of pretending that the third of the country that’s checked out of politics isn’t also responsible for the people that get elected while they chose to abdicate their responsibility as a member of the voting public.
If this was your neighbors dog is shitting in your yard and not cleaning it up, would you blame the neighbor for their choice (leaving shit in your yard you have to deal with because they couldn’t be bothered to pick it up) and try to help them see the error of their ways, or would you ignore the shit entirely and hope they do better next time?
I don’t care whether you think it’s right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.
Turning your question around, how does ignoring the culpability of nonvoters in election outcomes improve the system? Do you think we’ll see an improvement in turnout if we ignore that republicans only win through voter suppression and don’t point out that encouraging not voting is one of their preferred strategies?
Increased participation is one of the best ways we can get out of this hole, and I’m really tired of people supposedly in my side constantly getting own goals with this kind of rhetoric.
You can address the inaction of voters without making it about blaming individuals with as much power as yourself. But telling people “I told you so” serves a different need.
That’s the same number it’s been for 100 years. You’re never going to change that by pointing it out so what is the goal of this conversation?
That is the kind of aggressive apatheist mentality which got the US into this situation in the first place.
I’m not apathetic, I’m realistic. No one has moved that needle significantly in 100 years so talking about it like you’re going to make it happen seems like setting yourself up to fail. Work with what you have instead of wishing you could have more. That’s how progress is made.
No, voter suppression and the two party system are what got us in this situation.
We don’t have such low voter participation because of vibes. It’s structural.
I said this a million times last year on the leftist threads to people crying about the lesser evil. I don’t wish any pain on their lives but I also don’t know how to get through their thick skulls how real life can get unless they experience it from time to time.
Many people can only learn through personal pain.
So that’s what’s going to happen.
I hope they have the day they voted for.
Simple as that. My empathy for those people is gone.
Because voting is not compulsory in your country so there’s no incentive to provide accessibility for people to vote.
Face it, you need a different system. Not going to happen without violence though… It’s a very sad state of affairs.
Face it, you need a different system. Not going to happen without violence though…
Unfortunately this is probably where we’re at.
The fptp voting system and gerrymandering did a lot of heavy lifting.
Sorry – no one can hear how right you are, over the simple glee of blaming the working class for getting so disenfranchised.
Larceny this, mugging that… Can we talk about the greater reach of white collar crime a sec, r?
Ah, sadly, no. That story was cut from the broadcast because we found a story about a dog that rides a motorcycle in Sioux City.
“Market research” by our corporate owners says that white collar crime doesn’t bring in the advertising dollars unless the victims are other wealthy people.
That’s the usual reality of voting though. It doesn’t mean every American wanted it, but it still means America voted for this.
It also restricts all forms of gender affirming care, including medication, from being funded by Medicare. 150,000 trans folk will soon be forcibly detransitioned, and for many, it is literally lifelong required medication because of past surgeries.
It’s controlling, cruel and needless. But thats what conservatives want so here we are.
