This could be the new 'we don't give a fk you're going to die anyway' new health care plan. I think it's a great start because literally you start dying the day you're born. MAGA could give a fk whether or not you're healthy as long as then and they're family are taken care of
Lemme ask you something George. Michael Cohen said in an interview that he doesn't think all this #TACO stuff is bothering him; but to me it seems like it does bother him. Where do you weigh in?
DEMS never benefit from today's bat$hit GOP faults because news orgs overplaying same video every hours & NEVER getting to the details of any bill. TV news today is all about getting your own trending video instead of providing specific news information to their viewers
The problem is they do. They care deeply about policy, specifically about dismantling the Constitutional system of checks and balances to transform the country into a monarchy with Donald as Charles II.
It's everyone else, anyone who would stop them, who isn't supposed to care about policy.
Because Trump intends in murdering us all. Probably. Maybe Democrats need to be screaming this he is going to kill us, possibly if Republicans are saying it, then you know we all thinking it already... Just fell out her mouth cause what we already know.
Well, Joni Ernst decided to bury her conscience when it came to the Hegseth confirmation. This is what a person whose conscience has been well and truly buried would say to a sick person worried about losing medical coverage.
She’s chosen a path, and now has to justify it regardless how cruel the justification sounds. She’s surrendered critical thinking and any moral code she had — it’s just obey orders and justify cruelty.
It's been the subtext of the right wing movement my entire life. It's why calling someone a "bleeding heart" would always delight them while causing the accused to react with "So you mean I am capable of the empathy you are incapable of feeling? Yes. Yes I am."
Well then, if billionaires are all gonna die anyway, then let’s tax them now and divvy up the proceeds so that we the people are at least more comfortable.
Or do billionaires not die? Is that the big secret?
"Well, we are all going to die."
The party fully supports this position: most lives of living breathing human beings don't matter.
Sanctity of embryonic & fetal life holds golden as a control method.
Many of the "Christian" GOP members act as if they somehow can take their earthly plunder with them.
Nihilism: doctrine or belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility
We may all be going to die, but she has GOOD health care and will not die needlessly early from lack of appropriate medical care. What a chauvinist to tell poor people this! while trying to throw them off their health care! Such blind privilege. Vote her OUT.
Most people who glibly proclaim 'we're all going to die' or 'you gotta die of something' never actually internalise that sentiment, they all believe it'll apply to someone else. They cannot imagine a world without them in it & are sure they'll be the last one standing.
GOP Policy: “If the poor can’t buy health insurance, let them die.” House Republicans ignored the opportunity to save thousands of lives by requiring Billionaires to pay the same tax-rate as working-class Americans. Instead, they cut Medicare & Medicaid to give Billionaires an additional tax-break.
Republicans are all going to die anyway, so why do they claim that abortion is not tolerable? Why spend money on defense? Why ban books? Why compile data on all the dying losers and suckers? Why ban public urination? We're all going to die anyway, so why be concerned about the border?
Captures their "moral" nihilism (their denial of objective moral truths).... They do ascribe meaning and value to wealth accumulation. To them, it's the purpose of life, and is to be pursued at all costs.
That policy is only for poor people. They never say, we’re all going to die and you can’t take your billions with you - so you can’t have another tax break.
Isn't that what they believe anyway? They can bring on the end of times and get Jesus to return and take them all to billionaire heaven, which, of course, is separate from the heaven the rest of us go to.
I actually kinda liked her thinking.
Let's take it elsewhere like "well we're all gonna die, so let's not pay fed taxes anymore".
Do that one, cause they are going to kill us directly or gradually and why in the fuck are we paying them 18-25% of our yearly for it??
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Republicans may very well have the philosophy of "we are all going to die", but their conclusion is that in the time we have on Earth, the stronger will survive longer, and so, they will do everything they can to be the stronger ones, even if it means killing the others.
That is incomplete: Republicans may very well have the philosophy of "we are all going to die", but their conclusion is, that in the time we have on Earth, the stronger will survive longer, and so, they will do everything they can to be the stronger ones, even if it means killing the others.
But as fascism is always completely inconsistent, they also demand that women must carry a fetus even if it will kill them (so, we're all gonna die only works when someone is....born, I guess?) Stupid stupid stupid. And evil. But also stupid
I’m beginning to really hate Nihilism.
Nietzsche was a guy who could have used a tour in the Peace Corps & some strong psychotropic meds to help shape his philosophies.
That senator has lost her mind. She was an officer in the military somehow lost her way, now enables the guy and administration that calls those in the military suckers and losers. Vote her out.
When did she lose her mind...when she was castrating pigs on the farm (she statement), when she joined the Tea party, or when cruelty became the point with trump et al.
She is not in my state, I do read about some republicans, not her. She was an officer in the military (can't say which branch) she's not for any kind of gun control. Have friends in Iowa that do not like her. Her comments on cutting Medicaid were thoughtless, her fake apology even more so.
Someday y’all are going to realize this ties in with their belief Jesus will be returning soon & that they’ll be in heaven while we’re all suffering tribulation.
Yup, if you're not white and you can't work in the mines you're expendable (you're still expendable if you are white and CAN work in the mines, but if you aren't in the top 0.1% of money hoarders you don't matter so your unceremonious death in said mine is irrelevant)
So why do they need to 'Capture' sooo much money? Why is it so important for them that people suffer? None of it makes sense, since we're all going to die...
I'd imagine however that once it becomes clear what's about to happen, they all do the same things you see the BASH owner and the President do at the end of 'Don't Look Up'.
US experiment in democracy dies in a limelight. If Big Beautiful Bill becomes the law, Congress removes the courts’ use the power of contempt SCOTUS’ the only way to enforce its rulings & the last obstacle to dismantle democracy per Project 2025 aka Mein Kampf 2025!
I’m thinking about all of the people I know who have needed 24 hr. care, medications for pain management and cancer treatment. I’m speaking about my parents, aunts, uncles and find it unthinkable if Medicaid & Medicare were not a resource to provide safety, support and ease their suffering.
We should quote this when raising taxes on the rich, outlawing firearms, jailing certain Republicans for bribery and racketeering, gutting ICE and bringing charges against those who knowingly hurt and abused, etc... "nbd, we're all going to die anyways."
Her "apology" was even worse: a selfie, in a cemetery, while she intoned her faith in "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" then dissed her constituents by saying "I'm glad I didn't have to explain the Tooth Fairy!"
Why do anything? Military? We could get invaded & die. Education? Gonna die. Justice? Nope still going to die. Clean air, water, food safety? Still going to die. the GOP thinks only some people deserve all the protections, freedom & services. Some animals are more equal than others - Animal Farm
I used to be married to someone from Iowa and spent a bunch of time there. As much as I don't like her, this sentiment squares with the culture I experienced, which is very noticeable when a family member is gravely ill or dies. Dryly matter-of-fact type of people regarding life and death.
As a lifelong Iowan I find this generalization nuts! We have all kinds of people with all kinds of ways of dealing with illness and death. Can’t stand Joni Ernst, BTW.
Yikes! You can’t be clueless enough to think most Iowans castrate pigs! Most Iowans have never been anywhere near a pig’s naughty bits. Perhaps you just dislike your in-laws. Move on.
It’s exactly the point they see a population of 330 million a few million dead to them is nothing especially if they are black and brown the cruelty is the point. They know their privilege will protect them, WAKE UP AMERICA they are out to take all your freedoms and rights period.
Language reminiscent of slaveholders. The USA is in big trouble and has learned nothing from its past. A truth and Reconciliation Commission is needed. No justice No peace.
The only way we are going to get a correction for this hard right swing in the pendulum is if we stop using Trump as the scapegoat. This is all on Republicans. Trumpism doesn’t exist without the Republican Party.
See also Bill Barr: “Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?”
Joni’s fellow Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, age 91, isn’t dead yet. Perhaps everyone doesn’t die — especially if they have awesome healthcare, an extremely well paid job and a staff of dedicated helpers.
Republican Joni Ernst is vile, despicable and reprehensible. She is not worthy to be a U.S. Senator. The people of Iowa must vote her out! She wants to destroy Medicaid for the poor and sick to give massive tax cuts to the wealthy. An utter disgrace! She is absolutely sickening...🤮
The essence of nihilism ...
Nothing matters...! Life, Death, Truth Trust, Future, Hope, Suffering, Poverty, Pollution......
NOTHING MATTERS to a nihilist.
Wonder what she's going to say if it catches something which can't be cured, except by death because of the research which didn't happen because of rump cutting funding and firing those who would've found a cure?
No, I’m not. Their information ecosystem is impervious. Anyone who voted for her doesn’t know or give a crap about her quip because they think the same way.
One brave Democrat should file a bill in the House to end Congressional taxpayer funded healthcare for all of Congress until the American people have universal healthcare.
Keeping the unwashed masses alive, much less healthy, is nowhere in the US Constitution. Freedom, equality and liberty was a guarantee for the men it referred to, not the rest of us.
We have been respecting and elections the kind of politicians who plan on going back there.
Isn't that a quote from an old pandemic?
"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die."
Or good ol' W in times of trouble:
"What can we do to help our country?"
"Go shopping"
Again this sack of crap gets reelected time after time like Cruz, Cornyn, AND grassley.
I remember a few decades ago many conservative Texans I would chat up would laugh and scoff at Mexico being ruled for 70+ yrs by the PRI party and corruption being everywhere.
Yeah, her initial comment was one of the most authentic, transparent statements to come out of the regime since Project 2025 was published.
The "apology" underlined the core sentiment.
We’re all going to die but a tax payer funded blue ribbon retirement package with comprehensive health care coverage would certainly soften the blow of the inevitable.
Ironic that MAGA senators expects us to walk the tightrope of life without a social safety net. While expecting us to fund theirs
They are grabbing every nickel as quickly as they can. Raping the planet of rare minerals, mining coal, pumping oil, clearing lumber. Stealing from medicare to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Taking every penny for themselves before it’s too late.
Daffy Duck in the clamshell “mine, mine, mine”.
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“ I’ll be dead, what do I care?”
(That’s what she said)
Their takedowns make my resolve grow stronger.
the joke is on us.
Hospital - “we are closing the E.R., we’re all going to die anyway.”
It's everyone else, anyone who would stop them, who isn't supposed to care about policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAK5blgfKWM
"You aren't worth saving."
Would've been more honest.
BUT, WE STILL HAVE
"trumpy dumpy aka EL PAYASO DEMENTE" as potus 🙄
Or do billionaires not die? Is that the big secret?
Gotta plug my take here, though.
Having healthcare isn't about dying...it's about living-WELL!
Anyone who has guaranteed healthcare should never, never take it away from anyone else.
The party fully supports this position: most lives of living breathing human beings don't matter.
Sanctity of embryonic & fetal life holds golden as a control method.
Many of the "Christian" GOP members act as if they somehow can take their earthly plunder with them.
Well, they're all just going to die too.
Also maga: all babies are gonna die anyway.
Ghouls. The lot of them.
Then we can all die happy 🙄
Let's take it elsewhere like "well we're all gonna die, so let's not pay fed taxes anymore".
Do that one, cause they are going to kill us directly or gradually and why in the fuck are we paying them 18-25% of our yearly for it??
“Let them eat cake”
Joni Ernst:
Let them all die.
Half those people would be dead after 1 night on skid row.
Nietzsche was a guy who could have used a tour in the Peace Corps & some strong psychotropic meds to help shape his philosophies.
odd campaign slogan. So much for the
Audacity of Hope.
They want to stay alive and they want you to die so they can put more money in their pocket.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/scientists-established-link-brain-damage-religious-fundamentalism/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG2lgNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR1oY_pE9vikjibQQci7leAMu6Uc-rv8HxdBCK7e6YkaToTk3bMlVNkljQ_aem_ddVfkQ1iYtrvjeasPQfMgg
Love your podcast. Only complaint: Having to wait so long between epis.
Nothing matters...! Life, Death, Truth Trust, Future, Hope, Suffering, Poverty, Pollution......
NOTHING MATTERS to a nihilist.
Except the wishes of donOLd.
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Camel for Sale
We have been respecting and elections the kind of politicians who plan on going back there.
"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die."
Or good ol' W in times of trouble:
"What can we do to help our country?"
"Go shopping"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/
I remember a few decades ago many conservative Texans I would chat up would laugh and scoff at Mexico being ruled for 70+ yrs by the PRI party and corruption being everywhere.
The "apology" underlined the core sentiment.
- Sarah Longwell
Ironic that MAGA senators expects us to walk the tightrope of life without a social safety net. While expecting us to fund theirs
Taking every penny for themselves before it’s too late.
Daffy Duck in the clamshell “mine, mine, mine”.
Broke and destitute
*I'm glad they've turned themselves around
I die anyway, it will make no difference what I'm doing until then...
🤪