This is the medicaid cuts vote. I see people on the TL openly wondering if this vote will result in their death. They didn't seem to be joking. Note, this isn't the final vote. There'll be at least one more House floor vote and then the Senate gets a crack. But this tells us how Rs *intend* to vote - ThreadSky

dryad.technology • 2 days ago

This is the medicaid cuts vote. I see people on the TL openly wondering if this vote will result in their death. They didn't seem to be joking.

Note, this isn't the final vote. There'll be at least one more House floor vote and then the Senate gets a crack. But this tells us how Rs *intend* to vote

Reposted from David Dayen

Republicans canceled the budget resolution vote, then decided to hold it, Spartz and Davidson flipped, and they cleared it by one vote.

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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•2 days ago

dgoodmantrublu.bsky.social•2 days ago

The actual cuts don't happen until the government funding votes.

dryad.technology•2 days ago

Congressional budgeting is a giant Rube Goldberg machine but afaict this vote instructs a committee to outline specific Medicaid cuts, which the House votes on. Republicans know that, so if we expect them to vote differently on the cuts later on, something (constituent/media pressure?) has to change

dryad.technology•2 days ago

It seems to be really difficult to convince people that Republican policy goals have actual body counts attached. It seems like it's too big a thing to claim. Like, you can't be serious, you must be making that up, politics doesn't kill people. Politics is just a kind of sports right

blurry-line.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember when they were trying to destroy the ACA some years ago and Democrats were saying "this will kill people," and the Republican response wasn't even to deny it, but to say that the very statement was "uncivil."

npilon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seems to align with the Germans observing that the biggest AfD supporters are comfortable middle class professionals doing radical politics because they’re bored.

tomforsyth.bsky.social•2 days ago

There was a poll conducted before the election that showed that something crazy like 40% of the people who said they would vote for Trump did so because they didn't believe he would do exactly the thing he had just said he would do.

technicallyowen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shirley exception is a hell of a drug https://lynmillerlachmann.com/unpacking-the-shirley-exception/

poison-sumac.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know someone who used to do professionally yell at their state legislature, and they have assured me that, no, proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that a plan will kill people isn't effective at eroding support for that plan.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup. Can't get through that fucked denial

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