CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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True but the fact of who will suffer most under Trump’s roll back of Dem policies and programs will start to become apparent and demonstrate how much the Dem party had done that was not previously recognized
Yes and strangely other news stories simply disappear. I'm thinking of the press conference where 47 just walked away from the mike in the Oval Office because dementia, the assassination attempt which was not investigated and reported on, and so much more.
Hey MAGA! You know those parasites your leaders talk about? The folks who don’t deserve government services? They meant you. The good news is that even though folks on the left think you’re awful, we still want you to have housing, fair pay, education, affordable healthcare and so much more.
There is going to be an avalanche of such stories, and it's going to set off a five-alarm political fire back in the districts and states. This is already happening, in fact. And it's really going to intensify soon.
I am not surprised. I'm sorry that innocent people are getting caught in the cross fire. Reminder: if you can use a different service or find a better price with a coupon you don't necessarily need to use insurance (exemptions apply)
lmao at people trying to shame us for saying I Told You So and laughing.
Bitch, wtf else ya want us to do? Can’t fix what idiots are breaking. So, yeah, we’re gonna laugh like they all laughed when they got the Felon back in.
Fuck yall. We voted for the Black woman and we laughing now. Die mad.
Everyone told you - fellow citizens, other countries… what Trump was going to do. He’ll he told you himself. And 30% said, I still want him, and 40% stayed home.
Omg will y'all fuck off with this shit? Like can we save the revenge party for later? People are dying now! An 11 year old girl committed suicide! Humans aren't collateral damage! Fuck!
Fucking A. A person in ruby red West Virginia on Medicare was paying $8 for a 28 supply of insulin. Now thanks to Trump he went into CVS today insulin is back up to $80. Republicans just don’t give a shit and are hurting the very same people they claim to he helping. How can they sleep at night?
I'm a Democrat that spent 31 yrs in Alabama. Republicans vote for the person that promises to punish the people they hate the most - blacks, immigrants, LGBTQ, women & blue states, and promises that only good things will happen for the voter.
That, and uneducated ppl giving in to their RACIST tropes, feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, HATE, intolerance, bigotry & self loathing!?! It is hard to change this mindset bc of these characteristics, thus making messaging even more critical to get through to a density of ignorance!!
The people who own the media (and that nowadays are social networks mostly) have personally much to gain from fascist politics and in some cases from aligning and doing favours for foreign dictatorships. If you think that Harris had a level playing field you are mistaken.
The ensure that level playing field is btw exactly the reason that the court in Romania cancelled the election results and that Vance chose to attack exactly this case speaks volumes.
Your first electoral victory is attained through hard work and scraping up every vote you can.
Every subsequent victory has nothing to do with votes and everything to do with accepting money from people who buy your votes.
#Felon47 was installed by Russia the first time and by leon this time. Musk spent nearly $300 million on the election and was not about to lose. If his good squad can hack government computer systems in a matter of hours, they could certainly manipulate voting results.
I checked this out on the https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/insulin site. A one-month supply of each Part D- and B-covered insulin product is capped at $35 and no deductible for insulin. If he is paying more, then CVS is jacking up the price. Trump's EO stops future drug pricing negotiations.
Wonder how long Fox can keep up the pretense that this isn't happening, or it's all the Democrat's fault. How long will their viewers continue to swallow it?
We're very lucky in Wales and Scotland prescriptions are free for everybody. Even in England you can pay a one off fee no matter how many things you get. £32.05 for 3 months or £114 (ish) for a year which you can pay for in 10 installments.
Yeah, bite me. You think those of us in red states that didn't vote Trump haven't tried for years to convince those in our lives? You think we have any control over what they actually did? Man, gfy
Impoverished West Virginia is not just a Red state, as the caller mentioned, but an overwhelmingly deep red state. All I can say is, sucks to be you guys.
That's what happens when you vote against your own interests. Try and hurt the people of color. You forgot you were poor and they could give a fuck about you either
I'm sorry I don't feel sorry for you guys. You voted in the same losers for decades. You expected different results from the same losers or you didn't do your fucking homework
It’s Fox “News. If that is all that you watch, you’re not getting the truth, just lies and lies and lies, all day long. Grifters like their fearless (lol) leader.
And I hope those scared, crying Forever Trumpers OWN what they did to this country. We freaking TOLD them over and over and over what would happen but they smugly smirked that they knew better. They got suckered and they screwed us all.
I think that's the part that I'm having such a hard time forgiving. My family members that I tried to reason with and wouldn't listen. The Hispanic and Black people who are so damn machismo I could just spit, I'm so angry. NOW we have a country to save. 🤬🤬🤬
Well when they told you it was gonna get bad "for a little while" what you didn't know, was they meant until you died. However long that takes- is their version of a "little while". Meanwhile they are back to making $$ off your life saving meds. That are no longer capped. And WILL go up
Ironic that all these replies assume he’s a trump voter bc he’s from WV and talks with an accent. Caller showing 10x more media literacy and savviness than these replies talking down on him.
I'm not sure who you voted for, but anyone that voted for 🍊 in a red state is just looking for their check from 🍊. Looking for loyalty payouts. Do you know your gov't benefits are paid from blue state taxpayers? 🍊 & Leon don't pay taxes. Those checks are from your fellow Americans who pay taxes. 🤦🏻♀️
Trumpers in the “find out” phase of things now. I don’t wish anyone to suffer, but they were told what he would do & now they are seeing firsthand that it was true.
Oh my fucking fuck what is WRONG with y'all? You are no different than conservatives when it comes to marginalised people who will be collateral damage
I DON'T WANT A FUCKING HOLOCAUST!
Liberals won't even fight to stop history from repeating itself knowing what happen and what is happening and what could happen.
It isn't acceptable
And it is especially insulting to have to die at the hands of someone like this so his supporters can pay?
Why are you even assuming I voted for that jar of aged urine with a bad wig when I DIDN'T
Why are both liberals and conservatives determined to give me headaches? This goes beyond voting. This system is being destroyed by a complete clown anus and y'all wanna yell about voting. Will we even have
Elections? I just want a future with a government that isn't trying to kill people like me but this is too much to ask. I can't even get people who are supposed to be on my side to want that. People starved to get voting rights. People were killed to get civil rights. People died for Labour laws.
It's probably a bit unfair to be down on this one person who may not have voted for Trump.
But we can be down on her friends, her neighbours, the people at her church, her community and possibly even members of her own family who thought so little of her that they voted for him.
I am always surprised that Trump’s biggest % supporters are dependent on medicare and medicaid and after knowing every bad thing he promised to do, they still voted for him.
In fairness, this was all orchestrated by Republicans years ago. I’ve only read from Reagan years onwards but I’ve read it began before then. Keep the poor states poor, sick, & dependent. They’ve been conned & manipulated in a successful attempt to create partisan polarization & gov’t mistrust.
They are clueless. They only listen to and believe in trump, the biggest liar of them all. Now they are learning the hard way and it's too fvcking late.
Same here with Brexit. Dazzled by ‘take back control’ and ‘stop the boats’ they voted to leave. Next day top google search in the UK was ‘what is the EU?’. Smash head on wall type of ignorance.
His followers either don't pay attention or they are in the conservative media bubble where they are happy to consume distortion and lies. Ignorance when a simple web search "can" get to the truth is deplorable.
That's the freaky thing. People that heard his speeches all heard something different than what he actually said.
In fact most heard the exact opposite. It's like a weird form of the Mandela effect.
They thought the bad things would happen to others, NOT them. You know, the BROWN people who came to America for a better life, many in fear for their lives. But not like their ancestors, you know, the WHITE people.
In fairness, this was all orchestrated by Republicans years ago. I’ve only read from Reagan years onwards but I’ve read it began before then. Keep the poor states poor, sick, & dependent. They’ve been conned & manipulated in a successful attempt to create partisan polarization & gov’t mistrust
Someone should start adding up the receipts, so they know how much it costs them per month to own the libs. Prolly more than their taxes and eggs combined
I know this lady drinks lol - have you ever watched her and the calls she takes!? It’s a new level of uninformed. She just has a blank stare the whole time. I hope they pay her well.
West Virginia has the highest death rate for drug overdoses per capita of any state or district in the United States. The death rate from drug overdoses in WV is 25% higher than the next nearest, DC.
Only the sick GOP would outlaw drug treatment centers in a state with that high a mortality rate.
It’s sad, but it’s just abhorrent.
From the areas of the Ohio valley WVA panhandle & those I know who work at WV University & the hospitals beyond Morgantown, they have worked with those struggling or who overdosed. It gets worse the deeper in the rural areas you go.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
From his voice, how he talked, what he said, and how he said it, it’s extremely unlikely. Yes, he’s not crowing over his neighbors running around panicked. They’re his neighbors. But what do you want to do, bomb W. Virginia, kill the 30%?
I also live in WV and did not vote for him. Our legislature is full on Trump delusional. Like mirroring his executive actions and wanting to rename a mountain after him delusional. And we are poor and have been under years of Republican rule. And Trump’s cuts are going to hurt us bad here.
That's a lot of words for "I want permission to be cruel" but go crazy king. Me, I'd think about why I was so quick to leap to wishing ill on someone before even confirming if they did the bad thing I think they did instead of just making up excuses why it's okay
They could die…which is why they should have voted differently. Everyone who paid attention knew this was coming…it wasn’t a big secret. They chose to put racism and hatred above all else and now they’re finding out what that gets them.
i know that the FAFO/Schadenfreude is very tempting, but it is folks like the WV caller that ultimately will help bring this shitshow to a close. So start making alliances instead of condemning how they voted.
Many were intentionally misled or misinformed. And beyond that, there are people on the left who will be suffering in the same way and for the same reasons.
I understand the temptation for this attitude, but it’s ultimately harmful and destructive.
I remember watching a news piece about Obama pouring job retraining money into WV for the miners, and they refused to use it because they thought coal would come back. They voted against HEC because she didn’t sugarcoat that coal was dead and never coming back.
Sure, but I think the takeaway here is that these people are victims of the right wing disinformation sphere and of a public education system that failed to properly prepare them for critical reading of media and info sources.
Visit West Virginia. There are lots of good people here. This place has been fucked six ways from Sunday for decades by anyone with power. Sure, the huckster isn’t going to fix it, but the feeling of being left behind is real, because this place HAS been left behind.
They haven't been left behind, technology happened and coal sucks. They refuse to grow and deserve the bullshit they get next. Fuck WV, the only thing the know how to do now is pop pills
Coal does suck. Technology didn’t just happen, although some A+ passive voice nonsense. Technology development is directed by gov’t and private money, which came nowhere near Appalachia. This place and its people got fucked by coal companies, and then by outsourcing of industry, then by opioids.
The industrial backbone of the country came from this region in so many ways, and there was zero plan for what happened when the changing world moved on. I’m not saying we should revert back, that’s obviously dumb. And not going to happen. Now came from somewhere, might be worth thinking about where
It’s what it sounds like. And it’s as good as it sounds. You can buy em in gas stations all over the state. Started as a miner lunch for Italian immigrants I think?
That's really terrible advice that will result in a repeat in less than 10 years with another fascist. I'm also on Medicare & SS, but I'll suffer to make sure my kids & grandkids are not threatened by another Nazi.
I do think for Trumpism to end, people who voted for Trump at least have to endure some of the same consequences that people who didn't vote for him are enduring. I do feel bad for Trump voters who have lost their jobs, had contracts they counted on canceled, can't afford their prescriptions.
He said a lot of his neighbors voted for him and were “Forever Trumpers” and now walking around scared. He didn’t say he voted for him, in fact he praised Biden.
I’m clinging to “almost.” At least they can decide on a case by case basis. I hope they tighten up really quickly as a flurry of cases are being filed.
Prescription drug prices are a huge problem. I was in a waiting area for a CVS vaccine and couldn’t help but hear conversations as people stepped up to pay for them. One had to keep one medication “on hold”, ie. Not filled because it was too expensive.
Right? Dunno how many friends I’ve heard complain about their prescription prices sky rocketing this month. I tell them they can thank tRump for that, and then they are suddenly speechless. (It’s a cult 🙄) I walk away shaking my head. It’s not like they weren’t warned.
I really feel for this gentleman. He shows concern for himself and his neighbours. If he voted from Trump, he has now publicly recognized it was a mistake. That’s a hard thing to do. Going “serves you right” it’s the easy thing to do.
Well. Regretting the consequences of your own actions and understanding your actions were wrong are different things. Stop giving people a credit they don't deserve.
I can understand why people voted for Trump in 2016, he was a political wildcard. But after everything that’s happened since, if you backed him again in 2020, you seriously need to rethink your judgement. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
What does it make someone who voted for him thrice then? This after denying he lost 2020, role in Jan. 6, attacking Biden for being old & driving him out of race while exhibiting even worse behavior afterwards, etc.
He doesn't say he voted for Trump and no talk of remorse on his part...and no talk of remorse on part of his crying Forever Trumpers neighbors ..self pity is not remorse.
So...run along .... t leastisten to a video before you blather away
The dumbasses that voted for him are finally starting to feel the pain of his BS moves since Jan 20th and are wondering what the hell did they do. He didn't care about the common man when he was campaigning and he keeps proving it daily. Pray folks, because he's not going away for at least 4 years.
He implied he didn't vote for Trump but said his now scared neighbors did. The reversal by Trump regarding insulin was sadistic. Limiting what pharmaceutical companies could charge someone on Medicare for insulin cost the gov't nothing. The change back just put more money in billionaire's pockets.
CORRECTION: I can't sleep tonight so I'm reading. I just read articles in Reuters and Factcheck that says Trump's reversal of Biden policies on drug pricing and Obamacare did NOT affect the cap on insulin. The insulin cap was in the Inflation Reduction Act and would require congressional action.
What has Congress done to address anything? They are so far up DJT's ass, the American people are suffering. They believe DJT pays them, another FAFO moment is coming.
True, but we aren't loud obnoxious people that need the spotlight every minute of everyday, but we learned our lesson I hope, we needed to tout all of Biden's accomplishments, and he didn't do it, but neither did we.
I actually have met Roy Cooper, very nice guy. Showed up in our tiny town when we flooded out in 2021. Madison Cawthorne was nowhere to be found, (probably in bed with his cousin), so the governor came to our rescue. But he isn't our Senator, where is this coming from, did I miss something ?
No, the first question should be “have you called your representative to complain about what’s going on.” The way we’re going to get out of any of this shit is if people understand that they are an active part of the body politic, not just a bystander!
I'm willing to accept anyone that blames the appropriate people at this point. Let's burn these oligarches out together, and then we can talk how they're too stupid to be in charge of anything after.
It seemed pretty clear that he didn’t and I think some of you are a little too gleeful to slam somebody when you don’t actually have any clue who they voted for.
I see it with people who rather then emphasize with feds ask who they voted for. And don’t seem to care when they can’t dunk on them
Ok I understand wanting trump supporters to suffer but I'd like y'all to understand that marginalised people will suffer MORE AND FIRST if y'all don't stop with the FAFO shit and start with the let's not have anymore holocausts ok?
My country has just been thrown under the bus by your dear president. You think I give a fuck about people who consciously voted for trump? They can suffer the consequences of their own choice.
They were okay with other people suffering. They chose hate, sexism, racism, transphobia etc. They chose cruelty thinking it would never affect them. Now they know. They deserve it!
it’s pretty clear the caller didn’t vote for trump, how desperate are you nerds to punish someone that you’re going after a diabetic dealing with rising insulin costs
It’s cool that those costs are going up for everybody because some of those people are bad. Meanwhile during campaigns Republican voters are the only ones Democratic candidates try to appease
This is reply is why Democrats lose, stop talking down to people. There is a real opportunity to educate people and change their minds cause theyre hurting and you're going to squander it mocking them.
Yes, democrats should always walk on egg shells so as not to offend those delicate people who might get mad and retaliate by electing a dictator to hurt them.
I would agree with you if this was his first term. But they KNEW who he was. The Muslim ban. The failed tariffs. The tax cuts for the rich. He didn't even build their damn wall.
After Bush2 trashed the economy, Republican friends of mine said they'd never vote GOP again. Guess what?
They NEVER learn
Bullshit! People knew he was going to do this because he said he was. So fuck the person who voted against his best interests. They don’t deserve my empathy. People who voted thinking it wouldn’t happen to them deserve everything they get.
So, 9.5 years since 6/16/2025 escalator ride, lying about Covid, 1/6/21 and the plotting to killl VP Pence didn’t change their mind.
Hush money payments, 34 felonies 17 counts of tax fraud, sexual assault , Stealing pallets of files, didn’t change their mind.
Now you think insulin increase will?
Yes, cause this stuff actually effects them. There is a great opportunity here for people to talk to their families and bring them back to earth and you're all to busy laughing at peoples pain to see it
Um yeah because THEY FUCKED US. Because if them, federal employees are losing their jobs and people needing federal funds are losing their going to lose their farms. So yeah I’m laughing at them.
Trump lies. He and musk only want to cut programs to say they saved money to cut taxes for billionaires. Full stop. Look at what is going on. A federal agency created through legislation by congress can only be disbanded by congress. Not musk and his band of pimple faced 20 year olds
This is not talking down to people, especially those who refuse to be educated. And, many of them won't change their minds. Who are you kidding? It was no secret what this administration was going to be like. #FAFO
STOP with this BS. We tried. We screamed from the rooftops about this exact outcome if they didn't pull their heads from their asses. Why do these assholes deserve so much grace, yet we get to the end of our ropes and again..."take the high road, Dems!!!!" Fuck that shit. STOP BLAMING DEMOCRATS.
When you lose, you are to blame for that. The Dems lost, they should blame themselves. Thats how you improve on things, stop trying to blame everyone else cause YOU FAILED!!!!
This isn't about blaming everyone else, Sherlock. No shit that we lost. The party failed. Why that happened isn't because "we talk down to everyone." You're fucking delusional. After 3 elections of morons in this country giving that POS enough votes to win, and you're saying they deserve grace. GTFO
Nobody should be exempt from redemption. The impulse to punish is American sadism and is a sickness in our culture. Even murderers should be given opportunity for rehabilitation in my opinion.
Dems spent the past EIGHT YEARS trying to educate these people & change minds, detailing all the terrible shit he did, all the lies he told, all the fucked up shit he wants to do. He even got indicted in 4 jurisdictions & convicted of 34 felonies but these people refuse to be educated.
Its on them.
Are you nuts! Your damn feelings is why we are in this situation in the first damn place. What is more important, your damn feelings or the truth and your condition?
Trumpf supporters are either too stupid or too mentally deranged to be educated by facts even when the facts are thrust upon them. Hence, he "loves the poorly educated."
Jesus--this person did not say he voted for Trump. He said his neighbors voted for Trump. This is one of the problems with people who are obsessed with revenge--you want to see huge groups of people suffer no matter who is in them. Also, revenge is nothing but pointless harm.
It's such a tough call. Because on the one hand, they need to live with the consequences of their actions. But OTOH...we need absolutely everyone we can get to join the Resistance, and we don't want to squander opportunities to enlighten the reachable.
Yeah now because they’re personally affected. But were totally ok with the same things happening to other people. How’s the old proverb go? He who refuses to listen now, feels later? The nice way of saying FAFO. Idk who she voted for but if she’s complaining, she must be surprised by it. 🤷🏽♀️
It’s weird how some people can’t identify a Black persons voice upon hearing it. That is clearly a Black man who didn’t vote for Trump given his lengthy preamble about “forever Trumpers”
The time to get educated was the EIGHT plus years that Dems tried to educate maga dipshits about how terrible trump was but they refused to listen to the email lady or the black lady or the president that was old.
This is exactly right. I'm done thinking "we just need to explain this to them and they will understand". They understand completely. Their PoV is that they want other people to suffer so they feel better about themselves. We owe them nothing.
What are you doing to convince Trump supporters they made the wrong choice? It would be far more meaningful if those who voted for Trump, who now saw the error of their ways, explain to why it was a bad choice and how it's hurting the economy and our country.
I get your sentiment. I, too, have given up (same pest here in 🇦🇹, avoided it by a hair this time). It's useless. Talk, even if there's a glimmer of understanding - they turn to their phones and it's back to wonderland.
They don't need being talked too nicely. They need de-cultification.
The reason the Dems lost is due to the propaganda and lies that Fox News and other conservative news outlets push daily that brainwashes their viewers, not to mention voter suppression. Kamala tried to tell them, but they ignored because they were worried about the invasion of brown/trans folks.
If you have the emotional bandwidth for that, respect. Go forth. A lot of people are tired. They’re tired of being mocked and being hurt. By the people whose minds you’re asking them to change. I get what you’re saying but the emotional labor is real.
The Left has been so demonized by Trump et al that I truly believe no matter how delicately you try to offer truths they'll shut the conversation down. "Dems are evil/the root of all bad" is reflexive. For example, they'll figure out why Trump's disastrous policies are the Left's fault. Book it.
Trump voters who were directly affected by his actions are still defending him. They are too brainwashed by pride to admit they were wrong.
You can't change a mind that's not open.
Its only been a month, he can still believably blame stuff on Biden. Give it 5 months and people will be willing to listen, its about timing and patience, but they arent gonna listen to people who have been mocking their pain
If I've been telling you something's gonna happen FOR YEARS, and you didn't listen, then the exact thing I warned you about happened the exact way I said it would, would it really take you more than a month to realize I was right?
No, this reply is NOT why Democracy lost. It presumes that people HAVE got brains, logic, and the capacity to analyse and understand cause and effect.
And If they still voted for the 🍊💩 one's got all the right in the world to despise them for their damaging choice.
While I agree with you in theory, why is it WE always have to be the ones to rise above only to get knocked down AGAIN. These are grown ass people. If they took responsibility for their horrible behavior, I would welcome them in. But don't you "expect" not to answer for your hate and division!!
Oh it is the peanut gallery who is the problem, and NOT THE PEOPLE WHO RAISED THE PRICE BACK TO $80?!! The vibes crowd and logic do not mix well, obviously.
Go laugh in the face of someone with diabetes and going in debt for life saving medicine and see how that persuades them. You're an asshole. You're a bad person. You are nothing more than a moral grandstander and thats the only way you can feel good about yourself, pathetic.
You want sympathy for trump voters and to talk nice to them because that will be convincing.
Yet here you are trying to "convince" people to do that by calling them "bad people" and other trash talk.
Maybe practice what you preach.
See if it works before lecturing others.
No, Dems lose because we think we can reason with these morons. I am done with that. I will rub their nose in their stupidity. Those guys really owned the libs this time! The road back is paved by convincing folks that aren't paying attention. I'm done trying to fix stupid.
I am not looking for respect, I am looking for democracy. As it is if things stay the way they are, 10 years from now when my kids start to understand what we have done, I am going to have to explain to them how we managed to fuck this up. That is what I care about.
Yes. This is the opportunity to say that if you voted for Trump, this is what you’re getting. So you might want to consider voting for the party that actually protects people from things like this. If that’s “talking down,” that’s a lot of snowflakery.
How much patience are we supposed to have for people who repeatedly ignore our telling them “Trump is going to screw you” and then find out that Trump screwed them?
I’m actually a wonderful person but I only have so much patience for this.
You're correct they should be called out not mocked.
No one, no one, thinks t's assessment of America is right some want to believe he will turn US into merica by taking the country back to the glorious days of whites only and Jim Crow.
Nobody wants to be educated, it fucking sucks to be told you're wrong. But if people are hurting they might listen for once, and you're all gonna let that opportunity pass for a circlejerk
No, Dems lose because hate and fear are easy to sell, but the truth is hard to explain. Schadenfreude is unnecessary, but some people can’t be convinced until they finally burn their own hands on the hot stove we were warning them about.
I think the piece you are missing is they haven’t changed their minds. They cared only about themselves before and care only about themselves now. They will still vote this way once they are once again assured someone besides them will be in the crosshairs.
I will truly engage with those that start talking about how others are being hurt. But when they still only care about themselves, not much empathy left.
Although I am angry the diabetic guy is worth talking to, the deal is he must denounce chump before we discuss why this happened to him. Also, if he voted for forced birth torture I must ask him why killing women by refusing a woman healthcare is not worse than expensive insulin. I am waiting.
We tried to warn voters what would happen, and they dug thier head in the sand. I understand and agree with you to a degree, but there needs to be some personal responsibility for those who voted for this. Again, we warned them, but they didn't want to listen, so now you reap what you sow
I don't think mocking and belittling people will move the needle, but "education" isn't going to do that either. They won't listen.
We need people who can inspire the broad middle to picture what we could have with the money we're already spending. The education will accompany that.
Man fuck those folks & the dead ass family members! Fr that’s the problem w democrats always being fucking little pussies !! Not everyone deserves empathy. Once you choose a side you gotta stay there period
Protesting that Biden/Harris didn't do enough for Palestine so they stayed home & didn't vote. Now Trump is going to bulldoze Gaza & build Casinos & expensive hotels.
FAFO. Even if that caller voted for Harris, there are many in the same situation who voted for Trump. They should not be able to act surprised about this.
They should’ve been scared of the the felon and the Republican Party years ago. They voted for hate towards liberals but it backfired. No sympathy. The leopard does not discriminate.
Hell, Trump typically says what he's doing to do too. It's just not the only thing he says. But he almost always says it. He can't seem to help himself.
They're just shocked when it hurts them and not the "bad ones".
Well, drugs on Medicare are always high at the beginning of the year. You have to meet the deductible of $2000 before Medicare begins to copay. Maybe the caller isn't aware of that.
and they were fine with voting for a dictator that wants to let the Russians slaughter Ukrainians and de-naturalize and deport anyone that is not white? But now that it is their insulin it is about decency? Nobody that voted for that has any shred of decency left. In the 1930s in my country it was
the same story. "I just voted for him because he wanted to make things better for the little guys. I did not care about his other policies. I am not a jew, what do i care? But now i am supposed to fight in a war you say?" But the US is not 1930s Germany. You know what situation the US is in?
2013 Ukraine. People voted egoistically for Janukovich, mostly because they did not like the other woman... Janukovich also made empty promises. When he went to Putin instead of Europe, when he started to turn Ukraine into a dictatorship, 2 million Ukrainians went to the streets.
Hundreds slept on Maidan for months, church bells were rung when the police attacked and people came to help the protesters in the middle of the night. This was the turning point for Ukraine to become a truly free country again after hundreds of years of being suppressed and colonised by Russia
A personal failure of mine--I'm having trouble caring about Trump voters paying more for anything. I know, I've not progressed as a human at all but there you have it--I don't care about these folks. Hopefully, I'll get over it.
Yes please! This administration is trying to kill marginalised people! They will suffer the most. I want to PREVENT this
Like if people knew the Holocaust was going to happen would they fight Hitler or just go oh well and do nothing?
Yeah, and I don't think he was. The way he talked about the neighbor Trump voters. I don't think he's white either, which many respondents are also assuming.
But regardless, is health care a human right or isn't it? I think largely we can agree that if it isn't, it should be.
This makes no sense. The Inflation Reduction Act capped insulin on Medicare at $35/month. I'm on Medicare and diabetic. I've seen no changes. I'd ask CVS about their violation of the law.
At this point, it doesn’t matter who they voted for. The bottom line is that we all are going to suffer from tRump, Musk, the puppeteers being in the White House.
Not too surprising that idiotic and mean spirited policies are impacting everyone. Stupid policies rapidly enacted will have faster negative impacts than ever before. 1 month into Trump and it already feels like 1979 economy
A president cannot simply 'cancel' an act of Congress. I don't understand how companies and lawmakers are just allowing this to happen when there is nothing in our Constitution or history of a Nation that says this is how things work.
I was referring to the Trump tax cuts which are only going to positively effect people who make $400k and up, everyone else will see their taxes raised.
But yes, this regime is paid for by the oligarchy and is fully for the oligarchy, not the working class.
Lmao, good. I'm way past caring and dont give any fucks anymore. I live in n.c. and my neighbors still have their sign out, Harris: high prices Trump: lower prices. I'm petty and I don't mind suffering just to make sure magas suffer more, its the only way they'll learn
I agree 100%. It is the ONLY way they learn. Massive pain. The problem is that ALL of us will suffer but hopefully they will suffer more. Ignorant racist cult members.
We should have a live TV show with a public hotline where people can call in to voice their complaints about Trump and Musk. Let the people speak their minds!
It sure is, but when you think about it, the people responsible for what is happening who should suffer because of it didn't just check one box. They'd rather have us fighting amongst ourselves.
I remember when we were a blue state. I thought we always would be. Good, caring, kind people!! Poor but sharing what they had. I don’t recognize my state now. Since 2016, it is ugly and mean. Realizing you don’t know (and never did) your neighbors, friends and some family has been traumatizing.
I’m different. I, too, say this is what they voted for - no sympathy. Not this time. The POS told you, she told you, we all told you. You still voted for evil! FAFO
Agree. West Virginians were very kind people. I’m originally from Ohio. I’ve had to cut off some of my family and most of my friendships from that region. 😔
It's very red, and the most of the rest are only blue when it comes to unions. There may still be some true blue pockets like Morgantown, but not nearly enough to instigate any kind of change.
Yes, Morgantown has a cultural similarity to what I was used to in Richmond Va suburbs, though still not much more diverse than the rest of WV. I’m old enough to remember when WV was predominantly Democratic.
I find that to be such a shame for West Virginia, which is only called "West" Virginia because it split from Virginia over slavery, and it was the heart of the union movement. People died in W Virginia for the right to unionize, and now they're just throwing it all away. Utterly shameful.
racism is completely irresistible to white people, unfortunately, and west virginia has a ton of white people. Appalachia generally is extremely racist (speaking as someone from western PA), no matter how it used to be 170 years ago. After the unions faded, there was no resistance left.
The list of decent, caring politicians who SHOULD have been voted-in grows longer each election cycle, as does the clown train of hucksters, racists and fascists currently in office.
Yes…And mammograms and annual pediatric checkups aren’t included anymore and colonoscopies go through the roof . Wait til that recent college graduate of yours can’t find a job or loses one and needs to be on your healthcare….
Yes. And I’m looking for her to come out of hiding and start leading Democrats in opposing Trump. She is the beneficiary of a billion-dollar campaign; it’s time she starts repaying that investment.
She lost to one of the most vile individuals in human history with an absolutely milquetoast campaign. Parading her around in some sort of "I told you so!" tour isn't suddenly going to endear her to the masses. If anything, it'd be the opposite.
Dems gotta pick a new fighter, and one not a DINO.
Agree on the vile individual. She barely lost, and in part because lots of white folks viewed her as an angry Black woman (but yes, she’s actually too corporate friendly). She has a lot of “I told you so” to offer. But find me someone else who will fight and get attention and I’ll be fine.
This is basically where we hit the issue of the old guard refusing to bring up new faces and cede power because there's no Plan B right now and they're 20 years behind on it.
Anyone not a straight white dude under 50 with ties to the common person would have no chance in our current environment.
Why? She doesn't owe anyone shit. She did her part. Campaign money isn't for her, it's for her campaign. Which is over. Trump is the only one pocketing campaign funds, illegally BTW. I for one hope both her and Hillary are enjoying being as far away from this as possible. The smart ladies told us
The billion dollars made her a star, as well as the Democrats’ de facto leader for the next few years. If she wants to serve America and help protect us from Trump, she should be out there. Trump didn’t go away after he lost, neither should Harris.
A star? This isn't Hollywood. She was the VP, had already made a run at the nomination. She was already known. Trump didn't go away because he's the herpes of politics. He's a con man without morals or ethics. Of course he stuck around to continue his grift
Drug prices were too low for us who are dependent on insulin! Love paying way way way more money to not die. Thanks Trump, blood on your hands as people will inevitably ration life saving meds.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/inflection-the-backlash-begins-as-elon-goes-wild
Blame Trump and his voters. Kamala would have kept it.
Bitch, wtf else ya want us to do? Can’t fix what idiots are breaking. So, yeah, we’re gonna laugh like they all laughed when they got the Felon back in.
Fuck yall. We voted for the Black woman and we laughing now. Die mad.
It has to happen to them.
Everyone told you - fellow citizens, other countries… what Trump was going to do. He’ll he told you himself. And 30% said, I still want him, and 40% stayed home.
Too bad for them.
Werd coming. THERE 75,000
FEDERAL WORKER OUT OF WORK.
It doesn’t have to be accurate, honest or truthful. It just has to hit better….
Every subsequent victory has nothing to do with votes and everything to do with accepting money from people who buy your votes.
There is no reasonable excuse for the profits pharmaceutical companies are reaping for it.
#HoldTrumpAccountable
As are epileptic meds, and haemophilia treatments, and a whole plethora of other stuff.
https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850
who the f did your friends and neighbors vote for?
we see you WV.
He told them he was gonna phuck them up by cancelling things Biden did for people.
They clapped and hollered like a bunch of trained kool-aid impaired seals.
Time to pay the piper and holler for real.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/21/chaos-and-turmoil-are-whipping-through-america-spreading-fear-in-ohio-and-across-the-country/
https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2025/02/21/praying-for-pope-francis-a-beacon-of-hope-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-and-the-tyranny-of-qlarants-artificial-generated-stupidity/
I hope you get what you voted for.
Genius.
If you voted for Harris then I'm so sorry that you are a criminal President's collateral damage...it really does suck
I DON'T WANT A FUCKING HOLOCAUST!
It isn't acceptable
And it is especially insulting to have to die at the hands of someone like this so his supporters can pay?
Why are both liberals and conservatives determined to give me headaches? This goes beyond voting. This system is being destroyed by a complete clown anus and y'all wanna yell about voting. Will we even have
But we can be down on her friends, her neighbours, the people at her church, her community and possibly even members of her own family who thought so little of her that they voted for him.
Anyone who thinks he gives a DAMN about them is fooling themselves. HE ONLY NEEDED YOUR VOTE. Now he doesn’t need you anymore. That simple.
Harris SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR POTUS
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I'm not...
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Okay, I will...
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Who'd ya vote for?
Bewildering brains
The rest bounced off the dopamine and terminal lack of neurons.
It's maddening.
Just read this piece. Tariffs are the absolute least of our worries:
In fact most heard the exact opposite. It's like a weird form of the Mandela effect.
Damn LIBS /s
Only the sick GOP would outlaw drug treatment centers in a state with that high a mortality rate.
From the areas of the Ohio valley WVA panhandle & those I know who work at WV University & the hospitals beyond Morgantown, they have worked with those struggling or who overdosed. It gets worse the deeper in the rural areas you go.
#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-1/656043
Around &
Find
Out
Those xenophobic/racist assholes are finding out
Shit, not even "association", proximity
None!
If some diabetic suffers because they voted for more expensive insulin because they enjoy seeing suffering of other people, serves them right.
I understand the temptation for this attitude, but it’s ultimately harmful and destructive.
You sound like an agent provocateur
And again
And again.
Fuck'em.
Let them die.
to vote against a program while being on the program is *chefs kiss*
Do not pull a Kamala Harris and put people like Liz Cheney and these gullible dupes front and center.
That’s the problem
Everything can be turned for a profit. Everything. Not matter how despicable or disgusting, republicans will apply leverage to make some money.
Thats who they are.
So...run along .... t leastisten to a video before you blather away
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jan/23/facebook-posts/trumps-prescription-drug-executive-order-rollback/
There’s lot of things the Administration is doing that are illegal & unconstitutional, but it hasn’t slowed them down much.
I see it with people who rather then emphasize with feds ask who they voted for. And don’t seem to care when they can’t dunk on them
After Bush2 trashed the economy, Republican friends of mine said they'd never vote GOP again. Guess what?
They NEVER learn
Hush money payments, 34 felonies 17 counts of tax fraud, sexual assault , Stealing pallets of files, didn’t change their mind.
Now you think insulin increase will?
Clearly a lack of civility to the opposing side is not the reason Dems lose.
Hit me up when these people are willing to admit that they are now hurting because they sought pain for others.
They were sure a pizza place had trafficked kids in the basement when the place had no basement.
Explain that and they didn't listen and didn't care.
There's nothing to work with, with people like that.
Now that they've fucked the country, it's too late.
Fuck them.
Let them perish with the rest of us.
Its on them.
Get your head straight-no matter who these ppl. It’s for it’s THE REPUBLICAN’S policy
FFS
Fuck them
https://youtu.be/-S89lZ7H-lc?si=qoN2556ijeGZxgcG
If they did, fuck them, simple
The only one who seems to have a functioning brain is AoC
But we're not gonna have another fair election anyway so it doesn't matter
They don't need being talked too nicely. They need de-cultification.
You can't change a mind that's not open.
And If they still voted for the 🍊💩 one's got all the right in the world to despise them for their damaging choice.
Yet here you are trying to "convince" people to do that by calling them "bad people" and other trash talk.
Maybe practice what you preach.
See if it works before lecturing others.
I’m actually a wonderful person but I only have so much patience for this.
You know who that sounds like ?
Children.
No one, no one, thinks t's assessment of America is right some want to believe he will turn US into merica by taking the country back to the glorious days of whites only and Jim Crow.
there is no opportunity. they have to learn the lesson for themselves. 🤷🏻♀️
No, it quite literally is not.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-jesse-watters-doge-veteran-comments-2025-2
These people don't need democrats to save them. They are fully capable of learning from their choices and making better ones next time.
We need people who can inspire the broad middle to picture what we could have with the money we're already spending. The education will accompany that.
Thanks for the correction. Truth matters.
Don’t expect a lot of sympathy
They are finding out lol
They're just shocked when it hurts them and not the "bad ones".
Good.
Ten years was enough time to figure it out, and they still decided to flush American down a fake golden toilet.
Fuck 'em.
Did you vote for Trump?
Like if people knew the Holocaust was going to happen would they fight Hitler or just go oh well and do nothing?
But regardless, is health care a human right or isn't it? I think largely we can agree that if it isn't, it should be.
That's for everyone.
That's what I want to know FROM NOW ON before I empathize or sympathize.
Organize, Gather, Protest, Resist… NOW!! 🇺🇸💙💪🏻
https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/open-forum-part-1/656043
If you make less than $400,000 a year, Trump does not give a SINGLE fuck about you.
He is willing to watch you die because you cannot afford the medication you need.
Fellow whites, if you are not rich he does not give a fuck about you. He is your enemy not your savior.
But yes, this regime is paid for by the oligarchy and is fully for the oligarchy, not the working class.
Shameful. If this were a movie, besides that it would be a terrible movie, he and his cronies would be the very obvious bad guys here. Ugh.
I have friends and family who are Republican, but not maga.
Big difference.
[Obama got 42% in West Virginia in 2008. But in 2008 in Idaho he almost got 36%.]
So it went from Obama 42% in 2008 to 36% in 2012. In 2016, Hillary Clinton got 26%. In 2020, Biden got a bit under 30%. Harris in 2024 got 28%.
Manchin made the Democrats toxic in West Virginia in a way too few realize.
Are Republicans more likely to follow leaders that say "Believe Me"?
It's not like hundreds are being laid off without even being told why, oh wait, that's happening under DOGE.
Is that happening in W Virginia?
https://www.cvshealth.com/about/leadership.html
His supporters just didn’t believe him.
Just wait till it’s thousands again and no more aca aka “Obama care” because they’re were too stoopid to know the fvcking difference
I’m not the ignorant one
I voted for the Black lady 🖤
Dems gotta pick a new fighter, and one not a DINO.
Anyone not a straight white dude under 50 with ties to the common person would have no chance in our current environment.
Simply outrageous.
From the state in which Trump won ALL the counties.
From a state where Trump’s margin of victory was 69.97%, the highest percentage of any party in the state’s history.
That’s so sad.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/