I am just enjoying this right now. Let him hit his supporter as hard as he can. They said they will do anything. I guess they will go without health insurance so that God can stay in the White House.
Trump hateful voters thought it would affect black and brown people when he and musk promised hardship. Now that their parents & grand parents may suffer also they are complaining. He fucking told you what he would do.keep believing rich care about you. Stupid ppl
During the last Trump administration we had people dying by the thousands every single day. Republicans managed to vilify the very people caring for the dying and trying to find and dispense a vaccine.
Grandma's were totally expendable then. I can't imagine they give a damn now.
If he did it once, he can do it again. Floridians better wise it up and start voting for the decent, predictable Party who would never shut off their #Medicaid en masse.
I don’t know how to sugarcoat it so I won’t. MAGA will only be convinced when they see themselves in the people who’ve been harmed by these illegal EOs. They need see specific examples of white MAGA suffering from these illegal funding freezes. And they need to know you’re working for THEM anyway.
They WANT to see black & brown people harmed by Trump policies, so calls for empathy for “the other” will fall on deaf ears. But when they see tangible evidence that neither their vote nor their skin color will exempt them from consequences, they may not dismiss Dem messaging out of hand anymore.
It won’t matter - GQP MAGA Whackadoos would rather suffer and die under their deity, savior and Fuhrer CONald Trump than live and even prosper under a Democrat - FACT.
They’ve already concluded that the Medicaid portal outage was a case of malicious compliance by a deep state actor and not Trump’s OMB doing the thing they’ve said they were going to do. It’s incredible to watch the mental gymnastics in real time.
It won't matter if they are convinced. We are stuck for 2 years and the heritage foundation has a 2 year plan. It will take GENERATIONS to rebuild what we are about to destroy.
And?….. what are you going to do about it other than make postings about it? If you and the other dems can’t stand up and be loud and fight back then move on. We need leaders not whiners and passive representation. DO SOMETHING
As terrible as this all is, I'm grateful to have you as my representative, to be a source of reliable information and a constant resistance to all this inhumanity.
I have friends who have a home in FL in Husbands name to pay less Business taxes. Wife’s name on MN home to get benefits for their disabled son. They game the system and see nothing wrong. Rules for thee, not for me.
Make sure Florida voters maga specifically know this was Trump agenda..bet we start hearing them shift this disaster back to the dems as more citizens start to suffer more financially..
Tried to tell them but brainwashing is a strong force.Now we all have to pay for them believing propaganda from all elected MAGA & statetv stations & now all main stream media since they too bowed down day 1 or before. 3-4 left on MSNBC telling the truth.How long can they hold out?Independent media!
Please have every Dem politician shout from the rooftops, and stop putting out polite statements. JEEZ... we need leaders who can break through the sound barrier of the right wing echo chamber.
I'm just going to say "Good!" here. The ones who voted for him deserve this and they aren't going to change until they feel it themselves. Gonna be painful but "Good!"
Lifelong Florida resident here. I'm not on Medicaid, but I know some people who are and didn't vote for Donald Trump and I feel awful for them. He's screwing nearly 4M people in his own state of residence. As much as I hate to say it, he's gonna cause people to die when they otherwise wouldn't.
In my state, Medicaid is the #1 source covering nursing homes. Who is going to cover relatives in nursing homes??? Do they just get dumped into the streets?
How many voted for him? This was in black and white what he planned to do LONG before. The election and STILL they voted for him. Maybe next time they vote they should look into what the policies are that will be enacted when they take office.
I wish you were right but I see the desire for pain and cruelty only ramping up. How any person of color, LGBTQ, immigrant, or woman voted for the felon........ Well, we tried to warn you.
I am retired RN. Worked with Medicaid patients for years. Some of them will die without these benefits, including kids. Add killing to cruelty as the point of this administration. Yes I said that.
They’re old and really need it badly, but they are of no use now, they already voted for him after they were told over and over this what was 100% was going to happen.
AGREED 💯! They say they can’t do anything without a majority? So did the GOP last session and we lost the child tax credit, the green new deal, student debt cancellation, an attempt at a shitty immigration reform, and several appointments.
Sounds like it’s time to put frail, elderly, cognitively impaired (not to mention incontinent) Medicaid recipients from across the county on buses and drop them off at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Their nursings homes are already in financial jeopardy even with Medicaid payments.
It's 5.5 million. After covid it shot up from 3.3 to 5.5. Now people have to recertify because of it in Florida. My Mom being one of them. Her application to recertify is pending. She's 89 years old. Sickening.
and it wasn't even the first one!!!!! The Seven Mountains dominionists were saying the project 2025 stuff years and years ago...
it was never hidden. They are literally *proud* of it.
I hate bringing up 9/11 but how many 'planes' do people need to see to *get* its not an accident?
In my part of the country Medicaid covers over 80% of nursing home residents. If Medicaid is cut, where’s Uncle Freddy or Grandma going? Out in the streets???
Wait til Maga try to find the extra room & nursing care at home!
Just saying a portal was shut down means nothing to most people. Explain what it means and the impact it will have. Why is this stuff so hard for dems to grasp?
Then they need to speak up and perhaps watch something besides Fox News. If they see that what is being said on Fox is not what they are seeing on the streets stop watching it. Turn to another channel! Look it up on the internet. Do something
yes, lets blame the general public for their lack of knowledge instead of the dem party for their lack of messaging. We just literally had a whole election that showed huge chunks of the population have little to no understanding how anything works. Just let the GOP define it all then.
Were you out there talking to people? Because I was! And I live in a red state. I know how many doors were closed on me and the names and threats I heard. So don’t blame this on the Dems. We tried!!!
I am saying that people generally will not have the faintest idea what shutting down a portal means. One, a huge chunk have no clue how all this works. Understanding the impacts to them is what they understand and grasp. My god, I can see how Dems lose the messaging wars with the GOP
This is why Dems lose the messaging war. They just assume everyone should understand or know how or why things work. huge chunk of the population do not care. They just want stuff to work. when something like this happens it needs to be explained how it impacts them. They do not notice otherwise
Honestly none of it matters, Trump is going to destroy us regardless at this point . So we just have to start picking up the pieces because the dumb cunt is literally collapsing our nation as we speak today.
Civilian insurance sometimes still confuses me on how things work. So I can see how people that don't have Medicaid might not realize what it means. I agree that it is a five alarm fire, I just think that explaining why is a good thing.
This is how Doctors and medical facilities get paid too. This is incredible. If this is not fixed by the end of the day, everything will start to unravel.
It has become increasingly obvious, that a frighteningly high percentage of the US population, haven't a clue how the basics work, even in their own state. You have to communicate with that in mind for everything. 🤷♂️
The problem is that people don’t listen even when it is explained. It’s a consequence of our 5 second social media clip reality we have today. The attention span of everyone is gone.
Who's running the Dem War Room/Rapid Response Unit right now? All I see are posts on Dem-throttled social media outlets. Get on TV, national AND local! Spray the airwaves with pushback, opposition, and "NO!" You're in DC for US, Congressman. ACT like it!
Message to you dems - get your shit together. When you are ready to come to jesus with a reality check of how your party got us here, hmu @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
Here's the thinking tho: there's been a lack of political will because people have been shielded from the worst of their actions. So there's an impression that there's no difference between the political parties, resulting in apathy. They need to feel pain in order to gain political will to change.
I really wish it didn't have to be this way, but at the same time people have to stop voting against their own best interests. And so you know, consequences.
Of course, but if you were so fucking dumb, you voted for this in the first place even though they told you explicitly what they were going to do it’s likely you’re gonna have to feel a lot more pain before you admit you are wrong if ever
wtf, I don't want anyone to suffer. and you realize it's not gonna be the rich people suffering it's going to be the people who've already been suffering? or do you not care
This will be a key moment for us to seize. Let the supporters feel every ounce of panic, that they’re betrayed, that they’ll suffer lots very soon. Then point at exactly who’s doing this. Remember: over a million votes for Kamala were suppressed, many didn’t vote for dumpy. Time for our Euromaidan.
I cant feel sympathy for people who voted to harm millions of others. I do feel strong sympathy for people who are caught in the wake. BUT the only hope we have for those trump voters to change to have them suffer as well, because the ones who didn't vote for trump were always going to suffer anyway
Hi, I’m a Floridian who did not vote for Trump. It sucks that I have to suffer so the cultists can learn a lesson, but if this is the only way to get them to actually think…so be it.
I don’t understand why people can’t understand this. We literally live in a right wing country. If the rest of the world thought like this, then we would all be abandoned.
That's what you get with first-past-the-post election systems, electoral colleges, gerrymandering, voter purge, Citizens United, foreign (Israeli and Russian) interference, and an arrogant DNC that's infuriatingly out of touch.
I can hold space for both things. I feel sick that innocent people will suffer and die. But I’m not a bit sad that the evil assholes who voted for this will also suffer—although I doubt they’ll learn anything from it
yeah it’s not about sympathy. it’s about the fact that it affects everyone who lives there, even the people who voted blue. people shouldn’t die because of how they vote. dickhead
just sick of seeing how gleeful a certain type of person is to expose their own bigotry and hate as soon as they think they found a sliver of moral superiority. "your suffering is funny because you live inside political borders I've decided are bad." maga-level thinking when we need empathy.
You're pissed because someone pointed out that what Maga voted for has consequences😶. The only moral superiority demonstrated was when Maga was ok with the suffering of "others". Now that the shoe is on the other foot, empathy is required. That sh!t is MAGA thinking so give it a rest.
it is every state. it has been every state the entire time it has been down. literally these "it's Florida, it is Illinois " arguments are distractions.
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How many of those are republicans? Probably quite a few, I’d imagine. Given the dependence of red states on federal funds, I have to guess that lots of Trump voters are being denied healthcare, right now, due to this action.
I don't know who is in leadership of the FL Dems at this point, but the party has been run terribly for the last two decades. Charlie Crist, for Crist's sake!!!
Maxwell Frost is a bright spot, but the party is a mess.
I really hope people listen more. Lots of "FAFO LOL" goong around but if Florida was all-red, how do you think Max gets elected? The people fighting in the swamps don't deserve the mockery. Helping them is how we fix this.
The decent people everywhere know who are being spoken about. No one wants suffering but certain folks voted for thus suffering and It should NOT be forgotten or forgiven yet.
Look, as far as forgiveness goes, I'll do you one better, cuz you can save the "yet" for me. But it batters a person's spirit to hear or read "screw Florida, idgaf about Florida", etc while trying to survive. You can't always tell yourself they mean somebody else.
Sometimes Florida outdoorsmen (who are typically Republican) will surprise you. When our Governor tried to put golf courses and pickleball in the state parks, even the rednecks got fired up. They also don’t take kindly to threats.
Maybe when Trump says Drill, Baby, Drill, and they start putting oil rig platforms off Tampa/ Sarasota/ Naples, the rednecks will wise up after the first spill comes. But maybe not.
Put them up off the other coast, so he can see the "beautiful" oil rigs from his shitty MAL & the oil drenched sea animals can wash up on his shitty beach club.
A whistle-blower altered the public to it, or he would have gone ahead with it.
He fired the whistle-blower afterwards for releasing his plans to the public.
And he already had "traded" state land to a golf course that wasn't undone.
They live within a separate information ecosystem as far as politics goes. If the Alt Right can teach the Dems anything, it’s a good redneck communication strategy. Flyers, stickers, symbols, dog whistles, etc. They are actively recruiting.
All those reporters from before, need to go back and do some real news! What do they think now?
Has it effected you directly? I doubt they will because who owns the news? Not the free press that's for sure!
It wasn't just Florida, it was all 50 states. That's around EIGHTY MILLION people that Trump FUCKED IN THE *** with his "executive order." EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE. Systems are coming back up after the court blocked Trump.
In general, for folks already on Medicaid, it will impact them if they are renewing their benefits. Otherwise, they will go to their healthplan. The bigger impact is that no one can file a new application or check the status of an app in process.
If a portal is shut down when you show up for services your insurance cannot be verified and you will be asked to pay up front for services…same thing would happen if your Anthem or Cigna could not be verified.
I thought initial statements said Medicaid was not impacted? I’m not surprised don’t get me wrong I was expecting the worst but I definitely read Medicaid was exempt initially did their admin lie up front?
Also very sorry for all the healthcare workers who thought Covid was the worst trauma of their lives. The Trump pandemic will kill more than the 1 million he already killed with pandemic mismanagement. Awful 😢
This greatly affects my son who has autism and asthma and other health issues. This will stop his autism therapies. No doctor appointments. He was just at the er yesterday for upper respiratory infection.
Cutting off funding for vital federal programs affects not only the people they serve but whole communities but the entire state as well. If seniors are no longer able to pay for their food and housing, state and local governments will have to deal with the problem on their own.
This is a pivotal moment for state and federal R politicians. How will they respond? Will they stand up for the people and institutions that rely on Medicaid, or will they stand by and allow Trump to wreck havoc on their constituents lives?
These orders to cut “waste and fraud” provide an opportunity for Democrats to work with R members of Congress to stop or slow down Trump’s agenda. They can point out how devastating these policies will be and how their state’s economy will suffer for it. Not all, but some Rs could be persuaded.
Sorry meant in 2024 I lost it.
I’m in remission thank god.
Sorry I’m upset and didn’t post clearly.
I’m forced to take Medicare and it’s 185 a month for something I don’t use.
I’m sure many of them voted for trump. He played the poor, the sick, and the elderly knowing full well this was the game plan he would follow once in office. Now he’s been installed he turns his back on all of them.
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Grandma's were totally expendable then. I can't imagine they give a damn now.
At least we'll get to see DeSatanist in his high heeled white boots.
#DemocratsProtectAmericans
We get what they voted for.
FDJT & FSCOTUS
buy stock in private prisons & funeral homes
What is the outcome of this?????
They believe dying is “Patriotic”
For them to acknowledge karma would mean totally cramping their style and messing up their game
Imagine MAGA allowing for karma
Karma is OUR secret weapon
We know it exists
Especially when we don't want it to
But also not when we really do want it to
Such is karma
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." —Mike Tyson
We did try to warn them he wasn't in it for them...
“…concepts of a plan” indeed!
Truth hurts.
Because the GOP believes in the sanctity of life, ya know.
Like, I'm in Florida. A lot of our trans friends are in Florida. A lot of our gay friends. Black friends. Hispanic friends.
This is what they want. They want you to marginalize groups of people, just like they do.
it was never hidden. They are literally *proud* of it.
I hate bringing up 9/11 but how many 'planes' do people need to see to *get* its not an accident?
Wait til Maga try to find the extra room & nursing care at home!
It means hospitals and doctors won't get paid for services rendered to medicaid patients.
Depending how long it lasts, some hospitals won't be able to pay staff or even stay open long.
I quit. Honestly. The dem party is going to get what they deserve apparently with this kind of thought process.
There are millions of people who didn’t vote for Trump in Florida.
These are all human beings.
Of course I didn’t want kids to suffer! So the sooner it’s done the less suffering!
Keep throwing bandages at the issue and these kids suffer much much longer!
This clear Nazi movement is evil! So destroying it asap is clearly the best way!!
Aka, we all agree that Trump and his cadre of criminals need to go.
And they even said they know they will crash economy.
There were huge consequences to this election.
They HAVE TO go somewhere.
I want them to go tot he people who wanted this.
No sympathy, fuckit...never any sympathy for any of em for voting for that disgusting pos!
I don't have truck with word redefinition.
ALL OF THE PORTALS ARE DOWN. *PERIOD.*
It's not Florida, it is every state, has been the whole time and it would have taken a minute for any politician to know that.
Our election is this year, a shift to the right may be wrong!
Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, & Veterans Benefits are all on the Musk/P2025 Hit List. LFG🔥💥👊💥🔥
A better aim! Butler
we elected people to protect us.
Maxwell Frost is a bright spot, but the party is a mess.
He fired the whistle-blower afterwards for releasing his plans to the public.
And he already had "traded" state land to a golf course that wasn't undone.
So
Every single one should open a class action against him if it impacts them.
Has it effected you directly? I doubt they will because who owns the news? Not the free press that's for sure!
It wasn't just Florida, it was all 50 states. That's around EIGHTY MILLION people that Trump FUCKED IN THE *** with his "executive order." EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE. Systems are coming back up after the court blocked Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html
He wants to be thanked for something he will give back to them eventually
He needs slaves and allegiance
Still not clear what's behind number one.
Looks up to me. 🤷🏻♂️
DUUHHHHHHH
We tried to warn them but this still makes me furious!
What happens to them?
I’m in remission thank god.
Sorry I’m upset and didn’t post clearly.
I’m forced to take Medicare and it’s 185 a month for something I don’t use.