My take on the cruel and all too usual Republican budget: Ignores reality, endangers everyone, and makes safety-net remedies as complicated as possible—knowing and perhaps even intending that the result will be stunted and wrecked lives. @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/republican... - ThreadSky

jilldlawrence.bsky.social • 9 days ago

My take on the cruel and all too usual Republican budget: Ignores reality, endangers everyone, and makes safety-net remedies as complicated as possible—knowing and perhaps even intending that the result will be stunted and wrecked lives. @thebulwark.com https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republican-party-denihilism-gop-budget-bill-medicaid-snap

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elvis15.bsky.social•9 days ago

They're essentially private insurance companies; make everything complicated and deny as much coverage as possible rather than serve their customers.

ellen-27.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s stunning how many people don’t care about other people. Maybe they didn’t help them but now they hurt them. If you’re not rich white protestant straight, heaven help us.

green0330.bsky.social•5 days ago

The cruelty with all of this is a feature, not a bug.

1mrfantasy.bsky.social•9 days ago

Exactly, this comes down to nihilism. Which is funny since they all like to wear their "faith" on their sleeve. Usually the most parts they twisted the most.

framptongeraci.bsky.social•8 days ago

“PERHAPS” intending?

littledoodle.bsky.social•9 days ago

The Republicans can still steal from us, line their pockets & be corrupt without having to take away food & medical care from the most vulnerable people.

tonycava.bsky.social•9 days ago

Almost as if they expect to never face the electorate again

sfvioletnyc.bsky.social•9 days ago

"forbidding courts to charge dump with contempt for defying court order" - getting overlooked, more challenges against courts if they try to hold dump accountable. If this passes then no more lawsuits. He cannot get any more power to destroy us. @schumer.senate.gov @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

victorytwin.bsky.social•9 days ago

#MAGAMURDERBILL

limousine-liberal.bsky.social•5 days ago

definitely intending

crispy1d.bsky.social•9 days ago

As someone currently attempting to navigate the ins and outs of long term care, vis a vis Medicaid, the comment on complicated remedies resonates loudly. What a nightmare!

felinicat.bsky.social•9 days ago

Please, please, please talk about the little clause hidden in the bill that effectively neuters the courts. No one is talking about it but it will render everything else moot.

dirkshouse.bsky.social•5 days ago

When will what used to be a decent Republican stand up and say no more?

dtf1947.bsky.social•9 days ago

patriotofdemocracy.bsky.social•5 days ago

kenshi53.bsky.social•8 days ago

With any luck this will be the end of the Republican party.

true-bird.bsky.social•9 days ago

📌

tozarowicz.bsky.social•9 days ago

Americans continue to deny the classism that exists.

Aristocracy has never cared about the serfs... not even in the New Deal nor the Great Society.

Those deemed untouchable simply changed.

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•9 days ago

machappy2024.bsky.social•9 days ago

heisenbergww.bsky.social•9 days ago

The party of Christian values my ass!! An extremist Nationalist cult is really all they are... And always have been.

patrickesnyder.bsky.social•8 days ago

They’re Nationalists, alright, but “racial” rather than Constitutional nationalists. Their ideology negates the US Constitution, i.e., they’re anti-American.

heisenbergww.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can't argue with that!!

bronxboy14.bsky.social•9 days ago

Conservatives have yearned for small government for decades. Now they're getting what they wanted so badly and can stew in their own juices.

yak18pilot.bsky.social•9 days ago

I’ve always known republicans have wanted to return to the 50’s. Now I know it’s the 1750’s. And yet, a substantial portion of the electorate seems fine with these troglodytes….

perspicio-oic.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ain't no 'perhaps' about it.

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•9 days ago

Any dollar that doesn't go into a billionaire's pocket is a public policy failure. I *think* that's the saying, right?

zentierra.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is what happens when you have an "administration" run by sociopaths with a *complete* lack of empathy.
Trump and his goons are engaging in a slow-burn, low-key genocide of seniors, the disabled, veterans...and everyone else who they deem "not useful"...

zentierra.bsky.social•9 days ago

...and they are going to ensure that the "working class" becomes a de facto "slave class" by rolling back every bit of worker protections that we have fought for since the beginning of the 20th century, including OSHA, UNIONS, and WAGES.
They *want* a return to the power system of the Dark Ages.

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