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[–] 132 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They literally control all the government. And they still couldn't govern.

If the roles were reversed, I can't even imagine the right wing media backlash.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago

    Woof, when Laura Ingraham is to the left of you on an issue, you are way into la la land.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Collins pointed out that this was impossible. “It’s against federal law for people who are here illegally to get health care,” she said.

    I really dislike how 'health care' has become a synonym for 'health insurance policy coverage'. And even so this is still a ridiculous statement in its own right.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Like it's not already difficult for people here in the U.S.A. to afford. As a vast majority of anything else the ACA adjustment would never trickle down, but it sure as hell will boulder/snowball down. And that's on top of the Medicaid/Medicare cuts.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago

    I thought this was the Trump shutdown, but no it really is the Johnson / Trump / GOP shutdown.

    And really when article said he "snapped" I was hoping for something at least mildly traumatic. Or even like snapped to attention, in realization that he was completely in the wrong. sadly, no.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is it a lie if you believe it at the time?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What he's saying is so absurd and factually unsupported on its surface (Democrats are trying to shut down the government to demand health care for illegal immigrants) that I don't believe even he believes what he's saying. He's just like the rest of them, he'll say and do whatever he thinks he needs to in order to achieve his ideological ends, and he'll wrap himself in the flag and the cross while doing so. No one principled remains in that party.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I 100% agree. my response was intended to be sarcasm about how full of shit they are. as if they only trick themselves into believing it in the moment and as soon as the moment passes so does their belief.

    That isn't to say I think they actually believe anything they say. I foolishly thought the sarcasm was obvious, I should probably just add /s bt efault.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    And now half of the VA is shut down. Fuck these obstructionist Republicans

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Let's face it, the VA was on the chopping block already thanks to Trump tightening the purse strings. There is quite literally no reason to even accept a deal that gets the ACA funded again, because Trump can just say 'no' and choke it off anyways.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    tightening the purse strings

    Is that really the right phrase to use here? If I took all my family vacation money and spent it on ninja swords from the mall, I don't think my wife would say, "We can't go on vacation because my husband is tightening the purse strings."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Damn.

    Guess my vet apartment neighbor with the necrotic leg from a freak infrection of a flesh-eating virus...

    ... will not be getting that scheduled amputation and prosthetic.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    The medical aid is still available, but if you're a vet looking for a job, good luck, you're on your own

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Well that is at least somewhat less bad news for my neighbor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not great, though. Guess what services will be suspended next.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    He's worried about that Grindr profile leaking.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago*

    Mike Johnson needs to be slapped in the face with a cock untill he publically admits he likes it, and has in fact liked that for a long, long time already.

    Release the Grindr profile.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn’t that the guy that has the masturbation app with his son?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I can't wait to find out what Trump / Putin has been blackmailing this choad with.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Rumor has it he has a Grindr account

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    it's thursday. that actually get posted yesterday?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought his lawyers were figuring out a legal way to release it.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The Republicans can pass this if their reps all vote together, they can't even get all the Republicans to support them anymore.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don’t believe they can. They need 60 votes in the Senate.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Except when they used reconciliation to pass 2 budget bills in 2021 when Biden became president, and 2 in 2017 when Trump became president. They use reconciliation to bypass the filibuster after 20 hours thereby allowing just 51 votes to pass budgetary measures.. so long as no extraneous non budgetary items are added to it, those individually would need 60 and be filed separately at that point.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Sure but the point is that these asshole Republicans don't want to use the reconciliation process because then they can't say, well the Demoncrats voted for it so it's all their fault you uneducated white people don't have "affordable" healthcare and why your white racist Charlie Kirk Grandma had no Medicare/Medicaid and got kicked out of her nursing home that their Obese Oligarchy Bill said to do.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I may be wrong, but I believe you're talking about two different types of legislation that have different rules.

    The Republicans have the votes for a simple majority, but I don't think this bill counts as a reconciliation and would require new changes to the senate's rules (which may or may not be possible).

    I could be wrong, but if I was, why haven't they just pushed it forward?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Because they had to wait till October 1st, and they thought they could use it as another way to complain about anyone left of them and cause more rift/hate. Saying, we'll send it through reconciliation tomorrow doesn't sound as good as the "radical left extremists are terrorizing our government" to them. So they will get everything they wanted, with only 51 votes, and the ability to weaponize it. And the Democrats and what not who never got to the negotiating tables will be blamed for not magically stopping something nor doing "enough."

    Have you heard about Kamala not in government anymore's latest pizza topping? It's like she's out of touch!

    Edit: They've only really passed budgets on time 4 times since 1974. (When they implemented the ability to reconcile budgets to bypass filibusters) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/01/congress-has-long-struggled-to-pass-spending-bills-on-time/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They already did that in July.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So they can just do it again.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Now they can. They couldn't before the financial year rolled over as of today.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So what your saying is that the government shutdown is do to the Republicans inaction.

    Shit the entire concept of government shutdowns started in the U.S. during Ronald Regans presidency when he vetoed a spending bill. They basically invented government shutdowns to weaponize the ability to hold basic needs from the people and call it legal to get what they want.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    The Republicans are absolutely committed to the lie that the shutdown is because the Democrats are demanding the government pay for illegal aliens' health care. It doesn't matter how many times they get corrected; they'll just keep repeating it.

    It's an interesting experiment in just how brazen a lie they'll be able to get away with. I'm hoping this is the one that finally breaks them, and they lose credibility for good, but the right-wing media bubble is sewn up pretty tight, and so far it seems they'll believe pretty much anything they're fed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Universal healthcare when?

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    Obama had a 60-40 Senate for a few months, and the best he could do was the ACA since insurance lobbyists didn't want to lose their jobs. We're never getting universal healthcare.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree, I don't think politicians will spearhead the change, it needs to come from labor and student unions pushing for widespread strikes. The reason I think May 1st 2028 is the best target is because of unions coordinating the expiration of labor contacts for that date, because Taft-Hartley basically outlaws coordinating strikes between unions.

    https://may1.uaw.org/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    All of my coworkers believe that this shutdown is 100% the democrats fault and it’s because they wanna give illegal immigrants healthcare and allow trans athletes to compete in the Olympics. You can fix dumb or brainwashed.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Isn’t that the guy that has the masturbation app with his son?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He's also likely deeply closeted, and he either went to a conversion camp once.

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    I think Democrats have a chance of winning this fight if they keep at it and just stay om the clear message of "we just don't want peoples healthcare to skyrocket"

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