Well that vote finally happened with the conclusion that they all wanted.
215- yea.
214- nay- including two republicans. Good for them and thank you.
There was also two that just didn’t vote and 1 who voted present. I guess so they can look themselves in the mirror tomorrow. Or brag to those they will BEG to reelect them, promising to do better next time. They are the real villains of this piece.
Except for those 2 the vote was on party lines. Too bad for the Democrat representative that died this week. Gerry Connolly of Virginia.
RIP. You should have retired. Did you learn nothing from the lesson of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? And why oh why does this keep happening. The last 8 congressional deaths were democrats. Maybe look to the younger candidates instead of wiping the assess and mouths of the gerontocracy.
But I digress.
This fucking bill- Why?
Because this is a fucking abomination of a bill.
It strips money from suffering people in so very many ways.
It strips healthcare away from struggling people. By ending Medicaid. Fun fact, Medicaid has many different names depending on the state. There are going to be a LOT of angry and desperate people when their medications suddenly quadruple or higher.
It takes food out of the mouths of babies and children. By nearly ending SNAP benefits. I have known people on SNAP and they were 1) struggling and 2) working. What now?
It kicks grandma out of the retirement home. Because of the decrease in Medicaid. Which we fucking told you was fucking coming. Better clear out the spare bedroom because she’s coming home.
It is a death knell to the declining hospitals in the rural South and everywhere because it ends Medicaid. The already high number of hospital closures is about to go to stratospheric numbers.
But don’t worry there is some good in it. For those who want to buy a tanning bed. The excise tax on it has been decreased. Of all fucking things, of course.
Here is the end of democracy, have to put a cherry on it for their corporate masters.
It is cruelty and project 2025 marked up pretty like. So that they could lie and make pretty speeches about while picking your pocket at the same time.
The end goal is to provide a multi-trillion dollar tax break to those who DO NOT NEED IT! The billionaire class that Nixon started and Reagan fostered and the current president has egged on. Because he is one?
Next it heads to the Senate.
Upon wake up to this piece of bullshittery, I immediately wrote the two senators in my state.
I told them to vote no on the senate bill.
I told them to find their balls.
I told them their grandparents and grandkids would be ashamed of them.
I told them that I, a citizen of their state, wanted them to vote no. This is to take care of people who are citizens in their state, who failing and will fail harder with a yes vote.
I also did a hand written series of cards with a lot less nice wording on it.
I lambasted the reps in my state.
Being the OR nurse that I am I have to wonder what is their end-game?
Slavish obedience to their one true god of a president.
Slavish obedience to the people whose money they will NEVER reach.
Or is the cruelty the point?
Cowards, the lot of them.
Grow a set, will you?
And also get a replacement rep in there ASAP.
The time for mourning will come but now is the time for action.
Write and call as much as you can.
Remind them that they work for us, not the billionaires.
Remind them that they have to be reelected in 18 short months.
Remind them that while some in their district won’t have the energy or the capacity to remember who is to blame for their new worse circumstances, some of us have fucking long memories and will be sure to remind them.
Over and over and over and over.
Your grandparents and grandkids are ashamed of you kicking the other old people and stealing food from the babies.
For shame!
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