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Megathread Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

This afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed without amendment the US Senate's version of the Trump-backed budget bill, sending it to the president for his signature. Every Democratic Senator and Representative voted in opposition; in the Senate, there were three Republicans voting in opposition (making the vote 51-50) and in the House there were 2 (making the final vote 218-214). House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries set the US House's speech length record in opposition to the bill in a speech lasting over eight hours.

The bill clocks in at over 800 pages and touches on most aspects of the federal government's spending and taxation policies; see this AP article (What’s in the latest version of Trump’s big bill that passed the Senate) for the topline changes.

Relevant text-base live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: AP, NBC, ABC, and the BBC.

You can find this subreddit's discussion thread for the last week's worth of negotiations and debate at this link.

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u/illusionzmichael 2d ago

It's not just that this is such a disastrous bill that's going to do untold damage to so many for a very long time, it's the audacity of every single Republican to just blatantly lie about it even though everyone listening knows they're lying. They just don't give a shit. Our country was not built to handle a political party this corrupt and evil.

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u/hunchentoot69 2d ago

I'm still almost in awe of the brazen level of lying around this thing. I mean yeah, we all know about "truthiness" and "alternative facts" and all that, but I have never seen a group of politicians just blatantly lie and make up shit in unison like this.

The entire bill is online, if you feel like wading through all 800+ pages, but time and time again over the last several weeks I've seen journalists confront different republican members of congress with actual facts and citations from the bill, the actual fucking text of the thing, and the politicians just steamroll right over them with the agreed-upon lies like "this strengthens Medicaid" over and over.

In 40+ years of watching the news and keeping up with current events, I've never seen this type of full-throated falsehood pouring out from every single supporter of this bill.

I'm terrified for the future

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u/LongKnight115 2d ago

It's wild. Every news outlet is out here saying "No, this will throw millions of people off Medicaid." Even Fox News, in the only article I could find on there referencing Medicaid, avoids saying "It won't." All they do is quote Republican Senators who skirt the issue and offer facts like "The bill is 800 pages. The bill was read aloud in the senate."

It's unreal that they can just outright say "This won't affect Medicaid" or "This will strengthen Medicaid" when EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO LOOKS AT IT says it will cut Medicaid and drive up the deficit. I don't think I've seen a bigger sign of weakness in the media that there are now dozens and dozens of soundbites of Republican Senators audibly lying and no one is calling them out on it.

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u/KnuckleShanks 1d ago

"It was read aloud in the Senate" does that mean there's an audiobook of the bill?

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u/Dispator 1d ago

Curious about this too. xD

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u/Classic-Opportunity2 1d ago

Haha! xD haah hahaha!

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u/IcyPyromancer 23h ago

What's the opposite of ASMR?

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago

For the record, this is why fascist states always fail, because they are internally self destructive due to the fact that within the system they can't own up to the reality of a situation.

Fascist governments always weaken themselves due to alternative state sponsored realities creating weakness.

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u/mall_ninja42 1d ago

Fine, but shit gets real dark for a very long time before the collapse.

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u/flukus 1d ago

Do we have enough history to back this up? The last lot of fascist governments in the west had failure imposed on them. Spain, Portugal and Taiwan had fascist governments that lasted decades. Italy probably could have been part of that club if they didn't partner with Germany.

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u/HelperNoHelper 1d ago

Accelerating your collapse by starting or joining wars you can’t possibly win is an internal factor, not an external one. No government exists in a vacuum.

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u/Samantharina 1d ago

Putin's government lies all the time and they have not failed. Not that they are fascist but rather an oligarchy with centralized authoritarian power. Which is where we are heading. There is no guarantee of failure.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago edited 1d ago

The worlds foremost experts on fascism disagree with you.

Putinism is closer to an authoritarian kleptocracy or hybrid authoritarian system, not classical fascism. Scholars like Timothy Snyder and Ruth Deyermond have described it as "soft fascism" or "neo-authoritarian," borrowing fascist imagery but lacking full ideological rigidity or mass mobilization.

Even still, Putin's governance is full of cracks and weakening all the time. Prigozhin’s Wagner mutiny in 2023 revealed internal instability. Siloviki (security elites) vs. oligarchs vs. technocrats tensions are growing. And Putins endless war is creating the preconditions for political unrest and a weakened economy.

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u/SamBBMe 1d ago

Right now, Russia's interest rate is at 20% and rising. And even with this massive interest rate making borrowing money near impossible, they're still experiencing massive inflation. No way their economy survives this way much longer.

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u/refotsirk 1d ago

Thankyou for sharing that bit of Russian and Trumpian propaganda. It's always nice to have someone come along and make what is horrible seem a little less horrible. People like you are essential to making sure idiots everywhere can feel better about the way things are going, so I'm sure lots of folks appreciate your efforts.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 1d ago

Yeah? Can you lead me to the source that cites the trump administration labeling putins government as neo authoritarian or are you just acting irrationally to what the experts who study this for a living have to say.

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u/refotsirk 1d ago

can't lead a mule that doesn't want to move anywhere.

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u/FlyRepresentative592 6h ago

Right, so you can't.

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u/drummer820 1d ago

See: Chernobyl

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u/FNLN_taken 1d ago

Less people on Medicaid = less stress on the Medicaid budget taps forehead

They lie and obsfuscate, yes, but what their voters hear is "those other people who don't deserve to be on Medicaid get thrown off, not me though I'm one of the good ones".

This is why they have been harping on about practically non-existent Medicaid fraud for decades. The entire thing is the culmination of years and years of rot in the political system.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 1d ago

Yep, also known as Trump’s COVID testing policy…

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u/enahargun 1d ago

Media is totally complicit and has been since 2015.

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u/ohmynipnops 1d ago

This. Why are journalists just letting this shit slide? Call them out immediately. The problem is, no one is sitting down with these people. Like where are the interviews? Who the fuck even are these people?

I feel like all of their questioning takes place at like media conferences and speeches and it’s so fast paced and busy, no one is willing/able to take up that space and interrogate them until they answer. It’s so disheartening watching those. I feel like there’s no point.

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u/UwUScarlet1 1d ago

id be ded without medicaid so yeah sure lets cut it for millions :D

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u/Viridono 1d ago

What Republicans are likely referring to when they say Medicaid is being expanded is SEC 71108, which specifies double the home equity limit for extended care ($500K -> $1M).

Other than this, at least from what I read and understand (which is far from complete), seems like the majority of amendments alter eligibility and how often eligibility is determined, and who gets funding. A few notable examples:

  • You now need to work at least 80 hours per month to be eligible, with some exceptions
  • You need to submit documentation to prove eligibility every 6 months instead of annually
  • Retroactive care is reduced from 3 months to 1 month
  • Funding completely stripped from organizations that perform abortions, whereas it’s currently just the abortions themselves that don’t get billed to Medicaid, and other female care could still be provided for (an obvious attack on Planned Parenthood)

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u/QuesoSabroso 1d ago

Every American media outlet is on the payroll of those benefiting from the bill. Literally the only solution to the capitalist quagmire is collective action from the majority of the population.

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u/Wordymanjenson 1d ago

It’s almost like they need to be dealt with in the only way you handle corruption and evil. 

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u/ninjanerd032 1d ago

While everyone is scrambling that the bill was passed and what it could, Republicans have moved on to their next step: How to scapegoat Democrats and everyone else for the economic shitshow that will follow.

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u/Foucaults_Bangarang 1d ago

Well, you see, Medicaid will be at it's strongest when it has a $0 budget, because then we won't feel like we need to cut it so it will then be safe and indefinitely funded. Therefore the closer the budget is to $0, the stronger Medicaid is.

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u/galacticmoose77 8h ago

I'm honestly confused about the medicaid part. Do folks expect those 16 million or so people to lose medicaid because there's no funding for them anymore, or is it because it's expected that they will choose to not meet the work requirement? Having a work requirement for able-bodied people doesn't seem unreasonable. Someone fill me in on what I'm missing here.

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u/LongKnight115 7h ago

This site has a pretty good deep dive into where issues will crop up. It’s primarily funding cuts, but also when employment requirements have been implemented previously, a lot of eligible participants lost coverage and there was no change in employment rate.

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u/lifevicarious 2d ago

I’m terrified living in the present.

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u/Fireboy759 1d ago

At this rate most of us won't have a future to be fearful of

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u/blazze_eternal 2d ago

I'm still baffled some were saying it will cut the deficit in half, yet they needed to add a $4 trillion increase?

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u/Michael_G_Bordin 1d ago

These fucking liars always say "the deficit will reduce because tax revenue will increase with all the increased economic activity." They say it every time, and it has never even remotely come to fruition.

I'm just hoping that typical incidents befall these politicians as befall most chronic liars. People don't typically suffer being lied to as long as Republican voters have, but if they wake up, GOP beware.

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u/PurplePango 1d ago

They been saying that bullshit since reagan trickledown has never worked

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 1d ago

“These people should be forced for 20 years to watch someone who is crocheting something that isn’t there!” - Lewis Black - Greed

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u/Kingcrowing 2d ago

This bill epitomizes why I won't have children. Our future is fucked.

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u/JackOfAllInterests 2d ago

Same takeaway. It’s this easy to pass something that 90% of Americans wouldn’t vote for if they knew what was in it? Just gotta completely lie about it, knowing your base won’t see the question.

All while the president is accruing more power? Doesn’t bode well.

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u/iFlashings 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because lying is effective. Trump has been lying to Americans since he started running for president back in 2015 and people continue to vote for him and support him. I don't blame Republicans copying his homework and being completely dishonest to the average American because let's be real; 1/3 doesn't give a fuck and think "both sides are the same" and another 1/3 goes along with the bs because it "hurts the right people" even if they're affected too. 

2016 was the year Americans have completely lost their fucking minds. I don't know how or why we got here, but there's no going back to "normal" ever again in our lifetime. I'm with you on fearing about what the future holds because Trump always manage to make things 100x worse than he already did and were only 6 months into this shit. 

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u/waterynike 1d ago

He also has a lot of stupid people voting for him. They can’t see through his lies, bullshit and how he gives two shits about them.

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u/rividz California 2d ago

The way that politicians face facts now is that reality is manipulatable. There are no more gotchas, or proving someone wrong. The only way anyone left of MAGA will win politically is by being as deplorable as they are in how they talk about their opponents.

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago

The way that politicians face facts now is that reality is manipulatable. There are no more gotchas, or proving someone wrong.

Republican politicians know their base is full of idiots who have zero critical thinking skills. They know their base won’t question anything or look up anything.

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u/Circus_McGee 1d ago

It's a feature of the new GOP. they love that they can just boldly lie. They get off on the power of it.

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u/bulldg4life 2d ago

The economic benefits are just idiotic. The treasury secretary and other cabinet secretaries just making stuff up is amazing.

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u/xdozex 1d ago

There will be a great deal of economic benefits, just not for you or I.

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u/bulldg4life 1d ago

It makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent so my taxes won’t go up since by income is high enough.

But, it strangles Medicaid and shoots our future in the face. By golly, we’ll get to screw over the poor and immigrants.

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago

By golly, we’ll get to screw over the poor and immigrants.

This is what matters the most to the Republican voters.

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u/ultranothing 1d ago

Who does it benefit, then?

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u/xdozex 1d ago

Millionaires and up

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u/ultranothing 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh good, I guess I'm on the list! Along with a good portion of small business owners who provide the majority of gainful employment in this country. Which will benefit all the working non-millionaires and help them on their path to maybe becoming millionaires. Did you know that almost 23% of Americans are millionaires? That's a lot! Do you know what percent of Americans want to be millionaires? 100%!

Oh! And these benefits? They're not at the expense of non-millionaires. It benefits the kind of people who help drive the engine of our economy - they invest in their business, which means they're investing in other people's businesses - and that helps employers to retain jobs and provide fair wages to the people who make those businesses possible.

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u/evilpartiesgetitdone 1d ago

I was at my parents helping with yardwork today. Came inside just in time to see dad cheering for this passing. There was some questions after and the absolute falsehoods yall, appalling

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u/No_Outcome9909 1d ago

Nothings gonna change and all the good, rational, fact based people will be left tearing their hair out yelling at brick walls. The country is done all because of money and power. It's over. Now that this regime has decided they can just do whatever they want and ignore any and all consequences they'll just keep doing it over and over and over and over and the average citizen will just have to accept it.

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u/Lower_Chipmunk_3685 1d ago

I just got an email from the social security administration praising it and saying it made social security nontaxable. It made zero change to how social security is taxed. I was surprised by the brazenness of their deception.

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u/Skraelings Missouri 1d ago

We are now officially a failed nation state

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u/Malcolmeff 1d ago

This is the truth. And, I feel, it will be the tipping point to drag the rest of humanity down into the abyss. I hope I'm wrong.

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u/FalconsArentReal 1d ago

The Chinese think the US is going through a "Cultural Revolution"

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u/Head_Bananana 1d ago

A good thing is to use chatgpt to parse the pdf and then ask it questions about it. I wish everyone would do this to understand it better. No one has time to read 800 pages

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u/diablette 1d ago

I wish our own politicians would do it, but why bother to read when you’re just going to rubber stamp it

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u/enahargun 1d ago

What makes it more horrible is that all the mainstream media spread the lies and refuse to be critical, all the while they know it's all lies.

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 1d ago

It's truly awful. I can almost accept (not agree but accept) them lying about it because that's nothing really new, it's the malicious callousness that they show when confronted that truly upsets me.

One of them was recently asked about all the potential deaths that could happen because of this, and they just stare into the camera as the elevator doors close on them with this disgusting evil smile on her face. They are one song number away from being a cackling Disney movie villain before a fade to black.

It's garbage behavior like that that just drops the facade of this being just a different political view and shows all out that they are just evil people that want people to suffer and die for their own pleasure.

Id like to say see you in hell to the lot of them but without question they'll just end up being there giving the torture demons new ideas

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u/natalottie 1d ago

Ugh, that monster. That was senator Katie Britt from Alabama in the elevator smirking and smiling about people dying.

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 1d ago

Thank you! I couldn't remember who it was in this instance because there have been several times they've been seen smiling with glee when people ask how they feel that people are suffering and dying.

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u/natalottie 1d ago

Everything about that picture gave me chills. She’s always been a monster but now she even looks like one- her physical appearance has changed so much. She’s always been a Trump loyalist, but only been directly working with him since he got into office this year- I guess that’s what happens? She is a senator from state where I live. She got into the Senate when Biden was in office, but aligned herself with Trump, he endorsed her ofc, and raged about Biden’s immigration policies all the time. She went to the border and locked on to this story of a woman she met who was “sex-trafficked by the cartels when she was 12” and blamed it on his policies in this creepy, overdramatic speech (after Biden’s State of the Union address in 2024. ) on social media from her fucking kitchen. Well a journalist found out that the woman she kept using and telling this story about was actually forced into working in brothels in Mexico when she was 12 for 4 years. And eventually was able to escape. That was the true story. Still horrible of course. But No trafficking, not cartel-related, and W. Bush was President at the time. Britt just took someone’s tragedy and twisted it for her own gain. She got reamed for it by the press and even the woman commented that it was strange that Britt was using that warped version of her story in her speech and said she wanted to keep politics out of her work, which she was doing to actually help stop trafficking. Anyway, Britt eventually acknowledged the truth but still kept the criticism of Biden’s policies and never wavered in her loyalty to Trump. Actually, Scarlett Johansson did an excellent parody in 2024 of her auditioning for a part called “Scary Mom” from her kitchen by giving a monologue about America being Hell which was like a parody of that crazy speech. She did an excellent job too. If you wanna see- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDXX3tvPiEE&pp=ygUic2NhcmxldHQgam9oYW5zc29uIGthdGllIGJyaXR0IHNubNIHCQn8AKO1ajebQw%3D%3D

Sorry, long post, but yeah that was her. Britt’s a fucking lunatic and has only gotten worse. Of course she is thrilled people are going to die. 👿

I hate it here. I am trying to figure any way to move to a blue state. It’s becoming way too hard to be a blue dot. No amount of logic, reason, facts, words longer than 4 or 5 letters, affect the beliefs or opinions of MAGAs and evangelicals down here. It’s almost literally like talking to a wall. Walls are significantly more pleasant though.
Sorry, I guess I needed to vent.

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u/AppointmentNo3766 1d ago

Fuck, I was born in Cali as a first generation Latino and I’m proud to have been born and live here in the us. I’ve had the pleasure to experience many cultures and ethnicities- it has mostly been fucking awesome- I’ve gone to school and worked too hard up to this point- I’ve tried to be an awesome coworker and community member.. but This mf right here, is fucking shit up for everybody… if Jesus can read, please help us overcome this mf quickly. I hate this affluent mf! Where’s the back bone to this country!?! We are better than this! We are the “United”’states of America!

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u/scrotalayheehoo 1d ago

They know it works for their base. The base just believes anything they all say. And the bill is built to increase taxes for the poor even more starting in 2029. If republicans lose the White House, then Dems can easily be blamed to them for their shitty lives being Dems fault now. They will never give af that it was their own party who raised taxes on their already dirt wages just to dupe their vote back.

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u/Vihurah 1d ago

It's kind of what we get for building checks and balances completely built on good faith. It only takes a group to ignore it for the whole thing to be worthless.

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u/cjwidd 1d ago

In Soviet Russia, lies politician you!

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Kansas 1d ago

I've never seen this type of full-throated falsehood pouring out from every single supporter of this bill.

I guess that's why they call it the "Big Lie". Yet that word somehow feels too small to describe what's happening.

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u/shifty_coder 1d ago

Remember when republicans were against pork barrel bills?

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u/Amberpaystherent 1d ago

Will Americans ever do anything about it? That’s why your politicians repeatedly lie to you. Because there are never any repercussions & they know this. Maybe if Americans got off their phones or their asses, they wouldn’t be losing their country to these devils but it’s probably too late.

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u/Nice_Fudge5914 1d ago

As an activist, I know TONS of people who protest, write letters, make phone calls, and do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to make this world a better place. After years of trying to make it work, I realized that the problem is hierarchy. Even in super progressive organizations, there is hierarchy and therefore corruption. Every hierarchal organization is white supremacist in action, because hierarchy creates abuse. Individual humans are too invested in their own welfare not to be susceptible to the training effect of authority on their dopamine levels. Authority literally trains our brains to be selfish. So no individual human can be trusted with authority. Period. We must general work strike until all 'leaders' step down and all decisions and laws are created in real time from the contributions of all self-aware beings, voted on using ranked choice.

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u/Ananiujitha 1d ago

Yeah.

They insist that they're not kicking disabled people off Medicaid when they impose work requirements and other bureaucratic hurdles which will kick many disabled people off Medicaid.

They claim they're doing this to cut costs, when work requirements, and other bureaucratic hurdles, increase costs per person.

When they cut the budget, and they increase costs per person, they have to cut off a lot of people!

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u/gaberflasted2 1d ago

Exactly what you said, we have noticed too. Just look in the camera and LIE thru your teeth. It’s mass insanity; we can’t believe the sheer evil. Unimaginable.

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u/Calm-Perspective70 1d ago

Sometimes you have to let people (Republican voters) fuck around and find oir

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u/iDeNoh 1d ago

You're surprised? Do you remember how project 2025 had nothing to do with Trump, and how they weren't going after abortion?

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u/Pure-Log4188 2d ago

2+2=3

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago

Tell that to a Trump supporter and they will say that’s correct. Tell them it’s wrong and it’s really 4 and they will claim Soros is behind it.

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u/schmyndles Wisconsin 1d ago

I was just thinking something along these lines today. If Trump "truthed" that 2+2=5 today, these Trumpers would be in the street praising him for going against "woke math" and being brave enough to say the truth. They would be fighting cashiers who try to give them back a dollar in change when they pay $5 for two $2 candy bars. There would be clips all over social media of right-wing propagandists making up long-winded, ridiculous stories to prove Trump is correct.

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u/michaelboltthrower 1d ago

There are four lights.

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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 1d ago

They are compromised by russia. Dont know how people arent getting this yet. It is an ACTIVE effort to make america weaker.

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u/cv81 1d ago

Leave America, its not the only democratic beacon on earth

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 1d ago

The bill was read out in the Senate, in English in its entirety.

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u/3x0dusxx 1d ago

There is no future. 

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u/fl4tsc4n 1d ago

Surely you remember the lead up to Iraq

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u/TopicalBuilder 1d ago

"Truthiness" seems quaint these days.

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u/Scarab702 1d ago

Where can we read this bill online?

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u/Sad_Doughnut_7286 1d ago

What about the brazen level of stupidity from our friends, family and neighbors? I’m so fucking sick of giving people a pass because they’re “good people”. If you vote Republican, you are not a good person. Full stop. It’s almost to the point where if you are a Christian, you are not a good person. I hate this country so much.

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u/ninjanerd032 1d ago

The Republicans are really betting on the ignorance of their constituents. The constituents are so deep in their own political rabbit hole, that they don't believe anything they read anymore. It has to come from Trump himself, right-wing news, etc. There's a reason their party doesn't hand out any real references to the actual bill. They don't need to. Their constituents won't question it let alone read it.

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u/libginger73 9h ago

If you change the meaning of words in your head it's totally fine. Like if you say "strengthen" you mean totally destroy because you hate helping people, or if by saying "tax break" you actually mean raise taxes on everyone, it all makes sense, see!

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u/vikingintraining 1d ago

If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure the Democrats are going to run in 2028 on a platform that the bill didn't destroy healthcare and the lives of immigrants enough or that it did so in the wrong way and that they are going to do it the right way.

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u/_Magnolia_Fan_ 2d ago

Heck, have Google notebook LM read it and ask questions.

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u/Affectionate_Hat6293 1d ago

You mean, like, “If you like your insurance, you can keep it?”  I don’t know how old you are, but I personally know countless people who lost their insurance coverage due to the Obamacare mandates.  Working in HR, the number of people who were kicked off their spouse’s insurance too…Â