“It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
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This is what the despicable Americans voted for: To hurt and kill the weak.
More specifically, to hurt and kill those they judge to be weak.
Often it is themselves they are hurting because they are the weak and they don't realize it.
More of those intentional consequences
And?
-The ruling class
One Big, Beautiful Bill is probably the dumbest name for a bill I've heard in a long time.
“Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.”
Mostly in states that Trump won, ironically.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-most-impacted-republicans-plan-medicaid-benefits-2069129
Not to mention that even within that, it will tend to impact older voters, who use medical care at a greatly-disproportionate rate and also tend to vote Republican.