I’m a Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.
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I voted to keep your kid on Medicaid. Did you?
That's a slogan right there. That's amazing.
I mean clearly your vote says otherwise.
She loves her conservative identity more than her son.
True of 99% of conservatives.
"if the government wasn't taking my money, I'd be able to pay for things". <- The main argument by Republicans. It neglects the fact that's the government (run by the people) has the power to negotiate and require cheaper services than any one individual could. Yes you have to pay taxes but it goes towards creating cheaper and better services.
It breaks my probably autistic brain that my hyper intelligent history buff uncle could swallow the MAGA pill and sing praise to Russia on his fucking deathbed.
People, myself included, dont understand that the ruse is identity, not intellect, not blood, not anything.
Identity is a weird thing and I don't think we know as much about it as political advertisers do or something. It breaks my brain.
dude. I had a similar issue with a close friend of mine.
how can someone, that is a student of history, not see the obviously dictatorial things that are happening?! It was because he would be siding with Democrats...and that is somehow worse than losing a friend of 13+ years.
broken my fucking heart. still does. have not talked with him in what seems like forever but it's been less than a year.
Can we make a smart historian MAGA pilled Scantron for these wannabe intellects?
You mean Americans? The other side isn't much better, although they think they... Just like the other other side. You are all in trenches lobbing grenades at each other thinking you are right.
It's kind of entertaining if it wasn't so sad.
Literally my parents.
Ok, but... That's not really what happened, though. Project 2025 awareness was very high and people knew it was bad. And the messaging about it was both widespread and non-jargony. Nothing about this required any hunting or deciphering of any kind. Medicaid was obviously on the chopping block. They told us so.
This is the kind of person to vote for outlawing abortions beginning at conception while bringing their daughter to Europe to get the very same procedure done during a ski vacation, all while never realizing their own hypocrisy.
I think coining the phrase "Welfare Queen", refusing to expand Medicaid under Biden at zero cost to the state, criminalizing homelessness, and willingness to sacrifice Grandma and Grandpa on the altar of capitalism were sufficient tip offs.
OR look at the track record of Republicans for the past 50 fucking years.
WTF makes a person look at anything that's been done by Republicans in the last 50 years and go : "Ah yes that's made my life better....."
Must be difficult for your son to have such a dickhead as a mother. You voted to fuck over immigrants, to fuck over black people, to fuck over trans people, and now, you're surprised they also want to fuck over the one minority you care about...
I'm sorry, were you too busy being excited hearing about the deportations and the "two gender" bullshit to hear the part that actually affected your own selfish interests? Wanted to fuck over everyone else but those you care about and now you're big sad and feeling betrayed?
Aww, my poor, poor conservative learning the same god damn lesson every time you get what you think you want but never learning from it, must be hard for you, now you're gonna have to deal with the misery you wished upon everyone but you...
I hope your son gets the help he is OWED, but you're the one that treated it as a privilege to take away. He got what you wanted. It wasn't a fucking asterisk at the end of the contract written in 2pt, it was written in giant fucking neons.
Your son deserves all the help he can get, dignity is owed to everyone. Let's start with a better mother.
It's worse than that, I'm afraid. The author of the article is a woman. So not only does she not care enough about her son to vote against the party who wants to kill him... she doesn't care enough about her gender to vote against the party that wants to strip them of their rights.
White women in particular are Trumps biggest supporter
https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/
Well, second biggest, anyway. White men have them beat, with 59% of them voting Trump in 2024.
Oh, fuck it's a woman, I'm sorry, my misandry (/misogyny) got the best of me I guess. Not proud of that. :|
I guess that's what I get for reacting to the headline without reading the fucking article, don't I? Trying to be better at that. I just reacted quickly because like, at this point, I've read so many of these.
I don't even know if I can bear to read another one of these people just getting exactly what they voted for and being shocked by it. It's infuriating when I know that it fucked the lives of so many people who tried to warn them, but they didn't listen.
Typical conservative. I have all the sympathy in the world for David. None for the author.
The only moral Medicaid is my family's Medicaid?
Well I'm sure she's more along the lines of the only moral Medicaid is her White Medicaid.
What does she mean unlikely supporter? She supports the cuts? Or she supports Medicare? It doesn’t really look like an unlikely supporter when your child literally depends on it now is it?
She means she's an unlikely supporter of medicaid. Unlikely, because she's a fucking asshole who votes for the party that demonizes people who need medicaid. What she doesn't realize is that she is made from the same mold that all Republicans are: they're against anything that could help people unless they personally could benefit from it.
I think most are against the programs while simultaneously benefiting significantly from them.
Conservatives or people?
I don't use Medicaid but I'm fucking livid it's dying, and I feel the same for all services I don't use.
That and all social services. I am childless and have voted for every initiative in my area to improve schools. Not because im a saint but because guess what. I don't want to live in an area full of the uneducated. Much like I don't want to live around a bunch of untreated sick people or homeless folks. Im very bigoted like that.
True. It's only when they lose access to the program because they voted for the party that said: "I'm going to kill that program" that they go out and write pleading articles like this bullshit saying: "Wait, no - but good people like ME benefit from it! You can't kill this program!"
Sorry can't do it, billionaires need more money and we need to blow up more brown people on the other side of the world.
I feel bad for your son, but you did this to him.
Some of her other writing in the wsj are disgusting. She is anti-abortion. She is a real "conservative christian" so I'm pretty sure she is 100% on board with everything else Trump does. https://www.rachelrothaldhizer.com/
She is having/had another child already. Wouldn't be surprised if she was part of the quiverful movement.
I'm actually starting to wonder if this is just bait. She is close to the worst person to make this claim.
Don't worry, at no point did she say she is going to change her thinking.
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True enough, i leavey "fucks to give" for the people trying to make a better world and getting shat on, not the ones tring to make a worse world, getting what they want and then getting shat on.
I would actually like to hear more stories about the poor child's suffering.
PLEASE be NICE and COMPASSIONATE you STupId DumB AmerICa HATinG LIbtaRds! I voted to hurt OTHER People NOT my Disabled Son!
I think you meant "brown"
Oh, I think they paint their hatred with a very wide brush
So he is living in hell which they shall stretch out for a 10 to 20 year sentence so they can by their reckoning being tortured by their imaginary friend so long as they torture him but if they didn't need a million dollars plus to pay for this exercise in sadism they wouldn't spare 20k for a plain old poor person to have a normal full life.
I don't think he is living in hell. If he is not in pain (a nothing suggests he is) then he isn't aware of anything. He just eats and sleeps.
He can't see or hear properly. Is confused deformed.
This doesn't sound particularly comfortable.
He will NEVER get better. Never see properly. Never hear properly. Never be anything but angry and confused and shitting on himself. Imagine being at end stage alzheimers for 20 years.
People can be blind and deaf from birth and still live fulfilling lives. They need more support, for sure, and not getting that support can be devastating. But I think if you give a disabled person a choice between adequate help or euthanasia, most would pick help.
Warner Herzog made a really interesting documentary about deaf-blind people back in the '70s, called Land of Silence and Darkness. Some of it is heartbreaking, for sure, but most of it is pretty uplifting.
That's a bit of a misdirection there. No one was saying being deaf and blind is not possible to lead a fulfilling life.
They were saying in this particular case, being deaf and blind in conjunction to a lot of other very serious shit means they will never lead a fulfilling life. They are developmentally equivalent to a 10 month old baby at the age of 4. Who knows how much more development he will see, or if he will ever be able to walk.
It's not just hearing and seeing.
Deaf blind deformed and mentally 10 months old 4 years in. If they live to 20 while being mentally 10 months old would that be a life?
I am glad that conservatives are suffering for their choices. I am just sad that the suffering is not limited to conservatives.
It is funny to watch people who voted for him get what they deserve, but it also sucks because we all have to be onboard for the eventual car cash.
But she voted against it anyway. Crocodile tears, sympathies to her son, but she got what she asked for.
This is the insane stupidity the entire world has warned against, warning not to vote Republican.
Here we have a saying. "Dummere end politiet tillader" More stupid than allowed by the police. ( It doesn't roll well in English )
Meaning they will not recognize their own stupidity until they feel the consequences of it, and even then they might not. So their own stupidity is causing them unnecessary harm.
It's absolutely insane how many in USA suffer from this level of stupidity.
The headline might as well read: I'm an idiot, why would putting a plastic bag over my head be dangerous?
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I'm a conservative. I support fascism except in the narrow ways it harms people I care about.
Get fucked Rachel. I hope you feel every possible pain that you voted for.
I would say nytimes has as much dignity as a circus clown but it's not even funny so what's the point
Are we great again yet ?
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I’ve not read the article, but this isn’t a case of someone getting what they voted for. This is directly affecting their kid, who likely didnt vote for this.
Dumbass choices have consequences.
The kids face is the one being eaten. The kid didn’t vote for this. Hell, the kid barely knows what’s going on around them.
Its almost like the parent chose to do this to their own kid, for whatever reason, though.
The son is a worthwhile sacrifice to own the libs. I give zero fucks about his health.
I care about his health and it's heartbreaking that he doesn't have a choice or know how much his mom is a sociopathic piece of shit.
Oh no. Anyways, anyone got any big plans for the weekend?
Oh no how unfortunate.
Natural selection lady.
Notice they only give a fuck when it affects one of their own?
Vote democrat then. They're a bunch of conservatives anyway, so there should be no problem for someone like this.
Guess she will have to get another job like the rest of us—or, maybe put the kid to work.
No fucking sympathy. I hope David is fine. I hope the parents develop ulcers from stress and lose their fucking hair. I hope they lose everything. DUMB FUCKING CUNTS!!! - edit I changed my mind on David because this scene popped in my head.
https://youtu.be/UOMZ-Buj2n0
That's rough... so are you bringing devilled eggs to the wake?
We got a live one boys
Suppose dad died. Does kid get his social security?