Democrats need to put up billboards everywhere red and blue
MrBlueThePrinter on
they are learning to play fire with fire now. that is good news.
FifteenthPen on
To note: The Hatch Act only applies to federal employees, so what the state employees are doing is not a violation of it.
Bishopjones2112 on
The bold republican lies about everything need to end. The government needs to be held to account for the lies it’s telling everyone.
kyreyz24 on
How many votes to replace Johnson? Only 2 to put it to a vote.
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
Trump’s spitefulness and negligence was on full display when he needlessly halted funding for SNAP as a means of bullying the democratic party into surrendering their fight against unaffordable healthcare and Medicaid cuts.
Think about that for a moment. While this whole shutdown fight is centered around preserving healthcare for Americans by pushing back against GOP cuts to these programs, Trump and Republicans decided it would be in their best political interests to put food assistance on the chopping block as well…
That said, Republicans have the gall to claim that Democrats are “holding the country hostage” while they are abusing their trifecta of power to not only prolong a shutdown and lock in their cuts to healthcare and food assistance, but to also avoid a vote on releasing Epstein related materials. Mike Johnson has repeatedly used this shutdown as an excuse to delay or even kill their release.
For weeks leading up to the shutdown, Republicans were cancelling votes, refusing to negotiate or participate, forcing recesses, and not even showing up to votes on funding bills earlier in September.
Then at the last minute they tried to push a stopgap CR bill forward, pretending like this wasn’t part of a plan to control the narrative and blame Democrats for a shutdown that Republicans deliberately created the conditions for; a clearly disingenuous effort considering how GOP representatives were absent during key votes leading up to the shutdown.
When Democrats offered a CR bill counterproposal of their own that included healthcare protections, Republicans rejected it outright. And Mike Johnson had the audacity to recently say that Republicans care more about healthcare than Democrats.
The original CR measure failed because Trump and his GOP lackeys refused to negotiate on rolling back their massive cuts to healthcare for millions of Americans *citizens,* and all while dismissing the reality that healthcare costs for Americans will increase considerably if ACA subsidies are not extended.
It’s worth noting that Democrats could have made far more demands of Republicans when you consider the widespread ramifications of Trump’s other policies and his so-called “big beautiful bill,” but they chose to narrow their focus on healthcare; giving Republicans the opportunity to compromise on a single issue, which they’ve continuously refused to do in their obstinacy.
Then of course came all the hysteria and lies about Democrats wanting to give healthcare to “ill-gals.”
At the same time, Instead of cooperating with Democrats to help avert a shutdown, Trump told them to “go f-ck themselves” and chose to capitalize off of the shutdown by prohibiting funding for Democrat run areas, imposing mass layoffs, threatening to permanently disrupt government services and operations, restricting access to aid and benefits, and all while he’s stated himself that this government shutdown is advantageous for him, regardless of who it impacts.
And just like the CR counterproposal that Democrats tried to pass before the shutdown, Republicans have also stubbornly rejected a recent proposal to provide funding for SNAP.
Who’s “holding the country hostage” now?
Trump is hanging these things over the heads of Americans while he continues to taunt Democrats at the expense of the public.
Trump is showing the American people where his priorities lie, especially as he continues taking a wrecking ball to the White House so he can forge ahead with his invasive and ridiculously expensive vanity project while the government remains shut down.
As long as it doesn’t affect him personally or financially, he couldn’t care less, everything else is just collateral damage, and the GOP is faithfully following along.
Trump also insisted that a shutdown will benefit him politically, implying that he doesn’t give a damn about the harm his actions will inflict on Americans, their families and the federal workforce.
But apparently Dems are the villains in this scenario. Go figure…
This is “the democrat shutdown” according to Mike Johnson—who is obviously toeing the line for Trump to prevent the release of what is very likely information that could implicate him in Epstein’s heinous crimes.
Trump exploited the inevitability of a shutdown—without any regard for the consequences—to dominate the narrative and blame his political opponents for his own inaction, cruelty and his pettiness throughout this whole fiasco.
According to recent polls however, most Americans will hold him and the GOP responsible for this outcome.
The claim that Dems are to blame because they’re demanding that Republicans expand healthcare to “ill-gals” is an utter myth.
The Dem proposal includes nothing about giving healthcare to immigrants and merely asks that some healthcare cuts affecting *millions of American citizens* be rolled back, and that subsidies be extended so American healthcare costs don’t skyrocket.
Republicans have consolidated power throughout every branch of government. They are trying desperately to control the narrative and blame their political opponents; choosing to focus most of their energy on politicizing this outcome rather than resolving it.
Sadly, their voters have taken the bait…
Over and over again I hear, “Democrats want to spend your hard earned tax dollars on healthcare for undocumented immigrants.” This is right-wing propaganda that has been packaged in many different forms over the years.
There is nothing in the proposal about offering healthcare to immigrants. In fact, undocumented immigrants are barred from most federally funded healthcare programs.
What’s more, a lot of these immigrants pay taxes, and taxes that go towards funding for social programs. In other words, while immigrants help to pay for public benefits, they are also prohibited from receiving any coverage or aid of their own.
Democrats are not “shutting down the government because they want to give healthcare to ‘ill-gals!'” They have only asked Republicans to come to the table to help protect healthcare costs from surging and to rein in their massive cuts to Medicaid that they unanimously decided to deprive millions of Americans of under the guise of some bullshit, xenophobic narrative about immigrants stealing tax dollars. A tired narrative that they’ve relied on so often in the past.
stenmarkv on
“The Spirit of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America.”
nativerestorations1 on
I had reason to visit the HUD website today. I don’t know how much longer they will get away with it, or for how long they already have. But HUD isn’t pulling any punches with this announcement in bold white print on a very red background. Upfront it proclaims who the department blames:
“The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.“
I hate this headline because it implies that the two things are on the same level. What Trump is doing is unhinged. He is holding our healthcare hostage and blaming Dems for the shutdown when there is a legitimate reason on the Dems side for this shutdown. Meanwhile, Dems are reasonably saying that Trump is responsible for the Snap snafu, he literally is, there are emergency funds that can be used to keep it going and now he is saying states need to re-balance SNAP to fuck a lot of people off of it and hurt those who will be lucky enough to be left on SNAP.
Literally all of this is the Republicans’ and Trump’s fault. This headline comes off very “both sides”, whether intentional or not.
-ibgd on
Another article said that 1 in 8 Americans use SNAP. That’s wild!
Specialist-Event-633 on
Trump and his fellow fascists in the federal government violate it every day several times. We once had a government that it counted.
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Good. More of this, please…
Good for them!
Democrats need to put up billboards everywhere red and blue
they are learning to play fire with fire now. that is good news.
To note: The Hatch Act only applies to federal employees, so what the state employees are doing is not a violation of it.
The bold republican lies about everything need to end. The government needs to be held to account for the lies it’s telling everyone.
How many votes to replace Johnson? Only 2 to put it to a vote.
Trump’s spitefulness and negligence was on full display when he needlessly halted funding for SNAP as a means of bullying the democratic party into surrendering their fight against unaffordable healthcare and Medicaid cuts.
Think about that for a moment. While this whole shutdown fight is centered around preserving healthcare for Americans by pushing back against GOP cuts to these programs, Trump and Republicans decided it would be in their best political interests to put food assistance on the chopping block as well…
That said, Republicans have the gall to claim that Democrats are “holding the country hostage” while they are abusing their trifecta of power to not only prolong a shutdown and lock in their cuts to healthcare and food assistance, but to also avoid a vote on releasing Epstein related materials. Mike Johnson has repeatedly used this shutdown as an excuse to delay or even kill their release.
For weeks leading up to the shutdown, Republicans were cancelling votes, refusing to negotiate or participate, forcing recesses, and not even showing up to votes on funding bills earlier in September.
Then at the last minute they tried to push a stopgap CR bill forward, pretending like this wasn’t part of a plan to control the narrative and blame Democrats for a shutdown that Republicans deliberately created the conditions for; a clearly disingenuous effort considering how GOP representatives were absent during key votes leading up to the shutdown.
When Democrats offered a CR bill counterproposal of their own that included healthcare protections, Republicans rejected it outright. And Mike Johnson had the audacity to recently say that Republicans care more about healthcare than Democrats.
The original CR measure failed because Trump and his GOP lackeys refused to negotiate on rolling back their massive cuts to healthcare for millions of Americans *citizens,* and all while dismissing the reality that healthcare costs for Americans will increase considerably if ACA subsidies are not extended.
It’s worth noting that Democrats could have made far more demands of Republicans when you consider the widespread ramifications of Trump’s other policies and his so-called “big beautiful bill,” but they chose to narrow their focus on healthcare; giving Republicans the opportunity to compromise on a single issue, which they’ve continuously refused to do in their obstinacy.
Then of course came all the hysteria and lies about Democrats wanting to give healthcare to “ill-gals.”
At the same time, Instead of cooperating with Democrats to help avert a shutdown, Trump told them to “go f-ck themselves” and chose to capitalize off of the shutdown by prohibiting funding for Democrat run areas, imposing mass layoffs, threatening to permanently disrupt government services and operations, restricting access to aid and benefits, and all while he’s stated himself that this government shutdown is advantageous for him, regardless of who it impacts.
And just like the CR counterproposal that Democrats tried to pass before the shutdown, Republicans have also stubbornly rejected a recent proposal to provide funding for SNAP.
Who’s “holding the country hostage” now?
Trump is hanging these things over the heads of Americans while he continues to taunt Democrats at the expense of the public.
Trump is showing the American people where his priorities lie, especially as he continues taking a wrecking ball to the White House so he can forge ahead with his invasive and ridiculously expensive vanity project while the government remains shut down.
As long as it doesn’t affect him personally or financially, he couldn’t care less, everything else is just collateral damage, and the GOP is faithfully following along.
Trump also insisted that a shutdown will benefit him politically, implying that he doesn’t give a damn about the harm his actions will inflict on Americans, their families and the federal workforce.
But apparently Dems are the villains in this scenario. Go figure…
This is “the democrat shutdown” according to Mike Johnson—who is obviously toeing the line for Trump to prevent the release of what is very likely information that could implicate him in Epstein’s heinous crimes.
Trump exploited the inevitability of a shutdown—without any regard for the consequences—to dominate the narrative and blame his political opponents for his own inaction, cruelty and his pettiness throughout this whole fiasco.
According to recent polls however, most Americans will hold him and the GOP responsible for this outcome.
The claim that Dems are to blame because they’re demanding that Republicans expand healthcare to “ill-gals” is an utter myth.
The Dem proposal includes nothing about giving healthcare to immigrants and merely asks that some healthcare cuts affecting *millions of American citizens* be rolled back, and that subsidies be extended so American healthcare costs don’t skyrocket.
Republicans have consolidated power throughout every branch of government. They are trying desperately to control the narrative and blame their political opponents; choosing to focus most of their energy on politicizing this outcome rather than resolving it.
Sadly, their voters have taken the bait…
Over and over again I hear, “Democrats want to spend your hard earned tax dollars on healthcare for undocumented immigrants.” This is right-wing propaganda that has been packaged in many different forms over the years.
There is nothing in the proposal about offering healthcare to immigrants. In fact, undocumented immigrants are barred from most federally funded healthcare programs.
What’s more, a lot of these immigrants pay taxes, and taxes that go towards funding for social programs. In other words, while immigrants help to pay for public benefits, they are also prohibited from receiving any coverage or aid of their own.
Democrats are not “shutting down the government because they want to give healthcare to ‘ill-gals!'” They have only asked Republicans to come to the table to help protect healthcare costs from surging and to rein in their massive cuts to Medicaid that they unanimously decided to deprive millions of Americans of under the guise of some bullshit, xenophobic narrative about immigrants stealing tax dollars. A tired narrative that they’ve relied on so often in the past.
“The Spirit of Massachusetts is the Spirit of America.”
I had reason to visit the HUD website today. I don’t know how much longer they will get away with it, or for how long they already have. But HUD isn’t pulling any punches with this announcement in bold white print on a very red background. Upfront it proclaims who the department blames:
“The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.“
The Department Of Housing And Urban Development
http://www.hud.gov/
I hate this headline because it implies that the two things are on the same level. What Trump is doing is unhinged. He is holding our healthcare hostage and blaming Dems for the shutdown when there is a legitimate reason on the Dems side for this shutdown. Meanwhile, Dems are reasonably saying that Trump is responsible for the Snap snafu, he literally is, there are emergency funds that can be used to keep it going and now he is saying states need to re-balance SNAP to fuck a lot of people off of it and hurt those who will be lucky enough to be left on SNAP.
Literally all of this is the Republicans’ and Trump’s fault. This headline comes off very “both sides”, whether intentional or not.
Another article said that 1 in 8 Americans use SNAP. That’s wild!
Trump and his fellow fascists in the federal government violate it every day several times. We once had a government that it counted.