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"And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?" AOC added

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a "conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the" bill only to walk out with "signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill."

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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 105 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Never been more ashamed of my country in my life honestly

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 76 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There’s always tomorrow’s atrocity.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 53 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is the most ashamed of my country I have been, so far.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Not looking forward to finding out why I’ll be even more ashamed next week.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Making ICE the 3rd largest paramilitary force in the world, after China (better funded than the entire Russian army) means your future will be filled with constant nightmares.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] ReallyAngryNerd@europe.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately shame isn't going to make anything better. Your politicians 'slamming' the other side isn't going to change anything either. Those opposing the fascist cult need to organize and have a plan, or it's only going to get worse. I realise however this is easier said than done.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Democrats should give everyone killed by this bill a public face:

Tom Smith, 45, died because Republicans withheld his medication.

Anne Miller, 78, starved because Republicans struck her food stamps.

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 21 points 2 weeks ago

It could be a memorial.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol... Chuck Schumer actually celebrated getting the bills name changed procedurally as Trump toured the first concentration camp

Democrats should have a non-stop parade of victims telling their story already. Instead, they're making speeches to empty rooms on cspan

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because Democrats are Republican Lite. Don't vote dem, vote progressive. Fuck every single Democrat till they hurt.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We need like 75 AOC’s and a whole army of Luigi’s.

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 weeks ago

We will only get one of each.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn't recommend putting yourself through it, but if you watch Johnson's speech, every Republican looks positively giddy about killing grandma. CSPAN did us dirty by not zooming out to show their faces as they rubber stamp the American Nazi Enabling and killing the poor act that rendered their jobs useless.

There is hemming and hawing to the public, but make no mistakes, they're proud of themselves and think nothing bad will happen to them. So far they're right.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I’ll laugh at every dying MAGAt.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Turns out that like so many other things, all of the noise about "replacement theory" was just conservative projection. They claimed that there was some sort of determined effort to eliminate whites because they were right in the middle of a determined effort to eliminate non-whites (and non-cis, non-het, non-christian, etc.) and as they do, they assumed/pretended that everyone else is as evil as they are.

This is the way it's going to work, by design:

  1. Companies will not only avoid DEI hires, but will avoid hiring minorities broadly, for fear that they'll be accused of following DEI policies and punished by the Trump regime. So minorities are going to end up even more discriminated against.
  2. Without sufficient Medicaid funding, employer health insurance will be the only way that most in the US will be able to get healthcare.
  3. Denied employment and denied Medicaid, people - and disproportionately minorities - will die.

No wonder the Republicans are giddy.

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As much as I agree with your analysis, living in a rural town in a red state, it's mostly poor, white people here. It's a healthcare desert now. They will die just as fast as minorities in urban areas.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh absolutely. Minorities will disproportionately suffer and die, but nothing close to exclusively.

More broadly, disadvantaged people will suffer and die. Minorities are already overrepresented among the disadvantaged and under the overtly bigoted policies of the Trump regime, they will be even more overrepresented, but that's just something of a bonus to the would-br oligarchs. They're excited at the prospect of culling poor people, pretty much regardless of the details.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My experience is that a lot of rural people are in healthcare.

May they have the day they voted for when they face losing employment and the few remaining rural providers.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don’t forget women. DEI bans unintentionally will force them back into the kitchen.

Fuck this timeline.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

unintentionally

Yeah, no. It's definitely intentional.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is the party that is rubbing one out over denying women the right to vote.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Unintentionally?

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Why aren't we rioting again?

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 20 points 2 weeks ago

Because you’re lazy and I’m depressed.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Just forget it. Us Americans are too comfortable/scared/tired to do jack shit. We should've been out striking and rioting like the French day after day when ICE first started to make their move. At this point we pretty much deserve what's coming to us because of the election results and us not objecting loud enough.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 18 points 2 weeks ago

Comfort has nothing to do with it. If you don't show up at your work, you don't have income anymore. There's no fallbacks by design. They keep you in line by forcing you to work. And they made sure the cost of living was high enough that most people have to work a 2nd job, so protests can't even be held after work hours.

You've been set up for this after decades of preparing.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you know I'm not? One man riots aren't very impactful.

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I could help. We could have a two man riot.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Whelp there goes my health insurance. Guess I'll just die!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I'm not shocked or anything, but there's a very nonzero chance that I'll be vomiting blood on the floor of my kitchen in the coming years until I exsanguinate.

At least I won't be a drain on the taxpayers anymore. Thanks, abstainers, for saving a poor wretch like me the immense burden of continuing life.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago

I'm just saying, Luigi got screwed out of health care too.

[–] KroninJ@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Our state reps response to losing healthcare was "we're all going to die someday" with a fucking smirk.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That was them telling you straight up you should kill them.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They branded it as christian because that is exactly what it is. Christianity is historically the group of people who rape, pillage and enslave humanity. It's about power, cruelty and forcing their sick religion on us. They are not victims, they are the victimizers. They do not care for & feed the poor, like "jesus" did, they let humanity die, like in noah's flood, that their "god" created. Evil!

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Votinft to starve babies"? I don't think there's anything that can make a Republican more erect than that.

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[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I can't get over the way that they cheered for that filibuster as if it accomplished anything

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

its a show biz

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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