• Optional@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Adding to the self-harm, Vance indicated that the Trump health-care plan would allow insurers to resume denying coverage for preexisting conditions. Trump himself proclaimed that he would address high food prices by barring food imports—a policy guaranteed to raise costs instead. All but two Senate Republicans got baited into voting yesterday against a law to protect in vitro fertilization from state-level abortion restrictions. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House seem to be stumbling toward forcing a government shutdown because Trump vetoed their own plan to fund government operations through the November election. That’s all just in a single week.

    Cripes. Remember when that was every fuckin’ week? FFS how are these cultists so goddamned stupid? Massive propaganda and cult brainwashing would seem to only go so far.

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      4 hours ago

      They WANT a shutdown, because then they can scream about how BIDEN ALLOWED THE GOVERNMENT TO SHUT DOWN!!! The mistake of many people lies in assuming that the GOP, and Trump’s campaign in particular, hinges on or really cares about truth.

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        15 hours ago

        No, they have many other plans, mostly to try to create legal arguments at the last minute for why the election should happen but was illegitimate.

        Basically 2020 on steroids because they have the money for lawyers already.

        But also, there’s hope this is trumps last hurrah, and after this the party will magically go back to only caring about tax cuts and gun rights, like this was all a bad dream.

        I think you massively underestimate how hard paleoconservatives are trying to delusionally rationalize their way out of this so they can both get the votes of the racist, violent dixiecrats, while always pretending they aren’t actually a part of the party.

        They just want to get back to that again.

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      15 hours ago

      Because boomers are on Medicare, and they believe in their principles that socialized medicine via the government is absolute evil!!!