It seems that there are many voices rising up in response to the Graham/Cassidy atrocity that the U.S. Senate Repugs are trying to foist on us in one last effort to destroy the dreaded “Obamacare” once and for all (to resist, click here and here – more here and here).
Here’s what’s really going on here, people: the Repugs and their Koch/Club for Growth/Americans for Prosperity, etc. puppet masters want to destroy Medicaid by “block granting” it to the states. With that done, the strategy is for private insurers to gobble up the remaining subscribers (assuming they could pay the premiums, which they probably won’t be able to given that 32 million people are projected to lose insurance according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
And we should no longer be fooled, assuming we have all wised up by now; this latest horror from this bunch should prove that such a thing as a “moderate” Republican is as extinct as the brontosaurus (please prove me wrong, Sens. Collins, Murkowski and Capito – not holding my breath on “Regular Order” McCain either).
They are trying to kill us to make a profit, people. The stakes are literally life and death; I don’t know how else to lay this out (and Dem U.S. Senator Brian Schatz does so commendably here)…
We have 10 days to save millions of Americans from this cruel GOP repeal bill. Tell your senators to save health care now! (855) 999-1663 pic.twitter.com/T7Fv67l7r5
— MoveOn.org (@MoveOn) September 20, 2017
…and the U of P study cited by Farron Cousins here yields some truly depressing results about our civic ignorance as a country (not saying that people such as your humble narrator is smarter than a Trump voter, though at the risk of being snarky that may be true, and I’m definitely not trying to say I’m a better person since I don’t have the right to try and make a claim like that, nor does anyone else…I’m just agreeing with Cousins that, at some point, we need to learn how our government works and who the government REALLY IS, and that would be US! If we don’t, we’re bound to lose it all)…
…and yeah, I heard what Fran Leibowitz said on “Real Time” recently, and after that, I think she should just go away (I give Salman Rushdie a bit more credit) – hey Dems, Bernie had the momentum last year! If those supposed DNC geniuses had known what was going on, they could have tried to “out-Bernie Bernie” (assuming that could be done) and, as Kyle has said before, “go to the left”…but of course, HRC decided instead to have a party onstage with LeBron James while she was losing the state of Ohio (and yes, there are times when I get sick of the “Corporate Dem” caterwauling, but bashing Bernie feeds that narrative I’ll admit…incredibly NSFW; this is the angriest I’ve ever seen Kyle, and I think he definitely has a good reason for that – makes a whole bunch of good, sobering points)…
…and turning to the Gropenfuhrer, Chris Hayes reminds us that, of all of the inauguration $$ received, our ruling cabal of idiots and crooks committing high treason basically haven’t given a dime of it to charity as they said they would (big surprise, I know)…
…and hey, all you MAGA saps – Rachel Maddow tells us that all the money you forked over for merch is going right to Generalissimo Trump’s lawyers (“Lordy, there might be tapes” indeed)…
…and nothing against Peter Gabriel & co., but why do I have a feeling that this song is on the Big Orange Maniac's playlist?
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