Justification

Alt text: C’mon Dad don’t be so lazy. All you have to do is get out there and work 80 hours a month and you can have your healthcare back!

80 hours a month sounds great!
- Not for disabled people.

Played a game years ago with myself. If I saw a headline mentioning a new or proposed law, without political attribution, I would guess Democrat or Republican. The game consisted of asking myself a simple question:

Does this bill hurt people?

Didn't matter who, or even if I felt they deserved it. You can guess the results, and I wasn't wrong a single time.

Also attempting to privatize healthcare, because no one could possibly suffer from that.

They don’t care.
Project 2025 says the ideal US population number is around 100 million. That means we need to shed about 250 million people.
This is all according to plan.

Everything about human society is a construct built by humans. Humans can choose to re-make any aspect of society. There does not need to be poverty, or starvation, or homelessness, these are active choices

Dad needs to pull himself up by his bootstraps and stop expecting handouts from his health insurance. /s

One of my podcasts this week was wondering why the clown show admin was bothering to cut medicare. They cited estimates that this bill would increase the US debt by 7 trillion over the next whatever years (like 10 or 15, I forget the exact period), and the medicare/medicaid cuts would only save 1 trillion of that. So basically, why bother saving a fraction of the cost if it's gonna be a bananas increase anyway. You'd think the fragile orange wouldn't want anyone negatively reacting to his decisions, especially his cultist voters in poor red states.

because tying healthcare to people's work is the modern whip of slavery
they want to ensure you have no options left but to be a slave to the shitty conditions of whatever job they want you to do
- But that's already true without cutting those programs. They're already shitty stopgaps and we're still wage slaves.
To sell the narrative of cutting waste. The fact that people will be hurt by this doesn't factor into their consideration in the slightest and they need to stay on message.
- I don't think they need to cut those to lie about cutting waste. They can just say they found 9 gazillion dollars of fraud and this bill made everything better even if it changed nothing (except of course giving money to the rich). Why would they need to change anything to keep lying to people?

Seems like we're missing the face that it's stealing money that has been paid into it. Unless those lines on my pay stub are bullshit.

Also, forget all the times before that we did this and there was no job growth or increase of wages from it, this time it will be different!

They're not even trying to claim that angle this time. I occasionally peek in on Facebook to see what my hyper-MAGA family members are posting about, and the spin for this one is that all of the millions of people who will lose medical coverage are illegals. Only illegals will be affected, and so it's actually a good thing.
Not even kidding.
- These people are so fucking gross and selfish...

*For an amount of money which they would brag to their friends about wasting

258,000,000.

I'm sure people are going to get sick and tired of reading it, but that's what this all ends with.

Gramps, Take one for the Gipper!

And democrats did nothing to stop it

Every Democrat in the Senate voted against it.
- I’ll repeat, the democrats did nothing to stop it