• Savaran@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I hate these headlines. “Remember when they said something that was obviously them lying, because that’s all they do? Well guess what!? We journalists fell for it but it turned out, it was a lie! Who could have known?”

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    26 days ago

    Trump and the GOP have long salivated over destroying Medicaid, it’s a benefit to a group that doesn’t give them money or power… Medicare has only been excluded from being targeted by being treasured by their core demographic.

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    26 days ago

    This first 90 days is gping to be the most epic malicipus compliance in history. They basically declared war on all the civil servants, so those very servants are just going to do exactly what is asked no matter how stupid.

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      It’s more that he got rid of anyone who previously told him no. Now they’re both surrounded by yes men (and Putin), and every idea they have is brilliant.

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    26 days ago

    Medicade exists so that poor people don’t start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one’s goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.

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      26 days ago

      Not if they don’t care and neither party offers a candidate willing to curtail corporate profits.

      I don’t see a neoliberal or a fascist doing that. If there is another election that isn’t an “election.”

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    26 days ago

    Wonder how many people that depend on Medicaid voted for diaper donvict just to “own the libs” and think he’d be harming “the right people”?

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      25 days ago

      They turned on their radios and they heard lies. They checked Facebook and saw lies. They watched TV and talking heads lied to them. They got lies flooding their mailbox. They got emails packed with lies, forwarded by an endless chain of nosey/clueless/terrified neighbors.

      At what point are they supposed to make sound and rational decisions? The information stream is overflowing with shit.

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    25 days ago

    Has someone yet created a site with the bullet points of project 2025 being checked off one by one to show their hypocrisy?

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      23 days ago

      Hey guys, so I did a thing…

      2025 reality check

      It’s by no means complete. I’d happily welcome anyone who has references to help me complete this page. I just found out the site I was using for his executive orders gets them after about 10 days, and the Whitehouse website has all the up to date one (almost 80 when I checked last night). I’ll try to parse through them and update the list as I have time.

      I hope to keep it up to date as much as I can, but their whole plan right now is to flood the area with nonstop shit so that we can’t really dial in on any one thing.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Dont interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

      Their mistake is going to impact the health of millions of people, even people that voted for the other guy. Possibly irreparably. We should all be interrupting that.

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        Even if we assume this sort of fucking around will cause them to find out, how can we risk the health of millions until that hapoens

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    25 days ago

    Afaik, Medicare and social security are exempt. But they still do need to provide an audit on the federal program

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      Due to the confusion around authorization of payments for benefits, Medicare and SS are already being fucked with at the billing/collections level.

      He hasn’t issued a full stop-payment on benefits, but the departments charged with pre-authorization are getting deliberately snarled to prevent new applications.