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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good that they were slammed. That really needed to happen. I’m sure they’re shamed as a result and will immediately change their ways.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

It could be a memorial.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

We will only get one of each.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Why aren't we rioting again?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Because you’re lazy and I’m depressed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days 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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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

Fuck this timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (3 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.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Never been more ashamed of my country in my life honestly

[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There’s always tomorrow’s atrocity.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I’ll laugh at every dying MAGAt.

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