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U.S. Senate Republican leaders expressed confidence Tuesday they’ll be able to tamp down opposition to various elements of the party’s “big, beautiful bill” in time to approve the measure before the Fourth of July, though they acknowledged there’s considerable work left to do.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Thanks for warning us before you pull the trigger. I may not have voted for any of you fuckers, but I'll be damned if you didn't warn us about all the ways you were gonna ruin our lives before the morons around me voted for you.

I sure am glad Beto O'Rourke didn't win. Sure, I got plenty of access to firearms whether in my house or at the multiple gun stores down the street—and, sure, I've never considered owning an AR-15, but I don't wanna protect children as much as I want bat-shit crazy neighbor to have the freedom to own 3: two of which he welded together.

My freedom keeps my belly full and warms my bed at night.

Edit: I got angry and went on a loony tangent of a rant. Sorry.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

They will complain all day but will absolutely pass the bill on party line with cuts to medicaid and services their voters rely on.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago
[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

“GOP bootlickers remain unswayed by reality. Okay with nightmare to come.”

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

They won't be okay with it, it's just that it's not even almost a possibility that they caused it.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

At least there's a silver lining.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 hours ago

No.

I don't care, an increase in human suffering is not worthy of celebration.

And, way to play into their hands; the more people think like you, the more strongly the fascist fucks well believe that their tyranny is justified.

Eye for eye, until the whole world is blind? Sounds like a damn stupid plan to me...

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That it'll hurt rural hospitals...? Please tell me you mean something else about it, or that there's a joke I'm missing...

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Its not quite clear to me either. My guess is that the majority of rural populations vote GOP. So the ones that will face this particular impact are GOP voters. Again, this is just my assumption of what @Pistcow@lemm.ee was referring to. I'm not trying to strawman them.

Personally, I don't want anyone to lose healthcare, especially the poor rural folks, even if they are GOP voters.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

If they're just taking solace in it not hurting demographics that didn't vote for this I guess I can understand trying to find ways this isn't quite as awful.

But rural folks suffering is awful. I don't wanna root for suffering, or consider it a good thing.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Rural areas tend to vote republican.

So leopards eating faces and all that jazz.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

I’m reminded of all the rural voters in Texas that vehemently didn’t want “private school vouchers”… but voted Republican anyway.