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Welp, we're fucked. Thanks for the memories, America, even though they weren't so great.
God dammit, these fucking traitors.
These people can go fuck themselves. They havent worked for the people in decades (if they ever did). They're about to fuck around and find out.
They ususally have enough money and influence to skip the find out part, but they do fuck around a lot.
That’s why Donald loves the poorly uneducated.
We are so very fucked. Prepare to live in Ayn Rand paradise, every man for himself and kill the other guy to stay alive.
That Running Man movie is going to be a documentary.
How comes he had full control over government and still barely scrambles to get enough votes to push his authoritarian bills?
A lot of the GOP probably think that they are good people who are using Trump as a necessary evil. Every time they do Trump's bidding after initially resisting, they think, "Okay, just a little bit more evil, it's all for the greater good."
I just struggle with how you can vote down things like Medicare/Medicare (or free meals for kids, etc) and think you're a good person. Especially because they cut all of that for tax breaks and higher government spending, so it's not even a deficit issue.
The GOP just like the Democrats aren't a monolith. The Dems may be more fractured, but there's still 2-3 major groups in the Republican party and not all are 100% behind Trump.
Competing interests. It's not about support it's about what do they get in return for their support and most of them the most important thing is promises for their next reelection. Then mony.
We're majorly fucked.
If its going back to the house, can they stop it?
The house can stop it, but that seems unlikely. It had a better chance of block in Senate.
Although if the house edits it the senate would have to vote for it again.
Ironically some of the house hardliners may kick the bill back because the senate changed some of the things the Trump wanted
They can but they won't.
It's going to be close, they barely passed it the first time. The speaker really didn't want the senate to make changes and they did. It passed the senate in a tie, so the house really can't change anything, which could be a problem for marginal supporters and hardliners.