Friday, May 30, 2025

GOP Justification for Medicaid Cuts: 'Well, we all are going to die'

Ohio Senator Joni Ernst gave a perfect demonstration of the real morals of republicans when voters confronted her about people being kicked off of Medicaid by provisions in the budget bill currently be considered by Congress. When audience members called the bill a "tax shelter" for the wealthy and stated that people will die because if, Ernst replied with "Well, we all are doing to die."

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 04:32 PM | 46 COMMENTS | permalink

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Joni Ernst is a Veteran. She knows 1 in 10 Veterans rely on Medicaid. And yet she sat at a town hall and defended cutting it. So what does that mean--that those Veterans don't deserve care? That it's fine if they die quietly? Because that's the message she sent.

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-- VoteVets (@votevets.org) May 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM

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sorry..typo. That should say "Well, we all are going to die."

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-30 01:09 PM

Expect to hear that quote from Ernst being played on loop by Democrats during the mid-terms next year. She perfectly summed up the values of the GOP.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-30 01:12 PM

Ohio - Iowa. What's the difference.

#3 | Posted by mattm at 2025-05-30 01:18 PM

"Well, we all are going to die."

#1 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

I have already heard that maga meme regurgitated here by a local DR maga maroon.

It was apparently acceptable to this maga maroon that George Floyd was murdered and his face ground into the pavement by a vengeful cop.

He was (probably) gonna die soon anyway.

Which I guess also justified sending the cop to prison. He was gonna end up there eventually anyway.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-30 01:18 PM

Ohio - Iowa. What's the difference.
#3 | Posted by mattm

I really butchered that post. Just giving Rcade some things to correct.

#5 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-30 01:22 PM

#2: youtu.be

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-30 01:27 PM

"Well, we all are going to die."

The GOP is a Death Cult.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 01:34 PM

US Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA): "God bless Israel as she rightly defends herself from Hamas's brutal attacks. Israel, the United States will always have your back."

Hey Senator Ernst! How about having the backs of your fellow Iowans, instead? What the hell does Hamas have to do with poor Iowans?

https://archive.reversecanarymission.org/206763e1-4c65-4bea-8e46-f3f8b6fabd7a

Sources: Link One Link Two

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-30 02:00 PM

GOP Justification For Medicaid Cuts: We're all gonna die

Well, with that attitude ...

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-30 03:11 PM

The Dems should play her response constantly, until the midterms.

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-05-30 04:47 PM

Why should Ohio Senator Joni Ernst care?

She gets the best socialist healthcare in the world.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-30 04:55 PM

The Dems should play her response constantly, until the midterms.

The Dems are gonna ---- this up.

Just like the $400 million Trump got from Qatar. The $300 million Trump got from China. Hegseth leaking intel. The illegal deportation of people to an El Salvadoran prison. DOGE stealing our private information. The illegal kidnapping and deportations of students protesting Israel. Noem not knowing what Habeas Corpus means. Donald Trump manipulating the stock market. "Vladimir Stop!"

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-30 05:08 PM

#12: i.dailymail.co.uk and biowrite.wordpress.com

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-30 05:18 PM

MAGA pols really don't care if you die provided that you vote for them first.

This monster is just imitating the chief monster, his Orange Holiness.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-05-30 05:27 PM

The "pro-life" party's new slogan: "Well, we all are going to die."

I found her "1.4 million" that are to be cut from Medicaid a curious reference. How does she know that and where are they? They aren't in Iowa, or any other state. Turns out I may have found them in California - 1.6 million without proper documentation are allowed to enroll in Medi-Cal.

So the United States Congressional House has targeted California, the world's 4th largest economy? Is that what's going on?

The proper way to do this isn't this assbackward approach of cutting funding first, but rather make sure only those that are eligible are enrolled. Then let the savings manifest.

#15 | Posted by YAV at 2025-05-30 06:05 PM

Yav:

That's amazing California is giving illegals Medical. That should not happen, period. They should be paying down their enormous debt and investing more in cleaning up SF. I was there recently, and oof, That cannot be the only city in California with those problems.

In Texas, we (by God) allow everyone who is a white male Christian: equality (with other white males), the right to be killed by handguns in fights and road rage and mass shootings, the right to a sub-par education, the right of the rich to sponge off taxpayer money to send their kids to private schools FAR away from those yucky black and brown kids, the right to engage in a contract with the state IF you swear fealty to Israel, and the right to show China who is boss(!) by denying professors and state contractors research in China, and their right not to indoctrinate your college students into radical ideas like "equity" and "inclusion." *spit* After all, they gotta learn sooner or later that Texas is about white males being dominant as Jesus himself said, amirite! And we don't let illegals do anything but cower in fear.

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-05-30 06:23 PM

The "pro-life" party's new slogan: "Well, we all are going to die." -- YAV

newsworthy

#17 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-05-30 06:29 PM

They should be told the same next time they go to a doctor dentist or pharmacist.

#19 | Posted by Tor at 2025-05-30 06:41 PM

If that doesn't qualify as "let them eat cake" answer, I don't know what does.

#20 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-05-31 07:09 AM

www.military.com

FTA - According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly one in 10 working-age veterans receive Medicaid, with 40% of them having Medicaid as their only health coverage.
www.nolo.com
Not all Veterans qualify for VA care.

#21 | Posted by mattm at 2025-05-31 09:12 AM

Why would vets need medicaid if they can get VA coverage?

#18 | POSTED BY CABRON_LOCO

Can they? Have you checked? Have you even bothered to try and find out?

Or do you just "believe" because some other maga moron said it?

"Ipse dixit" is not a valid research technique or justification for anything.

You really could and should find out the facts before you come here and make a fool of yourself. Again.

See post 21 if you have questions on how that might look.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-31 11:48 AM

" Why would vets need medicaid if they can get VA coverage?"

To get VA coverage, the vet formerly had to go to the VA facility. Congress opened it up so vets could go to their local hospital, versus ALWAYS having to travel and pay extra for lodging, eating out, etc.

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-05-31 11:57 AM

Turns out Sarah Palin was right about government "death panels". She just referred to the wrong party.

#24 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-31 04:26 PM

You first you 1939 Nazi looking ----.

Too bad the real Nazis would have you on a train by 1941 and you'd be long forgotten.

I can hear the cries now..."But I'm one of the good ones!"

No. There are no good Nazis.

Except dead ones.

#25 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-05-31 09:59 PM

@#18 ... Why would vets need medicaid if they can get VA coverage? ...

Cuts to the VA Will Leave Veterans Without the Benefits They Were Promised (May 23, 2025)
www.americanprogress.org

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 10:37 PM


@#24 ... Turns out Sarah Palin was right about government "death panels". She just referred to the wrong party. ...

Looks that way.

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 10:50 PM

... 'Well, we all are going to die' ...

Yeah, and, fwiw, I suspect Sen Ernst may eventually regret the saying of that statement.

Just a guess and an opinion at this point.

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 11:05 PM

A different approach ...

VA releases 2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (December 19, 2024)
news.va.gov

... Report shows a small increase in suicides, less of an upward trend than the year before.

Our top clinical priority is preventing Veteran suicide....

Among all U.S. adults in 2022, there were, on average, 131.2 suicides per day, with 17.6 Veteran suicides per day. ...




#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 11:09 PM

17.6 Veteran suicides per day.

Federal Cuts Jeopardize Veterans Counseling Program (April 3, 2025)
vineyardgazette.com

... As part of the Trump administration's cuts to federal programs, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently chose not to renew a contract with Martha's Vineyard Community Services for veterans counseling and services, potentially forcing dozens of Island veterans to travel off-Island for help with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other injuries. ...


#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 11:12 PM

Funny - I heard the justification is that able-bodied people should get a job. But, Democrats don't want to lead with that because it would actually be the truth and most people agree with it. So, Democrats are going to do the Democrat thing and lie about the bill.

#31 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-31 11:35 PM

@#31 ... Funny ...

Your current trolling alias should be more specific in its posts.

What, exactly, does it find to be funny?

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 11:41 PM

@#31 ...

Interesting tune that just popped up on a playlist here ...

August And The Spur Of The Moment Band - The I-95 ------- Song (1983)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Well I was driving down I-95 the other night
When somebody nearly cut me right off the road
I decided it wasn't going to do any good to get mad
So I wrote a song about him instead. It goes like this...

Were you bo-rn an -------, or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine, 'cause you're an ------- tonight

Yes you're an -------, and don't you try to blame it on me
You deserve all the credit, you're an ------- tonight

You were an ------- yesterday, you're an ------- tonight
And I've got a feeling, you'll be an ------- the rest of your life

And I was talking to your mother, just the other night
I told her I thought you were an -------, she said "yes, I think you're right"

And a-ll your friends are -------s, 'cause you've known them your whole life
And somebo-dy told me, you've got an ------- for a wife

Were you bo-rn an -------, or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine, 'cause you're an ------- tonight
...



Wow, they don't write songs like that any more.


#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-31 11:52 PM

Let's hope some die and soon.

#34 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-01 12:03 AM

#31

Squats the bent over ---- Jeff clone

---- off, COWARD

#35 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-01 12:04 AM

@#35 ... clone ...

Clone, or just a lame attempt at reincarnation?

I've not yet reached that decision.

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-01 12:22 AM

"Expect to hear that quote from being played on loop by Democrats during the mid-terms next year. She perfectly summed up the values of the GOP."

I certainly do hope so! Her comment was perfectly indicative of the unspoken plans that will directly effect every red state and generate the hatred for Republicans that they richly deserve. Tax cuts for the rich are now more important than the lives of the morons who vote Republican over and over. hIope Ernst's words become the insult to human life that teaches the morons that the GQP doesn't care if their children die! They only care when a 16 year old rape victim doesn't think she's ready to be a mother.

#37 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-01 06:31 AM

Joni Ernst's Sarcastic 'Apology' for Medicaid Cuts Response Sparks Fury
www.newsweek.com

After the tense exchange at the town event, Senator Ernst posted an apology on her Instagram account, which some said made matters "worse."

While seeming to be apologetic at the start the video, saying she wanted to "apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall," she then continued: "I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes we are all going to perish from this earth."

The sarcasm of her apology ramped up even higher as she added: "I'm really, really glad I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well."

In the background of the video, which has since widely circulated on X, she appears to be walking through a cemetery as what look like gravestones can be seen scattered behind her on the grass.

After she shared the video, the internet exploded with comments responding to the senator's statement.


The race to the bottom unleashed by Trump and his elevation of scum.

#38 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-01 06:52 AM

'The sarcasm of her apology ramped up even higher as she added: "I'm really, really glad I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well." '

This woman has the arrogance of royalty. Does she expect actually to be in another competitive election or is she smug in the knowledge that the fix is in?

#39 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-01 09:56 AM

#38 - Thanks, Doc. What an ass. And she's walking through a cemetery as she 'apologizes."

This is MAGA.
This is the GOP.
There is no bottom.

#40 | Posted by YAV at 2025-06-01 10:22 AM

Cheap.TV. Thrills.

All Surface,no Substance.

Wasn't She the "Hog Castrator" candidate when first elected?

Iowa seems satisfied with their Jr. Senator.

She's representing the Correct Interests.

#41 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-06-01 10:54 AM

"Iowa seems satisfied with their Jr. Senator."

Sure, til Grandma loses her Medicaid or until unemployed and pregnant sister Sue loses hers or another family member wirh a child with a serious illness loses their coverage and some assh**e repeats Ernst's quote to that child's Mom, in which case it would be justifiable homicide, IMHO, if she blew him away!

#42 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-01 01:41 PM

Perhaps Donner can look into this, Did George Floyd die on Medicaid?

#43 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-01 01:52 PM

BlueWaffles seems obsessed with George Floyd.

Yet, he can't seem to understand how being choked could kill a man.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-01 01:55 PM

Did George Floyd die on Medicaid?

#43 | Posted by Bluewaffles

I think he died on the pavement.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-01 03:21 PM

When even Josh Hawley is telling you this is wrong and immoral, it should really make you stop and think.

#46 | Posted by bluefacetwp at 2025-06-01 04:14 PM

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