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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Congressional Republicans in both chambers passed a resolution to cut at least $880 billion from the budget through 2034. Because Medicaid accounts for approximately 93% of non-Medicare funding, the program is expected to absorb the overwhelming share of these reductions. The cuts to Medicaid would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year. With the GOP, the greedy American oligarchs below are aiding and abetting in what Friedrich Engels called "social murder."

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Trump/MAGA figures on dead innocents as the cost of doing business; or satisfying Trump's ego.

If you think this is bad, wait until Trump's war.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-24 08:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump's insanity, his obvious megalomania, will ensure a war. More than one.

He doesn't see American citizens as being human beings. Hell, he doesn't even believe in the concept of "American citizen".

How bad can it get? No one with any genuine interest in history has to ask that question.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-24 08:40 AM | Reply

#1: Good Morning Zed: Concur, these cuts will be terrible for poor Americans. Elect a sociopath to be President, expect sociopathic behavior. But the Trumpf junta already started the war by bombing the starving (Shia) Houthis on behalf of war criminal Bibi Netanyahu and murderous (Sunni) Muhammad Bin Salman. Basically only the press from the Middle East is reporting about the US military atrocities that have cost the American taxpayer one billion dollars with little to nothing accomplished except Murder-Death-Kill. Link: www.tehrantimes.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-24 08:41 AM | Reply

#3 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

Yes, you are right of course. Trump wages war on the Houthis.

But I know that he has set his ambitions much higher.

Trump can't feel important unless he makes people bleed. His financial sociopathy only spells metaphorical blood. He's thirsty for the real thing.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-24 09:42 AM | Reply

#4: Agree, Trumpf delights in causing other people's miseries: Megalomaniacal schadenfreude.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-24 10:16 AM | Reply

The Shock and Awe phase is just about over.

Now we enter the slog phase . Where we slowly slog thru these issues in the courts while the People take to the streets.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-24 01:58 PM | Reply

It's nice to follow a conversation here without all the idiot mouthbreathers chiming a bunch of BS nonsense in.

#7 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-04-24 02:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Killing poor people so rich people can be richer.

How masculine.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-24 02:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I think it's going to be much higher. Most rural hospitals are heavily reliant on Medicaid funds, the same is true of nursing homes. These rural heathcare deserts will be exacerbated by the MAGAt party killing their own constituents because gawd forbid they don't deliver billionairs their tax cuts. Next up, the David Caradine version of Death Race, where the hospitals and nursing homes wheeled their patients into the street to be run down by the racers. MAGAts are pure scum.

#9 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-04-24 11:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The majority of Americans want national healthcare. Republicans are gutting Medicare.

Best of luck America. Future generations are going to feel the impact of this shortsightedness.

Fingers crossed for the slim chance democrats get their shht together and save this nation.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-24 11:17 PM | Reply

Republicans were happy to die from COVID and they'll be happy to die from this.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-24 11:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is there a line republicans won't cross in their fealty to Trump?

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-24 11:19 PM | Reply

The cuts to Medicaid ... could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year.

Pay no attention to the Republican Party signing the death certificates for 15,400-34,200 people.

It's minorities who are the problems.

Republicans are fkkking morons.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 12:35 AM | Reply

#9: Terrific, the casualty count from the budget cuts will be higher. I don't watch TV, but I read that MSNBC presenter Lawrence O'Donnell asked of the oligarchs: "What did we do to deserve this?" [sic].

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 08:03 AM | Reply

Trump said in an interview with Elon Musk that he wouldn't touch Medicaid. Hours later he endorsed a GOP plan that could slash the program. (February 2025)
www.yahoo.com

... During an interview alongside his senior advisor Elon Musk, Trump said he would not touch Medicaid. He has pledged not to cut Social Security or Medicare ...

"Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched," Trump told the Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that aired on Tuesday night. ...

"Last night, the president said, 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, the VA," Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin told reporters at the Capitol. "By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution, which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid." ...



#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 12:28 PM | Reply

#15: How do we know when Trumpf is lying? When his lips are moving.

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 12:35 PM | Reply

"...this morning, (Trump) endorsed the House budget resolution, which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

The official HoR line is "We're not going to cut Medicaid...

And then they leave out the salient part:

...We're going to demand SOMEONE WITH A DIFFERENT NAME cuts it."

And all to borrow A NEW $5 TRILLION, OF WHICH ~$3 TRILLION WILL GO TO THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST 1/10th of 1%.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-25 12:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#17: The difference between the wealthiest and poorest American will far eclipse the difference between the poorest peasant and Louis XVI in pre-revolutionary France or the poorest serf and Czar Nicholas II in pre-revolutionary Russia. Poverty and inadequate medical care kills. And yet people post stories on Drudge Retort about the NFL draft or watch Bill Maher, Joe Rogaine etc etc: i0.wp.com

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 12:54 PM | Reply

I have been thinking this for awhile but more so lately that Dotard seems more and more divorced from the day to day operation of the WH. He does his trained seal stuff in front of the cameras but often seems surprised by the EO he is about to sign or completely oblivious to major news stories central to his administration, such as the four soldiers who died in training in Lithuania. I believe he is nothing more than a quickly deteriorating figurehead and Pee Wee German Miller is the power behind the throne. It's why all of a sudden the place is leaking like a paper condom about power spats, we're hearing about shouting matches between Elong and Bissent and Navarro. Combover Quisling appears more and more detached, medicated, tired, suffering from dementia. There's a great photo of him dead asleep during one of his NKoria style cabinet meetings with his fat maw wide open. I wonder if he was snoring. Reminds me of the Nazi Germany episode from Star Trek TOS "Paterns of Force."

#19 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-04-25 06:37 PM | Reply

#19: youtu.be

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 06:42 PM | Reply

#20 One of my favorite episodes. I was about 10 years old when I saw it the first time. It encouraged a long fascination with WW2 history and to be a History minor in college. One of the worst days in my life was the day our professor in The History of Nazi Germany course opened by saying he would play video for the next hour, and we were welcome to leave when we felt we had seen enough. He then ran the videos taken by the Allies when they liberated the death camps. No narration or music, just the raw videos. I stayed the full hour with tears rolling down my face wondering how humans could do that to each other. Now I realize we are in that same place, only this time the out group is not Jews but Latinos.

I saw a DHS briefing paper on TdA, the Venezuelan gang that is supposedly invading the US. There is no specific gang tattoo, instead DHS is claiming that tattoos of trains or clocks or clowns are gang tattoos. They supposedly also like to wear Chicago Bulls and Jordan gear. Literally tens of millions of people wear that stuff. JFC, they are sending people to a concentration camp torture prison in El Salvador based on a guess as to who is a gang member...brown skin, tattoo, Bulls hat, must be a ---------er. For years local police have tried to make inroads into immigrant communities by building trust. Now that our ranks in LE are getting browner, I see a real opportunity, except DHS is screwing that up. By causing fear and distrust in the Latino community ICE and DHS are hurting their efforts, because nobody will come forward to report suspicious activity to the police.

#21 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-04-26 07:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

There is no specific gang tattoo, instead DHS is claiming that tattoos of trains or clocks or clowns are gang tattoos. They supposedly also like to wear Chicago Bulls and Jordan gear. Literally tens of millions of people wear that stuff. JFC, they are sending people to a concentration camp torture prison in El Salvador based on a guess as to who is a gang member...brown skin, tattoo, Bulls hat, must be a ---------er.

^
Immigration pigs were green-lighted to make those judgment calls, by the Supreme Court, thanks to the War on Drugs.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-26 12:33 PM | Reply

That translates into at minimum one Mangioni per state.

When that sense of invulnerability explodes in their face it will be nobodies fault./s

#23 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-04-26 01:00 PM | Reply

wait until Trump's war.

#1 | Posted by Zed

It's coming. His cuts of things like USAID are causing destabilization all over the world.

#24 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-26 04:37 PM | Reply

There is no specific gang tattoo
#22

-there are many specific gang tattoos.
don't get caught with one unless you're a member.

#25 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-26 04:52 PM | Reply

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