NC is experiencing a political earthquake as the R speaker of the state Senate went down in flames and multiple politicians who stood behind Trump's immigration policies (including 4 Dems who voted with them) went down too, often by massive margins. Five Republican incumbents were also swept from the State Legislature.

Voters are tired of Trump and MAGA crap despite what BOZO claims.

I'll stay in wait-and-see mode. I don't think we should count on primary results to foretell actual midterm results.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft

The ramifications of Trump's domestic actions are beginning to ripple across rural America.

Not only do 20,000,000 fewer people have Medicaid, but their abilities to transport and treat residents with medical emergencies are diminishing rapidly.

Rural fire departments are only reimbursed by Medicaid for actual trips to the hospital, and at rates far under what it costs them to maintain the EMS service. Many of the Medicaid reimbursements won't happen now for patients who lost their Medicaid. Public funding isn't keeping pace. At all.

This means that what's beginning to happen is when an EMS truck is dispatched to an accident, there's no one to transport someone who's having/had a heart attack. And now they're often having to transport patients an hour away because their rural hospital was forced to close because of the Trump/MAGA-GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" that slashed Medicaid funding.

That's just one example of rural America FEELING the effects of Trump's actions. Now, the same folks, who have to travel further distances to reach A B or C are going to be paying a lot more at the pump. And at stores. As shipping and delivery costs rise, so so do prices at the store. This on top of price increases due to Trump's tariffs. Just for starters ...