Originally published at: Dems Sound The Alarm On GOP Talk Of Cuts To Federal Safety Net Programs
Democrats on Capitol Hill are strongly condemning Republicans’ reported interest in making cuts to federal safety net programs in the next Congress, especially ones that low-income families are most reliant on. “It would be devastating to all the people who rely on these programs — many of them are Trump voters,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)…
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"So I think we have to be smart about how we do it.”
–MTG
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Good. Try to get out in front of them for a change. Start giving “details” based on Republican statements – the more outrageous and scarier, the better. Stop letting the Clown-in-Chief To-Be drive his clown car.
Win the news cycles! Take the weekend with this proposed assault on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. etc.!
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I’d say. Let the American public harvest what they sowed with their apathy and foolishness.
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None of it will make the news sources that have been bought up by evangelical media companies nationwide.
The places the GOP has been failing for generations have been weaponized because their failure made the media cheap to buy up in places that haven’t turned a dime since The Grapes of Wrath.
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Exactly! Dems need to STFU, vote no, and let the stupid Repub voters learn the lessons of unintended consequences. It’s a simple strategy. Why is this so difficult for Dem politicians to grasp? But, nooooooooo. Dems need to show how smart we are and explain why they are wrong so they can figure out ways to avoid hurting their own peeps while screwing Blue state voters (anyone remember who got screwed by the cap on the SALT deduction?). God, we Dems are our own worst enemies.
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“Dems Sound The Alarm On GOP Talk Of Cuts To Federal Safety Net Programs.”
Sadly, the majority of Americans seem to be ignoring Dem alarm bells lately.
They’d rather binge surf the 'net while the house burns down.
Too bad the rest of us – trapped inside with them and weak from smoke inhalation – can’t rouse them enough to give a damn and help with the bucket brigade.
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One day the guys with the guns will get it. Then the balance will recover.
Large parts of the country are under media monopolies. It’s why they think a rapist is a good Christian, why a bankrupt is a business genius, and why a fat man in a bad suit who never had a real job is a strongman.
The churches of the Confederacy are at the base of this effort. It’s their churches that took over radio, which meant a core base of the poor who hear only bad news and who to blame. Their efforts have only bloomed since, with Sinclair Media owning all the media in core markets.
This has been a multi-decade effort by the rich to curtail the efforts of the Left they defunded when they sold off public utilities and banked it while breaking the back of the unions.
We’re in a pre-Great Depression model: Only the rich are represented.
And those people are dumber than shit.
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I fully expect the incoming Secretary of the new, improved Dept. of Agriculture to argue that SNAP benefits must be eliminated because the money is desperately needed to bail-out farmers crippled by new, improved tariffs.
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Speaking of unintended consequences please explain how your simple strategy is not collective punishment for the bad actions of a small subset of people.
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If the damn IRS would ever enforce the ban on non-profits preaching political propaganda, and make them start paying taxes, it would be a good start in shutting this down. That and tax the multibillionaire bastards like they Should be taxed.
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You are right. Without Dems. explaining how Repub voters will be hurt everyone will be impacted, both Red and Blue state voters. If Dems keep explaining that Repub voters will be hurt, they will revise their plans to disproportionally impact Blue state voters as they did with the SALT reductions. It would be the smart thing to do but they might not go that way if Dems don’t keep harping on the impact of their plans on their own Repub voters. As I said, Dems need to STFU, just vote no, and keep telling voters only the Repubs voted to screw them. It should not be hard to do.
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Dems should have either AOC, Bernie or Warren with them at all times right now because otherwise they’re just going to mess it up. The goalpost is going to be moved to “how much should they cut” within a month.
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The IRS is another government institution the evangelicals took over. The military was next.
Balls to all of them.
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And Possum Holler will whine and blame Biden for cutting their benefits and everybody but the millionaires will suffer. FAFO
I took my SS 2 years early this Feb. as I turned 65, just in case this happened, hopefully getting grandfathered in. Took a $300/month hit, but with that 2 years of $$$ up front, it will take 14 years before I start losing money. Plus they pull the Medicare $ right out of it so one less bill to deal with.
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Republicans do believe in safety nets — for crypto investors like Musk. They are proposing a “Strategic Crypto Reserve” which will support Bitcoin investors by having the US buy up billions of dollars worth of crypto. What an investment: it combines volatility with illiquidity. Trump’s oligarchs will cash out and taxpayers will hold the bag.
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All the MAGATs on Social Security and Medicare are going to be surprised when their benefits are cut. They will blame Democrats.
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Right! In all the talk about tariffs leading up to the election, almost nobody mentioned the billions in welfare payments for farmers paid by us taxpayers the first time.
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This Crypto/Bitcoin stuff has sounded like a huge scam since the day I heard of it. Won’t go near it.
Nobody likes to admit they’ve been conned. I was conned back in the early 80’s and learned a valuable lesson for a few hundred bucks.
“There’s a sucker born every minute” How true 
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Or that those bailed out soybean farmers may well face losing the Chinese market (mostly to Brazil) again. Moreover, the Chinese importers have shown they can turn on a dime – just like they did last time.
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