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Lulu's avatar

Are we great yet?

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Marnie's avatar

I ask that question every single day… what a horror show!!

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Adrian Olson's avatar

I guess we're great at saying "screw you" to Americans that are less fortunate or in need of basic health care that isn't even free...

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Melani's avatar

Oh sure. Great self-centered, egotistical mean people WTH zero compassion. Fully criminal and unacceptable! Backwards- what 100 years??? Will someone WAKE UP???

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Rosemary's avatar

Not even close 😡😡😡

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The Panic Room's avatar

“We’re” didn’t include us. Just him and his billionaire friends.

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Tara Batin's avatar

I keep wondering this too and then Trump just placed tariffs on Hollywood????? He wants to me Hollywood great again!

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Rosemary's avatar

This is how Trump’s mind works! He watches a movie and gets the idea of how he can destroy that industry 😡😡👺👺😈

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Rosemary's avatar

Or I should say, how he can CONTROL it😡😡

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Melani's avatar

What???! ! Hollywood people are. Some of the most generous in our nation!! Most are always helping thousands of others! What has The EMPIRE ever contributed to humanity??! Or to decency!??

Not on damn thing I can honestly think of.

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Terry's avatar

That isn't the question I ask my husband every morning. Obit? Sadly he shakes his head. Darn it. There's 24 hrs in each and every day, and there's always tomorrow. I'll keep hoping and praying.

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Nancy Magalhaes's avatar

This administration really hates everyone except millionaires/billionaires.

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Judy's avatar

And I am neither. Not even close.

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Lisa Griggs's avatar

Not just that nursing homes and hospitals will close all over the country.

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John A's avatar

Mostly hospitals will be forced to close in rural areas. People will die when no close option exists for emergency care.

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Tamela Freeman's avatar

I truly believe this is the goal. They want to rid this country of the people they consider to be a "drain". Where better to start than with the people who depend on Medicaid to survive? It's a disgrace.

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Jeana Nestor's avatar

It's a sad day already when you're stock piling your prescription medications by filling them immediately and missing a day or two a week to add to that pile, just preparing myself for the shortages (which i have seen already) amd astronomical prices... guess I should thank my son for his Trump vote

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Patrick Tobler's avatar

Killing off the elderly is a bad tactic when they vote so heavily for Republicans...

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Lisa Griggs's avatar

Even larger cities will loose hospitals. Their operating budget is Medicare and Medicaid. I’m software engineer now in hospitals but I did billing for a lot of years.

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Adam Stoler's avatar

you get what you vote for

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Chris's avatar

Right! But damn people from all sides need to start standing up to this crap... it's really getting out of hand.

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Pope Snarky Goodfella OTUC's avatar

Hail Eris!

Some of them thought they were "protest voting," but that has never been a thing.

Snarky

It can't rain all the time

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Adam Stoler's avatar

and our parents and grandparents will be put on the street

great optics for a performative bunch of know nothings

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Karen  Leigh's avatar

So people who depend on lifesaving healthcare could die just so the ultra wealthy can get tax breaks. Make this make sense.

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Rosemary's avatar

Yep that’s the plan😡😡👺

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susann Basta's avatar

They want us gone. It's no longer a mystery.

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Adam Stoler's avatar

who will be left to screw?

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Kala Jurik's avatar

You know what America needs? Funding for these programs. You know what America doesn’t need? I stupid military/birthday parade that will cost thousands if not millions of dollars 🙄

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susann Basta's avatar

A hotel room will cost a thousand a night. Parade ; 10 million.

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ladtodt's avatar

It's projected to cost at 45 million dollars. The fireworks and festival on the mall will add to the total. He tried to do this his first term, and got shot down. "the Pentagon said it could cost $92 million and concerns were raised that tanks and other heavy military vehicles would damage the city's streets"

Source: From Yahoo News ..AFP

US to stage military parade on June 14, TRUMP'S BIRTHDAY.

W.G. DUNLOP

Fri, May 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM EDT3 min read

The estimated cost of Trump's military parade could be as high as $45 million, with individual Army units bearing the expenses, which may impact their training funds.

NBC News

Yahoo

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ladtodt's avatar

$45 million could feed a lot of hungry people. Billionaires don't care

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Chris's avatar

I hope people don't show up or hope they peacefully protest the damn thing.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Absolutely 👍🤬

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Tracy Giddings's avatar

Poor Red states will suffer the most from this.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I’m a blue dot in a red state!!! My son is on Medicaid 🤬 I just feel sick 🤢

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A Tariff is A Tax on Consumers's avatar

I'm in a red state with a parent who is on ACA. I'm sure this won't blue pill them but if it happens, I'm gonna have to bite my tongue not to say FAFO.

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Rosemary's avatar

They deserve it 😡

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Juno's avatar

Can they just keep their grubby little hooves off of peoples’ healthcare?!

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nudles591's avatar

I'm one affected. I hope it doesn't go through.

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Cryptide's avatar

me too

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Martha Strother's avatar

They don’t care who dies as long as the billionaires get their $4.5 trillion tax cuts and rebates. Americans will bleed for the filthy rich. SMH

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Seed Beads (she/they)'s avatar

no peace for anyone who supports cutting anyone’s healthcare.

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Sal Teodoro's avatar

Those motherfuckers better go and pray with their imaginary God because I curse every single one of those assholes and their families. Old people are going to get thrown in the streets from nursing homes and millions of children will lose healthcare. Karma is a fickle bitch.

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ladtodt's avatar

Absolutely! And countless people with disabilities and are UNABLE to work

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The Radical Left's avatar

And they will say that many people can work who can’t. These people will struggle to understand how to navigate the system to apply for disability and there will be nobody at these offices to help them if they figure it out anyway.

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Sal Teodoro's avatar

Don’t forget Veterans benefits which I forgot to mention.

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MARGIE's avatar

I just keep wondering, when is Karma going to finally pay a visit?

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Sal Teodoro's avatar

I wish it would strike these a**holes asap. This is just despicable.

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Jill Berquist's avatar

You are doing an amazing job, Aaron. Keep pacing yourself - marathon not a sprint! Congrats on your first keynote!!!

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JNelliE's avatar

This really is one of the best examples of how the Republican Party has fallen so far from any semblance of the Reagan era.

They are anything but fiscally conservative They are fiscally liberal. Tax cuts have never ever decreased the deficit. Ever!

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

I’m sorry but I am going to be a little bit rude here, but ronnie raygun’s “ trickle down economics “ is part of the reason every Republican administration tanks the economy. His economic policies were a smokescreen for attacking labor and unions, denying workers a living wage, and generally setting the stage for decades of suppressing American workers while increasing the wealth gap by “tax cuts “ for the wealthy. So no, Ronnie can rot wherever he is now.

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Tammy Clark's avatar

Ronnie's motto...MAKE AMERICA GREAT!

Trump's motto...MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Two peas in a corrupt pod.

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Tonia Kate's avatar

Don’t apologize for stating the ABSOLUTE FACTS!!!

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Liz's avatar

I'm SO tired of them screwing over the poor, elderly, and disabled, and it is barely 5 months in. And so many people who are going to get screwed over are still supporting this administration. I hope they wake up soon. This is absolutely horrifying!! :(

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Black Raven's avatar

All to give that money 💰 🤑 to the ultra rich billionaire oligarchs. See how that works? They put them in office bribe them with money and they get tax cuts ✂️ that you and I, the average folks. Will never see. This country is fucked, two ways. The ignorant bigots, racists that wanted to "own the libs." And are now owning themselves... and those that stayed home. When are people going to learn that the republicans for almost 50 years now. DO NOT care for you? Never have and never will. They have self-interest. That being putting dark money from the billionaires into their pockets. Therefore they stop working for you. The constituents. So many laws need to be tossed and new ones should be written so that this shitshow never happens again. But at this point. It seems to be too late. It's quite pathetic.

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Rosemary's avatar

There are laws! They were just ignored 😡😡

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Black Raven's avatar

Yes. They've been thumbing their fascist noses at the court orders. We're definitely in a constitutional crisis. I wonder how the corrupt justices Roberts feels ever since he gave the putrid tangerine mussolini full immunity. 😤

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Danita Hamilton's avatar

But they are willing to spend all that money at our expense for that piece of shit demented old orangutan birthday.

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