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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

This isn’t governance. It’s a fetish dungeon of cruelty where every GOP senator cosplays as a fiscal dom while working families get waterboarded with austerity.

The bill isn't just mean-spirited. It's a theological insult. If Christ overturned tables, these folks would have handed him a 1099 and slashed his Medicaid.

And let’s be real. If the Senate offered a blowjob tax credit, half the closeted GOP would finally vote for relief, as long as it came with a non-disclosure agreement and a MAGA hat.

Hope is not a sucker’s game. But watching them turn it into one makes you want to throw a sandal at the Capitol dome.

Blessed be the broke, the betrayed, and the ones still giving a damn.

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Geraldine Hartman's avatar

Did they even do anything to remove the anti-transgender provisions that were added in the 11th hour? You knew about that right? Has passed by the house already, they are completely removing any gender affirming care for recipients of Medicaid and ACA plans. Not just mental health support regarding that, but prescriptions and surgeries for gender affirming care. I was livid and then immediately entered a panic state when I read that in the final bill that was passed at about 2:00 in the morning several weeks ago.

What am I supposed to do? Do I need to start making plans to flee the country? There are 937 anti-transgender pieces of legislation across the nation just this year, and that is up from 910 at the point that the budget passed the house. I genuinely feel like my existence is being erased, that I am being made into a second class citizen in this country, or more accurately that I don't exist at all according to definition. This isn't okay, I'm not okay.

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