05/01/2023
WE SAY HECK NO!!
Just a reminder...
THIS is the Republican Party now. THIS is the GOP. For you older folks, this is NOT the GOP you grew up with. They're holding the budget hostage while they make insane demands.
Veterans healthcare, help with housing, and the general understaffed VA budget? Who cares. (✔)
No childcare for low-income families (✔), evict poor families from homes (✔), kick a million low-income mothers-to-be/pregnant folks/mother's with babies OFF of WIC (Women, Infants & Children Supplemental Nutrition Program) (✔), kick a million seniors off of Meals on Wheels (✔) ... you bet. Real "Party of Family Values", eh? Also, super helpful to the pregnant folks you're trying to force parenthood upon... super "pro-life". Way to go.
Want your kid to have a chance to get grant money instead of taking out more loans for a college education? We don't give a s**t. (✔)
Make it so there are LESS regulations on railways, since East Palestine went so well along with other recent derailments? We'll bitch about Biden's response to Ohio & then just loosen laws so we can make more money off of lobbyists. (✔)
Eliminate a bunch of funding for the FBI, border patrol agents, and police officers? You got it. (✔) The "Party of Law and Order"... right.
Roll back environmental protections? Of course; climate change isn't even real. (✔)
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The goal is clearly to hold up budget talks, to make Biden look bad... and to have it backfire (possibly?) because most folks on both sides of the isle aren't cool with at least half of this, I guarantee it. Basically, McCarthy is trying to make some point (that I've clearly missed) but he just looks like a massive as***le. The GOP just looks like they don't care at all about veterans, low income folks, babies, seniors, or most things their constituents probably wanted to elect them to do.
If you're over 50, you need to understand that this is NOT the same GOP you grew up with. Most GOP politicians are extremists who do NOT believe in small government (since they're up in every person's va**na, classroom, doctor's office, library, and certain people's identities). If it was the "Party of Freedom" as they claim, would trans folks be under attack by the entire GOP? Would they be banning & burning literature? Would they be making health decisions for you? I think you know the answer. But FREEDOM... so you can go and buy a gun & kill more children at their schools. Please, older Republicans... take a good, hard look at the elected people in your party. Consider what they have become. Do you still support this agenda of their's? I suggest looking at multiple sources for what the House of Representatives has been up to lately.