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FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

“It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

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“It Is Going to Kill People”: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

www.democracynow.org

FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago
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Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more. “We’re putting our bodies on the line [because] our bodies are on the line,” says Julie Farrar, an activist with ADAPT, which organized the protest. “It is blood on the hands of the GOP and the president and the administration, that they want this big, beautiful bill for billionaires that will kill poor people [and] disabled people.”
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  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    This is what the despicable Americans voted for: To hurt and kill the weak.

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      More specifically, to hurt and kill those they judge to be weak.

      • peregrin5@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Often it is themselves they are hurting because they are the weak and they don’t realize it.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemm.ee
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    More of those intentional consequences

  • 𝔊𝔬𝔬𝔟𝔶𝔐𝔠𝔐𝔬𝔬𝔟𝔶@lemm.ee
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    And?

    -The ruling class

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    One Big, Beautiful Bill is probably the dumbest name for a bill I’ve heard in a long time.

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    “Victims? Don’t be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.”

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    It is going to kill people

    Mostly in states that Trump won, ironically.

    1000009184

    https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-most-impacted-republicans-plan-medicaid-benefits-2069129

    Not to mention that even within that, it will tend to impact older voters, who use medical care at a greatly-disproportionate rate and also tend to vote Republican.

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