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bucolic_frolic

(43,619 posts)
2. To the GOP, people are raw materials in their engines of capitalism
Mon May 15, 2023, 11:03 AM
May 2023

No longer working? Fully depreciated? Next!

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
4. Absolutely - "Republicans Want People to Die" - any needing help are in the way.
Mon May 15, 2023, 11:16 AM
May 2023

They are an ugly party and worse all the time.

roamer65

(36,749 posts)
5. That's why they are Social Darwinists.
Mon May 15, 2023, 11:16 AM
May 2023

To them, “lower classes” are supposed to work, work, work then die ASAP.

Alan Grayson was right.

usonian

(10,080 posts)
6. It's all part of ☀️HIS☀️ great plan.
Mon May 15, 2023, 11:32 AM
May 2023

No, not that one.
This one.


How does a third-rate power defeat the United States?
FROM WITHIN

Response to Otto_Harper (Original post)

Demobrat

(9,085 posts)
9. If it happens while Joe is President they will blame Joe.
Mon May 15, 2023, 12:46 PM
May 2023

Trump will say Biden did it and they will believe him.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
8. Everyone wants the sick, disabled, and elderly to die now.
Mon May 15, 2023, 12:02 PM
May 2023

It's a terrible and scary world to live in and I don't see much hope for the future. Even my former like minded friends don't care about the lives of high risk people.

LaMouffette

(2,044 posts)
11. This is a symbolic rite performed to appease their god: Big Pharma.
Mon May 15, 2023, 12:53 PM
May 2023

The House Repubes know that their bill has no chance of being passed in the Senate. And they are betting that Repube voters will never hear of this bill that would hurt so many of them, since they only watch FoxNews.

eggplant

(3,925 posts)
12. This is an old tweet.
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:11 PM
May 2023

And the only news stories about it were from last year when it was shot down.

Do you have any information that says the Rs introduced legislation recently?

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,939 posts)
14. I don't think they actively want people to die
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:24 PM
May 2023

so much as they simply don't understand that so much of what they want to do -- like repeal that insulin cap -- will result in deaths.

Demobrat

(9,085 posts)
19. They couldn't care less if people live or die
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:45 PM
May 2023

as long as the drug companies get all their money in their final years.

Demobrat

(9,085 posts)
18. Cut off social security payments, raise the costs of insulin,
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:43 PM
May 2023

and keep hammering home that it’s all due to Biden. Sounds like a plan to me.

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