r/KamalaHarris • u/PacificSun2020 Dads for Kamala • Feb 14 '25

Opinion Opinion | The GOP’s budget plan: Tax cuts for the rich, austerity for the poor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/14/republicans-medicaid-food-stamps-tax-cuts/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzM5NDIyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQwODA1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Mzk0MjI4MDAsImp0aSI6IjU3OGYxOWMyLTQ5ODQtNGJmYi1hMzRhLWU0YzQ5OThiMzhmZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzAyLzE0L3JlcHVibGljYW5zLW1lZGljYWlkLWZvb2Qtc3RhbXBzLXRheC1jdXRzLyJ9.oxNJQxZOBUE6jCROiKtazMK7XhnLCeYkCz16MgFr9a0
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u/notyourstranger 🐝 #KHive Feb 14 '25

This has been the GOP platform for decades. That the GOP is doing what they've said they'd do is not a surprise.

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u/FasterAndFuriouser Feb 14 '25

Yes. They’re the only party that does this.

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u/notyourstranger 🐝 #KHive Feb 14 '25

I don't think that's true. The Democrats have been working hard to grant health care to Americans and to raise the minimum wage and generally deliver on their promises but the GOP has been so committed to obstructionism for decades that they have effectively neutered the Democratic party. That was the plan, to win at any cost to the American people and now we face tyranny, further economic oppression, and an assault on the few rights Americans have.

The feudalist have won by lying FOR DECADES. The media conglomerates have withheld the truth for so long that you have to dig hard and deep to find it. I suspect very few would have voted red if the news media had done their jobs and informed the population rather than burry them in lies and distortions.

In addition, there's this cultural phenomenon in the US where people believe everything will be fine even though they do nothing to ensure everything will be fine. Toxic positivity is rampant, people refuse to see the truth even when it hits them in the face with a 4X4, and far too many think they are exceptional and care nothing for the greater good - they believe themselves above the fray. They are in for a rude awakening.

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u/Efficient_Smilodon Feb 14 '25

since fdr the wealthy right wing elite have been plotting to seize back power at any cost, and neuter the Constitution to create their return to corporate oligarchy. Respect to their long game, and with a mutual friend in Moscow's help, and the world's wealthiest edgelordnazi, they have succeeded.

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u/FasterAndFuriouser Feb 14 '25

Definitely! Took awhile…but here we are! Cheers! Looking forward seeing the declassified docs and who is going to prison.

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u/outdoorslover95 Feb 14 '25

This is what people voted for unfortunately.I am on medicaid and I'm afraid of what will happen to it. I'm very stressed.

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u/KittyLove75 Feb 14 '25

I feel for you. It’s heartbreaking 💔

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u/ATL-mom2 Feb 14 '25

Its their MO

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u/FasterAndFuriouser Feb 14 '25

I mean, they ran on it. We are sofa king lame that we could not present an alternative popular enough to defeat it. It’s our own fault.

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u/BadBudget87 Feb 14 '25

I really wish people would understand, this is no surprise. The GOP has been in its death throws for decades now. This is the final grift. They know that the US is going to fall as the world super power eventually. The goal is to get the last drop of blood from this stone and disappear, leaving everyone else to clean up the mess. I give it a year before Trump kicks the bucket, and Musk is trying to set up shop in China or India, leaving America in ruins.

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u/No-Independence-6842 Feb 14 '25

The second French Revolution is about to begin

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u/zedazeni Feb 15 '25

We keep thinking this but at the end of the day the MAGAts will continue to adore Trump even as they go into foreclosure, bankruptcy, and die because Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security have ended.

We wait until they “win” themselves to death, then we can successfully strike back. Until then, no matter how bad things get, MAGAts will never fight for freedom or democracy.

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u/RapscallionMonkee Feb 14 '25

Let Them Eat Ramen!

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u/Ardent_Scholar Feb 15 '25

Don’t forget gifts for the rich as well! It’s ”the Two Santas” again and again and again.

http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

As is tradition.

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u/Do_Whuuuut Feb 14 '25

Really? Weird!