And that's without many Democrats going on TV to talk about how wrong it is. They could make those numbers worse for Trump if they wanted to.
And that's without many Democrats going on TV to talk about how wrong it is. They could make those numbers worse for Trump if they wanted to.
Please don't link to bad pieces. When you drive traffic to them, that rewards their fascist propaganda.
Please don't share links to bad articles. It just sends more traffic to them, thus rewarding them.
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
Credit to Hase, too - great body language after the missed kick, then out of the ring, he's getting ready for the dive without looking like he's getting ready for it.
Romney did more than anybody to legitimize Trump as a political player
Do you understand that Republicans cut funding, so somebody has to lose out?
You regret voting to maintain rural healthcare funding?
Did you vote for Harris in 2024?
Since you're not willing to address the topic at hand and just want to call me names - despite the fact that I voted for rural Healthcare spending to be maintained - I'm going to mute you. Have a good day.
Not correct. Everybody in red states will suffer no matter what. This is about red areas in blue states. And yes, if somebody is going to lose funding it should be the communities that voted for funding to be stripped. If you disagree, tell me who should get their funding cut instead?
Maybe you can answer this question instead of strawmanning and name-calling: How do you propose to make Republicans bear the responsibility for their actions?
Correct - Republicans are forcing the decision so it stands to reason that Republicans should bear the consequences
If you don't like that solution, what is the better option?
So how are you planning to claw back the funding that Republicans are blocking?
Whose death are you advocating for? Somebody has to lose the funding. That wasn't my choice, but it's the reality we're in now.
Obviously we have the money - it was going to rural areas before Republicans won the election and blocked it. Now that they blocked it, hard choices have to be made.
I agree!
Sure, but that doesn't mean you can solve an issue by changing the subject
I agree the campaign was bad. But I still voted for Harris because I wanted to preserve Healthcare funding.
How am i a sycophant?
This whole thread is about how we should allocate scarce Healthcare resources
That is a separate discussion. We're talking about how to allocate scarce Healthcare resources.
Agreed. Glad we can agree that those who chose not to vote for Harris failed to protect rural people's Healthcare.
Lol literally yep
So you regret voting to preserve Healthcare for millions of people
Who would you choose to suffer then? I swear if any of you were Sophie, both of her kids would be dead
You voted to strip millions of people of Healthcare and only accelerated the genocide.
The solution to our Healthcare crisis is mass murder?
We'd be better off if Harris won. That's why I voted for Harris.
Good!
I voted to keep their funding, though. What you say makes no sense.
Many non privileged people voted for Trump.
You voted for Harris? If so, good.
Yes, Republicans made evil choices and they're forcing blue states to make choices with no good option. But the choice still has to be made.
I voted for your Healthcare to remain. If there was a way to exempt Harris voters from the consequences of their neighbors' actions, I'd love it. He'll, I'd love to exempt everybody. But that's not possible.
You can't defund ICE right now. Right now, somebody has to lose the Healthcare funding. That's what happens when Republicans win.
Is supporting funding for Healthcare for rural areas morally superior to not supporting that funding?
You can contact state officials to express your preferences for how money is allocated
And you're not forced. But you chose not to vote for rural people to keep their Healthcare. That's the reality.
No, not next time. Right now. The funding cuts are the current reality.
The funding is gone, though. It's not a premise. It's reality.
You can contact your state officials.
Nobody will answer the question. Nobody will live in reality.
No, I voted for Harris hoping she'd win and maintain rural funding levels. Many here who say I want to kill rural people did not vote that way. They should have.
Would you have voted for Harris if you were able?
I'm glad you voted for Harris. Wise choice. But you realize that she lost, Republicans blocked the funding, and somebody is going to lose access to Healthcare as a result, right?
You can say you're not abandoning anybody, but the money is still gone. So who gets the funds that remain? That's a real choice that real people will have to make. Nobody responding to me is willing to recognize this basic reality.
Of course not. I voted that way. But Republicans won, and people will lose Healthcare. So who should it be?
Who should lose funding? Nobody in this thread will grapple with the real question. Funding is gone. Somebody will lose. Deal with reality.
So who do you think should lose funding?
Did you vote to maintain rural funding levels or not?
Wrong. States will try to fill in the funding gaps, but they won't be able to do so completely. Choices will have to be made. In blue states, we can influence those choices.
So who should lose Healthcare? Seniors who voted to keep it?
Who should lose funding, then? You realize the Republicans blocked the funding so something has to go, right?
I voted to maintain funding for rural Healthcare. Did you?
So who do you recommend we should cut off? It has to be somebody! The money is gone, thanks to Republicans getting more votes.
I voted to keep lifeboats for everybody. Did you?
Somebody is going to lose funding. Who do you think it should be?
I voted to punish nobody. Did you?
I voted to keep the hospital. Did you?
I voted to maintain rural funding levels. Not enough others did, so that money is gone. I'd prefer for everybody to have Healthcare, but that's not possible, thanks to Republicans winning the election. Somebody is going to lose out. It shouldn't be the people who voted to keep the funding.
Okay, after going back and forth on this for a while, you either completely misunderstand my views or you're willing to completely misrepresent them. I'm done.
Your version of Harris is far less rooted in reality than mine
So who should lose the funding that Republicans blocked?
You didn't share any data. Please do.
So you think Harris would have blocked the funding for rural areas that Biden signed into law?
No, I voted to keep funding for rural areas. I wish you had too.
Lol, you're the one who didn't vote for the people who enacted funding for rural areas, and that means I'm the one who wants rural people to die. I'm not accusing you of wanting rural people to die despite the fact that you didn't vote to maintain their funding.
I think everybody deserves Healthcare, including the treatments you described. Sadly, more people voted for Republicans, so some people will lose out. I wish it wasn't the case, and I voted against this possibility, but it's where we are.
I do. If people in rural areas learn that Democrats fund their hospitals and Republicans take it away, that will help. If people in urban areas see that they can vote for Democrats, but Democrats will turn their backs on them and protect others first, what lesson will they learn?
I'm not fine with it. I voted to keep the funding. But Democrats lost, so somebody is going to lose the funding. I don't like that; I just recognize that it's the reality of our present situation. Somebody is going to lose funding.
No, I like funding for rural areas
So who should lose out on the funding that Republicans are blocking?
If you have better data, please share. I mean, we agree that rural areas tend to vote more Republican than urban areas, right?
Do you agree that we're discussing federal funding for rural areas that Democrats enacted and that Republicans are blocking?
Weird that people who didn't vote to maintain funding for rural areas are saying that someone who did vote to maintain the funding wants rural people dead. Seems backwards!
Poll data isn't anecdotal
I'm glad you voted to preserve funding for rural areas, as I did. You can blame me for the lack of funding if that makes you feel better, but in reality, neither of us is at fault.
Can you tell me how it's flawed?
The party that approved funding for rural areas, funding that would be in no danger if they'd won. The Democratic Party.
The Democratic National Committee purged you from the NY State voter rolls? I voted to keep rural areas funded. I wish more people did as well.
So anecdotes
I didn't call you a fascist; I said that you, like Trump, say polls are fake if you don't like the data.
Would you agree that if Harris had won, this wouldn't be an issue?
I specified the exact way you sounded like Trump, and you did not say anything to contradict it.
Wrong. I voted for the party that approved funding for rural areas. I support it. But that party lost. So rural areas will lose funding despite my preferences.
Do you think your town is representative of all rural areas in the US? What is the data you are using to make that conclusion?
Democrats are providing the good example. I wish Republicans could see that, but they can't. Do you acknowledge that when Republicans block funding that Democrats approved, that means somebody will lose funding?
You sound like Trump. Polls that don't support your priors are fake news.
So rural areas are no more Republican than other areas? Do you have data to back this up?
Everyone deserves Healthcare. That's why I voted for the party that expands Healthcare coverage to defeat the party that wants to take it away. Unfortunately the "take it away" party won, so some people are going to lose Healthcare. Do you agree so far?
I posted poll data and that makes me bloodthirsty? Can you explain that?
Do you have data to back this up? Rural areas are generally more Republican than other areas, correct?
If you voted for Democrats, great. Most rural people didn't. If they had, their Healthcare funding wouldn't be threatened.
www.kff.org/health-infor...
"Rural residents are also more likely than their urban counterparts to say the false claim that “armed school police guards have been proven to prevent school shootings” (73% among rural adults v. 56% among urban residents) [is] definitely or probably true"
State money is limited. There is no way to help everybody. If the ship is sinking and the lifeboat only fits 10 people, then only 10 are going to make it. That sucks, but it's reality. To prevent this in the future, vote for the party that built the ship so the pro-iceberg party stays out of power.
I mean, they do. How do you think cop budgets got that way?
How do you get people who did the wrong thing to start doing the right thing if they never learn that the wrong thing led to bad consequences?