Passed by 3, 217-214. We are so fucked… I hate to think what this will do to my kids.
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All our kids are fucked. They’ve been sold out so rich assholes can get even richer. The GOP have made their allegiance known, and almost all of them sided with evil.
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You know, that seems like a good measure of how bad things are. The struggle doesn’t actually end…but at a certain point it stops being about even saving our children and starts being about a better world for grandchildren. 
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I will not be directly impacted by this (i hope) but seeing the final vote i still felt a sickening lurch in the pit of my stomach thinking what it’s going to do to millions of people. I’m so sorry these ghouls are shredding your democracy.
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I will not be directly affected, as I am an old straight cis white dude with a pretty good income and money in the bank. But my patients are largely immigrants, over 60% Medicaid, many with mental health concerns, and all needing vaccines. I am looking around at my colleagues and thinking that this will seriously affect some retirement planning for a good number of us. And I know no one who makes enough money to actually benefit from this shitshow. I am gonna spend the 4th in my garden and my woodshop, with living things and making beautiful things. Lord knows, this mess will still be here next week when I come back…
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I don’t think people understand the true reality of this bill. It’s not just about the bits and pieces - while recognizing the individuals and communities who will be directly crushed by this - the whole of this bill will crash the US economy and probably take the global economy with it.
You simply can’t kick tens of millions of people off healthcare (then tens of millions more when the Medicare cuts from smacking into the debt ceiling kick in), tens of millions off of food stamps, and increase costs for the working class to give tax breaks to billionaires without crumbling the entire foundation of a society.
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That line about how $150B budget for ICE means “ICE is now the third-largest military in the world” sounded like hyperbole, so I looked it up.
Holy shit.
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