On today's vote by the house to repeal the ACA:

[numb3r_5ev3n]

The folks who voted for Trump and the Republicans are going to get the illness, poverty, and eventual death from both that they voted for: which seems to be ok by them as long as a white man with a western sounding name is in office.

The W. Bush years should have taught them better - They got everything they wanted for eight years on a silver platter and it sucked, and they suffered. Republicans promise the moon, but all they ever deliver is misery, recession, and war. Nothing is ever going to "trickle down" to the likes of us. It didn't happen with Reagan, it didn't happen with Bush sr, or Bush Jr. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something different to happen this time.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not going to stop fighting for the people who are generally the targets of Republican bigotry. But the so-called “working class whites” (if you consider an income of $72,000 or more a year "working class") who voted Republican AGAIN after what happened 2000-2008 can fuck right off.

They WANTED this. when they whine and cry about losing healthcare and benefits, remember that they voted for this.

I was freaking out this morning. But you know what? I survived the last Republican Recession with no health plan. I will drink cheapass champagne, sit back, and watch them be the architects of their own destruction. When they all die off, I propose that those of us who are left go with Canadian or Scandinavian-style socialism.

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[numb3r_5ev3n]

Yeah, same here. It seems like we lost the possibility of that ever happening when another Republican was elected. I remember how things were before George W. Bush - i.e. the years when it was possible to live comfortably and pay all my bills - including rent, and car payments, and meds for an ongoing mental health issue - with a job that paid $10.50 an hour. Like coal jobs, it appears that is not ever coming back.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, W came into office when we were still children, so we've never really lived in a world where that was a thing. I kinda assumed it was just a strange myth, heh.

--Rogan

[numb3r_5ev3n]

It wasn't, and it is still within living memory of a lot of people. This is why I never bash Millenials - the Millennial generation has been so screwed, and it started happening before Gen X could really do anything because we were all just getting out of high school and college and settled when the bottom started to drop out. We watched it happen.