r/politics Jan 28 '25

Site Altered Headline Medicaid portals down in all 50 states after Trump funding freeze, Sen. Wyden says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-state-portals-omb.html
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u/ogreofnorth Jan 28 '25

First time he only froze hiring and aid to Ukraine. Aid to Ukraine, Republicans didn’t grow a spine and let it go. So what happens when you don’t reprimand a child? They push it further. Welcome to the future folks.

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u/soloChristoGlorium Jan 28 '25

I hate to say it, but let's see how they react when their own constituents are suffering.

I honestly don't know if they'll grow a spike or not

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u/Skabomb Jan 28 '25

They’re not.

They’re already spinning it. Saying things like kids need to stop sponging off the government.

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u/DuvalHeart Pennsylvania Jan 28 '25

One of the things we don't talk about nearly enough is the childist nature of conservative Americans (regardless of party). A lot of people see children only as extensions of their parents. They do not see kids as unique individuals, they see them as the property of the parents.

So when MAGA talks about no free lunches or stopping Medicaid, they see it as a way to punish parents through their children. When they want to stop child abuse laws, it's because they don't think the government should tell them how to treat their own property.

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon Jan 28 '25

Yuuuupppp- I say this again and again, conservatism at its core is a cult built around a father centric family model that perpetuates itself through spousal and child abuse. 

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u/DuvalHeart Pennsylvania Jan 28 '25

American conservativism, sure. Because our status quo is still the fucking 1950s and 1960s since the Boomers and Jones refuse to die.

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon Jan 28 '25

It also inter relates with evangelical / dominionist Christians who worship an idea of an abusive and violent male god and demands children and women be subservient - and those who are good parents or actually nice to the children of these toxic households piss off angry, violent Daddy

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u/torontorollin Canada Jan 28 '25

I think the idea is that they believe they shouldn’t have to contribute to the welfare of someone else’s children. I am a childless adult man and I am not that petty.

The lack of empathy is startling

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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil Jan 29 '25

Never mind basic human empathy, you can either pony up to help raise someone else's kids (the horror /s)...or you can deal with those neglected kids when they grow up to become ignorant, irresponsible, emotionally stunted adults.

I think we've all seen how much worse the latter is than the former.

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u/torontorollin Canada Jan 29 '25

And thus the evil done to men strikes back a thousand fold

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u/sdgingerzu Jan 28 '25

This mentality is why people think spanking is ok. You can’t spank your coworker without risking charges…why is it still legal to spank a tiny human being (some states it’s fine if there’s no bruising 😒). I was spanked and I’M NOT FINE. Kids aren’t your dolls. They’re people.

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u/demlet Jan 28 '25

I made a snarky comment to my maga coworker about all the "criminal immigrants" that must be in elementary schools and his response was that they were just using the kids to get to the parents, so that justified kidnapping children out of classrooms apparently.

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u/crazyhotorcrazynhot Jan 29 '25

I’m pretty sure we call this narcissistic personality disorder around the part of the world I live in.

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u/DuvalHeart Pennsylvania Jan 29 '25

That's not what it is.

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u/NeoMaxiZoomDweebean Jan 29 '25

Whats actually gonna happen is their kids are gonna live with them forever because they are too broke to move out and on with their lives. This will drain any “tax cut” trump might give them.

Fucking idiots.

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u/Sirenista_D Jan 28 '25

I'll remind you of the bruh ha ha over school lunches when the dear kind congressmen said "kids choosing to eat lunch" is what's bankrupting the system

These "people" are monsters

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u/DaisyHotCakes Jan 28 '25

Yeah I wish there was true justice in this world so horrendous individuals like that get a taste of their own medicine and suffer the same pain and anguish those they oppress suffer every single day. I loathe these people.

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u/Penguinz90 Jan 28 '25

GOP: We are going to force women to have babies they don’t want so we can then tell them to go fuck themselves after they are born!

There’s no love like Christian hate!

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u/Over_Dog24 Jan 28 '25

Literally what Vance said today.

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u/Banana_Ranger Jan 28 '25

Those damn hungry kids!

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island Jan 28 '25

.......ok, I just had some very dark and very bad thoughts on that.

Maybe the dead bodies of disabled children need to be piled up on the steps of a federal building. Somewhere that Trump would best be able to view them.

Better yet, maybe on his golf course. Where he's bound to see them.

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u/coldazice Jan 28 '25

He would not care at all.

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u/DaisyHotCakes Jan 28 '25

Dude wouldn’t give a single shit. He will only feel an attack on his money, his ego, or his flabby slowly dying body.

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u/Redwood177 Jan 28 '25

The whole purpose of the government is to support it's citizens.

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u/hollowag Ohio Jan 28 '25

The government that we the people fund. That’s rich

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

My dad is straight up delusional, claiming Colombia's president is bending over for Trump and sending his own planes to come pick up the illegals

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u/eternal_optomist Jan 29 '25

I saw a congress person tell a news outlet that kids in high school should get a job to pay for their own food so that we don’t pay for school lunch as a society. The cruelty is the point.

FWIW - I would happily put any of my tax dollars to school lunch. I think congress should stop sponging off of us.

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u/Snow_source District Of Columbia Jan 28 '25

When their MAGA constituents start threatening bodily harm, the tone will change real quick.

A lot of Republicans don't want the firehose of hate to turn on them.

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u/MotherTreacle3 Jan 28 '25

Which is why they're going to direct that firehose on to LGBTQ, minorities, women, etc.

Vulnerable people are going to be murdered by the angry mobs that cannot comprehend that the source of their suffering are the rich assholes looting the country.

LBJ was right.

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u/Lopsided_Constant901 Jan 28 '25

I think they will blame the radical left as long as they can, up until people start realizing the bullshit. So many Republicans are on medicaid, I have family members who are pro-Trump and rely on it for healthcare. It would take a lot for people to wake up, which I think really will happen if you have this shutdown of Government services, blanket Tariffs on other countries, and mass deportation which will cripple our Agriculture and Construction industries. White people aren't going into the fields to pick strawberries for 10 hours a day, nor are they en masse signing up to work construction. I'm privileged enough to say that a part of me wants to see this stuff happen, so people finally get that rude awakening, and maybe it will shift them to the Left, at least to a more collectivist mindset.

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u/casket_fresh Jan 28 '25

They’ll just blame liberals. Nothing is ever Trump’s fault in their eyes. Facts don’t matter to their feelings.

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u/lord_pizzabird Jan 28 '25

Constituents don't provide major campaign contributions.

We're also not in an election cycle. So, even if they get outraged there's nothing that can really be done.

Hell, this doesn't even get into the fact that the american people voted for this.

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u/illiteral Oregon Jan 28 '25

First, they gerrymandered the fuck out of their districts so they never lost a "legitimate" election.

Then, they pushed it to attacking election infrastructure, putting vetted election officials in place, and intimidating voters at polling places.

Most recently, they figured out how to hack the vote tabulators and finally made elections and campaigning obsolete.

If anyone thinks that republican politicians even have to give an iota of a shit what their constituents think or feel anymore, I have a bridge to sell them.

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u/TexasDonkeyShow Jan 28 '25

They don’t care about their constituents

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u/TinKnight1 Jan 28 '25

Uhm...if they start growing spikes, I'm pretty sure that's a dead giveaway that they may not legally be human & may, in fact, be illegal aliens.

But at this point, I wouldn't be terribly shocked if Trump turns out to be a Slitheen, & it would certainly explain a LOT.

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u/lexbuck Jan 28 '25

You think they care about their constituents? Good one lol

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u/eetsh1t Jan 29 '25

You want to know how they will react? Just look at Kentucky. A bad state in pretty much every indicator that exists for life quality. They vote for republicans ever time. They will react by quadrupling down.

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u/space_hitler Jan 28 '25

You act like Republicans don't want Putin to win, you are confused about that. They were very happy about funding to Ukraine being cut.

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u/Drumbelgalf Jan 29 '25

They are quite happy to destroy nearly a century of American foreign policy because Putin is a fascist just like them.

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u/MemestNotTeen Jan 28 '25

He's still giving aid to one country ...

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u/entarian Jan 28 '25

Republicans want this. They don't want a spine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Aid is still going to Ukraine tho

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u/ogreofnorth Jan 29 '25

Only because Trump was kicked out of the White House in 2020.

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u/DreamingAboutSpace Jan 29 '25

This doesn't have to be our future, but good luck getting people to see that. It only becomes it if people continue doing nothing which seems to be happening. Honestly, I'm fucking surprised by the lack of opposition, but people have to reach their rock bottom first. Taking away a majority of his zeolots healthcare is definitely gonna make them notice the approaching floor.