Maybe some other generous blue state folks should buy them tickets to move to their state where their Medicaid can be resumed.
So, is that your goal? To make everyone leave your area? Michigan, poisons their own water, runs their industries into the ground, bankrupts itself (and others), lets monsters like Nassar have free reign, and now kicks people that are most vulnerable off of aid.
You're a fiscal conservative, right? Why don't you live up to your tough talk and just go around putting bullets in peoples' heads, after all that'll save tons of money (and based on your posts you're basically guaranteed to have said such at some point). Plus you can get your gun fetish on at the same time. Are you too chickenshit or just want to keep trying to believe you're not being evil?
What's most cowardly about Republicans is their tendency to institute hateful policies in a very passive-aggressive way.
They desperately want to eliminate all government health care programs, but because they know they would never get elected again if they actually cut the programs, they implement all kinds of conditions that just make it very difficult to qualify.
They really want to ban all abortions with no exceptions, but because they know they would lose elections, they try to ban as much of it as they can without technically violating Roe v. Wade.
And of course, the Trump camp desperately wants to ban all Muslim immigrants (and let's be honest, they would make Islam illegal if they could), but implemented its current half-hearted ban because it knew a ban that reflected Trump's campaign promise would be instantly denied by all good courts.
I wouldn't exactly call it passive, they're just being passive aggressive when called out on it, by making up people to claim they're going after (like "welfare queens") in order to get those who are exactly the people they are targeting (when you hear them being honest about it) to support them. Americans especially are prone to delusions (I know shitloads of poor people that constantly rant about poor people, because they've been able to delude themselves into believing they're not the same or they're the exception or various other illogical rationalizations to work against not only other people but themselves as well).
Except they are cutting the programs. They were openly bragging about fucking over their own constituents by sabotaging the ACA. They're not even trying to hide it (until their constituents started showing up and demanding they answer, which came about 5 fucking years too late), and then they literally just lied out their asses or ran or didn't show up/cancelled after it became clear that it was just going to be pissed off people demanding answers.
They've been trying to do that too. The problem is they weren't only not losing elections over that, it is actually one of the things they've been able to exploit and get single-issue voters to support them even when they fuck them over every other which way they can. They've been pretty open that they're just trying to game the system in their favor to overturn Roe v Wade. They're not even trying to hide that any more. That was a major reason why people that were utterly disgusted by Turmp still voted for him because they saw an opportunity to make progress on that. They don't give a shit if they burn the whole country down to achieve it either. And the fucking dumbest part of all is how many Republicans are of the mind that poor people should not be allowed to procreate.
Absolutely they know that all the shit they're clamoring for and promising their constituents would get tossed by courts (even conservative leaning ones that have anything resembling integrity, as they consistently have), which is why they're trying to game the courts into being partisan system that supports them. That's also why they're more than happy to keep throwing obviously blatantly illegal laws at the state level as they're actively looking for holes they can exploit then.
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