AOC Slams House Republicans For Supporting Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Bill 'In Exchange For Some Signed Merch': 'Voting To Starve Babies'
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez again slammed Republicans for supporting Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" bill.

“And they have the audacity to try to brand this as Christian. What does that word even mean to them? Wearing a necklace?” AOC added

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) again slammed Republicans for supporting Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill as the initiative gets closer to passing in the Lower House.

The lawmaker wrote the post while responding to an article by the New York Times, which detailed that a “conga line of angsty Republican lawmakers filed through the West Wing on Wednesday, hemming and hawing about the” bill only to walk out with “signed merchandise, photos in the Oval Office and, by some accounts, a newfound appreciation for the bill.”

  • WatDabney@fedia.io
    43·
    14 hours ago

    Turns out that like so many other things, all of the noise about “replacement theory” was just conservative projection. They claimed that there was some sort of determined effort to eliminate whites because they were right in the middle of a determined effort to eliminate non-whites (and non-cis, non-het, non-christian, etc.) and as they do, they assumed/pretended that everyone else is as evil as they are.

    This is the way it’s going to work, by design:

    1. Companies will not only avoid DEI hires, but will avoid hiring minorities broadly, for fear that they’ll be accused of following DEI policies and punished by the Trump regime. So minorities are going to end up even more discriminated against.
    2. Without sufficient Medicaid funding, employer health insurance will be the only way that most in the US will be able to get healthcare.
    3. Denied employment and denied Medicaid, people - and disproportionately minorities - will die.

    No wonder the Republicans are giddy.

    • Devolution@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Don’t forget women. DEI bans unintentionally will force them back into the kitchen.

      Fuck this timeline.

    • ganksy@lemmy.world
      25·
      12 hours ago

      As much as I agree with your analysis, living in a rural town in a red state, it’s mostly poor, white people here. It’s a healthcare desert now. They will die just as fast as minorities in urban areas.

      • WatDabney@fedia.io
        1·
        27 minutes ago

        Oh absolutely. Minorities will disproportionately suffer and die, but nothing close to exclusively.

        More broadly, disadvantaged people will suffer and die. Minorities are already overrepresented among the disadvantaged and under the overtly bigoted policies of the Trump regime, they will be even more overrepresented, but that’s just something of a bonus to the would-br oligarchs. They’re excited at the prospect of culling poor people, pretty much regardless of the details.