Do you remember the Republicans swearing up and down that they will not touch Medicare and Social Security.
You cannot trust a Republicans, they lie through their teeth! And they still call Social Security and Medicare entitlements, I don’t know about you but for over 50 years I paid into it.
Talk about pouring salt on a wound, and then we have this...Opinion: House Republicans undermine Trump with call for $2.7 trillion in Social Security and Medicare cuts
This isn’t just touching the third rail of American politics. It’s throwing your arms around it while soaking wet.
Market Watch
By Brett Arends
March 21, 2024Donald Trump had just about climbed out of the very deep hole he’d dug for himself last week when he went on TV and talked loosely about “cutting” programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
Then along came the Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday dragging him right back into it.
In a document that deserves extraordinary credit for chutzpah, if maybe not tact, House Republicans have just proposed a budget that would slash an astonishing $2.7 trillion from combined spending on Social Security and Medicare over the next decade — more than 8% of the total.
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Those proposals come from the Republican Study Committee. This is not the official Republican leadership group, but it is not a fringe caucus, either. Its membership includes 178 House Republicans, or more than 80% of the total.
Do you remember the Republicans saying emphatically that they will not:House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.
NBC News
By Sahil Kapur
March 20, 2024A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare.
The proposals, which are unlikely to become law this year, reflect how many Republicans will seek to govern if they win the 2024 elections. And they play into a fight President Joe Biden is seeking to have with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as he runs for re-election.
The budget was released Wednesday by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 House GOP lawmakers, including many allies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Apart from fiscal policy, the budget endorses a series of bills “designed to advance the cause of life,” including the Life at Conception Act, which would aggressively restrict abortion and potentially threaten in vitro fertilization, or IVF, by establishing legal protections for human beings at “the moment of fertilization.” It has recently caused consternation within the GOP following backlash to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that threatened IVF.
Touch Social Security?
Would not touch Medicare?
Would not press for a national abortion ban, that it is “States Rights”?
Would not touch Medicare?
Would not press for a national abortion ban, that it is “States Rights”?
You cannot trust a Republicans, they lie through their teeth! And they still call Social Security and Medicare entitlements, I don’t know about you but for over 50 years I paid into it.
Who are the voters that support Trump, what are some of their traits?
The HillBY THOMAS GIFTDecember 5, 2023Newsflash: Donald Trump will very likely win the Iowa caucuses. He’s 27 percentage points ahead of his closest rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis.[…]There are five main kinds.First are the True Believers. They’re who Trump means when he says he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and no one would care. They don MAGA hats and keep the TV glued to Newsmax (because Fox News is too tame). True Believers buy the “Big Lie” not simply as a cultural construct or in thinking that big tech censored news, but in the literal sense. This is the real Trump base.Second are the Reluctant Supporters. They feel no love for Trump, and many are even repulsed by his behavior and his social media posts. These include single-issue voters on policies like abortion. Many are evangelical Christians. They liked Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation efforts and conservative Supreme Court appointments.Third are the Anti-Bideners. They view Trump, instinctually, as the president’s foil. They don’t like Biden because he’s a Democrat. They don’t like him because of inflation. They don’t like him because of critical race theory, and “wokeism,” and everything progressive they project onto the president. Most of all, they want to beat Biden.Fourth are the Bandwagoners. They’re loyal to the Republican Party. They root for “the team,” and particularly its leader. Trump is the face of the franchise, and as long as that’s true, they’ll support him. But they’d be just as content to support any candidate with an “R” next to the name.Fifth are the Need-for-Drama Republicans. They get their kicks, psychologically and motivationally, from chaos. They spread rumors and conspiracy theories. They’re attracted to a “blow-up-the-system” brand of politics that, at its core, is fundamentally anti-conservative. Many have radicalized even beyond Trump.
NBC News wrote,
The GOP primary electorate was largely made up of voters who were white, ideologically conservative, over 45 years old and did not have college degrees. Among each of those groups, Trump won handily, with three-quarters of the vote or more.White voters without college degrees made up a plurality of the electorate across Republican primary states and they voted for Trump by over 60 points. Trump also won white voters who are college graduates — but by a smaller 18-point margin.
Do you think that is why the Republicans are going after colleges and universities over diversity, equity, and inclusion?
The Conversation writes…
We found that Trump has a 45-point advantage over DeSantis among Hispanic Republicans, who are more likely to support him than any other racial and ethnic group we investigated.
Why? Trump is Xenophobic, how could they vote for a person who hates their guts.
Trump also holds a large lead over DeSantis regardless of socioeconomic status, but the gap widens among lower-income and less-educated Republicans.
Trump is palsy walsy with billionaire, he has given tax breaks to his billionaire friends, he has crippled unions and cut the social safety net. Wages were flat under Trump while under President Biden we have seen hourly wages increase. He cut WIC, SNAP, wants to do away with Social Security and Medicare why do factory workers support him?
You remember that the Republicans were shouting... "State's Rights" about abortion. That it was up to the states about abortion. Well...
After Trump said he could support a 15-week national abortion ban, a caucus that includes most House Republicans has endorsed the ideaThe Rolling StoneBY ANDREW PEREZMARCH 21, 2024A CAUCUS REPRESENTING most House Republican lawmakers endorsed a 15-week national abortion ban on Wednesday. The announcement came one day after former President Donald Trump indicated that he could support a 15-week abortion ban.The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, released its 2025 budget proposal on Wednesday, titled “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.” Despite being billed as a budget plan, it is a highly ideological document.[...]The RSC’s support for the Life at Conception Act comes in the wake of a controversial Alabama Supreme Court decision finding that embryos created using IVF are people in the eyes of the law and covered under the state’s wrongful death statute.
The Republicans think that is okay to lie as long as it advances their power.
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Remember:“R” is for reverse.
“D” is for forward.
"The Five Types of Trump Voters"---- Here is what I know. As Roque Dalton the Salvadorian poet and revolutionary said, "Never forget the least fascist among you is still a fascist." Adding to that I would say, Even the man or woman down the street who smiles and waves at you but them goes in the voting booth and votes for those who are against your very breath.
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