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By David Futrelle
BAM! Two more Republicans have announced they’ll be voting no on moving forward on Trumpcare, for a total of four. So it looks like the bill is DONE.
!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/nLFBRINoFh
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 18, 2017
DISCUSS! Celebrate! No trolls, Trump fans allowed!
UPDATE: McConnell is now pushing REPEAL ONLY. Seems like a desperate move, but we need to keep calling and protesting!
McConnell is moving on from Repeal & Replace to… Repeal & Suffer.
The battle to #ProtectOurCare continues!
🔥☎️🔥: https://t.co/4hAUAAmYTE pic.twitter.com/3qXigBoFjW— 5 Calls 🇺🇸 (@make5calls) July 18, 2017
@WWTG
Nah, they’re just blaming it on him being muslim and/or a diversity hire. No systematic problem here, No siree.
@WWTH, I’m exactly the same. I feel super uncomfortable around police, and my cousin’s a mountie. And I’m in Canada. I’m pretty sure I’d never leave my house if I lived in the States :C I really hope things improve down there soon.
That didn’t take long.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/18/the_gop_s_obamacare_repeal_backup_plan_is_dying_quickly.html?utm_content=inf_686_2641_2&wpsrc=socialedge&tse_id=INF_ec4926406be111e790011d41b85aaeb5
@ weirwoodtreehugger
Ditto. I have even less to worry about (white cishet middle-class-adjacent, plus male), but that was something else in all the statistics about police being largely immune to prosecution – it’s mostly, not only, crimes against marginalized peoples. They could still gun me down and get off scott-free. It’s an extra layer of personal fear.
Still nothing compared to the rage that they’re already doing so against my neighbors, but just an extra coal on the fire.
Did we already talk about US HB2796 ?
It’s a pretty horrific bill with support from both parties. It is based on some flawed ideas that sex is an exact reflection of DNA & that DNA data is government property & that sex and gender are interchangeable. It is definitely a thing we should all be calling our reps to oppose.
@Scildfreja: And then you read about all the institutional sexism and bullying in the RCMP, and the racism and homophobia at CSIS…
Ugh….
(links provided for anyone who isn’t familiar with these Canadian problems, not specifically for you Scildfreja.)
@WWTH: That is awful, and my heart goes out to her family and friends and community. I worry that you are right though, that suddenly something will happen now that a white woman has been killed.
It’s like… It would be good if something happens, but if it happens in such a way that helps white people more than PoC… Which is probably what is going to happen. Ugh.
@OP: Reading that nearly all the no’s were because the bill wasn’t mean enough is really discouraging.
I also hope people start writing really elaborate situations where the senator for Alaska is the only one who could possibly profit and just give them to her. We see what happened, there.
Ugh, I know, right? Not that I could talk about anything like that with the family. They’ve gotten very “The police in the states are turning into a gang of thugs, but the RCMP is perfect how dare you say anything bad about them”. It’s so disheartening :C
And I’m all “But the musical ride! And Due South!”
But then I read about all of the allegations and it makes me sad for the people who were trying to help other people, and ran foul of a horrible place to work.
@dikdik: Holy shit that bill! That looks awful!! I’m not seeing where it talks about DNA data being government property though. If you have a link, would you mind sharing it?
Beautifully said.
@JoeB: No, it was more of a picture from the end of WWII of Mussolini and his crew…
mildlymagnificent: Both my mother and I have been trying to get my husband to try the cherry thing for years, especially now that he can’t have NSAIDs (he had a heart attack a couple years back and is on daily aspirin). I’m not saying he’s stubborn, but, as my mother has said about my own father, he is Never Wrong.
I mean, if they just wanted to be an equestrian group, I imagine no one would have any problem with them!
(Am I the only one who is totally into dressage? Charlotte Dujardin blows my mind.)
I lived near Stockwell station in 2005. My opinion of the Metropolitan Police, and more broadly all armed police forces, is not a secret.
I’m very fortunate that, as an able-bodied white cishet man who has no enemies, I’ve never had to choose between my personal safety at the hands of non-uniformed killers and at the hands of uniformed killers. I acknowledge my privilege.
Oh, wonderful, in addition to their over 2 hour long official meeting. Trump and Putin met secretly for an hour at the G-20 summit with no one else but Putin’s translator in the room.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342589-ian-bremmer-trump-and-putin-held-second-informal-meeting-during-g-20
While this looking awful for Trump is nice, I’m horrified at how dumb the President is. So much power in such tiny incompetent hands.
I knew that was going to happen when I read about it this morning. Ugh.
To validate the failure of both Replace and Repeal (i.e. demonstrate that, actually, no, most people liked Obamacare, didn’t want it to be repealed, and are happy that it isn’t going to be), the #Resistance might want to host a few celebratory rallies.
What Tosca said. Email him to say something along the lines of “Thank you for doing right by your constituents. Now keep it up.” And keep contacting him about your opinions on stuff.
Here is the link to the bill from the government
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2796/all-info
And if you don’t have your rep’s phone number you can find it here http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Make sure you specify why you’re happy he voted no, he was one who wanted it to be more harsh.
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Seriously though, why no single-payer? Works better than what the US currently has up here, in Canada… (Not saying it’s perfect, just way less expensive for people who need care.)
ETA: I can’t contact anyone unfortunately, dikdik, since I’m not from the US. But I’ll share how terrible that bill is on my FB feed, which is about as much signal boosting as I can do…
@ abars01
I doubt I’ll find anything to party about until there’s Democratic majorities in both houses and a Democrat in the White House.
Maybe some moments of quiet celebration, and treating ourselves to something beyond the regular self-care, but anything beyond that feels too much like setting ourselves up to an 11/9 moment.
@Rhuu – apparently an illiterati
Insurance Industry making tons of cash, the lobbies and politicians that keep pushing propoganda that Single Payer Healthcare is the devil and too expensive but murdering children in another country for kicks is just a okay.
@Rhuu
Cos women and browns would be helped by it, so white men won’t allow it. Also cos a woman and a brown pushed in that direction, so coffin nailed
Personally I believe that’s just a cover story. The actual reason is that they are: a)bought and paid for and b)self-centered spiteful little bastards that don’t want even one cent of their money going to help anyone else.
@Jesalin
Yeah I see it as the cover story too, that’s why I said that they keep pushing the narrative that single payer is the death knell of the nation. That way they can get people who you’d think know better parroting bs like “we can’t afford single player we’re too big. Now the Drug War, that’s something worth our time.”
@Axecalibur: Middle Name Danger
And the best part about it is the fact that despite this country leading in the biotech industry, it’s also the worst in caring for the health of its people. The irony is rich.
I’m just going to leave this gross ass tweet (and the hilarious response to it) here.
Because the more I learn about this woman, the less I fucking like her. She seems like a real fucking piece of work.