She had been consistent in her message throughout the contentious forum at a high school in Parkersburg, Iowa, as she defended the tax and immigration package that has passed the House and is now under consideration in the Senate. Facing several constituents concerned about cuts to Medicaid, she defended the $700 billion in reduced spending, saying it would keep immigrants in the U.S. illegally and those who have access to insurance through their employers off the rolls.
Then someone in the crowd yelled that people will die without coverage.
“People are not … well, we all are going to die,” Ernst said, drawing groans. “So, for heaven’s sakes. For heaven’s sakes, folks.”
She double down the next day with a cringeful tweet insulting people as if mortality isn’t already widely understood. What an absolute trash human being.
From “Obama’s dEaTh PaNeLs!!1!” to “meh so what”.
Trying to imagine the kind of person that actually downvotes comments like this… Genuinely curious, what are you even disagreeing with?
Zero sympathy for the TACO supporters who voted for this shit.
If this was a Parody it would be made fun of for how comically and unrealistically evil it’d be.
I think to show how much she believes in these ideals she should refuse to step foot in any hospital or doctors office.
Healthcare is obviously not important since we’re all gonna die. So lead by example!
Flu? No medicine. Pneumonia no doctor. Cancer? No treatment. She should be fine with this if we’re all just gonna die anyway right?
‘We all are going to die’
Ok lady, you first.
For heaven’s sakes, we gotta save money for those poor, abused, billionaires.
Right?? Wtaf??
You can almost taste the stupidity in the air these days.
It’s not stupidity… it’s evil
like fried pennies.
There’s a reason Canada discontinued the penny.
So has the US, but I don’t think that’s gonna save us.
She should get sent a slew of assisted suicide pamphlets and other advocacy material. I mean, if dying is no big deal then why wait? The Lord will be there to embrace you on the other side!
When is the mob with pitchforks meeting, and where?
No kings day June 14th
We’re not fully at pitchforks yet but if you want to practice protesting, 50501 might be doing a “D-Day for Democracy” near you on June 7th, next Saturday
Well, off with her head then. 🤷
The GQP shrieks about Democrat death panels was always projection.
Rich vs. poor. Those with and those without. Always has been, always will be. Eat the rich.
It’s wild how comfortable the capital class has gotten with discounting the lives of the workers whose necks they stand on to live their lives of luxury. They used to at least pretend to care. They didn’t, but they knew they had to pay lip service to it.
In most online spaces if you advocated for the changes to their lives they openly work for every day to implement on us in order to squeeze an extra penny out of our lives, you’d risk a ban.
I genuinely don’t understand the complacency, or why the social contract is so manipulable by euphemism. They might as well be stabbing us, but it is apparently okay to do so as long as they don’t call it that.
They keep getting elected, primarily because the voting populace believes any member of the other team is worse (and refuses to seriously consider any third party).
Also, money buys outcomes.
but it is apparently okay to do so as long as they don’t call it that
For a HUGE chunk of the population even that’s okay, as long as someone they don’t like is getting stabbed harder.
