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Republicans just passed “the worst bill in modern American history” (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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It takes from the poorest and gives to the richest—among other things.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The GOP threat was to primary anyone who voted no. They did it to be yes men and not get primaried.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

~~The GOP threat was to primary anyone who voted no.~~ They did it ~~to be yes men and not get primaried.~~

That's the only thing that matters. The rest is neither justification nor excuse.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Ofc not. But it’s an abject showing of what you can count on them for going forward.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

and the token susan collins and muroswki votes against were just perfomative, they were going to vote for it anyways, they know they have the safety numbers to vote against it.