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(Warning, this is not a funny one) Ashen-Faced Johnson Dressed Down on Live TV by Voters (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 116 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Samantha said her husband, a veteran with PTSD after two tours in Afghanistan, was struggling to keep their family afloat. “As a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you,” she continued. “You could stop this. You could be the one to say, ‘Military is getting paid.’

And still they don't get it. Still they're asking to be exempt from the horrors, not to end them.

A caller from Texas demanded to know the GOP’s plan to fix the Affordable Care Act. “Great question,” Johnson said, pausing before conceding that “Obamacare did not do what was promised” and that it’s “very, very complicated” to replace. He added that Trump “wants to fix the health care system,” saying they’d spoken “as recently as yesterday.”

Sounds like a whole lotta nothing.

And why isn't it funny? Well. Seeing him cry would have been even funnier.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Love how it's always the same line with healthcare. "Oh its soooo complicated but we're working on it we pinky promise!" Repeated ad nauseum for 40 fucking years with absolutely no progress

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

There has been progress. The ACA has serious issues, but the reason they haven't repealed it is that it would be so materially destructive to the American people the party to do so would be completely out of power for at least a decade. It'd be Hoover-FDR situation all over again.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The reply was also just lame. Usually they at least try to beat you with "superior knowledge", citing some reason or numbers, flimsy as it may be.

Politicians prepare answers for obvious questions or accusations. But I've seen it so often with this administration that they simply do not have any, obviously did not prepare for criticism. It's a form of delusion.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They had 4 years to fix it in the 10s, they failed to even offer a proposal. Now in 2025 their only solution is to stop paying for trans people's healthcare and once again cut government funding for everyone's healthcare.

Biden was all half measures but fucking hell it was something and he was looking in the right direction even if only to avoid actually taking the correct full measure.

Medicaid for all, with right to negotiate and restrictions on prices for medications that were developed through public funding. Also, increase the number of slots in med schools and actively work with the AMA and APA to deal with our medical professional shortage. Hell offer free retraining for any insurance workers who lose their jobs if they go into an underserved medical profession.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Medicaid for all, with right to negotiate and restrictions on prices for medications that were developed through public funding.

I want it bad, but it'll be at least 30 years, if it happens at all; whatever laws get passed, SCOTUS will shoot in the back of the head.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, it won't happen. Republicans intend to make the position of president a dictatorship. They want themselves to be above the law as were feudal nobles of old. They have almost done it.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Please don't give up. Seriously, the rest of the world is rooting for you, for this to end.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'm likely losing my Obamacare after this bill goes in effect. Fuck me. Worked for 35-years, took nothing from the government, lost my job and all I want is a little fucking help to I'm employed again.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I figured out that the Republican Party was the party of assholes when I was 14 and haven’t been proven wrong once in the 30 years since.

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Johnson doesn't even have concepts of a plan