"The Senate just passed the Big Beautiful Bill today, What's your reaction?"

[Demovictory9]

Some popular responses from Reddit:

They know it will hurt their voters. They have no reason to care. They know their voters will blame Biden/immigrants/democratic-elites/people-not-like-them for it and vote Republican anyway, because their voters are not voting on issues -- they are voting on personal identity. So you can't convince them to change who they vote for without changing their identity.

Its why the tax cuts are for the wealth hoarders. Because those are people who will change their actions -- and in this case, functionally bribe the republicans to give them more money


People think this is only gutting medicaid - it's fucking the whole marketplace- example If you are a 60 year old couple and make 80k/year and get insurance on the market place your premiums are about to go up 400 percent and cost 26k MORE. Millions and millions of people about to no longer have access to health care.

its also cutting loan programs that enable more than 75% of medical students to fund their post-undergraduate education, which will just make the doctor shortage even worse. this has got to be one of the single most harmful bills to our national health ever.


many people on Medicaid don’t realize it because their state calls it something else. Same thing for Obamacare, who’s IS the ACA. The ramifications of this bill will be tremendous. Become an informed voter and those who do, stop watching FoxNews.

Even if you’re not on Medicaid, if your area’s hospital relies on patients that are losing Medicaid, that hospital is suddenly very underfunded and will likely close.

In San Diego we’ve already had mass layoffs at our hospitals in the last 3 days: 315 layoffs at Sharp, 230 layoffs at UCSD Health. I used to work at both so a lot of my friends have already lost their jobs.

One way or another the average taxpayer will pay for the lost funding. So even if you "save" $200 a year on taxes your insurance premiums might go up by $300 per year to cover people not paying for health care.

This country has been nosediving hard this year. It’s embarrassing how much this country hates the people who live in it and keep it functioning.

It's embarrassing how the people who have something get told by the people who have everything to blame the people who have nothing.

And they do.

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Considering how wildly unpopular it is in every single poll that had been ran on it, democracy is officially dead.



Honestly, it's heartbreaking. When something so clearly opposed by the public still passes, it really makes you question if our voices matter at all anymore.


The public, by and large, as declared by the founding document of our country, did vote for this. They bought into the easily debunked lies of the most prolific liars of our lifetime. They bought into the identity politics pitched by rightwing, billionaire-funded, propaganda outlets. They surrendered their civic duty to tech oligarchs and hostile foreign nations.

The public paved the way and laid out the red carpet for this travesty of an upward wealth transfer.



I think that in a day or two there will be a new scandal, and people will stop talking about this. Then every time one of the clauses comes up and totally fucks an entire county over, the locals will be talking about "Well, this is what Biden's economy did to us..."

I think the lack of health care is primarily going to affect children as families priorities getting grandma (who produces a social security check) to the doctor is going to be worth the effort, but your sick kid who needs a ride four hours away to a hospital is gonna have to tough it out.

I think the way budget priorities lean in red areas, the last wobbling legs of a free public education are going to collapse. You will see waves of school closures, followed by waves of families unable or unwilling to go to the effort or expense, so those children will now be "home schooled" and over the next decade adult literacy rates in those areas are going to collapse.

Fatigued indifference. I'm so sick of seeing everything good go to shit because 4chan trolls won an election.

[edit] I do care, really, I do...I'm just...outraged out. We are being gish galloped by a new outrage every day so we don't have time to think about yesterday's outrage. So much horror, so much distress, so much pain being inflicted on the weak and vulnerable members of our society. I mentally just can't do it any more.

[edit2] Feel free to wallow along with me in fatigued indifference. Get it out of your system now. Then pick yourselves up in a few months and get out there and fight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lp6ldr/the_senate_just_passed_the_big_beautiful_bill/

[Duncanpup]

1. At least Schumer got the bills name changed.