MAGA Votes for Pork Bill Whilst Pleading for Dem Governor to Protect His State From It.

[Bray123]

Confused? You will be.

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin wrote a letter urging his state’s Democratic governor to take steps to protect rural hospitals from the fallout of Republicans’ widely reviled budget bill — which Van Orden voted for.

Van Orden’s letter essentially called on Gov. Tony Evers to hurry up and sign the state budget, in order to protect rural hospitals from some of the steep Medicaid cuts that are likely to be triggered by congressional Republicans’ megabill.

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of signing the proposed state budget into law without delay,” Van Orden wrote. “As you are aware, timely enactment is especially critical this year due to the proposed increase in the state provider tax, which must be effectuated before the anticipated signing of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill on or around July 4, 2025.”

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/van-orden-letter-evers-wisconsin-budget-medicaid-rcna216850

MAGA is the party of Hypocrisy, Bribery and Corruption.

 

[YDB95]

Confused? You will be.





https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/van-orden-letter-evers-wisconsin-budget-medicaid-rcna216850

MAGA is the party of Hypocrisy, Bribery and Corruption.

The damn thing is, this will work with low-information voters, at least if he makes enough noise about pleading with the governor.

 

[butters]

[Rep.] Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said $500 billion in Medicaid cuts is my red line. And I’m like, ‘no. You voted for $1 trillion.’ … But the one that killed me was [Rep.] David Valadaeo (R-Calif.) … You can’t put out a statement like ‘I will never vote for the Senate version, and then—three days later—be like, ‘alright. I’m ready to ride.”

not that they were alone, by any means... ladies and gentlepeeps, the TACO party:

Rep. Victoria Sparts (R-Ind.): ‘I will not vote for the rule but I will vote for final passage' (paraphrased)

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis): We are stealing from our children and grandchildren $37 trillion in debt. And we're going to add to it. As republicans, that is unacceptable.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo): “This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No republican should support that.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas): “I think this is a travesty that the senate is going to risk the ability of us to deliver for the American people.”

Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas): “We are going to get the tax cuts done, in some fashion, but we cannot saddle our children and our grandchildren with an exploding national debt.”

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.): “What the senate did is unconscionable. What they did to our bill was unconscionable. … I'll vote against it here and I’ll vote against it on the floor.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=bd1937b40aa941f98b2c8f870dbf2299&ei=61

 

[Lazaran]

not that they were alone, by any means... ladies and gentlepeeps, the TACO party:

Rep. Victoria Sparts (R-Ind.): ‘I will not vote for the rule but I will vote for final passage' (paraphrased)

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis): We are stealing from our children and grandchildren $37 trillion in debt. And we're going to add to it. As republicans, that is unacceptable.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo): “This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No republican should support that.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas): “I think this is a travesty that the senate is going to risk the ability of us to deliver for the American people.”

Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas): “We are going to get the tax cuts done, in some fashion, but we cannot saddle our children and our grandchildren with an exploding national debt.”

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.): “What the senate did is unconscionable. What they did to our bill was unconscionable. … I'll vote against it here and I’ll vote against it on the floor.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...1&cvid=bd1937b40aa941f98b2c8f870dbf2299&ei=61

It was about tax cuts & deregulation for the rich & corporations, and to hell with everyone else.

For republicans, it has ALWAYS been about tax cuts & deregulation for the rich & corporations, and to hell with everyone else.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Saint_Ann]

It's all over except the crying.

 

[Lazaran]

It's all over except the crying.

Saint_Ann Syndrome rears its ugly battered head…again…



Meanwhile:

A fuckton of Texans are “crying” right now… and their Daddy DonOld has promised to give them everything they want / need…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[YDB95]

A fuckton of Texans are “crying” right now… and their Daddy DonOld has promised to give them everything they want / need…



We. Told. Them. So.

Oh, they got what they wanted. The catch is, they only wanted it for everyone else, not themselves.

 

[Lazaran]

Oh, they got what they wanted. The catch is, they only wanted it for everyone else, not themselves.

Karma works in mysterious ways…



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Chernosoth]

249 years ago we had a war to decide we would say while instead of whilst.

 

[dmallord]

249 years ago we had a war to decide we would say while instead of whilst.

Out of curiosity, did WE win that war? I'll wait whilst you answer.

 

[butters]

Kansas deep trumpers upset about cuts to subsidised program which accounted for half of their wheat sales alone, last year:

President Donald Trump's decision to shutter a long-running worldwide wheat aid program has left farmers in Kansas reeling

"Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped 'From the American People' to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world," wrote Elizabeth Williamson. "Now it is effectively dead."

These cuts, which Kansas Republicans frantically tried to discourage Trump from making, is bad news not just for the recipients of this wheat in developing nations, said the report, but the Kansas farmers who relied on it to sell large amounts of their harvest.

"It was the latest blow to farmers, particularly in Kansas, where about 80 percent of those on the high plains voted for Mr. Trump and agriculture makes up almost half of the state’s economy. The president’s whipsawing tariffs and cuts to agriculture grants and global food aid have left the state with swollen silos, shrinking markets and volatile prices for crops," said the report. "Last year Kansas sold half its annual wheat crop abroad, but those buyers have mostly dried up."

now we can argue about the pros and cons of growing so much of one specific crop in one area, how that affects the land, wildlife, and so on and so forth... what cannot be argued, though, is that these same trump-voting farmers have been incentivised to grow as much grain as possible and that grain helps feed the hungry, and that these same farmers' livelihoods are being tossed into turmoil because of trump, musk and doge.

not like they weren't told but will they listen now?

 

[Saint_Ann]

I think somebody doesn't understand where the money for "subsidies" comes from.

 

[dmallord]

Kansas deep trumpers upset about cuts to subsidised program which accounted for half of their wheat sales alone, last year:

President Donald Trump's decision to shutter a long-running worldwide wheat aid program has left farmers in Kansas reeling

now we can argue about the pros and cons of growing so much of one specific crop in one area, how that affects the land, wildlife, and so on and so forth... what cannot be argued, though, is that these same trump-voting farmers have been incentivised to grow as much grain as possible and that grain helps feed the hungry, and that these same farmers' livelihoods are being tossed into turmoil because of trump, musk and doge.

not like they weren't told but will they listen now?

Trump is pretty good at messing with people's lives, isn't he? Farmers, automakers, distillers, maple syrup producers, and even foresters get in on the act. Somehow, that doesn't register even after the fact.

It might not matter much. Kansas has voted Red for so long that history has almost lost sight of the fact that LBJ won that state as the only Democrat to do so since about '64. To rally those folks, you need a superhero level of personality to run against the tide.

With about 5 electoral votes, it doesn't have enough clout to swing the election. So, to answer the question, they won't be listening now.

 

[dmallord]

I think somebody doesn't understand where the money for "subsidies" comes from.

Strange, isn't it? Those farmers don't look upon the subsidies as welfare support. That funding put blinders on their ability to find other means of survival or cash crops that substitute for wheat. Without that handout over decades of federal subsistence, there have been no incentives to alter their production.

The blindsided are now reeling. What are they going to do? Of course, the first thing is to plead for mercy and hope the president retracts his actions. Not likely since he seems focused on billionaires, bitcoin, golf, and airplanes.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Strange, isn't it? Those farmers don't look upon the subsidies as welfare support. That funding put blinders on their ability to find other means of survival or cash crops that substitute for wheat. Without that handout over decades of federal subsistence, there have been no incentives to alter their production.

The blindsided are now reeling. What are they going to do? Of course, the first thing is to plead for mercy and hope the president retracts his actions. Not likely since he seems focused on billionaires, bitcoin, golf, and airplanes.

Somebody doesn't understand price controls.

 

[dmallord]

Somebody doesn't understand price controls.

Nothing new. Some bodies are not good at communicating either.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Nothing new. Some bodies are not good at communicating either.

You want me to teach you about running a business governed by price controls?

 

[dmallord]

You want me to teach you about running a business governed by price controls?

I appreciate the offer, but no thanks. I'm busy with life issues.