Tag: wtf

House Republicans just passed Trumpcare. So what’s next?

skrtomg:

killerchickadee:

reincepriebus:

Some of the things this bill does, aside from repealing ObamaCare:

  1. Only covers 5% of people with pre-existing conditions.
  2. Exempts Congress from the worst parts of this bill, though they say they’ll fix that.
  3. Lets insurers once again put annual and lifetime limits on coverage for people with employer plans, effectively ends Medicaid expansion, leaves gaps in benefits, threatens Medicaid home- and community-based services for people with disabilities, and more.

The bill goes on to the Senate, where many are saying it’s dead on arrival. Regardless, we need to send a message to House Republicans that they’ll pay for their “YES” votes by losing their seats. Here’s what you can do:

  1. Use Contacting Congress to find out who represents you in the House.
  2. If your representative voted “YES” [here’s the list]: Use Contacting Congress to call their office and tell them you disapprove of their vote.
  3. Whether your representative voted yes or not, do the following:
  4. Donate to SwingLeft’s campaign to raise funds for Democratic challengers to the 35 swing district Republicans who voted for TrumpCare.
  5. Use Town Hall Project to find out if your representative is holding a town hall during recess. So far, only 6 of the 217 are.
  6. Sign up to volunteer for SwingLeft and/or check out Indivisible Guide for more actions for you to take.

After you’ve done that, you can contact your Senators. Use the same website listed first above (Contacting Congress) to find your two Senators. Give them a call, show up at their town halls, and donate to their Democratic opponents if they indicate that they’ll vote for TrumpCare.

The only way we’re going to take down this bill is if we keep the pressure on the GOP and let them know that voting for it will result in them losing their seats.

  1. Find out if you’re registered to vote. If not, find out how to.
  2. Here are some answers to some questions you might have about registering.
  3. Student voters: This is for you.
  4. What to bring with you to the polls.
  5. Click here for more voting information, and to find out who’s going to be on your next ballot.

Special Elections coming up:

Most other midterms are November 6th, 2018. Get ready.

VOTE IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS. THIS IS WHY THEY’RE IMPORTANT.

This is a very good post. I will also make a more concise one, but this post has a lot of resources.

cynthia-von-doom:

So Wanda is part of Hydra in the comics now and really…….I wish I could ask where some of the ppl who were outraged at Steve being Hydra are gonna be but then I remember u guys were the same ones back in 2014 telling me and other Jewish/Romani ppl Hydra aren’t Nazis in the movies and to get over Wanda and Pietro being part of them.

scrumptiousangst:

ayeforscotland:

benevolentlys:

thebibliosphere:

ironicbabylawyer:

ayeforscotland:

bendyluna:

ayeforscotland:

The state of the union.

Westminster are demonising disabled people. This is sickening.

Or alternatively they have to ask about suicidal tendencies if there is any history of mental health or any detected mental health issue. It’s their duty of care, and yes if they asked something in that wording it would be horrible. People who claim PIP can also get it for mental health issues, so it is not in any way assuming that because someone is disabled they have to be mentally ill. These are medical professionals who have a duty of care.

There’s asking about suicidal tendencies and asking someone why they haven’t killed themselves yet.

That’s not a ‘duty of care’ line of questioning. To imply otherwise as some form of defence of asking people why they’ve not taken their own life is ridiculous.

During assessments, you’re made to re-live any trauma, to re-count any suicidal thoughts or self-harm in detail, you are asked to describe in great detail the most humiliating effects of your disability and after going through all that, your application is refused

👆👆👆👆👆

I’m 4000 miles away at present but my baby brother still calls me to cry about how he is treated by the people currently in control of whether or not he deserves PIP which is the only thing he has to live on apart from the help of my OAP parents who are also sick and struggling. 

He was disabled at birth through medical negligence, has been in a wheelchair ever since, has only one working hand, is considered legally blind, has epilepsy, asthma and a whole host of other chronic conditions including a non functioning bladder and most recently a decline in mental health from receiving no help with any of the above.

And the person asking him the questions at his appeal, with his medical records in hand, asked him in all seriousness why he felt justified in calling himself disabled which, Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me? 

He was later asked, by someone else, if his conditions were really as bad as he claimed, why he hadn’t attempted suicide yet. That was a real question, from someone in a position of authority, hired by the UK government to decide whether or not sick and disabled people qualify for financial help in order to live.

I’ve never considered violence an acceptable outlet for towering fury, but I’m one flight away from making an exception for a motherfucker.

These are the values of the current Westminster government. 

Local elections start around the country on May 4th 2017, followed by the general election a month later on 

8 June 2017. I’m begging you, I’m on my hands and knees pleading with you, vote. If you are old enough and eligible to do so, vote. I know May called for the snap election in the middle of exam time, this was not a coincidence. If you won’t be able to get to a polling station because of exams or other commitments, you can literally sign up to vote through postal vote by filling out a simple form found here, which incidentally is the same form you use to sign up if you are not yet registered at all either due to age or having moved recently or changed your name: 

 https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

It takes 5 minutes. I literally timed updating myself to vote through proxy as an absentee citizen.

Don’t let these people stay in power, don’t let them get away with eugenics masquerading as social reform. Please don’t stand on your pride, please don’t look at the other parties and think “well they’re all as bad as each other” because I’m telling you, as someone currently living in America under the Trump regime, they’re not all the same. Holy shit they are not the same. There’s corruption and then there’s making a pact with the Devil and wondering why everything is on fire. 

Vote. Help protect the most vulnerable people in our society and VOTE.

I’m mentally ill and I’m scared what will happen to me and others if May stays in power. PLEASE vote Labour.

(Unless you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland)

Then vote SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein.

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canadian-marxist:

electoralcollege:

gayasscommie:

If there’s one thing we can see from American foreign policy it’s that bombing people doesn’t stop human rights violations but fuck if we won’t give it another go

Didn’t work in Korea but maybe it’ll work in Vietnam

Didn’t work in Vietnam but maybe it’ll work in Laos

Didn’t work in Laos but maybe it’ll work in Cambodia

Didn’t work in Cambodia but maybe it’ll work in Iraq

Didn’t work in Iraq but maybe it’ll work in Bosnia

Didn’t work in Bosnia but maybe it’ll work in Somalia

Didn’t work in Somalia but maybe it’ll work in Afghanistan

Didn’t work in Afghanistan but maybe it’ll work in Iraq this time

Didn’t work in  Iraq this time either but maybe it’ll work in Libya

Didn’t work in Libya but maybe it’ll work in Syria

I think the conclusion we need to draw here is that these military interventions were never *supposed* to “work” in the sense that they were not *actually* waged for humanitarian ends. That was a cover used to inspire the masses to support them. These were imperialist interventions meant to assert American control.