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Summary

The Trump administration’s aggressive cost-cutting efforts are hitting red states hard.

Cuts to Medicaid, NIH research funding, and foreign aid programs disproportionately impact rural areas and pro-Trump regions reliant on these resources.

GOP lawmakers, including Senators Katie Britt and Bill Cassidy, have voiced concerns over funding losses that could hurt jobs and healthcare access.

Meanwhile, Trump’s appointment of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary signals a shift in health policy, potentially exacerbating public health risks in conservative-leaning communities.

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[–] snekerpimp 68 points 4 days ago (4 children)

And they are bending over and screaming “HARDER DADDY!!!”

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

I live in a red state, you're not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

They’ll be competing to see who can scream it louder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I DoNt geT tiReD oF wINing!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Harder go harder they need to feel it this time.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They won't care.

They'll insist it is actually Obama's fault because economies don't change on a dime. And they'll continue to be content so long as they see brown people or women or even just queer folk who chose happiness suffer more than they do. Because they are miserable bastards who want to make sure everyone else is just as, if not more, miserable than they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but also a significant number of them might die off due to preventable illness and poverty, so the scales might have a chance to tip back in the other direction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Every generation wonders when the old one will die off and we can get what we want.

And then they become the problem. There are a lot of reasons for that but they don't really matter. Because if you actually look at current polling: genx is basically the only generation that still likes trump.

The other thing to understand is that red counties stay red. Because anyone who manages to get out to go to college or even sell their bodies to the military? Yeah, they tend to realize that what they grew up with is stupid. And then they don't come back (or they do because they liked the racism). And, because of gerrymandering, they don't even need significantly large populations to dominate the state.

Because, contrary to what the tech bros fleeing California claim, people don't move to red states because of the cheap property and turn them purple. They move because they actually agree with those politics. Even if it is just "I don't want to pay property taxes". The states that HAVE shifted purple have been a heavy push to empower the lower income demographics (aka "black people").

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Or die off, I guess this would also work 😐

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

this was always known. once the election is over they become unnecessary.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I commented on this yesterday, quoted a Cato article specifically raising the point that RFK Jr's favored policies are very likely to do much more to hurt Republican voters than Democratic voters.

It's a bit amusing to see Cato (small-government, right-libertarian) and The Huffington Post (progressive) simultaneously running articles, both critical of the Trump administration, that roughly say the same thing. It's not exactly the same -- HuffPo is emphasizing cuts to federal funding, and Cato is irate about antivax promotion, and Cato was trying to get the guy not confirmed, whereas HuffPo is taking a whack at him after he is confirmed, but they're both not happy about the same guy in the administration and both at least talking about the same thing and his impact on Republican voters. Not something one sees every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought the Kochs were MAGA?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Kochs like immigration and hate tariffs. They're the ones who refine Alberta's tar sand oil.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

The thing to realize about MAGAstan is that they don't want the soap on a rope. They want to be abused, just like Daddy did to them, because they think that means they're loved.

[–] eran_morad 17 points 4 days ago

Fuckem. Every republican traitor can fuck off and die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Red State citizens are at risk of their life

Good

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that'll show 'em. What percentage of people who quit a cult did so because it became too expensive?

[–] bizzle 9 points 4 days ago

Ha! Fuck those guys!