GOP Failure Watch Part VI (Majority in House Edition) The Insurrection Caucus Sh*tshow.

CNN has an article on the anti-gay Republican agenda, including (most from this month alone):

1. The administration threatening to sue California over one trans athlete
2. Getting rid of the LGBT+ suicide hotline
3. Ignoring Pride month and officially calling it Title IX month instead
4. Having removed the T from LGBT on the Stonewall memorial and government websites
5. Kennedy Center dropping Pride events, including a performance of the Gay Men's Chorus, and the President suggesting drag shows are "un-American"
6. DeSantis dropping reference to LGBT+ in his remembrance of the Pulse Nightclub massacre
7. Harvey Milk's name being removed from the Navy ship

 

And we are only six months in. This new generation will have to fight the fight of your generation.

 

They also want to rename Metrorail the Trump Train. When I told my wife about this proposal she asked if it was from The Onion.

 

FWIW, I read an interesting post a few days back, in which they theorized that, as with many major societal changes, the current reactionary position corresponds to their last effort to opposse positions that have become the norm, so, while it feels like we're going backwards, we are actually closer to victory than it appears. IOW, if bigots and racists didn't feel like they were "cornered" - meaning that their world views are inadmissible to the majority, they would not be fighting with such fervor.

Now, I don't think that the post is completely wrong, but I have theorized myself that in the western world we have been going backwards in many fields starting in the 1980s, maybe earlier, and one of the main causes was the failure of the USSR and other socialist countries. According to my theory, the threat of nuclear war, plus the ideology supplied by the Red Menace, kept our elites "honest", meaning that they not only had to be very careful about their foreign policy, but they also had to keep their populations relatively happy and prosperous, or risk that they adopt more socialist stances. After the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the US elites experienced more "freedom" to pursue more aggressive foreign policies, and they started to cut back on the working class gains, with the additional benefit of being able to paint many of those victories as "socialism".

Finally, I don't think that either theory is perfect and there are a lot of holes and multiple arguments for and against, but I do believe that the next decade or so is going to be critical for the world's future, and that right now, at least in the US, the humanist-progressive side is in a bad position.

 

Some of the allowed success of the Civil Rights movement was attributed not only to the Cold War but that combined with newly independent nations in Africa and Asia creating a desire to look better on the world stage than the USSR.

 

And the success of multiple anti-imperialism movements, both, inspired the CRM and scared the US ruling class.

 

Very good points by the both of you and appreciated.

 

It'll be amazing watching Mike Lawler and Susan Collins be surprised when a hospital in their constituency closes.

 

You mean act surprised right?

 

Collins voted no when her no vote didn’t matter. She knew it was 50-50 w/o her vote. She deserves no credit.

 

Profiles in Courageous Concern

 

Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky spelled it out rather plainly but, whatevs.
LIST: These Kentucky, Indiana hospitals could be impacted by Medicaid cuts | whas11.com

Looking at the list, entire regions (cough cough Appalachia cough cough) are going to be impacted. But as Mitch McConnell once said, voters will "get over it" losing Medicaid.

 

Yeah, but they heard Kamala laugh once, so they couldn't vote for her.

 

I'm willing to bet anything that those rates are even worse for black, Hispanic, and native women.

 

The data is most definitely an undercount.

 

We all f******.

House voted the bill.

Tens of millions are going to go hungry, have no healthcare, and die. The rest will have their QoL deteriorate and less money.