She had been consistent in her message throughout the contentious forum at a high school in Parkersburg, Iowa, as she defended the tax and immigration package that has passed the House and is now under consideration in the Senate. Facing several constituents concerned about cuts to Medicaid, she defended the $700 billion in reduced spending, saying it would keep immigrants in the U.S. illegally and those who have access to insurance through their employers off the rolls.

Then someone in the crowd yelled that people will die without coverage.

“People are not … well, we all are going to die,” Ernst said, drawing groans. “So, for heaven’s sakes. For heaven’s sakes, folks.”

  • @[email protected]
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    101 month ago

    I think to show how much she believes in these ideals she should refuse to step foot in any hospital or doctors office.

    Healthcare is obviously not important since we’re all gonna die. So lead by example!

    Flu? No medicine. Pneumonia no doctor. Cancer? No treatment. She should be fine with this if we’re all just gonna die anyway right?

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      91 month ago

      We’re not fully at pitchforks yet but if you want to practice protesting, 50501 might be doing a “D-Day for Democracy” near you on June 7th, next Saturday

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      31 month ago

      Trying to imagine the kind of person that actually downvotes comments like this… Genuinely curious, what are you even disagreeing with?

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    She should get sent a slew of assisted suicide pamphlets and other advocacy material. I mean, if dying is no big deal then why wait? The Lord will be there to embrace you on the other side!

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    Democrats pounced on Ernst’s “going to die” line, with Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin saying she “said the quiet part out loud.”

    Martin said the remark shows Republicans don’t care about “whether their own constituents live or die as long as the richest few get richer, and that’s precisely why they’re ramming through a budget bill that would rip away health care and food from millions of Americans, including kids and seniors.”

    That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. These are the people we need to be deporting to El Salvadoran prisons.

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      101 month ago

      Ken Martin went on to say “I will personally guarantee that this bill will pass with Democratic votes.”

      Fuck the DNC.

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          Why would every Democrat vote for Marco Rubio?

          Why would Schumer whip votes to pass the CR in February?

          Why would the DNC repeatedly sabotage Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, etc?

          Got me, but that’s what they do: they push things right and they fold.

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      241 month ago

      We shouldn’t be deporting anyone to Salvadorean prisons, except Salvadoreans duly convicted of crime.

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        131 month ago

        Normally I’d agree with you, however it’s been shown time and time again that MAGAts simply don’t get it until it affects them personally, so time to start affecting them personally.

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          100% Agree. They aren’t going to play by the rules. Not ever. So they just need to be eliminated. Even if WE have to break the rules to do it. Once that is done, we can get back to everyone playing by the rules, and we can set up some actual rule-based enforcement mechanisms that in the future cannot simply be ignored by people because of their title.

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    81 month ago

    She double down the next day with a cringeful tweet insulting people as if mortality isn’t already widely understood. What an absolute trash human being.

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    31 month ago

    If this was a Parody it would be made fun of for how comically and unrealistically evil it’d be.