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We’re all struggling here to cover the bases of social security and Medicare and Medicaid

Yeah and a bunch of extra kids surely won't increase costs of Medicaid.

POS nutjob. Our government is so broken. 🤨

So he must be big on making immigration easier.

Right?

In his remarks, (...) he rails against the imagined economic detriments of abortion, pushing his caucus’ outlandish claim that by depleting a hypothetical workforce, abortion has defunded social security: (...)

If abortion truly defunded social security, shouldn't small-government Republicans support it?

Newsflash: people aren't having kids because the cost of living is too expensive and the elite are strangling poor families, not because of abortion rights.

Sometimes I look at US politics and question how a country can be terminally stupid enough to elect Republicans...

If he really cared about funding for social security, maybe he should just have a closer look at tax evasion and creative accounting by the rich and the larger companies. Or at the numerous pork barrels on his parties list.

As if he isn’t also committed to destroying Social Security.

That's them saying the quiet bit out loud. They see population growth stagnating to dangerous levels and they need more poor people to feed thier capitalism machine, while not acknowledging that low population growth is occurring because they've starved people of the necessary resources to keep a child alive and enjoy / be able to afford parenting. The choice was provide adequate resources or force people to have babies without resources.

Heil ~~Hitler~~ Mark Johnson

This guy is pure evil. History just took a dark turn.

"WE NEED MORE HUMANS FOR THE HUMAN CRUSHING MACHINE" -GOP

45 approved is the only reason they Voted for him. He is just another of the wack job MAGAts.

Ah, so this is how The Handmaid's Tale starts.

In that thumbnail, boebs is looking at him like she wants to take him to beetlejuice

The Handmaid's Tale is fast becoming a reality in the 21st century. 😱

Oh, he's concerned about funding social security?

Bullshit. He doesn't give a fuck about that.

The reason Social Security faces solvency problems is that wages (on the low end, at least) have been kept flat for close to 30 years. Wages are the basis for Social Security funding!
Its solvency challenges aren't because the Boomers are retiring, the actuaries were able to see that coming when the Boomers were kids. The thing they didn't see coming was that suppressing wages would become a bipartisan affair.

When Johnson says he's going to fund social security, he's not going to fund social security- he's going to dangle that as bait to get stupid people to support a national ban on abortion in hopes it will soften the backlash against the GOP for its unpopular anti-abortion politics.

That thumbnail...

"Give em that old Razzle Dazzle," minus of any of it.

What a pathetic hairball the GOP was forced to cough up at the last minute.

Daily reminder to please vote responsibly in 2024.

I know they've been screaming the quiet part, but that's just... fucking hell....

@FlyingSquid oh, look, another reason to sharpen the axes and prep the guillotine against the rich.

I am convinced that a black and white filter needs to be used on every media photograph of the GOP.

I would show how much these guys look just like the NAZIs in photos.

Should probably make it so people can afford to do that and subsidize gay reproduction.

Also, funny how he blames that and not 50+ years where tax cuts were considered sacred and proposing raising taxes was a profane abomination. Well we’re right back where we were before those taxes were raised.

Wants Women to Pop Out 'Able-Bodied Workers' to Fund Social Security

Translation: Wants women to pop out more white babies who (they assume) will vote Republican.

Very bold move considering how much voters are furious about Roe.

There's articles every now and again about how some Republican or PAC is going to fix the issue for Republicans by going moderate, and this is exactly why it won't work. Unless you have utter chaos like in the House or are a radical, the #1 rule is to not criticize your fellow Republicans.

How's a Republican moderate going to do that while also advocating for a moderate policy? They'd have to say the Speaker and their other colleagues are wrong, and they don't want to do that. But if they don't say it, then they can't advocate for a moderate policy, people are seeing right through it. The true believers are making it impossible for the party to stop hemorrhaging.

Republicans wanted to overturn Roe, so let them reap the consequences.

able-bodied

Oh he wants everyone to hate him, huh? Us disabled folk who've been working, disabled, don't contribute at all I see.

Why are Republicans still banging this drum? They packed a court shitty enough to strike down Roe and people across the country fucking hated it. All the states ran by functioning governments immediately put protections in place to allow abortions, and all the shitholes run by Republicans immediately enacted extremist bans that nearly half their constituency disagrees with. Is the next goal to try working towards a national ban? Are they stupid enough to not realize that would be political suicide?

I just see this as one more revolution. Not the good kind, just the "neutral" kind that the great George Carlin talked about, as we continue to circle the drain as a species...

or we could just allow more people immigrate legally who are going to be productive working middle class members of society

I thought we had too many people though..

Capitalism fails without cheap labor to rob.

You, along with all your slimy fellows that voted for you, are doing the EXACT opposite of struggling. You are struggling with the will of the American people and the direction of this country, but that’s about the only thing you are struggling with.

This guy Johnson is a psychopath imo

Citizens asked the Republicans about this and they said "shut up!” /s