This bill is getting rammed through with zero debate in the twilight hours with almost zero media coverage. After decades of hearing how Congress is incapable of getting anything done, it is dizzying to watch how quickly a simple GOP majority is shoving nearly a trillion dollars a year of reforms down the country's throat.

Compare this to the nine months spent negotiating Obamacare. Or the way climate change and immigration reform got repeatedly dragged to death. Hell, even Bush's stab at Social Security privatization didn't enjoy this level of expediency. It's almost as though oppositional party politics no longer exists under Trump.

[–] monogram 3 points 2 weeks ago

This bill will help those who have invested in the Republican Party

Obama care was less interesting for Democratic investors until it was neutered

Most countries are under corporate rule: democratic & monocratic

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Always has been.

The problem is that the guy robbing a 7/11 or shooting somone in a bar is visceral and visible in the news, and people are immediately afraid and want somone to protect them.

Meanwhile the mega douche stealing their 401ks and blocking healthcare for all is just some figure far away that you feel helpless against anyway.

The second one is doing far FAR more damage to our society, but is hardly addressed.

[+] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world -21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies

Just gonna gloss over the dog whistles there are we?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, thats the point. The Trump administration has targeted people for being brown and having tattoos, accusing them of being part of a gang, and being violent criminals, when there is no evidence. That is quite literally the reference.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

And doubling down on that false premise does what exactly?

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What dog whistles? He was very clear. Do you know what a "dog whistle" is?

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He's highlighting the "absurdity" that people in "suits and ties and congressional pins" are stealing when we all know it's really the "folks with tattoos and hoodies" who are supposed to be thieves.

You're not wrong that it's very clear and not much of a dog whistle, but it's still apparently subtle enough that it goes over the head of most of this thread.