Law 25 Republicans vote against Bill that helps Veterans qualify for medical care; relating to Burn pits

[So Fresh]

lol US politics is such a shit show - this country is eating itself from the inside, you don't need no Putin or Xi to fuck you up - you are doing an upstanding job on your own already

Trump was the best that could happen to the US if you look at it from Xi’s perspective

 

[helltoupee]

Can any of you Trump Lickspittles talking about mandatory spending which is the GOP talking point, explain to me why they all voted for the bill the first time it was introduced, then it got put back up again due to a clerical issue and those voting no, suddenly have an issue with mandatory spending. They should have brought that issue up the first time they voted yes to the bill. I guess Mitch gave them different marching orders and a nice talking point to trot out there.
We spend more on the military than the next 8 countries combined but bitching about money spent on Vet's health. The problem is the Vet does not have the resources to make it rain in DC like the military complex, who sell fucking hammers for a couple grand and make sure everyone in Congress gets rained on by cash. Its amusing that a country that spends so much on the military complains about money to help the veterans. Its even funnier the Rubes eat it up and parrot the talking point on social media.
The fist bump was fucking disgusting. If the bill was bad then fix it for our Vets, they deserve that, but dont fucking fist bump over it. That just shows how our ruling class think of the people they are supposed to represent. Term limits are needed because those money grubbing self serving fucks no longer represent the people.
Sadly peoples lives are being fucked with because our Congress is no longer We The People and live in an alternative universe where they play games with the health of the men and women who proudly serve this country. If the bill is so bad, fucking fix it, but dont fist bump when it does not pass.


Imagine being manipulated by whatever media you consume to think a politician is actually going to help you or fighting for you. If you think that, then Bless your heart.
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As to the bolded above, on the contrary, Congress is in fact "the people". "We the people" did not refer to regular working class individuals like you and me. "The People" were simply landed aristocrats who fully recognized that threats to their wealth and property came from a multitude of angles, hence we get a system designed to protect the minority (the wealthy) from the majority (everyone else). It has nothing to do with the garbage ideal they teach us in school about looking out for the little guy. Our founding fathers were preoccupied with the notion that the common folk could turn against them in a truly democratic system, hence our representative system of government and electoral college.

Further, everyone likes to point to the secular nature of the Founding Fathers design. They simply saw the church as another threat to their own wealth, property, and status, and wanted to be sure that the church could not gain enough political power that would disrupt the apple cart.

You couple that with the fact that we as Americans are generally taught from a very young age that selfishness is a virtue. It's admired. It use to be individualism, but not entirely, as previous generations had more of a sense of the group ethic. But it has devolved in to extreme selfishness, where every kid growing up in America, or at least the majority, are spoiled rotten and made to feel as if the world revolves around them and only them.

Is it any wonder, that our politicians who were raised in America, educated in our schools, and part of our selfish culture, aren't going to be selfish once they hit office? It should be no surprise that these people are going to make decisions that are in their own best interests first.

The only way we fix this is by somehow disrupting the institution known as legal bribing. Unfortunately, the Dems' few weak approaches are toothless, and the GOP resists and shitcans anything to do with trying to limit their own ability to line their own pockets.

 

[D 1 Wrestler]

You lefties have sucked Stewart's ball sack from the beginning. Sorry if the rest of us don't fall all over ourselves because he has decided to support veterans, especially since his entire shtick was to carefully edit together quick sound bites strewn together out of context to make certain people look heartless or ridiculous. When he was called out on it, he would just claim that was a comedian. He was completely dishonest when it came to this. He had a large amount of power and used it to his advantage and then wanted a free pass from responsibility.

Says the guy whose party fell over themselves over Rudy Giuliani lmfao

 

[funcrusher2007]

lol US politics is such a shit show - this country is eating itself from the inside, you don't need no Putin or Xi to fuck you up - you are doing an upstanding job on your own already

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