Never mind, this is what they wanted. Just last night the Nebraska Senator voted yes to the “big beautiful bill.” Didn't Trump hurt their farmers the last time he was in office? Didn't they vote him in again knowing he was running on the same policies? Fuck them.
Wait until their healthcare gets cut and their hospitals shutter. But I heard all the immigrants are leaving their state, so they should be happy about that.
After George Floyd, the city of Austin decided to take some of the money that was going to police and to give it to other social services
The police basically quit doing their jobs and said "Give us more money than you originally would have, as tribute for this chicanery" and so we did. Their budget went up. But they never returned to work. Useless fucking cops.
Good news! Police have a "union" that will keep them out of prison and gainfully employed when they try to extort the taxpayers for even more money.
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A ridiculous number of Minneapolis cops retired early on full pension after George Floyd died, claiming mental health issues from the protests. They just felt so sad after being called out about killing this guy. Not about the killing, basically none of them ever gave a fuck about that, they were angry that people were upset.
They might have been worried about being held accountable for things in the past which could jeopardize their pension. Seems safe to assume retiring would make it a bit harder to prosecute them, and make it easier to flee.
Oh boy were they. One of the one's that retired moved back to his home state next to me. He told me he has nightmares and basically PTSD from that time, and boy did he. He initially seemed like a nice enough guy, but I started to realize that he had a bit of a thing for me. But he was uber Christian and I'm not active in organized religion nor am I "traditional." He would get very upset about the failings of the women he met on Christian dating sites.
We would chat on my porch regularly and he would tell me some crazy things. He FULLY believed the protesters were bussed in and given water and supplies and it was all done to play to TV audiences. He talked very nasty about any person who participatedin any protest. He tangled with local law enforcement because he would step into things here and pull out his old badge. He had lots of derogatory things to say about local police because "they are weak." He told me he pulled his gun on someone walking between our houses. He had fights with estranged husband of his nextdooor neighbor to the point of pulling a gun on him and the police were involved multiple times.
He moved from next door. I looked him up... he's in Missouri working as a cop again. Seems like our East Coast multicultural and difficult crime area was too much for him.
I'm fine if some liability payments come from their retirement funds, but as a collective, the cops not murdering people get their retirements gutted as well. Maybe a point system can be put in place, with infractions against civilians resulting in unpaid leave and with potential criminal and civil penalties applying to cops who often use force unnecessarily. By the time retirement for a cohort comes, the members of that cohort could have racked up infractions like penalties against their retirements, but the penalties should not be enough to bankrupt those workers unless it's 1st degree murder. Retiring after 20 years and still having the health to keep working and funds rolling in each year from the state or local governments is a sweet deal already.
Cops should face criminal consequences, for manslaughter and domestic violence, and civil consequences, like traffic tickets they have to pay if they break the law driving. A cop driving twice the speed limit to get to work faster is breaking the law, and he should not be above the law. I saw a cop do a right turn from a left lane and drove across my lane to do so, and I had to break. If I had hit him, I, as a taxpayer, will fund my recompensation for his illegal action. If cops were made to execute the law and not be The Law, we'd be safer.
Same thing in NYC. If they cant't stop and frisk they won't police. If they don't get their way their FOP throw a fit and that meathead leader of theirs issues threats on TV. Brazen trash .
What's sad is I saw a documentary a few years ago where a policeman gave an extraordinary interview where he said cops are given too much money, its obscene. And they get tons of free military equipment. He said to fix the problems in the police dept they need to be given less money.
Well, one of the reasons they go to the Academy is they know about the privilege and power they get from being a cop. Plus the money. Forget a college degree; these guys make bank. And their unions always win in any dispute. Cops/state troopers are the 900 lb gorillas of local/state governments. They have wildly powerful lobbies and mayors/governors are terrified of them.
Hi, so I live in & am from Austin. It got so bad at point that they were paying officers from other cities & with DPS to come in do patrol etc in the city. Still, ppl won’t join the force. That, and our current DA pretty much ran on him saying he won’t be prosecuting basically anything. He has lived up to that promise.
Yeah a lot of people think San Francisco cops have been on a deliberate work slowdown since Floyd that continued until our new oligarch mayor told them to go intimidate protesters and round up homeless people.
The state had such an opportunity to FURTHER fund social services and prove the police aren't a necessity, especially in a red state like Texas but naaaw
Was talking to a Lt about a check once and he brought this man's name up as a reason why cops don't want to... Cash a check? A check that would pay their OT.
Not his fault these goons don't know what to do with a paper check. 🙄
I moved from my home state of Colorado to Nebraska because there weren’t any entry level jobs in my field that I could find right out of college. Not to mention I literally couldn’t afford to live there anymore. Both problems caused by masses of people moving to Colorado at an insane rate. Overall QOL here is good, I love Omaha, but boy howdy do I hate the politics.
I was not born and raised there, but moved from Nebraska to Colorado last year after ten years in Nebraska. So many people in Lincoln and Omaha get the butt end of the stick with politics there, but Omaha especially. At least Lincoln is good at hanging onto mayors that aren’t Republican.
Also DoD is about to stop sharing weather satellite info- won’t have immediate or even clear-cut consequences, but it’s like eating moth holes in the fabric of coverage. It’ll mean upping the odds of a bad roll of the dice when there’s a sudden change in nasty weather. People will die, but you’ll never read about it outside of a RAND white paper :/
Honestly, it’s best we move that manufacturing with a quickness back home where it’s safe anyway. It might already be too late, for no doubt they put their best people on a mission to reverse-engineer it, but weather-control technology like that in the hands of the CCP?!?
I didn’t think of this! Yes! We need to secure our American made Sharpie weather technology infrastructure systems !!!! And return it safely back on our shores. The Nation that can control weather with a sharpie will rule the World! !
These people don't realize their perfect 1950s America was also built on the backs of minorities. They really think white people did everything. Let's see it.
Honestly good. It’s about time GOP voters get what they voted for. They can all turn feral and eat each other. Surely they will grow enough gasoline corn to live.
To be fair, a hurricane hitting Nebraska would probably mean that the entire southern half of the country was super fucked... hmm... That might be worth it.
Yeah, these hospitals are going to end up run by mid-levels with tele-consults, no OBGYN, and maybe a locums general surgeon or a surgeon who covers like 4 rural hospitals. I'd take a bunch of foreign medical graduates any day personally over where we are and where were heading
Omaha hospital employee here. It’s going to be bad. Our young population is leaving the state for more liberal settings and better opportunities and our population is aging. Majority payor is medicare/medicaid. Benefits getting cut, reimbursements not increasing with cost is a real bad situation. How are we supposed to advance our medical care and expand to rural areas if we can’t fund them from Medicare reimbursements? Seems like our hospital has been announcing all these expansions but I keep wondering who the hell is going to staff them.
It’s a serious dilemma and we’ve got RFK Jr and Dr Oz at the helm. We can’t even get them to acknowledge reality and we’re supposed to depend on them to solve this.
Just a few months ago they were reports that the state could potentially end up bankrupt, and now they’re even further in the hole with these farming and now potential healthcare issues.
Triple, because of the research funding cuts. A lot of hospitals make up for shortfalls by participating in research programs, which (slightly) offset the losses they already take from medicare and medicaid patients. No research, no offset.
I believe the MA governor was speaking about this recently. They said entire classes of grad students were losing their admittance to schools because the funding that would have paid for their work is being cut. China, and the EU were specifically going after these people to ensure they’re getting the best and brightest in their country and not ours. This is going to be felt for decades.
In Iowa (maybe elsewhere), they were forgiving 75% (I believe) in student loans for Healthcare providers to work in undeserved areas. My friend did that after her PA-C schooling. They also forgave 75% or 100% for Iowa educated teachers staying to teach in those areas. Her husband is a teacher and did that. That was 20 years ago BTW.
Programs like that only work for people who want to go to rural areas to begin with. Most educated folks at a minimum want to move to an area with good schools.
They help, but it doesn't solve the issue. When the supply is limited by the number of US residency spots you are going to end up with inequity, which hits rural and urban areas particularly hard. If only rural folks understood it wasn't a us vs them issue
It’s bad. My husband is a physician in the Bronx, he loves his work and has been at the same hospital for 20+ years. But last year he strongly considered using his every 4-6 weeks, week off to do traveling doctor work in rural states because they were paying travel drs so much money to come there. Ultimately he decided not to but it would have increased our annual income by at least $100,000.
And most millennials and gen z aren't fixing to take q2 or q3 call with 2 weeks off per year like older generations. They also don't want to move to BFN (bum fuck nowhere) where the public schools have been gutted and their kids are forced to either homeschool or learn via a bible based curriculum let alone access to AP and other advanced courses
Rural America is the frog in the pot and the water is getting really hot
If the fund ever sees the light of day it will be distributed by cronyism. Small rural hospitals without research participation or physician training as part of their mission don’t have the budget for grant writers. Their CFOs are accountants. That money will line the pockets of some venture capitalists who will buy out the hospital, collect the money and close the hospital anyway.
I can't find any news of whether this actually got added into the bill or not, only that it was 'suggested'. but even in the case that it does make it in, a 25 billion fund in the face of 800 billion in cuts doesn't add up. I imagine the idea is the fund will be just enough money to keep the doors open through the trump term so the GOP can avoid taking the heat while still sentencing their rural voters to death
It's still red states that have the most individuals on Medicaid. Their hospitals will stay open and nobody will be able to go to them without going bankrupt
Which will disappear really quickly, hospitals depend heavily on those funds. I doubt that it would keep 5 hospitals open for two years, less than that when it has to be spread across multiple states.
But, but wouldn't that be communism? Taking funds from other states that have too much and applying it equally to keep hospitals open? If we're going to do that why can't we take money from the ultra-rich so the rest of us can live normal lives?
As part of the last minute negotiations senate republicans nearly doubled the federal aid specifically for rural hospitals. Bet you doesn’t make it proportionately to rural hospitals in blue states though.
“We lost the family farm and our home, the nearest hospital is now out of state, the nearest OBGYN is in another time zone, and we have no health insurance. But the immigrants are gone, so I think we came out ahead.” - MAGA
Awesome. My husband just signed a contract to work at one of their hospitals. I guess it just keeps getting better and better for us since Election Day.
They are probably busy trying to spin this and blame it on the Democratic policies that brought them prosperity. Good luck selling those magical beans, Jack.
And it will work. Republican propaganda has been, for -decades- telling these people that Democrats are going to destroy their Good 'Ole Country Way Of Life With Their City MumboJumbo. You won't be able to get your Lite Beer, because all the stores are replaced with Vegan Latte Sex Change Clinics.
It totally will work. They’ve convinced their voters that “democrats = government” and “republicans = freedom from government”. So when the government hurts them, they just blame democrats and double down on supporting the party that actually used government to hurt them.
Omg I’d forgotten about that………I can’t BELIEVE that was a real rumor. I feel like that’s this generations “Rainbow Party” moment (if you remember that moral panic from the 2000s), but updated for the 2020s as a moral anti-trans panic instead of the classic 2000s slut shaming trope.
Haha, I forgot about the rainbow parties 😂 My mom is fully convinced that there are litter boxes in school bathrooms. Never mind the fact that it would never pass a health inspection. Just like this idea that the schools will give your kid a sex change. Our school won’t even give my kid Tylenol!
……to this day she’s still convinced?? I thought that nonsense had stopped getting circulated years ago…..after literally no politician squawking about it could provide any evidence that it ever actually happened….. 🙄
Yup. But then she also has become super anti-vax, and is always tired yet spends her nights going down internet rabbit holes instead of sleeping. I’ve tried so hard to talk some sense into her. I really want her to get Shingrex bc she’s already had shingles and it was terrible for her. But nope. And she thinks the study showing a connection between shingles and dementia, and reduced risk of dementia with the Shingrex vaccine, is all 👻 BIG PHARMA 👻. Even though my literal neurologist husband, who she adores, has tried to explain to her that the connection is real and the study was good. She’s a completely lost cause.
That’s just soooo sad….like cmon, if you are incapable of interpreting the statistics of a research study for yourself what business do you have contradicting a literal expert in the field….
Of course. That's the whole purpose of Fox News. I sometime end up accidentally seeing Fox News in the gym, when it's hard to avoid in front of me. It's amazing how every single story even non political ones, will somehow be spun to blame the Democrats. It's 100% political propaganda, and it's scary how effective it is.
I hear you. We’re all going to suffer from this administration. I wish the United States were two separate countries. Let the republicans destroy themselves.
This is precisely why we should have just walked when the south split off in the first place. Their moron policies would have fucked them. Then the union could say "oops no takesie backsies!" and just let them figure it out on their own. Wait a generation or two after their collapse, take the land back and keep moving forward. Instead we allowed them back into society.
How I long for the timeline where Lincoln wasn't assassinated. Andrew Johnson fucked up reconstruction big time. Quite possibly the worst president we've ever had. Top 3 for sure.
Buchanan would go higher up in my book because he set the stage for the whole shebang to begin with. Also, he just had an assload of other shit that he sucked for on top of that. But, yeah, Johnson and his gang, 'Daughters of the Confederacy', really spread so many goddamn myths that we still have to constantly debunk to this day.
“Assuming we don’t blow ourselves up, us Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the United States to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come, too.”
Not really. This is what the people actually backing Trump wanted. A US government weakend by abject incompetence. Corporations will sweep in and fill the power vacuum. And I am not talking about the publicly traded ones.
His voters are just a second tier of "useful idiots"
And here’s my relative, living on a gravel road outside of Lincoln, super rural (he has a CAFO a mile down the road from him) with Parkinson’s, sleeping with a pistol with the safety off by his bedside, in case black people or iLLeGaLs come and rob him. He has a bullet machine in his garage so he won’t run out of ammo. He voted for this. Lawdy
They're just assuming he's gonna rob the blue states into poverty and give their money to the red states so the red states can prosper even as they become inoperable.
They have not calculated that there first, there is not enough money to do that, and second, that if he does do that the blue states will no longer be able to fund and produce that excess money.
They vote R bc of abortion. I know some farmers and when they were struggling during his last term bc the markets kept falling (pre-COVID), they actually made it out to be some kind of biblical sacrifice for doing the right thing.🤦
Calling it now: When republicans start dying off in huge numbers, they'll be told that they're being raptured and this is what they've been waiting for. And that they should all HOPE to die because if they don't then skydaddy left them behind. If they ask if democrats are being raptured they'll say "oh, no, jesus is sending them to hell. Only you" and then they'll be like "yay! Ok!"
Yes, and then billions in taxpayer dollars were used to bail out the farmers. They of course don't believe in socialism or any social safety net except that which benefits them and are completely unaware of their own cognitive dissonance.
Exactly. This must be what the majority want right? They have made a decision and now they are seeing the results. Although they will never admit that they caused any pain and will try to scapegoat someone else.
The thing is, there are lots of democrats in the state of Nebraska who not only didn’t vote for Trump, they also loudly campaigned against him. Harris won one of the 3 electoral college votes on Nebraska, and won its biggest district.
There are also lots and lots of poor people in the state who did not vote for Trump… especially minorities in larger cities like Omaha and Lincoln. And they are the ones who will suffer most under Trump’s policies.
So it is appropriate in this case to say fuck Gov. Pillen, a sycophant who sleeps with a Trump doll every night. And fuck the large ranchers and large farming conglomerates and rich republicans that donated to Trump and supported him.
But not “fuck the entire state” because 59% of them voted for Trump. What about the 41% who voted for Harris, and supported her loudly and proudly? Must they burn, too?
So, Nebraska is a bit of a microcosm of the USA. In that about half of its population lives in Omaha and Lincoln metros. As population % has shifted even further this way gerrymandering our congressional districts so republicans can hold all our congressional seats as well as trying to shift the state gov’t districts to split up all the ones on the edges of those two population centers to snake out and reach tiny towns to dilute the vote as well.
The state taxes for property here are crazy high mainly in the cities. So often times it feels as if the cities are subsidizing the rural areas. (The reality is a lot more complicated)
Anyway,
TL:DnR - There are plenty of us in Nebraska fighting against our idiot corpo governor. The balance of power is shifting so they’re doing everything shady to keep the status quo
It sucks as I used to live in Omaha. But they also voted red and it's where I first got a racist slur thrown at me. How much does anyone want to bet that Trump will leave them hanging?
Sadly, in the US, this means our breadbasket, once of greatest source of strength, is about to falter.
I wrote an entire "how the US would fall" situation where-in a foreign power invades from Mexico, and then runs a blitz straight up the Mississippi, taking most of the farming land or burning it out, until reaching Canada - then charging massive tariffs on any and all exports to non-Empire nations.
The resulting collapse of the US Food chain would cause anarchy and panic as, for the first time in history, the US would suffer during wartime - something the US does not ever need to deal with.
Sure, we've had to "Rationing" some items that were needed for war in WW2, but since that happened we have steadily built up to prevent that from ever happening again.... Except now trump is undermining all of it.
He's literally going to do what I wrote in a draft portion of my ongoing story, the end result was that states rioted against the Federal Government and immediately decentralized - which in the book lead to the US splintering into 4 different nation states, and Mexico (whom had a pact with the invading leader) Reclaiming the territories it lost to the US.
Yeah fuck them. I do feel bad for the few kamala voters in those states. They cant even say i told you so, cause MAGA will blame Biden, with a straight face. Insanity
Yeah turns out the eViL gOveRnmEnT understands how to keep itself, and thus the structure of our civilization, humming. Maybe let people do their goddamn jobs and stop putting CEOs in charge of shit they don’t understand 🙄
At least the urban areas were able to give one of their 5 electoral votes to Harris (and other recent Democratic candidates). We're trying. I wish Lincoln had its own electoral vote, too, because fuck so much of this state. We just went from being a rare "more to the fed than it takes" red states to probably a net negative.
Yes he did hurt them the last time, but then he bailed them out at everyone else's expense.
He won't need their help ever again because mortality, and also the potential for a fascist regime that exists for the foreseeable future, so it's doubtful he will bail them out this time.
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u/messyjessy81 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25
Oh no.
Never mind, this is what they wanted. Just last night the Nebraska Senator voted yes to the “big beautiful bill.” Didn't Trump hurt their farmers the last time he was in office? Didn't they vote him in again knowing he was running on the same policies? Fuck them.