I hope I’m coherent with this because I am RAGING. My husband told me to go look at CNN. I did. And that’s what this rant is about. Trump and Republicans need concrete shoes and to be dropped in the ocean. The Big Ugly Bill’s repercussions have started. We knew something would be coming, but this feels even worse than what we imagined. From CNN:
As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic. Gone are the days of seniors walking down the road from their house to see the town doctor. Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations.
What the holy fck. Here is the first example of how Trump’s bull is hitting the people in the smaller communities already. What happens if someone can’t drive to the next “closest” doctor’s office or clinic? What happens if someone has something serious happen and there are no doctors, nurses, or healthcare? Are we going to have more people dying?
Democrats are fighting in Congress to get health care back, but it’s an uphill climb. I have yet to see what it is about this that Republicans are so violently against it. It doesn’t make any sense to me. A lot of constituents are going to be severely affected by this, and it’s already starting. What’s going on that we don’t know about, that isn’t in the news?
Democrats are hoping to make health care a defining issue nationally in next year’s midterms. But the environment in Churchville illustrates the challenges the party faces, particularly in rural communities. A woman sitting in the coffee shop whispered under her breath that she supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. It takes her over an hour to visit her doctors in Charlottesville. Rural health care is always precarious, she says, and the clinic closure was especially a blow for her husband. But she said she wouldn’t put up a sign for a Democrat “because of the environment,” and she declined to be named by CNN.
In a manner of speaking, that’s even worse. Small communities tend to be pretty insular. For someone with that much fear, who has to watch every step, says more about the state of this country. Trump and Republicans did this to them, yet they’re still supporters. Why, people, why? There’s someone in my family who voted for him and refuses to see what is going on with the country. How on earth is this good?
I hope they don’t believe in that bull$h!t rebate check, but I don’t know because it’s dangerous to discuss it. Yes, I’m serious. We don’t discuss politics *ever* because there’s no listening, so no point in trying. The rose colored glasses are thick, and there’s no room for dissent. They know I write for a political website, but I never say anything further. Others are so sure they are right about him that they won’t listen, either. I would lose not just the battle, but the war in one sentence.
Irene Holmes, 59, moved to Churchville three years ago. When her son died, she and her husband wanted a change of scenery from New York. Beset with a host of medical challenges from liver issues to high blood pressure, she relied on and valued the town clinic. “I’m a mixed bag of tricks, a lot of medical issues,” she said. On politics, she tends to “keep her mouth shut” to avoid getting into it with her neighbors. But when asked if Trump was to blame for the clinic closure, Holmes said, “Absolutely.” “What he’s done is destroying rural areas,” said Holmes.
There is more information in the article that isn’t included here because I would be writing a novel. It’s so damn frustrating to see this happen. They have LOST their clinic, and some think there is an easy solution (drive), which is nonsense, and they still love Trump, who did this to them. Trump doesn’t care. Republicans don’t care. Look at the amount of money Trump spends on golf. Look at Republicans with their lips superglued to Trump’s ass. And look at the people who are losing their doctors, clinics, hospitals. The OBBA is crap. The OBBA takes away. Yes, I’m still angry with Joni Ernst. And it’s just under a year til midterms. How much worse will it be by then, and what needs to happen for these people to take off their rose colored glasses? What needs to happen for us to get healthcare back? I don’t know right now. And that’s worse.
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Some pundits said before 47 was elected that it might take people to be impacted directly. I knew that would have to happen before they realized who and what he is. Here we are.
Of the 200 people in Churchville, Virginia, how many voted for republican?
130?, 180?. The vast majority voted for republican.
These are republican policies, as revealed before the election, that they voted for.
I have no sympathy for their unthinking stupidity.
FAFO.
Karma.
I’m afraid I have little sympathy for a community who overwhelmingly supports Trump, and has intimated one of its citizens so much she feels she has to anonymously whisper that she voted for Kamala. If these people refuse to wake up they deserve whatever the repubs decide to do to them.
I’d be willing to bet that the TVs in 98% of those rural homes are tuned, day and evening, to FUX NEws or OANN or some other rightwing propaganda outlet. Likewise their car radios. All those people hear are lies, and have been hearing them for decades, especially about the dreaded Democrats. They believe that the left wing is godless communism and that only the GOP can save them from it. We owe much of this distortion to the Murdoch family, and owe the rest to a failed educational system.