I've never been a believer in the importance of widely publicizing all the monstrous, fascist bullshit GOP and Republican-aligned officials spout to justify their horrible political decisions when someone finally presses them for answers about why, for example, they're prepared to kill thousands of their own voters to give Broligarch villains more spare yacht money. The simple truth however is that we already know these maggot bootlicking nazis don't give a fuck if labor class Americans live or die; it's written all over their policies, and thus it doesn't really matter what bullshit they come up with to justify those policies. At some point however, the mask slips often enough and these monsters say the quiet part out enough times, that the callous inhuman response to questions about the real human carnage the Republicans are enabling, becomes so repugnant it becomes a story in its own right.
As such I'm gonna do a slop-post round up of some of the most outrageous things GOP politicians and Republican-aligned media people have said to justify their support for, again, a homicidal class war bill that will kill thousands, potentially millions of Americans, and drag the country closer to the fascist dictatorship of Trump's dreams.
First up, GOP House Speaker and noted fundie fascist "anti-porn pact with his son" haver Mike Johnson wants you to know that if the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kills you, or someone you love, it's because you were undeserving of medical care.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-claims-big-beautiful-bill-will-only-cut-medicaid-undeserving-people_n_683391fae4b0a4eee805dd8c
Mike Johnson Claims 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Will Only Cut Medicaid For Undeserving People
“The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our work to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse,” Johnson said on CNN."
Even setting aside the fact that Johnson is lying, this is absolutely going to harm people who depend on Medicaid, and the numerous reports in this thread prove it; what the Speaker openly admitted is more or less that if you can't work, the government considers you "waste, fraud, and abuse" which is an extraordinary thing to say to underpaid, underserved labor class people you want to keep voting for you.
Next up, the Republican Senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst, resorted to amateur existentialism to defend her support for the Billionaire Bill. Sure, this legislation will kill people, but on a long enough timeline aren't we all going to die?
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-senators-defense-of-medicaid-cuts-well-we-all-are-going-to-die/
GOP Senator’s Defense of Medicaid Cuts: “Well, We All Are Going to Die”
"As Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst answered a question about the GOP’s cuts in a town hall, constituents concerned over the future of crucial lifesaving programs yelled, “people are going to die.”
“Well, we all are going to die,” Ernst responded, in an exasperated tone. “For heaven’s sakes. For heaven’s sakes, folks.”
Like Johnson above, Ernst also resorted to bald-faced lies about the GOP's desire to protect the most vulnerable; which once again can be confirmed as absolute bullshit due to the overwhelming number of nonpartisan analysis reports indicated the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is definitely going to kill poor, disabled, or otherwise marginalized people. In addition to targeting trans people, effectively banning asylums seekers from nonwhite countries, and helping Trump ignore court orders.
Things were no better on Trump state news, otherwise known as Fox. Over there, host Brian Kilmeade wants you to know that this is only going to affect broke people "addicted to free money" in the form of healthcare, and those chumps would have died already if the program worked like it's "supposed to."
Fox Host Blames Gutting Medicaid On Poor “Healthcare Addicts”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WKhBF2LgE
I'd like to take a moment to pick out that last line of reasoning, because it runs through a majority of the ways these nazi ghouls are trying to justify throwing your grandma into a woodchipper while releasing the largest Pentagon budget in American history *and* giving the uber-wealthy ruling class the largest tax cut we've ever seen, at the same time. You see, it would be very hard for the GOP to just straight up deny the Billionaire Bill is going to harm millions of labor class people in terrible ways, although some are trying that strategy. What they've settled on is an argument that Medicaid and other social safety net programs were never intended to help all the people they'll be denying coverage to. There's just one problem in that this argument does nothing to address the human carnage the bill is going to cause; they're saying if you die, you were always meant to die, and they're not even blinking while doing it.
Finally of course, we need to give a special shoutout to GOP Congressman Mike Flood, who when confronted at a town hall about a provision in the bill he'd just voted for, blurted out that he hadn't even read it.
Town hall ERUPTS over GOP rep.'s confession about House budget bill
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/town-hall-erupts-over-gop-rep-s-confession-about-house-budget-bill-240479813534