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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE Joni Ernst on Medicaid & SNAP cuts: "Well, we all are going to die"
April Glick Pulito
@aprilglick.bsky.social
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠
Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
— April Glick Pulito (@aprilglick.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T13:44:51.658Z
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." ð« ð« ð« ð«

Brainfodder
(7,554 posts)I see no reason to sugarcoat?
Ocelot II
(126,298 posts)Why does Joni Ernst need to be a senator if she's going to die anyway? Why does anybody need anything? Or does GOP nihilism apply only to the poors?
Omnipresent
(7,045 posts)They think out of their reptilian brains, usually exploding in anger about things they dont understand. Everything is an affront to them.
Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)They of course are special and important.
And entitled to all that life has to offer.
ShazzieB
(21,206 posts)And the third is the only one with an obvious answer:
PatSeg
(50,668 posts)One that occurs to me quite often. How much money do these fools need when they're only here for such a short time? With enough money, one may be able to prolong life a few years with expensive, cutting-edge medicine, but in the end, they're going to die like everyone else.
marble falls
(67,157 posts)BOSSHOG
(43,440 posts)Because Jesus thinks its a cool idea. Republicans know nothing of Jesus.
Because the food is grown by US Farmers? Whom republicans dont give a fuck about.
If republicans have no spines and worship a convicted felon?
Bettie
(18,637 posts)they don't have to actually be elected again.
Rebl2
(16,735 posts)Makes you wonder
Lokee11
(374 posts)Interesting ain't it?
Not saying but just saying
✊FDT!
Irish_Dem
(72,738 posts)They know the elections will be rigged for them.
Blue Full Moon
(2,515 posts)UpInArms
(53,188 posts)WAB
chouchou
(2,192 posts)I put her in the same jar as Skeletor......Rick Scott.
Traildogbob
(11,568 posts)Is abortion not legal. They all gonna die anyway, you prolife ass zit.
Eliminated elected people tax paid health care immediately. They gonna die anyway, why waste tax dollars?
Ligyron
(7,956 posts)Oh wait, the Original Sin all people are guilty of thanks to Adam and Eves evil behavior in the Garden of Edamame.
I think there was shellfish in their sushi although it was decades and eons before it was forbidden.
Still, they should have known not to ask the snake where the soy sauce was as he pointed to the tree of knowledge
Stupid and hate are rampant.
I just read a newspaper story, cut and pasted it to send my brother and daughter. I would offer the writer and paper here but it flipped to another story before I went back to it.
So here ya go: In Arkansas, a mass brawl broke out with fists flying among parents at a Kindergarten Graduation! Kids and teachers are seen in the background crying and screaming for the ADULTS to stop. Unbelievable, I needed to read it twice and pass it on. Really MurKKKa, this is Gawds Country? Being Blessed.
I initially found it hard to believe. But Arkansas.
Really? Any body there ever graduate Kindergarten????
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thought crime
(552 posts)Blue Full Moon
(2,515 posts)Rebl2
(16,735 posts)Win friends and influence people or maybe not🫤
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GP6971
(35,993 posts)dlk
(12,802 posts)What a cruel and violent country we have devolved into.
Uncle Joe
(62,486 posts)Thanks for the thread Miles Archer
dchill
(42,660 posts)MaineBlueBear
(202 posts)elocs
(24,486 posts)peggysue2
(12,059 posts)This is a line that's been circulating in Republican circles. People are going to die? No biggie because we all die.
Absolutely epitomizes the bankrupt, amoral Republican stance towards their constituents:
Your life means NOTHING.
bronxiteforever
(10,651 posts)peggysue2
(12,059 posts)
patphil
(8,111 posts)Baitball Blogger
(50,590 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)Jimvanhise
(469 posts)You should have been born rich.
JustAnotherGen
(35,961 posts)This tracks with that and the maga Repub Culture of Cruelty. It was totally on brand.
CTyankee
(66,655 posts)Geez, what a merry thought!
OrlandoDem2
(3,047 posts)In our passive, ill-informed society today thatll get her re-elected..
Initech
(105,763 posts)They're mean, evil slimebags. They should at least own that.
MLWR
(430 posts)Joe Nation
(1,099 posts)phase of our own dissolution.
Seinan Sensei
(1,079 posts)Rearing its ugly head yet again
Scrivener7
(56,539 posts)Beacool
(30,434 posts)I have disliked previous presidents and administrations. They were saints compared to this one. I despise with the fire of a thousand suns Trump and the despicable people who surround them. The deliberate cruelty is appalling. They're also incompetent, unqualified, greedy and corrupt. Not one Trump appointee is qualified to do the job they were appointed to do.
May Trump and his merry band of amoral lowlifes, rot in hell when they do humanity a favor and die.
Martin68
(26,227 posts)HappyH
(73 posts)its because the hogs ate her.
70sEraVet
(4,697 posts)We're All Gonna Die Anyway -- WAGDA.
It'd make a great hat!
orangecrush
(25,868 posts)Sogo
(6,490 posts)(just filling in her fantasy).
not a texan
(67 posts)He was going to die anyway, just like the people to whom he denied coverage
1WorldHope
(1,481 posts)they will elect hear again if she runs. what she does or says matters little to the maga cult.
johnnyfins
(2,520 posts)Do these people, including Joni Ernst, understand history? Do they know what eventually happens to authoritarians? Somebody, somewhere, is keeping track of all of this horseshit. That clip prolly went right onto the evidence hard drive.
She is a real scumbag. Now that her own sex scandal has quieted down
She comes out with some shit like this.
AND FUCKING SMILES WHILE SAYING IT.
The word I want to use to describe her: use your imagination.
xocetaceans
(4,232 posts)There are many good questions asked, but one that was particularly good started at about 26:08 in the video. Spoiler: Joni fails to answer well, and she's all for destroying a lot of the US Federal Government because the US States should do it all for themselves (or, at least, all which was not considered in 1789) under the US Constitution.
The question that evoked the response cited in the OP starts at 38:56 in the video.
Semi-spoiler: This question and the ensuing exchange lasts at least five minutes. The specific remark noted in the OP occurs at about 45:33 in the video.
mdbl
(7,022 posts)and doesn't give a shit about anyone else.
Mysterian
(5,796 posts)paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
Chuuku Davis
(596 posts)moondust
(20,960 posts)Team player.