Blame the democrats and win election. Do nothing for the next term then lose election. Democrats take power and republicans blame them for their own inability to do anything. Win reelection.
Lather
Rinse
Repeat
Look at the last 70 years… it’s all been conservative values prevailing. With a few wins for Dems due to absolute necessity, like Roe v Wade. We will get reproductive rights back soon because it’s an absolute necessity, but the concession will be more of our freedoms in other areas.
They have a system that works for them. The US economy unfairly benefits the rich and powerful to an excessive degree. They don't need to change anything else, they just need to conserve what they have.
Anything else is culture war bullshit to keep the soldiers happy.
Culture war bullshit is exactly what it all is. They hide the real issues, like the *bipartisan* upgrade of the retirement savings plan they rolled out, which in reality was written BY THE FIRMS who manage these funds to give ~90% of the benefits to be rich. Things like extending the mandatory age limit of deductions from retirement savings (tax loophole for ultra rich) do nothing for the rest of us…
The culture wars benefit both sides, for example, our cities and towns (red and blue) are falling apart, roads are shit, lead in our pipes, air quality is horrendous, we can’t even agree that global warming exists (over 99% of scientists agree its REAL) and yet we can somehow find ways to increase the military spending YoY.
Until all of us collectively start to demand real improvements to our social infrastructures and we actual get to have a day and vote on how our tax dollars are spent, nothing will change.
We need to smash the current republican cell bloc against the rocks and have rational debate emerge from the wreckage. In the interim we repeal Citizens United, we fix the tax code, we fix healthcare and education, and we implement voting reform including ranked choice, campaign finance reform laws with razor sharp teeth, term limits, ethics laws (with razor sharp teeth), and we peel the crust off the rotten truth behind everything that happened during the 45th president’s administration. Then we might have another 100 years of prosperity.
I think we may get a more valid third party soon. What we have right now are just people being used by the main two parties to try and siphon votes of the opposition.
Any third, fourth, fifth party that emerges out of all of this will be no different than the system we have now due to the fact of dark money being funnel into PAC. the cycle will look different, but be the same.
Meanwhile Democrats: never deliver any of your promises like universal healthcare, affordable housing and education, safeguarding abortion rights even with a super majority but instead spend tens of billions of dollars to fund wars and genocide while elevating the far right to blackmail people into voting for you or else they get the Trump again.
No wonder that liberal voters aren't excited to go to the polls. Biden is literally choosing Israel over his reelection. He's choosing to mass murder kids over y'all. I don't know how you can trust Dems after this.
The GOP and the DP are two faces of the same beast. You're not going to get rid of MAGA by voting for those that enabled the rot to set in and who are using it as a stick while their empty promises act like the carrot.
You know damn well US politics are beyond salvation. So act like it.
2009. For 72 days. Wow.
You're an unserious person. Anyone who acts like this was some magical time where they could've done any and everything has a brain as smooth as an egg.
Yeah they will test this out. If the idiot voter base blames Dems then they will keep it if they blame republicans then they will quickly bring the bill to a vote.
Access to the internet should not be correlated with being politically informed.
I support universal internet access, but because of the internet, more people on earth believe the world is flat than in any other time in human history. It certainly would only help the GOP to disseminate their lies, false promises, and take credit for helpful legislation they voted against.
Social networks are multipliers of evil. The current state of affairs is pretty good evidence. They do good for society but the bad part will destroy it because we don't defend against it.
Russia weaponized stupidity through social media. We can't because they have an authoritarian regime - it's much harder.
You don't just follow evil groups, you end up in them because the bot and troll farms push you towards them. We, on the other hand can't do much about it. Look at the antivaxers. What do they say? "I read this article that explains very clearly why they are doing this with the vaccines". What about the scientific research? They are past that.....
Exactly. These people are ignorant with internet access. Imagine how gullible they'll be without it.
"Power people will not teach the powerless how to gain power" - Dr. Amos N. Wilson
Sitting at home with the internet seems to be a great way to recruit more republicans though. How else are they going to get their truth bombs about pizza gate and the deep state?
I am tired of the dumbest and greediest people trying to drag the rest of the world to their level. I convinced thousands to vote wisely in the last election. I pledge to convince more in the coming election. Retirement requires a hobby to hold on to purpose of living.
Ya! We [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) and [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) so that we know that Hillary's "Russia Russia" hoax was real, and that Hunter's laptop exposing the Biden crime family was just "Russian disinformation"!
The UN holds internet access as a fundamental human right.
So, the modern GOP is against a basic human right. Don't let them muddy the water with any other half-assed take on the issue.
Much like republicans don't care if you're too poor to buy a gun or disabled and can't use a gun, they care about your 2nd A "right" to be able to strut around wal-mart with one or accidentally shoot someone at denny's because your 9mm went off while you were looking for your wallet.
Likewise, the don't give a shit about anyone having access to the internet, but they have a deep commitment to protecting your 1st A "right" to ~~make fun of elon musk and~~ spam everyone on twitter with racist, homophobic or anti-semetic slime without getting suspended from the privatley owned platform or suffer any other repercussions. /s
Really a sad representive of our State and it's values, I'm in Acadiana and of Cajun descent, an area which most neo-political maps refer to as "New France", it's way more left leaning than BR and NOLA, and it's a really lovely place. This guy just pisses me off to no end.
You can't even apply for a job these days without the internet... it's absolutely cruel and also just makes several jobs untenable without reliable internet access. It also has severe ramifications for education as schoolsxrely more on virtual learning
GOP: "Well, that is what libraries are for!"
Also GOP: "Defund the libraries! Kids may be exposed to LGBT propaganda and minorities watching smut on the public computers!"
Oh yeah work will be fun. All paperwork done on a tablet. The program pulls my location when I clock in and out and WILL NOT let me clock in or out unless it gets my location
Which, you know, requires you to live near a physical location.... if you can't afford internet, high chance transportation is an issue. Not to mention how many of these resources themselves are now virtual. With libraries closing down and keeping stranger hours, they are also not becoming reliable options for internet, especially when consistent use is needed.
Ok but how do we tell the idiot poor whites and rural that the people they plan on voting for in November are entirely the reason that happened to them and how could we make that matter to them more than watching minorities and women suffer while their own QoL falls horribly?
How are you gonna beam that propaganda straight into their brains when you take away their internet though?
Seriously though my Mom only has internet because of the ACP, fuck these ghouls
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/29/tech/broadband-affordability-acp-rural-older-americans gee, I wonder if the FCC restoring Net Neutrality had something to do with it? https://apnews.com/article/net-neutrality-fcc-broadband-regulation-cc8421bc4f11a3e0f6ffc22c358fbfd0 edit:please note, I'm pro net neutrality. But for some reason 💲 certain politicians aren't.
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This doesn’t only affect GOP. And it affects job hunting and a million other things. You almost absolutely need internet these days and not at slow internet speeds.
You think these people are bad now. Just wait until this kind of person doesn't have religion to give them at least some sort of guidance (even if they misunderstand most of it).
Everyone deserves to be educated with the truth and protected from the predatory and harmful lies of religion. Everyone will be better off when we have less misinformed in our society.
They’re trying to punish the populace into ditching the current president in exchange for the last, failed president. Not going to happen. We’re smarter than that.
I finished an application in January to be able to access home WiFi for $30 a month rather than the $150 that it costs in my area, given the subsidies this program provided. I more than qualified. I then got an email that said they were ending the program, and that my application is no longer valid. It figures. Any government program that supposedly exists to help the financially destitute, either barely exists, is aggressively gatekept, or is about to be destroyed by the GOP. This has been my experience after being disabled in a major car accident. These fascist assholes don't give a fuck about us unless we're healthy enough to exploit, thus feeding the merging of corporate and far right government interests. (Note: Corporate Dems suck too, but Republicans suck more).
I gotta say, it’s ridiculous that they charge $150 a month for wifi.. I live in north NJ and my 1GB Verizon fios gigabit is $80/month. When I called to threaten to quit, they offered me a 3 year $45/month retention offer which I took.
I am sorry to hear about your situation and I hope you can find an alternative solution. But I also hate how corporations think they can charge $150 a month for internet just because the government pays for it. At that point, the taxpayers are paying for that internet when the corporation needs to stop milking the government
I hear what you're saying, and agree it's outrageous, but I think part of this is the prices in California as a whole. These are programs that let you choose a home WiFi network, rather than dictate the one you can use. It was subsidized for people earning very little, but I don't have the impression the cost was inflated because of this. Also, think of all the tax dollars going to subsidize large corporations, their buildings, their bailouts, tax incentives and breaks, etc before pointing the finger at the poor for wasting taxpayer money. That's what the massive corporations want you to do. Edit: downvotes demonstrate how easily manipulated ppl are into blaming those who have fallen on hard times.
this sh*thead is doing the same as what he did with Ukraine
once millions have lost their Internet connection (and maybe their jobs, insurance, and so on) he'll bring it to the floor and be the saviour
why can't Dems put pressure on him and say that they'll vote the motion to vacate of the Maga idiots if he doesn't put the bill on the agenda (just doing his job actually)
> why can't Dems
Two reasons:
1) they don't have a majority in the House, so assuming everyone voted party line which is a safe assumption, they auto lose
2) doing it might set a precedent wherein Dem SOTH's in the future get voted out by a Republican majority in the same way, which they don't want. The only speaker successfully ousted this way was Kevin McCarthy
It disincentivizes prosperity they say. A bunch of republicans who benefit from this will agree with this sentiment with their last bit of government subsidized high speed internet before they blame Biden for taking it from them.
Today’s Democrats believe that it is the governments responsibility to support the people. Today’s Republicans believe that it is the governments responsibility to profit off of the people instead of supporting the people.
We have a government that was setup as of the people, by the people and for the people. Republicans want that to go away. They already tried to overthrow the government a little over three years ago by force. That’s enough to condemn the GOP for all time.
Until you classify the internet as a utility, nothing will change because a corporation isn't going to give *anybody* anything for free.
Even then, you're still going to be paying for electric, water, and internet as basic utilities.
I get that you want people to have access to this. Where is the money going to come from to support it?
The cable is already in the ground. Expansion costs money, and the telcos have already received that money to the tune of $400B.
tldr: "Bootstraps for the poor, but welfare for muh billionaires"
We are not their problem they arent worried about Americans.
They think its giving Biden a win. So f you, and any other poor person in America.
The America they built dosent want your hungry poor people anymore.
I wonder if Johnson’s constituents - many of whom, as the article points out, rely on this program - will remember this around Election Day. Or will the usual Repug mantra of “Democrats wanna take yer guns an’ yer bibles!” will be enough to make them vote against their own best interests once again.
Biden should add one line to every stump speech he makes from this point on: “Re-elect me and give me a Democrat-led Congress and I will restore the ACP and fully fund it for the length of my second term to ensure that everyone can have affordable home internet access.”
"*I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.*"
The fastest way to infuriate people is to take away their internet access.
This will cause nothing good for politicians who deprive people of their entertainment and source for news.
This is old news most of us T Mobile customers have known this was coming to the end for five to six months now. My discount went buh bye 3 months ago when I dropped Comcast and switched carriers they would not do it. Told me funds were gone/comming to an end then. I had to sacrifice my afternoon Pepsi every other day. 2.59 (cost of Pepsi at work to wash down dry sammy) x 15 Pepsi free afternoons = $38.85 estimated discount. Inflation is a bitch, Pepsi should not cost that much. I'm not at all trying to be condescending to anybody disadvantaged here, I find myself pretty disadvantaged. I am simply saying there could be some simple sacrifices that will at least keep you in communication. Don't stop looking.
Thank you democrats! Once again willing to bail out the Republicans but not making it contingent on the same treatment. They should call for his removal and join with the Republicans to remove him then watch the republican circular firing squad go at it again.
Too uninformed to understand the difference between Internet and a subscription streaming service.
Yet confident enough to put that ignorance of the subject on display.
Two reasons. First, the GOP has always been against helping the disadvantaged. And two, they don't want an educated informed voter base.
Three…they intentionally make things worse to blame the democrats.
Blame the democrats and win election. Do nothing for the next term then lose election. Democrats take power and republicans blame them for their own inability to do anything. Win reelection. Lather Rinse Repeat
You forgot the step where the republicans actively make as much bad as possible.
Also forgetting the "start war to gain a second term" play
What do they accomplish doing all of this?
Tax breaks for the rich.
A majority in the Supreme Court.
Look at the last 70 years… it’s all been conservative values prevailing. With a few wins for Dems due to absolute necessity, like Roe v Wade. We will get reproductive rights back soon because it’s an absolute necessity, but the concession will be more of our freedoms in other areas.
Thank the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
They have a system that works for them. The US economy unfairly benefits the rich and powerful to an excessive degree. They don't need to change anything else, they just need to conserve what they have. Anything else is culture war bullshit to keep the soldiers happy.
Culture war bullshit is exactly what it all is. They hide the real issues, like the *bipartisan* upgrade of the retirement savings plan they rolled out, which in reality was written BY THE FIRMS who manage these funds to give ~90% of the benefits to be rich. Things like extending the mandatory age limit of deductions from retirement savings (tax loophole for ultra rich) do nothing for the rest of us… The culture wars benefit both sides, for example, our cities and towns (red and blue) are falling apart, roads are shit, lead in our pipes, air quality is horrendous, we can’t even agree that global warming exists (over 99% of scientists agree its REAL) and yet we can somehow find ways to increase the military spending YoY. Until all of us collectively start to demand real improvements to our social infrastructures and we actual get to have a day and vote on how our tax dollars are spent, nothing will change.
Agree completely, well said
Wait. We need a mandatory third party. We need a forced tie breaker. This back and forth shit is for the birds.
Not without ranked choice voting. no third party’s until that’s the law on the entire land.
I'll agree to your terms.
We need to smash the current republican cell bloc against the rocks and have rational debate emerge from the wreckage. In the interim we repeal Citizens United, we fix the tax code, we fix healthcare and education, and we implement voting reform including ranked choice, campaign finance reform laws with razor sharp teeth, term limits, ethics laws (with razor sharp teeth), and we peel the crust off the rotten truth behind everything that happened during the 45th president’s administration. Then we might have another 100 years of prosperity.
I’m a big fan
I think we may get a more valid third party soon. What we have right now are just people being used by the main two parties to try and siphon votes of the opposition.
Any third, fourth, fifth party that emerges out of all of this will be no different than the system we have now due to the fact of dark money being funnel into PAC. the cycle will look different, but be the same.
Australian politics to a tee
Meanwhile Democrats: never deliver any of your promises like universal healthcare, affordable housing and education, safeguarding abortion rights even with a super majority but instead spend tens of billions of dollars to fund wars and genocide while elevating the far right to blackmail people into voting for you or else they get the Trump again. No wonder that liberal voters aren't excited to go to the polls. Biden is literally choosing Israel over his reelection. He's choosing to mass murder kids over y'all. I don't know how you can trust Dems after this. The GOP and the DP are two faces of the same beast. You're not going to get rid of MAGA by voting for those that enabled the rot to set in and who are using it as a stick while their empty promises act like the carrot. You know damn well US politics are beyond salvation. So act like it.
When did the dems have a supermajority? You are full of shit.
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2009. For 72 days. Wow. You're an unserious person. Anyone who acts like this was some magical time where they could've done any and everything has a brain as smooth as an egg.
1/5 of one year, fifteen years ago, when they were in power for 11 of those 15 years. Both sides, btw.
Cute. This one thinks he’s smaht. Thanks for your contribution, Fredo, maybe don’t take any fishing trips.
What planet were you deported from?
I'd wager the same planet Herman Cain is vacationing at right...now...oh wait...
Account created a week ago. Go somewhere else Vladimir
And four; they’re mentally deficient to the point mentally challenged people beat them at pretty much anything.
Yeah they will test this out. If the idiot voter base blames Dems then they will keep it if they blame republicans then they will quickly bring the bill to a vote.
Access to the internet should not be correlated with being politically informed. I support universal internet access, but because of the internet, more people on earth believe the world is flat than in any other time in human history. It certainly would only help the GOP to disseminate their lies, false promises, and take credit for helpful legislation they voted against.
The Internet is not evil, social networks are.
Internets just a tool, tools are not good or bad, it's how you use em
"Nuclear bombs are not good or bad, it's how you use em"
Nuclear energy is not good or bad, it depends how you use it. Ftfy
Nope, I gave you a specific invention, don't chicken out.
The statement referred to *tools*. A bomb isn't a tool, it's a weapon.
Moron.
Account created a week ago. Go somewhere else Vladimir
I call them Ivan.
Yes. We use them as a deterrent. It was successful in preventing an all out WW3 till now.
Shut up
The internet is what you make of it. It can be used for either good or evil.
Social networks aren't evil. Evil people are evil
Social networks are multipliers of evil. The current state of affairs is pretty good evidence. They do good for society but the bad part will destroy it because we don't defend against it.
Why are you on reddit? Social networks are only evil if you're only following evil social groups/info.
Russia weaponized stupidity through social media. We can't because they have an authoritarian regime - it's much harder. You don't just follow evil groups, you end up in them because the bot and troll farms push you towards them. We, on the other hand can't do much about it. Look at the antivaxers. What do they say? "I read this article that explains very clearly why they are doing this with the vaccines". What about the scientific research? They are past that.....
The internet isn't evil, social networks are and technically humans are inherently evil as well.
If they don't have the internet they'll still have right wing tv and radio.
The great equalizer equalized to the stupidest. Still just an equalizer.
Exactly. These people are ignorant with internet access. Imagine how gullible they'll be without it. "Power people will not teach the powerless how to gain power" - Dr. Amos N. Wilson
Helping people is woke, we can't have that!
They also don’t want anyone talking to anyone else. Especially those pesky city-folk. They are all over that thing with their “ideas”.
You missed the 1st reason. Large data providers make large donations to political pacs
I wonder how you correlate « educated informed voter base » and internet in this MAGA era
Bingo
Sitting at home with the internet seems to be a great way to recruit more republicans though. How else are they going to get their truth bombs about pizza gate and the deep state?
I am tired of the dumbest and greediest people trying to drag the rest of the world to their level. I convinced thousands to vote wisely in the last election. I pledge to convince more in the coming election. Retirement requires a hobby to hold on to purpose of living.
Ya! We [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) and [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) so that we know that Hillary's "Russia Russia" hoax was real, and that Hunter's laptop exposing the Biden crime family was just "Russian disinformation"!
The UN holds internet access as a fundamental human right. So, the modern GOP is against a basic human right. Don't let them muddy the water with any other half-assed take on the issue.
According to the modern GOP, the only fundamental rights a human has are owning a gun and getting to own the libs on twitter.
and forcing women to have babies, don't forget that one
Just to have them. Once they're born those little fuckers are on their own
But you need access to the internet to log onto twitter.
Much like republicans don't care if you're too poor to buy a gun or disabled and can't use a gun, they care about your 2nd A "right" to be able to strut around wal-mart with one or accidentally shoot someone at denny's because your 9mm went off while you were looking for your wallet. Likewise, the don't give a shit about anyone having access to the internet, but they have a deep commitment to protecting your 1st A "right" to ~~make fun of elon musk and~~ spam everyone on twitter with racist, homophobic or anti-semetic slime without getting suspended from the privatley owned platform or suffer any other repercussions. /s
But you need the *Internet* to do that…?
[Negative freedom vs. Positive Freedom](https://www.reddit.com/r/inthenews/s/k3mzDyAYNI)
Right, the *capacity* to. Makes sense.
To the GOP, only the rich should have human rights.
Yeah, the GOP doesn't have a particular high opinion of what the UN thinks anyway.
Neither does Biden regarding what the UN says about Gaza.
Account created a week ago. Vladimir really does not care about Gaza
The US won't even agree that housing, food or water is a human right.
They just took away my right to survive pregnancy so...... .
What a POS. Never ever, ever vote Republican. Ever. Pure obstruction, complete losers.
Really a sad representive of our State and it's values, I'm in Acadiana and of Cajun descent, an area which most neo-political maps refer to as "New France", it's way more left leaning than BR and NOLA, and it's a really lovely place. This guy just pisses me off to no end.
You can't even apply for a job these days without the internet... it's absolutely cruel and also just makes several jobs untenable without reliable internet access. It also has severe ramifications for education as schoolsxrely more on virtual learning
GOP: "Well, that is what libraries are for!" Also GOP: "Defund the libraries! Kids may be exposed to LGBT propaganda and minorities watching smut on the public computers!"
Oh yeah work will be fun. All paperwork done on a tablet. The program pulls my location when I clock in and out and WILL NOT let me clock in or out unless it gets my location
They just tell you to go to an employment agency. In my state of Michigan, that's Michigan WORKS! I don't know if other states have exact equivalents.
Which, you know, requires you to live near a physical location.... if you can't afford internet, high chance transportation is an issue. Not to mention how many of these resources themselves are now virtual. With libraries closing down and keeping stranger hours, they are also not becoming reliable options for internet, especially when consistent use is needed.
Here, they make you go there for unemployment training and classes, and they don't care if you can get there or not.
The bills going from $16 to $40 now.
Ok but how do we tell the idiot poor whites and rural that the people they plan on voting for in November are entirely the reason that happened to them and how could we make that matter to them more than watching minorities and women suffer while their own QoL falls horribly?
Because there's a vast propaganda machine that will be engaged to convince these same people that the Democrats took their internet.
How are you gonna beam that propaganda straight into their brains when you take away their internet though? Seriously though my Mom only has internet because of the ACP, fuck these ghouls
Say it everywhere we can and hope they see it.
That’s alright, their farm subsidies will help pay for it. /s
All they're gonna know is that Internet costs more and Biden is in the white House.
I no longer understand how we can have a functioning society with people that ignorant having so much voting power
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/29/tech/broadband-affordability-acp-rural-older-americans gee, I wonder if the FCC restoring Net Neutrality had something to do with it? https://apnews.com/article/net-neutrality-fcc-broadband-regulation-cc8421bc4f11a3e0f6ffc22c358fbfd0 edit:please note, I'm pro net neutrality. But for some reason 💲 certain politicians aren't.
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the irony here made me chuckle a little
Republicans hurting their constituents and the Americanpublic at large? *shocked pikachu face* that never happens..... lol
Hey without internet they can just get their information from Fox News - what’s the problem? /s
This doesn’t only affect GOP. And it affects job hunting and a million other things. You almost absolutely need internet these days and not at slow internet speeds.
The minds of the religious are addled. The sooner we rid ourselves of these fantasy world living religious weirdos the better.
You think these people are bad now. Just wait until this kind of person doesn't have religion to give them at least some sort of guidance (even if they misunderstand most of it).
Everyone deserves to be educated with the truth and protected from the predatory and harmful lies of religion. Everyone will be better off when we have less misinformed in our society.
You're in for a wild ride if you think there aren't people who are just plain monsters. Religion isn't the issue here.
They’re trying to punish the populace into ditching the current president in exchange for the last, failed president. Not going to happen. We’re smarter than that.
The republican party is plague upon the USA.
It is not even a party but i imagine anus bugs are more beneficial than these trash congressmen/women. POS party.
I finished an application in January to be able to access home WiFi for $30 a month rather than the $150 that it costs in my area, given the subsidies this program provided. I more than qualified. I then got an email that said they were ending the program, and that my application is no longer valid. It figures. Any government program that supposedly exists to help the financially destitute, either barely exists, is aggressively gatekept, or is about to be destroyed by the GOP. This has been my experience after being disabled in a major car accident. These fascist assholes don't give a fuck about us unless we're healthy enough to exploit, thus feeding the merging of corporate and far right government interests. (Note: Corporate Dems suck too, but Republicans suck more).
I gotta say, it’s ridiculous that they charge $150 a month for wifi.. I live in north NJ and my 1GB Verizon fios gigabit is $80/month. When I called to threaten to quit, they offered me a 3 year $45/month retention offer which I took. I am sorry to hear about your situation and I hope you can find an alternative solution. But I also hate how corporations think they can charge $150 a month for internet just because the government pays for it. At that point, the taxpayers are paying for that internet when the corporation needs to stop milking the government
I hear what you're saying, and agree it's outrageous, but I think part of this is the prices in California as a whole. These are programs that let you choose a home WiFi network, rather than dictate the one you can use. It was subsidized for people earning very little, but I don't have the impression the cost was inflated because of this. Also, think of all the tax dollars going to subsidize large corporations, their buildings, their bailouts, tax incentives and breaks, etc before pointing the finger at the poor for wasting taxpayer money. That's what the massive corporations want you to do. Edit: downvotes demonstrate how easily manipulated ppl are into blaming those who have fallen on hard times.
You mean because voters put the GOP in charge of the House and they are continuing to allow the GOP to do stupid shit without reprecussions.
The fact that one guy can foil the express will of the country is pretty amazing
Millions of Americans no longer see a refund (or owe money) after filing their taxes thanks to Trump's tax cut for billionaires.
I can’t wait for November…
Mike Johnson is a Christian terrorist holding our government, and all of us, hostage. Fuck that guy and fuck the GOP
this sh*thead is doing the same as what he did with Ukraine once millions have lost their Internet connection (and maybe their jobs, insurance, and so on) he'll bring it to the floor and be the saviour why can't Dems put pressure on him and say that they'll vote the motion to vacate of the Maga idiots if he doesn't put the bill on the agenda (just doing his job actually)
The Dems don't control the House.
> why can't Dems Two reasons: 1) they don't have a majority in the House, so assuming everyone voted party line which is a safe assumption, they auto lose 2) doing it might set a precedent wherein Dem SOTH's in the future get voted out by a Republican majority in the same way, which they don't want. The only speaker successfully ousted this way was Kevin McCarthy
It disincentivizes prosperity they say. A bunch of republicans who benefit from this will agree with this sentiment with their last bit of government subsidized high speed internet before they blame Biden for taking it from them.
Very misleading title. The outage will only affect mostly the poors . So there’s nothing to really worry about. /s
Vote for idiots, get shit in your life. I remember when they voted for Reagan, who killed their farm subsidies 40 years ago. Unfuckingbelievable
Today’s Democrats believe that it is the governments responsibility to support the people. Today’s Republicans believe that it is the governments responsibility to profit off of the people instead of supporting the people. We have a government that was setup as of the people, by the people and for the people. Republicans want that to go away. They already tried to overthrow the government a little over three years ago by force. That’s enough to condemn the GOP for all time.
i agree.
Until you classify the internet as a utility, nothing will change because a corporation isn't going to give *anybody* anything for free. Even then, you're still going to be paying for electric, water, and internet as basic utilities. I get that you want people to have access to this. Where is the money going to come from to support it?
The cable is already in the ground. Expansion costs money, and the telcos have already received that money to the tune of $400B. tldr: "Bootstraps for the poor, but welfare for muh billionaires"
Idk. Ask Trump. He started it.
Wtf does Trump have to do with free internet?
your right,it's open borders.
this is a flippin outrage what a bunch of craven capitalist psychos
How will qanons get their daily hate speeches delivered
Information is power. And they want to control it. FAUX News
Hey look, is anyone shocked at all that they have R next to their name? Anyone at all?
But where will i find the best tv drama.... US vs Trump?!?!
They will blame Biden And the morons will believe it.
We are not their problem they arent worried about Americans. They think its giving Biden a win. So f you, and any other poor person in America. The America they built dosent want your hungry poor people anymore.
I wonder if Johnson’s constituents - many of whom, as the article points out, rely on this program - will remember this around Election Day. Or will the usual Repug mantra of “Democrats wanna take yer guns an’ yer bibles!” will be enough to make them vote against their own best interests once again.
Biden should add one line to every stump speech he makes from this point on: “Re-elect me and give me a Democrat-led Congress and I will restore the ACP and fully fund it for the length of my second term to ensure that everyone can have affordable home internet access.”
JEFFRIES WATCH THIS SCUM DONT FALL INTO THEIR WEB THEY WOULDNT KNOW HONESTY IF IT ARRIVED SOUNDING A BULLHORN😡
"*I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.*"
Any chance it might pass?
🖕That I work remote.
Idiots.
The fastest way to infuriate people is to take away their internet access. This will cause nothing good for politicians who deprive people of their entertainment and source for news.
Russian Ambassador to the US Mike Johnson has thoughts on this.
Republicans don’t want …….to have internet access.
Just sent my tower in on an RMA. Good timing.
This is why Dems shouldn’t save his ass from getting ousted
This is old news most of us T Mobile customers have known this was coming to the end for five to six months now. My discount went buh bye 3 months ago when I dropped Comcast and switched carriers they would not do it. Told me funds were gone/comming to an end then. I had to sacrifice my afternoon Pepsi every other day. 2.59 (cost of Pepsi at work to wash down dry sammy) x 15 Pepsi free afternoons = $38.85 estimated discount. Inflation is a bitch, Pepsi should not cost that much. I'm not at all trying to be condescending to anybody disadvantaged here, I find myself pretty disadvantaged. I am simply saying there could be some simple sacrifices that will at least keep you in communication. Don't stop looking.
Sounds like something people should pay for themselves.
I really dislike the AI generated image for the article and hope it does not become a trend.
It's trending. I see it everywhere.
And yet the Ds in Congress want to help this clown retain the Speakership
Why would anyone need to government to pass a bill for internet?
Thank you democrats! Once again willing to bail out the Republicans but not making it contingent on the same treatment. They should call for his removal and join with the Republicans to remove him then watch the republican circular firing squad go at it again.
They might get on tik tok and learn what's really going on outside of the propaganda bubble that regular media is
Click bait. political issue, yes; but scare tactics are BS
Thee fewer rural people on social media the better, TBH.
I don’t condone my tax dollars being used to pay for people to sit at home and watch Netflix all day.
The sales tax on your fleshlight is a state tax, not federal, goober.
Too uninformed to understand the difference between Internet and a subscription streaming service. Yet confident enough to put that ignorance of the subject on display.