Can somebody PLEASE explain to me the morality of the GOP cutting off Medicaid to millions of struggling, working-class Americans for literally NO reason other than to give people who already have more money than they know what to do with…even more? Explain it to me like I’m a child.

How is it NOT Robin Hood in reverse? How are they NOT robbing from the poor to give to the rich? The numbers have moved, a bit, but the best number, right now, suggests this class theft will ALSO add $3.3 trillion dollars to the national debt. The GOP used to pretend that bothered them. Now? Not so much. After all, they can just lie about it. NOTHING shows one’s dedication to honor and the truth like having to lie about the results of their dishonor.

Despite conservative rhetoric, people on Medicaid NEED Medicaid. People with more money than they can spend in a lifetime do not NEED a tax cut. This bill the GOP is ramming through Congress, using procedural trumpery, wholly disregards needs just to satisfy the desires of greed, and it will hurt millions. Expect an increase in poverty. Expect an increase in illnesses. Expect an increase in deaths. Expect an increase in crime. Desperate times call for desperate measures, you know.

Yeah, yeah, I know, there are things in there for the little guy, too. Temporary things. Little things. Candy sprinkles trying to make a pile of crap more palatable. Shiny baubles designed to deceive the gullible. Lucy, holding the football. “You come running up and kick it, Charlie Brown.” Oh, hey, here comes MAGA now. It’s a bait-and-switch. “We’ll give you a .10 cent break today that ends tomorrow if you let us have a $20 break today that extends to forever. How is THAT not fair?”

Oh, and DO NOT try to pretend the tax cuts will “stimulate investment.” We, the people, have been handed that line again and again for over forty years. We’ve seen lots and lots of tax cuts. We’ve seen so many tax cuts, we’re now cutting off vital government services and taking aid away from struggling working class Americans all over the country just to pay for them. The national debt has ballooned into a monster of rich people’s making. We have YET to see any investment being stimulated.

Make no mistake, I know this abomination is going to pass. The GOP is using special rules to bypass the normal procedure. They KNOW they couldn’t get it past the Democrats using the normal rules, so they’ve jettisoned the rules. Lovely. When you have to “adjust” the rules, just so you can pass a law that you KNOW harms millions and millions of Americans, it should make it difficult to look oneself in the mirror, you know? But it won’t. The toadies will sleep just fine – on a bed stuffed with working class money.

To be sure, you’ll hear bitching and moaning from the usual suspects. Lisa Murkowski will express grave misgivings before voting for the bill. Susan Collins will be against it before voting for it. Thom Tillis will, well, with a hat tip to him, he says he’s going to quit congress so he can stand against this bill. Apparently honor still exists – but it WILL BE purged! Tillis is standing for his constituents – and the First Felon WILL NOT have it. If you’re a person interested in doing the right thing, there is no room for you in MAGAmerica.

That says a LOT about MAGAmerica, doesn’t it? Pretty much everything you need to know, in fact. These are immoral people and they’re running the show. There is no room for compassion. There is no room for empathy. There is no room for decency or decorum. The wealthiest members of the GOP are now, literally, reaching into the pockets of the poor to take anything they can find. They’re actively taking your last, shiny penny so they can throw it on top of a pile already so high they can’t see the top.

JFK’s words just keep ringing, louder and louder, in my ears. “When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable.” Robin Hood is a folk hero because, according to the story, he was the son of wealth who stood and fought for poor people, people who couldn’t stand for themselves. This reverse Robin Hood act of the GOP brings America’s enemies into the open. And JFK’s words just keep getting louder…