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bronxiteforever

(11,212 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:11 AM Aug 2025

GOP sponsored Death Panels want to kill us

I am angry that our national defense against debilitating and deadly illnesses is being undone by GOP sponsored RFKjr death panels. I believe the Trump regime is developing policies to kill off the immunocompromised and elderly through the manipulation of vaccines and the destruction of scientific health research

I know we are not in power but the volume needs to be turned up on this issue. The other side pretended we were going to institute death panels and won a ton of votes on that issue. Imagine what people will think now that the GOP is actually installing death panels. If Democratic politicians want to speak to the public start calling it like it is. It is GOP death panels or GOP social Darwinism

Just like they are killing the economy. Our politicians need to use the rhetoric of what is actually happening. Say “they want to kill us” because it is true. Say they ARE going to tank the economy and that our party has no confidence in the present economy. Speak the harsh words of truth loudly. Time is VERY short.


Here is a refresher on death panels.

Remember the "death panels"?

In 2009, when the health care law was still being written, Sarah Palin coined the phrase "death panel" in a widely shared Facebook post. The headline of her post was innocuous enough, "Statement on the Current Health Care Debate."

But that Aug. 7, 2009, social media post from the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate included a dire warning:

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society.' "

Republican members of Congress tapped into that anger. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley told a crowd back home in Iowa, "We should not have a government program that determines you're gonna pull the plug on Grandma."
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509164679/from-the-start-obama-struggled-with-fallout-from-a-kind-of-fake-news

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GOP sponsored Death Panels want to kill us (Original Post) bronxiteforever Aug 2025 OP
Remember this ad? sheshe2 Aug 2025 #1
I'm sure we all remember when these same rethugs accused Democrats bluestarone Aug 2025 #2

sheshe2

(98,466 posts)
1. Remember this ad?
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:49 AM
Aug 2025

Granny Off The Cliff

May 18, 2011 · With pretty boy Paul Ryan's draconian and savage cuts to Medicare in his budget proposal, we have to ask ourselves: Is America still beautiful without Medicare?

Author: TheAgendaProject
Views: 680.3K





I do.

In Attack Ad, Paul Ryan Kills Grandma In Wheelchair
Some might say this video by the progressive Agenda Project Action Fund goes a bit over the edge, literally.

In the video, a buttoned up man perceived to be Paul Ryan takes granny for a wheel chair ride, right off a rocky ledge. Poor little old lady plunges to her death in her pink slippers. Such is life as viewed from the war room of political jarheads.

The new ad will run next week in Ohio, Florida, Colorado and Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin.

Republican front man Mitt Romney chose the Wisconsin Republican to be his running mate on Saturday morning at a brief ceremony in Norfolk, Va.

Ryan is famous for the so-called "Ryan Budget". We now have "ObamaCare" versus the "Ryan Budget" as the main narrative of the 2012 elections, because of course Romney cannot ever talk about "RomneyCare" simply because everyone in Massachusetts loves it!


https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/08/12/liberal-group-throws-granny-off-cliff-again/


bluestarone

(22,466 posts)
2. I'm sure we all remember when these same rethugs accused Democrats
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 12:03 PM
Aug 2025

Of being DEATH PANELS. Holy shit these monsters are the WORST DEATH PANELS EVER!!

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