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Have the day you voted for.
Somehow the people in that town need to get this message, but I fear they wont hear a word of it on any of the media they consume.
“They blame Trump”
No, they didn’t. The medical facility didn’t blame trump, the article didn’t blame trump, and there’s no proof that any of the citizens blame trump.
This is actually what the article says:
Curtis Medical Center to close after 30 years, citing inflation and uncertain federal funding
And then, later in the article it mentions how there’s supposedly $50 billion coming from the feds to assist rural providers, and how disappointing it is that they’ve made this decision before the federal aid has been finalized.
This is being portrayed as a business decision to close this town’s only healthcare facility. Anyone reading the article would have to believe that trump has anything to do with inflation or cutting funding, and a community that has over 85% of their people voting for trump doesn’t believe that.
“Something is eating my face but it’s definitely not the leopard I voted for, it’s all business as usual!”
“excuse me i voted for leopards in bowties and i clearly see no bowtie on the leopard eating my face”
There’s a reason hospitals get bigger and bigger. Economics drive scale and communities that cannot drive scale will fall behind regardless what the government does.
This is a product of healthcare being treated as a for-profit endeavour. Small healthcare facilities shouldn’t need to be profitable (neither should large ones, but as you highlight, economics of scale means that larger facilities do better financially).
The government does have the power to change this, but it would require recalibrating to recognise healthcare as a basic human right
Every rural community is a temporarily embarassed metropolis.
And that is precisely why we have a government that provides essential services. We don’t want a government that runs like a business that runs like what you just talked about.
This is incredibly obvious if you ask what the most efficient government setup would be. Quite clearly, the most efficient setup is to not exist at all, because then there’s no overhead. And of course you provide no services but it comes at no expense… That’s what you were driving at, but I think almost no voters in the US actually agree with your stance. But they might describe things just like you did perhaps unaware that they are fooling themselves or others or both.
If healthcare was government run in the US, I imagine that it would be a lot like the public education system. Those who live in wealthier neighborhoods have great facilities and great doctors. Those who live in poorer neighborhoods and neighborhoods with higher crime would have lower quality facilities. Do you think we would finance it like we do public education? Do you think we would gatekeep access like we do public education?
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74-point margin
Why not just say 86% Trump? Much easier.
(Harris 13 %, others 1 %, as per Frontier County results of 1413 votes)The fact that 200 people out in the boonies voted for Harris is so shocking I’d actually believe they couldn’t read and voted wrong before I believed they actually voted for a woman of color.
I’m assuming, based off of absolutely nothing, that it’s probably mostly young people. Especially young women.
Keep in mind that voting is secret (as of 2025). For example, a woman can wear a MAGA hat and put the cross next to Harris unless her husband is so controlling to the point of it being illegal.
You suck. You need to re-evaluate a lot of life decisions.
I need to move out of Nebraska.
The irony of someone assuming (or, might I say, prejudging) that people are prejudiced re race/sex based on where they live was definitely not lost on me.
It’s only shocking to you because you’re a bigot.
That 1% be RFK
Since RFK dropped out, it’s Oliver (7), West (4) and Stein (1).
Edit: fired up a VPN and accessed official results
This is the second time that I’ve heard of this place.
The first time, it was a story about how the community was struggling to keep their young from leaving, and having a hard time attracting new people to move there.
No one wants to stay, and no one wants to move into a community crawling with awful people.
This looks so, so good on them.
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
I swear they had an issue with police abusing their power as well
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Yeah, this is my feeling when I see this news. I didn’t want suffering so I didn’t vote for the orange man. It’s just sadder for the people who are suffering because they did vote for orange man. Because they didn’t think it would happen to them. It’s sad that they deserve it.
It’s not just Trump.
The GOP could stop all of this tomorrow.
That needs to be hammered into their stupid skulls until it sticks.
Been saying, we need to stop talking about Trump and point fingers at the GOP, GOP, GOP did this.
Groomers On Parade? Group of Pedophiles? What is the GOP really?
The very wealthy who back campaigns did this. It isn’t any specific party. We need to address our wealth problem.
I kind of wish it said “We all are getting what you deserve”.
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‘If a Nazi sits at a table with 9 other people, and none of them object, there are 10 Nazis at that table.’
Whether they used their vote to empower the Trump regime, or withheld it in protest to his opposition, either way they used their vote in a manner that paved Trump’s path into the whitehouse.
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Yeah, but it doesn’t make the poster better. Honestly I wasn’t sure “We are all” would make it better, but it absolutely does.
Joe Biden has really done a number on these people.
Thanks, Obama!
Danke Merkel
Honestly, while I am also enjoying the schadenfreude, this seems like a prime opportunity for leftists to do some de-radicalizing. Bernie should head out there and talk to folks.
That would be useful. And it’s not going to happen.
It does happen and it turns out as expected: when explained in person and not by Fox News, Trump voters actually agree with Sanders.
And then they turn around and vote R anyway
When we fail to organize them, that does make sense.
I got $100 that they’re blaming Democrats for the closure.
100% Biden’s fault
Why does Obama keep doing this to us?
Because of Bill Clinton!
George bush! Am I doing this right?
I dunno… W. or H.W.?
neither
Man, I never get what I vote for. I am so jealous of them!
I think it’s great when people get what they want. Congratulations to them.
So x + (x+74) = 100 which means 2x = 26 -> x = 13
They voted non-Trump 13% and Trump 87%?
87 - 13 = 74, so yeah
I wish they’d just given the % instead of this metric smh
They never imagined that the leopards would eat their faces!
