Right-wing media are pushing a lie that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government over “free health care for illegal immigrants” and want to “blow up the budget” for “illegal aliens” even though undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded health benefits.
The Democrats are actually pushing to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act without which millions of Americans could face significantly higher health care premiums and lose access to health care. Additionally, Democrats are pushing to reverse cuts to federally funded health care that were passed under Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” in July.
Akshually the Democrats are asking nicely for these things but Republicans control all three branches of government and are solely responsible for this shutdown they are trying to point the finger for.
Which media as a whole is dropping the ball on reporting as well.
There’s dropping the ball, and then there’s intentionally omitting.
Considering the fact that a dozen or so rich assholes control most of the news media that people will see, and that all of them are more than happy to support a government that lowers their taxes, this ain’t the former.
You barely have healthcare for legals.
When they say “healthcare”, they mean “health insurance”. Not even necessarily good health insurance, either.
It turns out that if you let the media say whatever then bad stuff happens.
Yes, the problem is free press, not the ten or so ghouls that collectively own mainstream media. 🙄
I don’t consider spreading literal lies to have much inherent virtue.
Capture of the media is a separate issue and falls under the broader umbrella of capitalism being fucking awful.
And you’ve got an impartial way to decide what is and isn’t a lie, I’m sure?
Are you being obtuse just to bait?
There were already systems for this kind of thing. If you published something that was incorrect, you’d retract it and issue a correction. Freedom of press shouldn’t mean freedom of consequence. Putting a skew on something to fit a particular agenda is fine, if a bit scummy. Talk about how a bill that suggests we feed school kids is an “expensive investment better put elsewhere” all you want, just don’t make up shit like “the bill also means we’ll grind up pregnant women and their foetuses as feed” or whatever, that’s the sort of accountability people want.
Via sources that were basically gifted to them by the general public (at the governments behest) so that they could present an unbiased source of information for that same public.
Free press doesn’t mean you get to say whatever you want with no consequences, it means everyone is given equal footing when presenting journalistic media. That includes those critical of leading so-called journalists.
Yes, a problem is the ghouls who own most of mainstream media. It’s also the lack of pushback from both the general public and their representatives in the government.
Why let little things like facts and reality get in the way of a good sound byte to an echo chamber audience.
They very well could be asking for that, but their voters are the ones who matter. Plus they only need 5 more votes to get 60, based on their last vote. They can’t convince 5 more to get on board? Better start trying to get those numbers up.
could need a hell of a lot more, if the grifter|liar|pedo|cheater-in-chief dare veto legislation to (re)open the government.
overriding a veto takes more support in congress than just evicting the shitstain from the white house.
That’s easy, would he veto the DONALD TRUMP IS AWESOME AND HAS A BIG PENIS funding bill, delivered in a gold plated box stuffed with $100 bills?
This is obviously wrong because Democrats don’t even care about getting healthcare to their citizens.
Why shouldn’t they get health care ? They all work and pay income tax. They can’t get the dole.
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honestly, it’s wild to me that democrats are actually fighting for health care for poor people. well, fighting to keep the paltry shit that currently exists.
i’m surprised the senate republicans aren’t like yaaah the house was wrong you can keep your shit medicaid
Democrats: ‘NUH UH YOU ARE, YOU LOVE THE ILLEGALS, A LOT OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE’
Democrats are a controlled opposition… They are about as useful as a blown condom.
