After the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” passed both the House and Senate, one social media user protested, “17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”

Van Orden responded to the post, “YES!”

After he received backlash, the post was quickly deleted, with the congressman claiming he had meant to reply to a different post.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    I wish this motherfucker had to live off of SNAP for a month while working a shitty and dangerous minimum wage job.

    • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social
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      It wouldn’t change anything, might even make it worse because then he could shit talk about “see? I survived!” Folks like this by default see themselves as the exception rather than the rule.

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      YES!

      This is the problem. Conservatives have no empathy. They can’t imagine how bad these policies really are for actual people until it impacts them directly. These ghouls are barely human beings. May they all be required to choke down the fruits of their actions. Unfortunately, we all know that there is no justice for these assholes even if they get voted out of office.