"The VA’s response to the well-articulated concerns raised by so many has been dismissive and unacceptable,” said VFW National Commander Carol Whitmore. “Disabled veterans should never be forced to choose between following their doctor’s orders and protecting their earned benefits."
There are so many instances of Republicans absolutely sitting all over Veterans it's hard to keep track and keep up with them all.
Last month Doug Collins, had to hastily claim the VA would not be implementing a new rule designed to undercut disabled Veterans compensation.
Remember, Republicans have long claimed minorities and poor people getting meager government assistance are wasteful takers and abusers of the system. And since Republican philosophy is Rule by the Rich and subjugation of everyone else, eventually they would always get around to everyone who is not helping advance the rightwing agenda of oppression and intolerance.
One of the key efforts of the DOGE boys was to gut the Veterans Administration. After firing 2400 probationary employees of the VA, DOGe released a plan to eliminate an additional 80,000 jobs. There was push-back from the Democrats, the VFW, other Veterans groups, after good coverage by the Military Times. However, DOGE and the Republicans were able to "decimate" (and that's a proper use of the word) the VA by cutting 36,000 jobs from the organization.
Longtime Wisconsin asshole and thief Ron Johnson went onto NaziMax, to spell out, what I've known for a long-time, if you're a Veteran who doesn't support Republicans they hate you, spit on you, and actively shit on your service;
"[Democrats] got to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public, and recruiting veterans who apparently have their world view — and my guess is there aren't that many veterans that do — it's basically recruiting wolves in sheep's clothing."
The NaziMax announcer ended this segment with,
"And before you know it, you gotta work with people like Mark Kelly..."
I learned long ago that Republicans hate America and really hate anyone who doesn't help their goal of ending the American Dream and turning the United States into a simulacrum of a Democratic Republic; a fascist ethno-state held aloft by the twin pillars of patriarchy and white supremacy.
If you don't espouse rightwing rhetoric, it... doesn't... matter... what your bonafides are, it doesn't matter what you've done or accomplished, you're an enemy of Republicans and the lowliest rightwing podcaster and shittiest Nazi, be it a Nick Shirley, Christopher Rufo, or Jake Lang, is accounted higher in their Hierarchy.
And that idea of Hierarchy is really, perhaps the core for all Republicans grievances; knowing your place. That's the keystone of MAGA and for everything that's happened over the last 50 years of reactionary politics since the 1960s. Many groups, and individuals no longer know their place in America, and those who we were always afforded the top spot (regardless of deeds, education, experience, or accomplishments) are aggrieved.
Reading this mind recalls the Suicidal Tendencies song "Institutionalized" (1983), the conditions depicted in the film Marat/Sade (1967), and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Hunted" (1990).
Republicans absolutely hate the United States of America, they hate Veterans, they hate women, they hate you...
I remember when lying propagandist Betsy McCawley was given carte blanche by the corporate media to claim Obamacare had "Death Panels". And yet if you think this is going to generate 1/100th the reaction as was astro-turfed into creation by rightwing liars about the ACA...
And now we have the good fortune to look-forward to the next generation of Republicans absolutely shitting on the Veterans they are going to create from this Traitor trump debacle with Iran.
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