And so what’s playing itself out is the reduction in SNAP benefits. Um is the reduction in health care. Uh the one that hasn’t been talked about a lot Roland and we got to find some time in future conversations of what’s happening in higher education and the costs the new costs that are going to be had with respect to repayment of your student loans.
Well, repayment of student loans. They also are making changes to PEL grants as well.
uh they’re capping they’re capping for graduate programs. So now you’re talking about people who are going to graduate school. Uh they’re capping the amount of loans you can get. So they’re basically saying if you don’t already have the means, you’re screwed when it comes to being able to go to graduate programs. Absolutely.
All of those things happening across the board. It is the worst time in the history of this country as we see this reduction of all of these programs, the protections in the civil rights spaces and housing and education and all of the various different in health care discrimination in health care which essentially since there are no protections in place all of that will be allowed to continue. Uh and the bottom line is obviously it’s going to be hell for us. Okay. but probably an unanticipated pain for them and you know they’re going to have to go through it.
They need to understand and everybody needs to understand that no state in this country has the financial capacity to pick up the loss of resources that are coming from Washington DC.
No state in the country. So as they start running to Harrisburg, okay, Senator Hughes, we need some help with this. Senator Hughes, we need some help with that. We made it very clear some of us right after the November election we can’t afford right the loss of resources from Washington DC they voted for it now all of us are going to pay for it they will and they did not anticipate it even though they were told this is what’s going to happen see listen um I’m petty I know they call me king petty I’m petty and I know you’re not going to do it I know y’all not going to do it I’m telling I’m telling you right now, if any of those those county folk uh in Pennsylvania were coming to my office, I would say, “Hold on one second.
Check out the numbers.
Your county voted for Trump. I would be petty.” But Ren, here’s the question. And the re and I and and the reason reason I think that’s important because I think they got to be reminded.
They need they’re going to be coming to you beg Senator Hughes say we need some help. No, no, no. But this is why your your county’s losing two three million dollars. Oh, y’all voted for Trump. Roland, every Republican.
And this is what and and you have this this this platform to address and reach folks at all levels. every state Republican House member, every state Republican senator who was quiet. And all of them were quiet, right? When all these cuts were anticipated, where all these cuts were projected, they were quiet. They need to be held accountable.
Not just the ones in Washington, the ones at the state level who knew that this was going to happen. Here’s an example. four 40 rural counties in Pennsylvania. 26 of those rural counties, the hospital is the number one healthc care provider, but the number one employer, the number one business generator, the econom one economic generator in that and and as we and as we keep saying, we talk about the hospital, it provides the jobs, but that’s what how the convenience store stays in business, the restaurant stays in business, all these things are rounded.
So hospital leaves, all of that’s gone.
And they’re projected to close. They’re projected to close. They said to their federal representatives, “We’re going to shut down.” They’ve said to their state Republican representatives, “We are going to close. We cannot handle this.
They need to be held accountable. Not just the folks in Washington, but the folks at the state level as well.” And that message has got to go out to every state legislator, every constituent that is in these rural communities. Now, we’re going to catch hell in in Philadelphia. We’re going to catch hell in Detroit.
We’re going to catch hell in Milwaukee.
All right. The old way of providing health care services to those communities will be generated back into the emergency room. Most expensive care, not necessarily the best care, but it’ll be back in those emergency rooms. But those folks who voted for Donald Trump, especially those Republican legislators, must be held accountable.
Are state Democrats here? Is the state Democratic Party prepared to document and call out every stance? And here’s what I mean. Uh when the rural hospital in North Carolina is closed, uh the first person who that was a white woman who died, she had to be airlifted like 65 miles away. She died.
To me, this is one of those things where state Democratic Party should say, uh, so and so got sick, hospital closed, had to travel ex, she or he passed away. That’s on you. See, I I I to me, this is where it can’t be a generalization. It has to be specific. Y’all contributed to her death.
And they got to own that.
And they got to be able to say, “No, no, no. That’s y’all boy. Y’all voted for him. Y’all backed him.
Y’all endorsed him. That’s the information that needs to be provided in a very real way. Sister Teresa is going to tell you from the communications perspective, the best way to communicate, the best way, but those personal stories like you just talked about are the ones that really connect with people. They really hit home with people. You know this as well from your vantage point from doing this all this time that you’ve been doing it.
when it’s a personal story and they will be revealed when that local hospital closed, when that local nursing home closed. All right? And folks are going to have to try travel 90 100 miles to get service or the people who work in those facilities are going to be out of a job.
All right? Those stories need to be told.
All right? They need to be told and state Democratic parties have the obligation to tell those stories. Hey Teresa, downstairs they have these huge popups of all the last I think eight or 10 alpha general presidents. That’s what I’m talking about. I would probably have a placard the size of that wall right there behind me and I’ll be like see this one right here.
That to me that’s what you have to do. I just believe that I just believe that nationwide Democrats are playing a soft game. And what I mean by that, just like we saw when they walked out of the hearing uh Senate Judiciary hearing um on yesterday, my deal would be we stopping everything.
I’m putting a hold on everything. You you cannot play the old game of my colleague, all this sort of stuff.
No, no, no. You got to go hardcore. And so, perfect example, JD Vance here. Yo, JD Vance should have been met, right, by 5,000 people. Absolutely.
He lying. He lying. I just think the game has changed. The the the the how you combat the opposition has absolutely changed.
They Democrats have got to be hardcore gangster everywhere to deal with what’s happening right now.
You know, Democrats, I totally agree. I think Democrats need to be as radical as the Republicans have been this entire time. I think they have been bold. I think their commentary, especially if you watch Fox News and some of the other online digital platforms that are conservative centered, they have been real specific on calling out individuals by name, by district, by fiscal responsibility. And it’s been working because if you start to see the talking points in social media and the replies thereof, it’s all about the attacks.
Now, we’re not saying we want you to attack the elected, but we want you to hold them accountable. The way you hold people accountable is by telling what the facts are and then also resharing the facts. Not speculating, I believe this is my colleague, I believe this is, you know, so and so that’s doing it or saying it’s a general body as a whole, but like you said, shutting it down, making your voice heard, um, and meeting them where they at. You know, I’m also a little bit disappointed, you know, when we have, you know, our beloved President Obama saying that Democrats need to get tougher or, you know, uh, our current DNC, uh, Oh, yeah. Obama came out talking about folks need to stop naval gazing.
Seriously, President Obama, I need you to sit down. No, I’m going go ahead and say that because because the reality is there are people who are fighting.
Yeah. There are people who are swinging. There are people, they’re not naval gazing.
They are out here uh swinging. No, bro. You out here making movies. I mean, let’s No, we’re just gonna call it what it is. This is not a time for soft leadership, right?
And again, they everybody operates with you know what he not going to really go that far. They don’t they this is the Democrats right now are trying to defend institutions. They are trying to decimate correct institutions.
Correct. So you gota understand the game that you’re now playing.
They don’t care. Yeah. We’re seeing it here at home. Right. So you know University of Penn’s a great example.
Uh they’ve had their trial trial and error with the Trump administration. Um they’ve upholded a few of their things but then they got overturned because they decided to cave in and get those million dollars back uh in funding. So, and that’s a, you know, I would say it’s a democratic institution per se because of, you know, from the Biden family and everyone else that went there, but I think overall the institutions also, I mean, they’re fighting in court, right? But there’s only but so much you can do when you have the president of the United States who’s also running the courts. Um, except for the Supreme Court, but that’s a whole another story.
So, I think there’s an opportunity there. But I I think going back to the original point, radical democratic leadership is what I think everybody is more so looking for right
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