Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.
I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.
Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.
reminds me of when trump disbanded the government’s pandemic response team for no other reason than obama created it. and then covid happened…
Or Bush/Cheney got rid of experts on Al-Qaeda and bin Laden upon taking over the office because of whatever reasons.
Because the Bush family had always been close to the house of saud. Of which Bin Laden was a member. On September 11th before anything was even clear. They had gone through and evacuated every member of the House of saud from the US. The majority of the attackers being from Saudi Arabia and also funded by Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden was also trained and armed by his father and Ronald Reagan. Their history goes way back.
Ah, yes, back when “enemy of my enemy is my friend” was used.
What do you mean the group we funded to fight off the imperialistic superpower that we were in a Cold War against is now against us and our interference in the region? /s
This is not a past tense thing with US foreign policy by any measure.
A true leopard’s ate my face moment.
“I didn’t think my enemy would attack us when we supported them in attacking our enemies!”
They smothered NASA too
Trump wants to disband most beneficial government agencies because it’s a win win for him. Fascists need enemies, and his corporate mistresses will benefit from deregulation
… But that was a Bush thing.
“You’ve got to read this,” Fran Townsend remembers the president telling her. “He said, ‘Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy.’”
Thus was born the nation’s most comprehensive pandemic plan – a playbook that included diagrams for a global early warning system, funding to develop new, rapid vaccine technology, and a robust national stockpile of critical supplies, such as face masks and ventilators, Townsend said.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story?id=69979013
Like, Regeneron and Moderna were direct US DARPA funding that came out because Bush was certain a new flu pandemic was enroute any day now.
It’s a bit jarring to remember the era when Republicans weren’t purely cartoonishly evil.
Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands and we should stop treating them as reasonable adults.
We said that in 1992 and 2000, and 2004, and 2008, and 2020, and
2012 too, man. Congress shut down the government under Obama because “fuck you, that’s why!”
The secret reason was racism
And it’s more true than ever.
And we’ll say it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and…
As long as there is a population of ultra wealthy individuals there will always be an asshole party entirely dedicated to those people… :(
That could be said about every American though.
Where are you from, let’s analyze the horors of your nations past and why you should be ashamed of it even though you had nothing to do with it.
I think the big difference for some countries is their atrocities are in the past while the United States is committing them right now and has been doing so consistently for the last few decades.
But yeah, totally the same.
the stupidity in both of these statements, mine (rhetorical) and OPs is regardless of the atrocities, its not the average person’s fault. To imply that ALL Americans have blood on their hands, and ALL Americans should be ashamed of their nation’s atrocities is just stupid. The average person has no connection to or ability to stop said atrocities. We were just born here man, sins of the father and all that shit.
That’s legit, I see your point and agree.
No one likes a tankie
Failing to ruin your life by going first at a revolution with zero coordination is basically the same thing as voting for cancer.
Doubt
Harris needs to shout this from the rooftops
Yep, can’t get a better line than: “Republicans voted against curing cancer!”
People still voting Republican absolutely don’t give a fuck. Cruelty is the point.
It’s all part of the
tax dodgersLord’s plan.Sean Hannity: As usual the Demonrats are LYING about how our brave Congress stood up to the elites that were demanding that you give your hard earned tax money to democrat pharma companies! They aren’t looking to cure cancer, they’re LYING!
and every maga moron will believe it.
There is no true reality to be agreed upon when propaganda is allowed to run so rampant. I FULLY believe 1000000% that the BIGGEST problem we have is propaganda. Solve that and we can actually start making progress.
maga morons don’t matter. when will people understand, winning for democrats is not about deprogramming cult members. it’s about winning the undecided and energizing their base so they actually get their ass to the voting machines.
conservatives are and always have been a minority. the reason they keep winning is that they vote. and they do everything in their power to prevent others from voting.
we will always have stupid, hateful, regressive people in our society, and we will always have those that cater to them to make a buck. it’s easier and better to instead try and work around them to advance society anyway. they’ll complain about anything and everything no matter what we do. might as well do good.
How do you stop propaganda when the first amendment is freedom of speech?
We’ve been trampling over the first amendment for decades. Not saying it’s a good thing, but there’s absolutely precedent.
GOP is completely irrational and hostile. They’re dragging us to hell with them. Assholes.
Nooooo, see, what you don’t get is that they’re all special! They’re not dragging us to hell WITH them, since they all get a free pass and go straight to heaven. They’re just dragging us to hell.
I’m kinda glad we’re going to different places. Heaven sounds awfully full of assholes
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
Pushing you down so they can stand on your head.
All just to own the libs
Why an American went to Cuba for cancer care
Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.
Really shows how ass backwards the US really is.
Cuba, a country that the US has tried to destroy for over 60 years now with economic sanctions, has better healthcare than the US, aka the richest nation on the planet.
There is no excuse for the state of healthcare in the US. We really have some evil, greedy people deciding to let people die so they can have more money.
Cuba has three sides of the coin: one for foreigners, another for citizens and finally for politicians.
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states. Let everybody who has lost family or has family battling cancer know what they have done.
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states.
“The GOP just protected you from another vaccine”
Dems in power: Oh, won’t somebody think of the deficit!!!
Republicans in power: Cut taxes, double the military, cut more taxes (only the corporations this time).
Lmfao the GOP raised taxes on the middle class with Trump, what the fuck are you talking about
Pretty sure he lowered taxes on everybody. It benefited the rich and corporations the most, but he definitely didn’t raise taxes on anybody…
He also set these non corporate tax cuts to expire after he left office…
As I understand it, he cut taxes for everyone but they set those cuts to expire for the middle class. This is set to happen at the end of 2025: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
Right. He did not raise taxes as the other comment said.
Not that what he did was good, but we should get the facts straight at least…
Smells like republican corruption.
Americans, where the fuck did you stray off the beaten path? I hate this timeline
Arguably all the way back to Nixon, but definitely by Reagan.
I’d say when FDR replaced Henry Wallace with the more right-leaning Truman.
Wallace wanted to pass a civil rights bill.
Truman dropped nuclear bombs on 2 civilian cities and was more interested in kick-starting the red scare than expanding upon the programs and policies FDR clearly laid out in his last days on literal record as president with things like a proposed 2nd Bill of Rights.
You can also assign some more blame to FDR for not having the masterminds of the Business Plot hanged.
July 4th 1776
Fuck Republicans, Congress and everything in between
the ‘pro life’ party. asshats
Not surprising they’d block it considering the Republican party is cancer.
The US is feeling really “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” lately
This has been the GQP party line for quite some time now, make the national debt only matter when they aren’t the ruling party. It’s their only way to look good, they know Democrats won’t hold US citizens hostage so they can stuff bills with whatever they want and still get them passed because Democrats won’t let US citizens suffer. Meanwhile all they do is just nuke legislation when they aren’t in power because they couldn’t care less. They don’t appeal to the same voters, just those they can brainwash, and they hedge their bets so those voters matter more.
