It's both tragic and heartbreaking. People who think "Well, after Trump is out of office, things will get back to normal." are naive and mistaken, as you so directly point out. I struggle with despair and depression, but realize that fighting back is crucial. Please ask friends, family, and neighbors to send POSTCARDS to Congress. (They don't have to go through screening like envelopes do.). Maybe sheer numbers of cards will get noticed
To me it is obvious that the idea is for people to die. In a world of cost benefit analysis it is far cheaper to have people die than to research for cures and then give long living people their social security and other benefits.
Let’s say it all together now, “they want us to die”. Millions thrown off Medicaid, gutting ACA insurance, cuts to SNAP, crucial medical research, etc., etc. Good thing, Doge has ALL our personal information. It’s going to be a cruel hell of a ride.
Besides the sadness I feel for the Bidens, I am angry about the trash the administration goofs are talking aboutt a coverup or not being able to prosecute Joe before he dies,etc! These people are despicable. Some have also said Dr. Jill Biden should lose her license. They are so dumb they don’t know that her doctorate is in education, which they need.
It is said God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. For Joe Biden it’s the sudden death of a spouse, death of a child and an advanced cancer diagnosis. For Donald Trump its mean words from two musicians.
I've been thinking about this as well it's truly sad and disgusting that the current regime could care less if people get sick from cancer, als or any other debilitating diseases. They don't care about veterans with agent orange or PTSD either. All they care about is getting that damn bill to the leader's table to be signed.
While I'm all for cutting out waste, slashing health programs and research without considering the consequences is reckless, which is of course why this Administration is the one with the hatchet.
We need to teach how our government works in schools - the system of checks and balances, how money is appropriated and spent, and who watches it. The Alt-Right talking point about how government is bad and wasteful is far too pervasive. That's why there isn't more outrage at these cuts to critical programs.
What I can’t help but wonder is how trump gets to spend something in the neighborhood of $45 million on a military parade for his birthday (though he claims it’s to celebrate the anniversary of the US Army, which we know is a lie) while making these drastic cuts to vital scientific research, to “save money.” This is ludicrous!!!
If one is diagnosed with this disease they will die.
Research money to the Healey Center at Mass General has been cut. This breaks my heart.
I have been involved with #ALSONE organization since the beginning. We raise funds through polar plunge, Falmouth road race and other events but it can’t come close to making up for the shortfall.
The wealthy always win, as their money gives them options .. we seemed like the resistance was holding .. now we are in a time period where all feels lost .. yet I do not and will not give up the fight .. we must push back harder than they .. for we are the key to it all . no one voted for this shit .. no one asked for this .. we must get louder and make more trouble!
Meditate on how long it took for women to be treated as equals to men, (still not great but much better), on how long it took for Blacks to vote, (still not what it should be but much better), etc etc etc.
While meditating on all of that, banish the thought that after three months of resistance we have entered a time period where all feels lost. Banish that thinking because this is an evolutionary struggle requiring time.
These people, (Putin, his boy Donald and the rest of them), hate everything about our great, imperfect, country. Their twisted thinking and actions have and will hurt, tarnish and destroy a great deal but they will never destroy our Spirit and faith in Democracy, and a better world.
I am unable to comprehend the regime's actions. Over the last 4 or 5 decades science and technology have advanced so rapidly that it may take the development of AI to continue, or even increase what we have learned and the translated into benefits for society. GPS, personal computing, the internet, HIV going from a death sentence to a chronic controlled condition, cardiac stents instead of open heart surgery plus so many more. Science and technology formed a background to the US progress. Now they are taking an axe to the future. Musk and many other oligarchs have reached their status on the basis of this, in part, federally funded work, yet they are part of its destruction. The majority of the people have benefited, most directly, yet all the world is being harmed. Woody Guthrie wrote a song asking questions like "why can't a dish break a hammer?" and ended it with"because I don't know the answer?" I don't know why the regime is doing so much the is damaging to so many, without benefit to anybody that makes consistent sense that fits with what I have taken to be true based on 77 years of learning and experience. Now the disorientation I feel makes me think that disorientation of those of us who are not susceptible to delusion is the rational for their programs (plus a little greed and bigotry). With opposition reduced to disorientation facing an army of deluded people, they continue to make 2025 into 1984. I will never love Big Brother (I hope)
What is the administration’s motivation for dismantling the CDC? Is this payback for not doing a better job with the COVID-19 pandemic? The threats to public health remain and are likely to intensify as the effects of climate change bring more tropical diseases to the US. The actions taken by HHS to weaken the CDC are terrible policy and will result in many lives lost.
thank you Olivia : Yes the little fellow in the Grifters Palace could care less about any American citizen. The cuts to these vital enterprises is abhorrent. I was thinking about USAID cuts. Medical research stopped and clinical trials stopped. Preventing or stopping a pandemic before it takes out entire populations. Food rotting in warehouses , while children are starving. US diplomacy is in jeopardy . Other despotic nations are moving in to fill the vacuum left. All the research data and progress will be lost long after the little fellow leaves his palace. It will take decades to recover. The cost of these drastic cuts will be enormous.
It's both tragic and heartbreaking. People who think "Well, after Trump is out of office, things will get back to normal." are naive and mistaken, as you so directly point out. I struggle with despair and depression, but realize that fighting back is crucial. Please ask friends, family, and neighbors to send POSTCARDS to Congress. (They don't have to go through screening like envelopes do.). Maybe sheer numbers of cards will get noticed
To me it is obvious that the idea is for people to die. In a world of cost benefit analysis it is far cheaper to have people die than to research for cures and then give long living people their social security and other benefits.
Can we say it, “They want us to die”.
It sure the hell looks like it. Who are these people?!
That's exactly what they want. 😡😡
I not only believe they want us to die, but that they don’t care whether we do or not.
Let’s say it all together now, “they want us to die”. Millions thrown off Medicaid, gutting ACA insurance, cuts to SNAP, crucial medical research, etc., etc. Good thing, Doge has ALL our personal information. It’s going to be a cruel hell of a ride.
so very important, thank you for clarifying this for us all.
Besides the sadness I feel for the Bidens, I am angry about the trash the administration goofs are talking aboutt a coverup or not being able to prosecute Joe before he dies,etc! These people are despicable. Some have also said Dr. Jill Biden should lose her license. They are so dumb they don’t know that her doctorate is in education, which they need.
It is said God doesn’t give us more than we can handle. For Joe Biden it’s the sudden death of a spouse, death of a child and an advanced cancer diagnosis. For Donald Trump its mean words from two musicians.
I've been thinking about this as well it's truly sad and disgusting that the current regime could care less if people get sick from cancer, als or any other debilitating diseases. They don't care about veterans with agent orange or PTSD either. All they care about is getting that damn bill to the leader's table to be signed.
While I'm all for cutting out waste, slashing health programs and research without considering the consequences is reckless, which is of course why this Administration is the one with the hatchet.
We need to teach how our government works in schools - the system of checks and balances, how money is appropriated and spent, and who watches it. The Alt-Right talking point about how government is bad and wasteful is far too pervasive. That's why there isn't more outrage at these cuts to critical programs.
What I can’t help but wonder is how trump gets to spend something in the neighborhood of $45 million on a military parade for his birthday (though he claims it’s to celebrate the anniversary of the US Army, which we know is a lie) while making these drastic cuts to vital scientific research, to “save money.” This is ludicrous!!!
My congressman is a big Trumper, Brian Jack! Our predicament is awful and it’s going to require all of us to resist! Thanks!
I lost 1 friend and 2 colleagues to ALS.
If one is diagnosed with this disease they will die.
Research money to the Healey Center at Mass General has been cut. This breaks my heart.
I have been involved with #ALSONE organization since the beginning. We raise funds through polar plunge, Falmouth road race and other events but it can’t come close to making up for the shortfall.
The dumbing down of America continues.
The wealthy always win, as their money gives them options .. we seemed like the resistance was holding .. now we are in a time period where all feels lost .. yet I do not and will not give up the fight .. we must push back harder than they .. for we are the key to it all . no one voted for this shit .. no one asked for this .. we must get louder and make more trouble!
Meditate on how long it took for women to be treated as equals to men, (still not great but much better), on how long it took for Blacks to vote, (still not what it should be but much better), etc etc etc.
While meditating on all of that, banish the thought that after three months of resistance we have entered a time period where all feels lost. Banish that thinking because this is an evolutionary struggle requiring time.
Hang in there, it’s going to be a long haul.
These people, (Putin, his boy Donald and the rest of them), hate everything about our great, imperfect, country. Their twisted thinking and actions have and will hurt, tarnish and destroy a great deal but they will never destroy our Spirit and faith in Democracy, and a better world.
I am unable to comprehend the regime's actions. Over the last 4 or 5 decades science and technology have advanced so rapidly that it may take the development of AI to continue, or even increase what we have learned and the translated into benefits for society. GPS, personal computing, the internet, HIV going from a death sentence to a chronic controlled condition, cardiac stents instead of open heart surgery plus so many more. Science and technology formed a background to the US progress. Now they are taking an axe to the future. Musk and many other oligarchs have reached their status on the basis of this, in part, federally funded work, yet they are part of its destruction. The majority of the people have benefited, most directly, yet all the world is being harmed. Woody Guthrie wrote a song asking questions like "why can't a dish break a hammer?" and ended it with"because I don't know the answer?" I don't know why the regime is doing so much the is damaging to so many, without benefit to anybody that makes consistent sense that fits with what I have taken to be true based on 77 years of learning and experience. Now the disorientation I feel makes me think that disorientation of those of us who are not susceptible to delusion is the rational for their programs (plus a little greed and bigotry). With opposition reduced to disorientation facing an army of deluded people, they continue to make 2025 into 1984. I will never love Big Brother (I hope)
What is the administration’s motivation for dismantling the CDC? Is this payback for not doing a better job with the COVID-19 pandemic? The threats to public health remain and are likely to intensify as the effects of climate change bring more tropical diseases to the US. The actions taken by HHS to weaken the CDC are terrible policy and will result in many lives lost.
thank you Olivia : Yes the little fellow in the Grifters Palace could care less about any American citizen. The cuts to these vital enterprises is abhorrent. I was thinking about USAID cuts. Medical research stopped and clinical trials stopped. Preventing or stopping a pandemic before it takes out entire populations. Food rotting in warehouses , while children are starving. US diplomacy is in jeopardy . Other despotic nations are moving in to fill the vacuum left. All the research data and progress will be lost long after the little fellow leaves his palace. It will take decades to recover. The cost of these drastic cuts will be enormous.