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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.
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How very on-brand for these Republican jerks.
Also, ever notice how often things are attributed to “Congress” in headlines like this? I mean, given the mention of Biden you could infer that it’s most likely the REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS, not “Congress”, from the headline since it mentions blocking a win for Biden, but…still. Seems to happen a lot. It must be more about that “objective journalism” and the “balance”, etc…
And it stands to benefit those Republican congressmen who run back to their jurisdictions and say “Washington isn’t doing anything about your needs. Send me back and I’ll obstruct them from doing the things that aren’t helping you”
Its a huge fucking scam
Unless you’re spending all your money on cancer research, you can always spend more on it. At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line. It’s plausible to me that the line should be where the Democrats rather than the Republicans want it, and it’s even plausible that Republicans are acting in bad faith. However, this article presents no evidence for either claim.
At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the $1T we spend on national security annually. Somehow, we’re always able to justify more than the year before.
But $2.8B over ten years on an effort to improve health care treatments for one of the most deadly maladies in the US? My god! That’s over 3% of our Ukraine military aid budget! We need to draw a line somewhere!
I think that’s a pretty reasonable response. Maybe not so much that cancer in general is over funded but I’d be willing to bet a breast cancer cure probably isn’t any closer now than it would be with another billion. It’s definitely a bad look for the GOP though. I see a lot of We the people… bs bumper stickers with the f*** cancer! stickers.
Spending one billion on breast cancer drug discovery/ development would probably lead to one more drug which increases survival by 10-20%. Or if spend on fundamental research it would lead to a lot of additional knowledge. Which might lead in about 10 years (and a few billions more) to a few drugs which increase survival a further 30-40 %.
So what needs to happen, since we seem to let heads of state address Congress, is to have a mandatory session where cancer patients all come out, addressing their concerns directly.
Since it’s apparently no longer enough to speak at the ballot box, thinking that the person you’re voting for might actually have your good will in mind.Let the patients speak. Show the room their pic lines. Let them explain about how shitty they feel most days and read names of those in their families who have died from the same cancer they’re carrying now.
Let them say directly to those who put bias and politics first how disgusted they are with the men and women who are supposed to be the ones fighting for them. Not against them like it’s some highschool pissing match.It would work if these politicians had empathy, but they don’t. Otherwise, the world wouldn’t become the shithole that it is now and massive efforts would be put towards greenhouse gases reduction.
Thoughts and prayers as they say.
It’ll work like the 9/11 Responder’s Bill (eventually) worked: Representatives got shamed into voting for it. Maybe Jon Stewart can do it again…
But no, it won’t be because they actually give a shit, they will only act when they realize not acting will make it worse.
Not surprising they’d block it considering the Republican party is cancer.
So this is Biden/Harris fault!
Republican voter, probably.
Fox will spin it that way, or, more likely they just won’t talk about it.
Apparently no one has told Republicans about how many innocent unborn babies get cancer. That seems to motivate them, let’s get some billboards going.
Weird.
Super fucking weird
Right? And they are sooo old too - so you think they wouldn’t be so weird by now, but they are just, man… so weird
Smells like republican corruption.
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I wouldn’t bother. If it’s legitimate cancer, the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
congressional swimming retreat on the Cuyahoga River?
Hold on I got more:
free housing for congress members on Love Canal?
Go sight seeing in East Palestine?
bikini atoll beach day?
Spa day in Centralia, PA?
You could send them to northst Louis. It’s heavily irradiated from all the uranium refinement that Mallinkrodt did for the government in the 40s. They just poured it out in a big hole that they then turned into a garbage heap and set on fire.
Its conveniently where all the poor people live.
Yes, you can put it in the capitol building. They’ve exempted themselves from OSHA regs…
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.
Cuba has three sides of the coin
What?
Also Cuba didn’t really do anything? They only truly alligned themselves with the communist block after the united states decided to start being shitty to them out of nothing but paranoia. Classic tyrant looking everywhere for conspiracies and causing some to appear moment.
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.
The stuff passed during Nixon’s presidency was mostly not bad, because he had a progressive congress and knew it was good for his public image if he went along with their stuff (and took credit for their successes), but Nixon realized Southern Strategy, and his presidency perhaps marked the start of descent into incivility and absurdity in politics. He was a piece of shit in every regard imaginable, but he wasn’t an obstructionist afaik.
Reagan is where policy took a SHARP dive, straight into the ground. He was the next step which was allowed by Nixon turning national politics into a rapid-fire shit-spewing competition.
I won’t necessarily speaking on policy, but more-so as a time-frame of when certain lines were crossed.
With Nixon, the Nixon Goes to China moment could be argued was the point in time which ultimately lead to massive off-shoring/out-sourcing that gutted America’s manufacturing industries and set the middle-class on its downward spiral.
Then there was his prolonging of the Vietnam War for his political benefit, at the cost of needless soldiers lives.
Then there’s the whole Watergate fiasco, which directly led to the founding of Fox News.
Calling opening relations with China as a negative is a bad take.
The companies that sold out the skeleton of the USA, by screwing the employees to pay shareholders and executives, are to blame for the current situation.
Was the EPA also a negative move to you?
This. Reagan in particular just lovedb nothing more than knocking the supports out from under bridges. Fucking old bastard.
Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, W Bush, Trump. Did I miss one?
I think the JFK assasination pretty clearly shows the MIC/CIA et al has been firmly in control since the 50s.
Reagan led the charge but there was also folks like Gingrich and Armey doing stuff like the Contract with America (Heritage Foundation endorsed) and pushing to never let the dems have a win, and always oppose whatever they do.
I’m of the opinion that sunshine laws also fucked things up but that’s a whole other discussion.
I’m of the opinion that sunshine laws also fucked things up but that’s a whole other discussion.
I apologize for steering the conversation toward another discussion, but I’m unfamiliar with the Sunshine Laws so I did a quick search:
“Sunshine laws are regulations requiring transparency and disclosure in government or business. Sunshine laws make meetings, records, votes, deliberations, and other official actions available for public observation, participation, and/or inspection. Sunshine laws also require government meetings to be held with sufficient advance notice and at times and places that are convenient and accessible to the public, with exceptions for emergency meetings.” (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sunshinelaws.asp, Sept. 2023)
Again, I’m not familiar but, I’m not seeing a problem with transparency and advance notice to ensure transparency. What particular issues do you have with Sunshine Laws?
Sunshine laws for congress (Such as the Legislative Restoration Act of 1970, and the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976) mandated transparent voting and meetings. I think you can readily imagine the issues that could come about if your own vote was public, in the case of congressional voting some things change but importantly it means that a lobbyist can nearly guarantee a return on investment. It should come as no surprise that the amount of lobbying groups and money in lobbying has massively increased since the various Sunshine laws passed. It also has led to increased partisan voting since now the parties can give the boot to someone crossing the aisle.
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WW2 was all about bombing civilian cities.
London, Dresden, they were all targets. Bombs and war were much less precise then. Taking out manufacturing capability was a valid tactic and part of that meant killing workers.
You can also assign some more blame to FDR for not having the masterminds of the Business Plot hanged.
We fought ourselves over slaves. Think stuff like this has always been in our blood. The world wars just made us look good for a while.
And when you FUCKING WON you did the thing I would never do. The South would have been a smoldering pit of cinders in my timeline. I’d have decorated the halls of the white house with the hides of the plantation owners.
You’ve learned nothing in all these years except how to be polite to the scum you beat until they inched their way back on top of you. It’s truly one of the most vile tales in human history.
This is why I celebrate the legacy of John Brown. One of the greatest American heroes of all time, considered a terrorist by our government for murdering slave owners freeing their slaves and then arming those slaves to go free more.
John Brown is my hero. We need more of him today.
Ooo, ooo, ooo… Can I have one of those “hides”?
Is this what happens when Germany stays out of trouble for a couple of decades?
We love blaming others, so yea. It’s all your fault.
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I think this hits the nail right on the head.
For a while now I’ve been pondering this very thing. I can’t prove it conclusively, but I honestly think this goes all the way back.
$0.02: The USA was started as a bunch of colonies, and we’re co-cohabiting with lunatics that think this still is one. Over time, territory expanded westward up to and through the Civil War. This was done by the kind of people that came to a foreign land, saw it was full of people already, and decided to completely upend that whole situation for their own benefit. You know, the whole “screw them, got mine” world outlook. This is also an ethos that is completely compatible (if not required) with owning people (slavery), secession to maintain that ability, spilling blood over it, and continuing to punch down on “people not like us” for a 150 years since losing that fight. In a sense, we’re up against colonists, the values they espoused, their great-great-great-offspring, and people in their community that keep those values alive.
July 4th 1776
From now on, anyone who loses someone to cancer will not have to wonder what happened or how it could have been prevented. Death to cancer no longer has anonymity. The mask will forever be removed. We can now lay future loses and pain due to this horrible fate at the feet of Republicans and their partisan horseshit.
Fuck, I hate those fuckers, now as much as I hate cancer!
Since they’ve aligned themselves with cancer, I submit that transitive property is a thing. Ergo, they now are cancer.
And you know what we do to cancer, right kids? Fire, lasers, poison and radiation.
and stop smoking whatever shit theyre peddling.
The US is feeling really “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” lately
USA wants everyone else blind so they can use their technology tosee and be the only one that can.
They will absolutely not exploit or bully anyone this time.
They double pinky promised.
If no one can See, I might be Jason Momoa, amirite?
Yeah that tracks.
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
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… :(
And it’s more true than ever.
2012 too, man. Congress shut down the government under Obama because “fuck you, that’s why!”
The secret reason was racism
That could be said about every American though.
Doubt
Failing to ruin your life by going first at a revolution with zero coordination is basically the same thing as voting for cancer.
No one likes a tankie
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.
America. 😎
