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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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[–] [email protected] 331 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

reminds me of when trump disbanded the government's pandemic response team ~~for no other reason than obama created it.~~ and then covid happened...

edit: pandemic response team was created by bush, then expanded by obama.

trump gutted it

[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or Bush/Cheney got rid of experts on Al-Qaeda and bin Laden upon taking over the office because of whatever reasons.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ah, yes, back when "enemy of my enemy is my friend" was used.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

… 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

It's a bit jarring to remember the era when Republicans weren't purely cartoonishly evil.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 253 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands and we should stop treating them as reasonable adults.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We said that in 1992 and 2000, and 2004, and 2008, and 2020, and

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2012 too, man. Congress shut down the government under Obama because "fuck you, that's why!"

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

And it's more true than ever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

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... :(

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[–] [email protected] 166 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Harris needs to shout this from the rooftops

[–] [email protected] 127 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yep, can't get a better line than: "Republicans voted against curing cancer!"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People still voting Republican absolutely don't give a fuck. Cruelty is the point.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago (5 children)

GOP is completely irrational and hostile. They’re dragging us to hell with them. Assholes.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Americans, where the fuck did you stray off the beaten path? I hate this timeline

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Arguably all the way back to Nixon, but definitely by Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

This. Reagan in particular just lovedb nothing more than knocking the supports out from under bridges. Fucking old bastard.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So this is Biden/Harris fault!

Republican voter, probably.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Fox will spin it that way, or, more likely they just won't talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Lmfao the GOP raised taxes on the middle class with Trump, what the fuck are you talking about

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

"Pro-cancer" is the prerable term.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

They need to run on this. Put it in every ad, talk about it on every appearance

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Smells like republican corruption.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The US is feeling really “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” lately

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Fuck Republicans, Congress and everything in between

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

the 'pro life' party. asshats

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Not surprising they'd block it considering the Republican party is cancer.

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