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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 12, 2025 at 11:56 am
@ Goosebump
That's what gives me the most anxiety thinking about our future. Our (apparent) choices are violence or kings, and choosing either won't necessarily prevent the other. We've really bumblefucked ourselves on this one.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 13, 2025 at 11:31 pm
After passing a budget that aims to cut Medicaid by $880 billion in ten years House Speaker Johnson says: "You return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day."
Despite Johnson's insistence that, "No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid," the work requirement would threaten health care access for millions, including Americans that are temporarily unemployed after being laid off.
A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that as many as 36 million of the 72 million enrolled in Medicaid could be stripped of coverage under work requirements.
Trump has been promised a quick turn around on the bill, putting the pressure on Johnson and House Republicans to make significant cuts that can be rationalized to voters who stand to lose access to services, or—in Johnson's view—video game time.
https://www.latintimes.com/mike-johnson-...ing-580534
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm
RFK Jr pushes conspiracy theories in FDA speech, prompts staff walkouts
Last week, Robert F Kennedy, Jr (RFK Jr) gave a speech at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wherein he invoked the ‘deep state’ and made dubious claims about autism.
“[But]… the deep state is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity,” RFK Jr told FDA staff.
Given the assertion about the ‘deep state’ and the ensuing accusation that FDA employees were ‘sock puppets’ to the industry they regulate, the HHS secretary advised staff to “take advantage” during his time at the helm of the department, vowing that the overarching health agency would not be "subject to undue influence and would listen to dissidents".
Stating that “this whole generation is damaged”, RFK Jr’s speech went on to claim that rising rates of chronic disease, allergies and other illnesses were attributable to “some environmental toxin”.
RFK Jr has since revealed that a mass "testing and research effort" on autism is underway at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and that “we will know” the cause of the “autism epidemic by September”.
In an anecdote about spending time at a New York school for individuals with disabilities when he was younger, RFK Jr claimed that he saw people with intellectual disabilities all the time, yet “never saw anybody with autism”.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-pu...51299.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 14, 2025 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2025 at 10:34 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
I hope the lizard in his throat eats him from the inside. That'd be nice.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2025 at 3:17 pm by arewethereyet.)
And for head of Homeland Security, may I introduce a woman who can't keep up with own purse...
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
I'm your huckleberry.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 3:24 pm
(April 21, 2025 at 3:16 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: And for head of Homeland Security, may I introduce a woman who can't keep up with own purse...
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 4:21 pm
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(April 21, 2025 at 3:16 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: And for head of Homeland Security, may I introduce a woman who can't keep up with own purse...
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
Kristi Noem’s handbag - including her DHS access badge and $3,000 in cash - stolen from restaurant
One a much reduced level, several years ago, we had the case of the head of a security firm (bodyguard-type stuff) manage to get his firearm stolen from his unlocked vehicle.
Twice.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 6:12 pm
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 11:20 pm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
April 21, 2025 at 11:46 pm
(April 21, 2025 at 11:20 pm)Jackalope Wrote: They're building a registry of autistic people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-auti...l-records/
No chance for abuse there. 
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