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annzeepark914

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13 minutes ago, tres bien said:

Do have a word salad interpreter here?

Today Trump “We’re bringing back religion in our country and we’re bringing it back quickly and strongly”

I keep trying to imagine what kind of people hear/read this gobbledegook & think, "Thank you, Mr President!"  He is definitely looking old, slumped in his chair at meetings, hunched over while walking, babbling even more inanities than his first term. 

P.S. Didn't anyone get a photo of Garcia's knuckles while Sen. Van Hollen was sitting at a table with him??? The Democrats could frame the photo & present to His Lowness. He sure looked & sounded pathetic in his interview with ABC's Terry Moran, insisting on a gang tattoo on Garcia's knuckles.

 

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Annber03
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And yet the same people who are awed by his celebrity are also the ones talkng about how celebritees need to stay out of politics. You'll pardon me if I can't take their critiques all that seriously. 

Annber03
Annber03

For as long as I live, I will never understand the hold this guy has over people. 

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Everything I want to say would be a string of curse words at this point.  Hope you're happy, people who decided to be all precious with your votes or who felt this guy deserved another chance aft

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Anela

Anela

 

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths

Nonprofits scramble to continue program despite ‘devastating’ loss of federal support (Why do they have the word devastating, in quotation marks? FFS.) 

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned.

The elimination of the National Institutes of Health’s role in the program, which helped slash infant deaths in the 2000s, comes at a time when sleep-related deaths among infants have increased. Sudden infant death rates were up nearly 12% between 2020 and 2022, according to the most recent data in a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. 

“The elimination of this department is absolutely devastating as the rates of sudden unexpected infant death have begun to climb once again,” Alison Jacobson, the CEO of First Candle, a nonprofit organization that worked with the federal government on Safe to Sleep, said in an email.

 

 

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Eri

Eri

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16 hours ago, Mollywolly555 said:

Thank you,  Eri, for the explanation.

I was wondering about this phenomenon.

My BIL was born in US;  is half Mexican, half Italian, both parents also born here.

He has criticized incoming Mexicans in the US for the 40 years I've known him, not just recently, but is otherwise apolitical. 

I never got the turn on his ethnic group (half anyways).

His son, my nephew is bigly maga, as is my youngest sister,  his mother.  I get it, but I still don't  get the  logic. 

Are there stats on Latino voters for Repubs or Dems?

 

No problem! 

Here are post-election stats on voter margins reported on November 6th: 

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/how-latinos-voted-2024-us-presidential-election

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tearknee

tearknee

37 minutes ago, PRgal said:

Nope.  Not at all.  But according to certain groups, particularly certain academics, it's 100% related to European culture, particularly the Church.  They've obviously not encountered Confucius and his writing.  

@tearknee I assume you're quoting my post about my issues with certain groups telling people from my background and other "ethnic" (i.e. non-Anglo Protestant/Anglo Protestant adjacent) backgrounds how to feel/think?  I honestly have no clue what your comment has to do with it. 

Sorry, i tend to ramble when i'm ill or stressed or something bad has happened to me in RL.

 

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Affogato

Affogato

1 hour ago, ProudMary said:

Well, in the '50s and '60s, corporations were taxed between 70%-90%. That should be a pretty easy message to communicate. 

In 2020, Elizabeth Warren's stump speech contained her easy-to-understand wealth tax plan. A 2% tax would be placed on any earnings over $50 million, so 2 cents on every dollar. Easy peasy. No problems understanding that.

Obviously, that doesn't even come close to the tax rates of the mid-twentieth century. This particular plan wasn't a corporate tax. It was personal income tax. We should be taxing both.

 

 

Yes. At this point we need to see some of that money in use. 

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Eri

Eri

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1 hour ago, Anela said:

 

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths

Nonprofits scramble to continue program despite ‘devastating’ loss of federal support (Why do they have the word devastating, in quotation marks? FFS.) 

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

 

Just...why!? Federal NIH funding for research matters for the health of your family! Everyone should be appalled by these shocking NIH funding cuts proposed by this administration. The funding contributed to the development of over 99% of medications approved from 2010-2019 in the US. Many, if not most, medications would NOT have been developed by private industry without some federal funding spearheading the beginning of the research, because financial risks are particularly high at the beginning when most medication development fails. And treatment of some diseases, like rare diseases, does not bring financial windfalls for Big Pharma.

There used to be a time when world leaders would convene and fund the fight against diseases around the world for the benefit of humanity.

Smdh - how far we've fallen..

More great decision making from the party of "family values" 🙄

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Yeah No

Yeah No

3 hours ago, praeceptrix said:

The Felon in the Oval Office displays shocking ignorance about the Declaration of Independence.

Why am I not surprised? Disgusted,  yes. Surprised,  no.

Thomas Jefferson would have broken down in tears over this. His only consolation would have been that he didn't live to see it.

Clay Jenkinson, a well known Jeffersonian scholar wrote this after the Charlottesville riot in 2017, quoting Jefferson on his despair over the debate on the Missouri Compromise:

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Jefferson wrote, "I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves, by the generation of 1776, to acquire self government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it."

Surely if Jefferson had been alive in mid-August 2017 he would have written something similar after the Charlottesville riot. How can it have come to this, 146 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 63 years after Brown v. Board of Education, 52 years after the Civil Rights Bill of 1965, and nine years after the election of the first African-American president in our history?

The other moment from Jefferson’s life came in 1825. Almost immediately after the University of Virginia opened, there was a student riot. It had the usual features: drunkenness, property damage, general roistering, and a bottle of urine thrown into a professor’s private quarters. Some of Jefferson’s hand-picked faculty were threatening to quit. When he heard about the incident the ancient Jefferson, now approaching death, saddled up and rode down the mountain to his academical village, gathered the student body in the Rotunda—Jefferson’s paean to the Pantheon at Rome—and tried to recall them to good sense. The students refused to listen to the aging patriarch. A witness later wrote, "His lips moved—he essayed to speak—burst into tears & sank back into his seat!—The shock was electric!"

Jefferson called the student riot "the most painful event of my life."

If Jefferson were alive today, he would weep for Charlottesville. He would weep for the lost promises of our republic.

He would weep for America.

https://jeffersonhour.com/blog/weeping

It's to be noted that Charlottesville is the location of the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded.

Surely he would weep for America now too.

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Soapy Goddess

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15 hours ago, Bookish Jen said:

Stevie Wonder could tell those tattoos were photoshopped.

The MS 13 was photoshopped above the tattoos to explain or translate what the symbols meant.

The tattoo symbols were not. The photoshop of MS 13 was done to show the definition of the symbols, which are very similar to how the teardrop is defined.

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Affogato

Affogato

3 hours ago, Soapy Goddess said:

The MS 13 was photoshopped above the tattoos to explain or translate what the symbols meant.

The tattoo symbols were not. The photoshop of MS 13 was done to show the definition of the symbols, which are very similar to how the teardrop is defined.

Many people with expertise say there is no evidence e they are gang marks and Trump, well, Trump

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/abrego-garcias-tattoos-explainer

Tattoos on Abrego Garcia’s fingers are not proof he’s a member of MS-13, experts say

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But in his interview with ABC on Tuesday to mark the 100th day of his second term, Trump appeared to indicate that he either didn’t know the picture he held was digitally altered, or didn’t care.

“On his knuckles, he had MS-13,” the president told ABC’s Terry Moran. The journalist tried correcting the president. Trump waved the attempt off.

“Don’t do that,” Trump interrupted. “It says ‘M, S, 1, 3.’” Trump scoffed when Moran said the letters were photoshopped onto the image.

6 hours ago, Yeah No said:

Thomas Jefferson would have broken down in tears over this. His only consolation would have been that he didn't live to see it.

Clay Jenkinson, a well known Jeffersonian scholar wrote this after the Charlottesville riot in 2017, quoting Jefferson on his despair over the debate on the Missouri Compromise:

https://jeffersonhour.com/blog/weeping

It's to be noted that Charlottesville is the location of the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded.

Surely he would weep for America now too.

So say we all

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Yeah No

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1 hour ago, Affogato said:

So say we all

Yes, we do, don't we?

Considering that Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and how emotional he could get at times, he would definitely weep over this. Trump's obvious ignorance of its significance is frightening and astounding, especially for a president. As an American I think I'd have to go back to 1st or 2nd grade not to know the significance of that document.

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bluegirl147

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I wonder if his base still supports him because in for a penny in for a pound or do they really believe in what he is doing.  For all these white people who think oh it's going to be great we are going to be in charge they might need a reality check.  Rich white people will be in charge.  And not just any rich white people.  Millionaires aren't good enough anymore.  It's going to be the billionaires.

And this military parade gaudy Trump birthday celebration is going to be such an epic failure.  Oh it will probably happen but it's going to be such an embarrassment.  Him and his family and Musk will probably show up for this, sitting on some grandstand or something. Maybe it will be like Animal House and something will crash into it sending them all flying. 

2 hours ago, Affogato said:

But in his interview with ABC on Tuesday to mark the 100th day of his second term, Trump appeared to indicate that he either didn’t know the picture he held was digitally altered, or didn’t care.

This is one of Trump's biggest flaws, of which there are many. He will never admit he is wrong.  He altered the projected path of a Hurricane so as not to appear wrong. And he rarely admits  he doesn't know something, unless of course when it's something he doesn't want to know as to avoid blame.  The man isn't only superbly dumb but he thinks he is a genius.  He will go to his grave (can't come soon enough) thinking he really was the smartest man ever.

2 minutes ago, tres bien said:

ICYMI

Yesterday Trump signed an EO defunding PBS and NPR

And is going through with his plans to takeaway Harvard’s tax-exempt status “because they deserve it”

Remains to be seen if any of this is legal 

None of this is legal. As always Congress has the power of the purse. Although the Reps in Congress seemed to have been not only neutered but castrated.  And I'm pretty sure he can't single out someone and revoke their tax exempt status just because he wants to.

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Ohiopirate02

Ohiopirate02

It is extremely difficult to revoke tax exempt status when the other party has the money to fight it. It's not something Trump can wave his magic wand to change, oh I mean craft and sign an executive order. If this was the case, then the Church of Scientology would have had their tax exempt status revoked years ago.

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Affogato

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59 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

This is one of Trump's biggest flaws, of which there are many. He will never admit he is wrong.  He altered the projected path of a Hurricane so as not to appear wrong. And he rarely admits  he doesn't know something, unless of course when it's something he doesn't want to know as to avoid blame.  The man isn't only superbly dumb but he thinks he is a genius.  He will go to his grave (can't come soon enough) thinking he really was the smartest man ever.

Narcissism is a compensation for crushingly low self esteem.  If it is any comfort he never thinks he is good enough and everyone must be below him and tell him he is right constantly or he will lose it. This is why he gets worse and worse as people feed into it more and more. Is this a comfort? 

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Ohiopirate02

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10 minutes ago, Eri said:

I don't feel bad for him at all honestly lol - nothing ever good comes from making deals with the Devil. You reap what you sow 🤷🏾‍♀️

Same. Marco and anyone else who accepted Trump's invitation to be a part of his cabinet believe in the same things as Trump. It does not matter to me if Marco does not 100% back Trump. He apparently agrees with him enough to want to support him in whatever capacity.

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

1 hour ago, Eri said:

I don't feel bad for him at all honestly lol - nothing ever good comes from making deals with the Devil. You reap what you sow 🤷🏾‍♀️

 

49 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

Same. Marco and anyone else who accepted Trump's invitation to be a part of his cabinet believe in the same things as Trump. It does not matter to me if Marco does not 100% back Trump. He apparently agrees with him enough to want to support him in whatever capacity.

As so many of us have already said "I was just following orders" isn't going to cut it. At least not on the world stage.  But even here once Trump is finally dead and buried I hope all of his enablers are shunned and never serve another day in shape or form as part of our government.  Hopefully some of them are serving time.  You know there are things going on we don't know about. 

50 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I keep waiting for the tipping point with Donny Two Dolls. 

There has to be one right?  I mean this guy can't get away with everything can he?

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