The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
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Remember when he promised to give 5 billion to world health program if they can proof how they will do it. And then they proved it but then he went back on his promise?
He could do so much good and chooses to be shitty person.
Don't kid yourself. MAGA is not surprised, they'll find any way to excuse away this move. They'll just nod and say it was good, anything to keep watching the shadows on the wall.
I agree with you somewhat. They are surprised but they don’t let us know because they would have to admit that they were wrong that’s why they don’t admit it to us but behind close door they do. I know quite a few of them & they are educated people nurses, doctors that worked with.
A stand alone bill for child cancer research funding passed the Republican controlled House in March and got held up in the Democrat controlled Senate.
I remember him wanting to fight Zuckerberg, until he realized several well respected fighters said Zuckerberg is actually good at BJJ. Musk is all talk as usual.
Elon Musk is a hardcore eugenics, so he is more worried about whether kids have cancer means they have weak genes, and Musk's top priority is to remove their genes from the gene pool. That's the only thing Elon Musk cares about.
This is reprehensible. There has got to be a law of some kind that Elonia is violating. Anyone of a lawyerly persuasion here wanna take a stab at finding one?
While I agree we need to hold both parties accountable, we're going to have a tough 4 years if we cant place consistent pressure against the administration in power. That bill had a poison pill deliberately placed in it. Republicans have buckets of them ready for all of us to swallow.
A 'poison pill' is supposed to KILL the bill. You don't vote for it!! That's saying you HAVE TO run over the kids the bad guys tied to the railroad track! No you fucking don't!
It is, I don't agree or support it, but I see this similar to the Harris/trump discussion, where some left voters kept criticizing her instead of prioritizing criticisms on trump, yes Harris deserves to be critique but given the context it'd have more impact to direct it to trump.
I'm not trying to be condescending? I'm saying the Republicans are going to keep doing much more damage to the trans community and other marginalized groups, and a sharpened, consistent, unified attack against them is needed. I'm not saying ignore Dems, just that we need all pressure we can get
You are not understanding. DEMOCRATS did this to trans people. We are mad AT THEM. THEY betrayed us. THEY could have killed the bill. THEY chose not to. THEY chose to run over trans kids tied to the railroad tracks rather than stop the train. THEY have the majority in the Senate. They did this.
Then I apologize for my ignorance, I'm being sincere when I say I don't mean to insult but clearly I have, ive fumbled and so I'll reflect on this and try to be better, appreciate your time
He spent more than that to buy himself a president. Imagine if billionaires actually wanted to do some good. Like if Elon would have said "Hey why don't you save that 190 million and put that back into the social security pot we keep stealing out of and I will write a check for that 190 million
He can’t. He’s a sociopath. It’s mentally impossible for him. Wanting to do good is completely incompatible with the kind of person you have to be to amass that kind of wealth.
I’ve been saying this for years. He’s a psychopath. Without empathy. He literally doesn’t care. And he enjoys inflicting suffering as a means of power.
That needs to be considered when the question of why he and others like him act like they do. They have the ability to do so and are incapable of stopping themselves.
Please someone post this adorable pic under Donalds account. You know this will annoy the crap out of him as l am sure the boy Elon is getting on his last nerves by stealing all the limelight that his ego needs so very badly.
Deportations are not necessarily to the country of origin if there are reasons not to send someone there (persecution, safety etc), but to any country willing to take them. Musk would make sure he had a feather bed lined up, and very good reasons ($) not to go where he did not want to.
This doesn't bring me joy, but knowing this new administration is going to shithole this country and I'm all for it. You asked for it, you got it, you dumbshits!
And that's why if it doesn't die in the house it will die in the Senate. That bill is not getting past government shutdown or no government shutdown doesn't f****** matter it's not passing. And get prepared for a whole hell of a lot of that
Doesn't matter. 1st lady Trump has literally no say and therefore Elon doesn't either. Am I on crazy pills? Biden is still president. What the fuck is going on?
This was not reported on the article that broke the story. ➡️ I wouldn't doubt it... honestly, 45 isn't even in office yet, Musk's ranting/raving, threats against Repubs if they vote for the bipartisan bill got 45 so upset he got GOP to cut Children's Cancer Research?
A stand alone bill for child cancer research funding passed the Republican controlled House in March and got held up in the Democrat controlled Senate.
Rand Paul held in objection because of duplication of funds. He released his objection when the new form passed. They passed the stadium with a roll call vote late that night and can do anything they want. The first was mainly objected bc of the protection of texts/emails for members & pay raises.
I didn't see anything in the new bill that targets anyone in the LGBTQ+ Community-- although after a list of a couple more things that I couldn't fit in my post, it did say "and more".
Is there new info re: cuts to 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Community?
My friends in the military-- they admit that there are some MAGA in their ranks--have stated that they are *not* doing 45's bidding (Not rounding up illegals, gays, ppl who oppose 45, etc. )
The more 45 threatens military benefits, MAGA ones might FINALLY join in w the patriots. Let's hope so.
They also attempted to cut funding for sickle cell research, breast and cervical cancer research, Down’s syndrome research and research on premature labor. Let’s treat women, children and African Americans like 💩
At the time the original story broke at Rolling Stone, they did not list ANOTHER disgraceful cut: Military personnel with trans kids will no longer get health benefits, for their child nor themselves.
More evil* than even I expected this early in the game. It's a month away from Jan 20th ... I'm on SSD & Medicare--paid dearly into it, yet even I was more upset about their talks to cut veterans' benefits.
But Kids w/cancer?
My god. Heartless inhumane monsters.
SMH
It is so unbelievable how uneducated people are in this country. I don't mean they haven't gone to college. Going to college or not does not dictate one's common sense/ actual education.
The majority of people act like what 45 is doing is surprising.
I have been trying to teach people since 2016 that 45's words mimicked Hitler's rhetoric & his actions were taken right from his playbook. I studied these things in teenage years w my grandmother, and Goebbels propaganda techniques in undergrad.
GOP death panels. Voting against helping dying kids kids and making them suffer through the excruciating pain of cancer. Bankrupting families and ripping out the hearts of parents!
Also-- all of the disabled and elderly. There's no doubt in my mind that they're going to take away SS, SSD, & Medicare-- even though we paid into it our entire work lives.
To take away funding for Children's Cancer Research is inhumane.
He's more sick that 45:
Phony hair, chin, cheeks.
Evil.
The GOP are showing their true colors. They don’t care about anyone but themselves and their rich donors! I don’t understand how anyone believed their lies.
Gotta remember with MAGA R's...
"We must have more kids" - pro-BIRTH
They can careless AFTER they are born.
-Against free breakfast/lunch in school
-Biggest donation recipients of NRA
A surprise that they do this cutting of cancer treatment and research? I think not. 🤢
I’m with you. I’m hopeless but pulling straws to grasp for some. When they mess up lives and there’s no woman in the way (eye roll w/sarcasm), maybe people will vote against the GOP if we still have voting rights.
Hey Chris, Elon Musk from South Africa. Did he become a citizen of the US? If not, shouldn't he have to register as a foreign agent? Having a non-US person that close to the president is a little scary to me.
He’s a citizen now, but there’s some question as to whether he broke some immigration laws prior to becoming a citizen which may negate his naturalization
Fun fact: zero of the children who would have benefited from that bill are children of the elite class, soooooooooo who cares? Not our Government, that’s for damned sure! U! S! A! U! S! A!
The last 40+ years is the result of ONLY Republicans having a spine in our government. This is them getting what they want, what they have always wanted.
One can only imagine how pissed off Republicans are with Musk and how this will play out. Will any of them vote for Jeffries for leader if they are going to get primaried anyway?
If tonight’s bill fails will Johnson be gone by the morning?
If the government shuts down and Republicans refuse to work with Democrats, we may be looking at a default in June if it’s still closed. Trump would do that. The global economy would collapse. Is this enough of a threat to remove Trump as if he was al-Assad?
Clearly Trump does not care about the health and security of Americans. That being the case we have a duty to remove him. The question is how. Via State AGs, impeachment by Republicans he’s bribed, or by militias as individuals seek to save themselves from financial ruin.
That's the #1 thing I hate about bills, riders. You can tack on an order of bombs to kill kids overseas to a bill written solely to euthanize pederasts, and everyone voting against it (because of the bombing kids rider) will be painted as supporting child sex abusers.
Certainly looks like he bought it to me. He's got more power than trump and we can see it by the shutdown. Your issue isn't with me, it's with the government enabling it
Seriously though, perhaps ask why congress is listening to elon, and will shut the government down for him and can't even do their one job. By far the least productive congress in American history and it obeys people outside the government
They will be sure to be vaxxed.
Their rules don't apply to themselves.
Do you really think Bob J(ackass)R. has been able to travel globally without being vaxxed?
There's only about 3 countries he could visit if that were the case.
A pox? Why stop there?! Those 2 vile meatsacks and those like them will end up in a very dark cold scary place one day and be burdened with the hate they placed in the World. May their last days on Earth be the most miserable for them until they're gone. So mote it be.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is very common among the uber wealthy; there is no known treatment or cure and the disorder gets worse with age. Paranoia and invidious comparison become stronger as the sufferer ages. Sadly their need to practice recreational cruelty rises as well.
Evil not Stupid
That bastard could give 1 billion dollars to fund cancer research and not even notice it gone. He could also give 3 million dollars to every American and still be the richest man on earth.
Musk could give every US adult over the age of 18 $1200 each & still be in the top 5 richest people in the world. Thats how rich he is and instead of helping people he is enriching only himself
I still don’t get how Tesla is valued. Most of their models are dated, there’s issues ranging from production/hardware to software that undermine their performance. Except for the battery, the solar part never came to fruition. Yet it’s worth more than Toyota? Feels a bit like GameStop stock.
And more good news for Tesla: Musk wants to eliminate the data reporting law for car crashes that involve ... "Autopiloted vehicles".
Tesla is responsible for 1,500 crashes. Or 40 out of 45 reported last year.
The kicker is, Elon, in his role of the head of the Dept of Government Efficiency says the reason to repeal that law is: "Excessive data collection"!
A sane person can't make this shit up.
They are legit pieces of shit
They feel chincy they have the price of a lux car and the leather seats of a 1978 Chrysler Cordova. Sure you save on gas but the door handles are made of cheap plastic.
Those people have no souls. They'll kill children's cancer research, but I'll bet the new DC stadium is still in there. No person or company should be that rich & have that much power. There's a reason the phone company went through divestiture in 1983.
It’s easy to pick and chose the good parts of the bill. Can you please also post the bad parts? I think we the people need to understand the total impact.
This is important though. Yet, the alternative to that bill which has some really bad parts is a bill which has removed funding for critical research, funding for disaster management etc.
It will also raise the debt ceiling which will then give republicans the opening for tax cuts to the rich...
A small group of representatves from mega-rich families have been hidden behind the seat of power since at least WW2. Since the Manhattan project they've been deeply buried in secrecy. I can imagine these people silently glaring as they watch their loquacious new tweet boy Elon.
Bsky’s gotta come up w what no one else has—a button of support that shields the supporter from appearing to agree w a statement of fact, but also somehow utterly denounces the fact at issue. So, like, an emphatic acknowledgment button.
trump stole $2 million from his own charity that was to go to child cancer research. Him and his spawn were ruled by the courts never to have another charity in their names. The
I keep asking who solicited the courts for his mental acuity test? He is not normal but we need a certified test and then Vance can take him out using the 25th...If we have a mental acuity test and he fails, he can be impeached for not
disclosing the information...And I'll bet after tonight we would get over 60% of MAGA voting yes...
They would actually have some balls, because they know, either way, they have lost their seats come 2026...trump f them all and his own MAGA minions idiots.....
Like half the fruits and vegetables in the produce section only exist because of intentional man-made genetic modification, just with different tools than we use now. We could probably do a lot with further applications.
Genetically modifying crops to withstand tons of environmentally damaging chemicals, like glyphosate, is destroying the health of the soil, the environment and us
Every food you eat was genetically modified by humans, the only difference with GMOs is time scale. Or do you think bananas naturally come without seeds?
Selective breeding is not the same as genetically engineering a plant to withstand environmentally toxic chemicals
Try your false equivalencies somewhere else
So much for the right being pro life or all about the innocent life and the babies!!! Oh the precious babies. Now it's the babies can fuck off and go die of cancer.
this should be all over the msm. instead we will just read what trump is saying and who he will primary and what musk is saying and what johnson says, etc etc. then in a brief second they will talk about this. the soap opera stuff will get all the headlines.
It’s of real concern that he has so much influence in the nascent Trump Administration. However, if Musk keeps taking the limelight that Trump believes is his, and his alone, then the ‘First Buddy’ will quickly become just another ‘I hardly know the guy’ and a target for Trump’s retribution.
Did he, now? 😂 The usual face-saving ex poste rationalisation from the Trumpenfuhrer. He won’t be happy about Musk getting out in front of him so publicly.
Musk is a vulture capitalist. He has bought the exec branch of our gov’t with the intention of plundering its assets under the guise of efficiency to further enrich himself leaving what’s then left of the American public to pick up the pieces.
Just as UK national assets were plundered, enriching those capitalists and assorted domestic and foreign cronies of the Conservative party. Leaving behind impoverished and hollowed-out public services that the public purse can now ill-afford to restore. They laugh at us.
Fuck Elon Musk. He clearly has no priorities but himself. People like him disgust me. It is not because he is rich. It is because he has no empathy for those less fortunate. He was born with a silver spoon in his hand, just like Trump. They can never acquire enough & take from others! 😡
I think he’s said he’s autistic, but that’s separate from completely lacking empathy. Autistic people have empathy and express it differently (which is where the misconception comes from). Musk simply doesn’t have any.
When I said,“He’s a social misfit. Some say he’s autistic & lacks empathy,” I intended this as 2 separate thoughts, not a connecting idea. I meant to state that he’s autistic & has challenges, & separately, that he lacks empathy. I see now it wasn’t clear & could be misunderstood & why I apologized.
I want to sincerely apologize for my statement being interpreted that autistic people lack empathy. That is a harmful stereotypes. Autistic individuals experience and express empathy in diverse ways, and my words failed to reflect that. I deeply regret the misrepresentation. Elon is just a Jackass!
👍🏼My children are autistic and are lovely people. No shortage of empathy. We forget that empathy can be also be learned…Anyone can be a monster if their worst and basest instincts are nurtured…big shout out to his a-hole parents!!!
That would put the Speaker of the House (possibly Mike Johnson, possibly some Even Less Responsible Republican) into the Presidency, which would be a Bad Idea.
But 2025's all about Bad Ideas, so why not.
If you read what I said, I’d be giving that Republican less than 24 hours as president. Also, doubt they would do much considering they’re imploding right now.
The party that constantly screams "what about the kids" wants to cutoff cancer child research? Who knew? It's not like they have had a decades long history of talking about protecting the kids while screwing them over...
Woof. Didn't know kale killed people en masse... or "being drag" as they'd say...
And shit... I'd rather be woke than asleep. Since when did it become BAD to be aware of societal issues? I guess when Trump decided America was better when it hated instead of included...
The draft 2023 agriculture budget by the GOP-led House Agriculture Appropriations committee tried to cut funding for the WIC program - the program that helps low income families buy baby formula & healthy foods for pregnant women & children under 5.
That's because most don't even understand how government works..or is supposed to. Their base is voting to own the Libtards. Period. And as long as that perception that the Libtards are getting owned exists courtesy of Fox and Twitter the game continues.
Except the voters who voted for that who need it, well they’re about to find out. Tragically at the cost of their children possibly. I wonder if their babies are worth the price of eggs that most certainly won’t be dropping.
The stopgap spending bill directs pharmaceutical companies to incorporate pediatric studies during drug development, aiming to boost treatment options for children with cancer.
The only mention of 190 million is for drone research..
What bill are you reading?
Correction, he gave a $190 million back to the tax payers who can now choose to voluntarily invest in that research if they deem it a good use of their money. Knock it off with the "think of the children bs" taxation is theft.
Taxes fund public services and projects of public interest. It’s not theft, it’s a contribution benefitting communities and society at large, i.e. everyone who lives in them. If anything, wealthy people should be taxed appropriately to take strain off the majority of society, for everyone’s benefit.
Who gets to determine what's in "public interest?" I don't consider funding the war in Ukraine in my interest, and I don't consider giving those parasites in Washington a 40% raise in my interest either.
Taxes are taken by force through threat of imprisonment or death. They are theft.
You determine it. As does everyone living in a democracy, collectively. If you don‘t agree with the way tax money is spent, your response should be to make use of your democratic rights & work towards change.
I didn't say it wasn't a good use of money. What I said is that if individual people think it is a good use of money, then they will freely use their money for that purpose. Individuals should decide how their money is spent, not the government.
A stand alone bill for child cancer research funding passed the Republican controlled House in March and got held up in the Democrat controlled Senate.
From Meidas+, This Weekend in Politics newsletter.
Rand Paul held up a vote on the original cancer research funding, not the Democrats. It passed early Saturday morning. President Musk's interference didn't stop the funding, but it did result in the amount being cut.
In think you're being purposely obtuse—or you know nothing about how the Senate works. One senator of either party can stop a measure from moving forward. It doesn’t matter who controls the Senate. That one senator was Rand Paul, who is a Republican. End of story.
World's richest pedophile rapist, that is. Don't worry, I'm sure that his fellow pedophile rapist will form another fake "cancer charity" to make money off of the victims.
Like the head of United Health Care’s op ed did not promise to put money into health care but blabbered on about plans, concepts, solutions are out there… robber barons all of them.
Correct. What is important to Pres Musk and billionaire CEOs is their way, not the way to help Americans. Both can do good with their $$, but choose not to.
Not the same thing he took Money from Medicaid and did not offer the medical care and for the record no one is doing anything to press charges against United Healthcare
That is why I am not sorry that the bill was killed and the so called kids Cancer research money did not come. That money never goes where it's supposed to and we tech labs by robots and AI to do scientific research now we don't need money from the government for so called Kids Cancer research.
What really drives me nuts is when they say they have to frequently deny coverage to make the system "sustainable." We spend way more per capita than any other developed nation and get worse outcomes. They are the reason the system is unsustainable.
100%. When I learned that fact recently, I was utterly gob-smacked. It is profiteering at its most heinous. The US seems to be the world leader in the commodification of human life, all in the name of the “shareholder”.
In 2016 the BBC (UK broadcaster) published figures which showed US government health spending per capita was more than 50% above UK government health spending per capita, but we have a universal free health service.
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Just start posting AI images of trump looking subservient to Elon on truthsocial. Hopefully cheetolini will see it and stab him in the back. Civil war in the trump world is our best bet.
great stuff. we thought folks would recognize in advance that 'efficiency' has always meant businesses cutting costs to the point where workers and customers are injured and killed.
This previous illegal immigrant who cheated our visa system underpays people to design deathtraps. full stop.
Stop it Chris. This is a CR "continuing Resolution". Short term budget to keep the government open. Youre used to piling in all your pet funding into a rushed CR. That changed on election day. There's time next year to look at funding the center.
Bullshit. Trump (whose family *stole from the nonprofit they created to fight childhood cancer*), Musk, and the GOP don’t give a shit about kids getting cancer; it’s all about tax cuts for the richest. I lost a kid to childhood leukemia years ago, and this news pisses me off.
I do not appreciate your unfounded slur on the Bidens. That’s a right-wing trope that has never been supported by actual evidence—in fact, just this week the GOP’s star witness pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about it!
I think it's totally founded. Why would Biden pardon his son for 10 years for everything instead of just taxes? BTW... "pre sentencing "evidence gathering" was stopped with the pardon. Just sayin'.
Joe pardoned his son because a) the GOP attacked Hunter as a way to attack his dad, and b) your guy plans to use the DOJ to seek, not justice, but revenge.
I appreciate your sympathy. My son died 26 years ago; our surviving children are thriving, with kids of their own. We’ve come to terms with our loss. At this point I just want to see us do everything we can to prevent other families from having to go through what we went through.
I agree with you but feel this is a critical time changing administrations and we need a simple clean bill to get us through to next year. I'm with you next year trying to get it passed abd funded.
As I recall, they had to disband the nonprofit and *were* facing charges until the settlement got worked out.
And the federal government has long supported funding for such research. It takes a heartless oligarch like Musk and a wannabe like Trump to eliminate it in order to enrich themselves.
No Phil it doesn't. This was not a cancer bill. Look at what people were worth when they went into office and when they came out. Trumps the only one who list money in office. So enriching themselves seems to be the govt. way. We are trying to end that.
No it's not true I have my own non profit organization you can't shift non profit money into a business the bank doesn't allow that and neither does the IRS this is pure gossip.
Most likely, yes. I object to using quotes to imply that, because they are behaving in a blatantly unchristlike manner, they aren't christians, as if christianity is something only Good People can be part of.
Someone should immediately make a PSA with the children that will miss out now. Let the children tell President Elmo and that other orange guy how thankful they are and just in time for Christmas. Those MFs😤
Again, it’s a feature, not a bug. This is what they said they would do. The cruelty IS the point. Anyone who isn’t white and wealthy is of zero concern to our incoming rulers.
I don’t understand this part. Clearly they all have kids. Stripping away children’s cancer research? Even if they don’t care about others, at least don’t they care about their own kids? Or they are just narcissists who don’t give a damn about their offsprings?
I truly think they don't give a damn about anyone, including their wives, kids & grandkids. They all seem to be malignant narcissists. Such horrible times to come, I'm afraid.
I remember this also. They are not allowed to run any charities in New York anymore because they embezzled from a kids charity, What is it with trump and kids charities? Geez!
🎤 And this is where the frustration by the American people come in & some lose their sh*t & resort to violence. This is people's lives that they are playing with. Someone's child could have been saved!
America’s Children With Cancer Can Suffer With Budget Cuts—Bc GOP/Trump/Elon’s Priority Is Increasing The Debt Ceiling—To Make Sure Richest Americans/Corporations Get Promised Tax Breaks! Elon- Needs To Become Wealthier By Robbing Taxpayers/America! DOGE Cuts Services For Avg./Low Income Americans
President MuskRat could literally fund that on his own, but he’s too busy working his way to trillion dollar wealth, so he can’t be bothered with such trivial things.
Let America’s children eat cake! (Or better yet, get cancer)
Of course, RFK Jr. has already said he wants to stop cancer research anyway. Once he's appointed head of public health and falconry it was never gonna last.
They're anti everything that helps people. Elonia takes $190 million from children's cancer research but gladly receives $20 billion a year from the government for SpaceX. Long overdue to put his co presidency and excessive funding on the chopping block.
That heartless, cruel, immigrant, can fund pediatric cancer research by himself, it's just pocket change for him, who in the hell is he to tell our gov. officals what to do. No one elected him to office.
Oh my! I hadn’t even thought about him funding the radical right & Nazis in other countries! There are many countries that have been barely holding on to liberal democracy. Leon could push them over the edge!🤯
It's terrifying for those of us who pay attention to what's actually going on. 51% of the US seems to be ok with him. I am concerned about the UK's far right being funded, too. The UK is such a lovely place with lovely people.
Yes, im keeping a close eye on uk, Ireland, and Australia. I have major ties to all. Lex Luther wants wourld domination, and he has the money to do it.
Yes, I've seen that. Farage managed to get bretix over the line. With a disinformation campaign built on the backs of ws. Imagine what he could do with lex Luthers money. We are all heading towards some perilous times.
… but he is in charge of “Government Efficiency”
The ridiculous title is Trump being cunning.
He is makes the changes and gets Elon to take the fall.
Trump keeps his hands relatively clean.
If it fails Trump blames his little experiment on Musk.
It’s because money doesn’t come first with the richest man in the world. Social Darwinism and Eugenics comes first. He has literally said this publicly and you still put your focus on greed. It’s not greed. It’s genocide.
Come on, Chris! They’re after VA benefits, SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid, Snap. What exactly do you THINK the billionaire donor class is trying to do? Disabled, chronically ill, old, poor and vet. They want them all DEAD. At least that’s where they’re starting. 1930s Germany. And they admit to it.
And hammered her on the border as if Trump didn’t have 4 years in office AS PRESIDENT to do anything about the border which he did nothing. We’re so ignorant & gullible it’s cringeworthy.
Oh and don’t get me started on the prison trans garote they put around her neck as if that exact policy wasn’t in place in prisons the entire 4 years Trump was in the White House. I repeat: We’re so ignorant & gullible it’s cringeworthy.
Biden was too old. He should have had 1 term then a robust primary. Kamala only had 120 days to run! Plus she was female + a woman of color. Amerikkka won't vote 4 a woman & not a POC.
I like President Biden and think he’s done a great job. And, we will never know if he would have won. But misogyny did play a part in the election. Hopefully one day the US will move beyond its petty insecurities.
Did you even watch the debate? I love and appreciate Joe, but he should have honored his promise not to run for a second term. It’s the same syndrome that just cost AOC a leadership position. Entitled boys clubism does not serve the best interest of the American people.
The guy could barely string enough grunts together to form a coherent sentence. He's spent. He should have been replaced sooner. Dems lost because most voting Americans are dogshit. 1st world country, 3rd world values. Except that seems unfair on 3rd word countries. You guys choose to live that way.
There isn’t no plain and simple answer for the border .. I don’t understand why people fault Joe so when they actually do something . They made it easier for people to get citizen and sped up some peoples process .
No, I blame the 90 million people who stayed home & the other 2 plus million who wanted to play games because of Gaza. Don't come in here with both of them being unpopular. The other option was Trump & Vance
In my opinion, Harris *might* have won under different circumstances. Marianne Williamson would have been likely to. If Bernie Sanders had run and got the nomination, he would have been likely to as well. Biden almost certainly would not have won.
I was talking about IF she had advanced to the General Election. A bunch of her policy stances are actually in line with what leftists/the American people in general actually want.
Yes because the voters who did show up decided a racist rapist was better to lead the nation. If only she had molested someone we could have had a chance. Sigh …
I don’t see any evidence that Biden would have faired better if he had stayed in. Incumbent parties around the world were hit hard in large part due to sustained inflation impacting affordability of basics for large swaths of the population.
Now that Trump is in power takes like this are gonna age like sour milk. “Harris didn’t differentiate herself” ok cool. Biden never took 190M away from a cancer research center. Trump just did. That’s the differentiation people voted for.
She lost because her campaign sucked total ass outside of the first two weeks or so. This is coincidentally why the dems lost in 2016, and the same people were running both campaigns afaik. They just didn't take the election seriously either time.
In the first two weeks she was actually fighting and saw an incredible upswing of momentum because of that. Remember how rattled Republicans were just from being called "weird"? They're so used to Dems playing nice that they couldn't handle it. Then she stopped.
Yes? Harris initially had massive momentum from the possibility she'd be different from Biden but she doubled-down on more of the same and couldn't offer any kind of vision beyond the status quo.
The sad part is, that was the fault of Hillary's old "strategists" breaking shit when they should have left well enough alone. It's never about how competent the politician might be in office anymore, it's all about the handlers.
The problem was there wasnt enough reaso to actually vote for her with 6.3 million fewer votes while Republicans came out in force & Trump gained 14 million votes.
Dems didnt an abysmal job explaining Bidens successes, why the economy was the best & best recovery in the world but why ppl still hurt
💯 If anyone remembered Trump’s first term & saw how much more extreme he was in his campaign for a 2nd term, but was still able to create an excuse to not for for Harris, then they supported Trump — full stop. And🖕🏼them.
And if they’d chose to be willfully ignorant of Trump, also 🖕🏼them.
she started off her campaign saying she'd be even harsher on the border, basically told her own base to fuck off while courting their enemies, paraded around with war criminals, and doubled-down on continuing biden's status-quo policies when everyone was desperate for change
I unfortunately agree. She had 6.3 million fewer votes than Biden & Trump gained 14 mil votes.
Racism added to all of that as well as it not helping that Americans have the memory of a fruit fly so Trumps lies about the "good ol days" when he ran things actually stuck instead of remembering the bad
Correct, but she still lost and I think our friend above has the right of it that she stood a better chance to win if she had said she was going to do things differently then Biden.
Lot of debate here but I believe the central point is thus: Just not being Trump/Republicans was objectively not enough even if some feel it should be. Voters generally want a vision and someone they feel they can trust to see it through(and not immediately flipflop when it's politicly convienent)
She just needed to separate herself from the couple of bad things of Bidens presidency. Like the border, but she couldn’t cus she was in charge of it 🤷♂️
AYFKM? Trump's the BIGGEST flip flopper there is. His incoherent rants changes depending on who he's talking to.
JB did excellent for what he walked into. Dems can't win w/ignorant & conspiracy brained voters...add "both sides" msm, RW media lies, racism & misogyny & here we are! That's it.
She lost because there's a growing disillusionment towards politicians (justly, in most cases) and Harris showed she would just tow the party line. Bernie Sanders put it perfectly, the Dems lost because they're too worried about their upper class voters, the wealthy backers of their party,
the very same issues people accuse the Republicans of. The Republicans are no doubt worse, and their platform of hate is despicable in and of itself, but the lifeblood of the country, the working class, saw a campaign that sidelined issues that matter to them.
Biden’s alleged unpopularity was and is due to one thing and one thing, only: The malfeasance of mainstream journalism. And I say this as someone who spent 25 years as a newspaper reporter.
No it's mostly because he sucked ass as President. Biden's POPULARITY largely came from the media, they puffed him up as a saint of healing and unity(laughable if you know his history) right up until he went through with the Afghanistan withdrawal, then the good vibes faded and so did his apporval
Going through with the withdrawal was one of the few good things he did btw(even if his admin fucked it up) but the constant glowing praise notably died off right after that
Harris lost the election because we are a racist and sexist country FULL STOP!!! She ran a perfect election. Further we are not GREAT! WE never were...coming from a fifth generation Native!!! I hope politicians NEVER ask a minority woman for A DAMN THING AGAIN!!! So sick of OLD WHITE MEN!!!
Biden would’ve lost by even more. The only chance the Dems ever had was for him to not have sought a 2nd term so there could’ve been an actual primary.
This is the real answer. His pride started this issue. That being said Kamala would have made a fine president. She shot herself in the foot by not standing apart from Biden and putting forth a message of change. Policy wise, stay the course, but tell the people you will be different.
Yeah I’m not throwing any shade at Harris. I think she did about as well as she could have given the circumstances. It wasn’t apparent a few months ago, but in hindsight I don’t think she ever had a chance.
I think she stood a better chance if she had appealed more to progressives and told the voters she was going to be something different. Trump tarnished Joe, and Kamala couldn’t get far enough away from that stain to make voters feel like she was going to change anything.
I was told Kamala lied. She said she was against fracking and now she’s for it. I said that’s called changing your mind. Kamala lied is probably the stupidest thing I’ve heard a human say to me.
And he’s my supervisor.
I agree… DEMS f’ed up badly. It didn’t matter how qualified she was. In America There was no way she was going to win. The US is too sexist and too racist to allow someone like Kamala to win. I never wanted her to be the leader of the ticket because Il knew she had no chance.
The problem is people of USA are too orthodox thinking when it comes to gender. It’s shocking how many feel a woman can’t run the country! Misogyny almost at the levels of any middle east country when it comes to presidency!
It was the "Only Joe" democrats that chose not to vote that gave tRump the win. We independents that kicked tRump out in 2020 showed up, the new young registered voters showed up, it was those misogynistic, racist, hardliner democrats that screwed the pooch.
Joe is a good man & President, but imo he should have kept his promise to be a one term POTUS and let us go through a primary. Kamala did an amazing job! She had 100 days to run and still came within 1.5 points of winning.
The party forced him. He didn't want to run in the first place but at the time the party was blinded by it's normal bullshit. Democrats need a brash candidate for 2028 (if there is a free and fair election). Newsome comes to mind.
What do you mean BS? He was the only option the Dems gave us in 2020 to combat Trump. He only ran to stop Trump. The party didn't present any other option at the start of election season and convinced him to run a 2nd term. Felt like he had to. But I agree, Dems should've presented Harris first.
Yeah.... I get the feeling you blame Dems for everything all the time, even as the GOP deliberately undermine basic governance, common sense & decency, & ofc, American democracy
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He could do so much good and chooses to be shitty person.
New dictator was not even fucking elected by the american people.
Trump will have to deport Musk and revoke his citizenship, banning him from entering the US.
These 2 egos can not coexist, with Trump being pushed aside.
#Presidentmusk
There, I fixed it for you. Stop chasing the ball. By doing so, you’re ignoring the real problem: GOP reps not representing their constituents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGR5HP3KSBk&ab_channel=kulva87
The bill also excludes funding for research on:
🚫 premature labor
🚫 sickle cell disease treatment
🚫 early detection of breast & cervical cancer
⚠️The THREE groups that President Musk & VP Trump have targeted are:
Children, women, POC‼️
#Trump #HouseBill
#PresidentMusk #MAGA
Nothing is shocking anymore.😢😠
Do you know why it a held up and what concessions had to be made to it to get it passed?
The Senate has passed the "Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act 2.0", which House passed in March 2024. It's now headed to POTUS for signature.
Since it passed House in Mar, it didn't need to be in any of the House Dec CR's.
I didn't see anything in the new bill that targets anyone in the LGBTQ+ Community-- although after a list of a couple more things that I couldn't fit in my post, it did say "and more".
Is there new info re: cuts to 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Community?
I hope not.
How are you holding up?
Biden must veto this bill & send it back for a proper military funding bill that doesn’t include discrimination
My friends in the military-- they admit that there are some MAGA in their ranks--have stated that they are *not* doing 45's bidding (Not rounding up illegals, gays, ppl who oppose 45, etc. )
The more 45 threatens military benefits, MAGA ones might FINALLY join in w the patriots. Let's hope so.
That was not reported on in the Rolling Stone article when the info about the new bill broke.
I appreciate you letting me know. Believe me: that would have been in my post had I known.
People volunteer to defend our country; & that is what they get in return?
🇺🇲🏳️⚧️💔🏳️⚧️🇺🇲
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I have a friend in FB (I don't do FB much) who is a social worker for LGBTQ+ the younger generations (than me).
I'm trying to get him to join Blue Sky. He's a great advocate. He always has phone numbers to call if ppl need to talk or need support.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Well, I joined the tail end of the ACT UP movement in NYC in the late 1980s. We had no rights.
I imagine that the younger generations, who have had rights,will not go slowly or quietly.
We now have straight ppl on our side, too!👊😉
At the time Chris Hayes reported on it, I do not think it was voted on yet. I was said to be up for vote this evening.
There are most certainly updates online now.
At the time the original story broke at Rolling Stone, they did not list ANOTHER disgraceful cut: Military personnel with trans kids will no longer get health benefits, for their child nor themselves.
45/GOP is greedy, inhumane, & evil.
But Kids w/cancer?
My god. Heartless inhumane monsters.
SMH
*excuse the term, but it fits
My son is an infectious disease med student, daughter a psych major and social worker for women’s issues and my wife a pediatric oncology NP.
All 3 are screwed with this administration.
To hell with anyone who voted for the rapist.
The majority of people act like what 45 is doing is surprising.
They need to wake up; quickly!
Take good care🙂
I have been trying to teach people since 2016 that 45's words mimicked Hitler's rhetoric & his actions were taken right from his playbook. I studied these things in teenage years w my grandmother, and Goebbels propaganda techniques in undergrad.
I was told I was being dramatic.🤦🏻♀️
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To take away funding for Children's Cancer Research is inhumane.
He's more sick that 45:
Phony hair, chin, cheeks.
Evil.
I have this on my page several times already.
I'm hoping ppl actually call.
I called again as soon as Musk & 45 killed the Bipartisan bill. & again last night.
Thank you.
Please continue to share this.
CONGRESS phone number to find out names of Reps & Senators:
(202) 224-3121
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#ElonMusk is in a position to do good:
Instead of donating $190,000,000 to the Children's Cancer Research clinic--1/2105th of his wealth--he bullies the GOP to cut it from the bill.
Greedy Sociopath
#gop #PresidentMusk #governmentshutdown #HouseBill #MAGA
"We must have more kids" - pro-BIRTH
They can careless AFTER they are born.
-Against free breakfast/lunch in school
-Biggest donation recipients of NRA
A surprise that they do this cutting of cancer treatment and research? I think not. 🤢
I worked my buttocks off from age 12 to move to NYC when I was 18 & start my business while in college. American Dream.
Then severe disability.
If they're willing to take away children's cancer research money? No hope for my SSD.
Elderly & disabled❓️
GOP is a sickness.
I'm not putting my hope in midterms when what we need is our politicians to 45 to take action now.
14th Amendment? Section 3, of our Constitution clearly states an adjudicated insurrectionist may not take office (unless 2/3 Congress otherwise)
http://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S3-1/ALDE_00000848/
Handout Harry’s
President Musk
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1100 S. Ocean Blvd.
Palm Beach, Florida 33840
So aggravating that we’re in this mess
If tonight’s bill fails will Johnson be gone by the morning?
So many questions.
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He will continue to do worse going forward.
He was not voted in.
He doesn't deserve the respect that title includes.
What tf is wrong with you, Americans?
You are obeying and just throwing in the towel on your constitution!
How embarrassing for you all.
No other democracy does that.
None.
Deport Him
He does not deserve any honor or respect.
Their rules don't apply to themselves.
Do you really think Bob J(ackass)R. has been able to travel globally without being vaxxed?
There's only about 3 countries he could visit if that were the case.
Evil not Stupid
Tesla is responsible for 1,500 crashes. Or 40 out of 45 reported last year.
A sane person can't make this shit up.
They feel chincy they have the price of a lux car and the leather seats of a 1978 Chrysler Cordova. Sure you save on gas but the door handles are made of cheap plastic.
It will also raise the debt ceiling which will then give republicans the opening for tax cuts to the rich...
Damn you Dems do not PASS that.
🚬😎
Musk taking money away from the child cancer research center to enable billionaire tax cuts is AN ACT OF EVIL.
America will be run by a felon. The whole world knows all that, disrepects America, and find him a disgrace.
The only mitigating circumstance is that he is mentally ill, which makes him completely unfit to be president.
They would actually have some balls, because they know, either way, they have lost their seats come 2026...trump f them all and his own MAGA minions idiots.....
Try your false equivalencies somewhere else
https://apnews.com/article/mackenzie-scott-donations-billionaires-philanthropy-ad9c1b67e2ca76eb2c107ec158a4640f
I want to know WHY ARE OUR LAWMAKERS CAVING TO THIS ASININE AND INCOMPETENT @SSHOLE???
Should trend Chris with
#PresidentMusk
#KingElon
#DukeDonOld
Lol
Do you think for a millisecond he doesn't immediately fire her?
His mentality isn't a jot or tittle different from that right now.
Their intent has always been to destroy democracy and control all the resources to make money.
It's an oligarchy owned by nazis and mobsters.
Trump will stop him. Musk's getting too full of himself & Trump won't be upstaged by anyone.
Please. Use the title. Where's your respect?
But 2025's all about Bad Ideas, so why not.
No healthcare, no protection from gun violence, no welfare, no help for the mother. Cuts to Medicaid and social security.
"Save the kids" but not from guns... not from cancer... not from disease... not from hunger... what exactly are we saving the kids from again???
And shit... I'd rather be woke than asleep. Since when did it become BAD to be aware of societal issues? I guess when Trump decided America was better when it hated instead of included...
Their 1st budget after Dobbs…
"If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're pre-school, you're fucked!"
And if anybody wants to take it from there, feel free.
You can never block out the light of truth, they're stupid if they think they can do that.
The only mention of 190 million is for drone research..
What bill are you reading?
Taxes are taken by force through threat of imprisonment or death. They are theft.
And nobody voted for musk.
Where the fuck are the Democrats?!? Why aren’t screaming in blood boiling rage at this?!!
Rand Paul held up a vote on the original cancer research funding, not the Democrats. It passed early Saturday morning. President Musk's interference didn't stop the funding, but it did result in the amount being cut.
Somebody who speaks the truth. Nobody stays friends for decades with all the famous pedos unless they are a pedo.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitter-x-shareholders-court-order-diddy-jack-dorsey-1235085804/
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-was-elon-musk-grandfather-joshua-haldeman-technocracy-incorporated-party-2023-9
You don't give a care about any kids.
Your network is dead to me,and here I am taking a piss.
F off!
He talked about dead CEOs.
Also I really wish people would adopt my favorite nickname for Ron “Puddin’ Fingers DeSantis (Florida refugee here)
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This previous illegal immigrant who cheated our visa system underpays people to design deathtraps. full stop.
I'm sorry for your loss. I understand you wanting funding for this but this wasn't the time. Why wasn't it passed over the last 4 years?
And the federal government has long supported funding for such research. It takes a heartless oligarch like Musk and a wannabe like Trump to eliminate it in order to enrich themselves.
Christianity doesn't own moral behavior.
It makes them a shitty, awful Christian.
Let America’s children eat cake! (Or better yet, get cancer)
Republicans are a party of misogyny and hate.
The ridiculous title is Trump being cunning.
He is makes the changes and gets Elon to take the fall.
Trump keeps his hands relatively clean.
If it fails Trump blames his little experiment on Musk.
President Trump will go down in history to be the only President to publicly declare "I take no responsibility."
The democrats screwed up and they know it .
https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/11/american-democracy-misogyny-election-kamala-harris
All well and good saying decency should have prevailed, it should have, but if we want to win we’d better start doing things differently.
Plain and simple.
Give me a break!
America's going to have to eat that forever!
Oh wait I know, let’s tell them to fuck off and trundle on with a McKinsey message and fucking Chaney.
Go fuck yourselves, this is entirely on you
Why do you think she would have lost California?
Okay.
Dems didnt an abysmal job explaining Bidens successes, why the economy was the best & best recovery in the world but why ppl still hurt
And if they’d chose to be willfully ignorant of Trump, also 🖕🏼them.
When Trump ran against a man, he lost. But when his opponents were women, he won.
Racism added to all of that as well as it not helping that Americans have the memory of a fruit fly so Trumps lies about the "good ol days" when he ran things actually stuck instead of remembering the bad
JB did excellent for what he walked into. Dems can't win w/ignorant & conspiracy brained voters...add "both sides" msm, RW media lies, racism & misogyny & here we are! That's it.
And he’s my supervisor.