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Trump cut off his own nephew's health care in a fight over money.
https://insuranceinformant.com/did-donald-trump-cancel-his-brother-s-child-s.html
The level of cruelty of that monster is beyond fathom...
The level of stupidity of the voters is beyond fathom...
All this was out there the day he announced.
I do not have faith votes get counted correctly.
Ill leave it at that.
If voting doesn't matter the GOP wouldn't be working so hard to stop people voting.
I do not have faith votes get counted correctly.
Be that as it may, there are still plenty of people walking around wearing Trump hats and t-shirts. Flying Trump flags on their houses, Trump bumper stickers on their cars...
And he still has a ~30% approval rating...
Yeah between public surveliance footage, ICE payroll documents, and other records the possibility of a brighter, less pathological future exists. Culling the population can work multiple ways.
That's so depressing, especially since I just saw a post about the US spending $25 billion already in one month of this pointless war in Iran.
The level of corruption is so absurd. Can't even put it into words...
it was 90bn on luxury vacationing, and dining, likely also included some of the spending on the war machine, but most probably went to that, and contracting.
Probably two different articles. I have no doubts that they also pilfered 90bn taxpayer dollars for their own pleasure and amusement, but that's a separate pot of money from the $25bn spent on Operation Epstein's Fury.
Fuck Trump
Fuck Trump
And everyone who supports him with their money or with their vote.
Gotta push them out on the streets, then arrest them for homelessness, and put them in camps with the rest of the homeless. Or push them out on the streets, accuse them of mental illness, and put them in camps with the rest of the mentally ill.
Once they're crammed into the these hastily-built camps (minimal facilities for hygiene, nutrition, medical care, or even heating/cooling) -- well, we wouldn't want anyone to have to pay to support them, they should support themselves! I'm sure there are corporations that would live to rent them for a few dollars an hour, and we can use that money to pay for food and stuff - except someone will skim off most of that money. Then between the overwork and the lack of nutrition, hygiene and healthcare, the social murder machine will be all set to run!
Don't forget, if they're young enough and cute enough, sex slavery awaits, just like in the gulags. Republican perverts (redundant I know) and pedos will get first pick, and at low-low prices.
Yes Alex, is the answer "what is the American prison system?"
Even the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.
At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.
I really wouldn't be downplaying how the Nazis treated disabled people. They were literally experimented on, tortured while still alive in some of the most horrific ways until they died. Disabled children were taken from their parents (sometimes willing, sometimes not) and abused until they died. Some of the parents would realize that the situation was not what they thought it was and try to get their child back but couldn't. There are letters from teenagers writing to their parents - "I am going to die here" (in the institution) because the parents weren't able to get them out. Those kids did die. And we don't even have the full scope of numbers because documentation was destroyed and deaths were simply labelled as pneumonia when there were clearly other things at play.
I don't think comparison is helpful here. Disabled people have ALWAYS been treated like shit by a large amount of society and people in power. Some of it has changed over time, going back way further than the 1930/40s, some of it has improved but not as much as people would like to think sadly.
There's still a lot of deep seated ableism that permeates through society which is why any progress in the way disabled people are spoken to, about and how we're treated in general, is so incredibly painstakingly slow and often feels like one half step forward, whoaaa that's a bit too much, shuffle back 3 steps!
We're spending all this money on detention centers and ICE and we're going to run out of immigrants eventually. Gotta have the next group of people ready so all that money doesn't go to waste and we don't have to lay off our newly hired thugs.
remember: the cruelty is the point.
You beat me to it. These people who have no empathy to the most vulnerable are pure psychopaths.
Well obviously, ballroom isn't just gonna pay for itself. Gotta get the money from somewhere....
Can't use the ice or military budget after all thats for murder.
Can’t use the money big corp already gave for the construction because that’s for personal use.
Can't use the billionaire tax money because it doesn't exist
cant use the 40bn which went to milei and bassinets friends in argentina.
cant take any from the bootlicking police budgets, or the fact that us troops/americans serving as part of the IDF is getting the same benefits as normal troops.
Trunk’s GOP, always more than willing to further immiserate the most vulnerable amongst our friends & neighbors
Infuriating. Hey how much does one Tomahawk missile cost? Just one.
About $2.5 million.
More than your average person makes in a lifetime...
should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. Dumpy did. Oh wait, no, he inherited a shitload of money from his shitstain father. Shitstain is as shitstain does.
"Its one banana Michael how much could it cost, $10?"
This administrations only value is cruelty.
To Trump, these people are “losers” because they’re disabled.
remember when he mocked a disabled reporter during one of his rallies? pepperidge farm remembers
This is just going to lead to more parents of adults having to sign them over to the state...
Which is a lot more expensive for taxpayers, and while normally can be beneficial in certain situations, the system won't be able to handle a sudden increase from this
They don't care about the expense. These guys are speed running Nazi Germany. They plan on "cleansing" the population.
You know the Nazis "inspiration" was how America treated: Native Americans, Blacks, and the disabled?
We're not "speed running Nazi Germany" trump is going back to the shit that we did that inspired the Nazis...
"Signing over to the state" most likely won't have the same result it did a decade ago, and once you do it there's no take backs, it's for life. So yeah, this is a big deal and may be a way to get more into the control of the state before they go back to aslyums and forced sterilization.
Again, a thing that the Nazi's openly said was an inspiration to handle "undesirables"
But short term to get Republican voters against it, the pressure point is how much it costs. We can't rely on them having empathy, but we know most of their voters have empty pocket books and hate taxpayer funded healthcare.
Quick edit:
We see this also with their weird insisting that Autism rates will go down...
The only way it can drop like they say, is if people go back to refusing to get kids diagnosed. The reason for that, was if you got a kid diagnosed when boomers were kids, they may be institutionalized against their will.
If that starts happening again, no one is taking their kids to doctors or agreeing to testing.
Like, it sounds like ancient history, but I did an internship with a special needs population, and some of our oldest clients had spent their childhood in those places and were still having flashbacks decades later.
It was a fucking horror show. And almost no parent would risk that for their child, everyone will just hide and deny it
Yes, but most Americans weren't taught about the horrors that Americans have experienced. We were taught about Nazi Germany. As most of the world. Its an easier reference.
weren’t taught
Well...
Someone just did...
Pass it on, that's how this whole "society" shit works bro.
Believe me, I understand it gets tiresome, but that's why I keep telling other people, so I'm not the only one aware of this shit which keeps getting more and more relevant every fucking day.
Yeah disability history should actually be taught. I'm disabled and I work in the industry too. It's sad how little the average person knows about the history of disability...yet they sure know a lot about over-diagnoses and all kinds of other headline crap 🤔🙄
I'm not in the US but absolutely, we had de-institutionalisation in the 90s here (Australia). There are plenty of adults who lived during that time and still flinch at certain actions (a harmless high 5 for example) because they're conditioned to being hit. There are still plenty of adults who are institutionalised in their mindset and will never overcome that sadly (incredibly strict routines they can't deviate from even though the routines themselves are damaging, no body autonomy or discretion, no ability to voice their opinion, needs and so on). It's really sad to watch because their routine that can involve going to a day service program every day is obviously causing them distress but any suggestion of change to that schedule is also incredibly distressing. For a lot of people, that part of institutionalisation is irreversible and it affects their entire quality of life.
Scarily there are still staff in the industry that worked in those places too. I remember really not liking a coworker - I didn't work with her directly but on the few occasions I'd seen her interact with clients I just thought she was disrespectful and old school. Then I had a client who used to say some things about her that I actually reported to management. Eventually someone mentioned in passing that this worker had worked at one of the biggest institutions in my state - the one that they teach us about in the disability certificate because of how abusive and horrific it was.
It is current history and the history of disability treatment and institutionalisation, abuse, neglect, murder, abandonment - all of this history has a trickle down affect - disabled people who haven't necessarily faced all of those things often still know the history and carry the anxiety and fear around it - especially in the midst of these big public discussions that are happening in various countries. It's essentially inter-generational trauma being handed down.
It also affects how non disabled people view disabled people - even without knowing it. Disabled people are often told they should "be grateful" for what we have now - even when we're making a point about having our rights violated. The idea that disabled people are "lesser" is deeply ingrained in society. It's not even conscious so it's not always malicious but it's just deep seated due to history.
( It IS malicious and wilfully ignorant if it's pointed out to you and you double down on your ableist rhetoric. Recognizing and challenging our own prejudices is a skill worth having!)
The only silver lining is that these chuds suck at being fascists.
Fascists suck as fascism in general. I mean look at Putin, he had the one oligarch walk his private military all the way to Moscow unopposed because he fucked up so bad in Ukraine.
Its a problem that will crush itself, but take a LOT of people with it.
Yup. And around ~40% of all homeless were in the foster care system at some point. And another 50% having chronic mental and physical disabilities. (being homeless for over 6 months will make anyone chronically ill BTW.) so look to see homelessness explode as a direct impact of this. Remember everyone, we only have unhoused people in America by collective choice. Our moral decline is laid bare to see.
Good way to increase the unemployment number lol.
Yet again, there was a way to avoid this.
Omg they're still living with their families? Cringe.