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My husband’s theory is that Trump is selling snake oil alternatives knowing health care cuts are coming (and more may be on the way), driving people to cheap “alternative” care instead of pharmaceuticals and medical care that won’t be covered. Convince people they are being freed from “medical slavery” and allowed freedom to design their own care based on their own research.

Could be. It’s pretty nuts that no sooner than Trump deleted his MedBed conspiracy video he posts a Dharma Initiative CBD oil cure-all for the elderly video.

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🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...c?st=NECFPx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

St. Louis’s tornado was months ago, but it’s still waiting for hundreds of millions in federal recovery funds to arrive. It’s part of Trump’s plan to shift responsibility to the states and shrink the agency.​

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“… Largely missing from the recovery efforts, according to Rand, city officials and other residents: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“I’ve never seen someone from FEMA out on the streets,” Rand said.

That is by design.

St. Louis is a test case for the Trump administration’s new policy of shifting more responsibility for natural disasters to states and cities. City officials and local residents who are still clearing rubble from destroyed buildings four months after the tornado struck said the experiment isn’t going well.

Many of FEMA’s core functions related to preparing for natural disasters and leading recovery efforts after they strike have ground to a halt as the Trump administration redefines the agency, according to more than a dozen FEMA employees and local officials, as well as a review of internal government documents.…”
 
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“… Largely missing from the recovery efforts, according to Rand, city officials and other residents: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“I’ve never seen someone from FEMA out on the streets,” Rand said.

That is by design.

St. Louis is a test case for the Trump administration’s new policy of shifting more responsibility for natural disasters to states and cities. City officials and local residents who are still clearing rubble from destroyed buildings four months after the tornado struck said the experiment isn’t going well.

Many of FEMA’s core functions related to preparing for natural disasters and leading recovery efforts after they strike have ground to a halt as the Trump administration redefines the agency, according to more than a dozen FEMA employees and local officials, as well as a review of internal government documents.…”
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“… Crucial contracts and grants haven’t been approved, caught up in layers of new bureaucracy. A wave of senior staff departed the agency when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency offered buyouts, taking decades of experience with them. Around 400 FEMA employees have been detailed to work at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as that agency rapidly expands. And the administration has started dismantling the agency’s disaster-response infrastructure, which was strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

… As a result, entire streets remain lined by shattered houses with yards covered by heaps of the city’s famous red bricks and torn-up trees.

Much of the damage occurred in the majority Black northern sections of St. Louis. …”
 
nycfan said:


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...c?st=NECFPx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

St. Louis’s tornado was months ago, but it’s still waiting for hundreds of millions in federal recovery funds to arrive. It’s part of Trump’s plan to shift responsibility to the states and shrink the agency.​

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It’s part of Project 2025 and the right-wing’s efforts to break the government.

“See, we told you the government can’t do shit.”

“Remember the GREAT Ronald Reagan’s warning words about the government, “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”

Government IS BAD.

It must be broken.
 
It’s a bit weird, it would be easy to assume that Trump chose to post this video of Charlie Kirk to undermine the narrative that Kirk was an anodyne family values conservative …

 
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It’s a bit weird, it would be easy to assume that Trump chose to post this video of Charlie Kirk to undermine the narrative that Kirk was an anodyne family values conservative …

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To be clear, he posted that shortly after claiming the Michigan attack is further evidence that Christianity is under assault. But don’t call MAGA Christofascists!!!
 
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So much wrong with this, it is hard to know where to start:

1) POTUS threatens NYC voters if they don’t vote how he wants in their mayoral election

2) POTUS threatens federal funding to a tax-paying American city for purely political reasons

3) “he needs the money from ME” [emphasis added]

4) Mamdani is NOT a “self-proclaimed … Communist”

5) If he is such a communist, why are Mamdani’s promises “FAKE communist promises” — isn’t Trump’s gripe that they are authentic communist promises?

5) “our once great city” — pretty sure he means NYC, but as drafted could mean DC. Either way, POTUS slagging on major American city.

6) Communism has not failed as an ideology for “thousands of years” — if you count Marxism as Communism, then modern Communism dates back to the mid 1800s. Communal ownership as a governing principle otherwise has been more of a philosophical and fictional utopian concept, not actually practiced outside tiny settlements
 
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And so comes another Monday, I wonder what the timeline has in store for this week?




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I always thought Mississippi was the canary in the coal mine for how truly fucked up American politics can be, but it seems that Alabama is really that state.

The way to political success in Alabama is a strong connection to SEC sports, especially football, which pretty much explains everything wrong with Alabama politics.
 
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