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[milom98]

Tots and pears.

As a Kentuckian, I will duly accept your tots and pears. At least there is some nutritional value with those and I do like a good pear.

Anyway, KY got hit hard with all the flooding and water levels in some areas reached places never seen before. Currently on pace for the wettest April on record. So how will the Trump admin, right-wing media and the MAGA crowd find a way to blame the Dems for all these FEMA relief funds denials?

 

[Zoo_View]

As a Kentuckian, I will duly accept your tots and pears. At least there is some nutritional value with those and I do like a good pear.

Anyway, KY got hit hard with all the flooding and water levels in some areas reached places never seen before. Currently on pace for the wettest April on record. So how will the Trump admin, right-wing media and the MAGA crowd find a way to blame the Dems for all these FEMA relief funds denials?

Local MAGAts, Trumplicans, Republicans, and non-voting anti-government types will say, “See….they, the government, aren’t here….as always……they’re spending money on themselves and f*gs and q***rs and those trans freaks…….and on furriners…..if they’d let Trump be Trump, we’d see some serious help. Instead, the gubmint is stopping Trump from helping us. Nancy Pelosi, that AOC, and that black guy with the funny name (Hakeem Jeffries). Give Trump the power and you’ll see things get fixed!”

 

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Capito urges RFK Jr. to bring back NIOSH employees to support coal industry

Senator Shelley Moore Capito wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. regarding the recent National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) layoffs in Morgantown.

www.wdtv.com

Senator Shelley Moore Capito wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. regarding the recent National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) layoffs in Morgantown.

In the letter, Capito highlighted the role NIOSH plays in the West Virginia coal industry. She said the work at NIOSH is critical to the health and wellbeing of West Virginia coal miners and requested that the administration bring back the programs and employees.

 

[UNCatTech]

This is the free part of an article written by Rod Dreher: 'Cry More, Libs' is not a strategy. from the free press substack.

Earlier this month in Washington, the Heritage Foundation hosted a screening of the first episode of the Angel Studios documentary series Live Not By Lies, based on my 2020 bestseller of the same name. It’s a film, and a book, about the perils of “soft totalitarianism” and it features the warnings anti-communist dissidents from the Soviet bloc have for the West today. I invited some good friends from all over to come to D.C. for the event. They sat in the audience listening to another friend, Vice President J.D. Vance, give a fulsome and very personal introduction.

My heart was bursting. I’ve wanted this man—the only politician in whom I have ever believed fully—to be president ever since he rose to fame following a viral interview he did with me in 2016. J.D. is the real deal, and I admire him almost without bounds. Vain as I am, it thrilled me that my friends were there to hear his words.

One of them sat in the audience, filled with affection for the vice president, and proud of her vote for him and Donald Trump.

The very next day was Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced radical global tariffs. A week later, that same friend was facing the total destruction of her small business.

She depends entirely on imported raw materials from Latin America, which suddenly cost 30 to 40 percent more, and for which there are no U.S. suppliers. Her orders dried up overnight. “These are pretty much luxury goods, the kind of thing that people cut out first when times are hard,” she told me. “I’m going to be ruined. How am I going to support my kids?”

She supports Trump’s approach to China, but why on earth punish the whole world—and people like her—for the sake of resetting trade relations with Beijing? It’s a great question. I have no answers.

This divorced single mom, in her distress, was now cursing the same administration she voted for and, only days before, whose VP she had cheered on...

More, it's ok if it impacted others, but I don't like it impacting me.

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

Do you think at all before you post, or is it purely a gut reaction?

Ha! ZZLP TDS much?

 

[StrangePackage]

Ha! ZZLP TDS much?

K

 

[Geisterfahrer]

This is the free part of an article written by Rod Dreher: 'Cry More, Libs' is not a strategy. from the free press substack.

Earlier this month in Washington, the Heritage Foundation hosted a screening of the first episode of the Angel Studios documentary series Live Not By Lies, based on my 2020 bestseller of the same name. It’s a film, and a book, about the perils of “soft totalitarianism” and it features the warnings anti-communist dissidents from the Soviet bloc have for the West today. I invited some good friends from all over to come to D.C. for the event. They sat in the audience listening to another friend, Vice President J.D. Vance, give a fulsome and very personal introduction.

My heart was bursting. I’ve wanted this man—the only politician in whom I have ever believed fully—to be president ever since he rose to fame following a viral interview he did with me in 2016. J.D. is the real deal, and I admire him almost without bounds. Vain as I am, it thrilled me that my friends were there to hear his words.

One of them sat in the audience, filled with affection for the vice president, and proud of her vote for him and Donald Trump.

The very next day was Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced radical global tariffs. A week later, that same friend was facing the total destruction of her small business.

She depends entirely on imported raw materials from Latin America, which suddenly cost 30 to 40 percent more, and for which there are no U.S. suppliers. Her orders dried up overnight. “These are pretty much luxury goods, the kind of thing that people cut out first when times are hard,” she told me. “I’m going to be ruined. How am I going to support my kids?”

She supports Trump’s approach to China, but why on earth punish the whole world—and people like her—for the sake of resetting trade relations with Beijing? It’s a great question. I have no answers.

This divorced single mom, in her distress, was now cursing the same administration she voted for and, only days before, whose VP she had cheered on...

More, it's ok if it impacted others, but I don't like it impacting me.

Rod Dreher sucks. He barely conceals his fascism.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

This is the free part of an article written by Rod Dreher: 'Cry More, Libs' is not a strategy. from the free press substack.

Earlier this month in Washington, the Heritage Foundation hosted a screening of the first episode of the Angel Studios documentary series Live Not By Lies, based on my 2020 bestseller of the same name. It’s a film, and a book, about the perils of “soft totalitarianism” and it features the warnings anti-communist dissidents from the Soviet bloc have for the West today. I invited some good friends from all over to come to D.C. for the event. They sat in the audience listening to another friend, Vice President J.D. Vance, give a fulsome and very personal introduction.

My heart was bursting. I’ve wanted this man—the only politician in whom I have ever believed fully—to be president ever since he rose to fame following a viral interview he did with me in 2016. J.D. is the real deal, and I admire him almost without bounds. Vain as I am, it thrilled me that my friends were there to hear his words.

One of them sat in the audience, filled with affection for the vice president, and proud of her vote for him and Donald Trump.

The very next day was Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced radical global tariffs. A week later, that same friend was facing the total destruction of her small business.

She depends entirely on imported raw materials from Latin America, which suddenly cost 30 to 40 percent more, and for which there are no U.S. suppliers. Her orders dried up overnight. “These are pretty much luxury goods, the kind of thing that people cut out first when times are hard,” she told me. “I’m going to be ruined. How am I going to support my kids?”

She supports Trump’s approach to China, but why on earth punish the whole world—and people like her—for the sake of resetting trade relations with Beijing? It’s a great question. I have no answers.

This divorced single mom, in her distress, was now cursing the same administration she voted for and, only days before, whose VP she had cheered on...

More, it's ok if it impacted others, but I don't like it impacting me.

So this guy thinks that JD Freaking Vance is "the only politician in whom I've ever believed fully" and should be president, and that Vance "is the real deal" and he admires him "almost without bounds?" LOL. Great judgment in people you've got there, dude. Vance is nothing more than another far-right toady who's willing to say or do whatever he thinks will get him up the next rung of the political ladder. He's no different from Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis or any other GOP brown-noser and authoritarian, other than he has a billionaire high tech plutocrat bankrolling his rise to power, although the others have certainly developed their own sources of dark money for their campaigns.

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

K

K what? You miss the searing irony?

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

So this guy thinks that JD Freaking Vance is "the only politician in whom I've ever believed fully" and should be president, and that Vance "is the real deal" and he admires him "almost without bounds?" LOL. Great judgment in people you've got there, dude. Vance is nothing more than another far-right toady who's willing to say or do whatever he thinks will get him up the next rung of the political ladder. He's no different from Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis or any other GOP brown-noser and authoritarian, other than he has a billionaire high tech plutocrat bankrolling his rise to power, although the others have certainly developed their own sources of dark money for their campaigns.

I’m

So this guy thinks that JD Freaking Vance is "the only politician in whom I've ever believed fully" and should be president, and that Vance "is the real deal" and he admires him "almost without bounds?" LOL. Great judgment in people you've got there, dude. Vance is nothing more than another far-right toady who's willing to say or do whatever he thinks will get him up the next rung of the political ladder. He's no different from Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis or any other GOP brown-noser and authoritarian, other than he has a billionaire high tech plutocrat bankrolling his rise to power, although the others have certainly developed their own sources of dark money for their campaigns.

Dean Phillips is a viable candidate who isn’t a toady that will do whatever it takes to get up the political ladder…oh wait… looks like not being a toady was a disqualifier

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I’m

Dean Phillips is a viable candidate who isn’t a toady that will do whatever it takes to get up the political ladder…oh wait… looks like not being a toady was a disqualifier

What on Earth are you talking about? Is Phillips the current VP or a Trump toady? Did Phillips raise (or support raising) tariffs that are putting one of his supporters out of business? Whatever point you're trying to make is rather bizarre given the point of the article.

 

[BlueSteel]

This is the free part of an article written by Rod Dreher: 'Cry More, Libs' is not a strategy. from the free press substack.

Earlier this month in Washington, the Heritage Foundation hosted a screening of the first episode of the Angel Studios documentary series Live Not By Lies, based on my 2020 bestseller of the same name. It’s a film, and a book, about the perils of “soft totalitarianism” and it features the warnings anti-communist dissidents from the Soviet bloc have for the West today. I invited some good friends from all over to come to D.C. for the event. They sat in the audience listening to another friend, Vice President J.D. Vance, give a fulsome and very personal introduction.

My heart was bursting. I’ve wanted this man—the only politician in whom I have ever believed fully—to be president ever since he rose to fame following a viral interview he did with me in 2016. J.D. is the real deal, and I admire him almost without bounds. Vain as I am, it thrilled me that my friends were there to hear his words.

One of them sat in the audience, filled with affection for the vice president, and proud of her vote for him and Donald Trump.

The very next day was Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he announced radical global tariffs. A week later, that same friend was facing the total destruction of her small business.

She depends entirely on imported raw materials from Latin America, which suddenly cost 30 to 40 percent more, and for which there are no U.S. suppliers. Her orders dried up overnight. “These are pretty much luxury goods, the kind of thing that people cut out first when times are hard,” she told me. “I’m going to be ruined. How am I going to support my kids?”

She supports Trump’s approach to China, but why on earth punish the whole world—and people like her—for the sake of resetting trade relations with Beijing? It’s a great question. I have no answers.

This divorced single mom, in her distress, was now cursing the same administration she voted for and, only days before, whose VP she had cheered on...

More, it's ok if it impacted others, but I don't like it impacting me.

So, she’s a drug dealer?

 

[BlueSteel]

Ha! ZZLP TDS much?

The Daily Show is coming to ZZL?!? I freaking LOVE Jon Stewart!

 

[SmilingJack]

Kinda long but funny how such macho men love make up wearing leaders. Repressed men love to bash the trans/gay community while sporting their personal chubby in the cargo pants adoring Trump and Vance.

 

[superrific]

Rod Dreher sucks. He barely conceals his fascism.

Here's the snippet for that article:

"These are difficult days for people like me: Americans who back the Trump administration for its determination to fight back against establishment tyrannies, but who are now troubled by its excesses."

Yeah, sure. Nobody even knows what that bullshit means. This is a guy who willingly moved to Hungary to be an Orbanist.

 

[Centerpiece]

First they came for the media
....after that we don't know what happened.
( I'm not sure who said this )

 

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A 10-person team of federal health workers was helping Iowa firefighters limit their exposure to fumes from idling vehicles when news broke earlier this month that all but one team member had been fired.

The Cincinnati-based team of scientists traveled to Iowa last August after three fire stations requested their help out of concern that their workers were being exposed to diesel exhaust. They were preparing for a follow-up visit this summer to test the levels of various pollutants in different rooms — including where firefighters eat and sleep — and recommend the best form of ventilation.

“That’s all been put on pause,” said Hannah Echt, a member of the team and a union steward at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “We haven’t been able to travel since the end of January, and now … there’s no one to do the traveling.”


NIOSH’s congressionally mandated Health Hazard Evaluation program is one of many health and safety services on which firefighters depend that’s been shrunk or eliminated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “reduction in force” — a purge of more than 10,000 employees.

Firefighters are regularly exposed to toxins and chemicals that affect their physical and mental health, problems compounded by stress and irregular sleep. NIOSH research found that firefighters have a 9 percent greater risk of a cancer diagnosis and a 14 percent greater risk of dying from cancer than the general population.

After years of helping improve firefighters’ health outcomes, people in and out of government fear the NIOSH cuts will lead to major backsliding. Interviews with five current and former NIOSH employees, several of whom were granted anonymity due to fear of retribution, as well as active and retired firefighters, lawmakers and patient advocates, reveal instances in which data collection, safety evaluations and direct services for firefighters have been terminated due to staff reductions.

Workers running the Center for Firefighter Safety, Health and Well-being, which includes the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program that researches why first responders get sick and die and how to prevent it, were laid off. Services for hundreds of thousands of people exposed to toxins on 9/11 — including thousands of firefighters — are hampered by cuts to NIOSH’s World Trade Center Health Program, which researches and treats cancers and other health problems linked to the terrorist attack.

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Polls showed firefighters and other first responders overwhelmingly supported Trump’s reelection, and the president has often praised firefighters for their work.

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

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A 10-person team of federal health workers was helping Iowa firefighters limit their exposure to fumes from idling vehicles when news broke earlier this month that all but one team member had been fired.

The Cincinnati-based team of scientists traveled to Iowa last August after three fire stations requested their help out of concern that their workers were being exposed to diesel exhaust. They were preparing for a follow-up visit this summer to test the levels of various pollutants in different rooms — including where firefighters eat and sleep — and recommend the best form of ventilation.

“That’s all been put on pause,” said Hannah Echt, a member of the team and a union steward at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “We haven’t been able to travel since the end of January, and now … there’s no one to do the traveling.”


NIOSH’s congressionally mandated Health Hazard Evaluation program is one of many health and safety services on which firefighters depend that’s been shrunk or eliminated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “reduction in force” — a purge of more than 10,000 employees.

Firefighters are regularly exposed to toxins and chemicals that affect their physical and mental health, problems compounded by stress and irregular sleep. NIOSH research found that firefighters have a 9 percent greater risk of a cancer diagnosis and a 14 percent greater risk of dying from cancer than the general population.

After years of helping improve firefighters’ health outcomes, people in and out of government fear the NIOSH cuts will lead to major backsliding. Interviews with five current and former NIOSH employees, several of whom were granted anonymity due to fear of retribution, as well as active and retired firefighters, lawmakers and patient advocates, reveal instances in which data collection, safety evaluations and direct services for firefighters have been terminated due to staff reductions.

Workers running the Center for Firefighter Safety, Health and Well-being, which includes the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program that researches why first responders get sick and die and how to prevent it, were laid off. Services for hundreds of thousands of people exposed to toxins on 9/11 — including thousands of firefighters — are hampered by cuts to NIOSH’s World Trade Center Health Program, which researches and treats cancers and other health problems linked to the terrorist attack.

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Polls showed firefighters and other first responders overwhelmingly supported Trump’s reelection, and the president has often praised firefighters for

Seriously? Is this from the Onion?

 

[ColdBlueSteel]

What on Earth are you talking about? Is Phillips the current VP or a Trump toady? Did Phillips raise (or support raising) tariffs that are putting one of his supporters out of business? Whatever point you're trying to make is rather bizarre given the point of the article.

The point I’m trying to make is that only toadies (which Dean is not) make any headway in the other party, and so here we are

 

[Zoo_View]

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A 10-person team of federal health workers was helping Iowa firefighters limit their exposure to fumes from idling vehicles when news broke earlier this month that all but one team member had been fired.

The Cincinnati-based team of scientists traveled to Iowa last August after three fire stations requested their help out of concern that their workers were being exposed to diesel exhaust. They were preparing for a follow-up visit this summer to test the levels of various pollutants in different rooms — including where firefighters eat and sleep — and recommend the best form of ventilation.

“That’s all been put on pause,” said Hannah Echt, a member of the team and a union steward at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. “We haven’t been able to travel since the end of January, and now … there’s no one to do the traveling.”


NIOSH’s congressionally mandated Health Hazard Evaluation program is one of many health and safety services on which firefighters depend that’s been shrunk or eliminated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “reduction in force” — a purge of more than 10,000 employees.

Firefighters are regularly exposed to toxins and chemicals that affect their physical and mental health, problems compounded by stress and irregular sleep. NIOSH research found that firefighters have a 9 percent greater risk of a cancer diagnosis and a 14 percent greater risk of dying from cancer than the general population.

After years of helping improve firefighters’ health outcomes, people in and out of government fear the NIOSH cuts will lead to major backsliding. Interviews with five current and former NIOSH employees, several of whom were granted anonymity due to fear of retribution, as well as active and retired firefighters, lawmakers and patient advocates, reveal instances in which data collection, safety evaluations and direct services for firefighters have been terminated due to staff reductions.

Workers running the Center for Firefighter Safety, Health and Well-being, which includes the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program that researches why first responders get sick and die and how to prevent it, were laid off. Services for hundreds of thousands of people exposed to toxins on 9/11 — including thousands of firefighters — are hampered by cuts to NIOSH’s World Trade Center Health Program, which researches and treats cancers and other health problems linked to the terrorist attack.

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Polls showed firefighters and other first responders overwhelmingly supported Trump’s reelection, and the president has often praised firefighters for their work.

They’ll vote Trumplican AGAIN-AND-AGAIN…….YEAR-AFTER-YEAR……