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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:24 PM Dec 2017

Trump fired every single member of his HIV/AIDS council without telling them why.


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Replying to @funder and @techweenie
The irony of him blaming the USPS for not charging enough - and then using FedEx...

Replying to @funder
I would bet that he didn’t write the letter himself either.

If it wasn't scrawled in crayon, I'll bet you're right.


Replying to @funder and @InspiringU2
I’ll go further. This is a form of genocide. If he does this to one section of society, he will do it to others. Imagine what he would do if he had total power. I can imagine him ordering the killing of people he doesn’t like or fears - disabled, elderly, poor...

@Steinbeckfan1
He and the GOP are trying to kill the elderly, poor, disabled, etc through what they have done already to healthcare, what they will do in the future to social safety nets. It will be a Holocaust without Directly killing anyone.

Replying to @funder
Wonderful. I fully expect my HIV meds to be cancelled by Medicaid. Maybe I should start packing for the concentration camps.

Replying to @funder
This is Pence. Wake up.

Deliberately harming people with HIV and making it harder to address the epidemic? That's got Pence written all over it. He did it in Indiana, after all.

It’s what these religious fucks did in the 80’s. They killed my friend. He would be alive today if they had made the drugs available and insurance companies didn’t End coverage on AIDS patients. This was a deliberate move by rich conservatives to kill gays.

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Article from CBS News
Nov 29, 2017


https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-budget-cuts-could-result-in-millions-of-new-aids-related-infections-says-new-report/?__twitter_impression=true


Trump budget cuts could result in millions of new AIDS-related infections, says new report

NOV 29, 2017
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Trump fired every single member of his HIV/AIDS council without telling them why. (Original Post) Wwcd Dec 2017 OP
My pathetic senator Ohiogal Dec 2017 #1
Not just yours, it appears many remained silent Wwcd Dec 2017 #3
The outrage will build with the ouster of many redumbliCONs in 2018. democratisphere Dec 2017 #2
Trump is clueless about everything. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #4
Trump hasn't a clue. This is Pence rewarding his god-feerin' base Wwcd Dec 2017 #5
He is a self proclaimed Germophobe BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #6

Ohiogal

(31,979 posts)
1. My pathetic senator
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:36 PM
Dec 2017

You'd expect Senator Rob Portman, of all people, to speak out against any policy decisions that adversely affect gay people. But, then, that would mean he'd have to grow a spine.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
3. Not just yours, it appears many remained silent
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:53 PM
Dec 2017

Team Trump allows the killing of innocents.
They choose who will live & who will perish & write laws that make it so.
It is genocide without the ovens.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
2. The outrage will build with the ouster of many redumbliCONs in 2018.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:48 PM
Dec 2017

The entire redumbliCON political party is mentally ill.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,848 posts)
4. Trump is clueless about everything.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:59 AM
Dec 2017

I can't begin to guess what he thinks he knows about HIV/AIDS, but whatever that is, it's steeped in ignorance.

The other, even scarier possibility is that he thinks that by firing them he's saving the government significant money.

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