America's "pro-life" party, is on the cusp of passing legislation that will most assuredly kill tens of thousands of Americans! We know the body count: 12 million will lose medicaid coverage and access to the exchanges, while 3 million will lose food assistance.
USAID cuts have already killed thousands in Africa, and that's sure to rise dramatically as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases descend on the world's most vulnerable population. Food programs have ended and malnutrition is destroying children.
Medical research at our universities has been slashed, with programs shut down, and invaluable, life-providing drugs will not be manufactured to prevent cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimers, etc. etc. How does one even estimate the related misery?
RFK Jr. fired the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, replacing them with unqualified anti-vaccine zealots. A contract with Moderna related to a bird flu vaccine was cancelled even as vaccination rates fall, especially in red states. How many reliably effective, safe, and readily available vaccines will now not be taken? How many future vaccines will not be invented? How many unnecessary cases of measles, rubella, polio, etc, will kill children? Will we lose herd immunity?
The cuts to pollution regulations, and the EPA, will result in higher levels of deadly toxins, in the air, the water, and ultimately in our lungs, bloodstream, and other vital organs.
The defunding of renewable energy technologies will exacerbate climate change, and provide a gift to China as it unquestionably leads in this sector.
Trump has gleefully abandoned our commitment to the rule of law, human rights, and all that is decent. He squandered our decades of global leadership. He has orchestrated and cheered on incalculable suffering and death which will live on long after he's devoured his last Big Mac and cheated in his last round of golf. I only wish there was a hell for him to reside.
The death toll rises, and rises, and will continue in areas that I can't even imagine. Care to add to the list?
I'll leave you will a Bill Hicks quote:
Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here are 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
Peter T.
