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  1. 10 hours ago, Satchel said:

    Texas has f’d around and is now about to find out:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html

     

    The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.

    The cuts are likely to further hamstring state health departments, which are already underfunded and struggling with competing demands from chronic diseases, resurgent infections like syphilis and emerging threats like bird flu.

    No additional activities can be conducted, and no additional costs may be incurred, as it relates to these funds,” the notices said.

     

    For some, the effect was immediate.

    In Lubbock, Texas, public health officials have received orders to stop work supported by three grants that helped fund the response to the widening measles outbreak there, according to Katherine Wells, the city’s director of public health.

    But not to worry.  Sec’y Kennedy is on top of it:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/health/measles-kennedy-vitamin-a.html

     

    Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.

    Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus.

    One of those supplements is cod liver oil containing vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.

    Some of them had received unsafe doses of cod liver oil and other vitamin A supplements for several weeks in an attempt to prevent a measles infection, said Dr. Summer Davies, who cares for acutely ill children at the hospital.

    Sure, kids will die, but how can we know if they are dying of measles or with measles?

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  2. 1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Well a large amount of the youths voted for him because they’re red pilled incel retards, for one.

    The youths that voted for him aren't going to college.

  3. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    Well, we may be causing a global depression, and making enemies out of basically everyone on Earth, but at least.... Hey wait a minute. What are we getting out of this again? Oh that's right. We're making America great again. Silly me.

    I don't guess arresting him tonight when he shows up for the address to Congress is an option. Do we have laws against "intentionally destroying the USA"?

    This is why we have a second amendment.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    lmfao Stephanie R Lovins is about to get a world of shit if that goes wide on the internet. What a dumb cunt. Can't even scribble her name off of both receipts.

    It shows the card information, too.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Fastbreak said:

    The other NATO states should drop out and form a new alliance without us. Maybe drop Turkey as well.

    The US is a liability to lasting peace at this point. They should also request that all US military bases and presence be removed from their countries.

    They probably should also add Mexico and give them nukes to dissuade us from going to war with their cartels that we just declared to be terrorists.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Percentage of each state's federal vs. state Medicaid funding.  Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi etc ... are about to be in a world of hurt.

    https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/federalstate-share-of-spending/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

    Rural hospitals are going to close in every state. They are very hard to keep open, even with Medicaid funding.

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  7. 25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I looked it up.  Assuming the investment requirements remain the same (low-income areas, job production quotas), the "fee" goes from a current $1M to $5M.  Seems mostly Chinese have been applying for it, ostensibly as a hedge against a CCP crackdown (in China or TW).

    Trump says he's going to sell 5 million of these and pay off the national debt using the $25 trillion that raises. How many millions of them are we selling at the $1M price?

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  8. 2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Where is the statutory authority to offer this? Can we all step back and remember we have to pass laws in this country? They might not even be able to pass a budget with their own votes through reconciliation- they surely won’t be able to pass anything that needs to beat a filibuster 

    We aren't operating under the constitution anymore. Don't even have a country, really.

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  9. 15 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

    From 1997!

    From today

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    I just have a really hard time believing that someone with the ability to spend $5 million would want to spend that to move here. I'm looking at places that offer golden visas so I can move out. This isn't a very affordable place to retire and we have other, much cheaper options if you are young and looking to move here to make money.

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