Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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    5 months ago

    More and more does it look like we are going to need a huge general strike with everyone refusing to work for about 2 months. It may cause a lot of people to go homeless if anyone can enforce evictions and many may starve. But the immediate move for companies while the markets crash into the Trumppression would have to be for billionaires to try to forcibly move their companies over seas in attempts to save anything they have left.

    The alternative is 100 years of massive viral/bacterial spreads that wipe us out in essential plagues while wealth disparity forces large swaths of the country into slavery.

    I really hope it doesn’t come to either… but that’s what this administration is forcing the population into.

    Edit: Note earlier this year this administration already made massive cuts to NOISH, some of which were reversed, which is the administration that under/in the CDC that pushes research to OSHA to help ensure the health and safety of workers.

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    The shutdown doesn’t give them any extra power to fire people, in fact one could argue there’s less.

    So they basically doing “let is is cut Medicaid for millions or we will fire these unrelated people”

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    And Republicans have had the fucking gall to say for decades that anyone besides them “hates America”. How the fuck is what they’re doing not domestic terrorism? They are doing everything they possibly fucking can to kill and maim this country, both its citizens and its strength as a country. It’s so fucked up it’s hard to believe it’s happening. And millions of fucking morons think all this shit is good. What a sick joke. Honestly it’s hard to fathom even formulating a more evil plan than what these suck fuck fascists are rolling out. It summons a hatred deep in me that scares me.

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      Have you ever considered the possibility that the “protest voters” were a Conservative/Israeli/Fascist/Russian PsyOp to turn Democrats against “the left”? That you are being played like a fiddle?

      I doubt the election was legitimate regardless, but I have seen zero evidence these phantom “protest voters” had any impact on the election, yet in every thread in the last year someone makes an effort to blame “the left” more than anyone else. How are you so sure they’re to blame? Why do you think they occupy your mind so vehemently?

      How long until you blame ((antifa)) for Trumps martial law, after responding to their terrorism with terrorism?

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        You’re all over the place lol. First you say they don’t exist. Second you say they can’t be blamed, to which I say: I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. Third is a strawman. Ciao.

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    Are we absolutely sure this guy’s body hasn’t been taken over by a billion little Laurence Fishburnes? Because you can’t get much more “pro-virus” at this point without smearing viral substrate on random folks on the street.

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    As many states as possible need to just start cutting off as much influence from the feds as possible. Preferably including arresting and/or disappearing fuckwads like Kennedy, they ain’t just dangerous they are an active threat to humanity, especially Kennedy.

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    If you had any respect for the 2nd amendment defenders, his the fuck can you have any left at this point?