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Susan Dufour's avatar

Just when I think we've seen the worst of them, they do something like this. I will say about the previous comment that you cannot educate people who DO NOT WANT to be educated! To be educated one must have an open mind. Lest we forget these minds were not bright enough to recognize they were being brainwashed, and just keep allowing themselves to be controlled. We were all exposed to the same information about him going back to the asinine claim that 'Barrack Obama is not a citizen' and all the stupidity he has spewed in all the years since then. My question has been, "where have all these people been, have they not been listening?' We with a functioning brain have to keep standing up, speaking up and turning up. They are bullies and control freaks using their power to do the evil work that feeds their twisted egos. Truly sick individuals ...

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

EVERYthing this admin does is a "cash flow" decision.

If Trump can grab the cash/resources involved, or send it to billionaires, those needing the benefits are SOL.

Remember what RFK, JR. said at the site of 100 measles cases?

"Only the strong survive." Everyone else gets their benefit resources routed to Trump, or someone more able to benefit Trump.

Anyone not benefiting Trump in some way will not be needed, and if they need help to survive they'll be "eubonixed" out of the picture as not being "strong enough."

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C Giza's avatar

But what happens when the servants are all gone and the powerful have no real practical skills?

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

They still have money to eat...

Actually, we're talking about people who are perfectly willing to sacrifice ALL life on Earth for eternity, simply to live their their remaining few decades (at most) in unequaled luxury.

I doubt they've thought that far ahead, C.

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David Krupp's avatar

As of today disabled people can still vote.

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Susan Delsi's avatar

There has been so much disgusting and brutal change to our country in a short time. Thank you for sharing this important information- I cannot believe that this is our America. The entire disgusting Administration needs to look around them. They need to consider those that they know within their families and communities who have the need for accommodations and supports, but who also have value and skills as all people and employees. I cannot think of one member of the current admin who should be in public service.

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Bonnie Lane's avatar

Impeachment of RFK Jr should be the next action with bi partisan support.

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Cindy Hofer's avatar

This is the result of a grossly incompetent group of people who were put in power by an ill informed voter base. We have to do better individually, as citizens, to educate our population. This regime is doing everything they can to bar us from doing just that. My heart goes out to those who will lose their livelihoods and sense of self reliance. All because we have the worst of the worst in our WH right now, who have no compassion or empathy for the average American. It is truly infuriating.

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rlritt's avatar

His voters watched him on a scripted TV game show. They believed he was a smart businessman. Everything on TV is true.

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Jennifer Appel's avatar

He keeps cutting reasonable accommodation an and people cannot work, so cannot pay taxes.

What goes around……..

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

Actually, one of my great concerns is the number of super-rich to have voted for Trump specifically due to his promises to gut the IRS.

The money not going to taxes? Oh, I'm sure they'll find a way to make up for the loss. They'll "find it" by cutting benefits to the disabled, the elderly, the autistic, Title IX, those needing expensive meds or educational assistance. (They already did it once to the tune of $1T.)

Then it will likely expand to include the "intellectuals"...

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Sherri Denney's avatar

I know this is the unchristian thing to say. But I hope RFK,Jr ends up in a wheelchair. Needing a catheter. And a hoyer lift or sit to stand for transfers. I wander how long it would take for his family to find caregivers. Or if he gets sick, is he going to want a Tylenol, if he is on blood thinners.

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Janice stanley's avatar

So isn't the govt paying for their health svcs and their family?, where the receipts?

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Steve Winkler's avatar

Arbeit Macht Frei.

Infirmities are feeble excuses for productivity. Treading the time clock to oblivion

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Alan Goldhammer's avatar

Empathy and kindness are no longer words in Trump language, but cruelty and sadism and fascism is.

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Lintoinette's avatar

I agree with all of this but apparently they have walked it back.

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David Shuster's avatar

Yes, they have “paused” this while seeking a “clarification” from HHS. But that doesn’t mean this fight is over… We need a clear and certain statement about teleworking being protected.

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C Giza's avatar

Maybe We The People should not allow the absurdly wealthy through his grifts orange guy, to use a golf cart to get around for his "job" of not "presidenting". Make him walk and carry his own clubs. He should also be required to stand at the Resolute Desk so we can make sure there is no puppeteer under it. Oh yes, and when the escalator stops, as it did at the UN, walk up the dang stairs! Most Americans have had to do that at one time or another in their lives...even people his age.

(I personally know of a young man, not wealthy, who works from home, is having chemo for cancer, his mom has Multiple Sclerosis, and his sister suffers from epilepsy).

Now who, I ask the MAGA supporters, is more in need of some accommodations to get through the day?

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Lintoinette's avatar

I agree. I’m in government and working on an RA myself. No issues yet at my agency which I find even weirder since it’s HHS. Seems like a weird CDC attack.

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