Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 4)

Just another example of how insulating those involved from consequences has simply ensured repetition. Merrick Garland has a lot to answer for

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Snl Fafo GIF by Saturday Night Live

I dont fully agree with the Garland bit as I think people overlook a significant part of what he was doing prior to appointing Smith. But yeah, the insistence that new administrations need to look forward, and the insistence on treating accountability as partisan weaponization of government is a large part of how we got something as damaging as Trump. And his ability to weaponize government to partisan ends and it not get the reaction is warrants

Jesus wept…the official White House site has some sort of mini-game where the user can play at rounding up undocumented immigrants. Leaving aside the morals of using something like that for entertainment, it is just so damned tawdry. These people have incinerated any remnants of the dignity of the office of President.

Who the hell could think is a good idea?

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Cunts

Semi relatedly, this also clearly violates multiple forms of copyright and trademark protections with Sega and MS

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https://x.com/outbreakupdates/status/2095942692542820484

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Cue “hospitalized with Cyclospora, not cyclospora hospitalizations” discourse from the fucking idiots.

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Those tariffs on toilet paper aren’t looking great right now.

Meanwhile…

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When you’re going that bad its not even worth wiping

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So I’ve been told

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Several in the highest level of the Trump administration personally intervened in the case against these guys despite the evidence then being as clear as it is now.

https://x.com/DailyMail/status/2095802578151878675?s=20

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And hes using the same lawyer as Epstein..

Tell me there is no coincidence

Watched a news report from the courthouse. There was a prick in his 20s waiting outside to take selfies with the 2 scumbags.

If only he was the only one, there is a real undercurrent that aligns with the Tates.

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What happens when you let an iPad raise your kids.

Jesus Christ

https://x.com/ericm_katz/status/2095951448844492966?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g

NIH will always promote their priorities based on what they are willing to fund. When I first got to grad school in 2000 we were entering an era that exercise related projects would only receive funding if they included an element of genetic differences in response and or addressed questions of why people don’t exercise as much as they know they should and how to improve that.

But to cancel existing grants because a shift in priorities is diabolical. This is not policy, this is punishment for people who weren’t preemptively interested in the things the administration is focused on. And that’s without even talking about how ducking stupid the priority pivot is

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America has seemingly become obsessed with their precious bodily fluids
doctor strangelove GIF

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I’m just imaging the poor scientist sitting in their office looking at their 95% finished grant proposal and agonizing over whether they should accept killing their academic reputation by adding in the “impact of sun exposure of the testicles on male virility” element to the project or risk going unfunded and shutting down their lab for the crime of studying stupid topics. Like cancer

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:fu: :tangerine:

U.S. Phases Out $45M Annual Support For Namibia HIV Program

Namibia has received around $45 million annually through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in recent years.

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Administration of elderly, sexually entitled men places their right to chemically maintain an erection higher than women and babies dying shock.

It doesn’t come as a surprise in a nation that for a long time wouldn’t roll out full HPV vaccination programme because there was an influential body of opinion that believed reducing the risk of cervical cancer would increase female promiscuity.

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