Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.
I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.
Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.
reminds me of when trump disbanded the government’s pandemic response team
for no other reason than obama created it.and then covid happened…edit: pandemic response team was created by bush, then expanded by obama.
Trump wants to disband most beneficial government agencies because it’s a win win for him. Fascists need enemies, and his corporate mistresses will benefit from deregulation
Or Bush/Cheney got rid of experts on Al-Qaeda and bin Laden upon taking over the office because of whatever reasons.
Americans, where the fuck did you stray off the beaten path? I hate this timeline
We fought ourselves over slaves. Think stuff like this has always been in our blood. The world wars just made us look good for a while.
I think this hits the nail right on the head.
For a while now I’ve been pondering this very thing. I can’t prove it conclusively, but I honestly think this goes all the way back.
$0.02: The USA was started as a bunch of colonies, and we’re co-cohabiting with lunatics that think this still is one. Over time, territory expanded westward up to and through the Civil War. This was done by the kind of people that came to a foreign land, saw it was full of people already, and decided to completely upend that whole situation for their own benefit. You know, the whole “screw them, got mine” world outlook. This is also an ethos that is completely compatible (if not required) with owning people (slavery), secession to maintain that ability, spilling blood over it, and continuing to punch down on “people not like us” for a 150 years since losing that fight. In a sense, we’re up against colonists, the values they espoused, their great-great-great-offspring, and people in their community that keep those values alive.
GOP is completely irrational and hostile. They’re dragging us to hell with them. Assholes.
From now on, anyone who loses someone to cancer will not have to wonder what happened or how it could have been prevented. Death to cancer no longer has anonymity. The mask will forever be removed. We can now lay future loses and pain due to this horrible fate at the feet of Republicans and their partisan horseshit.
Fuck, I hate those fuckers, now as much as I hate cancer!
Since they’ve aligned themselves with cancer, I submit that transitive property is a thing. Ergo, they now are cancer.
And you know what we do to cancer, right kids? Fire, lasers, poison and radiation.
Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands and we should stop treating them as reasonable adults.
We said that in 1992 and 2000, and 2004, and 2008, and 2020, and
2012 too, man. Congress shut down the government under Obama because “fuck you, that’s why!”
The secret reason was racism
Harris needs to shout this from the rooftops
Yep, can’t get a better line than: “Republicans voted against curing cancer!”
People still voting Republican absolutely don’t give a fuck. Cruelty is the point.
I think they just might, though. There’s a unifying experience with cancer that transcends party lines. Not a single person in this country has not been affected themselves or know someone affected by cancer.
Democrats really need to drive this point home. They need to make this personal for every voter, not partisan. Blatantly say that cancer doesn’t give a fuck if you’re Republican, Democrat, wealthy, or poor. Or can come for anyone, even those that have spent their life trying to live healthily.
What they’ve done it’s akin to an alien invasion movie where instead of defending the planet, Congress decides to do nothing because it might give someone they don’t like a political win. It baffles my mind how inhumane Republicans and the mega wealthy are.
Honestly, if tRump was president and there was a chance to cure cancer for good, I’d be 100% fine giving him that win. I’d send him a personal fucking thank you letter.
Fuck cancer and fuck Republicans!
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states. Let everybody who has lost family or has family battling cancer know what they have done.
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states.
“The GOP just protected you from another vaccine”
Not this time. Cancer isn’t communicative and there is no one alive who has not known someone battling or lost from cancer. It’s not a personal failing of the individual and it doesn’t give a shit who you are or how you live. It just might be the first time that a Republican voter could tangibly see how the wealthy and Republicans look to keep them dead, rather than do something nonpartisan.
Fuck a “win for Joe.” They just blocked a win for humanity. We all know that in the end, you bet your ass the wealthy will have no problem getting their hands on this no matter the price or extremes they have to go to as soon as they are personally affected.
Seriously, buy ads on every type of public media display possible. It could read:
F#k a win for Joe!* Republicans in Congress just voted to let you and anyone you love die in the name of letting you and anyone you care about die from cancer!
Call your local representative and demand they put their partisanship aside, because I’m sick of seeing good people lose their lives to something that we now have the power to stop for the benefit of all of humanity!
I don’t know. Maybe throw out shit about how even beloved pets get cancer and die even sooner than we expect because of this shit. Maybe show a picture of a sickly dog shining down from a glowing halo. I’m just spit-balling here. You all get it!
Cancer isn’t communicative
No, but it IS environmental. And we’ve been flooding our air, sea, and soil with toxic waste for decades.
That makes us a Hippie Green Issue, so Republicans oppose it.
Dems in power: Oh, won’t somebody think of the deficit!!!
Republicans in power: Cut taxes, double the military, cut more taxes (only the corporations this time).
Lmfao the GOP raised taxes on the middle class with Trump, what the fuck are you talking about
Pretty sure he lowered taxes on everybody. It benefited the rich and corporations the most, but he definitely didn’t raise taxes on anybody…
He also set these non corporate tax cuts to expire after he left office…
Edit: to everybody downvoting me, Trump did not raise taxes! Quit being dishonest when there are so many truthful arguments against the POS.
As I understand it, he cut taxes for everyone but they set those cuts to expire for the middle class. This is set to happen at the end of 2025: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
The GOP should be banned by decree and being conservative should be illegal.
That would not be democratic. It would be the exact same thing the GOP wants to do. Left branded totalitarianism would still be totalitarianism.
Between left-branded totalitarianism and GOP I choose left-branded totalitarianism. An eye for an eye.
Unless you’re spending all your money on cancer research, you can always spend more on it. At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line. It’s plausible to me that the line should be where the Democrats rather than the Republicans want it, and it’s even plausible that Republicans are acting in bad faith. However, this article presents no evidence for either claim.
I think that’s a pretty reasonable response. Maybe not so much that cancer in general is over funded but I’d be willing to bet a breast cancer cure probably isn’t any closer now than it would be with another billion. It’s definitely a bad look for the GOP though. I see a lot of We the people… bs bumper stickers with the f*** cancer! stickers.
Spending one billion on breast cancer drug discovery/ development would probably lead to one more drug which increases survival by 10-20%. Or if spend on fundamental research it would lead to a lot of additional knowledge. Which might lead in about 10 years (and a few billions more) to a few drugs which increase survival a further 30-40 %.
At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the $1T we spend on national security annually. Somehow, we’re always able to justify more than the year before.
But $2.8B over ten years on an effort to improve health care treatments for one of the most deadly maladies in the US? My god! That’s over 3% of our Ukraine military aid budget! We need to draw a line somewhere!
Why an American went to Cuba for cancer care
Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.
Really shows how ass backwards the US really is.
Cuba, a country that the US has tried to destroy for over 60 years now with economic sanctions, has better healthcare than the US, aka the richest nation on the planet.
There is no excuse for the state of healthcare in the US. We really have some evil, greedy people deciding to let people die so they can have more money.
Also Cuba didn’t really do anything? They only truly alligned themselves with the communist block after the united states decided to start being shitty to them out of nothing but paranoia. Classic tyrant looking everywhere for conspiracies and causing some to appear moment.
Cuba has three sides of the coin: one for foreigners, another for citizens and finally for politicians.
Cuba has three sides of the coin
What?
If this cure involved animal testing then good it was blocked. Stop all animal testing
It doesn’t seem like this program has anything to do with “curing” cancer. It’s just about preventing, treating, and researching. It doesn’t explicity mention animal testing on the whitehouse.gov page. I’d say its a program with good goals.
Look, you either kill rats or kill people. I love animals, it’s unfortunate we need to experiment on them, but it’s also naive to think we can make progress without doing it. At best one could make an argument for death row inmates to be experimented on, but that would be quickly shut down as unethical and there wouldn’t be enough anyway. There is no way around animal testing, we can only keep it to a minimum.
Do you think Big Pharma wants a cure for cancer? Me neither. That might be the real reason it was voted down.
Yeah. When we fully fund holistic health care, that’s a win. Piecemeal isn’t a solution, and keeps people in desperation.
Yikes
There are many cancers. And many cancers already have cure. And many don’t.
with an ever-growing debt
Let’s be real here: American debt is so big, that it holds entire world economy hostage.
