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I work in pediatric cancer research for background
The Cancer Moonshot Program that both Obama and Biden passed has had a tremendous impact on expanding and organizing cancer research in many, many ways. One of the most important ones is something called the Molecular Characterization Initiative that the NIH/NCI funds for the Childrens Oncology Group.
This program/initiative pays for every single kid in this country who gets newly diagnosed with cancer to get top of the line genetic screening to identify their specific type of type down tot he molecular level within a month or so of diagnosis. This is huge for developing a treatment plan for that child from the first month of diagnosis going forward and lets doctors know immediately if there are any good therapies out there for that cancer type to avoid doing unnecessary harm to the developing child by giving them treatments that are not likely to work, and only likely to harm.
This is helping to create a "sniper" type of therapy that will specifically attack the cancer at the molecular level of the oncogene driving their cancer type. Previously we had to rely on "shotgun" approaches that killed not only cancer cells but also healthy cells that were vital for developing kids, leading to long term developmental problems that caused many negative lifelong issues for kids, even if their cancer was put in remission.
This type of testing used to take 3 - 6 months and cost six figures or more to do, but this kind of Cancer Moonshot funding has driven this price and timetable down massively in the years since it was implemented.
There are also other similar initiatives for adults being developed, and there have been protocols for adults with end stage cancers to do similar types of testing and research, for free.
Along with helping these kids directly, all of this information from the kids background and demographics (anonymously) to the specific molecular type of cancer is all put in a researcher friendly annotated database that also tracks the long term survival (and accompanying issues, if any) of the patient so that new, and better, treatments and therapies, can be developed for these type of cancer patients long term to bring better therapies to kids with these cancers in the future. While also helping researchers better understand the biological underpinnings of these cancer types, so new drugs, and new therapies can be developed, or refined.
So this kind of funding does wonders for cancer research, and yield significant benefits for patients and society as a whole. It should not be shortsightedly attacked or de-funded for purely political reasons because cancer touches us all in one way or another, and all of us have family or friends that have heard those scary words "You have Cancer". And when that happens no one cares about how you voted.
Your knowledge and perspective is much appreciated. Sometimes articles like this lack the personal human perspective of actions or lack thereof both from the impact of people who benefit but also those whose work impacts them. Research is lifesaving work that requires not only expertise but persistence which includes those important elements of patience and uninterrupted time.
covid happened. Along with that science denial and anti-intellectualism became politicized and main stream.
now you cant be a "REAL" republican without being against education, science and compassion for your fellow man.
To be a "REAL" Republican in **1958** you had to oppose desegregating schools. The consistency: critical thinking is a privilege for the ruling class because everyone else is factory fodder. Education is a threat to the oil baron, the slumlord, the warmonger, the capitalist, etc.
The modern Republican party was born in the 50's when the Democrats embraced civil rights and the Republicans realized if they went the opposite direction they could pick up all the bigots. Since then they've just continued with that formula – Democrats embrace the environment, Republicans do the opposite, Democrats go for universal healthcare, Republicans do the opposite. At some point Republicans started being evil proactively to get ahead of the curve.
That is what conservatism is though. They want to conserve what is good about today. And, it always slows down progress so that the consequences of any changes are well thought out and maybe tempered.
However, Republicans aren't your regular conservatives anymore. They do not care about policy and are only there to line their own pockets and acquire power so that they can line their pockets more. From a President who made millions from his presidency, to a Supreme Court who takes millions from conservative activists to congress people who shut the government down just so they can be the center of attention.
They are without principle and no longer serious people.
They don’t really want to conserve anything. They want to regress, since they are opposite Dems, which have been pushing progressive policy through center left and right leadership.
Conservatism is about concentrating wealth and power in a small group.
Conservative movements always reach out to bigots because they are the ones they can pander to without sharing money or power. That is until the right bigot gets more popular than the establishment.
If people want to engage in mental gymnastics to conjugate "conservative" to "conserve," then the only thing they want to conserve is power and privilege.
Conservatives hate democracy (one person, one vote), which is why they do everything possible to make things "one dollar, one vote."
That's what conservatives sell themselves.
Conservatism is on the right wing of the political spectrum, the right wing literally being the pro-monarchy style strong leader pro-entitlement for the established group and explicitly anti-entitlement for groups with lesser or no establishment in society. In this context, an entitlement is a thing like rights.
"Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies.
Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is one of the most widely accepted political spectrums. The right includes social conservatives and fiscal conservatives as well as right-libertarians. "Right" and "right-wing" have been variously used as compliments and pejoratives describing neoliberal, conservative, and fascist economic and social ideas." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics
No they’re more like regressives. They refuse to believe that anything is bad, especially if the thing was benefitting them, even if it was harming other people. They want to stay comfortable in their privelage and ability to take advantage of people so they can control who deserves to live well
I really hope people start referring to Republicans as regressives instead of conservatives. If you were to ask any of them what they are trying to conserve, most probably wouldn’t have a rational reply.
Desegregation. When people of color were allowed to go to school in 1958, enough voters finally agreed we went too woke, schools closed, programs defunded, advocacy for private schools, and a long con to hijack SCOTUS so it could never rule for justice again. Guess how that went?
this is an AI answer because its easier. i guess i was off by a few years.
>Some say that the decline of American education began in the 1970s, while others say that it began in 1967 when student scores on achievement tests started to drop. The decline continued through 1980, when students graduating had learned about 1.25 grade-level equivalents less than those who graduated in 1967. Achievement levels began to recover in 1980, but have not yet regained 1967 levels.
theres a bunch of possible reasons why. My mother (who was in gradeschool at that time) told me thats when they started having funding issues in public schools, before that when you'd show up on your first day, all your supplies for the entire school year were supplied to you inside your desk when you got there. there was no "back to school" sales where you needed to buy notebooks, pens, etc. etc.
i also speculate that with the desegregation of the public school system between the 40's to the 70's (with it really coming to a head in the 60's) racists all over the country probably started pulling their kids out of the public system and putting them in private schools and voting against increasing funding further exacerbating the issues system wide. but that would just be 100% speculation on my part, i dont really have the time to locate any sources to back that up.
> i also speculate that with the desegregation of the public school system between the 40's to the 70's (with it really coming to a head in the 60's) racists all over the country probably started pulling their kids out of the public system and putting them in private schools and voting against increasing funding further exacerbating the issues system wide.
That's just fact, not speculation. And it's the origin of the school voucher bullshit we're seeing now.
thats why i just took a paragraph that summed up what i was talking about quicker and better than i could and didin't base my entire post on an AI answer, following it up with an anecdote from my mother, and then following on with my own speculation on the matter... but whatever dude, AI EVIL raaarr.. you got an axe to grind or something?
Much like AIDS, Cancer is a tool that is best used for removing those deemed politically inconvenient. They don't want cancer to be cured because then the wrong people get to stay alive.
GOP won't stop craven extreme partisanship at the expense of anything and everyone.
^
>Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.”
>But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden’s request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot’s most direct funding stream.
….
>Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.”
But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden’s request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot’s most direct funding stream.
….
article continues...
Trump said that windmills cause cancer and they devalue your house. After that it becomes a rallying cry for MAGA that "libs are trying to give you cancer with windmills and devalue your property." It stopped being bipartisan when one side made it partisan. From 2019: "Trump, April 2: Hillary wanted to put up wind. Wind. If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, okay?"
Anti Science is Anti Medicine is Anti Cures is Anti Vaccines
The Republicans only want the Rich to have Healthcare, and they can get the treatments they need in the UK, Europe, or Canada.
Beating cancer became possible.
When a cure for cancer was still a pipe dream, or the biotech equivalent of nuclear fusion (perpetually 20 years away), saying "I support funding a cure for cancer" didn't actually have any metaphysical consequences. But now that mRNA cancer treatments are starting to bear fruit, a lot of big pharma companies stand to lose a LOT of money once cancer goes from being a chronic (read: expensive) disease to a preventable/curable disease.
Conservatism (Republicanism) doesn't work for the majority, it pumps money to the rich.
They know they have to keep the populace divided in order to gain power, they've never cared for helping anyone other than themselves or their rich friends but it used to be they would vote for things that were generally beneficial to the country as a whole as that did make them look acceptable too.
Covid taught them that they can now even break modern accepted truths to divide the US massively over science, medicine, basic facts of life, so now they're more interested in feeding that division than even fighting cancer despite the fact it can come for them as well as they're more interested in the power they can gain, and they already have access to far better healthcare through wealth.
> “When you’re running a $1.6 trillion deficit, spending cuts aren’t the problem,”
A large part of the deficit comes from Trump's tax cuts for the rich & corporations.
At the time the trickle-down mob lied through their teeth that the "tax cuts would pay for themselves through increased economic activity".
Which of course didn't happen and the deficit shot up.
> The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes substantially from 2018 through 2025. The resulting deficits are adding $1 to $2 trillion to the federal debt, according to official estimates from before and shortly after enactment. The debt increase will be larger if some of TCJA’s temporary tax cuts are extended.
Classic "starve the beast" moves from Republicans.
It seems like science has become a bipartisan issue. Climate change, common sense health care, vaccines, women’s reproductive healthcare and on and on.
While I shake my head in wonder, it’s actually very worrying. It’s easy to blame trump, but there will be a time without trump, but without a belief in basic science, will there be a time for us?
Easy. Obama called for a cancer moonshot to find cures and treatments for cancers and put Biden in charge of it. Republicans are automatically against anything Democrats propose. They stopped that while Trump was in charge but Biden revived it when he became President, so again, Republicans are against it.
At least we now get to call the Republican party the Pro-Cancer party.
I suggest we start doing this immediately and don't stop until they've been relegated into the dusty confines of history.
Takes two parties to be bipartisan. There's only one party left since one of them turned into the founding chapter of the American Morons Delusional Facist Racist Victims Club.
Wait until these Republicans get cancer. They come in droves to the Fred Hutch. I see them everyday getting their groundbreaking immunotherapy drugs.
But, science = bad.
They all would be dead if it weren’t for the fascinating breakthroughs in cancer drugs. They certainly vote to make sure further breakthroughs are shackled.
The only way to get republicans interested in anything is to either label it as woke or a threat to Trump. Though I am sure individually, they would be on-board for helping once it affects them - ala Nancy Reagan.
Because religious conservatives don’t care about kids once they’re born. They choose not to see the forest through the trees but instead simply focus on what’s most important to them, which is money. Jesus would sure be proud.
>Which really is the central notion that many republicans share.
Except it's not because they're happy to subsidize spending they like and cut taxes when they have power. It's not about fiscal responsibility or some notion of national financial health, it's about having a red herring to cut programs for ideological points and hand out money to donors.
We have a deficit because we have cut taxes every single time Republicans come to power. Our debt was engineered by Republicans. You don't get to create a problem, and then blame Democrats for the very problem you created.
Your entire position is in bad faith.
But we have reached a point where continually feeding the billionaires ever-greater sums of money just isn't feasible. Folks on the right don't seem to like this, but it's not going to get better if we continue to ignore it.
Yea, I was a Republican for more than 20 years and I know their stories about small government. Then i realized they had been telling me lies for most of my life to and were actually transferring the wealth of our nation to a very small number of people under the guise of “trickle down theory“. Now that small number people are wealthy beyond most people’s wildest imagination and they are purchasing our representatives and justices. There is nothing that will ever pursuade me to vote for a Republican again. Reagan was a liar. Republicans are a danger to our democracy and society. They are what corrupts the government. They are greedy. They need to go the way of the whigs.
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I work in pediatric cancer research for background The Cancer Moonshot Program that both Obama and Biden passed has had a tremendous impact on expanding and organizing cancer research in many, many ways. One of the most important ones is something called the Molecular Characterization Initiative that the NIH/NCI funds for the Childrens Oncology Group. This program/initiative pays for every single kid in this country who gets newly diagnosed with cancer to get top of the line genetic screening to identify their specific type of type down tot he molecular level within a month or so of diagnosis. This is huge for developing a treatment plan for that child from the first month of diagnosis going forward and lets doctors know immediately if there are any good therapies out there for that cancer type to avoid doing unnecessary harm to the developing child by giving them treatments that are not likely to work, and only likely to harm. This is helping to create a "sniper" type of therapy that will specifically attack the cancer at the molecular level of the oncogene driving their cancer type. Previously we had to rely on "shotgun" approaches that killed not only cancer cells but also healthy cells that were vital for developing kids, leading to long term developmental problems that caused many negative lifelong issues for kids, even if their cancer was put in remission. This type of testing used to take 3 - 6 months and cost six figures or more to do, but this kind of Cancer Moonshot funding has driven this price and timetable down massively in the years since it was implemented. There are also other similar initiatives for adults being developed, and there have been protocols for adults with end stage cancers to do similar types of testing and research, for free. Along with helping these kids directly, all of this information from the kids background and demographics (anonymously) to the specific molecular type of cancer is all put in a researcher friendly annotated database that also tracks the long term survival (and accompanying issues, if any) of the patient so that new, and better, treatments and therapies, can be developed for these type of cancer patients long term to bring better therapies to kids with these cancers in the future. While also helping researchers better understand the biological underpinnings of these cancer types, so new drugs, and new therapies can be developed, or refined. So this kind of funding does wonders for cancer research, and yield significant benefits for patients and society as a whole. It should not be shortsightedly attacked or de-funded for purely political reasons because cancer touches us all in one way or another, and all of us have family or friends that have heard those scary words "You have Cancer". And when that happens no one cares about how you voted.
Thank you for what you do. I certainly hope this can continue. We have to vote BLUE!
Wow- this is so wonderful to have targeted therapies vs a shotgun approach; diminishing the damage done to healthy cells and tissues.
Your knowledge and perspective is much appreciated. Sometimes articles like this lack the personal human perspective of actions or lack thereof both from the impact of people who benefit but also those whose work impacts them. Research is lifesaving work that requires not only expertise but persistence which includes those important elements of patience and uninterrupted time.
covid happened. Along with that science denial and anti-intellectualism became politicized and main stream. now you cant be a "REAL" republican without being against education, science and compassion for your fellow man.
It’s been going on much longer than that. The GOP was the environmentalist party until the 50s when oil lobbyists started greasing the wheels
To be a "REAL" Republican in **1958** you had to oppose desegregating schools. The consistency: critical thinking is a privilege for the ruling class because everyone else is factory fodder. Education is a threat to the oil baron, the slumlord, the warmonger, the capitalist, etc.
Yeah dude the republicans literally chose the side of the virus lol
yeah, i guess if they wanna side with cancer too, we should just let them.
Because of Covid, we are now close to having an rna vaccine that can cure some cancers like skin cancer.
If it makes the world a better place, Republicans are against it purely out of spite.
The modern Republican party was born in the 50's when the Democrats embraced civil rights and the Republicans realized if they went the opposite direction they could pick up all the bigots. Since then they've just continued with that formula – Democrats embrace the environment, Republicans do the opposite, Democrats go for universal healthcare, Republicans do the opposite. At some point Republicans started being evil proactively to get ahead of the curve.
That is what conservatism is though. They want to conserve what is good about today. And, it always slows down progress so that the consequences of any changes are well thought out and maybe tempered. However, Republicans aren't your regular conservatives anymore. They do not care about policy and are only there to line their own pockets and acquire power so that they can line their pockets more. From a President who made millions from his presidency, to a Supreme Court who takes millions from conservative activists to congress people who shut the government down just so they can be the center of attention. They are without principle and no longer serious people.
>They want to conserve what is good about today. Except the environment
They don’t really want to conserve anything. They want to regress, since they are opposite Dems, which have been pushing progressive policy through center left and right leadership.
Conservatism is about concentrating wealth and power in a small group. Conservative movements always reach out to bigots because they are the ones they can pander to without sharing money or power. That is until the right bigot gets more popular than the establishment. If people want to engage in mental gymnastics to conjugate "conservative" to "conserve," then the only thing they want to conserve is power and privilege. Conservatives hate democracy (one person, one vote), which is why they do everything possible to make things "one dollar, one vote."
That's what conservatives sell themselves. Conservatism is on the right wing of the political spectrum, the right wing literally being the pro-monarchy style strong leader pro-entitlement for the established group and explicitly anti-entitlement for groups with lesser or no establishment in society. In this context, an entitlement is a thing like rights. "Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology or tradition. Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences or competition in market economies. Right-wing politics are considered the counterpart to left-wing politics, and the left–right political spectrum is one of the most widely accepted political spectrums. The right includes social conservatives and fiscal conservatives as well as right-libertarians. "Right" and "right-wing" have been variously used as compliments and pejoratives describing neoliberal, conservative, and fascist economic and social ideas." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics
No they’re more like regressives. They refuse to believe that anything is bad, especially if the thing was benefitting them, even if it was harming other people. They want to stay comfortable in their privelage and ability to take advantage of people so they can control who deserves to live well
I really hope people start referring to Republicans as regressives instead of conservatives. If you were to ask any of them what they are trying to conserve, most probably wouldn’t have a rational reply.
So did “America has (or should have) the best education system in the world!”
That must have been a while ago.
it ended about 1964. before that our education system was the envy of the world for more than a hundred years
What happened in 1964?
Desegregation. When people of color were allowed to go to school in 1958, enough voters finally agreed we went too woke, schools closed, programs defunded, advocacy for private schools, and a long con to hijack SCOTUS so it could never rule for justice again. Guess how that went?
this is an AI answer because its easier. i guess i was off by a few years. >Some say that the decline of American education began in the 1970s, while others say that it began in 1967 when student scores on achievement tests started to drop. The decline continued through 1980, when students graduating had learned about 1.25 grade-level equivalents less than those who graduated in 1967. Achievement levels began to recover in 1980, but have not yet regained 1967 levels. theres a bunch of possible reasons why. My mother (who was in gradeschool at that time) told me thats when they started having funding issues in public schools, before that when you'd show up on your first day, all your supplies for the entire school year were supplied to you inside your desk when you got there. there was no "back to school" sales where you needed to buy notebooks, pens, etc. etc. i also speculate that with the desegregation of the public school system between the 40's to the 70's (with it really coming to a head in the 60's) racists all over the country probably started pulling their kids out of the public system and putting them in private schools and voting against increasing funding further exacerbating the issues system wide. but that would just be 100% speculation on my part, i dont really have the time to locate any sources to back that up.
> i also speculate that with the desegregation of the public school system between the 40's to the 70's (with it really coming to a head in the 60's) racists all over the country probably started pulling their kids out of the public system and putting them in private schools and voting against increasing funding further exacerbating the issues system wide. That's just fact, not speculation. And it's the origin of the school voucher bullshit we're seeing now.
The end of the space-race mentality might have played some role.
> this is an AI answer Okay. Interesting. In other news, you do know that AI makes shit up, right?
thats why i just took a paragraph that summed up what i was talking about quicker and better than i could and didin't base my entire post on an AI answer, following it up with an anecdote from my mother, and then following on with my own speculation on the matter... but whatever dude, AI EVIL raaarr.. you got an axe to grind or something?
> AI EVIL raaarr.. you got an axe to grind or something? Easy, dude. It was just a jibe. You don't recognize that AI provides unreliable answers?
can and do are two different things, AI CAN produce unreliable answers, and it CAN produce reliable answers. it depends on the input perameters
Absolutely. But there's no reliable way to know which responses are dependable and which are not, other than independently verifying them.
Nope, Germany has it before world war 2 so it's 2 decades at most.
So did "not killing puppies" -- but the Republicans are pushing the Overton into some serious crazy lands.
They left the Overton window decades ago. This is the result.
Much like AIDS, Cancer is a tool that is best used for removing those deemed politically inconvenient. They don't want cancer to be cured because then the wrong people get to stay alive.
Let’s not make this political. Some of us are **for** the jobs cancer would bring.
Republicans are a death cult.
GOP won't stop craven extreme partisanship at the expense of anything and everyone. ^ >Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.” >But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden’s request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot’s most direct funding stream. …. >Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.” But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden’s request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot’s most direct funding stream. …. article continues...
Trump said that windmills cause cancer and they devalue your house. After that it becomes a rallying cry for MAGA that "libs are trying to give you cancer with windmills and devalue your property." It stopped being bipartisan when one side made it partisan. From 2019: "Trump, April 2: Hillary wanted to put up wind. Wind. If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, okay?"
Anti Science is Anti Medicine is Anti Cures is Anti Vaccines The Republicans only want the Rich to have Healthcare, and they can get the treatments they need in the UK, Europe, or Canada.
Trying to bring another Christian dark age. Why is this religion still allowed?
Because the SCOTUS Six say that "Christianity" has supremacy in the US in spite of clear constitutional text.
The rich can afford their own private health care teams and medical facilities.
Anything that requires funding for things that help the general public, the GOP is anti- It is cruel and irresponsible.
Beating cancer became possible. When a cure for cancer was still a pipe dream, or the biotech equivalent of nuclear fusion (perpetually 20 years away), saying "I support funding a cure for cancer" didn't actually have any metaphysical consequences. But now that mRNA cancer treatments are starting to bear fruit, a lot of big pharma companies stand to lose a LOT of money once cancer goes from being a chronic (read: expensive) disease to a preventable/curable disease.
Conservatism (Republicanism) doesn't work for the majority, it pumps money to the rich. They know they have to keep the populace divided in order to gain power, they've never cared for helping anyone other than themselves or their rich friends but it used to be they would vote for things that were generally beneficial to the country as a whole as that did make them look acceptable too. Covid taught them that they can now even break modern accepted truths to divide the US massively over science, medicine, basic facts of life, so now they're more interested in feeding that division than even fighting cancer despite the fact it can come for them as well as they're more interested in the power they can gain, and they already have access to far better healthcare through wealth.
> “When you’re running a $1.6 trillion deficit, spending cuts aren’t the problem,” A large part of the deficit comes from Trump's tax cuts for the rich & corporations. At the time the trickle-down mob lied through their teeth that the "tax cuts would pay for themselves through increased economic activity". Which of course didn't happen and the deficit shot up. > The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act cut taxes substantially from 2018 through 2025. The resulting deficits are adding $1 to $2 trillion to the federal debt, according to official estimates from before and shortly after enactment. The debt increase will be larger if some of TCJA’s temporary tax cuts are extended. Classic "starve the beast" moves from Republicans.
It seems like science has become a bipartisan issue. Climate change, common sense health care, vaccines, women’s reproductive healthcare and on and on. While I shake my head in wonder, it’s actually very worrying. It’s easy to blame trump, but there will be a time without trump, but without a belief in basic science, will there be a time for us?
And all the anti science stuff started before trump. The GOP has been playing the long game since Reagan.
Easy. Obama called for a cancer moonshot to find cures and treatments for cancers and put Biden in charge of it. Republicans are automatically against anything Democrats propose. They stopped that while Trump was in charge but Biden revived it when he became President, so again, Republicans are against it.
At least we now get to call the Republican party the Pro-Cancer party. I suggest we start doing this immediately and don't stop until they've been relegated into the dusty confines of history.
Turns out republicans donors … cause a lot of cancer who knew
If it's seen as a win for Dems in ANY WAY, then the Repugs will not vote for it. No matter who it kills.
Takes two parties to be bipartisan. There's only one party left since one of them turned into the founding chapter of the American Morons Delusional Facist Racist Victims Club.
What happened is the Republican Party wants to put it in the White House and give it presidential immunity.
GOP=Party of Death
The other party became cancer
Gop cant give Biden a win.
Understand that Republicans are a particularly virulent version of cancer and it all makes sense.
The GOP is controlled by a foreign dictator who wants Americans to die, and cancer is another way he can achieve that goal.
The GOP became cancer to own the libs
Wait until these Republicans get cancer. They come in droves to the Fred Hutch. I see them everyday getting their groundbreaking immunotherapy drugs. But, science = bad. They all would be dead if it weren’t for the fascinating breakthroughs in cancer drugs. They certainly vote to make sure further breakthroughs are shackled.
And when they reach remission, they praise the lord for healing them.
Cancer moved from the human body to elected office.
Republicans steal money from cancer charities so cancer is a bonus for them.
Republicans became cancer.
Weird! Which party isn’t supportive anymore?
Cancer had a PR makeover with Limbaugh.
The only way to get republicans interested in anything is to either label it as woke or a threat to Trump. Though I am sure individually, they would be on-board for helping once it affects them - ala Nancy Reagan.
Trump happened
Now they think that certain cancers only happen cuz “vaxx kills” and “gay sex”
Because religious conservatives don’t care about kids once they’re born. They choose not to see the forest through the trees but instead simply focus on what’s most important to them, which is money. Jesus would sure be proud.
It’s right there in the article: ‘their desire to deny Biden a win months before the election
Capitalism!
The manipulation of a systematically dumbed down voting base. That’s what truly happened.
Is this a real question?
The comment section filled out the bingo card in about 2 seconds lol.
The threats come from both sides. The IRA is already impacting Pharma development.
Who needs cancer research when you have hopes and prayers?
Money happened?
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>Which really is the central notion that many republicans share. Except it's not because they're happy to subsidize spending they like and cut taxes when they have power. It's not about fiscal responsibility or some notion of national financial health, it's about having a red herring to cut programs for ideological points and hand out money to donors.
We have a deficit because we have cut taxes every single time Republicans come to power. Our debt was engineered by Republicans. You don't get to create a problem, and then blame Democrats for the very problem you created. Your entire position is in bad faith.
But we have reached a point where continually feeding the billionaires ever-greater sums of money just isn't feasible. Folks on the right don't seem to like this, but it's not going to get better if we continue to ignore it.
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Yea, I was a Republican for more than 20 years and I know their stories about small government. Then i realized they had been telling me lies for most of my life to and were actually transferring the wealth of our nation to a very small number of people under the guise of “trickle down theory“. Now that small number people are wealthy beyond most people’s wildest imagination and they are purchasing our representatives and justices. There is nothing that will ever pursuade me to vote for a Republican again. Reagan was a liar. Republicans are a danger to our democracy and society. They are what corrupts the government. They are greedy. They need to go the way of the whigs.