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Rachel Maddow: Republicans silent after Trump reportedly slashes funds for Alzheimer’s center

www.msnbc.com Rachel Maddow: Republicans silent after Trump reportedly slashes funds for Alzheimer’s center

If you’re looking for a poster child for something this administration is doing that has no apparent support from anyone, I think you’ve got your winner.

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Trump has reportedly slashed funding for the NIH’s Roy Blunt Center for Alzheimer’s Research, leading to layoffs, including its incoming director.

The center, named after former GOP Senator Roy Blunt, was a Republican-backed initiative to advance Alzheimer’s and dementia research. Despite previously championing the program, Republicans have remained silent on the cuts.

Experts warn weakening the center will significantly set back Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research.

Critics argue the move contradicts past GOP support and lacks justification from either party or scientific leaders.

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She’s a leader regardless of if I like her or not. She has a ton of influence and she uses that to cheerlead the blue MAGA democrats who can’t do nothing wrong not even a genocide is worthy of criticism to the vote blue no matter who types who can’t figure out how or why they lost an election.
Maybe if your kind - blue MAGA - learned to grow the fuck up and hold their leaders accountable instead of being pussies the democrats wouldn’t have lost the election. You know, demand they hold a primary and stop funding israel. But that’s too hard, let’s lose to fascists instead! And then ratchet further to the right!
- Aha. You don't know the difference between influential and leadership.
  
  Yeah, like Curtis yarvin isn’t the leader of the “dark enlightenment” fascist MAGA bullshit and has the ear of Musk and Thiel.
  Nah he’s just an influencer. “Thought leaders” are only a linked in phenomenon I guess.
- Why are you posting when there is a genocide going on?
  Isn't stopping a genocide worth you going Luigi and sacrificing yourself in an attempt to stop it?
  What's your life worth compared to the genocide happening right now? You not doing everything in your power is basically you condoning it.
  Maybe doing Luigi is too extreme, fine. Are you still paying your taxes? The taxes funding a genocide and you're still paying them? How come? You're not willing to go to prison to stop genocide?
  I think you should do more than not vote and post online if you really do care.
  
  I hope democrats continue to lose elections, their blue MAGA supporters deserve to cry and suffer over it. Serves them right.
  You’re getting the fascist dictatorship you deserve. Decades of voting blue no matter who brought us here.
  Your grandparents murdered Nazis so you pussies could whine cry and carry on about how there’s nothing you can do except vote for closet fascists. Pathetic.
  The democrat party needs to be fucking destroyed. They are complicit in the rise of fascism and cynically fundraise off it while giving themselves tax breaks. Rather lose to a fascist than give a single concession to the left. Fuck them and their supporters.
  
  I hope democrats continue to lose elections, their blue MAGA supporters deserve to cry and suffer over it. Serves them right.
  Lol, we're not the ones suffering, I'm Canadian so the only suffering I'm experiencing is through empathy. An emotion you don't understand unless you can update your Facebook profile picture to get some likes for it.
  It's transwomen being sent to the opposite sex prison to be raped. Veterans, blacks, and women losing their jobs. Children getting measles. Immigrants getting sent to Guantanamo Bay. Ukrainian forced to sell off chunks of their country one piece at a time.
  They're suffering, not me and not you.
  You feel so deeply for the Palestinian cause you volunteered these groups to suffer and die alongside them.
  You of course, are perfectly comfortable at home on your computer. Paying your taxes and making some fresh pop with your Sodasteam™.
  If Palestine versus Israel wasn't something you saw as an opportunity to demonstrate your virtue and your correct-think then you wouldn't give a shit.
  
  They're suffering, not me and not you.
  I’m queer and visibly gender non conforming. I’m not suffering yet but I will be soon because democrats are controlled opposition. Nobody is coming to save us. Liberals are out to brunch. They’re confirming his nominees! Fuck them!
  You of course, are perfectly comfortable at home on your computer. Paying your taxes and making some fresh pop with your Sodasteam™.
  If Palestine versus Israel wasn't something you saw as an opportunity to demonstrate your virtue and your correct-think then you wouldn't give a shit.
  I’m an antizionist jew who’s been anti Israel for 20 fucking years. I don’t own a soda stream for obvious fucking reasons. That genocide isn’t staying over there, dumb liberal. All that tech will be used against me soon. Fuck liberals.
  
  Amazing! Glad to see you've fully embraced masochism. Little upset that you're forcing it on everyone else though.
  Here is a question:
  How did you imagine withholding your vote would help the Palestinians?
  Walk me through what you thought would immediately happen when the democrats lost and how you think the resulting half-decade is going to go than if you'd 'voted blue no matter who'?
  I really want to hear from you on those two points. What did you think the immediate response would be, and what do you think will happen over the next five years as a result of the democratic loss.
  For bonus points: explain how these results put the Palestinians in a better place than if Kamala had won.
  
  Explain to me what the point of voting for democrats is when all they’re doing in “opposition” is confirming his nominees.
  They won’t even do the bare minimum. Obstruction. They won’t even obstruct. Fuck them and fuck you too. They’re not an opposition party and voting for them would have the same outcome.
  
  They wouldn't be voting on Trump nominees if Trump didn't win
  The Democrats are a coalition that includes conservative and centrists as well as leftists. Their presence isn't a reason to hand total control to party that instituted a muslim ban.
  They’re not an opposition party and voting for them would have the same outcome
  Oh clearly, they'd be firing hundreds of thousands of public servants, specifically black and women as DEI. 🙄
  I was good and answered your questions. You should answer mine, I'm incredibly curious about what an intelligent person thought and thinks will happen to the Palestinians now that the racist sexist paty has total control, and why you think that outcome wasn't worth preventing.
  Also, a little Wikipedia history lesson for you 🧠🔥
  During the Weimar Republic, the left-wing political spectrum was divided between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). This division significantly weakened the left and indirectly facilitated the rise of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
  The KPD viewed the SPD as "social fascists" and prioritized opposing them over combating the Nazis. The KPD believed that the collapse of the Weimar Republic under Nazi rule would hasten a communist revolution. This ideological stance led them to refuse collaboration with the SPD against the Nazis, even during critical elections and political crises[1][4][6].
  This lack of unity between leftist parties created a fragmented opposition, which allowed the Nazis to consolidate power more effectively. The SPD, while supporting democracy, was unable to counter both the far-right and far-left threats simultaneously[1][3].
  Citations: [1] Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-1939): Political Parties ... - Tutor2u https://www.tutor2u.net/history/reference/political-parties-of-the-weimar-republic [2] Reasons the support of the Nazi Party grew - WJEC - BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zp34srd/revision/2 [3] The role of political instability in the Nazi rise to power https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-role-of-political-instability/ [4] Weimar political parties - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_political_parties [5] Were the Nazis Socialists? | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists [6] The Weimar Republic - Holocaust Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-weimar-republic [7] Weimar Democracy in Crisis - State of Deception: The Power of Nazi ... https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/1918-1933/weimar-democracy-in-crisis [8] Political instability in the Weimar Republic - The Holocaust Explained https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-to-power/the-weimar-republic/political-instability/
  
  They wouldn't be voting on Trump nominees if Trump didn't win
  They would be enacting the same agenda. Genocide, anti immigrant, anti trans. They’re a fraudulent party.
  The Democrats are a coalition that includes conservative and centrists as well as leftists. Their presence isn't a reason to hand total control to party that instituted a muslim ban.
  Which is why there’s no point in voting for them because they don’t stand for shit.
  Oh clearly, they'd be firing hundreds of thousands of public servants, specifically black and women as DEI. 🙄
  What musk is doing is completely illegal. What are the democrats doing to stop it? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING!!!!
  Don’t give me a fucking “history lesson” about the Weimar Republic you dumb fucking liberal. The liberals fought the communists and enabled the fascists. You seemed to learn all the wrong lessons just like the complicit democrat collaborators.
  
  The dodging of the previous question is so loud it's deafening.
  You don't actually think your decision would produce better material results. You cared only for the emotional kick you're getting out of it, you're addicted to youe brain's own stress chemicals.
  You must've felt so empty during the Biden administration and didn't know why. Then Oct 7th happened and BAM your brain floods with norepinephrine and GABA with a little seratonin chaser. You wanted more and more! Just gaza wasn't enough for you, they had to fuck up the west bank too! Shit bring it all home! The worse the news gets the better your high!!!
  Don’t give me a fucking “history lesson” about the Weimar Republic you dumb fucking liberal. The liberals fought the communists and enabled the fascists.
  I cited my sources, you didn't. My beliefs are based in reality, yours are based one whichever gives you the most cortisol.
  
  You’re literally a lib with a horrific misunderstanding of history.
  https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-liberal-accord-with-nazism-1.711626
  https://jacobin.com/2015/11/nuremberg-trials-hitler-goebbels-himmler-german-communist-social-democrats/
  The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) understood what sort of threat the NSDAP posed, yet failed to put up the kind of fight necessary to stop them. In a desperate attempt to block the Nazis from taking power through legal means and save Weimar democracy, the SPD pursued a strategy of supporting the “lesser evil” — i.e., the current right-wing, authoritarian government — as a bulwark against Hitler (who would certainly be even more right wing and authoritarian).
  This entailed support for the candidacy of archconservative Hindenburg in the 1932 presidential election and toleration of Brüning and von Papen’s authoritarian presidential cabinets, as well as the tax hikes and spending cuts they enacted. The strategy ran counter to the party’s political program, not to mention the material interests of its supporters.
  The weakness of this strategy was particularly obvious on July 20, 1932, when Chancellor von Papen dissolved the SPD-led government in Prussia, the largest state in the republic. The SPD had already organized workers’ militias for precisely such a situation, the so-called Iron Front, a year earlier. But when faced with an actual confrontation the party leadership abandoned armed resistance, instead urging calm and restraint.
  The German trade union confederation (ADGB) followed a similar path. Many trade unionists were also SPD members and supported the lesser evil strategy, tolerating Hindenburg’s government in hopes of stopping the Nazis through constitutional means. Consequentially, they also refrained from calling for a general strike in Prussia in 1932.
  …
  Thus, most Communists no longer knew Social Democrats as work colleagues, but only as supporters of the lesser-evil strategy and events like “Bloody May” on May 1, 1929, when police under the command of Social Democrat Karl Friedrich Zörgiebel violently suppressed a KPD-led demonstration.
  Accentuating the blockade was the SPD leadership’s outright refusal to collaborate with the Communists. The SPD at the time was consumed by an anti-Communist fervor, often equating Communism with Nazism. Party Chairman Otto Wels declared at the Leipzig party convention in 1931 that “Bolshevism and fascism are brothers. They are both founded on violence and dictatorship, regardless of how socialist or radical they may appear.”
  …
  Trotsky and Thalheimer’s appeals for a united front were well-received by workers and intellectuals, as the popular desire for unity in the face of the growing Nazi threat was understandably widespread. This desire could be seen in the “Urgent Call for Unity” issued by thirty-three well-known public intellectuals including Albert Einstein in the run-up to the 1932 elections, calling for the KPD and SPD to “finally take a step toward building a united labor front, which is necessary not just for parliamentary, but for additional defense as well.”
  Like I said, the liberals sided with “lesser evil” fascists than work with communists until the very end.

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