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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.

Summary

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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This is all a result of decades of the GOP and Mitch McConnell's policies of "Whatever the Democrats are in favor of, we must be against, no matter what" and "Ban it and everything associated with it." taken to their most extreme extremes.
They were against Covid vaccines and wanted them banned. When people asked "what about other vaccines", it became "ban them too". Science? Fuck it, science is bad, ban that too! And without science, who needs research? Might as well get rid of that. Just teach the kids the truth: God created everything, you don't need science, and that cough will go away eventually......
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<points at brain>
> Don't need Alzheimer's research if people aren't gonna live long enough to suffer from it!
Me smart, see!

Really? I guess he feels his treatment is working well enough

You would think trump and the many old politicians would be more interested in this and really any health research.
- They are too old to benefit and fuck future generations is their mindset.
  
  I mean if you draw breath I don't see how your to old to benefit. You can't really say when new things will be figured out and if your immorally rich you can go do it before its gone through testing if you desperate.

They are silent, because they have alzheimers, and aren't sure what it going on.
- My step dad is exactly that. A Republican with dementia. The irony.

Brilliant move. Now GOP donors will forget that they just wrote you a check, so they'll write you another one
- Makes sense because Trump will forget he received the checks.

They may have forgotten their talking points.
- We were funding something? Don't remember.

I knew they secretly hated Ronnie Reagan lol

Elon : "Did you find a cure for Alzheimer's in the last week? If not you are gone."

They probably already forgot that they slashed the funding.

Maybe this means they're close to a cure so they shut down the government funded agency doing the research so that the cure can be privatized.hope intensifies

Rachel Maddow is a genocide apologist...
- Not helpful in any way.
  
  I don't think she's any kind of moral authority
- Yes, but that's 100% irrelevant.
  What's next, you going to attack normalizing relations with Cuba by pointing out the many war crimes Obama committed in the middle east?

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