I am a retired physician and a Progressive. I am curious how many of my fellow physicians support Trump and remain Republican. I do not know how any serious, dedicated doctor can do so, but I fear many do. I guess I have known several who are not truly committed to the real welfare of the people they serve. Nevertheless, it violates every oath or ideal of the profession to support what Trump, Kennedy, and their witless minions are doing. It is hard to have any respect for and to have any feelings other than contempt for doctors who remain steadfast Republicans, supporting Trump in this era.
My father was a surgeon and people assumed he was a republican. He was not. Well, back long ago he voted for Eisenhower. But he became pretty disappointed with the racist " southern strategy" of Nixon and crew. He told me once that some colleagues were Republicans out of inertia and habit. I am happy to say he made inroads and converts to more progressive stances with them.
A friend visited her dermatologist last week, and somehow he blurted out that he was a T supporter. When she told him she was NOT, he dismissed it with, "Then we just won't talk politics".
I too, am shocked that many physicians support Trump, but having the intelligence and drive to make it through medical training certainly doesn’t mean that one is well informed about our democracy.
Having served as union steward for the faculty at my university and having dealt with rabidly anti-union physicians and researchers from the Medical School who while complaining loudly and even threatening to take the union to court for requiring not dues--those were paid by faculty like me who were full members--but a fair share of dues, immediately sought help from the union when they were mistreated. I saw the deep hypocrisy and compartmentalization mentality that made these people feel they were entitled to union defense. I did defend them against an even more rapacious administration and their own utter naivete in contractual matters. Their attitudes reminded me of the AMA's fierce opposition to President Clinton's national-health proposal based on their not wanting to be managed by the government. These educated people could/would not see that they were going to be managed into dire submissions by the corporate insurance companies.
That’s true about micromanaging by insurance companies. My late husband didn’t operate on anybody who didn’t need it, very conservative about that. But when he did it was because they needed it. But sometimes he would have to answer to some retired Optomitrist that the companies had hired to question his judgment. Disgusting.
The national health proposal from Clinton era also was shifting reimbursement toward actual time spent with direct patient interactions, e.g., primary care, away from the exorbitant prices for procedures, e.g., surgeries, cardiac catheterization, and colonoscopies, among others.
The culpability of Trump’s election rests on those who voted for Trump, whether they be teachers, physicians, nurses, business employees, or business executives, geologists, farmers, or …
I don’t personally know who, if any of my colleagues or patients voted for him thankfully due to the sanctity of secret ballots. I can’t imagine who would vote for someone such as Trump who does not give a damn about the health and wellbeing of anyone.
I do know my medical students will work at least as hard as I did to learn what they need to know to care for fellow humans. It’s a long haul as it takes at least 12 years and much more beyond that to learn what they will need to know to take good care of fellow humans. Many or most will be at least $200,000. in debt before they finish training.
Our ‘healthcare system’ has changed radically over the last almost two decades. The mechanics and magnitude of how
we pay for our healthcare is a heartbreaking nightmare.
I do know only a fraction of a fraction of that sum will go to my med students.
Yes, my own PCP is so discouraged, she works so hard and late hours, and doesn’t get paid nearly as much as the specialist. It’s no wonder we have a shortage of basic primary care doctors. The great idea is to support medical students who go into primary care by paying their tuition. But it is not going to happen now, until we change the government as it is this moment.
Doctors, in general, perceive themselves as ‘self made’. The thought is, ‘I worked my butt off to get through school with excellent grades’. I did all the work! That thinking is conducive to rugged individualism for some.
My late husband was a neurosurgeon, and he was very liberal, a secular Jew whose parents came from Eastern Europe before World War II. Including his mother from Ukraine. They briefly, like other Jews in this country who came from eastern Europe, flirted with communism because it seemed that in the early days communists were on the side of workers. They were quickly disabused of that by events in Europe. Hopefully people in this country will be quickly disabused of the notion that Republicans are on the side of workers.
I have never understood how a doctor can support Republicanism. Then I step back and see that some of my peers really only care about themselves and money. Makes me sad.
$$$$$ The doctors we know that were Republican voted for wallet issues, and most of them owned their practices and were businessmen, not just physicians. And apparently their wallets are more important their morals or oath to care.
I think these two Politico articles from the last couple years are probably the most helpful in understanding what seems to be going on - at least at the established institutional levels - in the medical field. What do you think? I was fascinated with this.
I am always so dismayed when I read comments on Medscape articles, parroting MAGA talking points, by doctors, nurses, etc. There are a lot of them on certain articles.
Well according to Tennessee, the doctor there, who asked his patient if she was unmarried pregnant woman and she was and he refused to treat her! So I guess the next step is political affiliation
With RFK in charge of our health, Hegseth in charge of our military, Noem in charge of our immigrants, and Bondi in charge of our law enforcement, my guess is that the Kremlin is incredibly pleased.
Very good point, Swbv. Man, all of those people are walking disasters. Noem's eyes are just empty, evil looking, Hesgeth is almost a parody of a bad guy, his own mother criticized him...racist, sexist. Bondi lies every time she talks. They are not incompetent; they are actively seeming to sabotage us. We have to unite, protest, vote, inform the uninformed. God help us.
We are NOT “helpless.” It only takes a relatively small fraction of a population engaging in active protest/non-compliance to destabilize even the most authoritarian government. The great secret of political science is that to function, governments rely on the consent of the governed. No government is either omniscient or omnipotent—particularly not the gaggle of incompetents in Washington pretending to be our “leaders.:
Search for the work of Dr. Erica Chenoweth from Harvard and her “3.5% Rule.” We all have agency, but we have to use it.
Wow, you are so right: These people could be straight out of a bad movie with unbelievably stereotypical villains. As if the walking dead rose from the swamp and are on their march to destroy humanity.
the Kremlin is pleased and events would both demonstrate and illustrate (think of Putin's victory grin from the US Presidential limo), the Kremlin is in charge.
The more nuanced answer to your question is that they really don't care if they kill us, as long as they get what they really want - money and power. Melania said it best. "I really don't care, do U?
They are the party of necrophiliacs. They love death, as long as it doesn't happen to one of them. Not only do they not care if we live or die, but they gleefully celebrate death. There is no other explanation for the actions we have seen since January.
I actually believe that Trump’s lizard brain does want Americans to die in service to him. It is a disturbingly erotic feature of the authoritarian brain that the has. It is proof to him of his greatness that his followers (both willing and unwilling) will sacrifice themselves on the altar of Trump.
A mentally ill leader is driving this country into a condition of distress and sickness and doesn't care. Looking out for the welfare of the nation is beyond his and his administration's ability. Care has been replaced with an ugly disregard for life and liberty.
Just a little over 8 months ago we had a government which provided services to our populace by hiring experts. tRump has eliminated that. And without a major governmental reorganization and major Constitutional constraints on a 'Unitary' president, it is not repairable. Even if the necessary repairs to our Government are made, it will take years to fix. I doubt few or any of our former governmental experts are going to want to come back and risk being the victims of our yoyo politics, the next time the rethuglicans are in charge.
Well said, and that is exactly why we need to strengthen and improve the guardrails. The holes and weaknesses are evident. At a change of majority in Congress, this needs to be addressed forthwith. We need a stable government, not, as you put it, "yoyo politics".
as a woman with nine chronic illnesses, a suppressed immune system, and under doctor's orders not to be vaccinated because i have had serious side effects from vaccines in the past, i know now i will never, ever be able to go anywhere without a mask. :( i am also disabled, and the disabled are part of the anti-DEI movement. so yes, i agree i must be considered as expensive and unnecessary, if indeed i am still considered to be a person. cassidy could have voted against kennedy's confirmation, and although he looked like he was in agony over kennedy's wacked out beliefs ... he voted to confirm him. where was his spine? where were the spines of any of those alleged republican members of congress? the deaths of many will be attributed to them and their dear leader.
I once again ask Ms. Rubin to consider rephrasing these types of questions to, "Is the The Republican Party Trying to Kill Us?" It is so important that we relentlessly hold the entire Republican party responsible for everything Trump says and does. As for the question itself, - it is really not a question of whether they are TRYING to kill us, it's the result that matters. And yes, the Republican party is killing us (the entire world) with their environmental, health, economic and political policies. The Republican party is the party of death. The Contrarian should feature a daily "How Many People Did The Republican Party Kill Today" counter.
We can't wait much longer. "Someone or some organization" needs to organize a general strike of 11.5 committed Americans for democracy to stop doing everything else and march on Washington and all around the country and the state capitals adamantly voicing our resistance. Phone calls and letters aren't enough. The Republicans and this Trump regime need to SEE at least 11.5 million people outside in person with signs and voices of NO.
Definitely much, much more emphasis needs to be on the Republican party and its Congressional enablers. Without these "silent killers" the head honcho would be immobilized.
Much of his work was a bit before my time. I'd heard "Draft Dodger Rag" before, but I've never heard that song before. It makes Country Joe, and even Dylan, look like watered-down pablum!
This is a truly dismal account of how the Trump administration's policies are affecting the health and welfare of the nation. The assault on Health & Human Services, FEMA, NIH, the CDC and the overarching actions of Department of Homeland (In)Security has never happened in this country before. If one of the functions of government is to protect the people, these policies and lack of intelligent direction give it a failing grade. How long will it take us (collectively) to wake up and rise up against these people who appear to care nothing about us or their duties?
I have always referred to the MAGA people as a cult, very similar to the Jim Jones phenomena. I guess since he can't serve them all Kool-aid in punch bowl, this is the next best thing. They will happily die for their god.
Probably. But for a doctor to be more concerned about his Senate seat than the health of his constituents, not to mention the rest of the country, is extremely disappointing.
It sure looks that way. Like nearly all of his GOP Senate colleagues, it seems he'd rather let constituents die from preventable causes than lose his cushy Senate perks.
Or, as NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman bluntly put it a few months ago, "All this for 174 thousand per year and free parking at National? What the fuck is WRONG with you?"
Of course Cassidy will be primaried. Since the day he voted to convict Drumpf in impeachment 2.0, he has been wearing a big red target on his back. Even voting to OK RFK Jr as head of HHS (Holy Hell Services) won't save him. When it comes to punishing those who are not 100% lackeys, Mad King Orange Face has a long and vicious memory.
I am a retired physician and a Progressive. I am curious how many of my fellow physicians support Trump and remain Republican. I do not know how any serious, dedicated doctor can do so, but I fear many do. I guess I have known several who are not truly committed to the real welfare of the people they serve. Nevertheless, it violates every oath or ideal of the profession to support what Trump, Kennedy, and their witless minions are doing. It is hard to have any respect for and to have any feelings other than contempt for doctors who remain steadfast Republicans, supporting Trump in this era.
My father was a surgeon and people assumed he was a republican. He was not. Well, back long ago he voted for Eisenhower. But he became pretty disappointed with the racist " southern strategy" of Nixon and crew. He told me once that some colleagues were Republicans out of inertia and habit. I am happy to say he made inroads and converts to more progressive stances with them.
Eisenhower had little in common with what passes for Republicans today, and over the past 45 years.
Far too many docs think rethuglican policies will be good for their pocketbooks.
Seriously? I am an MD physician.
I do not know any of my colleagues who support this administration’s shameful disregard for health.
I'm a retired physician - Internist - and I know a bunch of docs who voted for him.
sadly, retired RN here and I know nurses who voted for him...stupidity is not limited to the uneducated
A friend visited her dermatologist last week, and somehow he blurted out that he was a T supporter. When she told him she was NOT, he dismissed it with, "Then we just won't talk politics".
do those docs rely on privately funded procedures for the ultra wealthy? "cos if not, they are in for a very rude awakening....
Mostly.
but did they vote for trump ?
I too, am shocked that many physicians support Trump, but having the intelligence and drive to make it through medical training certainly doesn’t mean that one is well informed about our democracy.
Having served as union steward for the faculty at my university and having dealt with rabidly anti-union physicians and researchers from the Medical School who while complaining loudly and even threatening to take the union to court for requiring not dues--those were paid by faculty like me who were full members--but a fair share of dues, immediately sought help from the union when they were mistreated. I saw the deep hypocrisy and compartmentalization mentality that made these people feel they were entitled to union defense. I did defend them against an even more rapacious administration and their own utter naivete in contractual matters. Their attitudes reminded me of the AMA's fierce opposition to President Clinton's national-health proposal based on their not wanting to be managed by the government. These educated people could/would not see that they were going to be managed into dire submissions by the corporate insurance companies.
corporations hugely involved in medicine.....even bezor with one med and pharmacy division
CEO was killed on his way to an investor meeting
People's frustration with the "managed" healthcare through insurances made Luigi Mangione into a folk hero.
"Folk hero"??? Really? Not even a little bit. Momentary media darling maybe.
He killed a corporate honcho who was not physician. Even so, he should not have been murdered! Yikes!
I agree, but the kind of attention he got had to do with people's frustration and hatred of the insurance-companies' treatment of their clients.
he should not have been murdered like the insur co. murders people by denying their claims...to save money for investors
the CEO was on his way to an investor meeting...not to a meeting to help people use their insurance well
That’s true about micromanaging by insurance companies. My late husband didn’t operate on anybody who didn’t need it, very conservative about that. But when he did it was because they needed it. But sometimes he would have to answer to some retired Optomitrist that the companies had hired to question his judgment. Disgusting.
The national health proposal from Clinton era also was shifting reimbursement toward actual time spent with direct patient interactions, e.g., primary care, away from the exorbitant prices for procedures, e.g., surgeries, cardiac catheterization, and colonoscopies, among others.
True of so many well educated people. Look at Trump’s cabinet, Yale and Harvard educated lawyers on the dark side.
The culpability of Trump’s election rests on those who voted for Trump, whether they be teachers, physicians, nurses, business employees, or business executives, geologists, farmers, or …
I don’t personally know who, if any of my colleagues or patients voted for him thankfully due to the sanctity of secret ballots. I can’t imagine who would vote for someone such as Trump who does not give a damn about the health and wellbeing of anyone.
I do know my medical students will work at least as hard as I did to learn what they need to know to care for fellow humans. It’s a long haul as it takes at least 12 years and much more beyond that to learn what they will need to know to take good care of fellow humans. Many or most will be at least $200,000. in debt before they finish training.
Our ‘healthcare system’ has changed radically over the last almost two decades. The mechanics and magnitude of how
we pay for our healthcare is a heartbreaking nightmare.
I do know only a fraction of a fraction of that sum will go to my med students.
Yes, my own PCP is so discouraged, she works so hard and late hours, and doesn’t get paid nearly as much as the specialist. It’s no wonder we have a shortage of basic primary care doctors. The great idea is to support medical students who go into primary care by paying their tuition. But it is not going to happen now, until we change the government as it is this moment.
Doctors, in general, perceive themselves as ‘self made’. The thought is, ‘I worked my butt off to get through school with excellent grades’. I did all the work! That thinking is conducive to rugged individualism for some.
My late husband was a neurosurgeon, and he was very liberal, a secular Jew whose parents came from Eastern Europe before World War II. Including his mother from Ukraine. They briefly, like other Jews in this country who came from eastern Europe, flirted with communism because it seemed that in the early days communists were on the side of workers. They were quickly disabused of that by events in Europe. Hopefully people in this country will be quickly disabused of the notion that Republicans are on the side of workers.
I have never understood how a doctor can support Republicanism. Then I step back and see that some of my peers really only care about themselves and money. Makes me sad.
Does the Hippocratic Oath mean nothing?
to a real Dr. it means everything...
As long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.
I suspect that greed and self interest is the underlying cause of their abandonment of their oath to do no harm.
$$$$$ The doctors we know that were Republican voted for wallet issues, and most of them owned their practices and were businessmen, not just physicians. And apparently their wallets are more important their morals or oath to care.
Hardly any can afford to own their own practice anymore, they have to work for companies.
I have contempt for ALL Trump supporters.
I think of doctors who are politicians as ex doctors. They know better but so do the other politicians.
Practicing doctors , probably all types, but if they are voting for Trump? Hard to tell how that benefits them or anyone else.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/08/pennsylvania-medical-establishment-gop-00114316
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/21/doctors-harris-support-public-health-00179165
I think these two Politico articles from the last couple years are probably the most helpful in understanding what seems to be going on - at least at the established institutional levels - in the medical field. What do you think? I was fascinated with this.
Good articles Vik. Two other issues:
There are many more women in medicine. Women are more likely to vote Democratic.
Across the spectrum of careers, education is a major determinant of political affiliation.
Educated people, especially women, vote Democratic.
I fear some physicians are drinking the koolaid of tax victimization and misdirect animosity toward fed programs rather than Corp greed.
I am always so dismayed when I read comments on Medscape articles, parroting MAGA talking points, by doctors, nurses, etc. There are a lot of them on certain articles.
Hi Dr Helmers, are you saying that a patient must ask his/her political affiliation before consulting with him/her?
Well according to Tennessee, the doctor there, who asked his patient if she was unmarried pregnant woman and she was and he refused to treat her! So I guess the next step is political affiliation
With RFK in charge of our health, Hegseth in charge of our military, Noem in charge of our immigrants, and Bondi in charge of our law enforcement, my guess is that the Kremlin is incredibly pleased.
Very good point, Swbv. Man, all of those people are walking disasters. Noem's eyes are just empty, evil looking, Hesgeth is almost a parody of a bad guy, his own mother criticized him...racist, sexist. Bondi lies every time she talks. They are not incompetent; they are actively seeming to sabotage us. We have to unite, protest, vote, inform the uninformed. God help us.
An ignorant, unprotected, helpless and increasingly frightened population is more malleable. As if he can't do anything he wants now... God help us!!
We are NOT “helpless.” It only takes a relatively small fraction of a population engaging in active protest/non-compliance to destabilize even the most authoritarian government. The great secret of political science is that to function, governments rely on the consent of the governed. No government is either omniscient or omnipotent—particularly not the gaggle of incompetents in Washington pretending to be our “leaders.:
Search for the work of Dr. Erica Chenoweth from Harvard and her “3.5% Rule.” We all have agency, but we have to use it.
Wow, you are so right: These people could be straight out of a bad movie with unbelievably stereotypical villains. As if the walking dead rose from the swamp and are on their march to destroy humanity.
Spot on, Gerhard! Harkens back to the campy horror movies of my youth.
Also, we have to avoid getting sick....
Wear a mask in any crowd. It's annoying, I know, but I went to the ER a few weeks ago and was glad I had one.
And get the vaccines before we can't. Two people told me in one week that they knew someone who got shingles and went blind. Just got mine today.
I can't name one additional thing needed to please the Kremlin. Look at the damage to the environment and the attitude toward Ukraine.
I can. Give Putin Alaska.
Dumpty kept saying he was meeting Putin “in Russia,” so perhaps Alaska has already been sacrificed.
It's possible. Our fighters intercept Russian bombers nearly every day (and Putin's minions got a guided tour of our major air base in Anchorage).
they sacrificed themselves when they voted for trump
the Kremlin is pleased and events would both demonstrate and illustrate (think of Putin's victory grin from the US Presidential limo), the Kremlin is in charge.
and left the EU leaders in the offal office and called putin...WTF ??
Incompetence across the board
including american voters
They're out to kill us all. I don't have faith that we can vote our way out of this, but we must get out, for our own preservation.
Not to mention Tulsi Gabbard in charge of - well, whatever it is she's in charge of. Sometimes it seems like everything.
The more nuanced answer to your question is that they really don't care if they kill us, as long as they get what they really want - money and power. Melania said it best. "I really don't care, do U?
They are the party of necrophiliacs. They love death, as long as it doesn't happen to one of them. Not only do they not care if we live or die, but they gleefully celebrate death. There is no other explanation for the actions we have seen since January.
And the ~1 million Americans who died of Covid under Drumpf’s first watch.
The short answer. . . yes.
I actually believe that Trump’s lizard brain does want Americans to die in service to him. It is a disturbingly erotic feature of the authoritarian brain that the has. It is proof to him of his greatness that his followers (both willing and unwilling) will sacrifice themselves on the altar of Trump.
A mentally ill leader is driving this country into a condition of distress and sickness and doesn't care. Looking out for the welfare of the nation is beyond his and his administration's ability. Care has been replaced with an ugly disregard for life and liberty.
Just a little over 8 months ago we had a government which provided services to our populace by hiring experts. tRump has eliminated that. And without a major governmental reorganization and major Constitutional constraints on a 'Unitary' president, it is not repairable. Even if the necessary repairs to our Government are made, it will take years to fix. I doubt few or any of our former governmental experts are going to want to come back and risk being the victims of our yoyo politics, the next time the rethuglicans are in charge.
Well said, and that is exactly why we need to strengthen and improve the guardrails. The holes and weaknesses are evident. At a change of majority in Congress, this needs to be addressed forthwith. We need a stable government, not, as you put it, "yoyo politics".
bankrupt 6 times...
Don't denigrate lizards!!!
Recardo, best comment of the day!
Just compare him to a virus.
even viruses have more heart.
You might be interested in this article from 2020: https://www.salon.com/2020/04/25/psychologist-john-gartner-trump-is-a-sexual-sadist-who-is-actively-engaging-in-sabotage/
Richard, gross, but true
Answering the headline question- yes they are trying to kill us.
It's Eugenics. They see the physically weak as expensive and unnecessary. Robert Kennedy is weaponized resentment in pure form. Mask up.
as a woman with nine chronic illnesses, a suppressed immune system, and under doctor's orders not to be vaccinated because i have had serious side effects from vaccines in the past, i know now i will never, ever be able to go anywhere without a mask. :( i am also disabled, and the disabled are part of the anti-DEI movement. so yes, i agree i must be considered as expensive and unnecessary, if indeed i am still considered to be a person. cassidy could have voted against kennedy's confirmation, and although he looked like he was in agony over kennedy's wacked out beliefs ... he voted to confirm him. where was his spine? where were the spines of any of those alleged republican members of congress? the deaths of many will be attributed to them and their dear leader.
Every day a fresh new hell. They are trying to kill us.
The writer Paul Slansky has for years described Trump in terms of leading a death cult. He becomes more prescient each day.
"Is the Trump Regime Trying to Kill Us?"
I once again ask Ms. Rubin to consider rephrasing these types of questions to, "Is the The Republican Party Trying to Kill Us?" It is so important that we relentlessly hold the entire Republican party responsible for everything Trump says and does. As for the question itself, - it is really not a question of whether they are TRYING to kill us, it's the result that matters. And yes, the Republican party is killing us (the entire world) with their environmental, health, economic and political policies. The Republican party is the party of death. The Contrarian should feature a daily "How Many People Did The Republican Party Kill Today" counter.
We can't wait much longer. "Someone or some organization" needs to organize a general strike of 11.5 committed Americans for democracy to stop doing everything else and march on Washington and all around the country and the state capitals adamantly voicing our resistance. Phone calls and letters aren't enough. The Republicans and this Trump regime need to SEE at least 11.5 million people outside in person with signs and voices of NO.
Definitely much, much more emphasis needs to be on the Republican party and its Congressional enablers. Without these "silent killers" the head honcho would be immobilized.
And it's one, two, three
Who is Trump fightin' for?
Not us 'cause he don't give a damn
So long as he's still The Man
And it's five, six, seven
Open up the Pearly Gates
Well, there ain't no time to ask Kennedy why
Whoopee! We're all gonna die.
One has to be of a certain age to remember the original! Nice adaptation.
I am reminded of the late, great Phil Ochs: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/3674974/Phil+Ochs/What+Are+You+Fighting+For
Much of his work was a bit before my time. I'd heard "Draft Dodger Rag" before, but I've never heard that song before. It makes Country Joe, and even Dylan, look like watered-down pablum!
If I'd heard that song without knowing who was singing, I'd have thought it was Woody Guthrie singing one of his songs I hadn't heard before.
A bit sad that a song written in 1963 is still so relevant today but could be mistaken for one written in the late 1930s.
and with thanks to country joe and the fish!
Seeing them play it live at a concert was one of the highlights of my young life! Thx for the memory👍👍
you were SO lucky to see that concert.
I think it's been more than obvious from the start the the Trump regime isn't remote interested in the health and well being of average Americans.
Indeed, Carolyn. “Make America Healthy Again’ is just another con job by the worst criminal on the planet.
I agree, it’s been my main concern from the beginning! Our health is everything and it’s been sabotaged ever since they nominated RFK.
They attack on all fronts, climate,health, financial and the repubs do NOTHING.
LABOR DAY PROTESTS ACROSS THE NATION. Find one, make a sign and stand up for what we know is right and just.
Yes, Ma’am, Sara!!!!
YES!
This is a truly dismal account of how the Trump administration's policies are affecting the health and welfare of the nation. The assault on Health & Human Services, FEMA, NIH, the CDC and the overarching actions of Department of Homeland (In)Security has never happened in this country before. If one of the functions of government is to protect the people, these policies and lack of intelligent direction give it a failing grade. How long will it take us (collectively) to wake up and rise up against these people who appear to care nothing about us or their duties?
I have always referred to the MAGA people as a cult, very similar to the Jim Jones phenomena. I guess since he can't serve them all Kool-aid in punch bowl, this is the next best thing. They will happily die for their god.
I wish they’d just get on with it then.
Sleep well, Sen. Cassidy.
Is Cassidy afraid of being primaries by a Trump lackey?
Probably. But for a doctor to be more concerned about his Senate seat than the health of his constituents, not to mention the rest of the country, is extremely disappointing.
It is very disappointing, but men and women with integrity seem to be nonexistent in the Republican Party at the moment.
Not disappointing, but disgusting.
That and extremely unethical.
It sure looks that way. Like nearly all of his GOP Senate colleagues, it seems he'd rather let constituents die from preventable causes than lose his cushy Senate perks.
Or, as NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman bluntly put it a few months ago, "All this for 174 thousand per year and free parking at National? What the fuck is WRONG with you?"
Of course Cassidy will be primaried. Since the day he voted to convict Drumpf in impeachment 2.0, he has been wearing a big red target on his back. Even voting to OK RFK Jr as head of HHS (Holy Hell Services) won't save him. When it comes to punishing those who are not 100% lackeys, Mad King Orange Face has a long and vicious memory.
sleep not at all