Based on his last administration, Trump's #1 priority is to overturn any popular policies of his predecessor.
If you're on Medicare and thinking of getting a shingles vaccine, get it now. The copay is now $0, but it could go back to the "brand name drug" copay of about $600 for the two-shot series.
Too bad the profile pictures aren't large enough to check for signs they're AI generated.
I'm concerned there will be some enthusiastic militias willing to help out, taking it upon themselves to detain anyone who has brown skin or an accent.
Who are these people who can afford to be permanently unemployable?
@Bix @JoyfullyDazed
I think it's satire, but I wish he would leave.
Out of my butt, mostly, but it tracks with Pew research.
@voltronic @InvaderGzim
Plus it’s a fallacy that they won’t die if you shoot them in a leg. Are you going to put your gun down to minister to the wounded attacker and apply a tourniquet? If you aren’t willing to kill, don’t fire your gun.
@bmacmixer @Y2cake
We see them as powerful, but maybe 10% of people really participate in politics on line.
@SentinelOfTruth
You left off the /s, but there are ways they can cut Medicare without people realizing it or caring. They pay hospitals and doctors too little, care providers decide to stop accepting Medicare. They might lose a lot of business, but in rural areas, there’s no competition to take that business.
Then voters see Medicare as useless, not underfunded, since providers can’t just accept it and balance bill. If voters don’t support Medicare, the GOP can cut further.
@AskTheDevil
I’ll order elsewhere when I can. Hard to do — many sites just link to their stuff on Amazon
@FreedomATX
There’s no way without knowing what will be taxed. For instance, the last round taxed steel but not things manufactured from steel, so US manufacturing got a double whammy. There was no logic.
@Y2cake
This is what I want a superPAC to address. Send a series of mailings to EVERY voter, each explaining one issue, maybe in comic book form. Why does the Fed set interest rates? How does the government actually collect tariffs? What is Citizens United? What is Chevron? Make the mailings so fair in presenting both sides that no one can tell who sent it, but let voters make up their minds based on understanding how issues affect them. And start now, so it’s not tied to one candidate.
@singlemaltgirl
Many people have not voted consistently with one party - they voted Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. “It’s the economy, stupid,” as Clinton posted on the wall to try to keep himself from straying off message. It’s a potent weapon against incumbents.
Racism and misogyny drive a significant minority, but most people didn’t care enough to listen to Trump and see how impaired he is. He said he would lower prices, and they don’t know enough to know they’re going to go up instead.
@hallmarc @th3j35t3r
Ford did it for Nixon without specifying any crimes, but I thought that loophole was closed.
Anyway, boycotts are of limited effectiveness when a few billionaires and investment firms own controlling shares of everything, and they use our 401K funds to do it.
Positive actions work better than negative ones. It is much more useful to share info about independent businesses that may cost a bit more but are responsive to their customers, like Penzys. (Which I only know about because people do share stuff like that on CoSo).
If a particular person says/does something worthy of being shunned, yes, do so. But most people were only Trump voters or Harris voters for one day. Campaigns “got out the vote” and begged for money, but they made no effort to encourage nuanced critical thinking. I wish there were a super PAC for that, but there isn’t.
We’re angry and hurting, feeling betrayed and even threatened. We want to resist, fight back, make them feel pain.
And that’s exactly why Russia backed Trump, to convulse the US in internal conflicts. So Russia can be less afraid of us. Don’t take the bait.
Remember that the news amplifies those whose views are so extreme they provoke morbid curiosity. They are the few and the noisy.
Most people are fairly apathetic and easily led. They voted against high prices, not FOR Trumpism.
Eileen
boosted
@sumpnlikefaith @nl37tgt @Museek
Unfortunately, “stand your ground” laws were meant to protect those in power from those who might challenge it So they will be used to protect men, not women, as they were used to protect George Zimmerman, not Trayvon Martin.
Women who kill their abusers are rarely allowed to claim self defense, let alone a right to stand their ground.
Can't always rely on the generations.
People related through my German relatives will be reported as more closely related to me than is possible. Great-great granddad was from a small town, and people didn't move in or out much, so there was consanguinity. If the same person shows up in two lines of descent, their descendants will share more DNA than most relatives of the same degree of relationship.