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🗣 LIBERALS WILL DOWNPLAY EVERYTHING

EUGENICS is the effort to maim and kill people by all means necessary so only the strong and wealthy survive.

🗣 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “SOFT” #EUGENICS

there is and has always been the need by sociopaths to kill everybody they deem weak and undeserving.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

that’s why when i call eugenics the #GOP #republicans plot to kill #Obamacare #Medicaid #Medicare i mean it.

health care is a human right, not an eugenics strategy.

The Guardian · Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breedBy Guardian staff reporter

Adam Bandt:

“I congratulate the prime minister on his campaign and the strong position that they have got in government at the moment but what it means is that, with the Greens in sole balance of power in the #Senate at the moment, the government can’t blame other individual senators for not being able to get things through.

The only barrier to getting #dental into #Medicare now and passing it through the parliament is #labor.

The only obstacle to making #childcare #free is Labor.

The only obstacle to stopping new #coal and #gas #mines from being opened is Labor. We stand ready in the Senate to make this the most progressive parliament that Australia has seen.”

Trump's big budget cuts will devastate a lot of people while giving Musk $1 billion for his Mars pet project. Unless you are a multi-millionaire, you will feel them or the effects of them and your safety will be at risk. This is not hyperbole. The cuts are listed below in the PDF

Big cuts to #NOAA, heating and housing programs, #Medicare (they say won't affect beneficiaries BS), #CISA, #FEMA, #FAA radar upgrades, Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, Public Housing, Project-Based Rental Assistance, Housing for the #Elderly, and #Housing for Persons with #Disabilities (27 billion dollars just in tenant-based rental)

We're not even talking about the stuff that affects middle class and above. They are in the list, too, and numerous.

The cuts are too catastrophic to list. The PDF below has all of them listed.

However, he gives $7 billion for lunar exploration (They want to commercially colonize the moon with data centers) and $1 billion in new investments for Elon Musk's
Human Space Exploration Mars-focused programs #USPol

:pdf: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uplo

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The #budget of the Ctr for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services would be slashed by $674M, but the #Trump budget claims the cuts would have *no impact* on providing #benefits to those enrolled in the #HealthInsurance programs.

Rather, it says, the budget “eliminates funding that had been used to carry out non-statutory, wasteful & woke activities,” in the 1st time a presidential budget has used the word “woke” in describing priorities. The budget also “eliminates #HealthEquity - focused activities.”

#Trump is set to propose $163 billion in cuts to non-defense #DiscretionarySpending for the 2026 fiscal year in what's known as a "skinny budget" Friday.

The cuts are for spending #Congress authorizes each year—which does not include spending on safety nets like #Medicare, #Medicaid & #SocialSecurity.

The cuts…represent a 22.6% cut in projected #spending for the current fiscal year [as if costs weren’t going up]. They were confirmed by the White House #OMB….

#USpol
npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-53843

I’m watching this live hearing RE #DOGE and #SS.

How did EVERYONE forget that trump DEFUNDED social security and #medicare at the end of 2020.

I feel gaslit, no one else talks about this but me. How am I the only person who remembers this??

You guys, towards the end of 2020 he waived the payroll taxes that fund these programs. He claimed it was to help people keep more of their money since everyone was suffering because of Covid.

He promised that if he was reelected for 2020 these payroll tax cuts would become permanent. These are payroll taxes that fund these programs.

My boss continued to do the withholdings, maybe yours did too. Then when he didn’t win, Biden waived any unpaid payroll taxes so nobody would have to pay a lump sum in January to catch up for the stuff that was unpaid.

You can Google it. I know this happened so I won’t go look for a source because I’ve been screaming about this for years yet nobody remembers this but me?

FYI this wasn’t a gift for the people. In case you don’t know how payroll taxes work, for every withholding that comes out of your paycheck your employer has to match that amount and send it to the government with what they withheld on a quarterly basis.

If I remember correctly that’s for 940 or 941, Unless those are California state tax forms.

Regardless, how can these people sit up there and claim that the president doesn’t plan to do anything bad to these programs when he literally #DEFUNDED them in 2020??

🇺🇸 Корупційний скандал у Medicare: Мін'юст США звинувачує найбільші страхові компанії у виплаті незаконних відкатів брокерам! 💰 Чиновники стверджують, що брокери за це направляли людей до приватних планів Medicare. Дві компанії також підозрюють у змові з метою дискримінації людей з інвалідністю. 🤔 Дізнайтеся більше про цю гучну справу!

#США #Medicare #Корупція #Страхування #МінЮст #Розслідування #Здоров

Детальніше: newsua.us/politics/ssha-zvynuv

#TheGreens agenda #auspol #ausvotes

Make #housing #affordable for #renters, first home buyers and stressed mortgage holders.

#Dental and #mental #health into #Medicare for everyone.

Real action on the #climatecrisis, with no more coal and gas.

Bring down the cost of living and make #supermarket #pricegouging illegal.

End #nativeforest #logging and protect our #environment.

Make #TAFE and #university #free, and wipe all #studentdebt.

Introduce 50-cent #publictransport fares nationwide.

Provide free #publicschools and #childcare

Deliver truth, #treaty, and justice for #FirstNations people.

Make big corporations and fossil fuel giants pay their fair share.

Nobody's #healthcare is safe under #Trump. Even if you have great private group health insurance, you won't if the economy gets bad enough; even if your job survives, your local hospitals will not. People don't stop needing care. Hospitals just stop getting paid.

The attacks on #Medicare and #Medicaid, plus many people newly priced out of ACA plans, will mean millions more uninsured and unable to pay the hospital anything when they need emergency care.

Another reason we hit the streets.

Tommy Douglas: The Father of Canadian Medicare 🇨🇦

Tommy Douglas, a former Premier of Saskatchewan, is widely regarded as the father of Medicare in Canada. He introduced universal, publicly funded healthcare in Saskatchewan in 1962, a model that was later adopted nationwide. Douglas's vision of accessible healthcare for Canadians has had a profound and lasting impact on Canadian society. 🧑‍⚕️ 🇨🇦 #Canada #TommyDouglas #Medicare #Politics

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Do

#SSDI is depositing $ and #medicare is paying bills as they should & I fear I have been falling for fear mongering distractions meant to keep us stupid Americans in a selfish mindset so we stop screaming about #Gaza and #CECOT.

I’m sorry if I’ve spread fear mongering nonsense. I think I need to hit my bottle of Xanax more often than I do.

#RFK has more catastrophes in store: "#Medicaid currently covers over 60% of all nursing home residents. In 2024 alone, Medicaid & #Medicare together spent $231 billion caring for those living w/#Alzheimer’s & related #dementias — accounting for 64% of total dementia care costs. This [is] memory care units. It’s in-home support services. It’s home health aides helping someone bathe w/dignity. It’s respite care giving exhausted family #caregivers one day to breathe."

linkedin.com/pulse/when-safety

www.linkedin.com🛡️ When the Safety Net Unravels: The Human Cost of Medicaid Cuts on Dementia CareRight now, in homes across America, caregivers sit at kitchen tables with unopened bills. They skip their own doctor’s appointments.
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OK so today I opened a piece of mail that looked fake AF. It was from national government services and I actually thought it was just a solicitation about a Medicare advantage plan.

It looks like it’s approving the Botox so maybe they will get paid now. I’m not sure why they had to do this twice, the way that letter reads makes it sound like now these procedures need prior authorization so maybe they didn’t before but by the time they submitted the charge they did?

I don’t know, they will handle it, I’m just relieved the hospital isn’t stuck with a $10,000 bill because of me.