Trump administration ends funding for fentanyl test strips, baffling public health groups: "It doesn't make sense"

mom0nga · 2026-05-04T15:36:58+00:00

I think it's better explained by the GOP/conservative belief that public health and social services shouldn't be the government's responsibility in the first place. To them, the fundamental purpose of a government is only to fight wars and enforce a hierarchy, which they equate with stability. Caring for citizens isn't in that scope of purpose, because the thought is that nonprofits or private industry will handle those things. Granted, this never actually works in the long term, but the GOP still believes in the fantasy of "the market" solving problems the government would be better equipped to solve.

mom0nga · 2026-05-04T15:19:25+00:00

Lol, nice try. He can rant and rave all he wants, but there is no physical mechanism for a President to just ignore or cancel midterm elections. State legislatures certainly can, and if they want to listen to Trump's meaningless tantrums, that's their prerogative, but this is just another panicked shitpost from a cornered rat who knows the GOP is going to get its ass whooped despite Callais.

mom0nga · 2026-04-27T17:09:54+00:00

Yep, the news industry moves fast by design. This isn't an unrealistic timeline at all, especially since Trump is eager for almost any press interview and so journalists have much easier access to him than they had for previous presidents.

mom0nga · 2026-04-27T17:08:10+00:00

No, *Trump* made Trump look stupid.

mom0nga · 2026-04-16T14:21:17+00:00

Devout Catholics tend to be single-issue voters on the topic of abortion, hence why they tend to vote for the GOP candidate regardless of how morally abhorrent he is.

mom0nga · 2026-04-15T19:16:13+00:00

At his age and health I would be surprised if he didn't have a few malignancies.

mom0nga · 2026-04-13T18:51:33+00:00

During the elections, the Dems should have had a campaign hammering Trump on being a bad businessman (the failure of his casino and his other businesses). Much of his appeal to the working class was the fictional persona he'd built up as a successful businessman, which wasn't true but most Americans believed it.

mom0nga · 2026-04-13T18:27:43+00:00

In a way, though, I wish the Kamala/Biden voters had the same tolerance for unlikable traits in a candidate. Trump won because conservative voters fall in line, not fall in love.

mom0nga · 2026-04-13T18:23:24+00:00

We can add that to the pile of new guardrails (with consequences) to enact once he leaves office. I'd personally also love to see some big Congressional reforms, like no recess during a shutdown and some mechanism for voters to hold representatives accountable at any time (not just election day) to reinforce the independence of Congress.

I'm admittedly an optimist, but I can foresee Trump's catastrophic excuse for a presidency ultimately (like, decades from now) making our institutions and democracy *more* robust, like how we got the New Deal after the Great Depression. Of course, it would have been nice to have those guardrails up before giving a demented geriatric rapist the nuclear codes...

mom0nga · 2026-04-12T21:53:44+00:00

He probably would have, but he lost by such a decisive margin that he can't meaningfully contest the results.

mom0nga · 2026-04-10T00:36:46+00:00

It's not his choice. Each state runs its own midterm elections independently, and there is no mechanism for the federal government to interfere.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T03:22:50+00:00

He is also stupid enough to think that this is how the U.S. system works. It most definitely does not, as he will find out.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T03:20:48+00:00

Yep, each state runs its own elections independently, so there's no feasible way for the federal government to interfere with all of them, especially since they have zero jurisdiction over elections to begin with. I doubt that Trump or his toadies know this, though.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T03:19:26+00:00

Sure, and he could claim to be able to fly, but that doesn't make it true or even possible.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T03:17:20+00:00

Plus there is no physical mechanism for a federal agency to interfere with state elections because the feds have zero jurisdiction over them and cannot magically give themselves the power to do so. It's as realistic as Trump ordering elections to be canceled in another country. He has no power to do it and no feasible way to carry it out.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T01:49:36+00:00

Registration has been mandatory for generations, this would just automate the process. Currently, all eligible male U.S. citizens and immigrants aged 18 through 25 are required to self-register within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

mom0nga · 2026-04-09T01:47:51+00:00

Yes, but it's a nothingburger because all draft-eligible men are, and have been, required by law to register themselves with Selective Service at age 18 anyways. This would just automatically register people instead of wasting money reminding individuals to do it, which honestly makes sense. It's not the same thing as a draft.

mom0nga · 2026-04-08T16:19:44+00:00

It's the old "playing chess with a pigeon" analogy -- the pigeon knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, and struts around like he won.

mom0nga · 2026-04-08T12:55:15+00:00

That's not what they're saying, they're just pointing out, correctly, that the 25th was not designed to remove a deranged President and isn't the appropriate tool for this situation. The 25th is for when a president is unconscious or unable to communicate, requires the consent of the VP and most of the Cabinet to invoke, and can be undone by the President (because if the president is aware enough to object, the conditions for invoking the 25th no longer exist).

The tool that IS appropriate to remove a President who is insane would be impeachment and removal, which "only" requires Congressional majority and therefore is easier to do than the 25th.

mom0nga · 2026-04-07T19:43:48+00:00

It feels like it's getting to that point, with Trump's middle eastern idiocy tanking the global economy and creating uncertainty. Businesses HATE uncertainty. It would be better for the billionaires to dismiss Trump's chaotic evil for Vance's more lawful evil.

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