It's because of Biden. His policies, especially expanding access to Narcan, caused the OD rate to start declining rapidly in 2024 and it has continued to decline despite Trump.
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It's because of Biden. His policies, especially expanding access to Narcan, caused the OD rate to start declining rapidly in 2024 and it has continued to decline despite Trump.
Yeah, but whatever hold Trump has over Congress and the MAGA, JD does not have it. No one is going to listen to JD, or Miller. This a built-in flaw of the cult of personality: everything disintegrates when the leader dies.
So is he just going to divert all of their funds straight into his bank account?
He's a little kid. How can anyone just stand there and not act to do something? Everyone present should be charged with child abuse.
We know it's a health issue because his clowns broadcast statements about how good he is feeling.
So much for the idea that journalists are always out there looking for the truth, right?
2 pm Tuesday. The senile old man is supposed to show up in person at an event and speak. Not something they can get through with a stunt double at a distance and old photographs.
He still hasn't been seen, has he? Just distant photos that could be a stunt double. Nothing on his schedule until 2 pm Tuesday.
CEOs and billionaires are parasites. They obtain their money by exploiting workers.
Well, from now on, it is.
Was it really hot in NY last week? That might take out some pedicab drivers. Delayed effects of heat.
What were they arrested for? So many possibilities, including ODs on some dangerous illicit drug.
Biden was one of the best presidents ever. However, I am firmly of the opinion that there are way too many old white guys in government and that people in general should consider retiring by age 75 from anything other than fun hobby-jobs.
All white people in the US are immigrants. All of the so-called "Latinos" are native Americans. In many cases, their ancestors were living in the southern-western bits of the continent and suddenly became absorbed into the US when the US took a big chunk of Mexico.
I did late shift security. Basically, I checked ID cards on the three or four people who came in very late at night and got paid to read a book in between. The challenge came when people tried to come in without an ID card.
The correct word for anti-vaxxers is "bat shit crazy". Denying that they work is just as bonkers as denying that gravity exists.
Ignore China at your peril. It is huge, it is ancient, and if you look back through time, practically all innovations started there. India is trapped in religious internal fighting. Russia is trying to drink itself to death.
Why not import some aspects of the parlimentary system? They have no confidence votes.
Dems need to figure out ways to pass their messages to the people that bypass the media. The media is currently controlled by the MAGA and they tell lies and fail to report important stories.
If it's near the road or surrounded by cement, it's probably much, much hotter than in the back yard. My house, it's often as much as 10 degrees hotter out front along the sidewalks and city street than in the backyard. I have to grow different plants.
Well, the wellness industry doesn't like effective treatments. They make money off sick people. Vaccines work remarkably well and vaccinated people don't buy quack wellness cures.
You are pretty unlikely to see these kids at the airport. The symptoms are usually quite severe. "death by age three from respiratory failure" "seizures, ataxia, encephalopathy, dementia"
He doesn't know what a mitochondrion is. He probably got a buggy AI to write that post for him: "Put some technical science-geeky words in".
Men with long hair have to use buns sometimes. Just like women with long hair do. It's a practical thing.
Only closeted gay people are homophobes. There is an almost perfect correlation. The man using the gay insult is gay. It's a tell.
Weirdly, and almost unbelievably, he doesn't seem to have caused the crash. He wasn't driving and someone else hit the car he was in.
It would be so easy to use any old man in his jacket with the hat pulled down during these supposed "going golfing" trips. You can't tell if it's a stunt double or not.
The US holds elections during wars. During pandemics. No matter what. Federal elections cannot be postponed or cancelled by law. The last bit being the most pertinent.
He isn't at that stage yet. He hasn't consolidated enough control yet. It took Hitler five years to get around to attacking other countries. Orban has been in control for 14 years and has yet to attack anyone.
It's a distraction. Trump needs to look big and powerful for his MAGATs to distract from the Epstein files and the endless losses in the courts and the disintegrating economy. He can't attack a NATO nation, so why not Venezuela? Which I'm sure he can't find on a map.
So what is the point of praying? Do they think it works like say, a petition? If you submit 5000 prayers, God won't slaughter children today?
What policies do you suppose the Republicans are going to run on it the future? They've abandoned everything: state's rights, fiscal responsibility, controlling inflation, freedom, the first amendment, and now even their objection to socialism.
I had a herding dog once who used to carefully collect all the shoes in the house and sort them into piles by left/right and other categories I couldn't quite figure out. He'd put them back in the same piles if you messed them up.
Good job dog. Too bad your human is such a slow learner.
Interesting that a priest thinks a pedophile is the pinnacle of manhood.
You should dress appropriately for the occasion. What do you do on planes? Sleep. Thus, PJs are the appropriate attire.
Your best bet is to disguise yourself as a white man in a business suit. Get a nice, comfy mask. Then you can avoid those pesky illegal detainments and strip searches.
I have often thought that a MAJOR perk of switching to green energy is that no one will care about oil anymore. And thus the Middle East can become irrelevant.
And they would be right. It's possible for multiple people to be evil simultaneously.
Isn't deliberately bombing hospitals a war crime? Especially if they contain journalists.
It would really make me happy to see him dragged out in chains, though.
Good. I'm opposed to all large multiproduct companies.
Yes, but notice it talks about "federal control programs". There will be no such programs in MAGA La La Land.
You mean treat the people there like equals? Shocking idea.
That was my first thought: how do we get it to where it could do some actual good?
When is the 30 days up? I've forgotten. There should be a mass of US citizens standing ready to flood DC if the troops don't leave on time.
Considering the general level of incompetence in the Trump clown show, I doubt they have planned very well.
I don't know why people are so excited about AI. It does not create or produce new anything. It just regurgitates the mean. Often riddled with errors. AI is really only good for performing specific tedious tasks under intensive human supervision, like scanning billions of images looking for tumors.
None of his sharpie orders are legal. They always get thrown out in court. They might as well just put them straight into a shredder.
There was a blinded taste test a few years ago and the entire panel all judged a mushroom-based burger (80% mushroom, 20% meat) as far better than any of the pure beef burgers. Plus none of them realized it wasn't pure Angus.
My tip is go for pork ribs or chicken instead. Have you looked at the cost of beef in Trump's economy?
When I was in college, a dorm caught on fire and practically the entire student body converged on it to help a student in a wheelchair get out a second-story window. The elevator automatically shut down when the fire alarm was pulled. Which doesn't seem like a good idea.
Would this law have helped all the students needlessly drowned at camps in Texas recently? They certainly seemed to go out of their way to ignore any danger to the children.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has declined to accept funds from Trump's administration moving forward because of “recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations that don’t align with ACOG’s goals and policy positions". Such as keeping women healthy and alive.
You can just unplug yourself. Or time-limit it.
Can't get a good vein?
Well, we KNOW Trump has dementia. Maybe they are infusing him with one of the anti-Alzheimer's drugs. They have to be infused on a regular schedule.
Well, I've always wondered why no one talks about his fecal incontinence. It is very rare for a man to develop fecal incontinence except as a side effect of prostate or rectal cancer treatment. Maybe it came back. Or maybe they are injecting him with bleach.
Most suburbs won't let you keep goats or donkeys. Many won't even let you keep chickens.
Heart transplant. Except they wouldn't give a heart to someone with advanced dementia. Unless his goons steal one from someone.
No, it won't. Most of the MAGA are in a cult and they ONLY support Trump. Once Trump is gone, they won't support Vance and we know that they don't support Project 2025: yes, less than 4% of the MAGA support Project 2025.
Look up "Timed get up and go" test. TUG test. The doctors use it to predict death. The worse your TUG score, the more likely you are to die very soon.
I fed his stats into a life insurance company's calculator last year before the election and it predicted death within less than one year. His dementia is progressing at a gallop, which might be due to mini-strokes.
Why would police make things safer? All the police around here do is shoot unarmed people in the back and harass anyone who looks Hispanic. Oh, and sometimes they shoot dogs for no apparent reason. And drive drunk into telephone poles. And beat up their wives.
Can't you go to your local city's site for such information? Or county. My county's website posts important things in real time like "Everything is on fire in this area, consider using an alternative route".
It is, in fact, socialism. The very thing the Republicans have been screaming about for decades. Socialism is when the government controls the means of production, i.e., it owns the businesses.
I really hope that even traditional Republicans realize, somehow, that this extreme gerrymandering in Texas etc. means that they took YOUR vote away too. If they run a candidate that you don't like, you can't vote against them.
Has anyone thought about changing the system? It is based on an archaic "apprenticeship" system. There are probably dozens of more efficient ways to conduct science. Someone should do a simulation and identify the optimal system.
I sure wouldn't set foot in it unless as part of a protest. Who would?
A general rule of thumb to guide your life: do not support Nazis. Not even a little teeny tiny bit.
Trump means "election fraud requirements".
Slavery did kill them. Just slowly. I think the estimate is that 20 percent or more were killed during the kidnapping and transport, and after that, the life span of a slave was less than seven years. Seven years of brutal abuse, starvation, and massive overwork. They were probably glad to die.
I think Dems in blue states should make it illegal for the Republican party to run candidates in any election. Because they refuse to follow the rules of democracy, such as agreeing to abide by the results of the election. That should be enough to cancel the party.
I don't know why they aren't making a big fuss about other things that happened, like Trump forgetting where he was in the middle of the meeting with the EU leaders.
Why would Putin tell him to do this? Does Putin control all the voting machines? Or was Trump panicking and asking Putin for advice on how to rig the election, and of course opened his mouth and blabbed out the plan to everyone?
Sweetie, the corrupt media failed to report on anything she was doing as VP. And they continue to fail to report on anything she is doing. It doesn't mean she isn't doing things.
I know where another convicted felon is. He should have been locked up, but unfortunately is wandering around, committing additional crimes. Go look for him at 1600 Pennslyvannia Avenue, DC.
I think it is up to science and each individual sporting agency to make the decision about who is and is not eligible to compete in women's divisions in sport. Not my decision, not your decision, and not the government's decision. Fact-based.
Our media is corrupt. It has been feeding the population fake news and watered down news and biased news and overt propaganda for years.
Biden would have won if he hadn't stepped down. Why do you think the MAGA and the corrupt media were so determined to force him out? Because he would have won. They knew no one else would have.
Most recent immigrants are the best and the brightest and the most innovative people. They have the will to get up and do things. THAT is what you want in your country.
His wife and kids are US citizens. I don't know if you realize this, but you can't just move to another country. They would be "illegals" in Kenya. I wish all borders were open and people could just live in the best place for them, but sadly, not the case.
Why do people continue to give him money? It's mystifying.
This would solve the problem. The schools should be funded out of the state's overall tax fund and they should all receive the same amount per student.
I spent ALL DAY today tracking down why the algorithm no longer works. And you know why? Because an AI, for no apparent reason, just randomly changed one digit in one number on page 2. Anything touched by AI cannot be trusted.
No child should be using AI. It impairs learning. It's like calculators and spellcheck: you can easily tell which adults were required to learn the skills before they were allowed to use cheat-tools versus those who just never learned anything other than how to push a button.
Well, some people are refusing to comply and quitting. And nothing happens to them or their children.
It might be something much more shameful: remember, this is a man who is afraid of tomatoes and sharks. There might be other weird fears.
I disagree. There is nowhere near enough information about how bad slavery was. There never will be. And why would he say this unless he is planning to revive slavery?
I want to see him dragged out in chains. Although if he expires, I will settle for seeing all of his clowns dragged out in chains.
Says it's a derived from a liver cancer? It's fine. No one has ever claimed these highly abnormal, adapted to tissue culture for decades cell lines are some kind of perfect model of anything. Used to develop hypotheses.
Get as much ID info as you can. These criminals are going to go to prison eventually. Following orders is not an acceptable excuse for committing crimes and human rights abuses.
Trump has admitted twice? maybe three times that Musk fixed the vote for him last time. He barely won even with that help. And since then, well, we've all seen the sinking poll numbers.
That's the lie they chose to go with? That she was suffering from untreated withdrawal? Either case, it's malpractice. Negligence. Manslaughter.
Even people who used to be doubtful about Putin's control over Trump are forced to concede: a few minutes with Putin alone, and Trump is spewing Putin's viewpoint. There is no other explanation: Putin owns him.
I don't know about the other two, but HepG2 cells are, indeed, a real HCC cell line. It is possible some labs have contaminated their cultures, but the cell line is real. Current protocols require people to test their cell lines in various ways to confirm it is what they think it is.
Exactly. I have no sympathy for men when they suffer from problems that they themselves cause. Men, stop acting like babies.
Exactly. Yet men abandon their sick wives and girlfriends all the time.
I used to work in a cancer center. What we saw was that women were never given any support by men. Their male relatives and spouses would dump them as soon as they got sick and would not help them in any way. We had wives taking the bus to get chemo because the husband would not even give rides.
So why doesn't he improve his country? It's large, it has lots of resources, he could turn it into a wonderful place. Instead, he's turned it into such a hell-hole that most citizens try to drink themselves to death and Putin has resorted to stealing children from other countries.