Republican Scumbags Block Biden's Cancer Research "Moonshot"
The GOP is a fucking death cult and I hope the cancer fairy is very active in their lives.
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In May of 1999, my mother was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. By December, she was dead. She had quit smoking over 20 years earlier and it didn’t matter. She died and it was fucking awful. I have, unsurprisingly, strong feelings about cancer and the people who enable it. For instance, it makes me smile that several tobacco CEOs have died over the decades from cancer. I hope it was slow and painful. I’m fucking petty like that.
So imagine the fiery rage smoldering behind my eyes when I read about the latest from the Republican Death Cult:
President Joe Biden is scrambling to fund his cancer moonshot and its ambitious goal of cutting the death rate by half — an aim close to his heart that’s no longer a bipartisan priority.
Lawmakers backed the initiative during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, passing the 21st Century Cures Act, and allotting $1.8 billion to the cause, nearly unanimously. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called it “the most significant legislation passed by this Congress.”
But times have changed. The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t reup Cures moonshot money that dried up at the end of last year. Lawmakers rejected Biden’s request to fund Cures this year and also cut off his moonshot’s most direct funding stream.
That’s not great but it happens. We can’t fund everything we want to do at the levels we want to fund them at forever. It sucks but that’s a reality. If that’s all it was, I wouldn’t be happy, but it is what it is.
But, of course, we’re talking about the Republican Fucking Party so course it’s not just that (bolding mine):
The new budget is tight across the board, reflecting Republicans’ control of the House, deficit concerns and, not least, their desire to deny Biden a win months before the election. Congress’ decision has left Biden scrambling to fill the gap.
First of all, Republicans can fuck all the off with their “deficit concerns.” I’m not going to go deep into this because that would be an entire article of me screaming obscenities.1 But Republicans gave us our first Trillion-dollar deficit. Then our first THREE Trillion-dollar deficit. Every time every fucking time they get into power, Republicans explode the deficit and then cry about deficit spending under the Democrats who replace them to clean up their mess.
So maybe they should sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about the deficit? Yeah, let’s do that.
But let’s get to the truly vile part of this: “reflecting Republicans’… desire to deny Biden a win months before the election.”
This funding is not for a “liberal” policy that Republicans fundamentally oppose because they’re assholes. It’s not free meals to children. It’s not healthcare for pregnant women. It’s not broadband internet for rural communities. These are all things the GOP are actually hostile to because “something something socialism.”
The cancer moonshot is pouring resources into research to prevent and/or cure cancer. There is no ideology to this. We’re not talking about preventing cancer by getting people to stop smoking and banning pesticides.2 These are medical solutions that do not involve politics in any way whatsoever which is why it was more or less unanimously supported in a bipartisan vote.
But now? Well, if the Republican Death Cult can deprive Biden of a win, fuck that research. Let’s set the whole project back by years. Or maybe scrap it altogether.
I know I ask this of you regularly but it’s a useful mental exercise. Try to imagine how morally depraved you have to be to think this way. How little value you have to assign to human life if you’re willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people that might otherwise survive over the next decade or two just to slap Joe Biden on the wrist.
If you’re struggling, don’t be surprised. It’s hard to put yourself in the shoes of a death cult. These are the same people who gleefully advocate for the death penalty even knowing innocents will die. They’ve never met a war on brown people they didn’t love. Mass incarceration is like an aphrodisiac to them. Their fetish for guns is sexual. They have spent the last four years committing Covid suicide in the name of “owning the libs.”
These are the worst people this country has ever produced. This is why I have long subscribed to what I call “The Liberal’s Prayer”: May you and yours be the victims of your policies.
I hope, with every fiber of my being, that every single Republican voting to strip the funding from Biden’s moonshot program loses someone precious to them to cancer. I don’t even want them to die from it. I want these soulless Republican fucks to watch someone they love wither away and die. All the while, I want them to live with the knowledge that maybe, just maybe, the program they defunded might have produced the breakthrough that would have saved the life of the person dying in front of them.
Is that cruel and sadistic? You’re goddamn right it is. These inhuman monsters deserve nothing less for the horrors they continue to unleash on our nation for the pettiest of reasons. They all deserve to experience the pain and suffering they so blithely inflict on the rest of us and then burn in hell for eternity.
I am so completely over showing the slightest shred of compassion for people who are little more than rabid serial killers.
There are 188 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
Fucking go fuck yourselves, you fucking fucks!
Neither of these actually has an ideology, either but Republicans (and a few Democrats) have been paid off by the unlimited funds of corporations to pretend there is.
Personally watched lung cancer do a death dance on a loved one. It is absolutely vile. Those monsters in gov positions are due for a reckoning. If lung, breast, colon, pancreas, Alzheimer’s finds a host in any of them, may they suffer hard and long.
This country is letting the walking dead infect all of us.
You're a good person, Justin, even when you are mad with repubs, for thinking that repubs are capable loving anyone, ref: the soulless part. I remember they were undittered and still support/ed gun lobby even after one of their own was shot during a baseball game a few years ago. The only fitting punishment for these monsters is they become penniless, homeless, & most of all powerless without which they won't be able to survive. They can't be bothered with silly, useless compassion like ordinary beings.