Donald Trump, the first week is BAD. What next? Come all ye Beautifuls!

[Roussette]

Here we are!

This is what will be expected nationally:

Virginia House subcommittee tosses immunization mandate bill

"The Medical Society of Virginia, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Virginia Association of School Nurses spoke in favor of the bill, along with the Department of Health.
But opponents of the bill came out in force. Representatives with the National Vaccine Information Center, Virginians for Health Freedom and Virginians for Medical Freedom spoke against the bill during the hearing Tuesday."
"“There’s sort of dark humor among some physicians who have seen kids with meningococcus,” [Dr. Sam Bartle, president of the Virginia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics] told the committee. “They call it the Ebola (virus) of the developed world. It’s very thorough, very quick and very deadly.”"

www.richmond.com/life/health/article_0ea1ef6c-4f6d-5e8e-b76f-2eef6eceecf1.html

Don't be surprised at vaccination being affected by the current Administration.

Vaccinations, abortions, contraception, and sex education will all be top the list I suspect. Also any trans stuff, either support or treatment.

Arrghhh!!!

On a lighter note ... this is entertaining:

Don't be surprised at vaccination being affected by the current Administration

Nothing would surprise me. Not even the Spanish Inquisition.

"The Medical Society of Virginia, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Virginia Association of School Nurses spoke in favor of the bill, along with the Department of Health.
But opponents of the bill came out in force. Representatives with the National Vaccine Information Center, Virginians for Health Freedom and Virginians for Medical Freedom spoke against the bill during the hearing Tuesday."

Wow. Just, WOW. I mean, clearly the first of those organisations are science-led. And the opponents are civilians. Why the fuck would you not listen to actual experts on this matter? How arrogant do you have to be?

Informal that is hilarious!

Lweji, that's awful. The increasing anti-science agenda that is taking hold in the US and beyond is going to lead to horrible deaths.

SarcasticRover ‏***@SarcasticRover* 24 h
SarcasticRover retweetou John Upton
First they came for the agricultural scientists…

John Upton @johnupton
Under Trump, 2,000 Department of Agriculture scientists have been gagged — barred from publicly discussing research. www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/trump-usda

SarcasticRover ‏***@SarcasticRover* 16 h
Don’t say one damn word about ‘snowflakes’ or ‘safe spaces’ while your president is scared to look science in the eye.

SarcasticRover ‏***@SarcasticRover* 24 h
Taxpayers fund scientific research but aren’t allowed to see results unless the government says it’s safe.
That is not right.
It is wrong.

I think from now on the CNN should only have those lip reading versions.
If they are Fake News, might as well embrace it.

Stuffofawesome, so Steve Bannon - Trump's campaign manager and founder of Breitbart - registered to vote in two states? And now Trumpy's implying that's voter fraud?

Oops.

Alternative fact - Steve Bannon can be registered in two states as long as he isn't (a) dead or (b) voting Democrat.

So at the conference:

2 questions -

Does the President think that being registered in 2 States is evidence of voter fraud?

I have a follow up (I can do this now)

Steve Bannon was registered in 2 states. Was that fraud?

I am amazed by how many people here seem positive about Trump. People think he's a great businessman so he can run a country, the media are totally against him and anyone is better than Hilary Clinton. These are intelligent people who I would expect to be as horrified as I am. Perhaps his rhetoric is starting to poison minds on this side of the Atlantic too.

I think I should direct them to this amazing thread. Thanks for keeping me sane.

faraway

It must be hard for people who have been so vocal in their support to raise concerns they see.

I'm pretty sure it only counts as voter fraud if the person doing it is not a straight white man who supports Trump.

I think some people just believe that he is Americas problem and his actions won't affect us.

If only this were true

So, what happens to people registered in two states?

Or to those registered to vote but are dead?

Place marking......

I've just read from a friend (no time to verify it at present) that all EPA grants have been frozen. Including those of students. All ongoing research and studies stopped.

This 2012 report found the whole system in a bit of a mess:

Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter registrations in the
United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.

More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters.

Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one
state.

And researchers estimate at least 51 million eligible U.S. citizens are unregistered, or more than 24 percent of the eligible population.

That's appalling

The EPA grant site is still on: www.epa.gov/grants

But it's being reported that they have frozen all grants, yes.

www.cnbc.com/2017/01/24/white-house-temporarily-freezes-epa-grants-contracts.html

"It was unclear if the freeze would impact existing contracts, grants and agreements or just future ones."

Surely though - whilst being registered to vote when dead isn't ideal, surely only if that dead person then casts their vote it is fraud? Find out that 1 million dead people actually rose from their graves, got to a polling station and then put an X in the box (for Hillary of course) and then I might - just might - get on board with this ridiculous notion. But that's not going to happen so just Let It Go!

Roman - I love that video.. "you suuuuuuuuuck" is just perfect

And researchers estimate at least 51 million eligible U.S. citizens are unregistered, or more than 24 percent of the eligible population.

This is the worrying part.

Presumably the dead haven't voted, and only very few people would bother to vote in more than one state.

I'd want to know why those 24% aren't registered. Is it because they won't, or can't?

I'd laugh if it wasn't all so sad.

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