I had no idea the president could affect what Congress would budget for ...

You really have no idea about much of anything. Apparently.

But you are very good at pretending that you do.

It's unbelievably shallow how you are treating him.

POSTED BY LAURAMOHR

But not shocking at all.

If you're going to pile up the straw, do it truthfully.

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Practice what you preach.

"incentivizing hospitals to get paid for each COVID death isn't a sign we know exactly who died of what.."

Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

Another commie spyboy wannabe big lie to add to the stack. Trumpy would be so proud!

Hospitals did not receive financial bonuses for COVID-19 deaths.

During the pandemic, the federal government temporarily provided Medicare with enhanced add-on payments for treating COVID-19 patients-not for deaths.

How do you need that explained to you?

POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Now now. Be nice. He is just an insurance salesman who apparently lives in a cave with only very limited dial-up internet access.

Apparently.

I think he will be dead before he leaves office.

#14 | POSTED BY MBLUE

I wish I could take that bet.

But unfortunately he still has unlimited access (FREE ACCESS) to some of the best healthcare in the world.

All bets are off tho come January 20th, 2029.

So I'd go with 3 years. Are the poly markets betting on his death yet?

One last thing. My video game is calling me!

No one wants to sit around and constantly cry over the deaths we cannot undo.

But we should ALL be upset enough to try and make sure it could never happen again.

Are we? Are you? Why not? Are we doing anything to make sure it doesn't happens again?

I don't see it.

We were not prepared then and hundreds of thousands died.

Everyone should be at least upset enough to make sure we get prepared and that it cannot and doesn't happen again.

Again. I do not see it.

We are not prepared.

Or.....and let's just cut the crap........It's Trump that pisses them off.

Getting warmer Beverly.

So let's indeed cut the crap.

It's Trumpy's handling of anything and everything that pisses most folks off.

Turning away from the deaths and suffering of Americans is not very patriotic nor very appealing nor very appropriate.

But I do understand why some do. They just can't handle the truth.

No matter what the subject is, people manage to connect everything back to Trump.

#273 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Maybe because no matter what the "subject" is Trumpy has to stick his evil hateful nose in it and then totally F it up.

Now I suppose you want me to list all of them.

wonder what they think of this mass outbreak of TDS.

#274 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

The reasonable ones realize it is completely normal. There is no medical cause for being extremely upset with Trumpy.

Some conditions like depression are not medical problems at all.

Sometimes people are depressed for legitimate reasons. Eliminate the reasons and the depression suddenly disappears like magic.

People have thousands (hundreds of thousands!) of legitimate reasons to be extremely upset with Trumpy.

that's the hysteria he was talking about.

Let's just agree that your outrage today is 100% meaningless.

I see. Questioning you is being "hysterical".

Let's that is meaningless because it is.

Sure Beverly.

Everyone I know is upset about the unnecessary deaths. None of us run around hysterically about it.

But when it comes up in conversation we will happily tell you what we think.

The real question is.. why aren't you and your friends NOT upset about a million Americans dying and hundreds of thousands dying unnecessarily?

"But the country has moved on."

We have moved on to the next Trumpy induced crisis. And the next and the next ad nauseam.

But it is still simmering beneath the surface just waiting to resurface as this hearing and this thread clearly showed.

Here is the real reason Americans don't know how to react to so many deaths.

Psychologists note that when the death toll reaches massive, abstract numbers (like 1 million+), the human brain struggles to process the scale of the loss. This can lead to "compassion fatigue," where society naturally becomes less reactive to the ongoing daily death counts.

We were fatigued before it even ended. We are even more fatigued of it now.