Trump's DERP State

toomuchbaloney · May 12

The DERP State cabinet members are impacting our lives in significant ways.

https://www.audiology.org/ehdi-program-at-risk/

They are making life more difficult for babies born with hearing difficulties or heart defects.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

The dumb decisions keep coming.

Maybe we need to cancel these things to cover the cost of the military parade?

Kafka Fan44 · May 12

toomuchbaloney said:

The DERP State cabinet members are impacting our lives in significant ways.

https://www.audiology.org/ehdi-program-at-risk/

They are making life more difficult for babies born with hearing difficulties or heart defects.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pediaflow-research-babies-heart-defects-trump-administration-rcna197155

The dumb decisions keep coming.

Maybe we need to cancel these things to cover the cost of the military parade?

it's called balancing the budget and fiscal responsibility. Do you spend 3 times your monthly budget? You can't put hundreds of millions lives at risk to improve the lives of a few people.

toomuchbaloney · May 12

The narrative that Trump is attempting to balance the budget or be fiscally responsible is laughable.

The Trump grifters have already spent more money than they've been budgeted and Trump's tax giveaways are projected to add another $9 trillion to our debt at the rate nearly $1 trillion/year.

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tax-cuts-2025-budget-reconciliation/

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/donald-trump-may-increase-americans-take-home-pay-by-up-to-5000-but-investors-are-worried-heres-why/articleshow/121115976.cms

https://www.pgpf.org/article/full-array-of-republican-tax-cuts-could-add-9-trillion-to-the-national-debt/

nursej22, MSN, RN · May 12

Kafka Fan44 said:

it's called balancing the budget and fiscal responsibility. Do you spend 3 times your monthly budget? You can't put hundreds of millions lives at risk to improve the lives of a few people.

I agree, that stupid military parade should be canceled. I also think Trump should be limited to 2 weeks vacation per year( with prior approval by the congressional oversight committee. Any personal travel on Air Force One should be billed to Trump and any of his staff riding along.

Kafka Fan44 · May 12

nursej22 said:

I agree, that stupid military parade should be canceled. I also think Trump should be limited to 2 weeks vacation per year( with prior approval by the congressional oversight committee. Any personal travel on Air Force One should be billed to Trump and any of his staff riding along.

Patriotism and nationalism are important for America and our mental health, this includes parades. You can trace a lot of modern day violence particularly school shootings to Obama's Anti-American rhetoric. As for travel its not Trump's fault that the left have shown a significant propensity for violence making increased security a necessity. His travel bills are a drop in the bucket compared to things like Medicaid which is nearly a trillion dollars federal+state.

nursej22, MSN, RN · May 12

Kafka Fan44 said:

Patriotism and nationalism are important for America and our mental health, this includes parades. You can trace a lot of modern day violence particularly school shootings to Obama's Anti-American rhetoric. As for travel its not Trump's fault that the left have shown a significant propensity for violence making increased security a necessity. His travel bills are a drop in the bucket compared to things like Medicaid which is nearly a trillion dollars federal+state.

Communities all across America celebrate patriotism in their local parades, where we can participate, or watch friends and neighbors march in uniform and salute our flag. Americans don't need to see tanks and missiles rolling down the street. We take pride knowing that we can come together in a peaceful celebration. Authoritarians like Putin and Kim Jong Un need their egos stoked with ostentatious display.

Nope, domestic violence has been going on long before Obama's message of hope and change. You can't pin the Oklahoma City bombing or Aurora, CO on him.

Stupid Orange man's travel bills are exorbitant and only enable him to avoid the hard work of being president, and to support his lavish lifestyle. He craves the attention of his cult followers at Mar-A-Lago and his lame rallies. Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for that bs.

toomuchbaloney · May 13

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5295429-rfk-jr-rock-creek-swimming/

RFKjr ignores warnings about bacterial contamination making this water way unsafe and takes his great grandchildren for a dip.

What kind of erratic and weird thinking is that? No wonder he had a brain worm.

Tweety, BSN, RN · May 14

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism

Pro-Hammas, I mean antisemitism in the Trump orbit.

toomuchbaloney · May 14

Tweety said:

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism

Pro-Hammas, I mean antisemitism in the Trump orbit.

This isn't surprising. It is increasingly obvious that the people in Trump's orbit are not carefully vetted. IMV, this speaks to Trump's crumbling judgment as his cognitive function and mental health continue their decline.

toomuchbaloney · May 16

https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/covid-vaccine-recommendations-rfk-jr-reportedly-reversing-for-children-pregnant-women/

RFKjr is starting to peel away vaccine recommendations. He apparently doesn't know that high vaccination rates reduce the spread of disease. In his congressional hearings this week it was pretty obvious that there is quite a bit that he doesn't know about health.

toomuchbaloney · May 24

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/24/nx-s1-5392378/justice-department-cuts-to-public-safety-grants-leave-police-and-nonprofits-scrambling

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The Justice Department has drastically scaled back its support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement agencies and private groups scrambling to try to replace the money. The cuts were announced in late April, and the Council on Criminal Justice estimates 373 grants were terminated, totaling about $500 million.

The sweeping nature of the cuts took many public safety groups by surprise.

"We knew that there were federal cuts coming," says Kelsie McDaniel, the district attorney in Union County, Oregon. "But we didn't think that it would include things that were within the program goals and agency priorities that the DOJ had previously talked about."

I wonder if she thought DOJ priorities would include making bump stocks and silencers more accessible, too?

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"Federal grants allow agencies to really do things that they wouldn't ordinarily otherwise be able to do," says Jim Burch, president of the National Policing Institute, which helped distribute many of the grants to rural law enforcement. He says the sudden cuts, many of them mid-stream, "could result in layoffs of things like crime analysts and IT professionals. And it could mean that the agency has fewer staff for patrol services."

Many grant recipients suspect there wasn't much research behind the cuts.

"They don't know what they're doing. They're just pulling things apart," says Aqeela Sherrills, co-founder and executive director of the Community Based Public Safety Collective, which provides training and assistance to community violence intervention groups — the "violence interrupter" model that started in the 1990s.

Yes. It appears that they are simply pulling things apart with little expert analysis or critical thought.

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In response to NPR's request for comment, the Justice Department sent a written statement:

"This Department of Justice is focused on prosecuting criminals, getting illegal drugs off the streets, and protecting all Americans from violent crime. Discretionary funds that are not aligned with the administration's priorities are subject to review and reallocation."

The statement added that the Department was committed to "working with" organizations and to hear appeals to restore funding, "as appropriate."

The administrating needs those funds for their deportation costs which are markedly higher per person than any other time. Team Trump is blowing through their Department budgets in record time.

nursej22, MSN, RN · May 27

The 3 yahoos at HHS, none of whom are virologists, infectious disease specialists OB/GYN, pediatricians or epidemiologists have decided that healthy pregnant women and children don't need a COVID shot.
There is a reputable committee that oversees immunization guidelines a couple of times a year, but vaccine skeptics know better. SMDH.

But sure, have some raw milk, instead.