Notices by McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)

Americans voted Trump because they mistakenly think any change will get them cheap gas, cheap food, low crime, and a bigger flatscreen.

If Trump pulls it off, and if there is a meaningful election in two years, the GOP will get wiped because his policies will tank the economy, drive inflation sky-high, and as a result, increase crime. Same old pattern as always. Americans just can’t hold focus and our school system is trash.

If Biden has any balls he’ll cut Israel off tomorrow. Sure, they might get it all back in January, but first they’re going to have to deal without US arms.

You’re home with your newborn baby. They start with a runny nose. Next they are tired, coughing, not eating. In a few days they can hardly keep up with the coughing, and after a short few days in the hospital, they die.

This is what whooping cough (pertussis) does. We have a good vaccine for it. Keeps it from killing babies, grandparents, and people with asthma.

Trump and RFK want to ban that vaccine.

Your teen goes to the pool for a fun day out. A week later they have a little summer flu. You don’t think much of it until they text you from bed saying they can’t stand up. Within days they are paralyzed, on a breathing machine. A decade later you are changing their diapers while they sit in bed on a ventilator.

That’s polio folks. It’s only been gone in the US for a few decades, and only because of a vaccine. RFK and Trump want to ban that vaccine and bring back paralyzed kids.

If teens show up to trick or treat, give them more than the wee kiddos. They could be doing all sorts of less fun, more dangerous activities. Let ‘em have their fun.

We usually have a reserve giant bag of candy for the teens who roll up late. If they’re door knocking for snickers, they aren’t driving drunk or vandalizing homes or whatever.

Y’all, my day job is dealing with people who fucked around and found out. It’s not new to me. Let me tell ya, when I see another article or post about a Republican who got dropped from the voter rolls, or couldn’t get emergency medical care, or lost their health insurance, it doesn’t make me happy. Sure, the finding out phase is always kind of amusing, but for every story we see, there are scores of people hurt by these policies who don’t support the GOP.

See, if your news rag was going to make the complicated and contentious decision to stop making endorsements, that’s the kind of thing you would announce after much deliberation, with the whole editorial staff signing, in between election years. When it just happens out of nowhere two weeks before an election, we can all be pretty sure you’re a pack of fucking cowards.

Maybe Pennsylvania voters should be asking Elon Musk why he is only just now giving away money to people. If he has so much disposable money, why hasn’t he helped open new businesses, fix roads, fund schools, buy medication for the elderly, or help people get out from under mortgages?

Maybe it’s because he’s a cheap evil bastard who can spend a few million this month to buy votes, so that he can then gut the union and make everyone like in his company housing and buy from the company store.

“Dems are the same as Repubs”

Things Democrats didn’t do in the last decade:
1. Eliminate protections for children in dangerous jobs.
2. Ban abortions.
3. Propose using local cops and militias to round up 20 million of our neighbors.
4. Make it legal to run over protestors.
5. Withhold emergency medical supplies from political opponents.
6. Ransack the US capitol building.
7. Purge hundreds of thousands of voters from voting rolls.
8. Withdraw from nuclear weapons treaties.

Remember when people voted for Nader to try to get the Democrats to move left, and we ended up with 20 years of war, the middle east on fire, and a right-wing supreme court? Good times. Goooood times.

Polls are tightening up, with Trump polling alongside Harris. Hope all the protest vote folks realize that Jill Stein is just an arm of the Trump campaign, and that not voting for anyone just means you sat it out when you had a chance to keep your friends and family out of camps.

The false equivalency argument over the Harris vs Trump race is one of the most infantile, stoned older guy on a college campus, superficial takes I can image. “No maaaaan, they’re all bad man. They’re all the big eviiiiill man”. Sure. Dems are a right-of-middle party since 2012. The other guys have openly called for using militias to round up millions of people in our communities. They took away women’s healthcare already. They’re coming for everyone. They are not the same.

This #emergencymedicine physician just got his COVID and flu shot. Now’s a great time to get yours!

FYI, all y’all #hunters , #anglers , and other users of the American backcountry: when Trump’s campaign says he wants to “make Federal land available” to help solve the housing crisis, what they mean is they want to sell pristine public lands to developers.

The people whose time is most valuable are the people who can least use things like paid express lanes, priority lines at the oil change, and close parking. The well off may think their time is worth more, but the guy working two jobs who is on his way to get his kids from school while his partner is working the swing shift is the guy whose every minute is worth the most.

Hospitals in Lebanon have canceled elective surgeries today. That means kids with cancer won’t get their chemo ports placed. Someone with heart disease needing a bypass has to wait while the time bomb of their heart keeps ticking. People living in chronic pain from bad knees and hips have to wait for their relief.

This is but one cost of this war.

@alxd 1st rule of distaster relief: don’t become another strain on the already broken system.

Have to have a plan for food, shelter, personal hygeine, transport.

Something peoppe need to understand is that community programs like SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner — who you need if you are a victim of rape), like mental health crisis response, like susbtance abuse counseling — these programs often operate on tiny grants. They are paid for by the equivalent of one or two Cybertrucks or Escalades.
A guy in a Ferrari? Dude could have funded an entire SANE program in a medium sized county.

The money is there. Assholes are just wasting it.

The pager attack by Israel today is terrorism. It was indiscriminate, it was designed to sow terror, it was done with full knowledge that civilians would be injured or killed. Blowing up a suicide bomb in a market is no different. This wasn’t some singularly targeted car bomb or assassination. Sure, the pagers were carried by Hezbollah personnel, many of whom may have engaged in attacks on Israel, but their kids, the people shopping near them, the people in offices and restaurants — they did not

Oh, and for the fucking record — the guy who torched the infamous police station in Minneapolis during the George Floyd fall out was a white supremacist trying to start a race war, not immigrants or protestors.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd