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Irish_Dem

(82,714 posts)
1. The rich don't want any money going to healthcare.
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:15 PM
Yesterday

They believe all money belongs to them.

Not for us suckers and losers to go to the doctor and get treatment for illnesses.

liberal N proud

(61,205 posts)
2. 25 billion every year
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:18 PM
Yesterday

The corporate healthcare industry is making $25 billion dollars each year on our healthcare.

Laurelin

(967 posts)
4. 1. He doesn't have cancer
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:23 PM
Yesterday

2. So why should all his beautiful money pay to help people who do?

DBoon

(25,184 posts)
7. to Trump, people with cancer are losers
Sun May 31, 2026, 04:37 PM
Yesterday

why spend money on losers when you spend it on gold painted monuments?

Midnight Writer

(25,864 posts)
8. I worked with a MAGA who always maintained that cancer only struck people with weak characters.
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:12 PM
Yesterday

He said if you were a strong person with a positive outlook that you would never get cancer.

I heard him say that to the faces of people who had cancer, or whose family members had cancer.

He died at the age of 57...from cancer.

Diamond_Dog

(41,249 posts)
9. Rich people don't want any of their money going to a cause that could possibly help the common good.
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:13 PM
Yesterday

Vinca

(54,429 posts)
10. Does cancer research help average Americans? Yes, yes it does. Ergo, Trump does not want to do it.
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:17 PM
Yesterday

If it's not a benefit for the 1%, please leave him alone with his ballroom plans and his White House junk yard.

Nixie

(18,144 posts)
11. Probably because he wants to find a way to extort things-- steal patents,
Sun May 31, 2026, 05:23 PM
Yesterday

grift, grift, grift. After he shakes everyone down and they pay him off, he’ll consider letting scientists continue.

The patents will be $$$.

Ugh, can’t even stand to even contemplate the grifter’s reasoning for anything. So disgusted.

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