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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

They don't really believe Trump is America's Best Hope, at least not the America we've all lived in for the last 100 or so years. The America that has done more for global humanity by a hundred fold than any other country in human history. The Big Cheeto is their best hope for destroying that America. That America made no preference for White Christian Nationalists. Everyone was helped without preference. Hence, the unconscionable attacks on PEPFAR.

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PEPFAR is Bush II's program to combat AIDS in the third world. It's up for renewal every five years. It's been credited with saving 25 million lives since it's inception. Now the GOP wants to kill it over an unproven, frequently rebutted, conspiracy theory that certain aspects of it are used to fund abortions. The abortion issue has truly become the devil's playground....actually it always has been

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In God's or history's final judgement of George W. Bush, Pepfar is the great credit to be set against his sins in and around Iraq.

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Rick Wilson was talking about the 1980's period when St Ronnie was sucking up to the Evangelicals. Rick said it was completely transactional, especially with Falwell and a couple of the other prosperity gospel pond scum. It wasn't about Jesus, it was all about the Benjamins. They essentially paid the Evangelicals to suddenly see the light on abortion.

Reagan buried himself on my shit list over his refusal to see that AIDS was not just a plague of God brought on gay men as a punishment. By the time PEPFAR was passed, HIV/AIDS had some 15 years to romp it's way through straight populations.

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