Bush Institute warns GOP that ending critical HIV program could cost millions of lives. The GOP has been using the revolutionary program as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations, claiming it really just promotes abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

by southpawFA

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  1. Ah. The pro-life party is at it again, I see.

    And by “it” I mean killing people whenever they feel like it and throwing the red meat to the base.

  2. Bush giving sensible warnings? McConnell being the voice of reason?

    What episode did we wander into?

  3. “Could cost millions of lives”

    Brah, that’s the whole fucking idea! They do not care one iota. In fact, plenty of them would cheer with glee.

  4. Remember when we thought this guy was as bad as it can get?

  5. >*Bush also published a mid-September opinion piece in The Washington Post that said, “We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word.”*
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    >The article said that real “pro-life” Republicans should support PEPFAR.
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    >***“Among evangelical Christians, what definition of being ‘pro-life’ does not include saving millions of lives from preventable disease and death?” Bush wrote.***

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    They never were pro-life, Bush.

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    The “pro-life” evilgelicals of the 80s were okay with death when it came to LGBTQ+ people. Just look at Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, oxycontin addict Rush Limbaugh, Jim Bakker, and Pat Robertson.

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    They haven’t changed one bit. Just look at Pence’s record as governor of Indiana.

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    It’s called the Lavender Scare. We are now in a new one.

  6. We really need to start a “conservative” PAC that claims that not taxing billionaires enough causes abortions and promotes LGBTQ+ rights. Trust me, the republican voters will fall for it. They’ve fallen for everything else using that tactic.

  7. >Though Bush didn’t sign the letter, it was signed by more than 30 retired ambassadors, foreign policy luminaries, and organizations who want Republicans to reauthorize funding for the program, even though Republicans falsely claim it’s a “massive slush fund” for promoting abortion and LGBTQ+ advocacy,

    Well, christianity definitely does not teach advocating for other human beings so they are in line with their teachings.

  8. Bush didn’t sign the letter. Between this and not condemning Trump, he’s a real *Profiles in Courage*.

  9. They still think aids is a gay disease so they don’t care.

  10. GOP has a chance to tout a successful program which they implemented and saved over 25 million lives, but nope this Conservative program is somehow a gay Liberal conspiracy.

  11. > budget negotiations, claiming it really just promotes abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.

    Yeah and we really wouldn’t want to promote LGBTQ+ rights or anything catastrophic like that…

  12. Has anyone told the GOP that the real reason we all don’t want to have babies is because THEY exist.

  13. George W. is not a true Republican.
    He is a wino.

  15. This was Bush’s biggest accomplishment imo. By far. And ofc the GOP of today wants to destroy it.

  19. Well, Dubya, feeling any guilt about shifting the party further Right than any Republican post-Reagan before Trump showed up yet?

  20. You know it’s bad when bush is starting to make sense 🤦🏻‍♀️

  21. They just want all neurodivergent, non-cishet, gender-nonconforming people dead, and all nonwhite people enslaved. That’s it, really.

  23. The program puts good western agencies into African communities that Wagner group is tasked with conquering for Russia… the only reason Republicans want it gone is because Russia asked them to end it for the purpose of retaking political hold of African nations it helps.

  25. I have a 30 year old patient who came to my hospital with multiple AIDS defining illnesses. Idk if they are a part of the community because they can’t talk. It is horrifying to see this happen to such a young person.

    One of the greatest (probably the greatest) medical advances in the past 50 years is learning how to prevent the transmission of HIV and prevent the progression to AIDS.

    It’s literally one area where money was thrown that we were able to solve a problem through research and a strong public health response.

  26. Bush did two positive things: 1) funded AIDS research and prevention; and 2) created the public service loan forgiveness program.

    All the rest of his presidency was absolute garbage — but he did do two very good things.

  27. OMGod, I just realized that the right’s fundamental problem with Fauchi was that he cared about, and saved, gay people … so much more of the idiocracy’s response to COVID makes sense with that understanding. What an evil f’ing lot the extreme, well most of the, right is

  28. Republicans are straight up bad people. Every single one.

  29. “Could cost millions of lives”

    ….Like Iraq, Mr Bush? Like Iraq?

  30. So we’re clear, the modern GOP has less common sense than George W. Bush.

  31. Reminder that Ronald Reagan’s administration refused to even mention the AIDs crisis for seven years while it ravaged america because it was widely perceived as only a threat to the gay community, and Ronald Reagan was perfectly happy to let it continue to kill gay people.

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