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Soni Knapp's avatar

Without the courage of millions of veterans (going back to the first war) we wouldn’t have a country!

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Kay Smith's avatar

I’m a disabled vet too and the VA is my healthcare. It’s sad because I worked for 36yrs as an RN, and former flight nurse. This is scary stuff to me.

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LittleLT's avatar

My Vets don’t even have dental care provided by the VA anymore. They used to, but not anymore. When I was just a greenhorn fresh out of school, I had a patient with infective endocarditis that was due to an infected abscessed tooth. The VA paid for the PICC line and the antibiotics, but they would not remove the tooth because they “didn’t do that anymore”. It was during the summer when we had a fresh batch of Residents and Interns rotate in with a brand new MD on their name tags and I had to explain this travesty of a gap in the VA healthcare system ad nauseam. I also had to watch this Vet, who was otherwise healthy and in his early middle age, languish and die over a period of two weeks. I’m writing this and realizing that I’m the about the same age now as he was then.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWDg3Vg-AQ&si=ErJqIdnCCYg0_4qC From the late, great Rush drummer 🥁 lyricist, poet and lifelong philosopher of life, Neil Peart to all the MAGAT Christian Nationalist Demons out there. This harsh criticism is for all of you FASCIST assholes & c💋nts.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

I recall watching Ken’s interview with award 🥇 winning author ✍️ media analyst, professor of journalistic studies at Columbia University in New York City and native Oklahoma Anne Nelson and her 2019 thought provoking book SHADOW NETWORK, which I highly recommend you read, Nick as everything that started with the Reagan Administration and for over forty five years to where the United States 🇺🇸 is at today.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

Have either one of you read Jim Wallis’ 2024 book titled “ The FALSE WHITE GOSPEL? “ Highly recommended as Wallis breaks down the history of racism, White Supremacy and the Christian Nationalism religious DEATH Cult. It is also Wallis’ belief that America 🇺🇸 hasten repented of its original sin of racism.

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Gigi Tierney's avatar

I left a comment, noting that limiting female reproductive healthcare but not male reproductive healthcare is a violation of 42 usc 18116 (sex discrimination in healthcare) for which the VA would be financially liable.

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Think's avatar

Qualified immunity has to be eliminated as well

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Frank Kohl's avatar

That’s a cute looking kitty you’ve got there, Frederic as it reminds me of my late little girl Keesha. Adorable 🥰.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

You mean Captain Muffin Top Cankles Bone Spurs, Jacob?

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Frank Kohl's avatar

Pretty Boy Pete Kegsbreath is a Christofascist Nationalist closeted homosexual.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

Hi 👋 Nick, Jacob, and Frederic from beautiful, sunny 😎 Victoria, B.C.🇨🇦

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Frank Kohl's avatar

STOP 🛑 legislating morality DIPSHITS. This means you KKKen Paxton, Greg HOT WHEELS 🛞 Abbott, Dame Dementia Donorrhea Drag Queen Drumpf, Pete KEGSBREATH, and Boy VD “ Smokey Eyes” Vance.

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Frank Kohl's avatar

I agree with you, Ken, as I had an epiphany about those MAGAT Fascists who stormed the White House on January 6, 2021 , would get recruited for this radicalized, extremist, Shariah law loving Chrislamics, Talibangelicals and Y’ALL QUEDA domestic terrorist group I fondly call ICE ASS.

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elle's avatar

i would not be here today without having been supported with the help of my father's veteran's benefits, stolen from me, with a foster mother who stole & forged my checks, but i appreciate they were earned by my father, intended for me

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3dEdited

Wonderful to see you both working to protect women...

What happened to Separation of Church & State

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