James K Jefferson Jr
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When you look back, AIDS was our warning for COVID, we alienated the gay community like we alienated the science with COVID. The people we elect to be leaders have to be vetted better. Reagan with AIDS. Trump with COVID. Follows a pattern.

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10:46 AM - Aug 01, 2023
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Kate Dobson
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I hear you, but ... not a helpful comparison.

Open hatred of us LGBTQ people stopped all levels of govt spending. They wanted us dead. The media wouldn't even run ads about condoms. It wasn't lack of equipment or confusion abt keeping the economy alive. Just plain refusal to help "fags."
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11:02 AM - Aug 01, 2023
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Kate Dobson
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But this part is parallel: When Trump learned that Black ppl were harder hit than "white" ppl, he cared a lot less about protecting "essential workers."

Then again, everyone is expendable to Trump and the GOP.
11:09 AM - Aug 01, 2023
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James K Jefferson Jr
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I’m sorry if alienating the gay community wasn’t specific enough for you, but you’ll get no argument from me.
11:05 AM - Aug 01, 2023
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Kate Dobson
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It wasn't sufficient (for me), but I do understand your point about lessons we should have learned.

And Barack Obama *did* learn those lessons! And the lessons of Ebola, because he didn't see Africa as a "shit-hole" continent.

Then the Trump Admin dismantled his pandemic prep.
11:15 AM - Aug 01, 2023
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