Trumps Call To Help Charlie Gard Is Both Cynical And Cruel, And Fuck Him...

[tenderfoot]

Today, our president sent out a tweet that was not about women bleeding or him wrassling a news media organization. A tweet meant to make him look like a real nice guy who totally cares about people and whether or not they live or die. A tweet that I would actually say is the most sickening and infuriating thing he has ever tweeted.

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Charlie Gard, if you are not aware, is a terminally ill 10-month-old in the UK with a rare genetic disorder called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. As a result of this disease, the child cannot move his arms or legs, nor breathe without help, and is also suffering from extensive brain damage. It’s a tragic, tragic situation and one cannot help but feel for his parents, who want nothing more than to try to save their child.

Doctors, however, say that prolonging treatment would only prolong the child’s suffering — and the courts have sided with them, and have decided to allow the hospital to take Charlie off of life support. His parents have been fighting to bring him to the United States to take some experimental medication, which doctors at the Great Ormond Street hospital (one of the best pediatric hospitals in the world) say would not work. Not only because it’s experimental, but also because it’s only been tried by a very small amount of sufferers, and none with the same faulty gene as Charlie.

So basically, the courts are telling the Gards that they can’t keep their baby on life support or take him to the United States because doing so would be cruel. Because the child would be in pain.

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The fact that a man who is about to let 32 million Americans (yes, that’s the number he’s calling for, higher even than the 22 million who would have their insurance stolen under the Senate Republicans’ plan) go without health insurance because coming up with a replacement is just TOO HARD, has the gall to grandstand on this particular case is absolutely sickening. Save some kids in America, whydontcha?

This, from a man who has proposed massive cuts to children’s healthcare? Whose plans for Medicaid and health insurance will likely hurt millions of children across the United States? Whose party repeatedly chants “Health Care Is Not A Human Right” like a snide, sadistic mantra? Who is totally A-OK with children growing up in poverty and not having enough to eat because their parents were bankrupted by their own medical bills?

I wonder! If Charlie were an American baby whose parents could not afford his treatment, if Trump would be so eager to help. Because I’m pretty goddamned sure he would not.

more: https://wonkette.com/619783/trumps-call-to-help-charlie-gard-is-both-cynical-and-cruel-and-fuck-him

[alphafemale]

1. It is horribly tragic.

Those are organs being kept alive.

The child has already died in any true sense.

Amazing that right wing religious twits will get behind this but want millions of people to die by denying basic healthcare.

Their depth of hypocfisy is astounding.

[HipChick]

2. +1000 K&R

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Exactly

[pangaia]

3. I wish the child well, BUT he's lucky he isn't from Libya..

Fuck trump

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Or Appalachia or anywhere in poor rural and urban America.

[pangaia]

7. Even the not so poor would be devistated by a major illness of accident.

how do you spell devistated? too lazy

[BumRushDaShow]

8. +1

Definitely would be devastating (my Firefox has the spellchecker underlining misspellings)!

[pangaia]

10. Chrome here.....

did I get it right??

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Ha

Bzzzt.

[marylandblue]

12. DU has a spell checker

When I reply, I see three click boxes under the text window. One says "check spelling."

[AJT]

4. "Support" from the man who threw his disabled nephew

off the trumpster family healthcare plan, and called his own son a retard.....

[no_hypocrisy]

16. + 1,000,000,000

[Goonch]

6. YIPES

[Hamlette]

9. it's Terri Schiavo all over again

the GOP is good a picking a couple of seemingly sympathetic cases to champion while cutting everyone else off health care.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Oh God not that again. What a scary thought.

It would be right up Trump's alley though--he loves a distraction.

[Initech]

14. Anyone who stands to lose their health insurance should be furious at this.

Fuck Trump for this one.

[WinkyDink]

15. I've been following this story for a while now....

but it was on a UK newspaper website deemed "unreliable."

[mgardener]

17. Isn't Trump saying health care is a right?

By going against the British courts and European courts, he is saying Charlie Gard has a Right to health care and treatment.
Why does the President of the US AND his political party think that Americans do not deserve this same right? I think any parent of a seriously ill child denied treatment or any adult should petition the POTUS for the same chance that is being offered this child.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. If this weren't a news story

Trump wouldn't even notice it.

[spiderpig]

19. What if the parents were found to be Muslim?

Shameless exploitation. But that's what he thrives on.

[UTUSN]

20. It's the Terri SCHIAVO baiting gimmick, same as RAYGUN "generous" with "charity" to street

Jeb Crow Shrub milked the SCHIAVO case to the max.

And RAYGUN was touted for pulling a dollar or five from his pocket to give to a street person, with *NO* mention that his policies were to SLASH AND BURN all the programs that affected *MILLIONS*.

Something like false equivalency. Same as how the wingnuts BAIT veterans. All easy peasey.