I’m crying, that’s fucking hilarious.

That’s the problem with being a single-issue voter — and also precisely the reason the GOP has been courting the pro-life vote in the first place.  They’re so easy to please.

“He’s hurting the people I want to hurt.”

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/undocumented-husband-deported/index.html

I know an evangelical whose husband and father of her daughters is stuck indefinitely in Central America but still voted for T***p because he’s “pro-life”, and she was OK with the possibility of him being stuck in CA for a long time as long as T***p was president as long as he “saved the fetuses.”  I am not making…

Seriously: even if this bathtub thing was a one off (THIS SHIT IS NEVER A ONE OFF) it pretty much puts a big red circle around the fact that this guy has really shitty decision making skills, boundaries, and grasp of professional behavior.

He did allegedly lean heavily to stop the one covid vaccine from being made open source. One that his foundation benefits from being patented (owns shares of the partnered pharma company).

#DeathSantis is scribbling this idea down in his “I Luv tRUmp” Trapper Keeper notebook right meow.

Gates Foundation has also done a lot to eradicate polio (a disease which remains a problem in developing countries) and to control HIV. It also works to reduce poverty, provide educational resources, all kinds of stuff. It’s not a purely performative charity, though I get why someone who doesn’t know might think so.

Thoughts and prayers. 

Yes. Computers in libraries for public use was big in the 90's. Thanks to the Gates fund.

The Gates Foundation and other anti-Malaria groups have HALVED the annual death-toll from Malaria since 2000. These groups are currently saving about 400,000 people a year and climbing.

Yep. It’s a hit piece just to be a hit piece. The Gates Foundation has been investing a _lot_ of money into things that have the potential to improve quality of life for a lot of people. Drinking water, electric power, all sorts of things.

My money is on North Carolina.

Yeah, not knowing what the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is, is not something to brag about. It’s one of the best charities in the world. They’ve done more the near eradication of malaria than any government or charity in the world.

This. Whatever he’s like personally, his foundation - which, Jesus, Jezebel, do some research before you casually dismiss the Gates Foundation - has done an incredible amount to transform living conditions in the developing world.

It may be because I’m super-old, but one of the first things I remember about the Gates Foundation after it formed was all the mosquito netting it provided to countries in Africa and its dedication to family planning. This isn’t just another Bezos, folks, even if you do not like the man.

Well when this inevitably backfires on the GOP — especially when the elderly in Florida are no longer able to vote by mail — I wonder which state will be the first to overtly make it illegal to vote if you are black.

Oops! Maybe they shouldn’t have listened to Donald Trump? Just a thought.