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Biden talks about an act that will expand medical care for veterans exposed to burn pits.
Trump releases a video promising to “unify the Reich”
Media: both candidates have some serious flaws.
It speaks to how badly life in Middle America has deteriorated that we can get anybody to join the military, considering how horribly this country has always fucked over our soldiers.
I tell this story a lot, but my father’s career was as a VA chemist during the Reagan Administration and beyond, working in the lab to figure out what was wrong with ex-soldiers suffering from exotic cancers from whatever the hell they were exposed to during their duty in Vietnam. He had few resources and no budget because Reagan took all the funding away.
The roots of my rage can be traced to visiting him at work as a little kid and seeing those guys on gurneys in the hallways, because there weren’t enough rooms, screaming and writhing in puddles of their own piss because there weren’t enough attendants. Those men deserved better. We failed.