Simple SLF poll: Do you support Trump these days?

[iris lilies]

I would encourage you all to ignore Iris’s opinion on the blood supply.

I see units of human blood products nearly every day. I am familiar with their ordering, storage, and use. I am familiar with the labeling on the units. The label does not specify sex, the bar code (ISBT 128 is the official spec) doesn’t even contain a field. There is a donor ID, but that’s used for traceability, and is anonymized from the user-end. (There is a protocol for how to use the donor number for all sorts of useful things, a moment of clever searching would point you at endless processes and procedures.)

My understanding, though I’ve only worked the donor van a dozen times, is that gender is indeed asked/observed on intake of a donor, and that screening is used generally to protect the *donor* from anemia and other donation-related things. And has next to nothing with what happens to the blood once we have it in the bag.

As to the current overall state of medical research, boy Howdy I’d encourage you to ask a professional, or to really do your own informeded investigation from examining peer-reviewed sources, and to ignore what you hear on the Internet.

the Red Cross didn’t tell me anything about how blood is marked through its journey in the donation process.

I did say “studies suggest…” and you can find those as well as I can.

Yes there are different levels for males and females in hemoglobin levels required when donating. You say they are other sex related issues, OK. I myself was unable to donate blood this week because my hemoglobin level was too low. It is borderline all too often.

So let me ask you, if there are sex related issues for blood donors, then why don’t they ask the sex of donors on the form.?“Gender” in today’s world is not a synonym for biological sex. And I didn’t know one was allowed to “observe “ a patient’s sex in today’s environment and conclude the patient’s sex is different from the patient’s stated gender. Are you sure about that? it certainly has not been OK to do in most professional, educational, community, and social settings.

[Rogar]

My accountant might have a different take, but it seems like he up the standard deduction for seniors.

[iris lilies]

My accountant might have a different take, but it seems like he up the standard deduction for seniors.

One of the beautiful things Trump did in his first term was greatly increase the standard deduction. that simplified tax preparation so much. It was a beautiful thing.

[littlebittybobby]

okay---i tell you what----i'm too busy working on my projects to support anybody, unless it would be my petts. Yup. One thing that Trump guy hasn't done is instigate another "cash-for-clunkers" disaster, like what's his face. What a waste that was.

[Tybee]

I read executive order14168 and it seemed rather Orwellian to me.

[Tradd]

I have to admit there is ONE executive order that I support. It’s ending check payments (exception for few narrow exceptions). This includes fed check payments as well as payments TO the feds.

I have a personal hatred of checks, plus experience at work of having to pay additional duties outside the usual procedure. You have to check a check, find out which CBP port address it goes to, and then overnight it. When CBP issues a bill for additional duties, you have to sent the check via snail mail. I’m looking forward to being able to use Pay.gov for this.

[Tybee]

I really dislike what he did to the rose garden.

[iris lilies]

I read executive order14168 and it seemed rather Orwellian to me.

specifically, what didn’t you like about it?

[iris lilies]

I figured I was on the whole not a Trump supporter but had to put numbers on concepts to determine final score. Keep in mind I did not vote for Trump all three times, and if the lying Biden White House hadn’t tried to push an ancient human far past his prime into another term, I would’ve held my nose and voted for Trump’s Democratic opponent.

percentages below describe how important these concepts are to me

Favorable Trump actions

5% imposes trans language of reality in government
10% policy position, no men in women’s prisons, rape centers, sports, protect women and girls
5% UsAID demolition, challenges to other fat government departments
10% border has far fewer illegal crossings, discourages illegal immigration
10% world policy: stealth bombers to Iran’s nuke site, Ukraine funded, Israel support, brokers major peace talks
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40%


Unfavorable Trump actions

20% abhorrent personal character, enjoys division and chaos ( although sometimes funny!)
10% tariffs, instability effect on economy & markets,
40% serious challenge to 1st Amendment/free speech, problems in intellectual honesty in government data
————
70% Sent from my iPad

yes this adds up to 110% so sue me. It is based on my “feelings” and feelings are not facts.

[catherine]

The market research interviewer in me loves your scoring system, Iris!! Even if your math is a little off.