Trump To Shut Down LGBTQ Suicide Hotline

[rhinefire]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

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Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

 

[SCrider]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

If we ignore them they will go away, or just all kill themselves.

 

[Cosmo]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

Cutting government spending, duh!

 

[venice_ca]

Cruelty is the point — example #938.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

Virtue signaling for the Christian Right.

This is EXACTLY what JESUS would do.

 

[Ikari]

MAGA likes dead people, I suppose.

 

[Individual]

The service was provided for free, but will close as it will no longer be funded?
The funded 988 suicide hotline remains, but the free service will cease?
How much funding went to the free service?
Just goes to show, nothing in life is free.

 

[armycowboy]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

There really isn't one.

 

[Mycroft]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

End spending on something the federal government doesn't need to fund.

If the states want it, they can pay for it.

 

[Rogue Valley]

'People Will Die': Shock Over Trump Shutting Down LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline Is Growing

The Trump administration is once again drawing criticism during LGBTQ Pride Month—this time for defunding the LGBTQ youth-specific branch of the national 988 suicide hotline, which has supported 1.3 million LGBTQ+ young people since its launch in 2022. Known as “988 Press 3 Option,” the LGBTQ...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone explain one single reason to do this other than hatred.

With MAGA, cruelty is the point.

 

[Cosmo]

End spending on something the federal government doesn't need to fund.

If the states want it, they can pay for it.

I was just gonna say that no government should need to fund this crap, whether state, local, or federal.

 

[SCrider]

I was just gonna say that no government should need to fund this crap, whether state, local, or federal.

Because you would just like them all to disappear, right? Suicide or back in the closet does not matter to you.

 

[Cosmo]

Because you would just like them all to disappear, right?

Why? Is that your reason for opposing it?

Suicide or back in the closet does not matter to you.

No, I just think it's a waste of money.

 

[rhinefire]

I was just gonna say that no government should need to fund this crap, whether state, local, or federal.

You omitted food and home and health programs. Helping citizens should be viewed as unnecessary trash right?

 

[upsideguy]

Cutting government spending, duh!

No evidence that Trump cares one iota about government spending. Plenty of evidence that he is a bigot who has no use for anyone that isn't a white straight male.

 

[rhinefire]

End spending on something the federal government doesn't need to fund.

If the states want it, they can pay for it.

Yeah, people dying is no business of the feds

 

[AJG]

I was just gonna say that no government should need to fund this crap, whether state, local, or federal.

Why? Is that your reason for opposing it?

No, I just think it's a waste of money.

Preventing deaths is "crap" and "a waste of money"??

 

[btthegreat]

Cutting government spending, duh!

I abhor that that way of thought but even if we use the beancounter argument, I am not sure that it does. How expensive are botched suicide attempts on the taxpayer? Imagine what we end up funding after we get that first 911 call, and then eventually through the ambulance doors? There are short term physical health care expenses over the next month and then there are the long term ones. How many botched efforts does it take to justify the costs of that hotline?

 

[rhinefire]

If we ignore them they will go away, or just all kill themselves.

Did your daddy force you to wear dresses until you were 18?

 

[TheDoctorWasIn]

Cutting government spending, duh!

The service was provided for free, but will close as it will no longer be funded?
The funded 988 suicide hotline remains, but the free service will cease?
How much funding went to the free service?
Just goes to show, nothing in life is free.

End spending on something the federal government doesn't need to fund.

If the states want it, they can pay for it.

None of you read the link, did you?

 

[Cosmo]

You omitted food and home and health programs. Helping citizens should be viewed as unnecessary trash right?

I think some programs can be modified, not necessarily scrapped.

 

[TheDoctorWasIn]

No, I just think it's a waste of money.

Suicide prevention is a waste of money?

Sometimes I think there's some hope for you guys, and then I see something like this. We're really going to need a purge, when this is all over.

 

[Cosmo]

Preventing deaths is "crap" and "a waste of money"??

It's more a case of the regular hotline can talk into the phone.

 

[Helix]

Another day, another bit of disgusting, harmful bigotry from the far right. If the Republican party tries to squirm away from this era in coming decades, don't forget.

 

[Cosmo]

I abhor that that way of thought but even if we use the beancounter argument, I am not sure that it does. How expensive are botched suicide attempts on the taxpayer? Imagine what we end up funding after we get that first 911 call, and then eventually through the ambulance doors? There are short term physical health care expenses over the next month and then there are the long term ones. How many botched efforts does it take to justify the costs of that hotline?

As usual, liberals miss the point that the regular hotline can do this. But I guess that gets in the way of hating everything Trump does because orange man bad, especially when it's a government contraction.