Report: Trump admin trying to rein in RFK Jr.’s unpopular anti-vaccine agenda
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Yes. My mom was in this later group. At least from 1952 when my sister died of kidney disease. She knew my sister could have been cured if only the docs had tried harder. So she flipped over to the crazy side. And not discussion allowed. She knew the truth because she had read ....
And thus I got to grow up in a strange world with my father on the rational side and my mother on the nut side.
Fun times.
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That seems to indicate that there are any other kinds of wounds suffered by this administration when there most definitely are not.
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The Constitution says both houses get to set their own rules of operation.
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Also, he's a "he" and not a "she". Men get kid gloves, women get the boot in this admin.
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Who could have imagined that letting a dude who bathes in poo water might not be the best choice to lead a health department?
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Most miscast. Appearances usually matter in the Orange House (Foxability). But sometimes work experience is key. Steven Cheung did communications and PR for UFC.
He is Orange House Communications Director. A rare Trump-1 survivor (comms), then consulted for 2020 presidential campaign and Caitlyn Jenner's 2021 CA Newsome recall crusade. September 2022 began leading communications for MAGA Inc. super PAC. Then director of communications for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
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I have an inkling that 77.5 million people being chased like cockroaches into the shadows lest the rest of the economy find a reason to sue and regulate them out of the ability to make a living entirely in all but the reddest bastion stronghold states is going to be more interesting than post-war WWII was for the remaining Nazi-adjacent population.
You have to remember that a significant portion of that population stating their intent to skip voting in 2026 and 2028 entirely isn't to be taken lightly. Not only were their initial goals wrong or misleading to begin with but they realized they both voted for the least competent administration to put all the voting blocs' goals into practice (other than crypto bros stealing and hiding money from the US economy in ponzi schemes and AI) but they also voted for the perpetrators of the atrocities they were trying to prevent.
It would be better if they acknowledged the choice was surrender their conservative identity in order to be able to make a living and put everything behind them, but I don't expect all 77.5 million to conclude they went from trying to fix problems that never existed in the first place to becoming the problem themselves due to Fox News, Facebook and Twitter.
I expect more than a few Gaza protest votes to be committing suicide from cognitive dissonance over current events in Iran on top of Gaza being parking lotted entirely, for instance.
There is no consistent way to impose legal, financial and social consequences on 77.5 million people (Labor camps aren't happening, prison is impractical) but I suspect it's going to be extremely difficult for them to try to vote for this shit again AND social media is actually going to start censoring MAGA and conservatism necessarily at some point for being pedophilia and domestic terrorism-adjacent because if they don't, the liberal controlled US government/states and the rest of the world will have something loud to say about picking apart the rest of the American service economy with Canada and Mexico up front first.
It's going to be beyond 2032 for all that to play out, especially if the Democratic Party fucks up and doesn't design a near-revolutionary mirror to Project 2032 or make a couple moonshots for Constitutional Conventions to shunt the country toward Democratic Socialism once there's no unified fascist resistance to the idea, but at some point the GOP as a political institution gets dismantled or the USA gets treated and sanctioned like Russia necessarily.
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Normal (if such a thing exists) death cults usually end up killing themselves off in factional fighting. Or drinking the almond-smelling coolaid..
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Cultists are not rational. Trying to analyze their bizarre antics in a rational way will always fail. You can't reason someone out of a position that they did not use reason to get into. I have talked with some of the RFK Jr. cultists and they will even tell you that nothing he does, or what you say can ever change their minds. Orange Mussolini also has a cult following, as do LLM AI chatbots. Some people are simply addicted to religion, in any form. They find that being detached from reality is far more comfortable than actually facing reality. As an astronomer said many years ago: "If you start to show someone how to destroy their own power of reason, some will eagerly finish the job on their own."
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-apocalypse-dfb0aa9e5e96c583461bdd56fb21568a
https://appliedintelligence.substack.com/p/the-dangerof-falling-for-new-religions
https://www.latimes.com/business/st...nding-tech-is-sounding-increasingly-religious
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...ts-how-ai-is-fusing-with-religion-2026-02-07/
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I'm aware, but that doesn't change that it's nonsensical to require a higher bar to bring a bill to the floor for a vote than to actually pass it into law. It shouldn't be a thing.
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Hard to recruit new footballers if they have all been dropped into a volcano.
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I have no love for RFK, Jr., and I think he has dishonored his father's legacy. But what charges would you suggest be brought that a) could get past a grand jury and b) could get past a trial jury? And by what charges, I mean exactly what part of 18 USC or any other criminal statutes would you suggest be used? There is no federal criminal statute that I can find that would cover "endangering public safety." Kennedy is exercising the powers provided to the office he holds within his discretion. Even if there were a statute, most government officials get qualified immunity for actions they take while in office pursuant to carrying out the duties of the office.
He could be impeached and removed, should Congress decide to actually exercise its power for the first time in 30+ years. And any prosecution that follows would not be pardonable by any president. But he has not technically committed any crimes that I can find.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/
The percentage of the 65+ votes in 2024 were 48-51 for Harris and Trump respectively, not far off the national popular vote of 48.3 percent to 49.8 percent.
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If that's the GOP's mindset, I'd just like to say that seizing Elon Musk's fortune and distributing it to the general population of the US would be wildly popular with almost all of the population, so ...
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Honest question: How is the size of Denmark relevant here? I've seen this mentioned in other reporting too, but don't understand the reason why people mention this.
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Not everyone. There are plenty of irrational stupid people who will consult with psychics, and no end to the number of latter con-artists. Do a search for "people consult psychic after illness" and you will receive at least hundreds of hits on Google or DuckDuckGo. You can even get AI psychic advice about your real of perceived illness (two cons for the price of one!).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...xas-child-dead-parents-anti-vax-b2718899.html
https://people.com/measles-child-death-texas-parents-pediatrician-reponds-11701359
https://www.7thsensepsychics.com/stories/health-insights-through-psychic-readings-what-to-expect/
https://www.billbradleyreadings.com/all-services
https://wisdomofthespirit.com/spiritual-meaning-of-illness/
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3-RGVuC4PY
etc...
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What does population size and homogeneity have to do with a less stringent vaccine schedule?
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Scary Devil Monastery
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No, unfortunately that is not the case. I hold as an example, DOGE.
The abolition of USAID alone carries a death tally of well over half a million dead children over the last year alone. The first cuts of DOGE found that the people tasked to count and keep the US nuclear arsenal were redundant.
Eye-watering stupidity at the reigns of power can only be matched in malicious outcomes by religious fanaticism. A truly evil person at the helm who is also intelligent? May be evil but above all, would also want results less likely to see them toppled or thrown under the bus by the concerted efforts of a population driven desperate because they were suddenly starving in a country which never, up until they began watering the crops with soda, produced less than five times what its citizenry could possibly eat.
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Scary Devil Monastery
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Now that is news to me. And googling a bit about it, I see why; the tories are at least lying about trying to fix it, not saying that it needs to be abolished.
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Scary Devil Monastery
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That's sort of my point. Half of the active voters keep coming back to vote for the politicians who keep fucking them over in a manner so obvious the only analogy I have is that of Charlie Brown trying to kick that famous football;
Grown people. Adults. Yet for their entire lives they've just kept voting for the evil asshole bending them over without lube.
Intellectually, I know why, of course; half the US voters - that third of the US population - would be willing to see themselves and their families reduced to living out of a cardboard box under a bridge, roasting pigeons on a curtain rod as long as the next bridge under there's a gay man, a brown person, or a godless liberal, in a similar cardboard box but without a pigeon.
...which again brings us back to the 40% of the US population which does not vote.
Every nation has assholes. Maybe not as openly malicious, stupid and deranged as the republican base...but we do have them.
It's just that almost everywhere else, what we do not have is almost half our total population so apathetic, ignorant and/or uncaring that they can not be arsed to vote against those set to make their own lives and those of untold others utterly miserable.
Not much needs to be said about the third of the US population who are irredeemable assholes. It's all been said.
The part of the US population which can't be arsed to even try to vote that third down, however, is why I keep coming back to the question as to just what is wrong on a fundamental level, with those clowns.
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That's because the US provides more than enough examples* of why even a deliberately broken NHS is preferable to the US system. Trying to sell the electorate on changing is the political equivalent of "Feeling cold? Why not set yourself on fire!"
*both real and fictional, like Breaking Bad
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"Smaller" fits with the rest of the sentence, but ... ease of repeat visits for followup, perhaps.
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He also seems to be some weird cross between a North Korean news anchor and Baghdad Bob. It's unclear how much of what he vomits up he believes in, but he is whole-heartedly committed to the bit.
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It's weird how the far right wants to completely forget how enthusiastic Trump was about Project Warp Speed.
Remember this? https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/R...with-moderna-to-produce-100-million-doses-of/
Remember this? https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/R...with-moderna-to-produce-100-million-doses-of/
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That's sort of my point. Half of the active voters keep coming back to vote for the politicians who keep fucking them over in a manner so obvious the only analogy I have is that of Charlie Brown trying to kick that famous football;
Grown people. Adults. Yet for their entire lives they've just kept voting for the evil asshole bending them over without lube.
Intellectually, I know why, of course; half the US voters - that third of the US population - would be willing to see themselves and their families reduced to living out of a cardboard box under a bridge, roasting pigeons on a curtain rod as long as the next bridge under there's a gay man, a brown person, or a godless liberal, in a similar cardboard box but without a pigeon.
...which again brings us back to the 40% of the US population which does not vote.
Every nation has assholes. Maybe not as openly malicious, stupid and deranged as the republican base...but we do have them.
It's just that almost everywhere else, what we do not have is almost half our total population so apathetic, ignorant and/or uncaring that they can not be arsed to vote against those set to make their own lives and those of untold others utterly miserable.
Not much needs to be said about the third of the US population who are irredeemable assholes. It's all been said.
The part of the US population which can't be arsed to even try to vote that third down, however, is why I keep coming back to the question as to just what is wrong on a fundamental level, with those clowns.
I get where you were going with it, my only objection was to your painting with too broad a brush by my reading. Because this isn't on all Americans. But you are right that a majority of the voting-eligible population is either apathetic or too dumb to understand they're being conned, to the detriment of all of us.
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I for one am not going to volunteer to go on a pure rotting whale and rancid roadkill diet, while marinating in raw sewage, just to ensure I taste suitably spicy. Did I mention the bit about refusing to use tannery waste overflow on my skin?
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“Republicans warn that further attacks on lifesaving vaccines could harm the party during the midterms”
Republicans, your party is already irrecoverably harmed for the midterms. There is no coming back from the sustained levels of bellicose, destructive idiocy that the public has witnessed in Trump 2.0. Firing all of the individual idiots before the election is nice to watch, but it’s not going to save you.
Republicans, your party is already irrecoverably harmed for the midterms. There is no coming back from the sustained levels of bellicose, destructive idiocy that the public has witnessed in Trump 2.0. Firing all of the individual idiots before the election is nice to watch, but it’s not going to save you.
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Bold claim that the damage is “done.” I try not to think about how much worse things are gonna get
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Will we though?
I thought enough people would remember in 2020, but apparently the price of eggs makes people forget.
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The problem with nations is they are far too concerned with birtherism and far too unlikely to just let you vote with your feet.
If we just let people move to the conspiracy theorist country, they could do that there and we could do not-that here.
I think everyone would be happier.
If we just let people move to the conspiracy theorist country, they could do that there and we could do not-that here.
I think everyone would be happier.
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It depends on what you mean by "we." I will surely remember. But those people who voted to put a convicted felon in charge of appointing judges; I have questions about both their memory and their reasoning ability.
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It's actually a basic system requirement with MAGA / MAHA. Nobody with actual deep knowledge in important areas and sane decision making skills, would ever join in with these fucking evil clowns.
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Wow, when your party is dropping bunker-busters on schools, destabilising the entire middle east to the point where it threatens to embroil the entire world in a third war (that we can only hope and pray remains a conventional war), whilst at the same time making a strong case for renewable power by doing something so idiotic that it's tanked the world's oil supply, having them think that your policies might hurt it in the mid-terms you've might be a sign that maybe you should take s step back, look at yourself in the mirror and ask, "Am I the arse-hole?"
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