The startling claim came amid a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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RFK Jr. can promote getting measles with impunity, DOJ lawyer tells judge
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How are we at a place where untrained, unqualified, uncredentialed, unprofessional people are allowed to set medical policy? Last I heard RFK Jr. wasn't a licensed physician. What's next, he decides to go Theodoric of York Medieval Barber on everyone and have the CDC start recommending leeches?
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Nah, I honestly don't think he will make it that long. It will be JD Vance trying to continue the administration into the next term. Whether or not he can make that happen, I don't know; but I'm sure he'll use Trump's name as much as possible to try to keep the diehards latched onto him.
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But that is a negative motivation for the pro-dementia party! Just look at their leaders.
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Ignorant is the much worse problem than stupid, honestly. I've known people who took a long time to read, couldn't do much math, had trouble recalling things, but who still made the effort, despite all of that, to learn. I'd much rather have a stupid person willing to try working with me than a smart person who refuses to learn anything.
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Except that, in and of itself, is a failure of the system to educate its populace. A huge part of this problem is how bad schools are in this country. History classes just teach propaganda (my friend teaches history. He had to give out a standardized test that had a multiple choice question, "What is the least free country in the world?" with the correct answer being "China"), parents are allowed to exempt their children from critical science lessons, we teach reading in a provably ineffective way (context reading has repeatedly been shown to lower reading comprehension in comparison to phonics), and we build the whole system around pointless standardized tests that we don't let anyone fail anyways (because then you lose funding).
That's not to excuse people's stupidity, but it is a factor that should not be ignored. These people are stupid by design.
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The question is, will they actually pull away from the rhetoric that brought him into power, and the policies that lead to all of this? I don't have much hope in that regard. They may pull ICE off the streets, but they'll keep railing about criminal immigrants. They may move away from RFK and anti-vaxx nonsense, but they'll keep pushing distrust in science and experts. They may back off from full-blown Christian Nationalism, but they will keep calling this a Christian nation and using religious rhetoric to cast their enemies as evil.
We can't fall for the trap of believing that getting rid of Trump will solve much of anything.
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I wonder if he thought it would take until the 21st Century for this to happen. One can argue it happened well before that, but compared to our current Idiot-in-Chief, all other presidents have been paragons of intellectual achievement and ability.
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And not a single one of them held that view when Biden and Obama were president.
I'd also be willing to wager that if a Democratic candidate is ever allowed to win an actually free and fair election again in the future, that Republicans won't hold this view any longer.
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It already happened earlier in the 21st Century - George W Bush
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Seems to me there was this guy, Galileo, some old Italian, who had a similar problem a few years ago, back around 1615. The forces of "believe it because I said it" and the seekers of heresy will never vanish.
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I think we are starting to see the cracks in the "everyone is deserving of defense" I think there are very real situations where instead of say this, we should say "that is patently ridiculous and not deserving of thinking about or defending."
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The hubris of man
Trump lawyers are not men – they’re flying monkeys.
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I suppose you're right. There's definitely a distinct lack of kunnin' brutality and brutal kunnin'
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Ars Scholae Palatinae
Always trust scientists who earned their credentials over an inbred hillbilly moron with a brain worm myself. Not sure why.....
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Screw philosopher kings! We are lead by unreviewable imbecils, the highest evolutionary form of government! Let the winning continue!
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Until that day we must all pray to St. McDonalds, patron of arterial thrombosis.
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It because ignorance is a choice, so the person is wholly invested in their knowledge. A stupid person almost always realizes they have cognitive limitations and often works within those bounds.
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Well, according to Trump, we've lost 300 million to drugs already...
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That would actually be a step forward as there are some medical uses for leeches. There is no medical use for getting measles (unless you count "losing immunity to other diseases" as a medical use).
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Yes, for several decades. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine. And yes, adult chicken pox is generally worse, but is virtually nonexistent in vaccinated populations.
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Sounds like a certain lawyer needs to be disbarred for malpractice. This is a brazen attempt at overthrowing the Constitution, which I'm pretty sure is grounds for disbarment.
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Assuming he is alive by then. I am hoping the blood clot will do it's job.
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Even those of us who may not be stupid do not trust that the fixes would only be short term pain to solve longer term problems. Everything just piles more stress on us peons while the bazillionaires get richer and richer.
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RFK is more likely to ban leeches and maggots, which are best practices in certain settings.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there actually is not any "law somewhere that says those things are required". I don't have any trouble at all imagining that it never occurred to the people who wrote the US constitution and bill of rights that they needed to explicitly state that the possession of intelligence and common sense should be required of the president and his cronies and that those people should be required to use those things.
It probably never occurred to them that someday the American people would decide to elect to the office of president a man who thoroughly demonstrated he was by far their stupidest possible choice ... and then that man in turn would fill the highest positions in his cabinet with the stupidest people he could find. Trump got elected because he speaks fluent stupid and that is the only language that far too many voters understand. Then he filled his cabinet with others who speak the same language.
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Note: If you are over 50, "chickenpox parties" would make sense. Especially scheduling a prolonged sickness during the summer before first grade or something (in the 60s-70s there was a fairly high chance mom stayed home to watch kids anyway). I got the chickenpox while staying with a neighbor, and my mom said "oh good" when I likely caught it (well before the vaccine).
Chickenpox was a disease that you wanted to get over because kids got a mild version. I doubt that is true of measles and anything else the christian right has returned from the grave.
That I heard of them still going on in the 21st century is crazy. Still have to get that shingle shot...
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Because it was obvious they didn't bother to read the article as their question was answered in the article
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The only possible way for him to remain in power is for him to cancel elections and have ICE murder his opponents. I wouldn't classify that as running for office.
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Measles is also better gotten young. It was one of the big killers in the columbian exchange.
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If he manages to wrangle allies then he runs, elections happen, and he wins handily.
Pay no attention to the vote counting procedures in certain key states. California and New York will be squeaky clean, so will Idaho. Texas and Florida… not so much.
The big question is whether a decrepit demented man can keep his governing alliance going.
If there’s a Democrat who could beat him despite election shenanigans, he/she hasn’t shown up yet.
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Bringing your attention to Clinton, who won the popular vote, and Biden, who won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote.
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Neither of them seem likely to run in 2028.
And Clinton famously lost with much milder shenanigans than what Trump’s goons are likely to try in 2028.
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Unreviewable? That’s ridiculous. The US system is built upon every branch being reviewable by other branches. There is no absolute power. The president can be overridden by Congress or the courts. Congress can be overridden by the president or the court. The courts can be overridden by Congress and the states. Department heads are below all of them and can be overruled by the president, congress, or the courts. This is first year law student stuff. Hell this is stuff people should know coming out of High School. It isn’t hard. To have a administration lawyer try to argue this in court is laughably stupid.
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