Of all the terrible things happening to this country due to Trump, Inc., the trainwreck of RFK, Jr.'s so-called "leadership" of Health and Human Services is what frightens me the most (well, along with DOGE gaining control of Social Security). I am lucky to have already gotten all the vaccines I could, though I know that many others haven't been able to yet, and when the yearly flu, Covid, and RSV vaccines go away that's going to hit us seniors pretty hard. Not to mention the increased risk to children of measles, mumps, and maybe even polio and diphtheria! Smallpox anyone? And will they also get rid of the tetanus shot? If anything finally forces me to move to another country, it will be the backsliding of medicine in this country to the 1700's.
I wanted to write something insightful, but discovered I'm fresh out of f*s to give about America's self inflicted avalanche of BS. Sorry, maybe next time.
I hope that they will find the hard way that vaccines do save lives. Maybe when people start getting sick, it will maybe get clear to them that without vaccines diseases that were once under control are coming back in force.
I don't. Former pediatrician here. This absolutely breaks my heart. Why should children be punished because their parents have fallen for a conman? To me, this is the flip side of Republicans wanting children to be hungry and inadequately sheltered and educated because their parents are poor. It's horrible. I'm not religious, but I like to imagine an afterlife similar to what Charles Dickens describes in A Christmas Carol--these horrid people suffering and wishing they could have done better in their lives. Far better than suffering children.
I realize that the Sec. Hegseth of the DoD or the people at the FBI might cause more harm than RFK. Hegseth could start a war. Or lose one by not developing batteries and small drones. Trump himself is causing more harm. But something about RFK makes me hate & fear him more than the others. Perhaps because I know more about science than war. Perhaps because his job calls for more scientific knowledge than these other jobs, and he is so abominably stupid and ignorant. They all are, but in a technical job it matters more. Hegseth is a blithering idiot, but at least he was in the military. He knows something about it.
RFK is the appointment I understand least. The other incompetents appeared on TV, or such as Gabbard, like Russia. A part of his agenda.
RFK looks and sounds terrible. Is his appointment just to poke the rest of us in the eye? Trump was proud of Operation Warp Speed, and getting the best care may have saved his life when he had covid.
Exactly. I understand all of the others because they swore loyalty to DJT and will do whatever he wants. But why an anti-science, anti-medicine nutcase? Isn't DJT supposedly a germaphobe, and doesn't he think MAGAs get sick?
Approval for the current duly elected T. Rump criminal enterprise functioning as the government of the United Banana Republics of America is running above 30% or so and is not likely to decline much, if any, further in my opinion because it is probably roughly the fraction of the notoriously fickle American electorate which constitutes the MAGA true believers. There may be strength in numbers but the results of recent elections does not seem to indicate any serious challenges ahead for a criminal enterprise determined to survive and thrive after the mid-term elections. Sigh.
Dr. Death and his ilk look forward to wiping out all those who don't survive the many diseases soon to be resurrected....Survival of the fittest for the regime, is the message. All other Nations should refuse to let us in....Remember when Columbus brought Syphilis to the new world and wiped out most the population....We white people are such a danger.
Wasn't it smallpox, measles and other infectious diseases? Syphilis went the other way; The Americas' revenge for the disaster brought upon it by European conquerors.
Mr. Google tells me it's still unknown where and how Syphilis evolved. In any case. the Europeans were slaughtering machines in both North and South continents. I suppose we'll never find out the origins of those diseases of the Renaissance with Dr. Death no doubt has had all records obliterated by now.
The Kaiser Family Foundation polls demonstrate a dismaying triumph of ignorance - typically packaged as "common sense" and "a healthy skepticism of 'expert' authority."
There's nothing wrong with common sense and a skeptical attitude toward authority per se. But those Republicans who distrust credentialed health officials and their own doctors instead repose their trust in ... the authority and wisdom of Donald Trump! and RFK Jr. It is not remotely commonsensical to trust Donald Trump on anything at all - certainly not on medical questions. It might be slightly less insane to trust RFK Jr. given that he has put some attention into such questions - but only slightly.
Anyone who tells me that RFK Jr knows what he’s talking about… I immediately ask where he got his medical degree…and when they can’t answer that…I tell them that RFK Jr has ZERO qualifications for the position that he is in, as does the rest of the president‘s cabinet.
The entire Republican Party is a death cult. They will rush to claim they care, but no, they are comfortable with you or your kid dying by disease, starvation, exposure, gun violence, wild dogs, or natural disaster as long as there isn't an abortion or tax to clutch their pearls over.
Remember when they said Obamacare came into existence because the Democratic Party is a death cult? Even back then, they were projecting their own intent…that everyone in this country (except for them and their own families and their rich buddies) should be uneducated, working for slave wages, and die of preventable diseases before they can collect the Social Security that they paid into for their entire working life. However, only if they are white. Those brown and black people need to go back where they came from.
I am going to keep repeating this point: At his core, RFK Jr. is a eugenicist who wants to make America healthier by allowing the less-healthy portion of the population to die off. Large numbers of folks dying of measles, flu, and covid isn't a tragic side-effect of his policies. It is the goal.
Of all the terrible things happening to this country due to Trump, Inc., the trainwreck of RFK, Jr.'s so-called "leadership" of Health and Human Services is what frightens me the most (well, along with DOGE gaining control of Social Security). I am lucky to have already gotten all the vaccines I could, though I know that many others haven't been able to yet, and when the yearly flu, Covid, and RSV vaccines go away that's going to hit us seniors pretty hard. Not to mention the increased risk to children of measles, mumps, and maybe even polio and diphtheria! Smallpox anyone? And will they also get rid of the tetanus shot? If anything finally forces me to move to another country, it will be the backsliding of medicine in this country to the 1700's.
I wanted to write something insightful, but discovered I'm fresh out of f*s to give about America's self inflicted avalanche of BS. Sorry, maybe next time.
Love the subtle homage to Brian Wilson, beginning with the last three words of Andrew’s newsletter, followed by the title of Bill’s…well played.
The only thing the moron Kennedy could build is a good case of hemorrhoids.
I hope that they will find the hard way that vaccines do save lives. Maybe when people start getting sick, it will maybe get clear to them that without vaccines diseases that were once under control are coming back in force.
I don't. Former pediatrician here. This absolutely breaks my heart. Why should children be punished because their parents have fallen for a conman? To me, this is the flip side of Republicans wanting children to be hungry and inadequately sheltered and educated because their parents are poor. It's horrible. I'm not religious, but I like to imagine an afterlife similar to what Charles Dickens describes in A Christmas Carol--these horrid people suffering and wishing they could have done better in their lives. Far better than suffering children.
I realize that the Sec. Hegseth of the DoD or the people at the FBI might cause more harm than RFK. Hegseth could start a war. Or lose one by not developing batteries and small drones. Trump himself is causing more harm. But something about RFK makes me hate & fear him more than the others. Perhaps because I know more about science than war. Perhaps because his job calls for more scientific knowledge than these other jobs, and he is so abominably stupid and ignorant. They all are, but in a technical job it matters more. Hegseth is a blithering idiot, but at least he was in the military. He knows something about it.
RFK is the appointment I understand least. The other incompetents appeared on TV, or such as Gabbard, like Russia. A part of his agenda.
RFK looks and sounds terrible. Is his appointment just to poke the rest of us in the eye? Trump was proud of Operation Warp Speed, and getting the best care may have saved his life when he had covid.
Operation Brain Worm?
Exactly. I understand all of the others because they swore loyalty to DJT and will do whatever he wants. But why an anti-science, anti-medicine nutcase? Isn't DJT supposedly a germaphobe, and doesn't he think MAGAs get sick?
"two-thirds of GOPers like Trump’s signature plan", including the Medicare cuts.
The leopards are salivating over that one.
Please talk like humans - people will be 'hurt', not "deleteriously impacted." Sounds like a medical condition.
Writers often use big words to show that they are a good writer (know a lot of words). They are all guilty. 🙂
American society is pathetic.
Not all of American Society. It’s mostly those fake christians.
Approval for the current duly elected T. Rump criminal enterprise functioning as the government of the United Banana Republics of America is running above 30% or so and is not likely to decline much, if any, further in my opinion because it is probably roughly the fraction of the notoriously fickle American electorate which constitutes the MAGA true believers. There may be strength in numbers but the results of recent elections does not seem to indicate any serious challenges ahead for a criminal enterprise determined to survive and thrive after the mid-term elections. Sigh.
Dr. Death and his ilk look forward to wiping out all those who don't survive the many diseases soon to be resurrected....Survival of the fittest for the regime, is the message. All other Nations should refuse to let us in....Remember when Columbus brought Syphilis to the new world and wiped out most the population....We white people are such a danger.
Wasn't it smallpox, measles and other infectious diseases? Syphilis went the other way; The Americas' revenge for the disaster brought upon it by European conquerors.
Mr. Google tells me it's still unknown where and how Syphilis evolved. In any case. the Europeans were slaughtering machines in both North and South continents. I suppose we'll never find out the origins of those diseases of the Renaissance with Dr. Death no doubt has had all records obliterated by now.
Yes, the 'civilised white' nations have managed to spread misery to all parts of the globe.
The Kaiser Family Foundation polls demonstrate a dismaying triumph of ignorance - typically packaged as "common sense" and "a healthy skepticism of 'expert' authority."
There's nothing wrong with common sense and a skeptical attitude toward authority per se. But those Republicans who distrust credentialed health officials and their own doctors instead repose their trust in ... the authority and wisdom of Donald Trump! and RFK Jr. It is not remotely commonsensical to trust Donald Trump on anything at all - certainly not on medical questions. It might be slightly less insane to trust RFK Jr. given that he has put some attention into such questions - but only slightly.
Anyone who tells me that RFK Jr knows what he’s talking about… I immediately ask where he got his medical degree…and when they can’t answer that…I tell them that RFK Jr has ZERO qualifications for the position that he is in, as does the rest of the president‘s cabinet.
The Sick Bro
Bro, thou art sick,
The invisible worm,
That flies to the right,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy head,
Of sinister ploy,
And this dark, secret grub,
Does thy mind destroy
Apologies to William Blake
The entire Republican Party is a death cult. They will rush to claim they care, but no, they are comfortable with you or your kid dying by disease, starvation, exposure, gun violence, wild dogs, or natural disaster as long as there isn't an abortion or tax to clutch their pearls over.
Remember when they said Obamacare came into existence because the Democratic Party is a death cult? Even back then, they were projecting their own intent…that everyone in this country (except for them and their own families and their rich buddies) should be uneducated, working for slave wages, and die of preventable diseases before they can collect the Social Security that they paid into for their entire working life. However, only if they are white. Those brown and black people need to go back where they came from.
I am going to keep repeating this point: At his core, RFK Jr. is a eugenicist who wants to make America healthier by allowing the less-healthy portion of the population to die off. Large numbers of folks dying of measles, flu, and covid isn't a tragic side-effect of his policies. It is the goal.