Remember: in his first term, the entire country ran out of toilet paper. So the nation suffering from explosive diarrhea seems like a fitting coda for this disastrous administration. What the hell were Americans thinking when they voted for him?
I like how you thought they were "thinking": VERY optimistic of you...
Hopefully Americans will VOTE in November and we can go back to NOT being the backward, racist, corrupt global laughingstock that Republicans have worked hard to make us today.
Illustrative that Trump and Kennedy - both born wealthy and untainted by actual working for a living - are so intent on punishing those not born wealthy.
We will probably never be able to measure the impact of Trump's demented incompetence, in part, because of NIH grant cuts and staff cuts that turned health research inside out. Having written a book on how grant applications are processed, peer-reviewed, funded, and executed, DOGE and grant funding freezes triggered the administrative equivalent of a hurricane during an earthquake.
The cuts killed funded studies just as final data were accumulating (gotta start over; a 2- to 4-year delay at minimum). Of course, the cuts also killed studies about to be funded, and funded studies preparing to test hypotheses that evolved from prior studies that might have led to new treatments. Most voters are also unaware that CDC not only detects diseases before they become a public health threat, but their data accumulation also helps to identify disease vectors that can lead to epidemiological research that might reduce future human exposure to things like cyclosporia - Trump's favorite food? Whoda thunk?
Depending on the study, Narcissistic Personality Disorder affects up to 6% of the population. It is clear that the current administration has become day care for this disorder. They charm people at first, then they use them as tools to attempt to fill their hollowness. The seriousness of this disease is underrated; historically, all the dictators and their minions have had it, and the devastation they have caused is immeasurable. The so called Goldwater Rule, not publicly diagnosing politicians, has had disastrous consequences. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, and her associates called bullshit on this in her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump containing essays by 27 psychiatrists (and in her follow up book).
She called bullshit, got fired from her job as an Attending physician in the Psychiatry Dept. at Yale, and was censored by the American Psychiatric Association. She paid a very high price, but says that to this day, she has absolutely no regrets.
Frankly if the USA gets to the end of this administration's term with only unnecessary harm from measles, (proper) influenza and now cyclosporaisis it will be lucky. All of the Senators who voted for Kennedy's confirmation should retire in ignomony. This disaster (and probably more incoming) was totally predictable but they were to WEAK too put the Health of the nation first.
For those that take medication to manage Ulcerative colitis, this is very scary. Contracting cyclosporiasis can cause their medication to stop working and take them out of remission. My husband suffers from this condition and we are so upset that this administration can’t leave our robust public health system in tact. They have such disdain for science and medicine
Good for you Erin for giving a specific example of the risks this reckless incompetence has inflicted on innocent people. I'm no epidemiologist but there must be many, many ordinary Americans who have good reason to be worried by the destructive damage to public health. I'll bet pounds to peanuts that those who have inflicted this damage do not care one whit.
Breathtakingly terrifying and fucking infuriating reading. I will say that, as always, your descriptive terms (‘malevolent and ignorant ghoul, ‘on the side of pathogens’, etc) are first-rate and laugh out loud (in a nervous way) funny. Thanks for this.
Also "indefatigably pro-disease HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,"
and
"Other Trump officials have, apparently, been envious of Kennedy’s success in spreading sickness and misery, and have tried to show Trump that they too are on the side of pathogens. Defense secretary and murderous clown Pete Hegseth burbled about religious freedom and bodily autonomy and ended a mandatory military vaccine policy on April 21. Flu vaccine uptake cratered as 60 percent of Air Force trainees opted out of the shot.
The result was a predictable disaster. At Lackland Air Force Base where service members eat at large tables and sleep together in bunk beds, the flu ripped through the ranks; 160 people fell ill in less than two months. Hegseth had to take a break from preening for cameras to order emergency vaccinations. One trainee died."
No notes: absolutely correct and perfectly stated.
Taco Bell is getting bad press, deflecting from the actual source, the farm it came from. Several independent news sources report that Taco Bell pulled the possibly infected produce proactively.
Remember: in his first term, the entire country ran out of toilet paper. So the nation suffering from explosive diarrhea seems like a fitting coda for this disastrous administration. What the hell were Americans thinking when they voted for him?
Some people have VERY short memories.
I like how you thought they were "thinking": VERY optimistic of you...
Hopefully Americans will VOTE in November and we can go back to NOT being the backward, racist, corrupt global laughingstock that Republicans have worked hard to make us today.
A shit show… how perfectly fitting. 🤦🏼♀️
LOL!
The jokes just write themselves- but real people suffer …. Evil
Illustrative that Trump and Kennedy - both born wealthy and untainted by actual working for a living - are so intent on punishing those not born wealthy.
Punishing them? Or completely indifferent to them, with the only goal being to increase their own wealth?
Hmm … not mutually exclusive, I think.
Explosive diarrhea is the Republican party's favorite disease. It represents their political culture and philosophy.
Good one.
We will probably never be able to measure the impact of Trump's demented incompetence, in part, because of NIH grant cuts and staff cuts that turned health research inside out. Having written a book on how grant applications are processed, peer-reviewed, funded, and executed, DOGE and grant funding freezes triggered the administrative equivalent of a hurricane during an earthquake.
The cuts killed funded studies just as final data were accumulating (gotta start over; a 2- to 4-year delay at minimum). Of course, the cuts also killed studies about to be funded, and funded studies preparing to test hypotheses that evolved from prior studies that might have led to new treatments. Most voters are also unaware that CDC not only detects diseases before they become a public health threat, but their data accumulation also helps to identify disease vectors that can lead to epidemiological research that might reduce future human exposure to things like cyclosporia - Trump's favorite food? Whoda thunk?
You're right. Honest to goodness, it would take a 1,000 (2,000? plus?) heavily researched tome to even begin to list it all.
Depending on the study, Narcissistic Personality Disorder affects up to 6% of the population. It is clear that the current administration has become day care for this disorder. They charm people at first, then they use them as tools to attempt to fill their hollowness. The seriousness of this disease is underrated; historically, all the dictators and their minions have had it, and the devastation they have caused is immeasurable. The so called Goldwater Rule, not publicly diagnosing politicians, has had disastrous consequences. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, and her associates called bullshit on this in her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump containing essays by 27 psychiatrists (and in her follow up book).
She called bullshit, got fired from her job as an Attending physician in the Psychiatry Dept. at Yale, and was censored by the American Psychiatric Association. She paid a very high price, but says that to this day, she has absolutely no regrets.
Aye
Frankly if the USA gets to the end of this administration's term with only unnecessary harm from measles, (proper) influenza and now cyclosporaisis it will be lucky. All of the Senators who voted for Kennedy's confirmation should retire in ignomony. This disaster (and probably more incoming) was totally predictable but they were to WEAK too put the Health of the nation first.
For those that take medication to manage Ulcerative colitis, this is very scary. Contracting cyclosporiasis can cause their medication to stop working and take them out of remission. My husband suffers from this condition and we are so upset that this administration can’t leave our robust public health system in tact. They have such disdain for science and medicine
Good for you Erin for giving a specific example of the risks this reckless incompetence has inflicted on innocent people. I'm no epidemiologist but there must be many, many ordinary Americans who have good reason to be worried by the destructive damage to public health. I'll bet pounds to peanuts that those who have inflicted this damage do not care one whit.
Turns out those liberal values of clean water&food safety are not a waste of taxpayer dollars
"liberal values" That is so funny that it is viewed that way!!! But it is.
DJT himself is explosive diarrhea.
If you look up explosive diarrhea in the dictionary it would show his ugly orange face.
Breathtakingly terrifying and fucking infuriating reading. I will say that, as always, your descriptive terms (‘malevolent and ignorant ghoul, ‘on the side of pathogens’, etc) are first-rate and laugh out loud (in a nervous way) funny. Thanks for this.
Also "indefatigably pro-disease HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,"
and
"Other Trump officials have, apparently, been envious of Kennedy’s success in spreading sickness and misery, and have tried to show Trump that they too are on the side of pathogens. Defense secretary and murderous clown Pete Hegseth burbled about religious freedom and bodily autonomy and ended a mandatory military vaccine policy on April 21. Flu vaccine uptake cratered as 60 percent of Air Force trainees opted out of the shot.
The result was a predictable disaster. At Lackland Air Force Base where service members eat at large tables and sleep together in bunk beds, the flu ripped through the ranks; 160 people fell ill in less than two months. Hegseth had to take a break from preening for cameras to order emergency vaccinations. One trainee died."
No notes: absolutely correct and perfectly stated.
Is it laziness or stupidity that propels this vindictive, amoral administration?
I think it is greed. Plain and simple. Can't have disease prevention when billionaires need their tax cuts.
And as we all know, the super rich don’t eat at Taco Bell … too pleb.
Taco Bell is getting bad press, deflecting from the actual source, the farm it came from. Several independent news sources report that Taco Bell pulled the possibly infected produce proactively.
Credit where credit is due TACO BELL!!
Indeed. And little mention that Taylor Farms made a million dollar donation to SuperPAC MAGA Inc.
I'd put my money on a dangerous blindness caused by an anti-government ideology. That makes it all the more dangerous and impossible to treat.
Yes, yes … but perhaps severe tunnel vision rather than blindness.
Scholars have compared the Trump administration’s gutting of our scientific institutions to the totalitarianism in Mao’s cultural Revolution.
“Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education,
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power,” By Anne Applebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/?gift=ZBrv-lRzC4GOlCCcT7UtP_TtlOq2-8jCNMB6lDUW6HA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Bob Fuchs
An administration of serial killers!
WTF does Taylor farms have to do with donating to Trump? Why mention it? A lot of ag people did - because they were afraid not to.