Nothing says “I’m your public health secretary” quite like a man who looks like he personally rejected every vaccine ever invented and whose wellness routine apparently consists of raw milk, conspiracy theories, and whatever his brain worm recommends that morning.
His voice is clear warning for what not to do.
This is the guy blocking mRNA vaccines that could prevent cancer and the next pandemic. A man whose own body is a walking advertisement for why we need public health officials is now in charge of dismantling public health.
The measles outbreak making its greatest comeback in 30 years is the perfect metaphor: RFK Jr. didn’t just bring bad ideas to Washington, he brought the 1950s with him.
Dr. Oz is down the hall. The brain worm is in the office. And somehow this is the A-team for American healthcare.
Idiocracy turns out was a documentary with a 20-year delay. Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
Excellent reporting on the threats of our science denying leadership. The FDA has been hijacked, important research funding has been canceled and millions of lives are threatened due to their policies. We must turn the tide to survive!
Noah, the word your piece ends with capsulizes T2.0 and all if its atrocities: plague. If the cruel and insane actions of this regime/junta were happening in another country, previously we would have recommended that its leaders be tried by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Now, we live in an era in which we are the pariah among nations and our former allies can no longer count on us to be be the leader of the free world. Sadly, those words no longer apply to us now.
The ultimate goal of the ruling oligarchy is to turn the US into a third world country, a subsistence nation where the population expends so much energy just trying to survive that they can no longer resist the wholesale plunder of national wealth.
For the super-rich, the US is not a nation of people working towards maximizing the common good. It is a giant target to be taken over and stripped for parts, just like they take over rival corporations in order to generate short term profit instead of long-term growth.
In the corporate context, this leads to lost opportunities and suppression of good ideas and products. Performed as national policy. It translates to widespread poverty and death on a global scale. But it doesn't matter as long as the rich folk can accumulate more money that they can spend in several lifetimes, or use to buy a private island and indulge their impulses.
Good piece, but I believe the figure on excess COVID deaths attributable to the felon’s administration’s response (58,000) is wildly low. I recall having read something more like half a million, and while I can’t find a cite to support that right now, I did find this one that estimates hundreds of thousands as of a few years ago: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/
The 58K figure links back to an outdated article from over five years ago.
This abrogation of every positive role played by America over the past 80 years will relegate this country to second-rate status. It’ll take another 80 years to repair the damage done in a few short years. Might makes right is nothing more than three words that mean one: bullying. The history of bullies is a history of failure. The downfall of America will be Trump’s legacy.
Nothing says “I’m your public health secretary” quite like a man who looks like he personally rejected every vaccine ever invented and whose wellness routine apparently consists of raw milk, conspiracy theories, and whatever his brain worm recommends that morning.
His voice is clear warning for what not to do.
This is the guy blocking mRNA vaccines that could prevent cancer and the next pandemic. A man whose own body is a walking advertisement for why we need public health officials is now in charge of dismantling public health.
The measles outbreak making its greatest comeback in 30 years is the perfect metaphor: RFK Jr. didn’t just bring bad ideas to Washington, he brought the 1950s with him.
Dr. Oz is down the hall. The brain worm is in the office. And somehow this is the A-team for American healthcare.
Idiocracy turns out was a documentary with a 20-year delay. Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
—Johan
Excellent reporting on the threats of our science denying leadership. The FDA has been hijacked, important research funding has been canceled and millions of lives are threatened due to their policies. We must turn the tide to survive!
Noah, the word your piece ends with capsulizes T2.0 and all if its atrocities: plague. If the cruel and insane actions of this regime/junta were happening in another country, previously we would have recommended that its leaders be tried by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Now, we live in an era in which we are the pariah among nations and our former allies can no longer count on us to be be the leader of the free world. Sadly, those words no longer apply to us now.
The ultimate goal of the ruling oligarchy is to turn the US into a third world country, a subsistence nation where the population expends so much energy just trying to survive that they can no longer resist the wholesale plunder of national wealth.
For the super-rich, the US is not a nation of people working towards maximizing the common good. It is a giant target to be taken over and stripped for parts, just like they take over rival corporations in order to generate short term profit instead of long-term growth.
In the corporate context, this leads to lost opportunities and suppression of good ideas and products. Performed as national policy. It translates to widespread poverty and death on a global scale. But it doesn't matter as long as the rich folk can accumulate more money that they can spend in several lifetimes, or use to buy a private island and indulge their impulses.
Just a reminder to myself and others that Trump, Kennedy, and all those who associate with him possess the psychological Dark Triad:
— Machiavellianism: involves interpersonal manipulation and a generalized lack of morality or empathy.
— Narcissism involves: entitlement, selfishness and a need for admiration
— Psychopathy: involves deceitfulness, impulsiveness and manipulative behavior.
Letting 550,000 children die is as easy as sending a dinner back to the kitchen because everything is not to their liking.
Shame for such people. Pthft. What’s that?
Trump’s Dark Triad was made by his father.
Kennedy’s was made by brain damage.
Good piece, but I believe the figure on excess COVID deaths attributable to the felon’s administration’s response (58,000) is wildly low. I recall having read something more like half a million, and while I can’t find a cite to support that right now, I did find this one that estimates hundreds of thousands as of a few years ago: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/
The 58K figure links back to an outdated article from over five years ago.
This abrogation of every positive role played by America over the past 80 years will relegate this country to second-rate status. It’ll take another 80 years to repair the damage done in a few short years. Might makes right is nothing more than three words that mean one: bullying. The history of bullies is a history of failure. The downfall of America will be Trump’s legacy.