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Summary

Donald Trump plans to discuss potentially ending childhood vaccination programs with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee for Health and Human Services.

Trump expressed openness to revisiting vaccine policies, citing concerns about autism rates, despite scientific consensus debunking links between vaccines and autism.

Critics warn reducing vaccinations could lead to outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles.

Kennedy, known for questioning vaccine safety, would oversee the CDC if confirmed.

Public health experts remain concerned about the implications.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I hope at least a sizeable chunk of Trump voters regret voting for him. It breaks my heart to know that there are legitimately people who have paid attention to all his lies and already broken promises and still want the guy to lead the country. I don't know how to salvage someone like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can't. They are lost causes who simply can't be trusted to make the right choice for themselves or the rest of the country.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Well at least all the historians will get to see what the collapse of the Roman Empire was like in realtime.

Was cool while it lasted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Other countries: “Oh no our birth rates.”

America:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe that's the Republican's plan to combat global warming, kill off a large part of the population with preventable illnesses. I really haven't heard anything else from them

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think we are forgetting the rate at which Trump chews through allies. Kennedy is simply another useful idiot. He was useful to have his idiot base vote for the turd. They will (maybe) look at the numbers, pharma will say that stocks will go down, and Kennedy will be substituted by another useful idiot. Wash, rinse, repeat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

That’s the only thing I can hope, is that the pharmaceutical and insurance industries will tell him to bury rfkj in a hole in the desert

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I have to wonder how many unvaxxed kids are out there right now where their parents have lied and said the kids are vaxxed. I wouldn’t put it past some unscrupulous doctors (and savvy parents) to forge vax docs where required.

If true, I would imagine what Trump and team are doing is only going to embolden unvaxxers to be more open and honest, rather than hiding it away.

Regardless, it sucks that kids are being used as pawns in their nutjob parent’s conspiracy theories. They don’t deserve it (the kids).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Kill the department of education and force religious curriculum. This whitewashing will hide the history of slavery and make indentured servitude a normal way of life. If you tell them Jesus said it, they will believe it because they can't read or just don't care to take the time and do it. Religion is about blind faith in something that may or may not exist. It is a form of control over those with little to lose.

Ban vaccines so people are sick and weak. Make all other health care unaffordable. Make them starve by inflating prices. Make their bodies weak to avoid physical conflict. They can't hurt you when they are barely able move or care for themselves.

End sex education and ban abortion. People are going to get sick and die constantly. You will have a population falloff preventing any increase to your wealth and power if you don't force them to have kids faster to fill the labor pool.

Keep their wages low so you can buy out their housing. Force them to be reliant on you to put a roof over their heads. Make them work multiple jobs at little pay just to afford this rental housing. Having no home is a real killer of hope.

Pit them against each other. Crime is up, must be the illegal immigrants! They are taking all your jobs! That black guy down the street is going to steal you stuff and your women. That Jew works at the bank and is the reason you can't get a raise or a loan. Your neighbor is your enemy and They will take everything you have if don't have a gun to protect yourself.

I'm could keep going down the rabbit hole, but why bother. These assholes want us back in 1800's where the rich control and own everything.

Don't let them fool you. The rich control both parties in this country. It's just that one side doesn't give a fuck about being open about what they are doing or public perception.

I am not condoning violence, but this is where we are going to end up shortly if the rich stay comfortable. Freedom isn't free, and we are almost out of fight due to apathy. Average people care more about what some ass clown doing in their social feeds than seeing what is about to slap them right in the face.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the ol' classic vaccination / autism correlation. It makes perfect sense, I mean I'm autistic and then I got vaccinated. Definitely a connection here, let's ban the 'tism and solve all the problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

While the link between pollution and autism is very clear, but people still vote for drill baby drill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's not the vaccines that cause autism, you nincompoopidiots, it's the violent videogames, obviously!

🤪

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Bro. You know why. Trump is a puppet and Putin's pulling the strings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Make America Sick Again. But not, like siiick, dude!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RFK is insane. Trump hates the poor

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This has such "Doctor Strangelove" vibes, although the idiocy on display in that movie was meant to be satirical and absurd, yet here we are

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh? Sounds like someone wants my precious bodily fluids. You. Cant. Have them!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thank you USA if you do this, it will most likely show our crazies here in Europe why exactly it is we do it.
Of course I feel sorry for the children that will get needlessly sick.
We may see Darwin awards on a national scale for the ~~first~~ 2nd time in history.
Except this time is worse, because it's parents killing off their innocent children through stupidity. But A kind of Darwin award nonetheless, since they are ending their genetic line.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First time in history? Did we forget about the Herman Cain awards already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ubekibekibekibekibekistanstan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You are right, it already happened during Covid. I made an edit.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Okay, idiot republicunts. You happy now? Not only are eggs going to be MORE expensive because of bullshit tariffs, but your kids are going to die from measles and shit. Way to go, cunts.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They won’t know about it until it personally affects them, then they’ll play the victim card.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not their kids, they can afford the vaccines at list price. It's the poors who will die, as Supply Side Jesus intended.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who exactly do you think voted for Trump? lmao

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does that help them? It's a vaccine. If just you have yours, it doesn't work very well. It still helps some and objectively improves things so it's still a good idea, but it's not like having it when everybody does their job.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You are thinking like someone who gives a damn about other humans. Yes, everyone benefits when everyone who is able to gets the shot and we can keep the overall spread down.

But what if you are the type of person who thinks that everything is a zero-sum game, and you're not really a winner unless you have more than the other guy? What advantage is there to you, personally, if everyone benefits? It's much better if you get the benefits, and people you hate do not.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All those hillbilly fuckbrains who voted for trump? All those suburban moms who voted for a rapist? Nah bruv, those people can’t afford a $1200 vaccine or whatever the fuck. The traitor oligarchs can, sure. Perhaps they will meet their fate via a different route, nahmean?

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Anybody with half a brain can see the collapse of the U.S. coming from a mile away based on what's happening right now. Our institutions are at an all-time low in trust, all bcz of this orange dickhead, and Russian/Chinese disinformation campaigns.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (4 children)

all bcz of this orange dickhead, and Russian/Chinese disinformation campaigns.

I mean yeah. But also because Americans are profoundly stupid. No excuses. As a whole, we're stupid as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our schools have been under attack by the usual shitheads ever since we won to get them integrated.

Smart comfortable people don't obey. Uneducated, poor people with two jobs and three kids don't have any energy left over to crack a book and be disruptive.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We elected TFG... twice. Humanity is doomed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What’s this “we?” I take zero responsibility for the election of that idiot. I tried as hard as I could to get everyone I know to not vote for him.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Eh. It's "we" whether you like it or not, unfortunately.

Do we really differentiate between the good and bad Germans in Nazi Germany? Not really. History paints with broad strokes. In the future we're all going to look like the bad guys, whether we fought back or not. It's a shameful time to be an American.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"The Former Guy", refers to Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US is in the fast lane on the super highway to full stupid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A wise man once said - never go full retard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Words to live by.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

That'd be fine if they weren't dragging the rest of the world along with them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Congrats. You reap what you sow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder how the Turtle will vote, he had polio when he was a kid....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Not enough polio.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can he remember that far back?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well he does identify as an Elephant, so I guess we'll find out

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"trump to discuss bringing back ever terrible disease we got rid of or mitigated in the 1900s with RFK Jr."

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

We're gonna party like it's 1899

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