“ fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition”. How many years have we’ve been subjected to air pollution, water pollution, chemicals given to animals that we eat and pesticides on our fruit and vegetables?
Corporations that dumped their waste on communities, then got a fine that amounted to a slap on the wrist. Now the EPA is gutted and a madman with a brain worm is in charge of our health. It’s enough to make one sick.
I'm old enough to remember First Lady Michelle Obama promoting healthy living. Exercise, staying hydrated, nutritious food...she even planted a vegetable garden at the White House. How'd that go for her?
I worked with her on that. We started school gardens and garden based education where our food comes from. It’s science. And so are vaccines and medicine we need it all.
Michele Obama worked non stop to improve the lives and health of children and to stop bullying. What has Melania ever done? She gave a plagarised speech about bullying when 45 was on the throne and now she's cashing in on 47 with her own meme coin and receiving a fee of $26 million from Jeff Bezos for his suck up Amazon documentary about her. I'm not normally in the business of criticising women but her behavior is disgraceful. Oh, and RFK Jr is batshit crazy and destroying America's health and exposing everyone to danger with his mad ideas.
I have ZERO qualms about criticizing evil women. Noem, MTG, Bieber, Levitt, Stefanik, Bondi, etc, richly deserve vitriol and shunning by decent humans.
There need to be more Luigis, NOW, and by "more", I mean a couple of thousand, at the least. Thanks for saying it clearly, justice needs to be server to the rich fucks enabling this, all of them. And no, I do not give a single flying fuck whether I need to appear "better than them", I don't, I AM better, by every single metric, "miasma"? Give me a fucking break, this is the theory that diseases are caused by "night air", or some bullshit like this no? I'm sure that Bobby breathed in more than his share as a heroin addict, but now he's all about "clean livin", through unpasterized dairy products, and eating road kill, got it. It is past time for someone to awaken the Kennedy curse.
I'll say it again, this shit does not have a peaceful resolution, it just doesn't, and the longer we push for one, the longer we are dooming America to live with this. Because once the population has been made sick, starved, disease riddled, and weak, we will be too weak to fight back effectively, there is a name for what they are doing here as old as time, it is called "softening the battlefield", people better wake the fuck up soon, cause this is not accidental, they are CAPITALIZING on "peaceful resistance"....
And the article points to the sugar industry receiving tax payer funded government subsidies to “sweeten” everything you buy from your Supermarket shelf. And the result is that obesity and type 2 diabetes are epidemic in the Untied States. The bottom line: We the taxpayers are paying the food processing industry to sicken and kill us in order to increase their profits. Does that make any sense?
Lou, it's a circular scam....the food industry makes us sick....then we must buy pharmaceuticals to keep us alive...then finally we pay thousands for an anti environmental burial....
Exactly! I personally try to fortify my immune system through healthy living, clean water, and nutrition. But I can afford that. And I also want access to vaccines and medicines! I think long term he is going to do some of the worst and longest lasting damage to our country.
'To align with the GOP tells us some things about a person’s cognitive functioning, none of them good.'
"To align with the GOP is not simply a display of absolute depravity, revealing the utter absence of a moral conscience (although it certainly reflects those things).
Tom Jacobs, writing for Pacific Standard, highlighted research that adds to voluminous previous studies all converging on something that every progressive knows intuitively, any time a conservative opens their mouth...
//Support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income," the
researchers add. "Our analyses indicate that support for Trump was less about socioeconomic
standing, and more about intellect.//"
"Poor cognitive functioning is manifested in a number of ways in the choices and ‘reasoning’ of rank and file GOP voters, who reliably support the most grotesque individuals, and horrific policies, the nation has ever produced. Among the psychological characteristics that consistently distinguish conservatives from progressives are the capacity to think critically, and flexibly, and the ability to consider a range of information and views, as I have noted in prior essays:
'Persuading conservatives with facts and logic: Good luck with that.' (Dec. 1, 2016)
Let’s be clear— it’s the GOP as a whole, and anybody who identifies themselves as conservative, who’ve dispensed with empirical reality and logic, long before Trump. In fact, it’s this shrugging off of any burdensome trifle like data or critical thinking that created the conditions for Trump, and for the sixty million people who voted for him. Trump is not sui generis. They built this monstrosity, one absurdly false statement at a time."
"(n.b., my favorite series of statements, ever, to be found in an article in a peer-reviewed journal, from the above-excerpted article):
//Those who identified themselves as conservative and expressed favorable evaluations of three
leading Republican candidates for president (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio) were
more receptive to pseudo-profound bullshit than those who did not. There was no relationship
between evaluations of Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin
O’Malley and bullshit receptivity. (pg. 178, emphasis added)//
These are not psychological features that are amenable to patient listening and reasoned discourse— because you can’t talk people out of their fundamental stupidity."
Exactly, this whole point that “conservative “ or right wing world view is based on unrealistic expectations and conspiracy theories should be explored more in the public domain. Also bigotry is at their core beliefs and feeds their ideology that some people don’t deserve equality. It’s definitely a cancer on humanity that these people have the power that they do partly because of our current system of government and lack of education, let alone accountability.
So I raised my kids in a progressive household. We did a lot of thought exercises as the kids were growing up and if a bad thing happened if they followed through on their thought we let them pay the consequences for that (within reason). We also did a lot of other things to help them evaluate information and review sources. We taught them how to think not what to think. I raised 3 progressives and one Trump MAGA republican. My kids are all smart as hell, well read. My MAGA son lives in progressive Minneapolis in a small red burg covered in Trump regalia. If you hang out with NAZI's you become one. Racism, if you don't stand against it, is contagious. Blaming those you think less of for all your problems is habit forming.
I think what you're also saying, not in so many words, is the rs don't understand consequences. Virtually all rs who did, like Bill Kristol (!!!) and the Bulwark people left the party by the time t's first term was over. Your last sentence says it all, although some may convert later, I haven't seen it yet. Or, as we like to say, "you can't fix stupid."
I truly believe that Project 2025, by destroying the economy and the government, aims to kill people and/or relegate people into slavery to let the oligarchs exploit us. By destroying health care, as you point out, vulnerable people will be the first to go.
He actually let 500,000 people die unnecessarily. Much of it was deliberate. Kushner saw that more people of color were dying in blue states, so he made it more difficult for those states to get supplies. It’s all racism with them.
I think that too. If you look at what it is all you have to do is imagine where it’s going to see that mass deaths are the end game. Trump was directly responsible for thousands of deaths, through neglect and lies and an egregious mismanagement of covid. Nobody brings that up any more. But he let thousands die and now he’s president again.
The fact that RFK is putting his thumb on vaccine updates is angering enough. Especially for Covid ones with full or emergency approval (Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax) where now they have to do a full trial with placebos just to get an updated version approved. It's absolute bull shit.
So if you should ever come across a drooling inbred dumbshit insisting that germs or evolution or climate change is just a “theory,” tell them that gravity is a theory, too, and they should immediately prove it wrong by stepping off the closest roof.
I worked in long term care starting in 2000. There was a woman in care that was a child during hitlers time in power. She told stories of how at night you could hear people screaming and crying from pain and sickness because there was no medicine for the poor.
Another son of monied means who has the belief in his own exceptionalism. No. No. No. No you are not special, not educated, not smart enough to have the power over our lives thst you do!
You are all parasites flourishing in the era of the deceptively, nefariously named Citizens United. The era of corporate raiders and exceptional bank loans for the super rich that never have to be collected.
Your prolife comment is so important. I’ve said repeatedly that I would be willing to sit down and discuss some limitations on abortions as soon as the pro-lifers add very strict gun laws, eliminating the death penalty, free school breakfasts and lunches, and a few other things. That seems to shut them up. Because it’s not about life. It’s about control.
How can I be sure the pansy Democrats who are still embracing politeness and the rule of law as our Saviors will try, jail, hang or excommunicate these right wing eugenicists who never should have been let out of the closet? And what about the tech bros aka dark enlightenment lunatics, billionaires who think the accumulation of wealth makes them superior to normal folks and Russia and its American operatives. Personally I'd be ok with a civil war so i can eradicate all of these assholes with firearms and then we can go about helping to rebuild modern society with concrete failsafes against this ever happening again! Amen from an atheist!
Klobuchar was on MSNBC last night talking about looking forward and not back (in another context) Many Dems never learn their freekin lessons...unless they get imprisoned.
My grandfather used to drink raw milk before immigrating to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 1920s. He contracted abdominal tuberculosis, from which he suffered for the rest of his life.
As a retired pediatric nurse this man is not only a straight up fuckin idiot, he may be credited with a measles outbreak and bringing back polio. I'm incensed that obscure scientist worked frantically to develop good, safe extremely effective vaccines to save lives. This fuckin dipshit will be the cause of unnecessary illness and deaths of children. The inmates are definitely running the asylum. Would not be the least bit surprised to find out he believes the earth is flat. FFS
An incredibly well written piece of work. As a 30+ year veteran of the healthcare world, it terrifies me to see the lack of science and common sense in idiots like RFK Jr. And the Trumpistas. It's like going back to the Middle Ages, where inventors and scientists were burned at the stake as witches. Watching people die during Covid in 2020 as a healthcare provider and hearing the orange jackal lie like he did turned me against these soulless bastards forever!
After their Fall, the members and supporters of the current regime best ready themselves to hear: "Up against the wall, motherfucker!". The day WILL come. And there will be much rejoicing. 😎✌️
Excellent column on the existential danger RFK, jr. is to all of us. All of us. Unchecked, his policies will kill thousands, possibly millions, of us. His denial of germ theory will prevent him from exercising any coherent action against the next pandemic. Which will occur at some point. If it happens during his time in charge of HHS, tragedy will consume us. The position to end food and safety inspections is insanity run amok. His quackery is a death sentence for the millions of us who relied upon our federal government to try to keep us safer from sicknesses and injury.
“ fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition”. How many years have we’ve been subjected to air pollution, water pollution, chemicals given to animals that we eat and pesticides on our fruit and vegetables?
Corporations that dumped their waste on communities, then got a fine that amounted to a slap on the wrist. Now the EPA is gutted and a madman with a brain worm is in charge of our health. It’s enough to make one sick.
I'm old enough to remember First Lady Michelle Obama promoting healthy living. Exercise, staying hydrated, nutritious food...she even planted a vegetable garden at the White House. How'd that go for her?
I worked with her on that. We started school gardens and garden based education where our food comes from. It’s science. And so are vaccines and medicine we need it all.
It makes me furious to think of how she was treated. They mocked her and ripped out the garden. She and President Obama deserved so much better.
Michele Obama worked non stop to improve the lives and health of children and to stop bullying. What has Melania ever done? She gave a plagarised speech about bullying when 45 was on the throne and now she's cashing in on 47 with her own meme coin and receiving a fee of $26 million from Jeff Bezos for his suck up Amazon documentary about her. I'm not normally in the business of criticising women but her behavior is disgraceful. Oh, and RFK Jr is batshit crazy and destroying America's health and exposing everyone to danger with his mad ideas.
I have ZERO qualms about criticizing evil women. Noem, MTG, Bieber, Levitt, Stefanik, Bondi, etc, richly deserve vitriol and shunning by decent humans.
Boebert!!! Damn you, autocorrect!!!!!
There need to be more Luigis, NOW, and by "more", I mean a couple of thousand, at the least. Thanks for saying it clearly, justice needs to be server to the rich fucks enabling this, all of them. And no, I do not give a single flying fuck whether I need to appear "better than them", I don't, I AM better, by every single metric, "miasma"? Give me a fucking break, this is the theory that diseases are caused by "night air", or some bullshit like this no? I'm sure that Bobby breathed in more than his share as a heroin addict, but now he's all about "clean livin", through unpasterized dairy products, and eating road kill, got it. It is past time for someone to awaken the Kennedy curse.
I'll say it again, this shit does not have a peaceful resolution, it just doesn't, and the longer we push for one, the longer we are dooming America to live with this. Because once the population has been made sick, starved, disease riddled, and weak, we will be too weak to fight back effectively, there is a name for what they are doing here as old as time, it is called "softening the battlefield", people better wake the fuck up soon, cause this is not accidental, they are CAPITALIZING on "peaceful resistance"....
And the article points to the sugar industry receiving tax payer funded government subsidies to “sweeten” everything you buy from your Supermarket shelf. And the result is that obesity and type 2 diabetes are epidemic in the Untied States. The bottom line: We the taxpayers are paying the food processing industry to sicken and kill us in order to increase their profits. Does that make any sense?
It does if you put profits over people. 🤬
Lou, it's a circular scam....the food industry makes us sick....then we must buy pharmaceuticals to keep us alive...then finally we pay thousands for an anti environmental burial....
He was always King NIMBY. Not *his* rich man’s paradise Cape Cod for a wind farm.
Exactly! I personally try to fortify my immune system through healthy living, clean water, and nutrition. But I can afford that. And I also want access to vaccines and medicines! I think long term he is going to do some of the worst and longest lasting damage to our country.
Like he did with samoa.
And it’s gonna. 😏😎
My two cents:
'What sort of person could support the GOP? Science says people with poorly functioning brains.' (Sept. 12, 2023)
https://iandouglasrushlau.substack.com/p/what-sort-of-person-could-support
'To align with the GOP tells us some things about a person’s cognitive functioning, none of them good.'
"To align with the GOP is not simply a display of absolute depravity, revealing the utter absence of a moral conscience (although it certainly reflects those things).
Tom Jacobs, writing for Pacific Standard, highlighted research that adds to voluminous previous studies all converging on something that every progressive knows intuitively, any time a conservative opens their mouth...
//Support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income," the
researchers add. "Our analyses indicate that support for Trump was less about socioeconomic
standing, and more about intellect.//"
"Poor cognitive functioning is manifested in a number of ways in the choices and ‘reasoning’ of rank and file GOP voters, who reliably support the most grotesque individuals, and horrific policies, the nation has ever produced. Among the psychological characteristics that consistently distinguish conservatives from progressives are the capacity to think critically, and flexibly, and the ability to consider a range of information and views, as I have noted in prior essays:
'Persuading conservatives with facts and logic: Good luck with that.' (Dec. 1, 2016)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/1/1606153/-Persuading-conservatives-with-appeals-to-facts-and-logic-Good-luck-with-that
Let’s be clear— it’s the GOP as a whole, and anybody who identifies themselves as conservative, who’ve dispensed with empirical reality and logic, long before Trump. In fact, it’s this shrugging off of any burdensome trifle like data or critical thinking that created the conditions for Trump, and for the sixty million people who voted for him. Trump is not sui generis. They built this monstrosity, one absurdly false statement at a time."
"(n.b., my favorite series of statements, ever, to be found in an article in a peer-reviewed journal, from the above-excerpted article):
//Those who identified themselves as conservative and expressed favorable evaluations of three
leading Republican candidates for president (Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio) were
more receptive to pseudo-profound bullshit than those who did not. There was no relationship
between evaluations of Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin
O’Malley and bullshit receptivity. (pg. 178, emphasis added)//
These are not psychological features that are amenable to patient listening and reasoned discourse— because you can’t talk people out of their fundamental stupidity."
Exactly, this whole point that “conservative “ or right wing world view is based on unrealistic expectations and conspiracy theories should be explored more in the public domain. Also bigotry is at their core beliefs and feeds their ideology that some people don’t deserve equality. It’s definitely a cancer on humanity that these people have the power that they do partly because of our current system of government and lack of education, let alone accountability.
So I raised my kids in a progressive household. We did a lot of thought exercises as the kids were growing up and if a bad thing happened if they followed through on their thought we let them pay the consequences for that (within reason). We also did a lot of other things to help them evaluate information and review sources. We taught them how to think not what to think. I raised 3 progressives and one Trump MAGA republican. My kids are all smart as hell, well read. My MAGA son lives in progressive Minneapolis in a small red burg covered in Trump regalia. If you hang out with NAZI's you become one. Racism, if you don't stand against it, is contagious. Blaming those you think less of for all your problems is habit forming.
Wow, this is chilling.
I think what you're also saying, not in so many words, is the rs don't understand consequences. Virtually all rs who did, like Bill Kristol (!!!) and the Bulwark people left the party by the time t's first term was over. Your last sentence says it all, although some may convert later, I haven't seen it yet. Or, as we like to say, "you can't fix stupid."
Interesting, maddening though. Ugh.
I truly believe that Project 2025, by destroying the economy and the government, aims to kill people and/or relegate people into slavery to let the oligarchs exploit us. By destroying health care, as you point out, vulnerable people will be the first to go.
He actually let 500,000 people die unnecessarily. Much of it was deliberate. Kushner saw that more people of color were dying in blue states, so he made it more difficult for those states to get supplies. It’s all racism with them.
I think that too. If you look at what it is all you have to do is imagine where it’s going to see that mass deaths are the end game. Trump was directly responsible for thousands of deaths, through neglect and lies and an egregious mismanagement of covid. Nobody brings that up any more. But he let thousands die and now he’s president again.
That is the plan. Trump truly is a psychopathic tyrant.
TENS of thousands.
I think that’s the big plan. 😎
Oh 💯
The fact that RFK is putting his thumb on vaccine updates is angering enough. Especially for Covid ones with full or emergency approval (Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax) where now they have to do a full trial with placebos just to get an updated version approved. It's absolute bull shit.
The dude is beyond dangerous. 😎
So if you should ever come across a drooling inbred dumbshit insisting that germs or evolution or climate change is just a “theory,” tell them that gravity is a theory, too, and they should immediately prove it wrong by stepping off the closest roof.
I'm stealing this!! Thanks!!
Me too!! Great line!
I worked in long term care starting in 2000. There was a woman in care that was a child during hitlers time in power. She told stories of how at night you could hear people screaming and crying from pain and sickness because there was no medicine for the poor.
Resist the regime America!
Another son of monied means who has the belief in his own exceptionalism. No. No. No. No you are not special, not educated, not smart enough to have the power over our lives thst you do!
You are all parasites flourishing in the era of the deceptively, nefariously named Citizens United. The era of corporate raiders and exceptional bank loans for the super rich that never have to be collected.
Sick puppies!
It would be a real shame if the brain worm caught bird flu….
😂😂
Your prolife comment is so important. I’ve said repeatedly that I would be willing to sit down and discuss some limitations on abortions as soon as the pro-lifers add very strict gun laws, eliminating the death penalty, free school breakfasts and lunches, and a few other things. That seems to shut them up. Because it’s not about life. It’s about control.
me too....strict abortion regs in exchange for strict gun control and other social programs. Dems never think outside the box....
How can I be sure the pansy Democrats who are still embracing politeness and the rule of law as our Saviors will try, jail, hang or excommunicate these right wing eugenicists who never should have been let out of the closet? And what about the tech bros aka dark enlightenment lunatics, billionaires who think the accumulation of wealth makes them superior to normal folks and Russia and its American operatives. Personally I'd be ok with a civil war so i can eradicate all of these assholes with firearms and then we can go about helping to rebuild modern society with concrete failsafes against this ever happening again! Amen from an atheist!
Flashman58, I like your style.
Klobuchar was on MSNBC last night talking about looking forward and not back (in another context) Many Dems never learn their freekin lessons...unless they get imprisoned.
Bobby McMeasles drove his fragile SECOND wife to suicide, thus accomplishing the singlehanded destruction of TWO of his families.
My grandfather used to drink raw milk before immigrating to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 1920s. He contracted abdominal tuberculosis, from which he suffered for the rest of his life.
https://www.healthline.com/health/abdominal-tuberculosis
Yep.
My grandparents were Irish as well. No one in my house ever said "oh if we could only have some raw milk."
They were very very clear on why pasteurization was a good thing. (As well as indoor plumbing, frozen spinach and meat from the grocery store.)
As a retired pediatric nurse this man is not only a straight up fuckin idiot, he may be credited with a measles outbreak and bringing back polio. I'm incensed that obscure scientist worked frantically to develop good, safe extremely effective vaccines to save lives. This fuckin dipshit will be the cause of unnecessary illness and deaths of children. The inmates are definitely running the asylum. Would not be the least bit surprised to find out he believes the earth is flat. FFS
An incredibly well written piece of work. As a 30+ year veteran of the healthcare world, it terrifies me to see the lack of science and common sense in idiots like RFK Jr. And the Trumpistas. It's like going back to the Middle Ages, where inventors and scientists were burned at the stake as witches. Watching people die during Covid in 2020 as a healthcare provider and hearing the orange jackal lie like he did turned me against these soulless bastards forever!
After their Fall, the members and supporters of the current regime best ready themselves to hear: "Up against the wall, motherfucker!". The day WILL come. And there will be much rejoicing. 😎✌️
Excellent column on the existential danger RFK, jr. is to all of us. All of us. Unchecked, his policies will kill thousands, possibly millions, of us. His denial of germ theory will prevent him from exercising any coherent action against the next pandemic. Which will occur at some point. If it happens during his time in charge of HHS, tragedy will consume us. The position to end food and safety inspections is insanity run amok. His quackery is a death sentence for the millions of us who relied upon our federal government to try to keep us safer from sicknesses and injury.
Elementary my dear Watson. It’s called eugenics.