One expert, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal
Look what you’ve done.
The dumbest pieces of human shit run the United States. We have a representative form of government. There are 77 million pieces of human shit in America.
The USA has really done an amazing job of finding the absolute worst and most incompetent people and placing them in the highest positions of power. It’s the kakiest of kakistocracies.
Don’t elevate them to the level of human shit, that kinda of language is way to nice for describing republicans.
Holy shit, 2019. I know he was a known asshole then, but still, it only gets more true with time!
at least you weren’t a ring of fire fan in 2005 like me :(
Kennedy is generally opposed to vaccines, but he is particularly hostile to mRNA-based vaccines
I reckon the mistake was calling them mRNA vaccines. Yes, that’s what they are, but RNA sounds scawy and vaccines cause autism and homosexuality, so something with some razz to it would be the right call…
“What’s going on here?! Is that an RNA experiment?”
“Umm. It’s a-… Um … Elixir.”
“Oh, I see. And how does it work?”
"…universe stuff. It’s complicated, sir. Sugar, nitrogen, phosphate… "
"Indeed. I’ve seen those on a cereal boxes before, and nitrogen is from that racing movie with the pretty women. What’s it do?
“It’s for…um…mosquito bites. Also a good degreaser. Jenkins has it in his head it cures viruses too, ha. We’d obviously have to test first.”
“I like that Jenkins. Which viruses?”
" The annoying ones."
“What about viruses that put thoughts about a person’s daughter in their head all the time?”
“…Sure.”
rolls up sleeves “Give it to me. Right above the lamprey hickey there’s a good vein. You’re doing good work here, son. We’ll up the budget to get this Elixir of the Universe out to the shamans.”
This is brilliant. Most of us are having a good laugh, but I suspect that someone, somewhere, on a research team, is also taking a few notes.
I just don’t get the incongruity of the Trump admin. In pretty much every other area they are “show me the money”.
big tech AI: whatever you guys want!
crypto: whatever you guys want!
big banks: whatever you guys want!
big oil: whatever you guys want!
big pharma vaccines: No, this is where we must draw the line!
the only constant is “maximum damage”.
It’s pretty simple. If it helps the rich or his grifter friends then this administration is all for it.
If it helps the average Joe, then fuck that.
Suddenly wishing big pharma were better friends with and getting bigger handouts from the admin WHATTT is this world
If only they’d paid the piper…
The problem is that biotech and pharma are much more directly involved in and constrained by actual science and data, which the orangeboi regime is highly allergic to.
There’s more money to be made selling meds to sick people than preventing people getting sick.
But even then it makes no sense! The rich aren’t immune to disease… I don’t even know who is meant to make money on this shit
You got to follow the money, sorta
The rich will always have access to good drugs and treatments that work. They will peddle any snake oil nonsense that they think will make them more money or whatever they think their followers will buy to make them look better in their eyes. It’s a take as old as time in politics/religion.
Back a year or so ago I remember posts on Reddit and other places where there was some deep dives into RFK JR and his investments in the supplement industry. The reason they are cheering him on is because he stands to make so much money by ditching common sense medical practices and pushing vitamins and supplements that he has a hand in.
If you want to learn more about his background Behind the Bastards did a multi part podcast on him last year (I think it was now) that was worth a listen. While it is a little outdated it does go into his childhood and really explore how he got so fucked up. Dude was (and probably still is) a serious crack head and narcissist.
Right but the rich will still have real doctors with real medicine on call (or they can just travel to a country with real medicine).
When Mao Zedong unified thousands of years of quackery and superstition into “Traditional Chinese Medicine” to placate the masses need for healthcare, he kept real doctors on hand, because he knew it was all bunk.
Trump bragged about how he fast tracked the COVID vaccine during his first administration.
Rfk jr was running as an independent with about 10% of the votes.
God I really fucking hate that guy.
Aside from all the people he’s gonna kill, he has such a punchable face
History will remember this administration as one of the worst. These fuckers are all writing their own chapters in history books as full fuck-tard level. They will be looked back on with shame and embarrassment. Let this be their legacy. They are not the problem. The problem is the 55% of the voting populace that voted for them. America needs to improve our educational system so these our population isn’t as fucking stupid as we are.
They honestly believe that they will be remembered as legendary heroes, primarily because they believe that they will be writing the history. They don’t understand that there are other nations with scholars and historians, too, and they’ll be writing accounts of this administration as well.
One of the worst so far!
America needs to improve our educational system
What also infuriates me is some of the supposedly educated people are also for that garbage regime, either blindly supporting it for confirming their fascist beliefs, or because they see it as an opportunity to make money from misery.
That includes the techbros. And CEOs of MLMs.
Toss this guy in prison for a little bit.
Toss this guy in prison for a long bit
So… same shit different day?
Fuck him and every other republican asshole.
How many people are you going to murder with this one, measles man?
Doesn’t something usually happen to Kennedys by now?
Just the good ones…
I wish that brain worm had been more thorough.
I had to check if the sub is “The Onion”.
OK, read the article, and I’ll go a little off track.
I think the sticking point is American education. When mRNA vaccines came out people where screaming, “It alters your DNA!!” Well. OK. That idea is ignorant on the face of it.
Know what? I have basic, even college level, biology under my belt. Had never heard of mRNA! Imagine not being able to pronounce “deoxyribonucleic acid”. Can you see how these dumbasses conflate the two?
Read the article! It was hard for me to parse. Imagine knowing less biology than your average bear. No wonder these people are easily fooled!
“Meh. Big words, can’t pronounce. Sounds good!”
And to my shame, I didn’t stop to think it all through. But I trust the experts, and I don’t trust these experts.
So, what’s the end game here? Please, stifle the snark. Merely playing on ignorance for votes? Surely there’s more to it than that?
RFK is a bit of an anomaly in the Trump administration. He’s an environmental lawyer who fights against corporations. He’s rich so can’t be bought by pharma lobbying. He is in the administration because Trump “bought” his voters. This position was his price.
I think he actually believes in the public good, but he’s not particularly clever and is easily swayed by pseudo science.
He can see that big phama has made and will make billions out of mRNA technology and is suspicious. Now he has the power to cut spending and that aligns with republican goals.
At some point RFK jr will upset the corporatocracy and Trump will fire him.
*plutocracy.
True. Maybe the recent shift from corporatocracy to plutocracy will keep RFK in power longer than I expect.
