From "Has the MAHA Movement Given Up? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies promised public-health libertarianism. The idea couldn’t survive once they took power" (NYT)(gift link, because there's lots more at the link).
"Kennedy’s team of contrarians arrived in Washington already divided on some big questions: Were drugs overregulated or underregulated? Were vaccines rushed to market or too slow to get there? Did 'gold-standard science' require randomized controlled trials or just compelling anecdotal evidence...? Should we embrace medical miracles like GLP-1s...? Do chronic disease, disability rates and skyrocketing mental illness reveal a medical system designed not to cure people but to treat them for profit? Or were they projections of safetyist hysteria, the way liberals made meaning out of anxiety while dreaming of a world without risk?..."
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Maybe he should just pull on a dress and declare victory, like the last one did.
Trump’s a genius. If you’re agnostic on the subject of public health, why not hand the job to a jacked-up Democratic philanderer, then sit back and enjoy the spectacle?
Getting rid of the Faucis and career parasites heading government programs devouring taxpayer money is a success of "libertarianism". What the hell does the Surgeon General do anyway? It's been a joke ever since the guy in the admiral outfit came out of the shadows for the cameras and media attention.
They list all the non-existent department heads as if that’s a bad thing.
Suprised to see a negative take from the Times!!!
Surprised too.
MAHA is a grass-roots idea. The Bloomberg style, "ve have vays of making you healthy" is anti-American. Just talking about health, and getting Americans to question our foods and our pharmaceuticals, is a wonderful thing. A lot of the good in the Trump administration comes from a destabilization of government "solutions" and empowering people to take care of ourselves.
MAHA is a brilliant second-term strategy, in many ways more important than MAGA ever was.
Maybe he should just pull on a dress and declare victory, like the last one did.
…what I came to say. Maybe the twinks the Kamala people would have appointed can volunteer all their solutions on X?
When you read this story from one end to the other, it's relentless in its negativity. It's a wedge, in search of a crack. It should have been a clarion call of support for reform.
Meanwhile, whenever 'Junior is in front of a microphone, his take is always a positive one. Each sentence is providing an update, and showing progress. I've heard him say multiple times that what impresses him about this administration is the ownership people are taking of issues, of the sense of idealism that each person seems to carry within.
I am seeing stories now that the vaccine makers are going to be saying 'goodbye' to their fat-as-a-hog immunity from prosecution, going forward. That is a long overdue ending to a national disgrace that never should have been put in place without a short term sunset.
Aggie said, "It's relentless in its negativity."
Evergreen observation about the NYT. Yawn.
I saw junior standing with the people rounding up the biggest medical entitlement fraudsters. A small dent but a success, if only because the last administration was assisting in setting up the fraud. Bet NYT doesn’t have much to say about that…
As if I believe a damn thing the NYTimes “reports”.
" Do chronic disease, disability rates and skyrocketing mental illness reveal a medical system designed not to cure people but to treat them for profit?"
And while we're asking questions, where do all those bears go to take a shit, anyway?
Seriously… FUCK THE NYT!!!!!!!!!
Investigate the fraud committed around the country, you worthless pieces of excrement.
Happy 4th!!!
“At present, there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or of the Food and Drug Administration. There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease... no confirmed boss at the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research”
Yes, yes and yes. What would we do without experts (and assorted government liars, crooks, and parasites)?
RFK is an abject failure, as expected.
"Investigate the fraud committed around the country, you worthless pieces of excrement" ... says Iman unironically days after they exposed the Trump family billion dollar Presidential grift.
Journalism is the product of magical thinking. Articles aren't about what happened or what is happening but about what the journalists want to happen. There's a great pleasure in seeing shipwrecks everywhere and thinking oneself the only survivor of catastrophe and carnage, but MAHA may continue after the journalists have lost their jobs and lost all hope of getting another.
So I take it from this report that we were super healthy before 2024.
Food pyramid is gone. Drug prices are lower. Fauci may still go to jail. We don’t have a Surgeon General that can’t explain what a woman is. The is no longer billions of fraud lost due to mentioned agencies, nor spending on making bio weapons in hostile foreign countries. That’s a lot of win.
Who even knew we don't currently have a surgeon general and who the hell cares?
The headline is ignorant, because a “libertarian” system wouldn’t have layers of government bureaucrats dictating policy. The achievements above without those people is exactly what I would consider a libertarian system. So if that was RFK Jr’s promise, then he achieved it.
Eat more butter! Ahha. MAHA exists outside of the government and only needs a voice to awaken your inner MAHA.
And while we’re at it, F**K GAVIN NEWSCUM AS WELL…
https://x.com/ChefGruel/status/2072923763575058781
Bullshit, MAHA has given up. With the high food prices, that are a direct result of Donald J Trump's economic policy failures, US citizens can hardly afford groceries anymore. And with beef prices sky high and rising, more and more Americans are doing without the artery clogging delicacy.
“Evidence regarding the association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in offspring remains inconsistent,” the study authors wrote. “One large Swedish cohort study reported a small but statistically significant increase in autism risk among children in a population-level analysis; however, the association was not observed in a sibling matched analysis, raising questions about residual confounding.”
From the article, the stats are equivocal but the bold quotes are very confident. It does not convince me, and then they sneak in quotes from the papers like above that are opposite their bold conclusions, I guess hoping no one will read them.
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