Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Have you noticed Jack isn't the only one gone? I don't see JSF or JT posting either.
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How Many Kids Will Have to Die for RFK Jr. to Be Stopped?
“Everybody in public health who's watching what's going on is horrified.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/12/hepatitis-b-vaccine-acip-cdc-rfk-
jr-doctor-recommendations.html
If you just look at the numbers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s headquarters in Atlanta ought to be a ghost town right about now.
Over the past year, the agency has lost a third of its staff. During the government shutdown, the administration tried to fire hundreds more. Scroll around and you’ll find pictures of the notes employees have allegedly been leaving behind. Some simply present data supporting their work, like “1.4 million children are living with HIV.” In the women’s bathroom, though, the messages are reportedly more pointed. They include Post-its reminding workers that “It’s okay to not be okay.”
But despite all this, this agency is still going about its business. On Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to issue recommendations about the kinds of immunizations infants get, for instance. And there’s nothing any of us can do to stop them.
“Anti-vaccine activists like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have been around forever, arguably since the first vaccine, usually shouting from the sidelines, but now they’re not shouting from the sidelines anymore, they’re making policy,” says Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Former CDC directors, like Rochelle Walensky and Tom Frieden, have said they don’t trust the agency anymore, he notes, “so you can’t look to them, other than with your heart in your throat waiting for the next dangerous, misguided thing they say.”
On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Offit about what we can do as Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services leans into its anti-vaccine agenda. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Mary Harris: I want to break down exactly what this panel’s going to be talking about. The first day of the meeting, they will talk about the hepatitis B vaccine, which is given at birth to babies. I wonder if you can lay out why this vaccine has been so important.
Paul Offit: If your mother has hepatitis B and you then go through a birth canal that is invariably bloody that contains hepatitis B, and you’re then infected by passing through that birth canal, you need to be vaccinated at birth. And the reason is that if you’re not, you have an 85 percent chance of getting hepatitis B, passing through a birth canal that has the virus in it. And if you get it, you have a 90 percent chance of going on to develop chronic liver disease, which is to say cirrhosis or liver cancer, and it shortens your life. And if you get hepatitis B in the first five years of life, you have a 25 percent chance of going on to develop cirrhosis or liver cancer, which will shorten your life.
Some people would say, “Well, then just test the mother. See if the mother has hepatitis B. If she does, then you vaccinate the baby.” What would you say to that?
Great, but it makes a few assumptions. There’s about a 5 percent false-negative rate, meaning falsely reassuring. Two, it assumes that you haven’t been infected in your second and third trimester. Three, it also assumes that when the child is between 1 and 5 years of age and goes to a day care center, everybody that person comes in contact with at that day care center is not chronically infected.
Most people who are chronically infected with hepatitis B in this country, and there are millions, don’t know they’re infected, and they are highly contagious—50 to 100 times more contagious than human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of AIDS.
The vaccine is as safe and as effective at birth as it is at two months of age. So why take that risk? Why would you ever take that risk? Because it’s a risk without benefit.
Much more at https://slate.com/tec
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Are they co-conspirators? I'm pretty sure they are Trumptards. What if they are the same split-personality nutjob?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Are they co-conspirators? I'm pretty sure they are Trumptards. What if they are the same split-personality nutjob?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I am looking. JAYNEZTOWN last posted on the 2nd. Unusual but not proof. The boards have stopped changing at a hypomania pace.
JSF last posted a few times yesterday.
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I am looking. JAYNEZTOWN last posted on the 2nd. Unusual but not proof. The boards have stopped changing at a hypomania pace.
JSF last posted a few times yesterday.
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The New US National Security Strategy
Phillips’s Newsletter by Phillips P. OBrien / Dec 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us-national-security-st
rategy
In case you missed it, the US government has just released its new National Security Strategy. Here is a link so you can download a copy for yourself. As such I wanted to write a few words about what is said in it specifically about Europe—as these are the most fascinating and frightening parts.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Se
curity-Strategy.pdf
One thing that stands out (and we can see it in other recent moves such as the Trump administration weakening its already pathetic sanctions on Russia, cozying up to China, sandbagging Ukraine and Europe, and weakening its commitment to NATO) is that the administration is being more and more open about its intentions. This new strategy is a return to JD Vance’s speech in Munich which was delivered not long after the administration came to power. This speech, if you remember, caused consternation amongst some Europeans who had not yet grasped what the administration believed. You can watch the whole speech here if you really want to.
In Munich, Trump called for more support for the populist right in Europe—think Viktor Orban in Hungary, the AFD in Germany, National Front in France and Reform in the UK. And in the new National Security Strategy, the US is has come right back to pushing for exactly this. The major point is that European culture is under threat (the continent is becoming “non-European” and as such, even NATO is as always with Trump being questioned as a viable institution.
Here are the summary points, and they are worth looking at because they reveal everything you need to know about how the Trump administration views things.
Quote:There is much here to pick out point by point.
Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.
Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:
• Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
• Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
• Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
• Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
• Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;
• Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
• Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.
• The US wants Putin’s Russia to be seamlessly reintegrated into Europe (no sanctions of war crimes punishments can be expected here.
• The US wants Europe to be “a group of aligned sovereign nations” which means of course it wants the EU to be weakened so the US can dominate the individual members.
• The US wants to culti
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MAGA’s Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse
And Trump’s numbers will continue to slide
By Paul Krugman | Dec 05, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-affordability-crisis-will-soo
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. . . In the opening scene, Coburn is on a talk show, being quizzed about the high rate of inflation. He responds that people shouldn’t be upset about rising prices, because their incomes are rising even faster. Presumably the scriptwriters intended this to show how smarmy and cynical he is.
And that’s why Donald Trump won the 2024 election. No, Democrats didn’t lose because they use big words, or advocate for open borders, or talk too much about trans rights. None of those things actually happened to any significant degree, regardless of what Trump or the self-defeating wing of the Democratic Party says. They lost because Americans were angry about higher prices and not mollified by the fact that most people’s wages had risen more than overall consumer prices. In this coming Sunday’s primer, I’ll talk more about the underlying economics of the affordability issue, and in the following primer I’ll talk about specific strategies for Democrats to adopt to address it.
But what I want to focus on today is the politics of affordability. As current polls show, swing voters are increasingly blaming Trump, rather than Biden, for the cost of living. And the public’s ire is likely to get worse for the Republicans as time goes on.
In the summer of 2024, as Trump was lagging in the polls behind Kamala Harris, he began to repeatedly and explicitly promise not simply to reduce inflation but to deliver large declines in consumer prices: “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down.” Although economists warned that there was no way he could deliver on those promises, enough voters believed him to swing the election.
Now that Trump has in fact utterly failed to deliver, those voters — especially those Black and Latino voters who believed him — have swung back to the Democrats with a vengeance.
Trump is handling this reversal with his usual style and grace: in the past few days he has repeatedly called affordability a “hoax” and a “con job.” According to Axios, he’s planning a nationwide retribution tour to convince voters that things are going great and that they’re wrong to be so down on the economy. Democratic strategists must be rubbing their hands with glee.
And if you are one of those Republicans reconsidering your future career options, know that things are going to get worse. A lot worse.
Much more at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-affordability-crisis-will-soo
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Agreed; let it rain down onto their heads.
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Quote:In the last 100 years, the Republicans and especially the Trumptards, have learned nothing about how an economy actually works. Herbert Hoover is pretty typical. He is a milder version of Trump. They were both wealthy, but neither knew a damn thing about the well-known methods to improve the country's economy. Hoover let the Crash of 1929 destroy the economy during his Presidency. If there is another crash, Trump won't do a damn thing to improve the situation. Hoover even established the Hoover Institute, a think tank committed to NOT responding to economic emergencies. According to Hoover, things fix themselves. For the government to hurry a solution would only make it worse.
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Herbert Hoover spoke like a more erudite Trump.
I asked google: Did Herbert Hoover accuse FDR of being a commie?
Google's answer reminds me very much of Trump, but only if his speechwriters could make him coherent and follow the script:
Yes, while Herbert Hoover didn't explicitly call FDR a "commie," he accused FDR's New Deal of being dangerously radical, bordering on "creeping collectivism" or "soft socialism," and fundamentally betraying American principles, a stark contrast to his own vision of free enterprise, making him a fervent critic of Roosevelt's "new deal" approach as anti-American and potentially leading to totalitarianism, though he saw fascism and communism as distinct evils.
Hoover's Criticisms of FDR:
• "New Deal" as Socialism: Hoover saw the New Deal's expansion of government intervention as a move towards socialism, attacking it as a threat to American liberty and capitalism.
• Dangerous Radicalism: In the 1932 campaign, Hoover framed the election as a choice between his philosophy and FDR's radical proposals that would "destroy the foundations of the American system".
• "Freedom Betrayed": In his later writings. Hoover detailed his belief that FDR's policies, particularly regarding foreign policy, inadvertently helped build up communist power under Stalin, a serious charge from Hoover.
• Anti-Totalitarian Stance: Hoover viewed Nazism, Fascism, and Communism as evil, alien ideologies, and while he didn't label FDR a communist, he feared FDR's policies were leading America down a path of government control similar to those totalitarian systems.
In essence, Hoover saw FDR's programs as a betrayal of traditional American individualism and free markets, leading him to label them as fundamentally dangerous, even if he reserved the specific term "communist" for actual Soviet ideology.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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5 Excuses MAGA Makes for Its Toddler President
By Ed Kilgore | Dec 5, 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/5-excuses-maga-makes-for-toddl
er-trump.html
Veteran political journalist Jonathan Martin has a new rant at Politico Magazine with the self-explanatory headline: “The President Who Never Grew Up.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/04/trump-presidency-chi
ld-renovations-entertainment-attention-00676183 Nothing he said is the least bit revelatory; it’s all about things we know Donald Trump has done and said but lined up in a way that illustrates how very much the president resembles a child, and a not-very-well-behaved child at that. A sample:
Trump is living his best life in this second and final turn in the White House. Coming up on one year back in power, he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp, a Tom Hanks-in-Big, ice-cream-for-dinner escapade posing as a presidency.
The brazen corruption, near-daily vulgarity and handing out pardons like lollipops is impossible to ignore and deserves the scorn of history. Yet how the president is spending much of his time reveals his flippant attitude toward his second term. This is free-range Trump. And the country has never seen such an indulgent head of state.
Yes, he’s one-part Viktor Orbán, making a mockery of the rule of law and wielding state power to reward friends and punish foes while eroding institutions.
But he’s also a 12-year-old boy: There’s fun trips, lots of screen time, playing with toys, reliable kids’ menus and cool gifts under the tree.
Martin is just scratching the surface here, of course. He doesn’t even mention the president’s inability to admit or accept responsibility for mistakes, which is reminiscent of an excuse-making child, or his tendency to fabricate his own set of “facts” like an incessant daydreamer bored by kindergarten. Now to be clear, the essentially juvenile nature of many of Trump’s preoccupations and impulses has struck just about everybody who’s forced to watch him closely and isn’t inclined by party or ideology to jump into the sandbox with him to share the fun. But since he’s the president, it’s more seemly for critics to focus on problems deeper than immaturity. There are the many worrisome “isms” he is prone to embrace or reflect (nativism, racism, sexism, authoritarianism, jingoism, cronyism, nepotism). And there’s also his habit of surrounding himself with cartoon villains like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, Stephen Miller, and J.D. Vance who are the stuff of grown-up nightmares.
But still, I find myself wondering regularly how Trump’s own followers process his rather blatant lack of seriousness about the most serious job on the planet. If there’s such a thing as negative gravitas, the toddler president has it in abundance. So what are the excuses MAGA folk make for him? There are five major rationalizations that come to mind:
Trolling the liberals
Whenever he says something especially outrageous or embarrassing, we are quickly told by his defenders that he’s just having an enormous joke at the expense of humorless liberals. This dates back to pro-Trump journalist Salena Zito’s famous 2016 dictum that his followers “take him seriously but not literally.” Where you draw the line between the stuff he means and the stuff he’s just kidding about can obviously be adjusted to cover any lapses in taste or honesty he might betray. The “he’s just trolling the libs” defense is a useful bit of jiujitsu as it happens. It turns the self-righteousness of his critics into foolishness while neutering any fears that whatever nasty or malicious thing Trump has said reflects his true nature and inclinations. You see this tactic a lot with Trumpworld social-media takes on mass deportation that exhibit what some have called “performative cruelty” in depicting ICE violence against immigrants, which predictably shock liberals who are then mocked for not understanding it’s all a shuck. Meanwhile, the most radical of Trump’s MAGA fans bask in the administ
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump's birthday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/national-parks-t
rump-birthday-free-days-juneteenth-mlk-interior-rcna247734
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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