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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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.

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I agree with everything you said except that all the blame lies with Trump and Russian/Chinese disinfo campaigns. This has been going on since the Tea Party George W Bush/Cheney Newt Gingrich Reagan probably before anybody reading this was born

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And I swear you guys are going to take us down with you (as a Canadian). The Trump “jokes” about annexing Canada are really starting to get to me.

So much for being good trading partners and friendly neighbours I guess

Edit: this isn’t really directed at you in particular, it’s just that as Canadians we didn’t even get a say in this but somehow you voted overwhelmingly for him again and now he’s threatening to invade us before he even takes office. I’m fucking tired man (and a little drunk)

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i swear if he really tries to annex us i would be defending our borders. But do you know what bothers me more? the Canadians who would defect and help the US annex us.

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We did not vote overwhelmingly for him. He barely won.

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Fair, but he did win the popular vote which I really wasn’t expecting. I realise very little US Lemmy users are happy about it either, but the Canada rhetoric Trump is spouting is still freaking me out.

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Tell me about it. I can feel the rumblings of something awful coming for Canada. All because if this bullshit down south. Our rights are being threatened because of reactionary politics. Half the people I work with can’t seperate Canadian politics from American. They think it’s all the same.

Drives me up the wall.

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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.

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Decades of republicans cutting education and lying will do that.

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Politicians do not benefit from an educated populace.

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You mean that?

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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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So you’re saying we should blame the rich and oligarchs. Agreed.

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We elected TFG… twice. Humanity is doomed

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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.

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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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TFG

That Fucking Goon?

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“The Former Guy”, refers to Trump.

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