It's Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black: Trump's New America

[Low Down Low]

File this under "whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger".

FDA is set to cut COVID boosters to anybody under 65 years of age or those with underlying medical conditions. I mean why does it matter if opt to get a booster, who am I harming? I've always believed an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... striction/

It vaguely harks back to the beginning of the pandemic when all those big "strong man" leaders - Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro etc - all cocked a snoop at the disease, portraying those who approached it with excessive care as weak, woke-ridden lefty ideologues or worse. It's still driving their thought-processes and you can be certain if a fresh pandemic was to strike in the near future, their strategy would remain pretty much unchanged.

[Silent Majority]

File this under "whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger".

FDA is set to cut COVID boosters to anybody under 65 years of age or those with underlying medical conditions. I mean why does it matter if opt to get a booster, who am I harming? I've always believed an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... striction/

It vaguely harks back to the beginning of the pandemic when all those big "strong man" leaders - Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro etc - all cocked a snoop at the disease, portraying those who approached it with excessive care as weak, woke-ridden lefty ideologues or worse. It's still driving their thought-processes and you can be certain if a fresh pandemic was to strike in the near future, their strategy would remain pretty much unchanged.

Worse arguably, as all their pig people yelling followers have whipped themselves into a frenzy of wanting it to rip through the population killing anyone it can.

[Low Down Low]

File this under "whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger".

FDA is set to cut COVID boosters to anybody under 65 years of age or those with underlying medical conditions. I mean why does it matter if opt to get a booster, who am I harming? I've always believed an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... striction/

It vaguely harks back to the beginning of the pandemic when all those big "strong man" leaders - Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro etc - all cocked a snoop at the disease, portraying those who approached it with excessive care as weak, woke-ridden lefty ideologues or worse. It's still driving their thought-processes and you can be certain if a fresh pandemic was to strike in the near future, their strategy would remain pretty much unchanged.

Worse arguably, as all their pig people yelling followers have whipped themselves into a frenzy of wanting it to rip through the population killing anyone it can.

Oh yeah, their mythical "herd immunity", basically survival of the fittest etc. Or as one brave leader was supposedly heard invoking: "let the bodies pile high."

[Sparky]

File this under "whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger".

FDA is set to cut COVID boosters to anybody under 65 years of age or those with underlying medical conditions. I mean why does it matter if opt to get a booster, who am I harming? I've always believed an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... striction/

It vaguely harks back to the beginning of the pandemic when all those big "strong man" leaders - Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro etc - all cocked a snoop at the disease, portraying those who approached it with excessive care as weak, woke-ridden lefty ideologues or worse. It's still driving their thought-processes and you can be certain if a fresh pandemic was to strike in the near future, their strategy would remain pretty much unchanged.

Guess we'll have to stock up on bleach and horse de-wormer just in case.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm sure all the libertarians in America will be threatening to apply their 2A rights—as they always do when angry—about government telling them they can't get a vaccine booster. Yep, they're going to be really furious about this blatant statism.

[Flex]

Neat!

[JennyB]

Neat!

I'm just absolutely sick about this.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://globalnews.ca/news/11192220/don ... golf-ball/

One of somewhat confounding things about how critics of the CIA in the 60s and 70s depicted the agency was that it was both powerful and sinister—orchestrating coups and assassinations and misinformation campaigns—and comically paranoid and inept—brainwashing schemes, plots to make Castro's beard fall out. So which is it, monsters or morons? Trump has shown that, yeah, it can be both.

[Flex]

https://globalnews.ca/news/11192220/don ... golf-ball/

One of somewhat confounding things about how critics of the CIA in the 60s and 70s depicted the agency was that it was both powerful and sinister—orchestrating coups and assassinations and misinformation campaigns—and comically paranoid and inept—brainwashing schemes, plots to make Castro's beard fall out. So which is it, monsters or morons? Trump has shown that, yeah, it can be both.

I admit I'm calibrated to think successful evil can't be so stupid and trump has been a harsh, harsh splash in the face in that regard.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab ... pq3yjau72a

[Dr. Medulla]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-05-22/

I know I shouldn't be stunned or what have you, and yet I still am flabbergasted at how predictable America's trading partners have responded … and how that seems to have escaped Trump et al when initiating this trade war. It's like breaking up with someone and thinking they'd be so desperate to get back together they'd do anything for you, instead of just going on with their life and finding someone new. I'm not thrilled by getting closer to an authoritarian regime like China, but as part of a larger strategy of disentangling from the US, it's sensible. The Chinese must be delighted at how the US keeps shooting itself in the crotch.

[Silent Majority]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-05-22/

I know I shouldn't be stunned or what have you, and yet I still am flabbergasted at how predictable America's trading partners have responded … and how that seems to have escaped Trump et al when initiating this trade war. It's like breaking up with someone and thinking they'd be so desperate to get back together they'd do anything for you, instead of just going on with their life and finding someone new. I'm not thrilled by getting closer to an authoritarian regime like China, but as part of a larger strategy of disentangling from the US, it's sensible. The Chinese must be delighted at how the US keeps shooting itself in the crotch.

American excepionalism is a terrible metric for an American government to base any thinking on. This is another time that the Trump regime, and conservatism worldwide, are anti-Darwinian in their thinking. They're a bunch of dodos in eagles' clothing, racing to investigate what all this gunfire noise is.


And, really, at this point, how much worse an authoritarian hell scape is China vs the US?

[Dr. Medulla]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-05-22/

I know I shouldn't be stunned or what have you, and yet I still am flabbergasted at how predictable America's trading partners have responded … and how that seems to have escaped Trump et al when initiating this trade war. It's like breaking up with someone and thinking they'd be so desperate to get back together they'd do anything for you, instead of just going on with their life and finding someone new. I'm not thrilled by getting closer to an authoritarian regime like China, but as part of a larger strategy of disentangling from the US, it's sensible. The Chinese must be delighted at how the US keeps shooting itself in the crotch.

American excepionalism is a terrible metric for an American government to base any thinking on. This is another time that the Trump regime, and conservatism worldwide, are anti-Darwinian in their thinking. They're a bunch of dodos in eagles' clothing, racing to investigate what all this gunfire noise is.


And, really, at this point, how much worse an authoritarian hell scape is China vs the US?

That's a really good point. I reflexively think of China as watered-down Orwellian—terrible work life, a bit better entertainment culture—but all told, is it that much better than the US, especially the trajectory the US is on?

[Flex]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-05-22/

I know I shouldn't be stunned or what have you, and yet I still am flabbergasted at how predictable America's trading partners have responded … and how that seems to have escaped Trump et al when initiating this trade war. It's like breaking up with someone and thinking they'd be so desperate to get back together they'd do anything for you, instead of just going on with their life and finding someone new. I'm not thrilled by getting closer to an authoritarian regime like China, but as part of a larger strategy of disentangling from the US, it's sensible. The Chinese must be delighted at how the US keeps shooting itself in the crotch.

American excepionalism is a terrible metric for an American government to base any thinking on. This is another time that the Trump regime, and conservatism worldwide, are anti-Darwinian in their thinking. They're a bunch of dodos in eagles' clothing, racing to investigate what all this gunfire noise is.


And, really, at this point, how much worse an authoritarian hell scape is China vs the US?

I'm a China dove mostly but I will say the u.s. is at least not actively engaged in a genocide against a portion of its population right now

[Silent Majority]

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodi ... 025-05-22/

I know I shouldn't be stunned or what have you, and yet I still am flabbergasted at how predictable America's trading partners have responded … and how that seems to have escaped Trump et al when initiating this trade war. It's like breaking up with someone and thinking they'd be so desperate to get back together they'd do anything for you, instead of just going on with their life and finding someone new. I'm not thrilled by getting closer to an authoritarian regime like China, but as part of a larger strategy of disentangling from the US, it's sensible. The Chinese must be delighted at how the US keeps shooting itself in the crotch.

American excepionalism is a terrible metric for an American government to base any thinking on. This is another time that the Trump regime, and conservatism worldwide, are anti-Darwinian in their thinking. They're a bunch of dodos in eagles' clothing, racing to investigate what all this gunfire noise is.


And, really, at this point, how much worse an authoritarian hell scape is China vs the US?

I'm a China dove mostly but I will say the u.s. is at least not actively engaged in a genocide against a portion of its population right now

Right on, I'm ignorant about what's going in China.