Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.
Reminder that the only reason RFK is alive is because he has so much mercury in his body from eating fish that the worm that infected his brain died.
We need to replace Trump with a rational human being who recognizes the value in the US being a part of a democratic, rules based global order, and so will rejoin important internal organizations. But we also need to reform our government so that a presidential administration can’t unilaterally withdraw us from international organizations that we have committed to. Having big pendulum swings, whether in international or domestic policy, is destabilizing and inefficient, and it makes the US an unreliable global citizen. That is unacceptable. We have to do something about that. Yes, it will be politically difficult. We have to do it anyway. Let’s grow a pair and get done what needs to get done. No more complaining, no more defeatism, no more declaring failure before we’ve even started, let’s just roll up our sleeves and get it done.
Edit: there is another necessary change that we need to make, we need to eliminate American supremacism from our culture.
The concept of “American exceptionalism,” which has been embraced by both parties for essentially my entire life, is really just a euphemism for American supremacy. And that’s what MAGA is, a supremacist movement. The solution is humility, to recognize that we are not somehow innately superior to all other groups of people. That doesn’t mean we can’t be a great country, it just means we need to keep things in perspective. There are great things that we can teach the world but there are also great things that the rest of the world can teach us.
Proportional representation instead of first-past-the-post might help.
Finally! The US is standing up for bacteria and viruses. USA! USA!
Come on infectious diseases, do your thing.
Balderdash! What can they do against the power of the Four Food Groups combined!?!
Especially the 1992 food pyramid and its support for the grain industry with its “6 to 11 servings” of grains per day.
Very popular! There was even a book! The ‘I Haven’t Had a Shit for Seven Weeks’ Diet!
Grains defeat virus brains.™️
Transfats, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Titanium Dioxide and Artificial Sweeteners?
Actually insane.
All this time I was worried they would turn us into Russia, but I’m pretty sure North Korea is the final plan.
Worse. North Korea has been a member of WHO since 1973.
Of course.
You’re worried we’d turn into Russia? Russia was remade in our image.
Kinda hoping vaccine tourism will even be possible, given the US government is determined to piss off everyone…
I expect a lot of countries will welcome vaccine tourists, because those will be the sane Americans who don’t support this madness and are trying to change it. If there’s to be any hope of getting the US back on track, the sane people living here have to be healthy.
Unfortunately, a massive number of vaccines are manufactured in America, and this administration has largely stopped shipping them to the rest of the world.
Yay! We started making our own.
I think you can swing by and get some, but you may have to pay a couple hundies for the *rix ones and the COVID/flu altogether. And maybe call ahead? I’m not sure.
Excellent work, Brainworm!
This glazed ass image looks like ai. There is no way that roughed up handbag actually looks like this.
Over half of Americans voted for this.
Trump didn’t receive a majority of the votes, and 64% of eligible voters voted. So, not even a third of voters voted for this.
A non-vote is still a vote
And they sure as shit didn’t vote against it then did they
Trump won the popular vote
And 49.8% of votes
And in every state they shifted towards Trump, even if it didn’t flip.
Americans are getting what they wanted. Across ages and demographics, they got what they wanted.
Majority is over half or 50% + 1. And we have a very high level of purposeful disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering, restriction of voting places, removal of mail-in votes, no voting holiday, voter ID laws, purging of vote roles with no way to renew your registration in time, two parties that are ever marching rightward away from most American’s policy preferences.
Like, be mad at the people who voted for this, but it’s not even close to most of us. They’re unpopular, and most people don’t want this shit. There are more of us than there are of them so stop acting like you’ve already lost and that we deserve this. We didn’t and we don’t.
Nobody is gonna argue that voter disenfranchisement doesn’t happen. But you would be naive to think it accounts for all, much less most, of non voters. Certainly a distressingly large amount don’t vote out of laziness, however an even larger percentage don’t vote because they don’t feel they’re heard or cared about. Because politicians don’t speak to them and their needs. Call them discourage voters if you want call them abandoned voters if you want, call them whatever you want but the point is they’re out there and they’re being ignored so they stopped bothering.
Not that that absolves them of all guilt though. These people didn’t show up at primaries. They didn’t force the political discourse to follow them, and it is hard to do especially without billions of dollars to help, but that’s the only way to keep it.
