RFK Jr at HHS (Politico link) will be a new chapter in the glorious history of MAGA:
For a glimpse of what an empowered Kennedy might mean for America’s parents, it’s worth reviewing his role in “one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent memory,” as FactCheck.org put it:
In 2018, two infants in American Samoa died when nurses accidentally prepared the combined measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine with expired muscle relaxant rather than water. The Samoan government temporarily suspended the vaccination program, and anti-vaccine advocates — including Kennedy and his nonprofit — flooded the area with misinformation. The vaccination rate dropped to a dangerously low level. The next year, when a traveler brought measles to the islands, the disease tore through the population, sickening more than 5,700 people and killing 83, most of them young children.
Edit: From the post about Gaetz, below, and even more relevant here, I endorse this comment from sentient ai from the future:
we don’t hold back from opposing a nitwit bigot being placed in a position of serious power just because the next one might be worse/better.
taking a scalp shows that the spell can be broken, and as long as we dont for whatever reason, gambler’s fallacy-like, think we need to approve the next knuckle dragging chud being nominated too, because we’ve somehow spent our political capital *puke* then we can put up a decent fight, even in the minority.
