The US is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in over 30 years, with 1,288 cases reported just six months into the year. The vaccine-preventable disease has led to three deaths, two children in Texas and an adult in New Mexico, and dozens of hospitalizations.
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If the republicans are ever thrown out of office, we're going to need a set of Nuremberg trials to be held. Sort of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission but without the reconciliation
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MAGA Indoctrinated Ignorance is evil personified with deadly consequences...
Measles is highly contagious and difficult to contain because it can be transmitted without someone knowing they have the illness. It's why getting the vaccine is so important. About 95% of the population should be vaccinated to keep outbreaks to a minimum. RFK is the wrong person for this job.
I live in AB, a province of only 5 million people. The Premier/leadership of Alberta is using separation fr Cda as blackmail to suck as much money & power fr other provinces as she can. She's inept - proof when this small populated province has AS MANY MEASLES OUTBREAKS AS THE ENTIRE USA.
Own the libs yet, #GreedyOldPendejos?
Incompetence and stupidity to hire a man who spent his life promoting lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation about real science Not a medical doctor nor a researcher, but an imbecile taking an agency the HHS/CDC and destroying it Thanks republicans and dtrumpf.. lies, hate, and cruelty
Our constitution is being undone. Lack of due process for some. And depriving people of life.
Don't forget that this rat advised taking vitamin A as a treatment for measles...and then lots of kids were admitted to the hospital for vitamin A toxicity.
JFC. Will they just stop already?! What is *wrong* with these idiots?! Not just the idiots in charge but the idiots that blindly trust the idiots in charge while at the same time yelling "you need to educate yourself!" at everyone else. These poor kids.
Meanwhile in maple-maga land of Alberta, Canada population 4.4mil “reported yesterday that 1,230 people have been infected with the highly contagious disease since March.” Be warned a bunch of them are wanting to become the 51st state and we might let them.
Because I still have friends and family there, it's only 20% that are maple MAGA, and they'll be taking Alberta out of Canada over the dead bodies of the 80% The measles stat is horrifying. Shows that even a small amount of anti-vaxxors make things terrible for all
We will just let the ones who want to leave go. Might solve more than a few problems there.
Good to hear!
Thx Republicans for nominating The Felon & getting a 2nd term. His Admin is killing us all - you won’t be exempt, if that’s what u foolishly believed. This is all on you for being such bigoted hypocrites liars and COMPLICIT COWARDS!
you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Wait till the full force of the imbeciles policies really hit the people. This is only a start.
#RemoveRFKJr
OMG The republicans are killing themselves!
Apparently, Alberta is trying to out-stupid the Idiocracy.
Wait until the rural hospital shuts down due to the big ugly bill and they have to look for an ER 100 miles away. Maybe get lucky if they are seen while their child is dying.
The death toll will continue to rise. It is what MAGA wants, so they will get it.
Thx worm brain - you incompetent fool
Letting your kid die of a preventable disease should put parents in jail…
RFK gonna kill us!
And it took only 6 months.
I agree w/the insurance companies suing Kennedy. They know how much his anti-vaccine policies will cost them when ppl get sick or die from totally preventable illnesses. I think, no shots, no coverage for that preventable illness. Why should insurance pay for something preventable you choose 2get
Except kids can't make a decision to not get vaxxed. Kids should not suffer for adults stupidity.
Absolutely true but adults can pay for their own stupidity.
Yes. Adults can and should. Hold parents accountable.
RFK Jr is allowing the disease to spread and kill off the people in the US by this deadly disease. He is not allowing the vaccine that prevents this deadly illness to be used due to "HIS PERSONAL BELIEFS" instead of the majority of the "PEOPLE'S BELIEFS." This is #unconstitutional! "Forced Beliefs"
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The media did this social, legacy which ever!
Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy died in early April after she tested positive for measles, said he has no regrets about refusing the MMR vaccine. But women are being arrested for having miscarriages. 🤬 www.newsweek.com/texas-dad-pe...
Public Health, and I capitalized it intentionally, isn't optional. Peter is a criminal - through his negligence he contributed to the death of his child and he also contributed to the spread of the disease. Even the Romans knew better than the fools running this place today.
Manslaughter
He’s pathetically deluded. To me his statement indicates he would rather have a dead daughter than an alive one. So sad.
I can only imagine the abuse someone like this would be putting their kid through.
2.6 million children died from measles worldwide before the vaccine was discovered. After vaccinations were introduced 136000 died. Both figures were mainly children under 5. Deaths were reduced by 86% due to massive vaccination. Deaths have been increasing since 2017 due to the lies about vaccines.
I don’t have the figures for lifelong disability that measles can cause. I would be one added to that figure. Please vaccinate, use the science as it was intended, don’t listen to lies presented as fact by someone who is not medically trained but just wants to feel big and get noticed. Kids die.
These figures are annual figures. 2.6 million kids a year died from measles. Don’t let your child risk being one in the future.
This is not making anyone great.
Americans have become a biohazard for the rest of Western world.
Thank you to RFKJr.
Thanks whacko RFK Jr.
Inoculate non anti vaxxers and bring back smallpox. Far too many people have not known a time when disease was the leading killer of children instead of guns.
There will be more deaths to come - dRumpf wasn't satisfied with the hundreds of thousands he murdered by intentional incompetence.
Dear MAGA & MAHA…stop breathing air it’s been poisoned and you will turn into a liberal. Stop breathing immediately until we can eliminate the deep state poisoning you.
Making viruses great again!
True sign of ignorance and/or laziness. There is NO way this should be happening
It’s also greed! He is receiving a lot of money from insurance companies that don’t want to pay for vaccines.
Texas does love to create its own problems, doesn’t it?
The country is being dismantled and destroyed. It’s purposeful and all the elected and appointed people that were supposed to protect us from this kind of corrupt power grab is complicit.
Alberta, Canada - "Hold my beer"
This is a competition I'd THINK Alberta and the US would prefer to LOSE, but I guess that's just old fashioned thinking.
If you were born in the mid to late 60's, get a titer test. Your vaccine may no longer be effective. I'd have never thought to do so, but my doctor recommended it. Turns out, I did need a booster since my vaccine was, in fact, no longer effective!
Any women working in schools should check their Rubella immunity too, especially if planning to get pregnant.
YES! I got the MMR booster because rubella was not effective either!
Making America sick again.
superstitious Evangelicals are the new plague on the Nation
Via Texas 👇 Mexico is battling its largest measles outbreak in decades, with health authorities confirming more than 3,000 infections and eight deaths. (7/8/25) youtu.be/4a8ioE0tCbE?...
Gee, maybe putting an incompetent, untrained, unqualified, conspiracy believing boob in charge of the nation's health might have been a mistake... Nah, that couldn't be it!
WA state also has a whooping cough problem due to rising vaccine hesitancy- and that’s the state that resisted DT the most in 2024.
Trump & Robert.F.Kennedy Junior will have all these deaths & possible disabilities on their consciences, assuming they actually have a conscience. But let's hope that one day, very soon, they will have to answer for their negligence & stupidity & the avoidable tragedies they caused. :(
Hang that on RFK Jr.
Funny fact, anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. had all his own kids vaccinated! The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
Sad fact is probably all/majority of 'anti-vaxxers' got vaxed; including their families. It's probably because they want to 'own the libs'. I hear many complain that they got sick from the shot. Whelp, it's better than being in the hospital, huh🤔. Or worst case...dead
Yep! They seem to miss that point. And, they lie! Gave you a follow.
Trump kills people.
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Thoughts and prayers! If you ask the families in TX, they will respond, " they are with their lord"
If the floods don’t kill them, the measles will.
Measles cases in TX have actually dropped significantly, most likely because it scared enough people into getting vaxed (I hope). Been following pretty much daily while debating whether or not to visit family there this year.
It is still spreading though. Not trying to argue that. Just that maybe...enough people are waking up to think about it more. It shouldn't even be an issue. :/
Do you trust red states to keep an honest tally of new cases? Not me.
Blame RFK for that, just like he did in Samoa in 2019.
These people would rather get measles or have their kids get measles instead of actually prevent the disease by getting vaccinated... Wtf.
Ya but I think Canada is equally facing the same issue. Mostly among the Mennonite (similar to Amish) communities.
Imagine what the numbers will be like when vaccines for children and pregnant women are no longer recommended by CDC.. Not being recommended, translates into not being paid for by insurance including Medicaid. The poor people will not be able to afford to get the children vaccinated. Shameless
It's backdoor eugenics.
Well most of the antivaxxers voted for it, unfortunately we have to live with it.
Six years apart, same president. www.statista.com/statistics/1...
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Praying my vaccine holds out …
Making measles great again. Is this part of the Orange cake face’s “golden age of America?”
I really think that SOB is physically about to pop. When that happens we will have a single day of joy. Then the hard work begins…again. I really think the house of cards is about to crash down.
God, I hope you’re right!
MAGA Measles 2025. So much winning. ☹️
Trump. And RFK Jr
And this will just continue to get worse.🤬 RFK,Jr. is incompetent, dangerous, uneducated/anti-science and anti-vax, promoting worthless, often dangerous alternative cures. If this wasn't bad enough, he fired anyone with knowledge. Just resign or be forced out already.
And any child who recovers from a measles infection is at risk of developing encephalitis years later. It’s a swelling of the brain that causes the patient to forget everything they knew. It’s always fatal.
Measles-related encephalitis is not always fatal. It is sometimes - about 15% of the time, and 25% more with lasting effects I’m not trying to downplay the risk, quite the opposite. Accurate data on multiple measles risks, including this one www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feve...)
I should have written subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, which is the always-fatal neurological condition. It occurs in about 2 in every 10,000 people who recovered from the measles. However, unvaccinated kids may be at a higher risk of getting it, like 1 in 609.
I think you are talking about subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). This is a progressive brain disorder for which there is no cure that can develop after having measles. There is the risk of several types of encephalopathy during and after measles infection that can be treated.
Yes, that’s the one I meant. It may not be as rare as they once believed, and there is no cure. The kid starts having seizures, they forget things, and it gets worse until they die. A father wrote about losing his immunocompromised son to SSPE; measles caught from somebody else’s unvaccinated kid.
And, with the Medicaid and SNAP cuts in Trump’s bill, untreated and hungry children are going to be the norm rather than the exception. We are watching the killing of mass numbers of US citizens at the hands of our government and few seem to notice.
Let's make scurvy and ricketts great again /sarcasm
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For about four years after an otherwise "minor' measles infection, children and adults are at highly elevated risk of death or serious injury from other diseases, notably influenza. Immune system weakness is a lasting after-effect of measles.
Yes, it’s like measles causes your immune system to factory reset. The problem is that we don’t have autopsy reports for every kid that died before the measles vaccine. All we know is that once kids stopped dying of measles, mumps, etc, they kind of stopped dying so much altogether.
Kennedy is not a Doctor! He is responsible for this. He has to go!
Wrap your head around this folks. It’s on purpose. Deliberate. They want to kill the weak and the poor. They want us so afraid for our lives we can’t respond to their looting and authoritarian takeover of the country. It’s deliberate not just a trend. Not just misinformation. Weaponized. #Measles
I completely agree. A serious revolution is going to happen. Bring back the guillotines. Chop chop!
Well I personally am NOT a fan of guillotines. I’d be plenty happy with them out of power and preferably in jail. But alive to contemplate their betrayal of our country and humanity
Ok, but if they knew they were going to be held accountable and that ‘we the people’ won’t stand for it and they knew that the cost would be their heads…I would wager we would have a very different outcome.
Well that’s true. But we shouldn’t have to kill people to hold them accountable or we are lost. Right now what they know is that SCOTUS have given them full reign and lower to be dicks. If they knew they wouldn’t get pardoned by the #KingofCorruption that’d be a great start 😊
If I thought common sense would prevail…I would agree. However, common sense is as rare a commody as an idea as there ever was… Change my mind.
Where is ROBBY Kennedy ?
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I’ve thought the same, but don’t they realize that disease, natural disasters, etc don’t check your bank account. They are at risk too from their own stupidity, a new disease we’re not prepared for, catastrophic weather events, an attack by an adversary. They’re not immune.
There’s a lot of stupid mixed in. But I’m gonna err on the side of calculated cruelty. They don’t really feel any of the failure as no one can hold them accountable YET.
Yes because to them we are literally just worker drones who's only purpose is to work for them. They don't want to have to feed us, house us, or care for our health. When we outlive our usefulness we should go ahead and die. This is also why they don't give a crap about social security or Medicare.
Absolutely. That was the model of the company store before the labor movements finally wrestled away some power and created unions to protect the workers whose rights don’t exist in the South. It’s “at will” They could literally work people to death 24 hour shift 7 days a week with no recourse.
Yum yum, give me some of that measles... drink your bleach and enjoy the evening... oh, and don't worry about the rain in Ashville or Texas as that is just guy in the sky asking why...
Gee almost like there was a crazed heroin addict who doesn’t believe in vaccines in charge of…vaccines
Anti vaxxers are murderers and should be charged with murder
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Plus it eradicated your immune system, leaving you wide open to other viruses and bacteria. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
*eradicates
Blood is on the hands of RFK Jr and trump
MAGA loves culling the children.
There will need to be tribunals for RFK Jr, and all the other incompetent boobs, and psychopaths in this administration with the same consequences Nazi war criminals had at Nuremberg. There should be a strong enough punishment to deter any future fascists.
Evidently we missed the point that the deep state brought measles back to Texas and other states. We should send our prayers and thoughts to those kids in Texas who have come down with this horrible disease because RFK, Jr isn’t doing anything to help curb the spread of this disease.
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Not sure whether deplore this or cheer it on.
I did the math back in March: unusually high number of cases + vax denier in charge of health + pandemic downplayer in charge of country + major media not reporting the facts + my mom can't remember if I got 2 measles shots = I'd better get my butt to walgreens for the measles shots.
Ontario, Canada says “hold my beer”.
How many families have been bankrupted by the hospitalization expenses trying to save their kids and family members from measles?
And let’s remember, just 25 years ago, the disease was declared eradicated. This is bonkers. Vax your kids!
Winning under MAHA looks like dead people from preventable diseases.
Making Measles Great Again
Only the beginning, I fear…. RFK Jr should face criminal charges for negligent homicide and civil suits for wrongful death.
Absolutely!
FYI: if you started kindergarten in the 80s, you probably only got one dose of the MMR vaccine. Two doses was not the norm until 1989. Call your mom to check. If you need a booster, they can be had (for the moment) at your local health department for cheap or even free depending on your income.
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So tragic: measles had nearly been eradicated from our planet. One *unvaccinated* person contracted it from a traveller & now we are back at the start. We should follow recommendations of experts in epidemiology and virology. They know best. Ignore RFK.
#MAGATerrorists #TrumpMustGoNow
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You mean h heroin doesn't Stop measles
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this is why I got a booster. it's been 45+ years & insurance wouldn't pay for titer test but would the booster. Got it at Walgreens last month just in case especially since I live in a stupid state with many idiots and evangelicals. we already have like 90% Vax rate which is below what it should be
Headline on Fox Tomorrow: Biden invented measles with the help of Taylor Swift.
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There are about 1,200 people on the island where I grew up. The nearest hospital is on the mainland, about 1 1/2 hours away. 3 dead & dozens of hospitalizations wouldn’t be surprising out there if people didn’t vaccinate. Our vaccination rate provides herd immunity here in Maine with over 97%.
Just say lost labor and revenue or the Oligarchs won't hear.
I'm becoming convinced that the plan is to kill of anybody who isn't a productive member of society with no vaccines, no effective insurance coverage, no medicaid, no food stamps, no help at all. If you survive that, and you're white and productive, great. If not, you're didn't deserve life.
Yep. Eugenics. If you really want to be unable to sleep, look up The Dark Enlightenment. Vance name-drops Curtis Yarvin quite a bit. Theil and Musk want techno-feudalism for us.
If you were vaccinated as a child, you may want to get a measles titer test to make sure you still have enough immunity. If not, you may need a measles booster.
Are we surprised that MAHA includes thinning the herd? 🤔
It’s God’s will. Republicans have a really cruel god
It should be noted that these MAGA folks who do not vaccinate their children are about to lose their Medicaid and food assistance. Sick, hungry children unable to get healthcare is soon going to be the norm.
And yet RFK jr isn't encouraging vaccinations. They just look the other way. This could have been confined with proper action on the part of RFK jr's agency
Yes, the number is staggering. And of course it’s going to rise. But, those of us who are vaccinated will not be getting it.
It’s hard for me to care about this. Get the vax. Choose not to? Well, good luck. You get what you get.
...children can't get the vax all on their own without parents choosing to get it gj blaming kids for the stupidity of adults
Except kids can't make a decision to not get vaxxed. Kids should not suffer for adults stupidity.
File wrongful death charges against RFKjr for each preventable death that occurs where the victim followed his erroneous advice to forego measles vaccination. Kennedy should not be able to cause unnecessary deaths without consequences.
¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ "Fuck them kids." - RFK, Jr.
There is only one for that and that is Trump (and who he appoints to represent him)
this is what happens when you let dumb info get pushed as fact. Somehow these people got lead to believe they don't need to vaccinate their kids and boom, outbreak.
This is caused by, deny and delay.
Trump is working to lower the hospitalisation numbers at least
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/s is what i forgot to add as Trumps big bad bill closes rural hospitals...
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How much is Whoop and Function Health labs kicking back to RFK, Jr? 🙄
Maybe the Texas officials who are wringing their hands and claiming that the drowning deaths were unpreventable can begin to make amends with a massive measles vaccination campaign to help save lives while there’s still time.
😢😢 Judgement Day will not be kind to worm guy. Corrupt Court didn't extend blanket ok to the Felon's Cabinet.
rfk jr, the neuropathy of the Kennedy family, is on it.
Ontario and Alberta are more than keeping up... health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube...
Wow- who could have possibly predicted this? Oh....everyone? Carryon.
Grew up in the fifties .. I had rubella and the measles and it was not fun ! I remember being so sick and laying in a dark room . Why would you put your children thru that ?
I could tell you about a boy in my 2 nd grade class who was deaf or my friend who wore Coke bottle glasses from loss of eye sight from measles !
Or I could tell you about my grandmother who contracted polio in her 30s and how she screamed for days about the pain .
I think polio will be making a comeback.
They don't know about the many people in the 50s who were disable from childhood diseases . We did have a young boy in an iron lung we use to sneak in his backyard and play on the trampoline . I don't know if it was his siblings or his .
That was in the early 60s
One of my mom's dear friends contracted rubella when she was pregnant w her first child in the 1950s. Her baby was stillborn as a result of this.
Before vaccines grave yards were full of children ..
I'm sorry we have such stupid people in charge
Congress needs to impeach JFKjr. He is a threat to the health & welfare of this nation
Oops RFKjr*
Trump is Responsible
People are strange.
Kennedy needs to resign!!! He’s not qualified for his position!!!
Call that a record? Pfft. Wait for next year. Oh, and then 2030. By then the real records will start getting broken. So many records. All that winning. People are going to be sick of so much winning. Literally.
And yet we are hearing nothing about this measles surge and deaths because the CDC is told to sh*t up and smile pretty.
Just be prepared. Know that when one disease sprouts others follow .
Plus exposing newborns and immunocompromised people who cannot have the vaccine to a horrible illness that is entirely preventable 😡
This! My boss’ brother had a liver transplant 2 years ago. And was not able to receive vaccines for a while.
Can well imagine the whining of their nitwit parents emitting bilge about the mysterious hand of God.
I remember when trump quit caring about Covid. It was the day after news came out that it killed more Black people than White people. QED.
When did he care about covid? His call with Woodward "I've ALWAYS wanted to downplay it" And his response to a question about taking responsibility for the infections and deaths 👇🤢
For about two days in January 2020.
MAGA vaccine deniers, I'm sure. Poor kids. #FDT #FGOP
Thankfully my guy and I are vaccinated. Not so thankfully my mom and stepdad both had it as kids, though were lucky to be okay. This is too weird and not in a good way at all. At this point I want all the vaccines to everything that we’ve got including smallpox.
We're living in the dumbest of times.
u can get a measles shot as an adult who was vaccinated as a child
People lying about vaccines should be criminally charged.
In a just world, they would be exiled to a leper colony.
Alberta, Premier Daniel Smith , & the UPC party have almost matched that number through shear ignorance and stupidity.
Not to mention the immune amnesia that all of these people now have, leading to more preventable diseases.
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Thanks Trump!
Yeah but we’re so fucking healthy it’s worth it!
481 days till midterms. 😎
Mother nature taking the weak anti vaxers out of the gene pool
Agree except for the innocent children who didn’t have a choice and have ignorant parents.
I agree. The children don't have a say in it especially when they are juvenile and teens.
I'm angy at our government for promoting no vaccines for children. I'm horrified at the parents for listening & following the advice. I feel the parents are being negligent.
Can this administration get any worse?
Shhh! They'll take that as a challenge.
All because of incompetence of the leaders in the government! The workers on the ground know what needs to be done.
Might be worth mentioning that measles is the most contagious viral diseases known to science. And was virtually eradicated in the the US.
The MAGA disease needs to be eradicated first.
It’s all Trump and Kennedys fault.
This anti-vax shit is going to affect many more people. Measles outbreak bad enough. But, what's next that could have been preventable? Medicaid cuts, SNAP cut, no mandatory vaccines. HE. DOES. NOT. GIVE. A. SHIT. He only cares about his shitty makeup and golf.
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So I can never get anyone to photo me right. The sign on the left of the screen says RFK wants to baptize us in raw sewage and Measles.
Undermining democracy by depopulating America, to own the libs
Get your MMR - 2 vaccines NOW!
And a booster for TDaP.
Making America healthy by killing off the stupid, weak, and vulnerable?
So the Greatest County in the World is just Redneck Bullshit?🌎💩
And no longer the Greatest in any way as a result.
We never were
Fyi, if 1,288 cases were diagnosed, it means they were sick enough and desperate enough to go to a physician. How many were infected and infectious, but went undiagnosed? Answer ~10x. ~10% of cases in unvaccinated are hospitalized, vaccinated kids and adults that get infected do not get as ill.
I meant >10x
Measles is polling higher than Trump!
Rfkjr is horrible at his JOB.
Eugenics…Kennedy is all about it.
Looks like vaccines work better than thoughts and prayers. Amazing.
Robert Kennedy should be charged with endangering life especially of the vulnerable.
He'll go to the torture camp too along with Homan after due process. Fucking assholes. I'm pissed. Just sayin.
We can eradicate disease. Can't eradicate stupidity.
Yes, but they had freedumb from vaccines and masks, see?
RFK Jr’s body count is 3 just from the measles
This is just a reminder that not everybody survived his 1st term. It's going to be disaster on steroids this time around.
Just spray windex on it. That cures measles. 😐
That's 3 less future potential spreaders.
JFKjr is a con, making money off his government position like everyone else in this corrupt administration. Basically, treat everything that comes out of his mouth as suspect, even potentially dangerous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I mean RFKjr!
*Sorry: RFKjr
Of course. And they put an anti vaxer in control. What a shit show.
Never have I ever in my many decades on this Earth have I seen such a sign in the hospital until now.
Get your children vaccinated for fucks sake!
And the stupid keep on stupiding.
Welcome to the future of the US. If you want sane healthcare policy and gun laws, free and fair elections, an independent judiciary, intelligent political leadership, respect for gay, trans, and women’s rights, no history of slavery or Jim Crow, and a free press, get thee to Canada.
Thanks Junior
And this surprises anyone?
Get vaccinated
Wait till school starts ☠️
Kennedy and Trump should be charged with murder.
