A little bit of good news: Trump’s name might get chiseled off of his attempts at immortality soon. A judge has ruled that the Kennedy Center should have its good name restored.
US district judge Christopher Cooper, Trump noted, had ruled that his handpicked board members, who “unanimously voted to add the name ‘TRUMP’ onto the former Kennedy Center, making it The Trump Kennedy Center, did not have the right to do such an addition, and the name, ‘TRUMP,’ must be removed”.
He mad. He has to know that once he is inevitably out of power (preferably by being hauled out on a stretcher), all his vainglorious attempts to scribble his name all over everything will be eradicated.
So we can also hope that eventually his mad rulings about vaccines, at the behest of his brain-worm infected buddy, RFK jr, will be erased in time. So look at this executive order to strip children of protections with a grim sense of happiness deferred.
An executive order signed by Donald Trump with little fanfare on Friday could have a huge impact on the health of US children, as it instructs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to cut the number of recommended childhood vaccines almost in half.
The vague language of the order, which refers to “a scientific assessment that compared United States childhood immunization recommendations with those of peer nations” published in January by anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy’s health and human services department, does not explicitly state that the new recommendation removes vaccines against seven diseases from the schedule.
The assessment, co-authored by the subsequently fired vaccine skeptic Dr Tracy Beth Høeg, concluded that the CDC director should update the childhood immunization schedule “to keep vaccines for 10 diseases – measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal disease, and human papillomavirus (HPV) – for which peer, developed nations share international consensus, as well as varicella (chickenpox) … in the category of vaccines recommended for all children”.
Implementing that recommendation would mean removing vaccines for these diseases from the recommended schedule:
hepatitis A
hepatitis B
meningitis
rotavirus
influenza
Covid-19The assessment also recommended cutting the number of doses of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine from two or three (depending on the child’s age) to one.
Someday the proper medically-informed schedule will be restored, and we can celebrate that. Someday. For now, we just have to deal with the suffering and death of a few babies. We just have to wait until the light is restored.
(I’m actually not going to celebrate until RFK jr is prosecuted for crimes against humanity, or his mangy rotting corpse is buried deep in the ground, whichever comes first.)
Yes. This too will pass.
Along with so much else.
Of so much more worth and value.
Doing so much lasting damage.
Unfortunately, Trump’s death or departure from office (hopefully 2028, but he may manage to make himself dictator for life) won’t undo all the harm he’s done. Already, he’s destroyed trust in the FBI, in the Dept. of (in)Justice, HHS, CDC, and the Supreme Court. Our relations with the rest of the world have been serious damaged. Much of the law developed over the past 50 years is being demolished. And the people who he has traded public trusts to will still own them
Also, even if he goes, the people that he installed and the people who are pulling his strings will still be there,
Basically, Trump and his wholely-owned party (i.e., the Republican Party) have been vandalizing the federal government and the country as a whole, and it’s a lot harder to rebuild than to demolish.
It’s going to take a very long time to undo the damage, even assuming the electorate doesn’t elect more vandals to office.
BTW, the mere fact that a Federal Judge disallowed the renaming doesn’t mean that Trump & Co. will actually obey the order. Cf. Andrew Jackson ignoring the Supreme Court ruling on indian (=Native American) sovreignty.
Incidentally, I think we aalready have the Trump cult here & now which is well on its way to being a religion.
When he passes, we’ll all have to face that Trump religion too. Its testaments and legacy are going to be especially evil. Toxic as fuck. Already doing so much damage and who will be running it and its future schisms and what they do with it?
Sorry for the ugly thoughts but its true.
It doesn’t take a Tiresia’s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias ) to see this.
I don’t know, I think it would be great if his name was allowed to decorate a newly constructed Donald J Trump Museum of Treason and Incompetence in Government. They could buy up confederate monuments from around the country and put them in the Traitor’s Garden, and Trump himself could have a whole suite of rooms dedicated to them. I think it would be both a great tool for education and Trump would hate it.
The level of corruption will be the hardest to remove. The blatant stock trading, gambling market manipulation, and leaking of secrets through these activities seems to be the new normal. If all goes to plan* Democrats will take a majority in one or both houses, but no accountability for the corruption will occur. Other priorities will need dealing with, such as arguing over what the priorities are for two years until the next elections, because fundraising is the one priority that doesn’t need discussing while driving the hidden discussion of what priority stimulates the most fundraising. Yeah, I’m a cynic.
*oligarchs still running things from their penthouse lofts
“…his mangy rotting corpse is buried deep in the ground…”
If he were able to do so, that sounds like something that RFK Jr. himself would like to dig up to take home.
I wish there were a way we could remove and ban his ugly face and name from every public place! We should treat him (and all his magat cult members) the same way he treated the grave of his earlier wife, a crude headstone covered in weeds and hidden from view forever. At this time, I’ll not go into more depth than that on what I think of the magat cult.
@4 StevoR
Possibly, if he has an especially exciting or mysterious manner of death. Trump’s not doing so great right now, though — unforeseen events aside, his biggest fans will try to build a Trump museum in the middle of nowhere, and everyone else will try to quietly forget he ever existed.
It is what the Republican party was before Trump, it is what the Republican party will be after Trump. Tying it all to Trump is a misdiagnosis — one made in the service of trying to rehabilitate the same entities who are intent on a deep state continuity of the machinery of death, with or without Trump, almost no matter who wins.
(preferably by being hauled out
on a stretcherin chains and an orange or black and white stripped jumpsuit)ftfy
RFK jr has dishonoured the Kennedy name of his father and uncle. Trump has turned the Trump name into a joke that will last for decades.
beholder, you get StevoR refers to Aussie politics there?
PZ’s article title: reminds me of a possible technique for eventually ridding us of Roadkil Fracking Kennedy Jerkoff as illustrated in an old risque joke about a constipated patient asking the doctor if they needed medication, to which the doctor replied, ‘just be patient, for this too shall pass’
Yes, the minds and actions of those running this country are absolutely scatological!
It’s from a Persian adage, shermanj. Kinda Ozymandian.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass)
Someone is so pedantic it has overridden their sense of humor. Ask that doctor, maybe he would recommend that a laxative would help. And, if you were to read the entire wikipedia entry, you would find ‘this too shall pass’ in many different wordings, is a common phrase used throughout history in countless settings.
When he is gone, tRUMP should be known from his crumbling golden statue as the modern reincarnation of Ozymandias.
Your time is about to be wasted shermanj. But you could recommend an experiment. There may be only trace amounts left of your interlocutor after the laxative though.
Some pharaohs had a passion for carving their names on to monuments they didn’t build. Now it’s seen as hollow vanity.
Heh.
(the rest is the waste of time; you do what you accuse, jonesing as you are)
shermanj, false dichotomy.
I can do both pedantry and jocularity, on multiple levels.
(That you fail to see how very straight-faced I am, how dry I can be, is on you)
If I had a time machine, I’d like to take “Dr” Kennedy and “Dr” Hoeg with me almost exactly three decades ago to the Balkans, so they could see “diptheria in an unvaccinated population” and “meningitis in an unvaccinated population.” (There was a lot of other stuff, too, but those are obvious and verifiable ones.)