And on top of that, the actual piece describes one cringey RFK scene after another. And the accompanying photo is of a Navajo Nation rep expressing resistance the damage he's doing to their community and public health.
I can't imagine a native tribe wanting a known anti-vaxxer who has recently been around highly contagious illnesses to wander into their territory. The past wasn't all that long ago...
I know a ninetysomething who can't do the puzzles anymore and can't work a computer to read it online who gets a hard copy of the paper every day, so it's over $500/yr to not read the paper but feel informed and cosmopolitan. It's a habit. It's maddening.
Kennedy & his worm-eaten brain have a lot to answer for. It really blew up during Covid. His rectocranial ideas that vaccinations are bad, have resulted in the illness & death of many simply because of his name.
Eg: Just 1 person brought measles to Canada. In my province alone, look at the result.
NJ had recently been overtaken with anti-vaxers back in 2020 before COVID about vaccine mandates for their kids and how they didn't want them... so they all decided "let's fight this by all showing up at the state capitol unvaccinated in a large group!"
A man who just visited someone who died from measles decided his next trip would be to a Native American tribe where the white man used to wipe out civilizations with disease? Good lord... does anyone read history or even watch television?
Just learned this today from a Tsimshian colleague: before the British and Spanish came to the Pacific Northwest, the Indigenous population was ~200,000. After about 120 years of multiple (mostly smallpox) epidemics, violence, and resource theft, the population was reduced to ~40,000. That’s 80%.
I really believe the parents should be held for murder charges, if us women are to be charged for our own bodies, guess what they should be held accountable for their kids health!
Chomsky warned of this long ago: Corporate media was never our friend. The forces that control it are interested in profits and manipulation, not truth.
Times such as these only serve to shine a brighter light on the normalization of incompetence, ignorance, and cruelty.
Yes. I noticed the mistake after posting. But I was counting on someone to correct me because I couldn't recall and google didn't provide me with, the country I was thinking of. It just escaped me but gave me Philippines although it didn't sound right to me, I used it anyways. Thank you
Oh, but what was he wearing on the hike where he hit his stride @nytimes.com? We are counting on you for stringent reporting. Don't let us down. Casual? Sporty?
The @nytimes.com is completely broken…keep trying to normalize our descent into fascism with feel-good stories about a lunatic vaccine-denier who also is eradicating the CDC.
It's unconscionable that the media is reporting about RFK jr's rhetorical comfort. Even aside from the measles break out, I can hardly think of anything less worthy of newsprint/pixels. There really is a lot going on in this world besides a wealthy white man of privilege getting comfy.
Much like Kristi Noem is in her element in her ICE costume: the most superficial version of what they wish they were. Here it’s rugged, outdoorsy, one with nature. While, like you said, kids are dying, he’s hurting the community he’s posing with and fixated on autism, which is NOT a chronic disease
Even if RFK was a completely conventional HHS secretary, who would this article possibly be for? I don't need to know whether a cabinet official had a good hike or not
Doesn’t matter how well policy is going, but Kennedy looks like a leader so he must be hitting his stride. “He isn’t nervous anymore, so he’s doing great,” sounds about right for Kennedy meritocracy from the NYT.
The NYT is a parody of themselves at this point. Between this and the pro-suburban sprawl thinkpiece I read earlier. The paper of record needs to be put out of it's misery already
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This US fallacy, that holding a respectable leadership position will change someone for the better, goes against historical evidence.
It's how we got into this mess in the first place ffs.
Not like need to dig that far either. Mr. "I take no responsibility" is still alive.
TALK ABOUT THAT!
1. The product or service is actually worth supporting
2. I’m not in poverty
Used to be able to, but #2 happened, and #1 was already increasingly self-extinguishing before that happened.
Eg: Just 1 person brought measles to Canada. In my province alone, look at the result.
He’s supposed to be a leader of health
What a moron!
Yeah, NJ used to be smarter once.
Our media are broken. 😡
(sorry Tiger Beat)
This sickens me
Times such as these only serve to shine a brighter light on the normalization of incompetence, ignorance, and cruelty.
Support independent media!
Stop making him sound normal.
He never accepted that he played a part in measles outbreak in Philippines that harmed/killed children
His continued assault on vaccines shows us he feels a sense of fulfillment in the lower vaccines rate
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-vaccine-crisis-rcna187787
@nytimes.com
I will never again subscribe no matter how many thirsty ass recipes they send to my email inbox.
Fuck em forever.
100? 1000? 10,000?
How many children need to die?
Measles is his element.
He wants to bring back polio.
his element is evidently causing mass death and disease, but of course the NYT, owned by billionaire oligarchs, wouldn't say that obvious truth