This is one of the most baffling aspects of the whole fiasco for me. With most of the things these people are doing I can see someone that benefits. I don’t understand who benefits from the US going all in as an an antivax nation.
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I think it's just a wedge that they can drive into the fearful/gullible to polarize society and get them on side for the other nefarious stuff, like oppo to socialized medicine. With a major side benefit, which is snake oil sales. I think they simply don't get/care about the consequences.
They will still get them, just like the women they impregnate will always have access to abortion. The rules do not apply to them. They are "better" than everyone else.
The women that are potentially carrying the illegitimate children/grandchildren of Republican politicians will still have access to abortions, is what they mean
I get it, but it's not accurate. Those women's access to abortion isn't guaranteed. It's not their decision since those repub/conservative men have the power to determine the women's fate
When abortion is banned, NO woman is safe. All women lose the right to decide about their own bodies.
Rich people can always hop on a plane and go wherever they want for health care outside of the laws in the US. Wealthy people in the public eye will always skirt the laws when it is in their favor.
You're assuming that the men in their lives will allow them to fly somewhere for an abortion.
My point is that if the control of women's bodies is turned over to men, even rich women will be SOL.
Naomi Klein's Doppelganger suggests it's motivated by an ideology according to which the worthy will survive without vaccines, and those who can't didn't deserve to make it - it's the crossover she identifies between the wellness people and right-wingers who both oppose vaccines.
I'm convinced a psychopath who enjoys the suffering of others. There is not a bit of remorse in him for the deaths & damage he's caused throughout his life.
His cousin Caroline Kennedy's description of him sounds like a description of a future serial killer. https://youtu.be/t-zUrs9GCfI?si=VaNGg3i3OKuOJPy3
I'm sure there are people who will profit from a lower life expectancy. It's almost surprising this isn't the result of lobbying by a special interest group of funeral homes and coffin makers.
RFK JR. has made most of his money for the last 2 decades from anti-vaccine advocacy, so I suspect he'll personally profit quite a bit. I think it's also just the same revenge politics that's at play across many Trump policies at the moment.
Obviously, these things are going to destroy a lot of US businesses, but they are businesses that Trump and RFK both dislike. Also Trump seems to be largely disinterested in the US economy as a whole as long as his personal assets are doing ok.
Vaccines are public health. Public health is about collective benefits. Collective benefits are anaethma to the Right. They'd rather other people die than they suffer minor discomfort for a disease they probably won't personally get.
Most trump mouthpieces don't believe vaccines are dangerous. It's likely they are vaccinated themselves. But to the toxic mix of sadistic sociopaths and accelerationists in that mob, disease and suffering are of great benefit. And also, anti-vax actions please the qAnon types in the trump base.
Indeed. Trump was first in line when a vaccine was available at the same time fomenting anti-vax sentiment. I suspect it's all part of sowing division in the USA. He's turned everything into an us and them kind of thing. Pretty soon we will be arguing about whether it's daytime or nighttime.
Elon Musk's family are alt-med chiropractors. Trump thinks vaccines cause autism for years. Lots of Christian groups are anti-vax. There's a lot of anti-vax believers around trump and RFK Jr. Assholes all the way down
I remember him lamenting people finding out they have COVID at all by testing. That's what this is about to him. No testing=no cases =no missing golf with Tiger Woods and Tom Brady
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When looking at otherwise inexplicable words and actions from the Trump administration, this is always the answer
Everything they do makes sense when you acknowledge who they are trying to benefit, and it ain’t the American people
That lack of access already exists in the abortion-ban states and women are dying because of it.
When abortion is banned, NO woman is safe. All women lose the right to decide about their own bodies.
My point is that if the control of women's bodies is turned over to men, even rich women will be SOL.
His cousin Caroline Kennedy's description of him sounds like a description of a future serial killer.
https://youtu.be/t-zUrs9GCfI?si=VaNGg3i3OKuOJPy3
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