Perhaps this can be viewed as a "win", but I suspect it's a temporary win until the decision is overturned. I don't think Trump will reign in Kennedy even if his decisions are politically unpopular. I am grateful to Judge Brian Murphy for applying the law to Kennedy and his band of kooks setting policy at the CDC, but like so many of these legal battles, the decision slows down the works, but doesn't stop it. While a slow down is better than nothing, it's a low bar. Trump seems to be counting on voter suppression and election interference as his means of staying in power and the Republican party seems to be complicit with this plan. I am certainly not holding my breath that SCOTUS, given their dismal track record on voting rights, will do the right thing.
So yes, a temporary win is better than a loss. We will not solve this problem with legal wins. It will require a complete thrashing of Republicans in Congress. Democrats can't just win elections, they must win in landslides. After that they will have to show a lot more courage to address the corruption that got us in this siutation in the first place.
I also find it helpful to speak out continually in support of medical science, even if it's just in the comments or in line at the pharmacy. My father had polio as a child and went on to become a physician at a time when the mere availability of penicillin and emerging drugs was a godsend to human health. He would never have believed that our country would sanction animosity toward life-saving protocols. I tell this story as often as possible in order to counter the counternarrative.
It is strikingly difficult to determine who in this administration is causing the most harm to the most people. Although Trump himself will win when the Iran “intervention” goes nuclear
This judge is no fool and isn’t fooled by the bulls**t pseudoscience RFK Jr is peddling. Anyone without a medical or science background or degree doesn’t get to decide what is or what isn’t public health policy. This is what you get when you’ve put an idiot in charge of HHS.
When you go to your doctor, do you ask what their "feelings" are? That should be the litmus test for ineligibility for healthcare or insurance. If you don't believe in it, then you don't get to access it.
A huge thank you to all those federal judges who are keeping the orange dumpster's sick "administration" from totally destroying this country. Every little bit of freedom and common sense we still have, is thanks to these very brave women and men, who even dare the McConnell/Roberts court to turn us into a fascist dictatorship.
This ridiculous clown is the ugliest man on earth. His face looks like it has been marinating in a sewer for 60 years (with his shirt off and in a pair of blue-jeans).
I don't think the thought that they had earned a political mandate ever entered these people's minds. The things they have done, they have done because it is what they believe. They have put up with decades of attempts to create a just society when, in fact, they believe such benefits should accrue only to the population's betters. And to insure that this age old perception is once again the law of the land, they are destroying everything in their path to power. One needs only to remember Trump's affinity for royalty to see behind whatever words he might speak to his MAGA audience.
The No Kings movement has it right. A crown is what Trump really wants.
It's unfortunate, especially for children, that Judge Murphy's decision is only temporary. This article should be required reading for anyone who wants to protect the health of our country's children.
Funny that such judgments can be temporary but the worst judges are appointed for life. At least death ends their tenure, sooner if they don't get vaccinated.
We should be more worried about diseases that were eradicated returning to create the next pandemic. Vaccines prevent them. We should be more concerned that our country's children start out life healthy and to remain so throughout their lives.
It's the Republican way - control and legislate every aspect of life before birth, and after that, a parsimonious lack of support - for food (SNAP), healthcare, childcare and education.
I never thought, at age 80, I would have to ask my doctor if I am still immune to measles, since I had the disease as a small child, before vaccines. He assured me that I am still immune. Where it not for Kennedy, I would never have felt the need to even ask.
Razor-sharp, Mr. Nesbit, which is what's needed to excise this cancerous growth on the body politic.
Perhaps this can be viewed as a "win", but I suspect it's a temporary win until the decision is overturned. I don't think Trump will reign in Kennedy even if his decisions are politically unpopular. I am grateful to Judge Brian Murphy for applying the law to Kennedy and his band of kooks setting policy at the CDC, but like so many of these legal battles, the decision slows down the works, but doesn't stop it. While a slow down is better than nothing, it's a low bar. Trump seems to be counting on voter suppression and election interference as his means of staying in power and the Republican party seems to be complicit with this plan. I am certainly not holding my breath that SCOTUS, given their dismal track record on voting rights, will do the right thing.
So yes, a temporary win is better than a loss. We will not solve this problem with legal wins. It will require a complete thrashing of Republicans in Congress. Democrats can't just win elections, they must win in landslides. After that they will have to show a lot more courage to address the corruption that got us in this siutation in the first place.
I also find it helpful to speak out continually in support of medical science, even if it's just in the comments or in line at the pharmacy. My father had polio as a child and went on to become a physician at a time when the mere availability of penicillin and emerging drugs was a godsend to human health. He would never have believed that our country would sanction animosity toward life-saving protocols. I tell this story as often as possible in order to counter the counternarrative.
It is strikingly difficult to determine who in this administration is causing the most harm to the most people. Although Trump himself will win when the Iran “intervention” goes nuclear
RFK Jr is a four-star crackpot. The fact that he's in charge of anything bigger than his ignorant mouth is a disgrace.
This judge is no fool and isn’t fooled by the bulls**t pseudoscience RFK Jr is peddling. Anyone without a medical or science background or degree doesn’t get to decide what is or what isn’t public health policy. This is what you get when you’ve put an idiot in charge of HHS.
When you go to your doctor, do you ask what their "feelings" are? That should be the litmus test for ineligibility for healthcare or insurance. If you don't believe in it, then you don't get to access it.
Kennedy is not only an idiot, he's also nuts. Neither are good attributes for a person in charge of ministering to the nation's health.
A huge thank you to all those federal judges who are keeping the orange dumpster's sick "administration" from totally destroying this country. Every little bit of freedom and common sense we still have, is thanks to these very brave women and men, who even dare the McConnell/Roberts court to turn us into a fascist dictatorship.
No bigger quack needs to be in prison for life than this guy-Make America Safe Again!
This ridiculous clown is the ugliest man on earth. His face looks like it has been marinating in a sewer for 60 years (with his shirt off and in a pair of blue-jeans).
Help bring on a Blue Tsunami in November. GOP & MSM normalize sociopathy & serial criminality of the Chosen One.
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
I don't think the thought that they had earned a political mandate ever entered these people's minds. The things they have done, they have done because it is what they believe. They have put up with decades of attempts to create a just society when, in fact, they believe such benefits should accrue only to the population's betters. And to insure that this age old perception is once again the law of the land, they are destroying everything in their path to power. One needs only to remember Trump's affinity for royalty to see behind whatever words he might speak to his MAGA audience.
The No Kings movement has it right. A crown is what Trump really wants.
It's unfortunate, especially for children, that Judge Murphy's decision is only temporary. This article should be required reading for anyone who wants to protect the health of our country's children.
Funny that such judgments can be temporary but the worst judges are appointed for life. At least death ends their tenure, sooner if they don't get vaccinated.
We should be more worried about diseases that were eradicated returning to create the next pandemic. Vaccines prevent them. We should be more concerned that our country's children start out life healthy and to remain so throughout their lives.
Talk about cost savings, and heartache. But thus it always is for the born these days; it's the unborn who get all the legislation.
It's the Republican way - control and legislate every aspect of life before birth, and after that, a parsimonious lack of support - for food (SNAP), healthcare, childcare and education.
I never thought, at age 80, I would have to ask my doctor if I am still immune to measles, since I had the disease as a small child, before vaccines. He assured me that I am still immune. Where it not for Kennedy, I would never have felt the need to even ask.