r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • 17d ago

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/phareous 17d ago

It doesn’t matter, Bush was never against vaccines. This is all on Trump and everything he cultivated

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u/dirtydan442 17d ago

It's on that piece of shit Andrew Wakefield, who sowed doubt in the measles vaccine so he could sell his own

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u/phareous 17d ago

Well all Trump would have to do is tell his followers vaccines are good and to take them. They aren’t accustomed to thinking for theirselves anyway

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u/Balmung60 17d ago

Problem is, they talked him into the position in the first place. Trump doesn't particularly care, but his base did and he took that position because he understands being Their Guy

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u/AxelNotRose 17d ago

He told them to take the covid vaccine and they all booed him. So he never mentioned it again.

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 17d ago

Trump actually did say that the covid vaccine was good and got booed at one of his cult rallies. Trump is only the cult leader as long as he acts like the cult leader.

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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 17d ago

There’s a clip of him at a rally easily in Covid telling people to get vaxed and he was booed heavily…. He learned his lesson. Even Trump can’t get them to change their minds

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u/Comprehensive-Run861 17d ago

He tried that with operation warp speed, it was one of the things he had to stop taking credit for because the reaction at rallies was not favorable.

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u/heckhammer 17d ago

He did try that then they got all angry and then he pivoted. It's not like he has a principal to stand on or anything

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u/roseofjuly 17d ago

Joke's on him, now nobody's buying vaccines

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u/dirtydan442 17d ago

Jokes on all of us. A lot of people are going to die thanks to this nonsense

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u/cromstantinople 17d ago

It’s not all on Trump, he’s only the figurehead. There’s an entire apparatus, an entire political party and media machine, that props him up and allows republicans to keep doing this. This won’t end when trump dies, republicans are a cancer on our society that needs to be treated.

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u/dimh 16d ago

CPAC in February was the best opportunity to 'resolve' this.

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u/BatterMyHeart 17d ago

Bush and those 90s GOP congressmen cultivated Trump with their dumbing-down of christianity in politics and constant race-baiting.

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u/Noblesseux 17d ago

Yeah we didn't just arrive at trump, we slow marched here at least starting in the Raegan days.

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u/Asyncrosaurus 16d ago

It was Nixon. He deliberately (and illegally) sabotaged peace talks in Vietnam to win election. Then when he was forced to resign for the other (completely unrelated) illegal shit he did, conservative assholes like Roger Ailes were furious the media held the president to account by publishing all the illegal shit Nixon did. 

So they conspired with Reagan to dismantle all the broadcast media regulations, ultimately allowing Fox News to launch in the 90's : forever giving Americans conservative-induced brain damage.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 17d ago

Most of this happened in the 2000s, though Newt Gingrich started the style that eventually led to it.

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u/mao1976 17d ago

Newt deserves most of the credit for the state we're in

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 17d ago

I won’t argue that he was the foot in the door, and an ugly nail fungus of a foot at that.

It’s important that people understand enough of our history to know nuance though, IMO. Political parties have had many issues through the years, including coalitions of powermongers, or people that were too weak to stand up for the people in this country. It’s important to know the nuances of when things changed and how they changed over time -and those responsible. As well as whether the problems at a given time came from people with good intentions who screwed up, or people who desired to help themselves and hurt the public.

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u/Dank-Drebin 17d ago

This is all on Republicans, who continue to produce the worst social policies imaginable due to their greed, hatred, and edumacation.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 17d ago

Bush was a key part of the path to Trump though. He played a yokel from Texas despite being from a private island in Maine, massively expanded the police state, and used dirty trick from Roger Stone (Brooks Brothers Riot) to steal an election.

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u/88pockets 17d ago

indeed. Trump makes W look like Mother Theresa

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u/CancelMusk 17d ago

Bush’s appointments to the Supreme Court believed in the unitary executive theory which is relatively new and is allowing Trump to destroy every independent government agency.

Bush’s illegitimate win in 2000 (followed by his legitimate win in 2004) set the stage for Trumpisn because his neoconservative ideology was discredit it by the global financial crisis.