We can turn this around and save reputations and Trump can save his legacy before 2028. Here’s how:
End the war immediately
Go balls to the wall on firing anyone with corrupt industry ties in the WH or our 3 letter agencies
Tell Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Chem and Big Ag to lose the White House’s number because their opinion holds no weight any longer
Start ramping up deportations even harder. This is the one thing the voters are loving.
Don’t touch a hair on Bobby Kennedy’s head or everyone is done for
Go in there every day with the most outlandish wish list and all the crazy amazing things voters want to see get done and just try. Even if Dems block it try anyways to regain trust and integrity with the base.
Talk about Trump Accounts ad nauseam every single day until 2028. Hardly anyone knows what it is, how to sign up or how it works and it’s one of the greatest achievements of any admin in American history
End ALL foreign aid immediately
If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. He needs to mend his heart before thinking about running for any office. White ppl haven’t hurt him. He knows exactly who did. Notice how he doesn’t get the satisfaction he was craving when the interviewer simply anchors himself & doesn’t validate that experience. We should all do more of this. Don’t validate anyone’s experience for the sake of temporary bonding.
The year is 1873. Your wife tires easily and reads too much. The doctor prescribes the rest cure: six weeks flat in bed, no books, no visitors, fed on milk, forbidden to sit up without his permission. The man who devised it is the most famous nerve specialist in America, and the women come out of it quieter, which is taken as the cure.
The year is 1915. The hospital has a new way of delivering your child. Morphine, then scopolamine, and the mother wakes two days later with a baby she cannot remember having. They call it twilight sleep. The women are strapped into padded cots so they do not hurt themselves while they scream, and the straps are the modern part. The babies arrive blue and slow to breathe.
The year is 1945. The truck comes down your street fogging DDT, and the children run behind it in the white cloud because the man on the back says it is harmless. At the beach it is sprayed over the bathers on their towels. It goes on the cattle, over the barn, and across the kitchen table.
The year is 1948. Your son has trouble with his ears. The doctor slides a rod tipped with radium up each nostril and holds it there for the best part of ten minutes, and you bring him back three more times. Hundreds of thousands of American children get the same treatment. The cancers arrive in their fifties.
The year is 1962. The health visitor tells you breastfeeding is old-fashioned and the formula is scientific. By 1972 fewer than one American baby in four is breastfed at all. The formula is skimmed milk and sugar, with the milk fat taken out and vegetable oil put in.
The year is 1971. The family planning clinic fits a small plastic crab called the Dalkon Shield. Its tail is a bundle of fibres that wicks bacteria up into the womb. 2.8 million are fitted in America before it is withdrawn, and the company goes bankrupt under the claims. It had been sold as safe and superior.
The year is 1983. The doctor says your arteries are the butter's fault. The dripping tin goes in the bin, the yolks go to the dog, the margarine goes in the fridge, and you have the heart attack anyway, on skimmed milk, having done everything right.
The year is 2001. Your 15-year-old is low, and the doctor prescribes Paxil, because the trial in the journal says it is effective and well tolerated in adolescents. The raw data, reanalysed 14 years later, shows more suicidal thinking on the drug than on the sugar pill. The company pays $3 billion to settle. Nobody rings the house.
The year is 2009. The government has spent around £500 million stockpiling Tamiflu for the pandemic, on the strength of the manufacturer's trials. When the trials are finally prised loose five years later, the drug shortens flu by about half a day and nothing shows it keeps anyone out of hospital. The stockpile goes out of date in a warehouse.
The year is 2026. The doctor has ten minutes and a screen. The number is high, so the tablet is for life. The weight is high, so the injection is for life. The meat is bad for the planet and the oil is good for the heart, and the person in the chair is as certain as everyone who ever sat in it.
Every one of those was settled, by a committee, in a journal, with a doubter somewhere being laughed at. The rest cure, the straps, the fog, the rod, the formula, the crab, the margarine, the trial, the stockpile. All of it certain, all of it printed, all of it done to somebody who had asked for help.
You were never the one who was wrong. You were the one it was done to, and the only person in the story who did as they were told every single time.
The apology comes a generation late, in a footnote, addressed to nobody.
The next one is being drafted now.
I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
He took a bullet for this
His kids miss his hug every day
His wife sleeps in a half empty bed every night
And you? Sitting out of an election because of gas prices? Is that your excuse? They put a bullet in one of our boys and you’re gonna call it quits?
"By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger." – C.S. Lewis
This quote sums up James Talarico's deceptive blend of Christianity and politics perfectly.
I think this important to point out: The food movement is NOT fighting for airtime with the medical freedom movement. That is absurd.
We are fighting the SAME fight.
Some people wake up to the corruption in Pharma first and then start asking questions about what’s in their food.
Others wake up to the corruption in our food system first and then start asking questions about the medical industrial complex.
Same awakening. Same fight.
And anyone trying to pit these movements against each other should ask themselves one simple question:
WHO BENEFITS when we turn on each other?
Not the American people.
The industries we are trying to hold accountable benefit.
Big Food. Big Pharma. Big Chemical.
They would LOVE nothing more than to watch this movement splinter into factions fighting over who gets the microphone while they continue business as usual.
Whatever this movement is called today — or whatever it is called tomorrow — I know what I am fighting for:
An end to the mass poisoning of America.
Clean food. Medical freedom. Transparency. Ending Corporate Capture. Informed consent.
These are not competing causes.
They are different fronts in the SAME fight.
I want everyone to understand what is happening right now with MAHA. Bayer threw a bomb on MAHA. Moderna threw a bomb on MAHA. The Sugar industry threw a bomb on MAHA. The hand grenades are firing left and right inside the White House directed right at us.
Did Republicans lose MAHA?
Is MAHA going to cost Republicans the midterms?
Is MAHA still politically relevant?
STOP.
This is exactly the conversation the corporate establishment wants us to have.
Because the goal is to make MAHA go away.
That's it.
Make MAHA look unsuccessful. Make it look fringe. Make it look like a political liability. Convince the White House that MAHA doesn't matter anymore.
And then quietly go right back to business as usual.
Who benefits from that?
Big Pharma.
Big Food.
Big Chemical.
The same corporate interests that have spent BILLIONS lobbying our government while Americans have gotten sicker and sicker.
Do you really think these industries want MAHA to succeed?
Of course they don't. They want us to fight with each other. Forget the real enemy.
Meanwhile, in boardrooms across America, MAHA is on the agenda. It can't be ignored anymore.
For the first time in decades, Americans started asking VERY uncomfortable questions.
Why are our kids so sick?
Why are we allowing chemicals in our food that other countries don't?
Why are we eating so much ultra-processed food?
Why are controversial pesticides being sprayed on our food?
Why does Big Pharma have so much influence over our healthcare system?
Why do corporations have so much influence over the agencies that are supposed to regulate them?
And perhaps the biggest question of all:
WHO IS PROFITING FROM KEEPING AMERICA SICK?
MAHA started exposing all of it.
And they HATE it.
This is what people need to understand:
MAHA isn't dangerous to Democrats.
MAHA isn't dangerous to Republicans.
MAHA is dangerous to the CORPORATE INTERESTS that have controlled Washington for decades.
And right now, at the most critical hour, I am watching those corporate and special interests gain more and more influence in the White House.
That should terrify every person who voted for change.
Because this is how they make a movement disappear.
First they tell you it isn't popular anymore. It's not working. People aren't seeing change.
Then they tell politicians it's hurting them.
Then they start watering down the policies.
They put industry-friendly people in positions of power.
They delay. They compromise. They protect the donors.
And pretty soon we're right back where we started.
NO.
MAHA was NEVER about winning elections for Republicans.
It was never supposed to be a campaign slogan.
It was about something so much bigger.
It was about finally putting the health of the American people ahead of corporate profits.
That is what millions of Americans voted for.
So don't get distracted by this ridiculous debate over whether Republicans lost MAHA or MAHA lost Republicans an election.
LOOK AT WHO BENEFITS FROM THAT NARRATIVE.
They want MAHA weakened.
They want MAHA sidelined.
They want MAHA forgotten.
Because they want their power back.
And I'm telling you right now:
We cannot let them have it.
MAHA doesn't belong to any political party.
MAHA doesn't belong to the White House.
MAHA belongs to the American people. We want our politicians to out MAHA each other - vying to have the strongest most effective policies to stop letting corporations get away with poisoning us.
Don't get swept up in this bullshit debate. Fiercely defend Americans against the real enemy.
It's People vs. Poison.
A projected ~9M CHRISTIANS in Texas will forget to vote in the midterm elections. That election is projected to be decided by less than 300k votes.
If godly people will not engage in politics, godless people will (and are).
Your great-grandfather did not sleep in a foxhole in some foreign land clutching a photo of your great-grandmother so you could vote communists into office.
Vote red.
This is certainly the most consequential paper published in child and adolescent psychiatry for the last few years. It shows that the meta-analyses that current child psychiatry guidelines rely on to recommend fluoxetine for depression were skewed by an unbelievable trial (n=40) in Iran which found an effect 15 times larger than the average.
When this trial is removed all meta-analyses find the same as a recent Cochrane analysis which found 'small and unimportant differences.'
The flawed meta-analyses by Zhou and @cipriani in the @TheLancet and Lancet Psychiatry need to be corrected.
And guideline committees need to update their guidance in the context of the harms of these drugs including withdrawal effects, sexual effects and agitation/akathisia and suicidality in a minority of youths exposed to them.
Link below