Friday, September 05, 2025

“Everybody Outta The Gene Pool! We Gotta Scrub It Down!”

 The reigning theories are:

A) Trump appointed Kennedy because Kennedy endorsed him.

B) Trump appointed Kennedy because MAHA is a power base in MAGA.

Or could it be because Kennedy is a conspiracy theorist? Promoting eugenics? And trying to "clean" the gene pool? Kennedy was explicitly okay with that.
“Every child who gets measles gets a headline,” Kennedy said during the visit alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “When I was kid, there were 2 million measles cases a year and nobody wrote about them.”

Over the last few months, Kennedy has been criticized for his response to the measles outbreak, which has been largely centered in Texas. He has questioned the role measles had in the deaths of three individuals confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control this year. He has praised private medical providers who have used alternative treatment methods on measles patients, to ease some symptoms including vitamin A and budesonide, an inhaled steroid typically used for asthma but does not “cure” measles.
Racism is usually concerned with purity. Stephen Miller wants to remove all the non-white people from America that he can. He doesn’t mean “occupied” by white people.

Trump is a notorious racist. Kennedy is a notorious eugenicist.* Eugenics is just racism dressed up as science.

Maybe the reality is not that Trump thought he owed Kennedy, nor that he’s trapped by MAHA and can’t stop Kennedy. Maybe the reality is, that Trump is fine with Kennedy. It’s a GOP thing. Birds of a feather, and all.


*
The causes of autism spectrum disorder, a range of neurological and developmental conditions that usually center on how people interact, communicate, learn and behave, have already been identified as genetic in the vast majority of cases.

Even so, Kennedy announced at a cabinet meeting last week that the new study had been launched.

“By September, we will have some of the first answers. Within six months of that, we will have definitive answers,” Kennedy said.

Smith worries that the database and research could worsen stigma around autism, and it could keep individuals and families from seeking diagnoses and care.

“And at worst, I worry that we’re on a slippery slope to eugenics,” Smith said. “My mind immediately goes to history and things that happened in Nazi Germany. That’s extreme, but it feels like a possibility.” Disabled people were the first to be targeted then, he pointed out.

Opponents also wonder about privacy and security measures, which have not been detailed by health agencies, and how individuals’ information could be used against them.

“Are you going to use this as an excuse to take away my rights, to hold me against my will, to prevent me from having children, to take away my right to manage my own finances?” Marschall asked.
The reference to the Nazis is ironic, because America put eugenics into law first. “Three generations of imbeciles is enough!” Buck v Bell concerned a state law requiring persons below a statutory IQ limit be involuntarily sterilized. The Nazis studied our laws to write their own.

It “can’t happen here”? It already has.
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1 comment:

  1. The Thought Criminal4:22 AM

    Reminds me of how I reacted when I found out the then biggest promoter of pollution and contamination of the food supply of the large majority of Americans, Ronald Reagan mostly ate organically grown food. The idiots believe that they can isolate THEMSELVES from the consequences of what they want to put on the rest of us for their own financial gain, they really are that stupid. And that certainly includes the majority of those on the Supreme Court and in the Congress right now. And remember, Trump believes this AFTER HE GOT COVID AND WAS AT THE POINT OF BEING PUT ON A VENTILATOR. They must not have told him that that was already a brush with death, most of those who get to that point don't come off of them alive.

    The joke about reality having a liberal bias is true but only if that liberalism is also egalitarian and not purely libertarian. It is the worst defect of our Constitution that it has always been anti-egalitarian in favor of the liberty of the rich.

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