Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 23
The Manhattan Institute polled republican voters and found that many of them are, well, umm, morons.
-- Over a third of GOP voters think the moon landing was faked.
-- Over a third of GOP voters think that the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or didn't happen as historians describe it.
-- Over a third of GOP voters think childhood vaccines cause autism.
-- Over 40% of GOP voters think 9/11 was permitted by the U.S. government.
-- Over half of GOP voters think the 2020 election was stolen from Trumpedo.
Stupid republican voters are why we can't have nice things.
And why democracy is doomed.
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-new-gop-su...
No. of Recommendations: 3
100% of Democrat voters think a man in a dress is an actual woman.
No. of Recommendations: 8
100% of Democrat voters think a man in a dress is an actual woman. ~pooroldmarco000
Wrong again stupid!
No. of Recommendations: 8
100% of Democrat voters think a man in a dress is an actual woman.
Nope.
We don’t think that about you.
You’re just an asshole in a dress.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Over half of GOP voters think the 2020 election was stolen from Trumpedo.
These is sad and dangerous.
No. of Recommendations: 15
The worlds top doctors and scientists say that hepatitis B vaccines are safe and have saved untold thousands of children's lives,
but a panel assembled by a heroin addled nepo-baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says these vaccines are very dangerous...
For stupid people it can be hard to know who to trust.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/05/advisor-...
No. of Recommendations: 1
No, Skanksy,
The only new part of the recommendation is that at to newborns of mothers who test negative for hep B, the vaccination should not be mandated, but rather, a medical decision left up to the mother and the physician.
Hep B vaccines for newborns only because mandated in the early 1990's.
What's the science behind mandatory vaccination for newborns whose moms test negative? Is there any science?
Or, is the deal (as Biden might say) that Hepatitis B is "stigmatizing" and therefore EVERYONE must get it, so as not to single out the infected moms and their newborns?
That's not science.
Maybe we should also mandate that all newborns get HIV vaccines regardless of whether their parents, or the newborns themselves, have tested negative for it.
No. of Recommendations: 8
"South Carolina Measles Outbreak Accelerates"
"US risks losing measles elimination status"
The worlds top doctors and scientists say that vaccines are safe and have saved untold millions of lives,
but a Trump-appointed, felching, heroin addled, nepo-baby, whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says vaccines are dangerous.
For stupid people it can be hard to know what to believe.
"People who have the most education—college graduates and postgrads—are least likely to support Trump.
People who have the least education—HS or less are most likely to support Trump."
"Smart people don't like me!" ~Pedo Don
"Measles can cause symptoms such as fever, cough and a characteristic rash. It can also lead to severe complications like pneumonia, encephalitis and death."
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharma...https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approv...
No. of Recommendations: 4
"Measles can cause symptoms such as fever, cough and a characteristic rash. It can also lead to severe complications like pneumonia, encephalitis and death."
Let's not forget:
German measles (rubella) during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, is dangerous as the virus can cross the placenta, causing severe birth defects known as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), leading to deafness, heart defects, cataracts, and intellectual disabilities, so prevention with the MMR vaccine before pregnancy is crucial, as the vaccine isn't given during pregnancy.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Here is the problem--inevitable, actually--with any sort of "behavioral mandates" which appear to be scientifically well-founded (albeit with edge or exceptional cases perhaps).
While Leftists seem to want to love to rant about how "stupid" and "unscientific" Republicans are--and no doubt, a lot of them probably are, since in any given population 50% will be below average in intelligence, common sense, education, and everything else--that's the nature of normal distributions--
--a far far disproportionately greater number of "below average" people dwell amongst the Left's favored constituencies.
Racial minorities, the poor, the disaffected, the illegal immigrants, the oppressed.
Right? They have less if any privileges, less money, less wealth, less silver spoon, less education, less opportunities, less EVERYTHING. (According to Leftist dogma, anyway.)
ANY "behavioral regulations" imposed by the government will therefore negatively disparately impact (on a proportional to population basis) these Lefitst-favored groups.
And it is dogma on the Left that "disparate impact" = "unlawful discrimination." Because systemic racism. Or something.
If you want to for example, address obesity by imposing behavioral controls on what people can purchase & consume--especially in regards to use of government benefits such as SNAP--those behavioral controls will disparately and disproportionately impact the Left's favorite constituences. The poor; minorities; illegal immigrants; and so forth.
But according to your Leftist dogma, disparate impact = illegal discrimination.
So, how do your leftists resolve the dilemma?
You don't. You simply focus on cases where you can attribute (wrongly or correctly, doesn't matter) some "bad behavior" to presumed "stupid Republicans." Yet you ignore things like young black men disproportionately murdering each other in places like Chicago. You refuse to impose behavioral controls on young black men in Chicago because that would be "racist."
Go ahead and impose whatever behavioral controls you want. It will disparately impact your favored constituencies.
Poor people are obese? It's not their fault, they have no agency. It's systemic racism's fault. It's not their fault they live in a food desert (caused by constant rioting and looting and failure of Democrat run cities to enforce basic civil order) leading to the grocery chains just closing up and leaving entirely.
Dunk on "stupid Republicans" all you want--your constituencies are stupider.
No. of Recommendations: 16
German measles (rubella) during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, is dangerous as the virus can cross the placenta, causing severe birth defects known as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), leading to deafness, heart defects, cataracts, and intellectual disabilities, so prevention with the MMR vaccine before pregnancy is crucial, as the vaccine isn't given during pregnancy.
It's incongruous, isn't it? On the one hand, absolutely no abortions, including in the first trimester. Gotta protect those fetuses.
But on the other hand, deafness, heart defects, cataracts, and intellectual disabilities? Hell, yeah, those fetuses are on their own!
No. of Recommendations: 10
Hey MAGA, ever heard the one about the face eating leopard?...
80% of the ACA subsidies about to expire go to people in the poor red states that Trump won in 2024.
"In Florida, West Virginia, and Alabama, 98% of people enrolled in Marketplace coverage received federal financial premium assistance, and 99% do in Mississippi.
Additionally, 80% of all premium tax credits ($115 billion) went to ACA Marketplace enrollees in Trump-won states."
Time and time again, Trump sells out his low-information voters — to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.
https://www.kff.org/quick-take/more-than-3-in-4-ac...
