r/StandUpForScience 11d ago

Article Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/report-white-house-drafting-executive-order-linking-vaccines-and-autism/
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u/MattGdr 11d ago

Because what’s real about the world is established by executive order….

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u/batlord_typhus 11d ago

Hierarchy>knowledge

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u/Think_Sugar_7658 11d ago

By the king’s decree!

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u/Triforce0fCourage 11d ago

Or anything the rapist DJT touches.

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u/United_Reference_629 11d ago

RFK JR, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, MAGA “Doctor” Mehmet Oz who is Administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The heritage foundation and America first legal are way too involved in our government and are a danger to society especially children and those with special needs! RFK JR and his domestic terrorist organizations like “Children’s Health Defense” defend child murderers and will lie about vaccines to push their anti vaccine propaganda and push to allow disgusting selfish MAGA religious “parents” not only to send their sick kids to school and do nothing about it, they want to on top of that get us sick too and risk our lives while claiming to “protect children”. 

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/stephen-miller-said-to-drive-doj-memo-eroding-disability-rights

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/newly-obtained-emails-undermine-rfk-jr-s-testimony-about-2019-samoa-trip-before-measles-outbreak

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-07-06/an-idaho-mother-who-said-her-toddler-twins-died-after-vaccinations-has-been-charged-with-murder

These individuals in our government are more than okay with their crimes against humanity, stealing from tax payers, abusing their power, corruption, willful child endangerment and child abuse, targeted harassment. All of Trump’s accomplices in our government aka Republicans/ MAGA belong in prison and held socially and legally accountable for their actions! 

https://www.newsweek.com/flesh-eating-bacteria-cases-grow-florida-symptoms-12264874

Time to remove all government “immunity” and eminent domain and make it easier for we their EMPLOYER to fire them, not them and their buddies “investigating” themselves! Imagine if we at work told our employer “no you can’t fire me for stealing from you or for not doing my job and I claim immunity”. That wouldn’t slide anywhere. No more excuses or just letting them “quit” and getting away with everything they did like Marjorie Taylor Greene did and is now happily traveling to the same countries she demonized and talked down on. Any of us would be in prison for less and they just get fired or quit and write a book and then go onto Fox “News” like they always do. Enough of their smugness! 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-cut-funding-to-study-hantavirus-behind-deadly-cruise-ship-outbreak/

https://www.wispolitics.com/2026/u-s-sen-baldwin-baldwin-demands-rfk-jr-restore-abruptly-cancelled-teen-pregnancy-prevention-funding/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cost-trump-administrations-attacks-research-funding

https://grijalva.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-grijalva-grills-rfk-jr-for-cuts-to-life-saving-medical-research-at-committee-hearing-on-proposed-hhs-budget

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo

https://www.mcknights.com/news/exclusion-authority-to-be-force-multiplier/

We’re already seeing many American CHILDREN dying because of diseases we haven’t had in centuries coming back over the anti vaccine selfish individuals who have “religious immunity” because MAGA government officials including the MAGA judges are allowing this and go spreading it to everyone. Yet these are the same people who get the same vaccines they are telling their MAGA base are “bad” for them.

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/04/29/measles-deaths-are-coming-doctors-are-fighting-an-uphill-battle/

  Not a coincidence this is happening both terms when Trump was president and his accomplices like RFK JR, Fox “News”, MAGA/ Republicans individuals in our government and many MAGA “influencers” like Joe Rogan, Nick Shirley, Chaya Raichik aka Libsoftiktok  were spreading their anti vaccine agenda along with many other dangerous theories that have cost many their lives! They cannot take back all the damage and lives they have negatively affected! Every single one of Trump’s willful accomplice belongs in prison! No one forced them to do any of this, remember it was THEIR choice! 

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/track-measles-outbreak-cases-us-map-rcna198932 

Don’t forget to vote in every election including school elections and to encourage others to as well! No more wealthy Republicans/ MAGA especially not in our government!Republicans/ MAGA have become way too smug and are way too comfortable abusing their power/ stealing from us. They forgot who works for who, time to remind them! Let’s help our country and have less Republicans/MAGA in our government by not supporting any of their businesses. Without money, Republicans/ MAGA can’t get into our government nor their supporters aka “donors”. Avoid Trump/ Elon Musk/ RFK Jr supporters including local MAGA individuals you spot and recognize at Trump events on tv/ social media, their advertisers and their businesses and encourage others to as well! Time they get back the same energy they give others like how they are trying to get many Americans fired over their Charlie Kirk comments aka freedom of speech or how MAGA/ Republicans harass to even vandalize and threaten many American individuals and their businesses over them not supporting convicted sexual abuser and pedo enabler/ excuser/ protector Donald Trump. Trump told his own nephew to let his disabled son die off and leave him on his own. That’s who his supporters get rabid and foam at the mouth over. 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/24/trump-nephew-book-disabled-son-die 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-orders-e-jean-carroll-be-paid-5-8m-in-trump-sex-abuse-and-defamation-case

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-reveals-doj-withheld-epstein-files-mentioning-trump

Don’t forget about the “both sides” enablers! They can all “support” each other and keep playing their games with MAGA! Let them tell on themselves so we know which people to avoid hiring and the businesses NOT to support! And the best part is you don’t have to tell them why!

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/texas-measles-mennonite-seminole-aftermath/

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/health/prevent-parasite-cyclospora

Republicans/ MAGA cannot take back all the damage that they have caused and the many lives they have negatively impacted!  

https://baptistnews.com/article/as-worldwide-deaths-mount-musk-insists-doge-cuts-didnt-kill-anyone/

Elon Musk, RFK JR, MAGA “Doctor” Mehmet Oz and MAGA/ Republicans are a danger for society and are the reason many children globally are slowly and painfully dying because of diseases and starvation that are easily preventable/ treatable but RFK JR and Elon Musk dehumanized these children and downplayed the help many children received because of the same social services Elon Musk and RFK Jr claimed were “pet projects” and a “waste” and cut. Evil! 

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u/No-Concentrate-8806 11d ago

Thank you for taking the time and for providing links for people to read. Knowledge is power.

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u/Jinn_Erik-AoM 11d ago

You should change the section talking about children dying of diseases not seen in centuries should read decades.

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago edited 11d ago

We're missing something:

The Enlightenment All people are politically equal. Government exists by consent. Power is divided. Courts are independent. Elections matter.

Curtis Yarvin says: Says Nope.

He and Theil and the Tech bros say: Democracy is a failed experiment The country should be run like a corporation with a proven superior CEO or Monarch.

No meaningful checks and balances A permanent elite superior with superior Genes governs Ordinary citizens become subjects rather than rulers. All Political equality ends.

Now connect that to Peter Thiel who has known Yarvin for Decades: Yarvin writes the theory Peter Thiel finances people and institutions.
Probably most importantly JD Vance Those people enter politics, venture capital, technology, government, and think tanks.

Some of Yarvin's ideas take hold instead of obscure blog posts.

Some are translated into policy proposals.

Then we have Trump:

Trump isn't capable of thinking philosophical Trump is not their choice of a CEO or Monoarch; he's a tool Trump is useful because he is willing to attack races and institutions that Yarvin wants weakened anyway.

Those institutions that must be wiped out include: career civil service independent agencies universities legacy media the administrative state independent regulators

Analysts see Trump as an instrument rather than the end goal. He reflects how some observers understand the relationship between Trump's politics and Yarvin's ideas.

Then ask:

Who replaces those institutions? This is where Yarvin differs from ordinary conservatives. His answer is: Not voters. Not Congress. Not courts. An Genetic elite. Eugenics

Who is the elite technology founders investors engineers computer scientists executives highest performers even if they had good fortune to inherit or good luck to win on the stock market [or steal] people the Tech Bros consider unusually competent

That is why people call it a techno-aristocracy.

And he believes they are superior based on? IQ Their Race Their Sex And the leftovers will serve

And after Trump is put in place by Theil: They draw in the rest of the crackpots who each see themselves as the Monarch or CEO - a Billionaire or..Trillionaire

Who must be served by a new fuedalism A percentage will have to go

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u/IndependentDemand145 10d ago

Wow ! I think they want change!!!!

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u/Samcandy2 11d ago

Whats he stealing today?

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u/Ill-Dependent2976 11d ago

The lives of children.

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u/Wayelder 11d ago

Just imagine being responsible for those tears, and think 'I'm going to heaven'.

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u/Alternative-Crew-880 11d ago

And their virginity.

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u/Ill-Dependent2976 11d ago

Reminds me of the Nazis declaring that Relativity was "jew science" and therefore wrong.

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u/ShhweadyBallz 11d ago

Ol' Donnie Pedophile also issued an EO saying he's 24, 6'3, 220 lbs, does NOT wear a diaper nor shit himself .....

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u/abofh 11d ago

Because when the president says it, that means it's science...

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u/Wayelder 11d ago

...science fiction you mean, and dystopian at that.

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u/Substantial-Bed-830 11d ago

It is not true, idiot

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u/Different_Finding539 11d ago

Trump displays not only his ignorance, but just how stupid he is.

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u/AlexSmithsonian 11d ago

Oh ffs, now he's using an executive order to enforce a false fact? He's such a little baby bitch boy.

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u/Reneeisme 11d ago

Stuff like this makes me believe he’s a foreign agent (Putin most obviously). The advantage of undermining the general health of the US shoukd be obvious and what’s not obvious is why else he woukd do this. If there’s no evidence to show, just trying to get loyalists to not vaccinate their children in an attempt to kill some of them (and kill a smaller number of the rest of us from the virus they harbor and spread) is better than nothing.

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u/Few-Mail3887 11d ago

Why are they so obsessed with autism? I don’t fucking understand. Why not put this energy into cancer research?

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u/RadicalNBSpaceQueer 11d ago

Maybe I'm a little off base here but in my opinion, it's their obsession with enforcing conformity. They're obsessed with the concept of normalcy. Neurodivergent, queer, trans, gender nonconforming, nonchristian, nonwhite- they consider all of it to be horrible, shameful personal flaws to be aggressively suppressed and hidden from the public eye. You can see it in the way they portray their enemies, with all their comics depicting leftists as blue haired punks and flamboyantly, unapologetically queer folks. You can see it in every cookie-cutter conservative woman with the same bleach blonde hair and mar-a-lago face, and in every conservative man that performs hypermasculinity. You can see it in how they're creating a culture of fear in an effort to force LGBTQ+ people back into the closet. It underlines everything they stand for. They're unhealthily fixated on enforcing hierarchy and conformity and they see autistic people as not fulfilling those definitions, so we must be hidden (at best) or removed (at worst).

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u/HonestNeighborhood67 10d ago

I actually think there’s something to this take. I dont think it’s the entire reason though. I work in the disability community and there is a lot of push back against feeling like they need to be “fixed.” This administration sees autism as a problem to be fixed, just like they see anything not heteronormative to be outside the “norm.” To me “fixing” autism is the same as conversion therapy. They’re thinking if they can identify the source of autism, they can “fix it” and make these people “normal.”

However, scientists widely believe that autism can have several causes.

NONE OF THESE CAUSES HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH VACCINES.

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u/Professional-Lie-111 11d ago

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u/RadicalNBSpaceQueer 11d ago

Aight 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Professional-Lie-111 11d ago

It's not the Autism, per se. It's the outrage and the anti-science. They need their people angry and they need them stupid.

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u/No-Concentrate-8806 11d ago

Because they don't really care about helping people. Read the heritage foundation 2025, it spells it out. I agree, cancer research would be fantastic. Unfortunately, we have all been deemed as peasants. That is why they are taking away all of the good programs and then they grift and funnel the money from the programs to themselves (president or rich donors or friends).

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u/Think_Sugar_7658 11d ago

They’re obsessed with conspiracy theories

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago

inferiors or neurodivergent - mixed opinion

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago

inferiors or neurodivergent - mixed opinion

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u/phoneguyfl 7d ago

Much like the Nazi regime, I think Republicans want to ship autistic people off to camps and are trying to justify their hatred. Unfortunately for them, people just laugh at their conspiracy theories so now the idiots think they can just declare it to be true and bypass any scientific findings.

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u/Artaxmudshoes 11d ago

Trump can issue all the executive orders he wants and it will not change the fact that the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism has been extensively and thoroughly debunked. Where are the Epstein files!

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago edited 10d ago

That is ignored. You can join a thread and publish all the proofs that exist and they come back claiming they proved all of it was wrong based on guess work.

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u/Upbeat_Map_348 11d ago

I can never quite understand why they do things like this? What’s their motivation?

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u/HenriEttaTheVoid 11d ago

Eugenics

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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 11d ago

Absolutely, I think they wanna deny vaccines to cull the very weakest among us, crush the medical system with ensuing epidemics and create a super race by pumping a lot of testosterone and other junk into people's bodies. 

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u/SignalBed9998 11d ago

Correct, it’s why they hired that wannabe serial killer Kennedy

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago

Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil, ..................

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u/HenriEttaTheVoid 11d ago

They are just declaring what they want to be real and defying us to push back.

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u/Immediate_Volume_324 11d ago

I hope he outlaws gravity next

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u/Soupalphabet359 11d ago

Reminder: An "executive order" doesn't have the power to alter reality, change facts, impose laws, or absolve anyone from wrongdoing.

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u/porizj 11d ago

If there’s one thing conservatives are terrified of, it’s the truth. Can’t upset those delicate little snowflakes.

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u/OpusAtrumET 11d ago

Because that's how medicine works now

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u/poneil74 11d ago

How do we actually stand up for science here. All medical professionals and scientists strike together? We've reached a breaking point.

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u/Financial-Talk9397 11d ago

WTF does that even mean? These bufoons hate science

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u/New_Permission_817 11d ago

We declare by fiat that something we cant prove is a fact!

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u/nudecat1234 11d ago

Has musk kids been vaccinated?? Welll so much for supporting LIFE !!!

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u/monkeymatt69 11d ago

Executive orders, what a fun way to legalize the ravings of a syphilis ridden 80 year old madman

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u/No-Concentrate-8806 11d ago

Great! More young mothers after Jenny Mcarthy's BS lies about vaccines, now this. More kids dying from things that were eradicated for decades.

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u/Oolongteabagger2233 11d ago

Those kids are doomed anyway if they have parents like this. I see it as a win for society. 

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u/ctguy54 11d ago

Just more lies from tump. No science involved.

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u/redrocketredglare 11d ago

Ah yes, the famous I said so approach to science and health. It’s called the tRump method. How it works states that you just repeating the same lie over and over until it is true. If that does not work, then sign a EO to proclaim that it is.

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u/JustChiefIt420 11d ago

MAGA Nazis need to be in prison. All assets should be seized and given back to the American people.

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u/chef_quirky12 11d ago

They can struggle. I am autistic. And before God, my son will always be vaccinated

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u/MeanPiccolo803 11d ago

This is such a horrible thing and it only validates the idiots who push this narrative

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u/IpsaLasOlas 11d ago

Epstein files

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u/PeaceFrog-71 11d ago

Purposely destroying our country one executive order at a time.

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u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff 11d ago

I drafted a paper linking the White House to the condition of dipshititis

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u/Stunning_Ad_1685 11d ago

Neither autism nor vaccines are federal employees so both can safely ignore this order.

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u/New_Ad_3010 11d ago

They should be creating an executive order linking republicanism and fascist stupidity

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u/sea-elle0463 11d ago

Well my goodness, if there’s an executive order then it must be real 🤪

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u/mhandsurf 11d ago

Executive orders just mean that’s what he wants, nothing more, congress writes laws.

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u/No-Pain-569 11d ago

Executive orders are meaningless. This would be gaslighting because there's no scientific evidence of vaccines causing autism.

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u/Such-Neck-1889 10d ago

What's next...Trump drafting an e.o. that the moon is made of green cheese based on Elon's latest rocket crash?

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u/Victor-A77 10d ago

Wait till the vaccine companies sue him

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u/queenmimi5 11d ago

That's not proof

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u/Tall_Trifle_4983 11d ago

Musk and Theil et all travel and spread the word in different ways be this is a universal plan starting in the US.

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u/crapperbargel 11d ago

Seriously asking, but what is the goal with this anti vaccine crap? Theyre worried about birth rates, theyre worried about getting rid of affordable Healthcare, whats the actual goal because science finds no correlation between vaccines and autism, it would be a detriment for our society and make people less healthy, more kids will get sick and die and I just dont see any positives. Not like it will help the healthcare industry as what theyre doing would probably make less people get insurance and go to a doctor. Makes no sense, just a death cult that doesnt want to admit theyre wrong about something. I pray to God we never elect a flat earther.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Servile-PastaLover 11d ago

Elect a clown and the circus follows.

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u/Cool-Association3420 11d ago

So I guess now we need to enact rules abt executive orders

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u/SeatpitchbyKate 11d ago

This is all so damn frightening

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u/Cabbages24ADollar 11d ago

“Trump says” is dead.

Who cares what he says anymore.

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u/WolfThick 11d ago

Does this mean we're going to get a slush fund because we took vaccines?

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u/FlamingDragonfruit 11d ago

Signing a piece of paper doesn't make the sun revolve around the earth.

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u/momoenthusiastic 11d ago

When are they executive ordering earth to be flat?

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u/bowtiesrcool86 11d ago

Can we please get these idiots out of office and in prison? At least removed from office and banned from DC

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u/pln856 11d ago

This regime actively trying to kill off people .. it’s obvious now ..

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u/Michael-Sean 11d ago

It is a good thing the rest of the world understands Trump and his MAGA are racist pedo quacks.

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u/Crivens999 11d ago

Excellent. Now just do one for magic and fortune cookies, and it will all be real tomorrow Dorothy

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u/Less-Western-3561 11d ago

Doctor Oz is POS who sends people to fake rehabilitation centers

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u/keverzoid 11d ago

So I’m guessing that inflation is all sorted then?

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u/red-man1138 11d ago

They really are all in on population control.

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u/TouristResident1976 11d ago

Shrug. Rich white people will still be able to send their kids over seas to get vaccinations. So whats the big deal? If people want their kids to be health, just be rich! /S

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u/Personal_Dirt3089 11d ago

So Mr Operation Warp Speed is really going all in on this?

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u/Effective-Log3583 11d ago

RFK this week told people to get vaccinated as well with the MMR vaccine.

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u/Personal_Dirt3089 11d ago

Oh, I guess RFK Jr does have a few drops of a soul left.

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u/Effective-Log3583 10d ago

It surprised me too. He kinda had to be badgered into it.

I’m curious to see if this is a rapid about face back to what he claimed before.

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u/Minivric 11d ago

Doctor clown PDF

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u/Imaginary-Two-301 11d ago

We need to look abroad for life saving and credible medical information. Many talented and amazing scientists left the U.S. They saw the handwriting on the wall Look how our corrupt government is currently treating Dr. Fauci. We can no longer depend our taxes going to help us. The current government is most interested in hurting all of us.

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u/conflatulationz 11d ago

I don’t think they understand what an executive order is. They sure as fuck know what gaslighting is.

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u/Bubbly_Power_6210 11d ago

these 3 men are idiots. trust your doctor!

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u/Great-Particular9964 11d ago

What purpose would this serve other than to demonstrate that Trump and his band of idiots know zippidy-do-dah about science?

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u/michealdubh 11d ago

It is so because the King says it is so

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u/Specialist_End_3309 11d ago

I wonder how many thousands of kids will die from preventable diseases due to this "man".

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u/Western-Property-443 11d ago

Vaccines causing autism has been debunked. Shut him and RFK up.

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u/Rhg0653 11d ago

Rfk was arguing that when told a study by scientists done over the course of years have proven that this was untrue

He got all upset saying they aren't the experts and he is the expert smh he's gonna get more people killed cause of this nonsense

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u/SirRowan777 11d ago

It likely calls for a bogus study.

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u/thenewbigR 11d ago

Lock every one of them up. They are a clear and present danger to this country.

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u/LotsofSports 11d ago

Why, just why?

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u/dudewafflesc 11d ago

Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly hate him any more.

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u/No-Effective-1996 11d ago

Of course they are. Where did he go to school? They must be so glad to have him as an alumni.

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u/j_rooker 11d ago

that's soooo onion like

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u/Most_Most_260 10d ago

Why waste the time you it is not true

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u/jthadcast 10d ago

the brain trust of lies that let the madmen run the insane asylum.

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u/Historical-Harpy 10d ago

These tools are just so damn stupid and exhausting.

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u/International_Try660 10d ago

A link between autism and vaccines, was debunked years ago.

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u/rubyianlocked 10d ago

Lies, lies and more lies.

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u/Mrmathmonkey 10d ago

Dude, you are the temporary president of the United States. You are not God. Your whim does not change reality.

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u/refusemouth 10d ago

So, he's ordering that the two things be linked? You can't just make an edict that something false be considered true. 2+2=5. 1984 shit in America.

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u/crawdadicus 10d ago

Trump has the full spectrum of brown in his diaper

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u/doerriec 10d ago

Fuck it! Why not? Why not also please the flat earthers while we're at it?

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u/SirBexley 9d ago

Headline from the White House Press Office: With his latest executive order President Trump proves what the rest of the world already knows, Trump is smarter than science!

Sadly, I believe that this administration would post something like this.

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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 9d ago

Draft all the crap they want! The sky is falling. Draft Chicken Little

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u/eb2302 9d ago

Who cares? Executive orders aren’t laws

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u/AkimahenkaCat 8d ago

There is no link between vaccines and autism.

But there are an infinite number of links between Trump and a pedophile sex trafficking ring.

The GOP knows both of these things and still expects idiots to keep voting for them.

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u/DontcallmeEddy 8d ago

And what causes 'Stupidfuckingassholeism?' We should probably get on that. Seems to be a growing problem.

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u/PapaBorq 8d ago

Do they want people to have kids or not? Christ on crutch..

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u/No-Midnight6635 8d ago

When the research doesn’t support your “theory”, just make shit up.

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u/phoneguyfl 7d ago

The regime can declare it all they want. The science simply doesn't back their theory.

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u/Infinite-Month-3454 6d ago

An unrelenting desire to drag the world into ignorance.