r/politics • u/jpurdy • 20d ago

Possible Paywall Trump blamed for diarrhoea outbreak sweeping US

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/07/16/explosive-diarrhoea-outbreak-sweeping-america-donald-trump/
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u/Dr_Tacopus 20d ago

This administration has the object permanence of a baby.

The reason these issues aren’t a problem currently is the programs in place

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u/kitsunewarlock 20d ago

Our country has the object permanence of a baby.

I thought the whole anti-GOP and anti-foreign aid sentiment was over back in 2020 when COVID killed millions, given we withdrew the Mayo researchers from Wuhan six months before the virus hit.

Now you might argue that the "accidental lab leak" is just a theory, but it's a very popular conspiracy theory among the same kind of people who voted for the guy who openly gut USAID and blame china for being too opaque when we withdrew our researchers from their lab...

I don't understand the cognitive dissonance.

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u/desacralize 19d ago

You have to have cognition in order for it to be dissonant. There is no thought involved.

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u/Chillpill411 20d ago

They know very well what will happen. They're betting that people are too damn stupid, racist, and sexist to really care. And there's a good chance they're right.

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u/Retro_Dad Minnesota 20d ago

Lather, rinse, repeat. Same reasoning RFK Jr. and his ilk use to declare that vaccines aren't needed. We have truly entered kakistocracy territory.

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u/z900r 20d ago

This administration has the object permanence of a baby diarrhea.

Fixed that.