Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year, and 2,777 total cases nationally—a 35-year high.

These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades.

“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making Marylanders sick,” Democratic Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks wrote Tuesday on X. “RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. Vaccines are safe and effective. Listen to your pediatrician.”

“Measles is officially out of control. How many more people need to die before there is a nationwide call for RFK Jr. to resign?” said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of the pro-science organizing group 3.14 Action. “His anti-science, anti-vaccine policies are killing people and infecting a generation of Americans with dangerous vaccine skepticism that will take years to recover from.”

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    Its nonsensical.

    If the billionaire class wanted everyone dead they wouldn’t do it with measles

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      You’re assuming these people are competent businessmen who would figure out that killing off the people you’re exploiting for wealth is bad for building further wealth.

      Trump is a prime example of the incompetence. He bankrupted multiple casinos, even with Daddy’s inheritance.

      They’re just simply good at gaming the system by manipulating market shares and real estate, while buying political power to serve their interests. They’re not businessmen at all. They’re grifters.

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        On the contrary.

        We are in agreement that what’s happening is not malice, but incompetence and greed.

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        Trump is a prime example of the incompetence.

        hmm. No.

        He got elected President, twice. He’s corrupted over $5B in personal money. He has secured infinite power from SCOTUS. He has the entire Republican party scared of him. He has the entire Democratic party neutered.

        Sounds pretty competent to me.

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          I don’t think it’s off his own intellect, at all. He doesn’t have much intellect to speak of.

          He’s a stooge for the Heritage Foundation, Bibi and Putin. He works off Roy Cohn’s playbook. These guys are great thieves, I’ll concede, but actually running legitimate businesses and succeeding? Nah.

          Trump on his own would be just a narcissistic, dumb, rejected NYC tycoon who bankrupt casinos. Don’t give him that much credit.

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      Just like any investment, they diversify their killing methods. Having a disease wipe out a bunch of people they don’t like is a slam dunk for them, easy cheap, blame free, results not guaranteed however. But you’re damn sure they’re going to leave the door open for any sort of disease to come and do some work for them for cheap. As a billionaire, I would not be interested in doing one big stunt to kill a bunch of people because that won’t work out for me.

      They’ve much preferred the long drawn out slow-burn of disease and poverty. Its not only entertaining and strokes their ego, it’s also the best way to get the results they want. They keep plausible deniability for themselves. You can’t see the puppet masters at work behind the scenes.

      As plebs we see nothing but natural disasters and natural disease. It’s not obvious that we should blame the billionaires at any given point. Who decides when where why and how we should go to war? Do normal people know that they only have a couple selfish psychopathic individuals to blame in reality?

      They have been shown to cause “accidents” (oops a gas tanker blew up on top of the bridge in Detroit, now that real estate I wanted got a lot cheaper! thanks Ghislane!), start wildfires, and any number of insane murderous horrors to get their way. They want all these events that they’ve caused to look like mysterious natural disasters. I suspect that if there were no more billionaires suddenly, we’d see a lot less crazy shit happen in the world.