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Or it's Occam's razor. He is stupid, old, diseased, and forgets where he is and what he's doing daily.
Trump's top aide sighs. It's Monday again.
"Mr. President - I'm giving you your reminder. You said quote 'Every Monday you gotta remind me to fire RFK Jr. Shouldda done it before.' unquote."
"I said that?"
"Yes - you did."
"It sounds like me. Say it again."
"Every Monday you gotta remind me to fire RFK Jr. Shouldda done it before."
"Yeah. Me."
"I have the documentation right here. It just needs your signature."
"What? For what?"
"I am going to go into the kitchen and bring you back an extra cold Diet Coke."
"Gotta be extra cold Diet Coke."
"Yes sir."
The aide leaves the room. As he heads to the kitchen - right then he decides he has had more than enough of this. He's going to use the autopen when nobody else is around. He's going to make himself an appeals court judge. All he needs is Trump's earthquake seismograph signature and he's golden.
Seismograph signature is taking me out
I first saw his signature in a thread in r/PoliticalHumor. I was 95+% certain "Trump's signature" was some kind of super-stupid in-joke for that subreddit. It had to be a joke. It just wasn't possible that— Holy mother of fuck. It's actually real. How... What the fuck.
Also him and what people he does care about will always have the best access to healthcare, so he doesn't give a damn otherwise
It's still undermining their own power in the long run. Having his base and America writ large sick and stupid is not a winning strategy for maintaining US hegemony. Recruitment goals for every branch of the military are way down not just because people are less ideologically motivated to join up, but because too many Americans are too physically unfit to clear the bar. Increasing the rate of childhood disease and disability is not going to improve that situation. Increasing communicable disease and making the workforce sick is not going to leave a good reserve army of labor around for their fantasies of reindustrializing. Having even more people become victim to the health insurance agencies and privatized hospital networks is not going to create a passive and happy population. The attitude you describe is not just myopic, it's self-defeating, which is why I think they must actually believe this grotesque anti-science stuff to some degree.
Your first mistake is thinking these people do long term planning.
Republicans lost entire counties in recent elections due to antivaxxers all dying from covid while libs actually made some effort to quarantine and vaccinate. It would be funny if it didn't also mean kids and disabled people were bystanders who got killed as well.