Blue states are reassuring whoever it is that needs it that the CDC gods in the DHHS pantheon, whom they forced you to worship and obey during COVID, are now false gods. The latest commandments from the burning bush in DC are crazy talk. There’s no way they are dropping their mandated vaccine schedule from 17 to 11.
Following the federal action, Vermont officials and health experts are reaffirming the state’s commitment to its existing childhood immunization schedule, which recommends many of the vaccines that the CDC had removed.
Jab them all and let god sort them out, if there were a god-the progs don’t typically envison there being a power greater than themselves.
Meanwhile, DHHS, the USDA, and the FDA have just reversed over thirty years of bad food science and advice by flipping the old food pyramid on its head. Yes, we’ve had a few iterations of that since like MyPyramid, and MYPlate, but those regurgitated the failures of its poitny predecessor.
The government and Big Food had you hogging down on breads, pasta, and cereal first, while limiting your intake of good fats and meat. The shift from earlier versions can be blamed on lobbyists, special interests, environmentalists, and some twisted desire to advocate for a culture in which 400-pound men identifying as women proudly wear yoga pants in public.
I know you can’t unsee that, and I’m sorry.
High-carb diets can be blamed for the obesity epidemic, adult and kid type II diabetes, and a long list of ailments that include heart disease. Between the glucose spikes, insulin resistance, and inflammatory seed oils, the old food pyramid made America sick to the detriment of public health while spiking medical costs, flooding the zone with new pharmaceuticals as band-aids, and cheap and easy profits across the board for all involved.
Everyone knew it was backwards, and thanks to the internet, scores of experts have provided plenty of scientific evidence for the path to better public health, which the USDA just adopted. Even South Park got it right, in their own way.
Yes, you can have steak with your butter, though I’d suggest butter on your steak. Yummm.
This week’s big news, after all the other big news, was an official realignment of food and science. Human bodies thrive on lean proteins and healthy fats, meat, eggs, chicken, fish, and vegetables. A bit further along, you get fruits, and at the bottom, breads, grains, pasta, and rice.
There’s no shortage of reporting, clips on X, and the rest, about the change, and you are a knowledgeable audience who has likely seen it all by now, so I will ask the next obvious question. Will blue states protest the same way they did with the childhood vaccine schedule?
There is literally no evidence that any of these vaccines provides a significant public good, and plenty to suggest potential harms make the risk unnecessary. And while I’m happy to allow parents the opportunity to exercise informed consent over jabs and food, Blue State Governors and state and local health agencies are still the gods and masters of their own spaces.
Again, I’m not opposed on strictly political grounds. States have rights, and the Feds should not tell you what to eat or what to inject. Their contributions provide more information, and you should do the legwork yourself. It’s your body and those are your kids. And in all instances, any exercise of power must be as close to the people affected as possible so they can respond to it at the ballot box. But residents in these states ought to accept this truth. They aren’t doing it for you; they are doing it for themselves, and their own interests, and because they have Trump Derangement Syndrome, which more broadly could be described as Trump Administration Derangement Syndrome.
If RFKJ says this new inverted pyramid is better, it hardly matters how many experts he parades behind podiums; the irrational disease that grips proglodytes everywhere will whisper, Rasputin-like, in their ears. Do the opposite.
Having said all that, so far, there hasn’t been a lot of pushback. Major self-proclaimed health interests are on board with the upside-down triangle.
Surprisingly, the Times admitted the new guidelines were supported by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics (which is separately suing the Administration over its changes to the childhood vaccine schedule), and the American Heart Association.
The most surprising thing, though, was the near-total absence of progressive panic. BlueSky barely twitched.
To answer the question in the headline, and how rare is that, at this point, no. The resistance has not yet formed ranks to publicly protest the new food pyramid. THey appear not to care. In fact, they might just be in agreement. Or, maybe they’ve just become super saturated with Venezuela, ICE, and every other outrage, there’s no room for this.
I’d love it to be the latter because I have a feeling there’s a lot more of this coming from the Trump Administration. Maybe not on the level of the first few months of the Presidency in 2025, but they are not losing steam.
Now, we just need to get Congress on board and we can codify the Trump agenda in law. Make it harder for the next Dem president to executive order it all out of existence.
