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26. It's the callous cruelty

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2026, 12:29 PM

16 hrs ago

The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is supposed to inspect large vessels at least twice a year.

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RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 18 hrs ago OP

It's not just negligence now. It seems like they are actively trying to make everything worse. Ocelot II 18 hrs ago #1

Trump and his gang are on a mission to dismantle, demolish, destroy our government dalton99a 17 hrs ago #5

And if Americans die or maim so be it....... Lovie777 17 hrs ago #16

I think what you posted is the goal. It's a feature not a bug. Texin 16 hrs ago #21

AGREED! AZJonnie 16 hrs ago #29

I'll bet... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #31

Civilized nations around the world popsdenver 15 hrs ago #36

Yup he's a sadist and a sociopath mucifer 15 hrs ago #41

We have some absolute fucking monsters running this country. Initech 18 hrs ago #2

Of course they're all monsters. They're Eugenicists. haele 14 hrs ago #46

Media will let him "worm" his way out of this. GreenWave 18 hrs ago #3

Of course he did. tanyev 18 hrs ago #4

I have no more interest in cruise lines RainCaster 17 hrs ago #6

Not only cruise lines, popsdenver 15 hrs ago #37

I have never understood the appeal Skittles 15 hrs ago #45

Why can't he be sued?? Damn it!!! a kennedy 17 hrs ago #7

Sovereign immunity. dalton99a 17 hrs ago #9

That was dumb 😑 I will never go on a cruise TommieMommy 17 hrs ago #8

Sounds like murder to me spanone 17 hrs ago #10

And EVERYONE who acquiesed is an accessory before or after the fact dickthegrouch 14 hrs ago #47

Jeezus. Was this anywhere other than CBS yorkster 17 hrs ago #11

Late winter -- early spring 2025 mahatmakanejeeves 17 hrs ago #14

Thanks. Just thought it would it have been yorkster 17 hrs ago #17

Seems like dereliction of duty. Kid Berwyn 17 hrs ago #12

Except for pure sociopathic amorality, PCIntern 17 hrs ago #13

The firings were in April 2025, so not exactly "just ahead". Still bad, though. TheRickles 17 hrs ago #15

The insanity never ends Grim Chieftain 17 hrs ago #18

Maybe it's junta-virus (nt) Pinback 16 hrs ago #32

I see what you did there. dickthegrouch 14 hrs ago #48

And the US cruise ship industry will sink sakabatou 17 hrs ago #19

Way to smoke, Bobby! no_hypocrisy 16 hrs ago #20

The entire KKKabinet... BurnDoubt 16 hrs ago #22

'Murica has no clue not fooled 16 hrs ago #23

Did this cruise visit a US port? maxsolomon 16 hrs ago #24

They think the virus was picked up in Argentina. LisaM 16 hrs ago #27

Trump did the same before COVID hit. rickford66 16 hrs ago #25

It's the callous cruelty UpInArms 16 hrs ago #26

It seems to me we have a 5 alarm scandal every day. Passages 16 hrs ago #28

Rethuglicans want us dead. Especially us old, useless eaters. OMGWTF 16 hrs ago #30

It's gotten to the point that the only trips I will take now are by car only kimbutgar 16 hrs ago #33

The harm IS intentional !!!!!! JR. is an abuser who delights in harming anyone he can Ford_Prefect 16 hrs ago #34

RFKjr likes to torture animals Norbert 16 hrs ago #35

Of course he did. LoisB 15 hrs ago #38

Somebody needs to check his basement. Buddyzbuddy 15 hrs ago #39

Check out what happened with his first wife mucifer 15 hrs ago #43

Vulnerable To Intentional Biological Attack 2na fisherman 15 hrs ago #40

Well, Trumpy DID tell us RFK would be 'going wild' in the HHS. Yep. Goin' wild. n/t PatrickforB 15 hrs ago #42

Here's the odd thing: most people who take cruises are white and upper-middle-class FakeNoose 15 hrs ago #44

That stupid fucker Blue Owl 10 hrs ago #49