Republicans keep talking like not having good health is a moral failure:

[tblue37]

Republicans keep talking like health is a moral achievement instead of a human reality. People get sick even when they do everything ‘right.’ That’s why we have healthcare in the first place.

— Brad Takei (@bradtakei.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T20:34:56.079Z

[yardwork]

1. This is how RFK, Jr. and Dr. Oz talk.

This is the message. They want to give everyone weight loss drugs and an AI avatar at the doctor's office. If that doesn't cure you you're a burden to society.

I've heard them speak in person. This is literally their message.

Wake up, America. They want us to die.

[GiqueCee]

2. Morons like Mullin...

... are a virulent disease themselves, and it would be great if that kind of staggering stupidity could be cured. But no, it can't. At least not until we can resurrect an education system NOT based on specious dogma.
The fact that people like Mullin can get elected at all is a howling condemnation of those that voted for them, despite the overwhelming evidence of their grotesque incompetence.
They get the government they deserve. That doesn't mean we deserve it.

[John Farmer]

3. I think that they actually believe that!

[haele]

9. Oh, they do. It's fundamental Eugenics.

Outwardly healthy, pretty, strong people are Genetically "Pure", closer to our original Paleolithic Homo Sapiens forebears than those brutish Neandertals we won out over in the past. However, some of our ancestors became perverted (probably drunk), or unintentionally mated with those brutish Neandertals, corrupting the gene pool with those offspring that could "pass". And since it took centuries for science to be able to come to the point we could understand genetics, it has taken us this long to recognize the corruption that took hold in our genes...
Pure Homo Sapiens is what God intended us to be.

If we go back to the days of clean living, pure food, and strong, pretty people, the closer we will be to God.

Or so the Eugenicists believe.

It's all shallow optics. Pretty people do not equal superior survivors.

[DSandra]

4. Republicans have been like this for awhile

Remember Alan Grayson, anyone? From 2009:

[leftstreet]

5. Sadly, a lot of people believe this n/t

[genxlib]

6. I would also like to point out

That it isn't up to a homeowner whether there is a fire hydrant within 500' of your house.

It is part of publicly paid for infrastructure that is installed for the common good.

I feel like there might be some relevance to that.

Certainly there are ways that people can have positive impacts to their own health but that leaves out all the other illnesses/accidents that are completely out of their control. Even among the elements that are controllable, many of the factors that make it difficult are also linked to poverty such as healthy eating.

[imanamerican63]

7. Ummm!!!!!

The one who has no morals, is he the healthiest person alive? Ask Trump!

[dalton99a]

8. "You can't fix a blown motor..."

You can't fix a blown motor by putting more subsidies or more money into it. At some point, you got to rebuild it or you got to replace it. And what President Trump is saying is this isn't working. Quit giving subsidies to profitable insurance companies. Let's give it to the American people. Allow them to make a decision to actually have a plan that works for them, and reward them for being healthy. I mean, think about this. Health care is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowner's insurance, if you're within 500 foot of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down. If you keep shrubbery away from your house, if you have fire protection inside your house, if you have an alarm system inside your house, if you have bars on your house—all this brings down your homeowner’s insurance. … We want people to have choices, a choice that works for them. A 25-year-old that takes care of himself, that works out, that's not overweight, that doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't use drugs, and doesn't dip shouldn't have to pay the same insurance premium as a 50-year-old that smoked his whole life, that doesn't work out, that's extremely overweight and has bad health and bad personal choices.

[2naSalit]

10. Fucking idiot. nt.