MAHA & Anti-Vaxxers Silent as Government Mandates Harmful Jabs
The Insufferable Pageantry of American Masculinity
After losing the War on Influenza, Secretary of Whimsy Pete Hesgeth has now mandated jabs of testosterone in servicemembers over 30 that do not pass unnecessary and invasive screenings. Now if you’ll remember, rage against government mandated injections was a major sticking point of the “Make America Healthy Again” anti-vaccine war on science, and Trump supporters as a whole. Suddenly, these howling jackals are all silent when the government is mandating jabs that can result in a number of nasty side effects that come from abusing hormone injections. These very manly health complications include:
Reduced sperm count (something RFK Jr. is obsessed with)
Acne (show me your war face!)
Increased risk of blood clots (great in times of blood-pumping danger!)
Increased risk of heart attacks and strokes (who needs a bleeding heart in a war?)
Testicular atrophy (ow!)
Gynecomastia (aka excessive breast development in males)
You should also understand that when your body receives more testosterone than it can process, your body converts that into estrogen, which is considered a feminine, wimpy hormone that our “warfighters” should have zero amount of. These are very serious medical decisions that should not be made by doctors, not social media blowhards desperate to perform masculinity on the taxpayer’s dime. After decades of humiliation from Vietnam to the Middle East, in which America’s armed forces can produce little more than a mountain of slaughtered civilians, the Trump Administration is regressing into flaccid dick-waving pageantry.
Why are these protestors nowhere to be found in 2026? Where are their leaders? In the federal government, you say? Cowardly censoring themselves? Why, that’s impossible! Just years ago, you couldn’t get them to shut up!
The Eternal Cowardice of Lockdown Jay
Now if you’ve been paying attention, it should be shocking that National Institutes of Health (and Not-Acting CDC Director) Jay Bhattacharya has not resigned in protest, after wasting so many years on social media screeching and howling about mandated injections. Neither has Martin Kulldorff, or anyone else who exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to promote themselves and rise to power under the “Make America Healthy Again” banner. As it turns out, they were simply performing for a captive audience and aren’t actually opposed to the government mandating harmful injections!
On top of this, Bhattacharya has also been silent about the harmful impacts of his favorite virus against our armed forces, including serious complications such as Long COVID. Lockdown Jay has previously attacked such credible medical research, branding them “Covidian,” and he has abandoned all of his principals to destroy the freedoms of everyday Americans he has received awards for pretending to defend.
This is doubly embarrassing for the academics of prominent universities such as Princeton & opinion editorial pundits of outlets such as The New York Times, including: Ross Douthat, Zeynep Tufekci, Ashish Jha, Emily Oster, Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee, and others who have insisted that Jay Bhattacharya was a serious, credible person whose useless online petition was based in sound science, instead of obnoxious crankery. Jay Bhattacharya’s silence as the Administration he serves mandates harmful injections is deafening, and a final death knell in not only his own credibility, but the credibility of everyone who publicly defended this obnoxious social media troll and taxpayer-funded podcast guest.
The Sunk Credibility Fallacy
These “intellectual influencers” (thanks, Juan Pabo Pardo-Guerra) are silent as well, offering no apologies for the consequences of the quackery they legitimized and elevated. Whenever they open their mouth to comment on any issue in the future, remind them immediately that they went to bat for an absolute fraud who believes in absolutely nothing, letting themselves be seduced by an obscene charlatan who will say anything to promote himself. Thus, whatever they might have to say about the issues of our time is completely worthless until they are willing to make amends and offer apologies to those of us who tried to warn the public.
The reputation of Stanford University, which previously employed Bhattacharya as a member of faculty and hosting a COVID-19 disinformation artist playdate before publicly congratulating him on his nomination to National Institutes of Health Director, is also permanently stained. Turning a blind eye to the immature, anti-scientific antics of a social media troll in your employ, only to celebrate his ascension into overseeing demolition of federal funding for critical research that will inevitably end with the demolition of the world’s leading hub for scientific research, is a pathetic legacy for a once highly respected university.
All so a narcissistic podcaster can hog the spotlight atop the colossal mess he has made for others to one day try and clean up.
If you’re somebody who wasted the years between 2020-2024 insisting that the initial signers of a useless online petition written by the American Institute for Enterprise Research, including an economist who struggles with basic arithmetic, a crackpot who branded people protecting themselves from COVID-19 to be dangerous “anti-herders” in April 2020, and an erotic fiction writer were serious, credible scientists whose “concerns” about any form of public health intervention - all branded “lockdowns” - then you are a mark who got worked into a shoot on behalf of reactionary billionaires. You should be embarrassed. You need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself just how you let yourself get fooled by such chicanery, and work on ensuring that you won’t let yourself be made a fool of again.
Answering the Booty Call of Duty
Without handwaving away the atrocities our armed forces have inflicted across the world, killing tens of millions of innocent people across dozens of countries since the end of the Second World War, America’s frontline soldiers have developed all sorts of serious, long-term health issues in service of absurd, unwinnable crusades for the profit of arms manufacturers and private contractors ripping off the American taxpayer. Limbs blown off, skin melted off, chunks of their skull removed, PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome, etc. - and the idea that adding to this by mandating potentially harmful and completely unnecessary hormone injections is utterly obscene. Is the government mandating America’s “warfighters” roll the dice on infertility and developing massive honkers going to suddenly turn us into the world’s greatest fighting force? Here’s a bold guess: Probably not.
Secretary of Whimsy Pete Hesgeth is turning the military into pageantry; a performance of what his childish perception of masculinity, informed by Hollywood and Call of Duty, thinks being a “warfighter” is. Ironically enough, he is validating the criticism that gender is largely cultural and performative, instead of rooted in some sort of binary. This impotent chest-beating as we slaughter innocent fishermen and schoolgirls does nothing except show how truly weak America is.
It should come as no surprise that the weak-minded, weak-willed Jay Bhattacharya, who stands for absolutely nothing but hearing the sound of his own voice, is gleefully proud to be part of such a colossal national failure.
As OSHA's former chief regulatory official (long before Covid), let me just clarify for the record that OSHA never MANDATED vaccines for anyone, even in the rule that was overturned. Instead, it said that employees who did not want to be vaccinated (or employers who wouldn't allow them to be) had to be TESTED for Covid weekly.
But thanks for pointing out that Hegseth's idea is ignorant, wacky, hypocritical (and, I'd add, homoerotic).