Measles for nothing and whooping cough for free
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Bill Cassidy cast a decisive vote for RFK Jr. to bring his anti-vaccine lunacy to the Department of Health and Human Services, despite being a medical professional who continues to deplore RFK’s views on the issue that has defined the career of America’s second-worst failson. Cassidy apparently did so to prevent himself from being the target of Trump’s wrath. He also seems to have ignored what has happened to every other person who has attempted to make this bargain:
President Donald Trump on Saturday encouraged Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., to primary Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., for his U.S. Senate seat.
“Should she decide to enter this Race, Julia Letlow has my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, JULIA, RUN!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Letlow said in a social media post Saturday that she is “honored to have President Trump’s endorsement and trust. My mission is clear: to ensure the nation our children inherit is safer and stronger.”
“This United States Senate seat belongs to the people of Louisiana, because we deserve conservative leadership that will not waver,” she said.
In recent weeks, Letlow has told people around her that she was still considering running but would only get into the race if Trump committed to endorsing her, according to two GOP sources familiar with the matter.
Asked by NBC News on Tuesday if she’s made up her mind, Letlow said, “I haven’t decided.”
She declined to answer any follow-up questions, including whether she wanted an endorsement from Trump before she entered the race.
Cassidy posted on social media Saturday, after Trump encouraged Letlow to run, that he is “proudly running for re-election as a principled conservative who gets things done for the people of Louisiana.”
Nobody has ever deserved to lose a primary challenge more than this guy.
bill cassidy traded countless lives of babies and children and grandmas so trump wouldn’t burn him. and trump just burned him.
[image or embed]— public health guy (@publichealthguy1.bsky.social) Jan 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Cassidy lied to some combination of the country and himself, children died, and if he doesn’t maintain the modest power he sold them out over that would be fitting.
Meanwhile, what we know about the the role the elite political press played in suppressing negative coverage of RFK Jr. when he was at real risk of being dumped by Trump continues to get even worse, but we’ll come back to that in another post.