Here Comes "Polio Summer" Again

Donald Trump moved to question one of the signature medical accomplishments of the 20th century Tuesday, reportedly appointing a leading critic of vaccines to chair a commission on vaccine safety.

“President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policies and he has questions about it,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told the pool reporter at Trump Tower after meeting Trump Tuesday. “Everybody ought to be able to be assured that the vaccines that we have—he’s very pro-vaccine, as am I— but they’re as safe as they possibly can be.”

If you needed yet another example of Trump's embarkation on an agenda where things such as "knowledge" and "science" are discarded in favor of whatever shiney thing catches his fancy at the moment, you can do little better than his putting a whack-job like RFK, Jr. in charge of vaccine safety. RFK, Jr. is about as "pro-vaccine" as Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third is pro-civil rights. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine quack.

Frankly, Kennedy is a fucking loon. I went to listen to him speak at a local meeting on development and wetlands protection about a decade or so ago, likely something to do with Riverkeeper. His "speech" was a series of disjointed remarks that bordered on verbal diarrhea. He was not at all persuasive. He probably lost people to his cause. You could have won a straw vote for more nuclear plants, right then and there.

When he was finished, an older guy sitting near me shook his head and said: "There's something wrong with that boy."

(And he's a hypocrite.)

RFK,Jr and the Antivaxxers are Killing Babies

The executive summary: Because parents are opting out of having newborns given Vitamin K shots at birth. children are dying needlessly.

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot, research shows, are 81 times more likely than those who do to develop late vitamin K deficiency bleeding, where in many cases oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Perhaps most alarming is that, according to the CDC, 1 in every 5 babies with vitamin K deficiency bleeding will die. ... Many more babies survive the bleeding but suffer massive brain bleeds and lasting injuries.

Preventable deaths because of antivaxxers and addlepated morons like RFK,jr, who is nothing but a closeted Nazi eugenicist.

Shorter RFK, Jr.: I Did Not Say the Things That I Was Recorded Saying.

"Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' ears" is basically his position. When a congresswoman read his own statements to him, he claimed that he was being slandered.

Gym Jordan and Spineless Kevin thought it would hurt Biden to give Nutball Bobby a platform. Whey they aren't seeing is that the more people get to know RFK, Jr., the more they think that he's an unhinged lunatic. Since the Hyannis Jerkoff is running against Biden, the GOP is, in effect, helping Biden by giving that nepo-baby nutjob a platform.

This is from current polling in NH, where voters were asked for a single word that they associated with Kennedy:

Little Bobby is 60% underwater in the polls:

The only people who like him are Republicans and Fox News. And their opinions don't fucking matter one bit.

Bet That They Are Already Claiming that He Was Killed as Part of a Conspiracy

The leader of a QAnon cult who convinced thousands of people that former president John F. Kennedy and his son JFK, Jr. are still alive has died, VICE News can exclusively report.

Michael Protzman, 60, died last Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a week after an accident at the Meadow Valley Motocross track in Millville, Minnesota. Protzman’s death was confirmed to VICE News in a phone call with the Minnesota Department of Health.

His wet-brained followers believe that this is all part of the plot to reveal the TOFF as JFK, Jr., or that the TOFF has JFK, Jr. stashed away. Maybe he's impersonating RFK, Jr. Who the hell knows what they believe, because they are all about as crazy as one can be outside of a locked ward.

Shorter RFK,Jr.: All You Proles Can Die Soon

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is winding down its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the agency announced Tuesday.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. The winding down will include the cancellation of some contracts, he added.

“BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

I am very confident that I can safely state that what Brainworm Bobby is saying is 100%, pure unadulterated bullshit. There's no reputable expert for that proposition and the science is not behind it.

What happened, though, is that Bobby Drainbamage knew the result that he wanted, so he hand-picked "experts" to support his position. There was no independent review, only the medical equivalent of Trump drawing on a hurricane map with a Sharpie.

mRNA vaccines are one of the great advances pushed through by the first Trump Administration. COVID vaccines saved millions of people and they earned a Nobel Prize.

But the far-right flat-earthers hated the idea of vaccines, preferring to take horse medicine that had, at best, a placebo effect. Thanks to those clowns, the world will get sicker and infectious diseases are roaring back.

To Preserve His Legacy From His First Term, Trump Should Fire RFK, Jr.

He should fire because Brainworn Bobbie is shitting on Trump's greatest scientific achievement.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted.

Trump's Operation Warp Speed, which quickly developed mRNA COVID vaccines, saved millions of lives. The scientists who developed the technology won a Nobel for it. mRNA vaccines should be regarded by Trump and his supporters as a shining example of his leadership.

But instead, that moronic carrion-munching lunatic that Trump put in as HHS Secretary is tearing down everything that Trump did.

One has to wonder why Trump permits it. He's certainly fired people for less.

RFK, Jr: Fuck You and Your Conspiracy Theorist Bullshit, You Goddamned Ghoul

Besides the deaths from measles and other infectious diseases, the deaths of people around the world from terminating health programs, now we have assholes like this jackhole expressing their RFK-fueled conspiracy-theorist blatherings with bullets.

Stand By for MAGA Republicans to Go Batshit

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally possessing a weapon and has reached an agreement with the Justice Department, according to letter filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware.

As part of the agreement, made public Tuesday, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses and is expected to reach an agreement with prosecutors on the felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm as a drug user.

it is easy to predict that the MAGA Morons will freak out over this. Gym Jordan will commence more of his idiotic evidence-free hearings. Republicans will continue to bleat about this, ignoring the fact that the special prosecutor who ran with this case for the last five years was appointed by Their Orange Overlord. The QAnon-grade lunatics, like RFK, Jr., will claim that the missing submersible was a pre-planned distraction.

Maybe the equivalent of the oversight committee in the Senate will look into the Saudis giving Jared two billion with no strings attached. But don't count on it.

This Epidemic is Brought to You by Donald Trump, Jenny McCarthy, RFK, Jr., and the Rest of the Low-Wattage Anti-Vaxxers

Measles in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in 25 years, closing in on 700 cases this year in a resurgence largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against vaccines.

And this:

More than 900 students and staff members at two Los Angeles universities were quarantined on campus or sent home this week in one of the most sweeping efforts yet by public health authorities to contain the spread of measles in the U.S., where cases have reached a 25-year high.

This is all on the whackaloon, dimwitted, conspiracy-theory-addled anti-vaxxers.

Antivaxxers Killed This Kid

The mother of a 10-year-old girl who died from complications of measles has urged parents to have their children vaccinated amid a surge of cases.

Renae Archer was too young to have the MMR vaccine when she caught the infection at just five months old.

A decade later, she was diagnosed with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a very rare brain disease. She died in 2023.

Her mother Becky believes Renae might not have caught measles if more people had inoculated their children.

The antivaxxers who have destroyed any chance of herd immunity killed that girl. RFK,jr is one of those who promotes unscientific bullshit worthy of the Dark Ages belief in witchcraft.

Another Asshole Reveals That He is Antisemitic to His Core

RFK, Jr., a nasty piece of work, antivaxxer and addle-pated conspiracy theorist, who now blames COVID-19 on the Jews.

Scratch a COVID conspiracy theorist and you'll find a Nazi.

H/T

RFK, Jr.: Closet Nazi.

He is playing "Nazi Peekaboo", which is blowing a dogwhistle to the Nazis.

Mike the Mad Biologist has the details.

Considering that his uncle was killed fighting Nazis, this is beyond despicable.

Shorter RFK,Jr. & CDC: Die, Kids, Die

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.

Let's be clear about this: Bobby Brainworm doesn't give a shit about protecting public health. He's been pushing pseudoscience and eugenics-based crap for decades. He had his fingerprints all over a empidemic in American Samoa and now this. To his twisted mind, people dying in epidemics is a feature, not a bug.

To the Senators who voted to confirm him: This is on you.

Speaking of People Who Can Go Fuck Themselves: Russians.

Ukraine has launched a drone attack on Moscow, the Russian defence ministry says, forcing flights to be diverted from Vnukovo International Airport.

Five drones were reportedly used in Tuesday's attack, which also targeted locations in the wider region around the capital.
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"An attempt by the Kyiv regime to attack a zone where civil infrastructure is located, including an airport that receives international flights, is a new terrorist act," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.

Russia has been raining down drones, bombs and missiles on Ukranian towns and cities since the beginning of the war. Russia has hit apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, stores, restaurants, public parks and day-care centers, killing thousands of people. Russia has made it impossible for international flight to fly in and out of Kyiv.

But a few drones hit Moscow and the Russians have conniption fits? Russia is a brutal, uncivilized nation, led by bloodthirsty hypocrites. One of the basic principles of war is the Rule of Reciprocity, or, as the Bible doesn't say: "Do Unto Others as They Do Unto You." Their hypocrisy reaches Nazi levels (they were complaining about their cities being bombed after Germany pioneered bombing cities).

Russia can go fuck itself. The Russians can go fuck their mothers. And those in the self-styled "Freedom Caucus" and their supporters (including Wrong Desantis and RFK, Jr.), who unabashedly supports Putin, can go fuck themselves with a barbed-wire dildo.

The Freude is Particularly Shaden on This One

A US teenager who took legal action against his school after he was banned for refusing the chickenpox vaccination now has the virus, his lawyer says.

[Numbnuts], 18, made headlines last month after he unsuccessfully sued his Kentucky school for barring unimmunised students amid an outbreak.

Meanwhile, RFK, Jr's family has come out and lovingly said that he is nuttier than a jar of peanuts.

We love Bobby. He is one of the great champions of the environment. His work to clean up the Hudson River and his tireless advocacy against multinational organizations who have polluted our waterways and endangered families has positively affected the lives of countless Americans. We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment. However, on vaccines he is wrong.

And his and others’ work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences. The challenge for public health officials right now is that many people are more afraid of the vaccines than the diseases, because they've been lucky enough to have never seen the diseases and their devastating impact. But that’s not luck; it’s the result of concerted vaccination efforts over many years. We don’t need measles outbreaks to remind us of the value of vaccination.

I think he's a fucking loon.

Thanks to RFK, Jr and the Rest of the Anti-Vax Idiots

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.

If you want a quickie explanation why my side of the aisle regards conservatives as being morons, this is a good example. Dumb-asses believe the stupid shit that Brainworm Bobby and the other conspiracy theory fools (or Russian tools) hand out, so they don't get their kids vaccinated and now we're getting epidemics of formerly defeated diseases.

The Democrats Now Run the House, and RFK,Jr.’s Wormy Brain

With a one-vote majority and batshit-crazy lunatics like Moscow Marjorie, Gym Jordan, Beetlejuice Boebert and Massie in his caucus, if Speaker Johnson wants to pass a bill that has a prayer of being passed in the Senate, he needs Democrats to vote for it.

Which means the Democrats effectively have a firm veto on what the House does. All the Republicans can do on their own, now, is to hold stupid hearings for the sole purpose of getting their former-president-petomane-loving faces on Fox News.

Meanwhile, I don't know how much snark I can add to the fact that a worm or worms ate part of Baby Bobby Kennedy's brain. Except to say: Yeah, that explains a lot.

Thank You, RFK, jr. and the Rest of You Anti-Vaxx, Ivermectin-Swilling MAGA Idiots

Even your propaganda channel can't hide it:

Thanks again, morons, for turning this country into a laughingstock.

RFK,Jr. Would Happily See Millions More of You Proles Die and the Felon's Latest Grift

That's the conclusion that I take away from his attempt in 2021 to have the COVID-19 vaccines pulled and his endorsement of quackery.

In that, he's no different from the Old Fat Felon.

Meanwhile, the Con Man in Chief has launched a new crypto coin.

I can't even begin to summon any outrage. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a bild trust, but he had ethics and a sense or morality. The Orange Criminal keeps raking in cash with both hands from his various grifts and the so-called conservatives just close their eyes to his thievery. The Avon Lady's Favorite Traitor has used getting elected as a get out of jail free card, which his asshole buddies on the USSC have validated, and any criminality he can engage in he will do, as long as he can make a buck.

Well, America, we fucked around in the 2024 election and now we're going to find out.

The RFK,Jr. Experiment

He is just throwing out crazier and crazier shit to see how gullible the American people are, and how much crazy Republicans will accept until they push Dementia Patient One to fire him.

This is his latest bit of verbal sewage:

Robert F Kennedy Junior has claimed that circumcision raises a child's risk of being diagnosed with autism.

Speaking at today's televised cabinet meeting, the Health and Human Services Secretary said: 'There's two studies which show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It's highly likely because they were given Tylenol.

This is almost as nuts as watching Putney Swope run an ad agency. He is just going to keep on tearing our public health system into ruins while Trump and the brain-dead MAGAidiots cheer him on. Either he's running an evil experiment or his brainworm is eating more and more of his cortex. He is just weird as fuck.