Unbelievable. What an assembly of suck-ups. If someone wrote a novel with that much ass kissing it would be rejected. I had to read another news account of the meeting. You weren’t exaggerating. I can’t wrap my head around it. He believes what he is told. The con-man lives in a sheltered bubble of sycophantic deception.
Gotta say, I thought you were embellishing with the Marco Rubio thing, urging Trump to do something about Saturday weddings during football season. Since I’m not a football fan and I loathe Rubio even more, I had to check it out. Not sure if that was all in jest, but seeing Marco as a frothing suck up was almost breathtaking, given his history with Trump.
And in my quest to check all this out, I was forced to watch Hegseth’s spiel, which allowed me to fantasize about putting a large sock in his mouth. Although he was positioned right next to Trump, his pontification strangely included lots of arm & hand gesturing while Trump struggled to stay awake. And this is what passes for a cabinet meeting these days….geez😳
It’s nauseating. Pure North Korean rule by delusion. How any captain of industry, small business owner, consumer or worker can stand by while literal insanity reigns is beyond belief. Nothing but collapse can come from decisions based on a complete break from reality.
Torture porn. Listening to, or reading, or even just watching them with sound off — these soulless sycophants slathering all over the mad king — it's torture. Of the worst kind. It makes my brain melt out of my ears. I want to gouge my own eyes out. Please. Make it stop.
The first person to pipe up must kick themselves as Trump calls on people. By the third or fourth speaker, the first one must be grumbling to themselves: "Damn, wish I'd said that! ... I can't believe Pete has the balls to spout that Department of War crap as if it was his idea ... Rename Labor Day - I should've thought of that!"
Thanks to Jennifer’s question, I edited my comment for clarity:
A KFF poll from this May found that 52% of Democrats believe mRNA technology is "generally safe," while only 15% of Republicans think so. [1]
In contrast, a person’s political party doesn’t affect their opinions on other health issues. For instance pretty much everyone agrees that tobacco is bad for health.
Why would there be such a wide gap in opinion about the mRNA shots? Could it depend on what news sources a person chooses?
Meanwhile, another trend may indicate an overall loss of trust in the political party system.
The percentage of Americans who register as a Democrat or a Republican has dropped since 1992. Only 10% of people registering to vote in 1992 had no party preference, but 32 years later that category is 43%!
It looked like the chart you posted was about the percentage of Democrats and Republicans who believe tobacco use is harmful. If the chart is not about tobacco use, what is it about?
As my attempt to have open and calm communication among people who disagree about many issues, I will dare to point out that while I share your disapproval of President Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors, there was one beacon of sanity… that you didn’t even mention.
Here is HHS Sec. Kennedy’s 40-second announcement:
"We’re finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September.”
In the past, I’ve been rather surprised that someone like you, who has an eagle eye on exploitation, puts down his work on vaccine safety. It’s true that during Covid, Democrats got in the habit of calling Kennedy one of the Disinformation Dozen, but they evidently didn’t read the evidence I’ve been reading. My recent post has a hundred cautionary reports:
Nor did my liberal friends wonder why Pharma would seek ZERO liability for harm. Yes, back in 1986, the pharmaceutical industry (which has among the highest rate of profit of all sectors) told Congress that they would quit making vaccines unless they had this exemption because they were getting sued too often for disability and death from shots.
The solution was not to have the CDC make shots safer.
Instead, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, which removed liability from vaccine manufacturers and set up a no-fault compensation system. When a judge determines someone was harmed, the patient is compensated from a fund generated by $.75 per every shot administered in this country.
As of June 1, 2025, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), has paid out a total of $5.4 billion to 12,019 people (out of 25,019 applicants).
A 2010 study titled "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" (ESP:VAERS) was meant to improve the reporting system for drug and vaccine adverse events. It was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and run by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Results: less than 1% of adverse effects were reported, because the system is very difficult to use.
I’ll conclude with this sales pitch from Warren Buffett’s former daughter-in-law who wrote “Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them”:
“With the invention of each new vaccine comes a patent that is good for twenty years and guarantees that no one else can make the vaccine. In other words, the company has a monopoly.
“Even when the patents expire, other companies rarely step into the market because the major manufacturers have a permanent relationship with the government health departments of the world. This enables manufacturers to continue making the same vaccines year after year while maintaining their large profit margins even after their patents have expired.
“And last but not least, vaccine manufacturers in the U.S. are completely immune from lawsuits. Back in the 1980s several bad batches of vaccines injured so many children that the resulting successful lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the manufacturers, so the manufacturers lobbied a bill through Congress to make them a protected class.
“If you were in charge of the health of a nation’s 30 million-plus children, who would you buy your vaccines from? Every year? Year after year? You’d pick the biggest and the best. There are only four pharmaceutical giants that control most of the vaccine production in the world and GSK [Glaxo Smith Kline] is one of them.
“There is another component to the vaccine equation that also spells BIG MONEY: Every year, women all over the world give birth to approximately 133 million new babies, 4.3 million babies in the U.S. alone. With the United States Centers for Disease Control recommending that children aged birth through age six receive 34 individual vaccines, that means the market for those vaccines increases every year by 4.3 million in just the U.S. alone. This in turn means that the vaccine manufacturers selling in the U.S. have the potential to earn a profit of $1.09 billion every year (4.3 million x 34 x $7.50 = $1.09 billion). Consider the number of yearly vaccines worldwide and the numbers are staggering— approximately $34 billion a year (133 million x 34 x $7.5 billion). After ten years, in the U.S. alone, vaccine manufacturers will see more than $10 billion in net profit. On a world scale, the number jumps to a potential of $340 billion in profits.”
Spoiler alert: Kennedy is not going to find the cause of autism. The for-profit health industry is horrendous but that does not take anything away from the scientists that develop the vaccines that save lives. I am glad that the few people who have an adverse reaction to vaccines are compensated.
Your 3 sentences don't vanquish the 100 articles I put in my Substack post. A thorough rebuttal would include reading some of the material that, for 5 years, could not overcome the systemic hurdles put in place by the manufacturers of the mRNA shots, who you concede are horrendous.
Cui bono? Who benefits, from the hazards being covered up by mainstream media? Pharma does.
Cui malo? Who suffers from media not questioning authority? I think it's the trusting people who got the shots and now have myocarditis, turbo cancer, miscarriage or infertility, or a range of debilitating neuro disorders, or the relatives of people who died from the spike proteins (which can be identified as from a vaccine strain).
RFK Jr. was in that category for a while; he kept telling the mothers who came to his Hudson River talks that he wouldn't add the mercury in vaccines to his work load. Then a mom brought a tall stack of journal articles and said she would wait on his porch while he read them.
Lawsuit lawyers can be quite efficient reading medical jargon, he skimmed through those articles and realized he had to expand his view. He called people at the CDC who never got back to him with answers. He found the small minority of doctors willing to blow the whistle about vaccine hazards (and suffer losing jobs, professorships, and even their license to practice). Those independent doctors realized how they had been fooled, and so did Kennedy. Can you?
You won't know until you read what has been kept from you.
It’s part of being human to believe well-packaged lies, and it’s part of science to admit when one’s grasp of a subject is incomplete.
Many people saying something in many different ways does not make it true. The truth is backed up by science, which evolves when new information is discovered. I am not a scientist but I am able to tell the difference between an intelligent, competetent person like Anthony Fauci and a moron like Robert Kennedy, Jr. Fauci is a public servant who dedicated his life to science and saved lives. Kennedy has spent his life profiting from misinformation and lies and is responsible for the death of many children in Samoa. I don't understand why anyone would believe anything he says.
Unbelievable. What an assembly of suck-ups. If someone wrote a novel with that much ass kissing it would be rejected. I had to read another news account of the meeting. You weren’t exaggerating. I can’t wrap my head around it. He believes what he is told. The con-man lives in a sheltered bubble of sycophantic deception.
Gotta say, I thought you were embellishing with the Marco Rubio thing, urging Trump to do something about Saturday weddings during football season. Since I’m not a football fan and I loathe Rubio even more, I had to check it out. Not sure if that was all in jest, but seeing Marco as a frothing suck up was almost breathtaking, given his history with Trump.
And in my quest to check all this out, I was forced to watch Hegseth’s spiel, which allowed me to fantasize about putting a large sock in his mouth. Although he was positioned right next to Trump, his pontification strangely included lots of arm & hand gesturing while Trump struggled to stay awake. And this is what passes for a cabinet meeting these days….geez😳
Rubio is proof that insanity is contagious. This is even worse than the dark side.
Oh wow... great minds.... I wrote my comment before I read yours. Ha!
It’s nauseating. Pure North Korean rule by delusion. How any captain of industry, small business owner, consumer or worker can stand by while literal insanity reigns is beyond belief. Nothing but collapse can come from decisions based on a complete break from reality.
Torture porn. Listening to, or reading, or even just watching them with sound off — these soulless sycophants slathering all over the mad king — it's torture. Of the worst kind. It makes my brain melt out of my ears. I want to gouge my own eyes out. Please. Make it stop.
The first person to pipe up must kick themselves as Trump calls on people. By the third or fourth speaker, the first one must be grumbling to themselves: "Damn, wish I'd said that! ... I can't believe Pete has the balls to spout that Department of War crap as if it was his idea ... Rename Labor Day - I should've thought of that!"
And I nicked it...
p.s. A small reminder, Marz's photo...? 😉
Is dementia contagious? I think Marco Rubio has caught it.
Thanks to Jennifer’s question, I edited my comment for clarity:
A KFF poll from this May found that 52% of Democrats believe mRNA technology is "generally safe," while only 15% of Republicans think so. [1]
In contrast, a person’s political party doesn’t affect their opinions on other health issues. For instance pretty much everyone agrees that tobacco is bad for health.
Why would there be such a wide gap in opinion about the mRNA shots? Could it depend on what news sources a person chooses?
Meanwhile, another trend may indicate an overall loss of trust in the political party system.
The percentage of Americans who register as a Democrat or a Republican has dropped since 1992. Only 10% of people registering to vote in 1992 had no party preference, but 32 years later that category is 43%!
Voter registration [2]:
..................................................................Dem%........Rep%........Neither%
1992 (Clinton's 1st election)..........49................37................10
2008 (Obama's 1st election)........43................36................20
2016 (Trump's 1st election)..........48................44..................7
2020 (Biden's election)...................33................29................34
2024 (Trump’s 2nd election)........28................28................43
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1. https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-vaccine-safety-and-trust/
2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/548459/independent-party-tied-high-democratic-new-low.aspx
I could not verify these statistics. Could you please cite the source?
For the first opinion (safety of the mRNA shots), here's the URL for the KFF poll: https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-vaccine-safety-and-trust/
For Party Preference, I asked Google Ai and got those answers, but then they cropped the record so I don't know their source. By looking up the 1992 numbers again, it comes in as from https://news.gallup.com/poll/548459/independent-party-tied-high-democratic-new-low.aspx
It looked like the chart you posted was about the percentage of Democrats and Republicans who believe tobacco use is harmful. If the chart is not about tobacco use, what is it about?
As my attempt to have open and calm communication among people who disagree about many issues, I will dare to point out that while I share your disapproval of President Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors, there was one beacon of sanity… that you didn’t even mention.
Here is HHS Sec. Kennedy’s 40-second announcement:
"We’re finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September.”
https://x.com/i/status/1960454860182028535
In the past, I’ve been rather surprised that someone like you, who has an eagle eye on exploitation, puts down his work on vaccine safety. It’s true that during Covid, Democrats got in the habit of calling Kennedy one of the Disinformation Dozen, but they evidently didn’t read the evidence I’ve been reading. My recent post has a hundred cautionary reports:
https://laurenayers.substack.com/p/why-does-yolo-county-public-health
Nor did my liberal friends wonder why Pharma would seek ZERO liability for harm. Yes, back in 1986, the pharmaceutical industry (which has among the highest rate of profit of all sectors) told Congress that they would quit making vaccines unless they had this exemption because they were getting sued too often for disability and death from shots.
The solution was not to have the CDC make shots safer.
Instead, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, which removed liability from vaccine manufacturers and set up a no-fault compensation system. When a judge determines someone was harmed, the patient is compensated from a fund generated by $.75 per every shot administered in this country.
As of June 1, 2025, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), has paid out a total of $5.4 billion to 12,019 people (out of 25,019 applicants).
A 2010 study titled "Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System" (ESP:VAERS) was meant to improve the reporting system for drug and vaccine adverse events. It was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and run by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Results: less than 1% of adverse effects were reported, because the system is very difficult to use.
I’ll conclude with this sales pitch from Warren Buffett’s former daughter-in-law who wrote “Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them”:
“With the invention of each new vaccine comes a patent that is good for twenty years and guarantees that no one else can make the vaccine. In other words, the company has a monopoly.
“Even when the patents expire, other companies rarely step into the market because the major manufacturers have a permanent relationship with the government health departments of the world. This enables manufacturers to continue making the same vaccines year after year while maintaining their large profit margins even after their patents have expired.
“And last but not least, vaccine manufacturers in the U.S. are completely immune from lawsuits. Back in the 1980s several bad batches of vaccines injured so many children that the resulting successful lawsuits threatened to bankrupt the manufacturers, so the manufacturers lobbied a bill through Congress to make them a protected class.
“If you were in charge of the health of a nation’s 30 million-plus children, who would you buy your vaccines from? Every year? Year after year? You’d pick the biggest and the best. There are only four pharmaceutical giants that control most of the vaccine production in the world and GSK [Glaxo Smith Kline] is one of them.
“There is another component to the vaccine equation that also spells BIG MONEY: Every year, women all over the world give birth to approximately 133 million new babies, 4.3 million babies in the U.S. alone. With the United States Centers for Disease Control recommending that children aged birth through age six receive 34 individual vaccines, that means the market for those vaccines increases every year by 4.3 million in just the U.S. alone. This in turn means that the vaccine manufacturers selling in the U.S. have the potential to earn a profit of $1.09 billion every year (4.3 million x 34 x $7.50 = $1.09 billion). Consider the number of yearly vaccines worldwide and the numbers are staggering— approximately $34 billion a year (133 million x 34 x $7.5 billion). After ten years, in the U.S. alone, vaccine manufacturers will see more than $10 billion in net profit. On a world scale, the number jumps to a potential of $340 billion in profits.”
Spoiler alert: Kennedy is not going to find the cause of autism. The for-profit health industry is horrendous but that does not take anything away from the scientists that develop the vaccines that save lives. I am glad that the few people who have an adverse reaction to vaccines are compensated.
Your 3 sentences don't vanquish the 100 articles I put in my Substack post. A thorough rebuttal would include reading some of the material that, for 5 years, could not overcome the systemic hurdles put in place by the manufacturers of the mRNA shots, who you concede are horrendous.
Cui bono? Who benefits, from the hazards being covered up by mainstream media? Pharma does.
Cui malo? Who suffers from media not questioning authority? I think it's the trusting people who got the shots and now have myocarditis, turbo cancer, miscarriage or infertility, or a range of debilitating neuro disorders, or the relatives of people who died from the spike proteins (which can be identified as from a vaccine strain).
RFK Jr. was in that category for a while; he kept telling the mothers who came to his Hudson River talks that he wouldn't add the mercury in vaccines to his work load. Then a mom brought a tall stack of journal articles and said she would wait on his porch while he read them.
Lawsuit lawyers can be quite efficient reading medical jargon, he skimmed through those articles and realized he had to expand his view. He called people at the CDC who never got back to him with answers. He found the small minority of doctors willing to blow the whistle about vaccine hazards (and suffer losing jobs, professorships, and even their license to practice). Those independent doctors realized how they had been fooled, and so did Kennedy. Can you?
You won't know until you read what has been kept from you.
It’s part of being human to believe well-packaged lies, and it’s part of science to admit when one’s grasp of a subject is incomplete.
Give it a rest. Next you'll be giving us a link to a site where we can get Ivermectin at at discount.
Many people saying something in many different ways does not make it true. The truth is backed up by science, which evolves when new information is discovered. I am not a scientist but I am able to tell the difference between an intelligent, competetent person like Anthony Fauci and a moron like Robert Kennedy, Jr. Fauci is a public servant who dedicated his life to science and saved lives. Kennedy has spent his life profiting from misinformation and lies and is responsible for the death of many children in Samoa. I don't understand why anyone would believe anything he says.