It’s my granddaughter’s birthday this weekend, so yesterday we spent 7 hours traveling all across Minnesota and Wisconsin, and boy are my knees sore. We’ve got a party to go to tomorrow.
He looks like death already
Let’s take a look at how RFK Jr. demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt in this video that he is, in fact, antivaccine. I will repeat what I’ve been saying for months now: RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines; he’s coming for all vaccines, in fact. It’s just that he’s strategic enough to know that he can’t do it all at once, which is why he purged the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) and replace the fired members with antivaxxers and the antivax-adjacent, only one of whom has any significant experience in public health or vaccine policy. Personally, I’ve been saying that the only thing that’s saved us (thus far) is the inexperience and incompetence of RFK Jr.’s ACIP. In the meantime, President Trump has embraced Andrew Wakefield’s old grift about separating the components of the MMR vaccine as somehow being “safer,” even as he talks about adding autism to the list of table injuries for the Vaccine Injury Compensation System, a move that would certainly bankrupt and destroy it.
Yes, things are grim out there.
Fortunately, my granddaughter has responsible parents who have kept her vaccination status up to date, which is why I get to go hang out with her and watch her open presents and celebrate her 7th birthday. It’s absolutely insane that we have a director of health and human services who is committed to killing young children with disease, while our Secretary of War favors more direct execution of children. This really is the death cult coming into fruition in our federal government.
Reminder: we have a podcast this afternoon!
Why the hell can’t the Democrats start impeachment proceedings of Roadkill Jr. for his rank incompetence? He is going to get many people killed with his incompetence.
This is the man who is in charge of health care policy in the USA:
RFK Jr. Complains About TikTok Video of Woman Taking Tylenol With a ‘Baby in Her Placenta’
I didn’t think I would be able to get a COVID vaccination this year, especially in Florida, but last Saturday realized I qualified as a “former smoker”. At one point the CDC defined this as someone as someone who had smoked 100+ cigarettes in their lifetime, but do so no longer. Anyway I survived the mRNA invasion into my precious body fluids yet again.
I’m really confused now on the vaccination guidance. Are there still restrictions on those younger than 1965 in the US? That might have changed this past week…or not…???
I think RFK Jr is on a revenge tour for his dad. We are all stand-ins for Sirhan Sirhan. RFK Jr is a wretched embarrassment to the memory of his dad, who played a role in averting a nuclear exchange in October 1962, at least according to a Kevin Costner movie. Junior is facilitating preventable disease. Apple fell very far from the tree.
@1 OptimisticCharlie
“Why the hell can’t the Democrats start … anything?”
Did who let the dogs out kill the mainstream media? It sure seems to have died from both-sides-ism. A couple I know who I try to avoid but because “family” intrude into my bubble of reality, I have become quite firm. “No, you’re wrong.” “But, that’s my opinion!” “Well, your opinion is wrong. Wrong is wrong.”
It seems to be working but it’s tiring to have to do it over and over again. If only the now dead, former mainstream media had done the same.
@ cheerfulcharlie @ #1 — “Why the hell can’t the Democrats start impeachment proceedings…” That’s simple: Because they don’t have a majority in the House, so they don’t control the agenda. I believe they can introduce measures to do that effect, and perhaps they do, but Johnson and company will kill it immediately and you’re unlikely to hear anything about it.
@1 impeachment
Because it would take a simple majority in the House to impeach, and the Republican Party holds the majority. All the Republicans refuse to cross up Trump’s pick, either out of enthusiasm, loyalty, or fear.
To actually convict would take a 2/3 majority in the Senate, and the Republican Party also holds the majority there, because a lot of people voted while stupid.
Doc Bill @ #4 — Have you heard Jon Ossof’s “both-sides-ism” case (here, I think)? The system is rigged, there’s corruption on both sides…thanks to Citizens United…and that’s a lot of the problem. But what are we going to do?
A lot of this drop in child deaths was due to the invention and use of vaccines.
I’ve seen it myself.
When I was growing up in the 1950s, a lot of adults around us limped in various idiosyncratic ways. We didn’t have to ask. It was polio. As little kids, we didn’t worry much about polio but every summer our parents did it for us.
One day in the third grade, I got to school and the playground was in a state of chaos. One of our classmates had died. This never happened and we never thought about dying. The word went around. Polio.
RFK jr. wants to take us back to that era.
Just say no. We aren’t going.
The situation at the CDC is bad but the 344 million people in the USA aren’t all idiots or helpless.
The western states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii have formed their own version of the CDC.
They are simply going to ignore the crackpots at what was once the CDC, and issue their own vaccine recommendations.
This is an example of soft secession.
What is the Federal non-government going to do?
Send in the National Guard and arrest all the doctors?
Cut off federal funding? They’ve already done that so what is left to cut.
Then there’s Ebola.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-11/hazmat-ebola-emergency-practice-exercise-at-sydney-hospital/105877344?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
One of our organization’s leaders and wife got covid and flu vaccinations 2 days ago. However, the huge pharmacy chain they went to was running out of both and they could only get substitutions for the nexspike and fluzone they signed up for. THIS NATION IS BEING MURDERED BY THE MAGAT AND HIS IGNORANT MALICIOUS CULT.
@9 raven posted: The situation at the CDC is bad but the 344 million people in the USA aren’t all idiots or helpless. . . .western states. . . .formed their own version of the CDC.
I reply: That is a good but relatively small step, the rest of the country is in deep trouble:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cdc-mass-layoffs
Oct 11, 2025 ‘It’s a Disaster’: Medical Experts Horrified by Trump Administration ‘Friday Night Massacre’ at CDC CDC insiders are estimating that “between 1,100 and 1,300 employees are being cut” by the Trump administration.
I wonder how the “Dept. of War” feels about this? Anyone who has ever been in the U.S. military remembers the vaccinations they received during basic in-processing. It was an assembly line. Both arms were hit simultaneously with the vaccine gun. I forget how many shots I received that day, but I still have my yellow WHO booklet, which has 20+ vaccines listed. If RFK is intent on banning all vaccines, he’s going to get some serious push back from the brass. I doubt that even Pickled Pete will be able to steamroller them on that.
raven @ #8 — Infant mortality was still high into the 1920s. Of my grandfathers first six children, four died in infancy, one died as a young adult…perhaps due to birth complications, another big factor in the past…and the youngest survived until her 80s. Of his second group of children, one died in infancy, but three…including my mother…survived until old age. My mom died at 91. She has a sister still living who is in her 80s.
The world has changed signifcantly and much of that change is due to vaccines and other healthcare advances. RFK and DJT are both idiots. They are just trolling. Taco is probably mostly wrecking havoc because the COVID pandemic wrecked his first term.
@12
Assuming he’s sober enough, I’m sure he’d say:
“Pffft! Anyone who needs a vaccine is obviously too weak to be one of the unstoppable, white, male, straight, Christian
soldierswar-fighters in Trump’s military! A REAL American hero is someone who can take three-to-four sucking chest wounds and still kill a village full of non-combatants, not some wimp who lets a measly virus make him sick! Once natural selection (which we’ll otherwise deny exists in any other context) has done its job, America will have an unconquerable fighting force! Now where’s the nearest bar?!”…RFK Jr. has been maintaining his old lie … that he’s “not antivax” and is only interested in making vaccines “safer.”
Yeah, IIRC that’s what a lot of racists say — “I’m not anti-Black, I just want Black people to be SAFER before I let my delicate little child go near one! And Black people still aren’t safe enough that I should take any risk with my child’s safety!” Seriously, isn’t that what lots of White parents almost literally said when we started integrating public schools? Isn’t that what homophobes have been saying about gay or lesbian people being in the same restrooms with straight kids?