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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Please have him be too racist to be an AG in 2017.
EDIT: Following the other cabinet members who're completely against the thing they've been put in charge of, Trump's gotten an anti-vaxxer to lead commission on vaccine safety
.
This would be comic if it wasn't so pathetic.
edited 10th Jan '17 1:35:26 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVAt least the appointment is getting (mostly) the desirable reaction in the comments, abject horror and disgust. Still (if I may quote a comment) you have this:
"I am SO GLAD that finally this issue will be researched by people outside of the pharmacy industry's pocket. Ten or so years ago the school nurse discovered one of my own children had missed a vaccine. By that time I had read about and seen a child of a coworker and a friend have their child become autistic after the vaccine; I was concerned but not unusally worried, but I gave her a fever reducer an hour before the shot.
Within hours, her personality changed. She was dead silent and had no eye contact. I gave her more Tylenol that night. This went on for three days before she got back to normal, but something is still a little detached about her, and she wasn't like that before. I also have never seen her cry since that time period, and she's more intellectual.
It's a very, very mild change, but it's there. Now as an adult, she comes across as being intellectual and unusually stoic in matters of emotion. This will bode her well in life, I think, but I shudder to think of what damage the vaccine would have had if she had been younger and didn't have the Tylenol to keep the fever down.
I don't think they should be eliminated, but Trump is right that vaccines should be spaced out. I'm enormously glad that he picked Robert Kennedy Jr to lead this new commission b/c Big Pharma can buy whatever scientific opinions they want - and possibly have. "
Does anyone imagine this kind of thinking actually spreading beyond the fringe? (I know it can we're living amidst the results of less logical decisions). So far the comments are dead against vaccine conspiracy theories but after it has official sanction, idk.
Our generation (in the States) might be the one that gets to say "so this is what its like to on this side of the WHO (and UNICEF and UNESCO...)." I must admit, I knew the time would be miserable but I thought the body count thing was hyperbole. The results of one election night...
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him
The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.
The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.
You know what, fuck the FBI, fuck Wikileaks, fuck everyone who could have done something about this but didn't.
edited 10th Jan '17 2:50:40 PM by NoName999
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Was just about to post this.
Are you FUCKING kidding me? How the fuck is the media just rolling over thinking this is no big deal?
Comey won't say if FBI is investigating contacts between Moscow, Trump campaign
Fuck.
James.
Comey.
edited 10th Jan '17 3:00:35 PM by TacticalFox88
New Survey coming this weekend!"It's a difficult thing for a city to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice"
Too bad.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.So, guys remember this article?
Article written a week or so before the election.
Says that they've been doing this for five years.
What happened five years ago by the articles timeline in Trump land?
His birther shit.
Could that have been part of a large Russian effort to test the waters and see where long term trends could be cultivated on the Republican base?
Holy fuck.
New Survey coming this weekend!

Holy shit. You can't let this happen, people!
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