Trump Admin - Sec of HHS Kennedy
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Give her pointy ears and she's a Vulcan. She already has the haircut.
Early last month, Secretary Kennedy made massively upsetting news, after he canceled $500 million in grants for mRNA projects. Headline from the New York Times, August 8th:
Two months before that, in June, Kennedy replaced all 17 members of the CDC’s ACIP vaccine committee and —most significantly— with people who’ve expressed anti-vaccine or anti–mRNA views. The new committee includes provocative figures like Robert Malone, Martin Kulldorff, and Retsef Levi, who publicly claimed there is “indisputable evidence” that mRNA vaccines cause serious injuries to young people. Headline from Reuters, June 12th:
Then, about two weeks ago, Kennedy installed that same Dr. Levi —the Administration’s most vocal mRNA critic— as chair of the CDC’s new Covid-19 vaccine working group. Dr. Maryanne Demasi’s substack post, August 20th:
So when you put the pieces together, a child could see it: an mRNA reckoning is on the way. You can be sure the Democrats and their pharma allies can see it coming from miles away.
And that technology —mRNA— is particularly vulnerable to close inspection.
Researchers first pitched mRNA as a platform back in the 1990s. But decades of effort to develop mRNA vaccines (for flu, Zika, rabies, and ‘personalized’ cancer treatments) repeatedly fizzled in clinical trials. Problems included instability of the RNA, excessive inflammation, and poor durability of the immune response.
Pharma giants like Merck and Sanofi invested substantial amounts of money, but then quietly shelved their mRNA programs when the results remained disappointing. By 2018, mRNA was regarded as a “nice theory” that couldn’t be delivered in practice.
The pandemic emergency gave the technology a last-minute reprieve— warp-speed funding, relaxed regulatory hurdles, and a massive guaranteed customer base. But Pfizer and Moderna never solved the platform’s technical problems. They just bulldozed them under in the name of urgency.
Because of that lightning pivot, mRNA’s closet skeletons were never exhumed: the nagging persistence of the payload (e.g., spike protein), its uncontrollable biodistribution, potential autoimmune triggers, oncogenesis, and lack of durability. Pre-2020 papers flagged all of these as serious obstacles. But they were never fully addressed; just overshadowed by the pandemic-scale rollout.
mRNA’s closet is practically rattling with bones. Either the technology miraculously (and invisibly) evolved away decades of well-known pre-pandemic problems, or (more likely) those problems are still hanging around, like overripe fruit waiting to be plucked from the diseased tree.
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Two months before that, in June, Kennedy replaced all 17 members of the CDC’s ACIP vaccine committee and —most significantly— with people who’ve expressed anti-vaccine or anti–mRNA views. The new committee includes provocative figures like Robert Malone, Martin Kulldorff, and Retsef Levi, who publicly claimed there is “indisputable evidence” that mRNA vaccines cause serious injuries to young people. Headline from Reuters, June 12th:
Then, about two weeks ago, Kennedy installed that same Dr. Levi —the Administration’s most vocal mRNA critic— as chair of the CDC’s new Covid-19 vaccine working group. Dr. Maryanne Demasi’s substack post, August 20th:
So when you put the pieces together, a child could see it: an mRNA reckoning is on the way. You can be sure the Democrats and their pharma allies can see it coming from miles away.
And that technology —mRNA— is particularly vulnerable to close inspection.
Researchers first pitched mRNA as a platform back in the 1990s. But decades of effort to develop mRNA vaccines (for flu, Zika, rabies, and ‘personalized’ cancer treatments) repeatedly fizzled in clinical trials. Problems included instability of the RNA, excessive inflammation, and poor durability of the immune response.Pharma giants like Merck and Sanofi invested substantial amounts of money, but then quietly shelved their mRNA programs when the results remained disappointing. By 2018, mRNA was regarded as a “nice theory” that couldn’t be delivered in practice.
The pandemic emergency gave the technology a last-minute reprieve— warp-speed funding, relaxed regulatory hurdles, and a massive guaranteed customer base. But Pfizer and Moderna never solved the platform’s technical problems. They just bulldozed them under in the name of urgency.
Because of that lightning pivot, mRNA’s closet skeletons were never exhumed: the nagging persistence of the payload (e.g., spike protein), its uncontrollable biodistribution, potential autoimmune triggers, oncogenesis, and lack of durability. Pre-2020 papers flagged all of these as serious obstacles. But they were never fully addressed; just overshadowed by the pandemic-scale rollout.
mRNA’s closet is practically rattling with bones. Either the technology miraculously (and invisibly) evolved away decades of well-known pre-pandemic problems, or (more likely) those problems are still hanging around, like overripe fruit waiting to be plucked from the diseased tree.
☕️ PHARMAPOCALYPSE ☙ Monday, September 1, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Today marks a turning point of no return in the post-pandemic battle for accountability. Trump just pulled the pin on a narrative grenade that Democrats handed right to him. A special edition.
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The Guardian carried what was perhaps yesterday’s best news. The article ran below the headline, “RFK Jr critic Paul Offit removed from FDA vaccine advisory committee.” Bye, Felicia!
Grandfatherly Paul Offit isn’t the disinterested scientist that corporate media suggests. He’s the consummate insider. He co-invented the rotavirus vaccine Rotateq, cashing out for tens of millions in royalties, which makes him less of an objective adviser and more of a salesman in a lab coat.
While sitting on the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, he helped guide policies that benefited the very industry from which he profited, a glaring conflict of interest. Offit has also become the media’s favorite go-to “expert,” quick to dismiss parental concerns about safety as “anti-science” while tossing off cavalier soundbites like “children could handle 10,000 vaccines at once.”
During the pandemic, mild-mannered Offit emerged as one of the loudest defenders of the vaccine establishment, becoming a permanent fixture on CNN, NPR, and in the pages of the New York Times. As a member of the FDA’s vaccine committee, he routinely backed emergency authorizations and aggressive rollout strategies, occasionally voicing pro-forma technical concerns, but always ultimately voting in favor of mass vaccination.
Throughout the pandemic, he positioned himself as a bulwark against asking questions, castigating even mild hesitation as dangerous. He became the human face of the “public health priesthood”: a so-called scientist with deep pharma ties, regulatory influence, and a media megaphone, pushing mandates while dismissing the lived concerns of ordinary Americans.
Now, without warning, Offit is off of it (the FDA’s vaccine panel). He said he wasn’t given a reason. Notably, the only person the Guardian quoted for its stupid, biased story (besides Offit himself) was dumpy, bow-tied wonder Peter Hotez, who has also made a fortune in vaccine sales. No other committee members, HHS staff, or anti-vaxxers had a chance to speak. So much for balance.
More progress, and more accountability.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
Grandfatherly Paul Offit isn’t the disinterested scientist that corporate media suggests. He’s the consummate insider. He co-invented the rotavirus vaccine Rotateq, cashing out for tens of millions in royalties, which makes him less of an objective adviser and more of a salesman in a lab coat.
While sitting on the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, he helped guide policies that benefited the very industry from which he profited, a glaring conflict of interest. Offit has also become the media’s favorite go-to “expert,” quick to dismiss parental concerns about safety as “anti-science” while tossing off cavalier soundbites like “children could handle 10,000 vaccines at once.”
During the pandemic, mild-mannered Offit emerged as one of the loudest defenders of the vaccine establishment, becoming a permanent fixture on CNN, NPR, and in the pages of the New York Times. As a member of the FDA’s vaccine committee, he routinely backed emergency authorizations and aggressive rollout strategies, occasionally voicing pro-forma technical concerns, but always ultimately voting in favor of mass vaccination.
Throughout the pandemic, he positioned himself as a bulwark against asking questions, castigating even mild hesitation as dangerous. He became the human face of the “public health priesthood”: a so-called scientist with deep pharma ties, regulatory influence, and a media megaphone, pushing mandates while dismissing the lived concerns of ordinary Americans.
Now, without warning, Offit is off of it (the FDA’s vaccine panel). He said he wasn’t given a reason. Notably, the only person the Guardian quoted for its stupid, biased story (besides Offit himself) was dumpy, bow-tied wonder Peter Hotez, who has also made a fortune in vaccine sales. No other committee members, HHS staff, or anti-vaxxers had a chance to speak. So much for balance.
More progress, and more accountability.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying today before a Senate committee, and Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden just got wedgied so hard that it's going to take him until the end of the week to get his briefs unstuck.
The topics during Wyden's line of questioning and attempted lecturing included chronic disease in children, and Kennedy reminded Wyden of exactly what has happened, and when.
Judging from the look on Wyden's face, he knew he'd been effectively roasted. Watch:
twitchy.com
The topics during Wyden's line of questioning and attempted lecturing included chronic disease in children, and Kennedy reminded Wyden of exactly what has happened, and when.
Judging from the look on Wyden's face, he knew he'd been effectively roasted. Watch:
'You Said NOTHING!' RFK Jr. Self-Awareness NUKES Dem Sen. Wyden About Chronic Disease In Children
RFK Jr. confronts Sen. Wyden on children's chronic diseases during Senate hearing.
RFK Jr. HUMILIATES Elizabeth Warren As She LOSES HER MIND Over FBA 'Taking Away' COVID Vaccine!
JFC are these Democrats UNHINGED
Opening Clip Bernie waving his right arm all over the palce yelling and screaming LIKE A F U C K ING LUNATIC
Democratz are also LOSING THEIR MINDS over Covid Vaccine Access Limits
As Charlie Brown would say, Good grief. The New York Times reported yesterday’s Senate hearing below the halfhearted headline, “RFK Jr. Faces Senate Grilling After Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up.” Let’s just say that American government was not in peak form yesterday. Even the Times called it a “free-for-all.”
CLIP: “We are the sickest country in the world. That’s why we have to fire people at the CDC. They did not do their job.” (0:15) (Warning: the young lady’s facial expressions will make you crush on her.)
In yesterday’s hours-long, live-streamed hearing, Democrat Senators screamed shrilly, called Kennedy names, heaved invective like angry orangutans flinging feces at tourists, petulantly demanded he quit, and delivered fiery, rambling, and illogical speeches disguised as questions. It was like watching a bare-faced guy in a MAGA cap who was going the wrong way down the grocery aisle accidentally encounter six middle-aged women buying supplies for a pro-masking protest.
The fur flew.
But Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has spent twenty years dodging pharma’s slings and arrows as an antivaxx pariah. He punched back. In one exemplitive exchange, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Portland), who looks and sounds like a hairless cat, clenched his withered fist and tried to castigate Secretary Kennedy for sacrificing children. Kennedy put him in the litter box:
The Kennedy hit job was coordinated, of course, with the progressive influencer mob, who en masse started tweeting “gotcha” moments and celebrating every moronic moment in real time as soon as the hearing began. But Vice President Vance tweeted perhaps the best summary, even if it was a little coarse (albeit appropriate for the moment):
Democrats never stood a chance. Kennedy is orders of magnitude more popular than any of their Senators. I don’t know which Democrat conceived the idea of staging this political assassination effort, but whoever it was, I would like to shake his/her/their/its hand. Kennedy was already so popular that he was able to gather over a million signatures to get on the ballots in every single state during the presidential campaign. He remained a viable third-party presidential candidate until he stepped down and endorsed Trump.
The screaming and screeching didn’t even dent Kennedy’s immense popularity. If anything, the corporate media’s milquetoast headlines proved the hearing backfired. Some even verged on giving Kennedy the tie-break. For example, Barron’s:
The notion that ancient Bernie Sanders, Liz “Dancing Snake” Warren, and odd-feline Ron Wyden could somehow injure Kennedy’s popularity ratings by yelling at him is simply hilarious. Seriously, what were they thinking? They are getting desperate.
Progressives are trying to keep a brave face, but they know the hearing fell flat. Afterwards, jab-pushing fake doctor Eric Fingle-Dingleberry was downright depressed:
The CNN segment pictured above reported astonishing, unreported figures from a 2024 Gallup Poll, which was published on the pollster’s website below the caption, “Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important.”
As the screengrab correctly reflected, Gallup found that Americans’ support for vaccine mandates plunged from a solid 81% majority in 1991 to barely half (51%) last year. The downward trendline is steepening. (Curiously, mandate skepticism is mostly a Republican phenomenon: “Democrats’ views on the matter have shown no meaningful change -- 69% support mandates now, and 72% did so in 2019.”)
But maybe the most startling and underreported statistic from the 2024 Gallup Poll was its findings on people’s beliefs about the connection between vaccines and autism. A clear majority of U.S. adults (64%) either believe in a connection or aren’t sure:
Even a stunning 40% of Democrats either believe in a connection (4%) or are unsure (36%). Remarkably, the vaccine-autism issue has, for all practical purposes, become an “80/20” issue, where Kennedy holds the high ground in the debate. His position mirrors the clear majority: he isn’t sure vaccines cause autism, but he is sure that we need to find out.
And one suspects that, as data continues to tumble out of the CDC’s burn bags of suppressed studies, and the connections become clearer, Kennedy’s political stock will continue to rise. Which brings us to the next quiet story.
Kennedy’s superweapon is transparency. All he needs to do is open the books. Two days ago, MedCity News ran a story (ignored by most corporate media) headlined, “Embracing Transparency, FDA Will Make All Future Drug Rejection Letters Public.” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced yesterday that the FDA will now publish drug-rejection decision letters “in real time:”
In other words, the FDA is now making public previously confidential decisions whenever the FDA informs drugmakers why it declined to approve a particular drug. The agency will now promptly redact trade secrets and personal information, and publish the latter. The public can now see why FDA made any particular drug decision.
Keeping them secret was a handshake deal between FDA and drugmakers, who really don’t want the public to learn of any problems with their drugs or approval studies. But Dr. Makary gave two reasons for making them public. First, so the public stops blaming the FDA for rejecting ‘lifesaving’ drugs for no apparent reason.
Second, Dr. Makary pointed out that other drugmakers can learn from previous rejections. For example, if the FDA dislikes a certain style of drug trial, other less experienced manufacturers can avoid that type of trial going forward.
It’s win-win-win. Incentives only improve when FDA regulators know their denial letters will become public documents. They’ll want their decisions to withstand public scrutiny, so they’ll be that much more careful and fair.
More like this, please!
www.coffeeandcovid.com
CLIP: “We are the sickest country in the world. That’s why we have to fire people at the CDC. They did not do their job.” (0:15) (Warning: the young lady’s facial expressions will make you crush on her.)
In yesterday’s hours-long, live-streamed hearing, Democrat Senators screamed shrilly, called Kennedy names, heaved invective like angry orangutans flinging feces at tourists, petulantly demanded he quit, and delivered fiery, rambling, and illogical speeches disguised as questions. It was like watching a bare-faced guy in a MAGA cap who was going the wrong way down the grocery aisle accidentally encounter six middle-aged women buying supplies for a pro-masking protest.
The fur flew.
But Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has spent twenty years dodging pharma’s slings and arrows as an antivaxx pariah. He punched back. In one exemplitive exchange, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Portland), who looks and sounds like a hairless cat, clenched his withered fist and tried to castigate Secretary Kennedy for sacrificing children. Kennedy put him in the litter box:
The Senatorial scrum was nothing more or less than an ugly sideshow. Nothing significant happened, neither scientifically, practically, nor politically. They meant to shred Kennedy or at least take him down a notch, but all the notches were lost by the United States Senate, which mostly resembled an Adult Swim cartoon of a chaotic bar fight on midget wrestling night.
The Kennedy hit job was coordinated, of course, with the progressive influencer mob, who en masse started tweeting “gotcha” moments and celebrating every moronic moment in real time as soon as the hearing began. But Vice President Vance tweeted perhaps the best summary, even if it was a little coarse (albeit appropriate for the moment):
Democrats never stood a chance. Kennedy is orders of magnitude more popular than any of their Senators. I don’t know which Democrat conceived the idea of staging this political assassination effort, but whoever it was, I would like to shake his/her/their/its hand. Kennedy was already so popular that he was able to gather over a million signatures to get on the ballots in every single state during the presidential campaign. He remained a viable third-party presidential candidate until he stepped down and endorsed Trump.
The screaming and screeching didn’t even dent Kennedy’s immense popularity. If anything, the corporate media’s milquetoast headlines proved the hearing backfired. Some even verged on giving Kennedy the tie-break. For example, Barron’s:
The notion that ancient Bernie Sanders, Liz “Dancing Snake” Warren, and odd-feline Ron Wyden could somehow injure Kennedy’s popularity ratings by yelling at him is simply hilarious. Seriously, what were they thinking? They are getting desperate.
Progressives are trying to keep a brave face, but they know the hearing fell flat. Afterwards, jab-pushing fake doctor Eric Fingle-Dingleberry was downright depressed:
The CNN segment pictured above reported astonishing, unreported figures from a 2024 Gallup Poll, which was published on the pollster’s website below the caption, “Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important.”
As the screengrab correctly reflected, Gallup found that Americans’ support for vaccine mandates plunged from a solid 81% majority in 1991 to barely half (51%) last year. The downward trendline is steepening. (Curiously, mandate skepticism is mostly a Republican phenomenon: “Democrats’ views on the matter have shown no meaningful change -- 69% support mandates now, and 72% did so in 2019.”)
But maybe the most startling and underreported statistic from the 2024 Gallup Poll was its findings on people’s beliefs about the connection between vaccines and autism. A clear majority of U.S. adults (64%) either believe in a connection or aren’t sure:
Even a stunning 40% of Democrats either believe in a connection (4%) or are unsure (36%). Remarkably, the vaccine-autism issue has, for all practical purposes, become an “80/20” issue, where Kennedy holds the high ground in the debate. His position mirrors the clear majority: he isn’t sure vaccines cause autism, but he is sure that we need to find out.
And one suspects that, as data continues to tumble out of the CDC’s burn bags of suppressed studies, and the connections become clearer, Kennedy’s political stock will continue to rise. Which brings us to the next quiet story.
Kennedy’s superweapon is transparency. All he needs to do is open the books. Two days ago, MedCity News ran a story (ignored by most corporate media) headlined, “Embracing Transparency, FDA Will Make All Future Drug Rejection Letters Public.” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced yesterday that the FDA will now publish drug-rejection decision letters “in real time:”
In other words, the FDA is now making public previously confidential decisions whenever the FDA informs drugmakers why it declined to approve a particular drug. The agency will now promptly redact trade secrets and personal information, and publish the latter. The public can now see why FDA made any particular drug decision.
Keeping them secret was a handshake deal between FDA and drugmakers, who really don’t want the public to learn of any problems with their drugs or approval studies. But Dr. Makary gave two reasons for making them public. First, so the public stops blaming the FDA for rejecting ‘lifesaving’ drugs for no apparent reason.
Second, Dr. Makary pointed out that other drugmakers can learn from previous rejections. For example, if the FDA dislikes a certain style of drug trial, other less experienced manufacturers can avoid that type of trial going forward.
It’s win-win-win. Incentives only improve when FDA regulators know their denial letters will become public documents. They’ll want their decisions to withstand public scrutiny, so they’ll be that much more careful and fair.
More like this, please!
☕️ SMITH AND LESSON ☙ Friday, September 5, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Kennedy spanks Senate, mandates sink, FDA opens denial letters, Eleventh Circuit frees Alligator Alcatraz, Delta tilts sane, blue states bolt CDC, DOJ teases trans gun bans—don’t bite; more.
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How he did not tell all those Dems to get f'd I'll never understand.
I wonder if he had a list of how much Big Pharma donated to each and every one of them. After making each ones BS opening statement, his first reply should have been, "I'd like to place in the record that Senator Suckalooski received $xxx thousand dollars from Big Pharma over their career in the Senate."
I wonder if he had a list of how much Big Pharma donated to each and every one of them. After making each ones BS opening statement, his first reply should have been, "I'd like to place in the record that Senator Suckalooski received $xxx thousand dollars from Big Pharma over their career in the Senate."
It may have been mentioned on Gutfeld! last night, but did you notice how Bobby was sitting in his chair during the hearing? I wonder if a body language would call that showing disdain for the questioners?
Kyle
Beloved Misanthrope
Next time he needs to put his feet up on the table, light a cigar and pour a glass of bourbon.