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Who could have foreseen?

 

When idiots are in charge

 

Senate hearing re RFKJ's direction at DHS

 

Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended her short tenure at the embattled public health agency.

She testified that she was ousted last month because she refused to cede to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s demands to pre-approve vaccine recommendations for the public and fire career scientists.

"He just wanted blanket approval," Monarez told members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday. "Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology."

Monarez described a string of events that she said eventually led to her dismissal, culminating with a "tense" meeting in late August when she clashed with Kennedy over his plans for an influential CDC committee that issues recommendations on vaccines.

  NPR

This is the woman RFKJ testified said "No" when he asked her if she could be trusted, and that's why he fired her. Obvious bullshit, but if she did, it's because he asked if she could be trusted to do whatever he told her to do.

In response to several questions from senators, Monarez recounted her memory of a conversation with Kennedy that precipitated her firing, saying Kennedy told her he couldn't trust her. "I told him, if he could not trust me, he could fire me," she testified.

[...]

According to her testimony, Kennedy told Monarez at the time that the "childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September" and that she "needed to be on board."

"He was very upset," Monarez said. "He called CDC the most corrupt federal agency in the world, emphasized that CDC employees were horrible people. He said that CDC employees were killing children and they don't care."

Kennedy told her he had "already spoken with the White House several times about having" her removed, she said.

[...]

Monarez was the first CDC director ever confirmed by the Senate.

When she was sworn in, Kennedy himself stated that she had "unimpeachable scientific credentials."

[...]

The hearing was marked by some heated exchanges between Monarez and Republicans on the committee who took aim at her decision to hire attorneys who have represented clients that have sued President Trump and tried to poke holes in her recounting of events.

"All we're looking for is you to be honest, and you haven't been," Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. fired at Monarez, claiming that her conversation with Kennedy had been recorded – only to later tell reporters that he'd been mistaken.

[...]

"This is not about you. It's about trust in our public institutions," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said, "What happens to this scientific mission when there are no career public health professionals that are in these positions to advise on the policy and to protect the scientific integrity?"

I fear we're about to find out.

"I owe you an apology," said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., "I had concern about your backbone and I was wrong."

[...]

Also testifying was the CDC's former chief medical officer, Dr. Deb Houry, who resigned alongside other top agency officials at the end of last month in protest of changes at CDC.

Houry said she resigned "because Secretary Kennedy's actions repeatedly censored CDC science, politicized our processes, and stripped agency leaders of the ability to protect the health of the American people." She added that she felt CDC leaders "were expected to serve as rubber stamps for the secretary's decisions."

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The hearing comes on the eve of the next meeting of the vaccine advisory committee, which is scheduled for Thursday morning in Atlanta. The panel is expected to re-evaluate the vaccine schedule for hepatitis B and the MMRV vaccine for children, and on the COVID-19 vaccine.

In June, Kennedy fired the entire 17-member Advisory Panel on Immunization Practices, chose several new members at the time and selected five more on Monday. Many of the members he chose have a history of being critical of vaccines.

And the others likely assured Kennedy they were against vaccines, too.

The hearing was just the latest reminder of the ongoing turbulence at the CDC where Kennedy has replaced many career scientists in leadership positions with political appointees, pushed debunked claims related to the safety of vaccines and scrapped long-standing processes for crafting vaccine policy.

Crazytown

 

Why???

And of course, they won't be collecting data on deaths from covid.

JFC

 

This is the worst timeline

 

Yeah, like Epstein.

UPDATE 08/07/2025:

Jerome Adams, Trump’s Surgeon General in his first term: “I’ve tried to be objective and non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions – but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives. mRNA technology has uses that go far beyond vaccines - and the vaccine they helped develop in record time is credited with saving millions.”

Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens: “At every point, RFK Jr has made disastrous and destructive personal health choices. He was a drug dealer in college. He spent a large portion of his adult life shooting heroin. He’s shot so much steroids into his body, his voice is destroyed. His drug use has helped alienate him from his own family. His 10 siblings have called him a national threat. Now he’s trying to destroy America’s health. This is a sad and broken man with deep self-destructive pathology.”

Trump was asked about it: “Q - These mRNA vaccines are the gold standard. Now your Health Secretary is pulling back all the funding for research - what is going on? Trump: Research into what? Reporter: mRNA vaccines. Trump: We're onto other things.”

Mehdi Hasan: “I would pay good money for a reporter to ask Donald Trump to explain what an mRNA vaccine is and what his administration’s exact objection to it is.”

  Meidas Touch

It will take decades to recover from this administration

 

Some effects are predictable

 

Which asshat has the most consecutive bad news stories?

 Pete Hegseth or this assclown...

MAHA

 

MAGA breakfasts on conspiracy

 

Chris Murphy takes RFKJ to task

 

Murphy is carrying out the Senate Democrats' duties all by himself these days.

RFKJ will kill you and your children if you listen to him

 

"Do your own research"

 

JFC.  Is the average parent in this country capable of even researching scientific journal articles?

How to shut down vaccines without shutting them down

 

MAHA

 

When you create a monster

 

He didn't think the leopard would eat HIS face.

Kennedy visited the family of the second child to die in the Texas measles outbreak for a trip that was billed as an effort to better understand the federal response to the disease. Buried near the bottom of an X post about his visit, Kennedy conceded that the measles vaccine is “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles.” He also said the government was providing “needed MMR vaccines.”

That statement went off like a bomb in MAHA-land, where it’s taken as scripture that basic sanitation and vitamin A are the real way to avoid measles, which (they add) isn’t that serious of a disease anyway.

  Bulwark

Because that's what he told them?

Kennedy has a long history of criticizing the measles vaccine, which—to be abundantly clear—is empirically effective and may well constitute one of the great medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century. He said in a video recently released by his Children’s Health Defense group that it’s possible the measles vaccine is causing more deaths than measles itself. He’s been blamed for fueling anti-MMR vaccine sentiments in Samoa before and during a fall 2019 measles outbreak that ended up killing 83 people.

As recently as last month, Kennedy did an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity at a Steak 'n Shake where he expounded on the supposed dangers of the measles vaccine.

Still, Kennedy’s supporters were already growing restless in early March, when he wrote an op-ed amid the measles outbreak saying the vaccine should be available to people who want it.

We've seen this before. No! I won't wear a mask! And, furthermore, I'm going to rip yours off your face if you try to wear one. MAGA!

Others groped for conspiracy theories to defend Kennedy. Kim Iversen, a former host of the Hill’s daily talk show, speculated on her own show in March that nefarious forces were deliberately spreading the measles in Texas to make Kennedy look bad.

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Former One America News host Liz Wheeler, whose YouTube channel has more than 400,000 subscribers, accused Kennedy of no longer being “based.”

If only.

This brewing discontent with Kennedy among the MAHA faithful is also one of the forces behind the obviously fake but increasingly popular “RFK blackmail” conspiracy theory I touched on last week. In this telling, Kennedy only stopped being “based” because someone—presumably Israel—is blackmailing him with some unspecified but damaging material.

Worse than what he publicly admits to himself?

Meanwhile, say goodbye to health in America