New Reporting Raises Fresh Red Flags About RFK, Jr.’s Vaccine Lies

Originally published at: New Reporting Raises Fresh Red Flags About RFK, Jr.’s Vaccine Lies - TPM – Talking Points Memo

RFK’s Anti-Vaccine Crusade is Worse Than We Knew New reporting published yesterday adds to the already damning assessment of a story that’s been unfolding for months: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brazenly asserted in his confirmation hearings that he would not undermine vaccines, and, once confirmed, promptly proceeded to…

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And here I thought I was poor because I couldn’t afford coffee and avovados – and billionaires also bought SCOTUS.

Anyway, here’s TGIF’s Heather, Paul’s Hall Pass, and Garrett:

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So, I may have a future as an in-patient?
But some MAGA media figures have other priorities. They are pushing Kennedy to have HHS to declare “Trump Derangement Syndrome” a “diagnosable mental illness.”

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Administration lies? That’s hard to believe.

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Who could’ve predicted?

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Given her surname, her ancestors here were very likely treated to the same sort of invective.

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So, if this is successful, Medicare will be hit with an avalanche of bills, since they cover a wide variety of metal health treatment claims. Not that anyone would seek out a mental health professional for TDS. But a few million people could just demand the service, overwhelming the system.

“Yeah Doc, I’m just here to make a point this is all stupid. Thanks for the appointment. Here’s my Medicare card.”

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(A) U.S. official tells Turse that since Trump has essentially declared Venezuela a vassal state, he owes the country far more than just friendship.

Why should Trump treat the people of Venezuela any better than he treats his own citizens? He doesn’t even give Americans friendship.

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Somewhere in her lineage a member of the Einsatzgruppen appears.

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Bring your boss’s in laws to work day?
The Secretary of State has struggled to answer the question, beyond saying that he and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos, are “good friends,” which … doesn’t make it seem any better?

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“The Secretary of State has struggled to answer the question, beyond saying that he and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos, are “good friends,” which … doesn’t make it seem any better?”

I’m sure it’s just a routine money for my friend thing. That’s what government is mostly about now. Nothing really to see here.

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Liberation day as being liberated from our hard-earned money.

increased slightly above expectations.

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Megan does realize that before emancipation slaveholders in the south routinely hired poor immigrants named Kelly to do hard dangerous work because they didn’t want to endanger their slaves. Slaves had value. Irishmen didn’t.

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It’s very Soviet psychiatry-like of the GQP.
I think it’s reasonable to ask if they’d allow insurance to cover the treatment for ‘political disorders’ or just model their program on Dear Leader’s efforts to distress his enemies with legal action and allow the institutionalized to be bankrupted by ‘therapy.’

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What an evil wench.

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My question is, can I use that as a mitigating factor at my sentencing? Just hypothetically, understand.

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The Secretary of State has struggled to answer the question, beyond saying that he and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos, are “good friends,” which … doesn’t make it seem any better?

Uh, Marco? That might actually make it worse.

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Don’t have A WSJ subscription, but we all get the gist. The military is not forthcoming.

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