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Trump: It’s Time To Have A ‘Big Discussion’ About Eliminating Childhood Vaccines

Donald Trump says he thinks it’s time for the nation to have a “big discussion” about eliminating childhood vaccines that protect American youth from diseases such as measles, mumps, and polio.

Polio, it should be noted, killed or paralyzed over 500,000 people a year in the United States before a vaccine was formulated in 1953 by American virologist Jonas Salk.

However, Nicholas Liu of Salon notes that Trump sounds ready to adopt the radical policies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his controversial nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

Asked if he would approve of any decision by Kennedy to end vaccination programs — insofar as he has that power, which is largely delegated to the states — Trump cited autism as a reason why he might. “We’re going to have a big discussion,” he said. “The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there’s something causing it.”

His administration would get rid of some vaccinations if “I think it’s dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial,” Trump added.

Both Kennedy and Trump have repeatedly suggested that a link exists between childhood vaccinations and autism even though one has never been proven.

Kennedy has made this same fatal mistake before.

In Samoa, Kennedy spread misinformation about vaccines, resulting in a steep decline in vaccination rates.

After measles vaccination rates plummeted, 57,000 Samoans contracted the disease and 83 died. Most of the fatalities were children.

Former Trump FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently warned that if Kennedy follows through on his promise to end vaccine mandates, “it will cost lives in this country.”

Then again, maybe that’s the darker plan of both Kennedy and Trump: To let hundreds of thousands of American children die so the state won’t have to pay to feed and educate them. That money can then be given to Trump’s billionaire buddies (i.e. Elon Musk) via tax cuts that benefit only the top 1%.

It’s hard to believe anyone can be as utterly stupid as Trump and RFK Jr. Both of them belong on a one-way boat cruise to a deserted island. That would go a long way to making America great again.

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After Promising To Lower The Price Of Groceries, Trump Now Admits He’s Powerless To Do So

Donald Trump just got caught in yet another lie.

You probably recall that during the recent presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly harped on the price of groceries in U.S. stores, vowing to do something about costs if he was elected.

Now, however, after winning the election by one of the narrowest margins in history, the prevaricating president-elect is admitting that there’s really nothing he can do to alleviate any financial pain Americans are experiencing due to inflation.

Speaking with Time as part of being named the magazine’s “Man of the Year,” Trump noted, “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.”

Keep in mind that in August, Trump said exactly the opposite, remarking, “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

He repeated the lie a month later.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

And then there was this during an October rally in Georgia: “We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to America.”

Trump’s weasely vice president, JD Vance, also joined the lower prices chorus, telling voters in November:

“Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy, and Donald J. Trump is going to fix it, and of course, whether it’s housing prices, whether it’s mortgage interest rates, whether it’s grocery prices, everything has gotten more expensive under Kamala Harris’ leadership. So again, we have to ask ourselves, do we want a president who broke the economy, broke the border, broke your wallets or do we want a president who has already fixed it and will fix it again.”

Another day, another lie exposed. And the lies are just starting. The next four years will be full of them. When something good happens, Trump will claim credit when he had nothing to do with it. When something bad takes place, it’ll be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, or the fault of “the left.”

Donald Trump is a human bullshit machine. And he never runs out of fecal matter.

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Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Will Be Most Harmful To His Supporters: Report

Based on the promises he made while campaigning throughout the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump (with the help of his chief benefactor, Elon Musk) made it clear he plans to slash billions of dollars from the federal budget, even eliminating entire departments and cutting back on numerous programs that are part of the U.S. social safety net for the most vulnerable in the country.

And those budget cuts, it turns out, would be devastating to many of Trump’s supporters, especially those who live in red states, according to Andy Sullivan and Ally J. Levine of Reuters.

“Roughly two out of every three dollars is spent on pension, health care and other programs that provide tangible benefits to U.S. residents, meaning that any cutbacks could cause an outcry,” Sullivan and Levine explain.

Healthcare could be devastated, they note.

“Consider the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare expansion that was the signature accomplishment of Democratic President Barack Obama. Republicans vowed to roll back ‘Obamacare’ when Trump was first elected in 2016, but they failed to do so. The program has dramatically grown since then.”

The largest programs that cost the most money are Social Security and Medicare, both of which Trump has promised not to cut, which means that administration bean counters will have to slash the budgets of programs that benefit the poorest Americans.

“Both the Medicaid health plan for the poor and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, which helps pay for groceries, tend to play a bigger role in Democratic-leaning states. But cutbacks in these areas also would hit hard in poor, conservative states like Louisiana.”

Attempting to balance the budget on the backs of the poor isn’t exactly a new idea for Republicans. They’ve been actively trying to cut social programs that help raise people out of poverty as far back as the 1980s when Ronald Reagan demonized “welfare queens” suggesting that many who received benefits were too lazy to work and preferred to stay home and collect a government check.

But what about the children, disabled, elderly, and veterans who are also helped by such programs? Are Trump and the GOP willing to watch as they are tossed into the streets and starve to death? Considering that the Republican Party is now controlled by predatory capitalists like Musk, don’t be surprised if it happens and millions die.

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The Jokes Write Themselves After Trump Vows To ‘Build Monuments To Our Great Heroes’

Donald Trump wants us all to know that in his next administration, there will be lots of monuments erected that will honor “our great American heroes.”

Trump made that announcement Tuesday on his social media platform, Truth Social, writing, “America is going to start building monuments to our great heroes and heroines again!!! DJT”

Who, you might ask, would those heroes and heroines be? Will there be one for George Wallace and another for David Duke? Or will he sign a proclamation giving Russian president Vladimir Putin American citizenship so his image can be carved on Mount Rushmore?

How about we replace the Washington Monument with a giant statue of Ivanka Trump? That way her daddy can get a stiffy when he walks by.

Fortunately, Trump had the input of the entire social media community, which was only too happy to join the debate.

My mind first went to presidents like Andrew Jackson but it’s probably going to be like the QAnon Shaman and Grimace and the war criminal soldiers he pardoned.

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2024-12-10T16:27:08.965Z

 

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WATCH A Retired General Put GOP Sen. John Kennedy In His Place

 

Republican Sen. John Kennedy (LA) got more than he bargained for when he tried to attack a retired general at a Senate hearing today.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Kennedy asked Retired Major General Randy Manner about Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan and accused him of favoring “open borders.”

“It makes you angry that most Americans don’t believe in open borders, doesn’t it?” Kennedy asked.

“Not in the slightest, sir,” Manner responded.

Kennedy then asked Manner about a remark he made to CNN on October 14.

“President Trump is not like any sane leader. I’m very proud of General Milley for saying that President Trump is a total fascist,” Kennedy quoted Manner saying. “The challenge is because most MAGA Republicans, they don’t understand what fascism is. The reality is that they are, in fact, fascists themselves.”

“Did I read that accurately?” Kennedy inquired.

“Senator, I am happy to discuss my personal perspectives with you separately at any time,” the general explained. “That’s not the purpose of the hearing today.”

Kennedy: “You think you’re smarter than the American people, don’t you?”

“Absolutely not, senator,” Manner replied. “I am here to discuss the use of the military as part of this mass deportation.”

“You think you’re more virtuous than the American people, don’t you, general?” Kennedy asked.

That’s when Manner let Kennedy know he wasn’t about to take any of his crap.

“Senator, I am insulted by your comment. Senator, for 35 years, I served my country with absolute honor and distinction, and I will continue to do so.”