The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

Shiftless2 said:

"BREAKING: CNN's Pamela Brown Goes Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and Tells the Truth Trump Doesn't Want You to Hear " S2 #3,819

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Not in any way to diminish or dismiss journalist Brown's valuable contribution here, BUT
there's more to this story.

She did NOT gain access without the vessel commander's knowledge and permission.
Command of such war ship in this Trump / Iran stalemate may be more tricky politically than militarily.

Any good ship's commander cares for and attends to the welfare of the crew.

There's more to this story.
Kudos to CNN's Brown & the men & women aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

When questioned about the unusually long deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln President Trump replied: "No, not nearly long enough," Trump

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RFK JR.’S PUBLIC-HEALTH RECORD UNDER FIRE AS MEASLES & TETANUS CASES RISE

Two troubling disease statistics are now being used by critics to scrutinize Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as the nation's top health official, drawing comparisons to his long-standing skepticism toward vaccines.

The United States experienced its largest measles outbreak in decades during his tenure, while reported tetanus cases also reached their highest level in roughly ten years, according to the claims being circulated.

Both diseases are preventable through vaccination, making the figures particularly significant in the ongoing debate over America's childhood immunization policies.

Kennedy has repeatedly argued that Americans should have greater access to vaccine safety data and scientific information, while rejecting the characterization that his goal is to ban vaccines outright.

But critics point to previous statements that have generated much stronger controversy. In a 2023 podcast appearance, Kennedy reportedly made a claim suggesting that the polio vaccine had caused more deaths than polio itself.

That assertion has been widely challenged and is not supported by established scientific evidence.

The debate therefore goes beyond individual disease statistics.

Supporters say Kennedy is demanding greater transparency and scrutiny of vaccine safety.

Critics argue that his past statements risk undermining confidence in vaccines that have dramatically reduced deadly infectious diseases.

The central question remains:

Is Kennedy pushing for legitimate vaccine transparency—or is his rhetoric contributing to declining public confidence in childhood immunization?


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Shiftless2 said:

Sen. McConnell #3,823

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I suspect McConnell's formerly keen mental faculties have failed him, because McConnell's absence from the senate obviously isn't being handled well.

Keeping this secret obviously isn't a very good idea.
Why would McConnell's coterie resort to secrecy, unless they just can't come up with a better idea.
That seems to be the tall shadow of a grim prognosis.

Generally senators are not allowed to vote on bills except from the senate floor.
So this dawdling may help the Democrats. Is that deliberate? Or incompetence?

Hope to hear from you thune Mitch.

And the brain worm has spoken

As the post says - "Buckle Up" because this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard (with stress on the words "dumb" and "ever")



BUCKLE UP SON! MIC DROP

)) This administration comes up with the most ridiculously ideas ever. “The federal government drew up a list of banned words, and if your research grant contained one, like "minority," "historically," or "traumatic," it got deleted, cancer studies and vaccine trials and all.

Nobody read the grants. That is not a figure of speech. The Trump administration admitted in signed court filings that when it killed roughly $2 billion in University of California research, it never assessed the science. It ran a word search.

The National Science Foundation didn't even write its own blacklist. It copied the terms out of a 2024 report by Ted Cruz. "Prejudice." "Institutional." "Injustice." Flag the word, kill the grant.

So a study on gestational diabetes in Asian American mothers died because it contained "health equality." Vaccine and cancer research at UCLA, nearly 700 grants, gone. Actual sick people, waiting on actual treatments, told the science meant to help them had tripped a keyword filter.

The agencies put the worst part in writing. They stipulated that they used "general criteria" instead of reviewing each grant, because reading the grants would only have proven the grants were fine. The point was never the research. The point was the vocabulary.

They even conceded that DOGE, Elon Musk's cost-cutting outfit, may have used AI to choose which grants to cut. A machine picking the words. A machine pulling the trigger.

The list is so sprawling that someone just built a public website where you can type in a word and see if it would have flagged your work. It runs to roughly a thousand of them. "Trauma" is on it. So is "disability."

This is a government that spent a decade howling about cancel culture, then built the largest literal cancellation machine in the history of American science, keyed to a list of forbidden nouns.

Then it met Judge Rita Lin.

She looked at the word search, called it "quintessential viewpoint discrimination," and ordered the grants turned back on. Two injunctions. The Ninth Circuit let the core of her order stand. The half a billion dollars NIH tore out of UCLA, ordered restored.

They built a machine to delete words.

A judge deleted the machine! Kudos to Judge Rita Lin!

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The definition of hypocrisy (cross posted from here)

Back to RFK Jr and measles