Fru Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 So we have a Kennedy with no medical degree heading up Vaccines & Safety commission? Thats just rich. At least Trump is being consistent with appointing people to positions that have zero qualifications Vaccinations are a hot button for me. Its absolutely irresponsible to give anyone the idea that its safe to opt out of these. RFK Jr. Isn't anti-vax, he's anti thimerosal. 2:29 - 3:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRr2EdulbI Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The concern about thimerosal is that it causes autism, which is the anti-vaxxers' main beef. Link to comment
Fru Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 He states in that clip that he is pro vaccine and believes that they should be regulated. There is a difference between saying "All vaccines are bad and cause autism" and saying "This chemical shouldn't be in vaccines" 1 Link to comment
VectorVictor Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 At least Trump is being consistent with appointing people to positions that have zero qualifications It's not that they don't have qualifications, it's that they specifically have qualifications that are against the very positions they're being put into. An anti-vaxxer heading up the Vaccines & Safety Commission. An opponent of public schools heading the Dept. of Education. A climate change denier heading up the EPA. It's like he's purposefully trying to make government dysfunctional. Well, if we're in full dysfunction at the top, it sure does make taking over our country by an outside force or agitator easier. Just sayin'. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 And, we have got the actual doctor assign to HUD. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The problem with the anti vaxxers is they have no legitimate science to back up their claims and there are mountains and mountains of data to back up vaccines' safety and usefulness. Anti-vaxxers are anti-scientists going with their gut. No wonder Trump is one - or at least relates to them. We're going backwards in science and knowledge. It's weird and terrifying and not the way to "beat China" if that's our goal(?) Link to comment
Moiraine Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 He states in that clip that he is pro vaccine and believes that they should be regulated. There is a difference between saying "All vaccines are bad and cause autism" and saying "This chemical shouldn't be in vaccines" It's still idiotic, seeing as thimerosal has been shown to be safe and someone with an audience saying it shouldn't be in vaccines makes the idiots of the world not give them to their kids. Kinda funny that Trump wants someone to regulate vaccines when he wants to de-regulate everything else. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 So a letter written by the widow of America's greatest civil rights warrior is "missing" and won't be released by the Republicans. That's convenient. It's been found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-letter-coretta-scott-king-wrote-opposing-sessionss-1986-federal-nomination/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.767e0e874621 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Letter Written By MLK’s Widow That Blasted Jeff Sessions Is Missing In 1986, as the Senate was considering the nomination of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions for federal judge, Coretta Scott King wrote an impassioned plea to the members of the Judiciary Committee. At least Trump is being consistent with appointing people to positions that have zero qualifications It's not that they don't have qualifications, it's that they specifically have qualifications that are against the very positions they're being put into. An anti-vaxxer heading up the Vaccines & Safety Commission. An opponent of public schools heading the Dept. of Education. A climate change denier heading up the EPA. It's like he's purposefully trying to make government dysfunctional. The letter would become a key part of the case against Sessions, who would ultimately be defeated when his home state senator, the late Howell Heflin, shocked the Senate and voted against the confirmation. Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond never put the letter into the congressional record, and its contents are largely unknown. But in the only line that has been made public — published in June 1986 by Knight Ridder reporter Aaron Epstein — King made clear her opposition to Sessions’ nomination. “For a century, the racial practices that characterized our region were established and enforced by men who, like Mr. Sessions, protested that they, too, were not personally hostile to blacks,” King’s letter said, according to Epstein’s dispatch. So a letter written by the widow of America's greatest civil rights warrior is "missing" and won't be released by the Republicans. That's convenient. Apparently the found the full letter. Link is in the tweet. Ending snippet here: Sessions is qualified but concerning for a number of reasons, the chief of which being that he seems totally indifferent (i.e., complicit) to the eventuality of Republicans further trying to gut the Voting Rights Act to further game the system. The crux of King's letter was that Sessions tried to prosecute black activists and those just helping others vote simply because they voted against his interests while ignoring whites doing the same thing. Apparently, they were making the same thinly-veiled claims about voter fraud thirty years ago. Edit: Oops, NM beat me to it. Link to comment
zoogs Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 However, IF we are going to have a commission on vaccine's and their safety, having a person head the commission that is skeptical of vaccines is no different than having someone who is from the industry and has supported vaccines. These really aren't two sides of the same coin. For every yin there is not a yang. For every crazy, anti-vaccination conspiracy there is not an industry expert who is basically the same in reverse. Not that I disagree with the issues surrounding yielding to corporate lobbyists, for example. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 I suppose its like picking ugly bridesmaids because you want to look like the most beautiful bride. I wonder truly if he is setting everything up so that he can "override" all these people's suggestions and initiatives- to be the hero. A "you're fired" moment. Funny you should say that. "And you'll find that when you become very successful, the people that you will like best are the people that are less successful than you, because when you go to a table you can tell them all of these wonderful stories, and they'll sit back and listen," Trump said. "Does that make sense to you? OK? Always be around unsuccessful people because everybody will respect you. Do you understand that?" 1 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 At least Trump is being consistent with appointing people to positions that have zero qualifications It's not that they don't have qualifications, it's that they specifically have qualifications that are against the very positions they're being put into. An anti-vaxxer heading up the Vaccines & Safety Commission. An opponent of public schools heading the Dept. of Education. A climate change denier heading up the EPA. It's like he's purposefully trying to make government dysfunctional. A guy who would've abolished the Dept. of Energy (if he could remember it) now has the wheel. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Wonder if his commitment to surrounding himself with the SIL and all the older kids in meetings and on calls is in part to keep all these secrets about Russia (esp if they were indeed blackmailing him) Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 He wants to take their breaks away and replace them with robots. Then yesterday I found this... PEOTUS really surrounds himself with some (alleged) scumbags. Link to comment
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