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Brian Nelson's avatar

This is what and for whom I voted. This cabinet is greater than the 1992 Dream Team. When RFK Jr endorsed Trump, a sense of hope, optimism, and deep 'correctness' hit me unlike any time in my adult life.

I am not so naive to believe everything will go the way I hope--but this is already an order of magnitude more than I expected.

Smash 'em Bobby! Name 'em Tulsi! Indict 'em Pam! Send 'em back Kristi! Squeeze the hell out of 'em Scott!

It seems to me that Trump surrounded himself with the most competence a cabinet has been capable of carrying--and is letting them run. This is initiative based leadership, like we learned in the Army. "Here is my intent and end state. Go do it. I will not tell you how, but I will resource you and back your play."

bsn

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Michael Boock's avatar

I had this same super-charged feeling of "correctness" when it was announced. I was a Kennedy supporter/acolyte. He did say he knew how to get it done. He is demonstrating that. I couldn't be happier.

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Leonard's avatar

He could never have put that team together without the covid disaster and election shenanigans of 2020. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

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Lynn Edwards's avatar

It's a great team, but we need Vinny Prasad back. Otherwise there is a playbook for pharma to get rid of scientists demanding evidence.

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SomeDude's avatar

if he hadn't been instrumental in pushing through the recent approval of garbage pHarmaCo product(s?) while Kennedy was out of the office, I might agree.

his hand in that contaminated any respect I held for the dude previously

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I’ve been watching Prasad’s videos for some time. He’s all about vaccines and studies. Never liked him. He’s a flake.

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Tardigrade's avatar

I felt the same way. I'm still clinging to the hope that the Pharma lobbying juggernaut will not successfully pressure Trump to severely limit what RFK can do.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Clinging to hope…that’s how they keep stringing along folks…

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Occam's avatar

That's a bit overarching a statement, no?

djt has a problem with neocon infiltration and foreign policy.

Also, I've yet to see a notable perp walk.

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Brian Nelson's avatar

It is overarching, on purpose. I voted for total disruption. In my mind I had Trump pulling an Al Pacino Scarface 'Say hello to my little friend...' response to the entire federal government.

I hope there are perp walks, but it is pretty early in the administration. I don't think Kash nor Dan are lying liars who lie. Justice is achingly slow, so I'm giving the admin the benefit of the doubt.

bsn

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Occam's avatar

I hope you're right, but there have been enough miscues to make me doubtful, particularly on the foreign relations front.

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Brian Nelson's avatar

Occam,

I hear you—but I’ve been SO DISAPPOINTED AND DISILLUSIONED post COVID, that I’m taking any and all opportunities to celebrate and find hope/optimism/beauty whenever and wherever I can find it - or even re-interpret it. My soul needs it.

The criminal withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly broke me. There is a deep well of hurt and betrayal inside me. Nearly everything I believed and turned out to be a lie.

I cannot live with that degree of cynicism as my operating system.

Prior to “THE GREAT BETRAYAL”, Of which warp speed was part of, I was naïvely optimistic. Always have been. I’m a cup is half full person by large.

Then I had four years of dark and cynical anger, and despair. I’m willing to risk slight disappointment compared to the deep betrayal, I felt previously.

bsn

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Occam's avatar

God bless us.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

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Leonard's avatar

Best to save the perp walks for election season.

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Occam's avatar

Fuck that. Justice delayed is justice denied.

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New Considerist's avatar

Yup, this was also on my mind - and in my gut - a year ago.

https://newconsiderist.substack.com/p/the-theses-of-glendale

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Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

WHAT HE SAID!!! 🇺🇲

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

As you say, Chris, "What strange fascists." Thanks for writing about this.

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Ryan Winfield's avatar

So glad my wife and I resisted those shots.

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Robert Shannon's avatar

Dr. Robert Malone discovered the mRNA process, patented and later sold it to, I think Pfizer, but Pfizer was unable to bring the technology forward and it was sold to the CIA's Moderna who supposedly had made it a safe and effective process of injecting vaccines. So all of a sudden in 2020 it becomes the choice for delivery and we now know the negative side of it. So RFK jr is pulling the plug on a delivery system that was untested and failed. Good for him.

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CB's avatar

I know nothing about the science, but I've read and heard Dr. Malone describing his original work (on a team at the Salk Institute, as I recall) that used natural mRNA, which has an extremely short lifespan. That product wasn't commercially successful. Years later, he was contacted by Kati Kariko about her effort to use modifed RNA to get a longer lasting effect. Malone told Kariko he thought it was a very bad idea. Of course, Kariko and her collaborator Drew Weissman then won the Nobel Prize for the modified RNA used in the Covid jabs. Studies now show Weissman & Kariko's modified RNA can stay in the body for years producing Covid spike protein and causing much harm. It's in the name: Mod(e)RNA.

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Leonard's avatar

The company Malone co-founded to work on the messenger RNA vaccine platform ran into all sorts of issues with it during tests and trials; Malone eventually left the company and the company eventually sold the intellectual property to Merck.

Merck ran into the same issues with the technology that Malone’s company did and just let the patents expire. The nature of R&D.

At that point it was failed tech in the public domain. Moderna was founded to take advantage of the fact that they didn’t have to pay for the IP, but tests and trials cost lots of money and they could never get an mrna product to work safely and effectively. Until Fauci funneled tons of money to moderna and pfizer and took advantage of EUA to essentially run a trial on modt of the world.

One wonders why money wasn’t funneled to Merck who at least had experience with the technology as much as moderna.

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John's avatar

Super excited about this development. This is what I voted for. Slowly but surely RFKjr is making changes that will positively impact health for generations. Would I like a faster pace? Yes but things are happening, hoping for more changes over the next 4 years.

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Babs's avatar

Thanks for reporting on this. I’m on a media fast, except for your substack, so whatever you report on is what I know about. So, no pressure, but you should keep that in mind when choosing topics. But still be funny. I’ll be here staring at my inbox. 🙏

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

Not to interfere with your fast, but you could add in Coffee and Covid, the Jeff Childers substack. He’s funny and has a sunny optimism, so it won’t depress you, but he’s informative as well.

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K2's avatar

^^^This! Yes!^^^

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gadflybytes's avatar

We live in strange times, when the major media organizations are aligned with what seem to be actual fascist interests, while accusing their critics and competitors of fascism.

Even weirder though is what appears to be the complete capture of South Park by the DNC. Sorry, I just watched the second episode this season and while it was better than the first, they had set the bar at Family Guy levels for that one, it is still just meh. Actually, it's worse than meh. It's worse than Family Guy.

There are so many things that the Trump administration is doing that I never dreamed would happen in my lifetime, good things, things I had come to expect would not happen regardless of the political party we voted into office, things, like dismantling the narco industrial pharma complex and its regulatory capture of the US government.

Yet, my once beloved South Park is disturbingly partisan and shock-horror...not funny.

Where is the Bugs Bunnyesque Hunter Biden character, dancing around the White House, emitting hoo-hoos and hee-hawas, trying to find his stash of cocaine, so that he can cook it for his beloved, euphoric crack?

Why are they completely ignoring the rich fodder presented by Democrats, only to focus on things as Democrats see them?

Have they deceived me all these years?

They handled the Bush era of true fascist policies and bellicose interventions with what can only be described as kid gloves, so letting Biden et al off scott free could be accepted, if they didn't push the TDS so hard?

The answer is obvious.

They have spent too many years in the LA bubble, a bubble they once criticized with scalding satire. Now, they pay homage to that bubble and it's tragic, nay, gut wrenching, to watch.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Haven't watched in years, so I've missed all that. I thought they were funny, back when I watched, but I've tuned out.

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

If I need a serious guffaw, I watch an old rerun of Sanford and Son. It’s unbelievable what they got away with back then. SO hilarious.

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Vermont Farm Wife's avatar

I still love the "Carol Burnett Show." Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and Carol: can't beat that combination. I don't recall any politics, it was just plain fun. I miss shows like that.

Bob Newhart was always dependably great too. And funny.

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Mitch's avatar

Newhart didn't even need to say anything to make me laugh.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Agree. We don’t watch new or recent tv shows. All woke garbage, plus inserted propaganda.

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Vermont Farm Wife's avatar

Well, we really like "Homestead Rescue", but the subject matter wouldn't appeal to everyone. We have 10 acres loaded with left-over lumber and assorted stuff my electrician/construction worker husband has amassed over the years, just waiting to be used for some new project. We count on Homestead Rescue for ideas.

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Sanford and Son?

What did they "get away with?"

It was just another Norman Lear vehicle to introduce the early stages of PC-Progressive hatred of Normal-Americans, and reverence of blacks.

Whites were cartoon buffoons or villains (Archie and Edith Bunker, the white cop on Sanford)--blacks were heroic strivers cooly cracking hilarious jokes and dealing with life.

Took me a while to see it, but once you see it, the whole thing's ruined.

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Brian Nelson's avatar

Modern Family. HILARIOUS! Spit out your drink funny. 11 seasons (I think), and I laughed out loud at least once in every episode. Brilliant.

bsn

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Mitch's avatar

as they say, it's funny because it's true. No truth, no comedy.

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Nancy Benedict's avatar

^^

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gadflybytes's avatar

I will let you know if it’s worth tuning in again.

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refusenick's avatar

I haven’t watched latest but feel I understand where you’re coming from. Edgy artists ‘selling out’ and joining the previously despised establishment is not new, though. All that’s new is that the establishment now wears a skin suit saying ‘Democrat’.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Almost all TV shows and movies are full of propaganda. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

South Park: Compromised? Burnt out? Honey potted? Meh, that party’s over.

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PapayaSF's avatar

I’m too lazy to find the link but they have a longtime lawyer who is also close to the Bidens and has supported Hunter with serious money. That seems connected to South Park taking a four-year break from politics.

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angel k's avatar

I was afraid to allow myself to consider what you said about Our beloved SP, but after reading your comment, sadly I must now accept the dark day for SP has arrived. I knew I wouldn't be able to stay in denial for long…🥺

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Mark In Houston's avatar

Chris, once again thanks for shining a bright light on the well reasoned and well articulated decision by HHS under RFK, Jr. and the extreme and (at least partially) unreasoned response on the part of the legacy and deranged media.

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Andy's avatar

Jeff Childers’ Wednesday issue of “Coffee & Covid” addresses this.

“Moderna, for just one example, is a publicly traded company with billions in market cap, a war chest of covid windfall cash, and obligations to shareholders. If its pipeline of mRNA products is so promising, why should taxpayers fund the research?”

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Exactly. Now apply this line of thinking to ALL of the taxpayer (us) funding of the pharmaceutical industry. I say not one dollar should go to any of these companies. If they can’t succeed on their own, tough shit.

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Michelle's avatar

All funding needs to be cut for self-amplifying RNA as well. Or are those trials all privately funded at the moment?

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Chris Bray's avatar

Unknown -- tell us more about this.

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Michelle's avatar

Apparently Japan has already approved a self-amplifying “vaccine” for covid, and there are clinical trials for saRNA shots for flu happening here. There is a veterinary formulation already being given to our pets that I can’t remember the name of… Seems more dangerous in that it could spread to others w/o consent. Instead of shedding spike, for example, recipients could be shedding the entire coding for making spike. https://www.promegaconnections.com/how-do-self-amplifying-rna-vaccines-work/

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Chris Bray's avatar

Disturbing -- thanks for this information.

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DTT's avatar

The canine bordetella vaccine is now a saMRNA product yet is called by the same name and pet owners are not being told it is a different product altogether being injected into their animal for kennel cough. Most places that board animals require that injection before they will accept your pet for boarding. :-(

I’m unsure if animal vaxxes are under HHS or USDA, but I am far less trusting of our Ag Secretary than I am of RFK Jr.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

The vaccine industry for animals (pets and livestock) is a gigantic business for Pharma, that most folks don’t seem to be aware of.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

The Industrial Veterinary Medicine Delivery Complex is as bad if not worse than the Industrial Medical Healthcare Delivery System. And few have pet insurance, which is also a big boondoggle. Somebody figured out that they could create a serious money generating scheme with “pet insurance”. I don’t “go to the doctor” nor do I take my pets “to the vet”.

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Michelle's avatar

Yes, I was thinking it was also the kennel cough vaccine, but couldn’t find a name for it. I had to get a cat fixed earlier this year, and they wouldn’t fix her unless they gave her the rabies shot as well. I wondered whether she got the new Nobivac one, but her rabies certificate, while it includes a batch/lot number, does not say what kind of rabies shot she got. It just says “rabies vac 1 year.” I’m sure that is by design to keep us in the dark… So infuriating. My cats are indoor and don’t need rabies shots. My oldest cat has what I think is an injection site sarcoma from his rabies shot when getting fixed.

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Michelle's avatar

Merck’s Nobivac also has a feline leukemia shot…

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I guess all those people in Japan who were killed by the Covid-19 shot wasn’t enough for them. Sheesh.

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edhuff's avatar

Correct the Kennedy statement describes suspension for respiratory virus treatment/use only.

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Tardigrade's avatar

And don't forget Bill Gates's mosquitoes, and the recent paper pushing bioengineered ticks to make people allergic to red meat.

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Michelle's avatar

Yes! There is so much evil being disguised as medicine!

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StellaMaris's avatar

Right but then there is this..... Trump on Operation Warp Speed: One Of The Most Incredible Things Ever Done In This Country

"Everything about it was has been amazing."

‘The operation Warp Speed was, whether you are Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.

The efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything about it was has been amazing.” https://gigaohm.bio/@StellaMaris/posts/AwwP3jxxGA393MC8Z6

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Chris Bray's avatar

No one seems to be able to talk him out of this. I assume people have tried.

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Brian Nelson's avatar

If he goes to the grave thinking this--but does not get in Bobby's way--then I simply do not care what Trump believes about Warp Speed.

bsn

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Tardigrade's avatar

👍

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Bandit's avatar

🙌

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

It's all about his pride. He was manipulated by "the career professionals" like Fauci, Birx, etc. to push the whole program, none of which was based in any way on "the science". I do think he's slowly coming around to recognizing that the people who tried to destroy his candidacy, then his presidency, then throw him in jail for the rest of his life, plus assassinate him, are the same sort of people, and probably in some cases, the same ones, who perpetrated this mass murder scheme for profit.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Danny - on what basis do you believe he’s coming around?

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

He hasn't said the mRNA's saved at least 100,000,000 people in the llast year or so like he did in the previous 2 years or so. Plus, he didn't prevent Kennedy from his action against the mRNA's that he took this week.

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Andrew Corner's avatar

The question is, what are they trying to talk him out of? As far as an operation, from his vantage point, it went well.

People aren’t asking him the right questions, so why should he give people the answers they want to hear when they haven’t even explained what they’re asking for?

There’s such a massive tendency of people today to assume others know what they want to hear. It’s super weird.

Even the way people are jumping on this, when the reporter asks the question that everyone is freaking out about. She’s doing it to suggest RFK Jr. is ‘anti’ mRNA, and THAT is the problem.

Trump then specifies, “research on what?”, suggesting she needs to clarify the question.

So here we have people who hate Trump wanting him to admit he’s ‘anti science’, when his statement is not, and people who think the vaccines were a ‘bio weapon’ wanting him to admit he was part of some scheme to target Americans, as if he’s going to do that, and let’s be honest okay?

There’s issues with the mRNA, but were they part of a plan to exterminate Americans? Come on. And to expect Trump to Come out and admit such a thing, people have weird expectations.

Never mind the Epstein stuff, but notice there’s the subtle underground current there as well. The same people who are suggesting Epstein is the hidden hand want people to say that Israel used Trump to deploy a bio weapon, on behalf of Israel.

The whole thing is nuts. Okay they, why did Netanyahu target his own population with the ‘bio weapon’?

Come on people .

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

His ego and narcissism are in the way. (Note to other readers: no, this doesn’t mean I’m not glad T was elected. I am.)

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Steersman's avatar

Sorry for being late to the party, but talk who out of what and why?

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PapayaSF's avatar

Trump is still very proud of the COVID vaccine project, despite the fact that the skeptics turned out to be largely right.

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Leslie M's avatar

Talk Trump out of bragging about “Operation Warp Speed”.

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Leslie M's avatar

His ego will simply not allow him to acknowledge the harm that it has done and continues to do. It’s alarming that he doesn’t seem to recognize that these weren’t just widgets being produced; they were biological agents that, from what I’ve read, can alter one's DNA.

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SirTophamHatt's avatar

Actions speak louder than words

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StellaMaris's avatar

Meaning?

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

The classical definition of fascism, the Italian term as promoted by Mussolini, is the creation of a corporate state, a 'bundle' of mutual interests profiting from each other. What we now call private-public partnerships. Which fits right in with the media narrative.

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

And from what I saw in USAID, the media’s budget as well.

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Mitch's avatar

exactly. Fish don't think about living in the water.

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Rikard's avatar

Do they use Scrabble-markers and toss them on the ground like some lexical haruspex to write their articles?

Because I'm pretty sure I get better reporting on facts and reality from gutting a sweet-water bass and looking at its entrails.

Great that you bring this up - our media mentioned it as "RFKjr stops all vaccinations in the USA"...

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Bandit's avatar

No such luck.

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Jon Kocourek's avatar

Pharmakia or whatever that Greek word was for sorcery!…..do that shtuff on your own dime, not mine!

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Janet McNeill's avatar

Thanks for covering this!

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