Trump's DERP State

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Confirmation Hearings for the Trump's incredibly bad choices for cabinet leadership positions.  Traitors, drunks, rapists, pet killers and television personalities were the first choice of the mentally ill old man.  

My Senator, Dan Sullivan is all over his social media singing the praises of these folk so we should expect most of them to be confirmed.   

Hegseths hearing should be starting about now.  

 

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/39IFlAPsMkW6h5Dz68Kdyu?si=WT6PAVzYTii6IYXh3G_26g

You can listen to the good doctor's interview.  He's warning that the information that the CDC is going to publish from the ACIP is not informed by science and is dangerous.  Buckle up. Vaccines are about to become noticeably less accessible for the working class as MAHA leads the way in idiocy. 

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/39IFlAPsMkW6h5Dz68Kdyu?si=WT6PAVzYTii6IYXh3G_26g

You can listen to the good doctor's interview.  He's warning that the information that the CDC is going to publish from the ACIP is not informed by science and is dangerous.  Buckle up. Vaccines are about to become noticeably less accessible for the working class as MAHA leads the way in idiocy. 

There's some muck here in Florida.  As noted by MAHA booster vaccination rates are low anyway, but say a healthy 60 wants a vaccine before getting on a long flight, they may need a prescription unlike before when we could get them on demand.  We'll see how it shapes up.  

I plan on getting a booster before I travel in November.  Recently a coworker got real sick after a flight from Sri Lanka and I've known several other people that have traveled and come home sick.  Fortunately I'm over 65 now and it shouldn't be an issue to schedule it.  I'll get the flu shot at the same time.

Apparently we've had our typical Summer surge in covid this year. Apparently the public isn't interested in this and our surgeon general isn't interested in it either.  I didn't know and found out when one of our ID docs told me.  We currently have three covid positive patients on my unit and a coworker out with it and another recently recovered.

The good news is that they aren't all that horribly sick.  Covid isn't as deadly as it once was.  

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Did anyone else watch or listen to this nonsense? Holy hell.  

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I think we have to accept that we have entered into an era of vaccine skepticism and victory of the anti-vax influencers.  

If mandates go away as they might seem to be here in Florida, I hope that enough of the public makes the right choice.

Right now the stance is "We're not against vaccines but are against mandates".  But I think in promoting choice they are encouraging people to not get vaccinated.

What I'm concerned about is that recommendations from pediatrician medical groups and the organizations like the CDC are going to be squashed and the pseudo science of RFK and followers like the Florida Surgeon General will prevail.  

Covid hit us hard, but what if some future illness hits children hard?  I wonder if the politics would be different?

https://allnurses.com/trumps-derp-state-t763859/?page=43

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Tweety said:

I think we have to accept that we have entered into an era of vaccine skepticism and victory of the anti-vax influencers.  

If mandates go away as they might seem to be here in Florida, I hope that enough of the public makes the right choice.

Right now the stance is "We're not against vaccines but are against mandates".  But I think in promoting choice they are encouraging people to not get vaccinated.

What I'm concerned about is that recommendations from pediatrician medical groups and the organizations like the CDC are going to be squashed and the pseudo science of RFK and followers like the Florida Surgeon General will prevail.  

Covid hit us hard, but what if some future illness hits children hard?  I wonder if the politics would be different?

https://allnurses.com/trumps-derp-state-t763859/?page=43

The mandates are a joke, anyway.  

Here in Colorado,  to get an exemption you simply have to view a short presentation online and send in a certificate that you did so.

And, while the school will strongly encourage and nag parents to be compliant, in the end they often don't enforce it.

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Tweety said:

I think we have to accept that we have entered into an era of vaccine skepticism and victory of the anti-vax influencers.  

If mandates go away as they might seem to be here in Florida, I hope that enough of the public makes the right choice.

Right now the stance is "We're not against vaccines but are against mandates".  But I think in promoting choice they are encouraging people to not get vaccinated.

What I'm concerned about is that recommendations from pediatrician medical groups and the organizations like the CDC are going to be squashed and the pseudo science of RFK and followers like the Florida Surgeon General will prevail.  

Covid hit us hard, but what if some future illness hits children hard?  I wonder if the politics would be different?

https://allnurses.com/trumps-derp-state-t763859/?page=43

Florida already enjoys some of the lowest Immunization rates among the 50 states.  If the ACIP makes some move to remove it change historic recommendations for some vaccines, that could affect affordability and access for working class parents.  It will be interesting to see how low the vaccination rate will get before negative consequences are realized.  Lots of children travel to Florida for the theme parks.  

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Beerman said:

The mandates are a joke, anyway.  

Here in Colorado,  to get an exemption you simply have to view a short presentation online and send in a certificate that you did so.

And, while the school will strongly encourage and nag parents to be compliant, in the end they often don't enforce it.

That doesn't sound like a mandate.  Sounds like a choice.  At least they aren't enslaved like Floridan children are according to our surgeon general. 

  We have a similar requirement where I work, we just sign that we know what the flu vaccine is about and the importance of taking it and that we aren't going to take it anyway.  That's choice, not a mandate.  The only choice is to not sign the waver.  You either take the flu shot or sign that you're not taking it.  

 

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The ineptitude of Kash Patel was on full display this week, as he bumbled his way through the Kirk case. He took to social media to preemptively announce the apprehension of the perpetrator, delay a news conference so that he could appear on camera, and erroneously took credit for the arrest of the shooter. 

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-patel-russia-epstein-c3e70633befef64b60613709c9919b0c

This guy has next to zero qualifications for FBI director. Unless you count writing a children's book about King Donald, LOL. 

 

I look forward to watching his appearance in front of the Oversight Committee. 

 

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As I predicted, FBI Director Patel went full on looney tunes during a Senate hearing today. 

Good lord. As I heard Kara Swisher say on a podcast today, this guy makes J. Edgar Hoover look like a good guy. 

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I'm not sure who looks worse here, Tom Homan for taking a $50,000 bribe or the Department of Justice for refusing to investigate. 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-50000-bribery-sting-operation-sources-say-2025-09-21/

I've seen a hypothesis on social media that Trump was using this as leverage against Homan. 
I wonder where the $50,000 went? 

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nursej22 said:

I'm not sure who looks worse here, Tom Homan for taking a $50,000 bribe or the Department of Justice for refusing to investigate. 
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-50000-bribery-sting-operation-sources-say-2025-09-21/

I've seen a hypothesis on social media that Trump was using this as leverage against Homan. 
I wonder where the $50,000 went? 

A hypothesis LOL. Your own article even states:

"This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing," Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Sunday.”

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Of course the current Justice Department found no credible evidence, even though it was on tape. Do the undercover FBI agents who gave the bribe still work for the FBI? 

Where did the $50,000 go? Was it declared as income? 

 

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