Not enough dead Kennedys
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Siri, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
I’m sorry, I didn’t get that:
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds.
Mr. Siri has also filed a petition seeking to pause the distribution of 13 other vaccines; challenged, and in some cases quashed, Covid vaccine mandates around the country; sued federal agencies for the disclosure of records related to vaccine approvals; and subjected prominent vaccine scientists to grueling videotaped depositions.
Much of Mr. Siri’s work — including the polio petition filed in 2022 — has been on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, a nonprofit whose founder is a close ally of Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Siri also represented Mr. Kennedy during his presidential campaign.
Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for health secretary, has said that he does not want to take away access to any vaccines. But as he prepares for his confirmation hearing and plans a fresh health agenda, his continuing close partnership with Mr. Siri suggests that vaccine policy will be under sharp scrutiny. It is a chilling prospect to many public health leaders, especially those who recall the deadly toll of some vaccine-mediated diseases.
At the Trump transition headquarters in Florida, Mr. Siri has joined Mr. Kennedy in questioning and choosing candidates for top health positions, according to someone who observed the interactions but insisted on anonymity to disclose private conversations. They have asked candidates about their views of vaccines, the person said.
Mr. Kennedy has privately expressed interest in having Mr. Siri serve in the Health and Human Services Department’s top legal job, general counsel. However, Mr. Siri has suggested he may have more influence outside the administration. At his law firm, Siri & Glimstad, he oversees about 40 professionals working on vaccine cases and policy.
“Somebody on the outside needs to be petitioning them,” he said on a podcast in late November.
Either way, it’s clear that his voice will be heard at the highest levels.
“I love Aaron Siri,” Mr. Kennedy said in a clip played on a recent episode of a podcast hosted by Del Bigtree, who is Mr. Kennedy’s former campaign communications director and the founder of the Informed Consent Action Network, which describes itself as a “medical freedom” nonprofit. “There’s nobody who’s been a greater asset to the medical freedom movement than him.”
I don’t for a second believe these authoritarian fuckheads have any intention of allowing The Children to be poisoned by deadly vaccines, because what possible rationale could there be for allowing something like that?
Kennedy is a brain-damaged moron who is going to be in the position he’s going to be in because 77.3 million Americans decided that ignorant idiot celebrity culture, served with a light infusion of neo-fascism in a fundamentalist evangelical reduction, should be in charge of everything. Thanks Jerry Falwell and Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.
America I’m doing my own research.
. . . Because I don’t want to harsh too many mellows with too much doomerism and negativity in multiple posts, I’ll just leave these here:
JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to be his guest for the Army-Navy football game this weekend. Penny was acquitted this week in a Manhattan court where he had been charged with second degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, a man Penny had restrained on a New York City subway in 2023.
“VP-Elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to be his personal guest at the Army-Navy game this weekend, per source familiar. They will be joining President Trump in his suite at the game,” said NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman on X.
Sam Altman joins Zuckerberg, Bezos, and who knows how many other plutocrats in bending the knee and paying very literal tribute to the Leader:
“President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead,” Altman said in a written statement.
Altman reportedly plans on making a personal commitment of $1 million to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, as opposed to the gift coming directly from OpenAI.
The news comes on the heels of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon both announcing $1 million to the inauguration fund, in moves that allegedly work to smooth ties with the incoming commander-in-chief.