RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing In Progress

His opening statement stressed that Americans' health is the worst it has ever been and worst in the western world. In other words, the Pfizer-owned shills and liberal Establishment Republicans who only want to continue present disastrous policy because It's The Way We've Always Done Things are defending the indefensible.

Obviously he was "disrupted" by shrieking leftists, who of course wear the obligatory covid mask in 2025. And of course he was "disrupted" again.

Maggie Hassan just lied and claimed that Trump suspended Medicaid payments. She waved some papers around so you know this lie is Well Sourced. She also shrieked about the abortion pill, because all they care about is killing babies.

The very high-T Ron Wyden blasted RFKJr. with talking points surely provided to him by Pfizer. He insists that any criticism of vaccines, or suggesting that they have side-effects, is a "conspiracy theory," despite side-effects being listed as a danger for every single vaccine.

The Democrat Bennet of Colorado declares that it doesn't matter what RFK Jr. says because the health care system is failing and we cannot afford a Secretary of HHS who agrees that the health care system is failing. This makes no sense, of course, but this is the standard Democrat attack line: They themselves have agreed with Kennedy for 40 years that the health care system must be reformed, but they're desperate to block a Kennedy from sealing the Trump Realignment, so they're forced to argue that RFK Jr.'s agreeing with them makes him unqualified.

RFK Jr. says that he's not in favor of banning foods, but does want the public to know accurate science about food choices:

🚨 | NEW: RFK Jr. lit up the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing.

The entire chamber cracked up when Bobby said:

“If you liket a McDonald’s cheeseburger, a Diet Coke - which my boss (Donald Trump) loves - you should be able to get them... But you should… pic.twitter.com/qQ9skhUXzB
— Hank ™ (@HANKonX) January 29, 2025

He points out that we're spending almost a trillion dollars per year on Medicaid, and asks: "Do we think it's working for anybody?"

🔥🔥 MIC DROP:

RFK JR: "I would ask ANY of the Democrats who've are chuckling just now, do you believe all that money, the $900 BILLION we're sending to Medicaid every year has made Americans healthy?"

Senate Hearing room breaks out in applause. pic.twitter.com/PlpVGCIaYq
— Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 (@EvanAKilgore) January 29, 2025

Dem Senator says RFK disputes “settled science.”

Now where have we all heard “the science is settled” before? 🧐pic.twitter.com/M26JFufmi1
— Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) January 29, 2025

I think some people, like Establishment Fake Republicans, might claim that RFKJr. makes "some good points," but then insist "we should have a more Establishment-approved person make those points."

The trouble is, of course, that Establishment-approved people are cowards and dullards without chests or passion.

To actually get something done in an entrenched, lazy, bought-and-paid-for-by-Pfizer bureaucracy, you have to be passionate about it. You have to be interested in the subject enough that you do outside reading about it even when you're off the clock. Like, you actually care. It's not just some bullshit government job you're taking for an easy paycheck.

Kennedy has the passion. Mike Pence and his fellow bloodless, cowardly parasites do not.

And that's exactly why the Liberal "Republicans" insist we should have an Establishment drull in charge of executing RFKJr's few "good points." Because they know Establishment drulls do nothing, which is their actual preference, to do nothing.

They want someone who will give lip service to RFK Jr.'s supposedly "good points" while doing absolutely nothing to advance them.

This as been the Fake and Gay GOPe's way for fifty fucking years, and it ends NOW.

"When my uncle was president, 2% of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66% have chronic disease," says RFK Jr. at his confirmation hearing.

This single fact serves as irrefutable evidence that the current “scientific consensus” is not working.pic.twitter.com/pQLFZFZeJj
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) January 29, 2025

🔥🚨HANDS DOWN the best exchange of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing so far:

Warner: “Will you commit not to fire anyone in the health arena who works on protecting Americans?”

RFK: “I will commit to not firing anybody who is doing their job.”

pic.twitter.com/JXzp0ix1sS
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 29, 2025

Obviously the Fake Journalists are writing their headlines about the hearing before the hearing even begins, because, of course. They already know the outcome before the game is played. Because they're demonic cultists relaying the prophecies of their dark gods.

Lol, welcome to the world of being covered by the press. In my 40+ years of being interviewed, I’ve encountered journalists who write their headline after, based on the actual interview, but also many (like below) who have decided on the angle before they meet me. This makes the… https://t.co/mcfQ9JB2Ye
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) January 29, 2025

Video of the hearing below:

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM

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1 G'morning Ace.

I'll let the others know this thread is live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 29, 2025 12:14 PM (O7YUW)

2 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at January 29, 2025 12:14 PM (53oGX)

3 WOO BOO BOO BOO

Posted by: Senator Liawatha at January 29, 2025 12:14 PM (jbnUc)

4 Pfizer's shot is NOT a vaccine.

It is an experimental gene therapy shot originally intended for cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (cpQDJ)

5 His opening statement stressed that Americans' health is the worst it has ever been and worst in the western world. In other words, the Pfizer-owned shills and liberal Establishment Republicans who only want to continue present disastrous policy because It's The Way We've Always Done Things are defending the indefensible.

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It's the line of defense against all of Trump's "controversial" appointees.

"You're going to change how we do things around here."

"Things have gotten really bad."

"So, how are you going to change things without changing anything?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

6 Laugh at Bernie, dude.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (ufFY8)

7 Bernie: REEEEEEEEE! You have merch!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (D7oie)

8 The Democrat Bennet of Colorado declares that it doesn't matter what RFK Jr. says because the health care system is failing and we cannot afford a Secretary of HHS who agrees that the health care system is failing. This makes no sense, of course, but this is the standard Democrat attack line: They themselves have agreed with Kennedy for 40 years that the health care system must be reformed, but they're desperate to block a Kennedy from sealing the Trump Realignment, so they're forced to argue that RFK Jr.'s agreeing with them makes him unqualified.

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"wut..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

9 Marsha Blackburn up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (ufFY8)

10 He's holding his own.

"Every abortion is a tragedy." He's said this twice now. Pointed out he has family staunchly on both sides of the issue but they respect each other and agree to disagree.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (gWBY1)

11 Willowed: the word I get from my MAGA friends in NC is that Tillis is kind of a, how you say

a fuckless gaaaaaaaaay retard who could get outmaneuvered by a snail

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (HYKHz)

12 We’ll, his cousin says he’s a philanderer, so I guess will just have to stay sick!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (Hkcdp)

13 RFK JR: "I would ask ANY of the Democrats who've are chuckling just now, do you believe all that money, the $900 BILLION we're sending to Medicaid every year has made Americans healthy?"

Senate Hearing room breaks out in applause.

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If you want to cut spending on Medicaid, you hate poor people.

Sure, it doesn't make people healthier and is a giant syphon of cash from the People, but you hate poor people if you want to cut $1 from it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

14 Gee Bernie, you are clearly pro censorship.

I guess free speech is not a universal right

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (D7oie)

15 According to Mrs D who is going apeshit over this, a child today is required to have 18 inoculations by the age of two. WTF???!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

16 I'm glad to see the Democrats being shrill and rude again, and not letting RFK speak. It's not a good look.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (MZsCp)

17 The trouble is, of course, that Establishment-approved people are cowards and dullards without chests or passion.

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Also...which Establishment-approved people are saying anything along these lines?

When was the last NRO article about how Medicaid sucked?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

18 I didnt realize Megyn Kelly was sitting behind him

She got that look that say "Waste the motherfuckers"

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (HYKHz)

19 Line from Senator Johnson (R-WI) to Democrat members: "Aren't you tired of this?"

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (SfhV1)

20 The trouble is, of course, that Establishment-approved people are cowards and dullards without chests or passion.

They're largely gelded, and for some reason are not fruitful.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (xCA6C)

21 According to Mrs D who is going apeshit over this, a child today is required to have 18 inoculations by the age of two. WTF???!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

I think there is four of them at birth including Hep C

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)

22 Democrats, bringing their worst and dimmest to the debate.

Exhibit A: Bernie.
Exhibit B: Marsha.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (cpQDJ)

23 15 According to Mrs D who is going apeshit over this, a child today is required to have 18 inoculations by the age of two. WTF???!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

Hep C vaccine just after they are born... Hep C... for newborns

Posted by: Inogame at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (53oGX)

24 It's funny because the "journalists" aren't even the ones who pre-wrote the headlines.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (+iIV1)

25 Why can't the Republicans give these shrieking leftists the J6 treatment for "Disrupting an Official Proceeding"? Even for a misdemeanor, the process is the punishment.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (+Ezpv)

26 When I watch that clip of RFK talking about getting a Big Mac it brings to mind that photo of him, Trump and Musk eating Big Macs on an airplane… with Mike Johnson photo bombing. Funny picture

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (ZtAny)

27 > He insists that any criticism of vaccines, or suggesting that they have side-effects, is a "conspiracy theory," despite side-effects being listed as a danger for every single vaccine.

Any medicine that works has side effects. Period. If it has no side effects, it's something inert like purified water.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (Odg76)

28 Colorado declares

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Colorado continues to send their best and brightest

I don't think I ever met dumber fucks in my life than Colorado locals

must be the pot and thin air

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (HYKHz)

29 We’ll, his cousin says he’s a philanderer, so I guess will just have to stay sick!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (Hkcdp)

well, who doesn't like to visit Philidelphia?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (D7oie)

30 I gather that RFK Jr is against ultra-processed foods. Just keep your mitts off the CheezIt Hot & Spicy crackers, bub.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (fTu9b)

31 Hey Ace, on the CTA sidebar- there were 2 different cases/courts challenging this, both with TROs. SCOTUS already overturned one TRO, the other hasn't been appealed yet.
Trump may still kill it, but if you're a reportable business you're not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: HowardDevore at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (H/Jxx)

32
I look at this as blue-on-blue spot-the-retard Democrat theater.

Waiting for "Sweet Caroline" to break out from the gallery.

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (j4U/Z)

33 When was the last NRO article about how Medicaid sucked?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

Those bastards wouldn't pay for my Couch's gender reassignment surgery!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (+iIV1)

34 Snake you say?

Jerry Dunleavy IV erryDunleavy
Hegseth’s brother’s ex said “I’ve been assured that making this public statement will ensure that certain senators who are still on the fence will vote against Hegseth’s confirmation.” WSJ reports the person who assured her her baseless allegations would carry weight was Tillis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (L/fGl)

35 Oh good, a non screechy lady for a change. Blackburn will be refreshing after Sanders and Warren.

Concerns about over medicating youth... psychotropics! Look into the drugged up kids turning into school shooters, RFK.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (gWBY1)

36 I know RFK Jr is a lefty but I also think he's done his homework and would make a great Secretary of Health.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (tT6L1)

37 Nice to see Megyn Kelly sitting to the left of RFK Jr. on the television screen.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (NpAcC)

38 According to Mrs D who is going apeshit over this, a child today is required to have 18 inoculations by the age of two. WTF???!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

I think there is four of them at birth including Hep C
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)
***

Heh.
I'm not going to remind her of that. She is already shouting at the tv.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (W/lyH)

39 Webster's listing for "cocksucking douchebag" should include Mark Warner's picture.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (paSBy)

40
Has anyone brought up fluoride in the water yet?

Chemtrails?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:20 PM (+oR7L)

41 You know what I haven't heard?

"Trump must include Democrats in his cabinet like Lincoln did."

Why is that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

42 As a Virginian I feel compelled to apologize for Mark Warner. What a jerk.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2025 12:21 PM (79pEw)

43 I think it comes down to the difference between the theoretical and the empirical.

More than once I've done empirical research for a theoretical economist and was told my research was absolutely wrong because it didn't fit the theory.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (PzXaK)

44 If the American people follow RFK's lead, where will we find fat people to dance in Jardiance ads, or shuck and jive in Oak Street Health commercials?

Posted by: Two-Ton Tessie at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (G5+As)

45 Serious question:

Would it make a difference one way or the other if RFK, Kash, Hegseth, Gabbard, or any of these other "controversial nominees" walked into the hearing room wearing cutoff jean shorts and a FUCK YOU t-shirt, then proceeded to sit there and tell every democrat piece of shit on the panel to sit on it and rotate?

These dems aren't serious people. They're stupid lying assholes who would slit their own mother's throat for another thimble full of power. They should be treated that way.

Posted by: ballistic at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (4pgsi)

46 We’ll, his cousin says he’s a philanderer, so I guess will just have to stay sick!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (Hkcdp)

well, who doesn't like to visit Philidelphia?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (D7oie)

I used to collect stamps when I was a kid..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)

47 snacks Cheryl Hines and Megyn Kelly sitting behind RFK

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (V6W16)

48 As a Virginian I feel compelled to apologize for Mark Warner. What a jerk.
Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2025 12:21 PM (79pEw)

He makes Tim Kaine look "bright".

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (MGB5H)

49
"Mr Kennedy, when is a Hot Dog a sandwich, and when do you know it?"

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

50 36 He sounds to me like the soda-taxing type. A plaintiff lawyer's urge to regulate the f out of everything. Another Ralph Nader.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (fTu9b)

51 It's a circus. He looks like he's had enough.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (4tmpE)

52 I gather that RFK Jr is against ultra-processed foods. Just keep your mitts off the CheezIt Hot & Spicy crackers, bub.

The Cheetos Liberation Front would like a copy of your newsletter.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (xCA6C)

53 I gather that RFK Jr is against ultra-processed foods. Just keep your mitts off the CheezIt Hot & Spicy crackers, bub.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (fTu9b)
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for me, it's the magic tasty Nacho Cheese dust put on Doritos.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (tT6L1)

54 "When my uncle was president, 2% of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66% have chronic disease," says RFK Jr. at his confirmation hearing.

Hm. Do they actually have chronic diseases, have they merely been diagnosed with chronic diseases, or are they just being treated for chromic diseases?

What does "chronic diseases" encompass in this context?

I'm not contesting that there are a whole bunch of people in not-great health, but when 65 years of age is no longer generally considered "old", can you really say that "Americans' health is the worst it's ever been"?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (hB7mE)

55 >>> 30 I gather that RFK Jr is against ultra-processed foods. Just keep your mitts off the CheezIt Hot & Spicy crackers, bub.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (fTu9b)

He got ahead of that early on. He pointed out, humorously, his boss is a big Diet Coke fan, so he can't exactly band all junk food! Said our Big Macs and junk food is safe, he just wants us to be informed about what's in there and make sure they are safe for kids.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (gWBY1)

56 If it has no side effects, it's something inert like purified water.
Posted by: bonhomme

Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

57 "Mr Kennedy, when is a Hot Dog a sandwich, and when do you know it?"
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

Never. A hot dog is a taco.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (+iIV1)

58 Excessive vax. Think of those of a certain age. You enter the armed forces, get the multi needle. Bad luck, you go to SEA and get a bunch more. Some, like me, go back to WESPAC and get another blast. Then you deploy south to Nam and get the same old thing. First time the Marine Corps was still giving the GG shot so you at least had the half tennis ball swelling in your ass.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

59 Oh man, best sock fail ever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (+iIV1)

60 2% vs 66% over the last fifty year for children's chronic illnesses.
I never heard of peanut allergies until the last 15 years.
Begs the questions of what the hell is going on!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (W/lyH)

61 Make fries fried in beef tallow great again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (4tmpE)

62 Who is the blonde behind his right shoulder?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY8)

63 I see Senate confirmation hearings as being summoned to review by a parliament of whores

Posted by: Don Black at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (AOsQT)

64 As a Virginian I feel compelled to apologize for Mark Warner. What a jerk.

I think RFKj just spanked Warner so hard, he was completely nonplussed. NONPLUSSED!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (xCA6C)

65 It advantageous to politicians, medical professionals, big pharma and all the ancillary services to keep Americans unhealthy. There's lots of money in telling people their chronic illness can't be cured.

Posted by: Megthered at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (6M5v9)

66 If the American people follow RFK's lead, where will we find fat people to dance in Jardiance ads, or shuck and jive in Oak Street Health commercials?
Posted by: Two-Ton Tessie at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (G5+As)
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Danke Whats-her-can from yesterday's thread could be employed for life, pretty much.

Posted by: bluebell at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (79pEw)

67 66% are 'chronic' because the money is there for sham diagnosiss.

Plus Munchausen by Proxy for the 'moms' who see their kid as a status thing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (cpQDJ)

68 Ms. Cantwell looking old.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY8)

69 Being against some food is not the same as banning those foods. Which he made clear. He wants Food and Drug to be as transparent and honest as possible. Herculean task if you ask me. But it has to start somewhere.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (g47mK)

70 Another thought...

Pfizer needs a steady cash flow. It's difficult to get that when you're curing your patients.

So I think they own health policy so much that emphasizing maintenance (or outright inventing the need for it) is the focus of overall health policy in the US.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (PzXaK)

71 Who is the blonde behind his right shoulder?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY

Cheryl Hines, his wife.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (MGB5H)

72 Would it make a difference one way or the other if RFK, Kash, Hegseth, Gabbard, or any of these other "controversial nominees" walked into the hearing room wearing cutoff jean shorts and a FUCK YOU t-shirt, then proceeded to sit there and tell every democrat piece of shit on the panel to sit on it and rotate?

These dems aren't serious people. They're stupid lying assholes who would slit their own mother's throat for another thimble full of power. They should be treated that way.
Posted by: ballistic at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (4pgsi)

It would give more cover for the “Aw shucks, we’re bringing decorum back to Congress” RINOs to do what they secretly want to do and vote against them.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (l3YAf)

73 I don't remember "Admiral" Rachel Levine's hearing. Were the Republicans tough on "her" or nah?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (4tmpE)

74 "Here's your headline. Write to it."
--commie assignment editor to commie underling

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (HdrJu)

75 Daas

Drugs as a Service.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (PzXaK)

76
Cheryl Hines and Megyn Kelly should break out a bag of Lays Potato Chips and start eating them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (+oR7L)

77 Maria Cantwell has aged terribly

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (V6W16)

78 Cheryl Hines, his wife

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (Hkcdp)

79 The Democrat Bennet of Colorado declares that it doesn't matter what RFK Jr. says because the health care system is failing and we cannot afford a Secretary of HHS who agrees that the health care system is failing. This makes no sense, of course, but this is the standard Democrat attack line: They themselves have agreed with Kennedy for 40 years that the health care system must be reformed, but they're desperate to block a Kennedy from sealing the Trump Realignment, so they're forced to argue that RFK Jr.'s agreeing with them makes him unqualified.

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"wut..."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

The science is settled.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

80 Mark Warner appears mildly retarded.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (PMtkd)

81 >>> Who is the blonde behind his right shoulder?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (ufFY

I think that's Cheryl Hines, his wife? Hollywood ladies change their faces every few years so I could be wrong.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:26 PM (gWBY1)

82 I'm not contesting that there are a whole bunch of people in not-great health, but when 65 years of age is no longer generally considered "old", can you really say that "Americans' health is the worst it's ever been"?

It's starkly obvious that the Dems have no interest in anything but grandstanding and demonizing any nominee. As was said earlier, it is not a good look.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:26 PM (xCA6C)

83 Have they asked him about maple syrup on French toast??

Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2025 12:26 PM (Oy/m2)

84 His opening statement stressed that Americans' health is the worst it has ever been and worst in the western world.

One of the fascinating things about Soviet America is that failure is not a problem. If you fail it just means you need to continue to do the same things but with a larger budget.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:26 PM (t0Rmr)

85 66 percent? Sounds sus.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 29, 2025 12:26 PM (HdrJu)

86 I'm as big of a free speech guy as you can find, but...I find it troubling the amount of advertising money spent by drug companies on campaigns that consist almost entirely of "Ask your doctor about the benefits of _______".

In a better world, I'd like to think that my doctor spends more time thinking about such matters than I do, but I realize we're not always living in a better world.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (TN0g+)

87 Mark Warner appears mildly retarded.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (PMtkd)

Rumor has it his staff only allows him to use safety scissors.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (MGB5H)

88 I know *our* position on Mike Pence here, but what does *he* think he's doing? He claims he can't support Trump because of Jan. 6. Yeah whatever...but let's go with that. Fine. But Mike Pence (to his credit) carried the water for Trump early in his campaign and all throughout his administration. What I mean is, Trump was always trying to do unconventional things, and Pence was at least publicly on board with all of it. So he is the one doing an about-face here...there is no way to say because of Jan. 6, he changed all his views about every issue and has to oppose everything Trump does. But that's what he's doing...

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (IORSH)

89 Cheryl Hines, his wife.
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (MGB5H)

After she divorced Karry David? LOL.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (ufFY8)

90 Maggie Hassan just lied and claimed that Trump suspended Medicaid payments. S

In addition to stealing her most recent election, Hassan is best known for helping her husband cover up pedophilia at the school he was running. There are no accusations that he participated but he sure seemed to be ok with teachers having sex with their students

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Rmr)

91 Larry

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (ufFY8)

92 Jazzy DJ Dank Moss dancing?

6.6 Richter in Detroit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:27 PM (cpQDJ)

93 Would have been neat if RFKJR had memorized and cited the amounts each senator had taken from Big Pharma

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (2iYWK)

94 Colorado continues to send their best and brightest

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Well, voting by mail.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (L/fGl)

95 77 Maria Cantwell has aged terribly
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 29, 2025 12:25 PM (V6W16)
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She was 10 years past her sell by date 20 years ago.

Posted by: ballistic at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (4pgsi)

96 They want a scalp. Trump may have anticipated this.

Posted by: Max Power at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (q177U)

97 I'm not contesting that there are a whole bunch of people in not-great health, but when 65 years of age is no longer generally considered "old", can you really say that "Americans' health is the worst it's ever been"?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (hB7mE)

statins, blood thinners, metformin, immune suppressors, anti-platelets, benzodiazépines, NSAIDs, these are a few of my favorite things . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (D7oie)

98 Is Red 3 used in Red Hots candies? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (4780s)

99 I dunno, maybe there's a correlation between moving from tasty lard and beef tallow for frying to seed oils and health issues.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (tT6L1)

100 "When my uncle was president, 2% of American kids had chronic disease. Today, 66% have chronic disease," says RFK Jr. at his confirmation hearing.

Occasionally I'll go look at old photos from tourist destinations or hell just the beach.

And the thing that stands out is there are almost no fat people.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (t0Rmr)

101 Hep C vaccine just after they are born... Hep C... for newborns
Posted by: Inogame

Well, you know how it is, mothers of certain socio-economic categories are - due to their "lifestyle" behavior - at disproportionate risk of having Hep C and passing it to their children, but we can't discriminate between mothers who engage in unhealthy "lifestyle" behaviors and those who don't, so all children must be vaccinated for this disease.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (hB7mE)

102 Obviously he was "disrupted" by shrieking leftists, who of course wear the obligatory covid mask in 2025. And of course he was "disrupted" again.
___________________________

Obviously he was "disrupted" by a shrieking 2 ft. tall hairy fellow shouting "GAINZZZZZ" at the top of his tiny little lungs.

Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (dIske)

103 > Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?

I think so. I'll also note, chemically pure water isn't good for you. It actually dehydrates you. You need trace salt in your water.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (Odg76)

104 I really think there's two confounding issues at play. Kids are by and large less healthy, thanks to horrendous diet and lifestyles, but there's also a massive industry that relies on your kid being diagnosed with something so that you desperately shell out cash to "fix" it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (+iIV1)

105 Being against some food is not the same as banning those foods. Which he made clear. He wants Food and Drug to be as transparent and honest as possible. Herculean task if you ask me. But it has to start somewhere.
Posted by: runner
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I'll still eat an entire bag of sour cream and onion chips, even if they put the skull and crossbones on them. Which they probably deserve.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (Dm8we)

106
for me, it's the magic tasty Nacho Cheese dust put on Doritos.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (tT6L1)

Don't touch my.Pringles or Hot Dogs.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (t/pkU)

107 As soon as Sheryl heard "2nd round" she rolls her eyes and I think swears under breath.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

108 Dems want to delay and add a second round. Chairman said fuck you.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (ufFY8)

109 I don't remember "Admiral" Rachel Levine's hearing. Were the Republicans tough on "her" or nah?
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The DEI bint nominated (and approved) for the Supreme Court admitted under oath that she didn't know what a woman is. The hearing should have been recessed at that point and her nomination withdrawn.

But HEY! Its an UBER-SERIOUS matter when a Republican President presents his nominees.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (TN0g+)

110 Democrats are showing why they lost and will continue to lose. This isn’t “resistance”, it’s a suicide cult in its death throes. They are antithetical to the collective will of the American people.

Keep going, you guys.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Yeah, watching this hearing.
They really, really don't know why they lost.
And really, really, really don't care to find out why.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (jKKXJ)

111 A friend of mine told me over the weekend that they lost their two year old daughter within two days of getting her required batch of vaccines. That was twenty years ago. You never get over something like that.

Both of my DIL's younger brothers have severe autism.

Something is causing this. I think Bobby is the right person for head of HHS.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (4tmpE)

112 Watching the Kennedy hearing, I feel like I'm in all alternative universe. The Republicans seem to be making up what has been done by Democrats. Several of them are downright lying. Going to need a glass of wine today.

They care nothing for the welfare of the American people. As long as they get their huge bribes they are ok with whatever hell rains on Americans.

Why are they allowing the audience to cheer? Also why has no Dem brought up Caroline's video?

he understands NOTHING about Medicaid versus Medicare. He spews a couple talking points with a tiny bit of truth embedded...trying to BS his way through specific questions by R Senator Cassidy (who is a physician) and unfortunately, the latter is not calling him on it. Yhe longer it goes on, RFK JR looks like a total damned fool and the poseur he is.

Wydon and Bennett were excellent at calling out RFK JR's BS and holding his feet to the fire.

He is getting eaten alive. He’s an idiot. God help us. I hope even Republicans take Caroline Kennedy's words to heart.

Just a rich, stupid, entitled, lazy, drug-addled dumbass with a famous last name.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (JCZqz)

113 Wyden sounds like a complete twink.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)

114 “If you liket a McDonald’s cheeseburger, a Diet Coke - which my boss (Donald Trump) loves - you should be able to get them... But you should know what impact are on your health.”

Not only is this reasonable, this was considered to be the moderate leftwing position on this stuff until the moment RFK endorsed Trump...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (t0Rmr)

115 *Cheryl

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (g47mK)

116 Kennedy hates babies and mothers !

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (g47mK)

117 Wyden's lisp is more annoying to me than RFK's gravel.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (gWBY1)

118 When you first taste Red 4, you'll wish for the return of Red 3.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (fTu9b)

119 Occasionally I'll go look at old photos from tourist destinations or hell just the beach.

And the thing that stands out is there are almost no fat people.
Posted by: 18-1

One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (hB7mE)

120 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm RFKjr.

You should read the comments. He got his ass scorched.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (PMtkd)

121 How many babies that are covered by Medicaid are babies of illegals ??

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:31 PM (g47mK)

122 Mrs.DIG is bitching that it is a shame a million babies are born to people that can't afford having them.

She is correct. It is a shame.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:31 PM (ufFY8)

123 The best thing the government could have done when COVID came out was:

1) Tell people to get more exercise
2) Tell people to get more sun exposure and/or take a Vit D supplement

You'll note saying those things actually got people cancelled at the time

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:31 PM (t0Rmr)

124 One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (hB7mE)

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No. I've seen numerous private videos of groups on the beach in the 70's and they are all slender.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:31 PM (PMtkd)

125 2 Obviously he was "disrupted" by shrieking leftists, who of course wear the obligatory covid mask in 2025. And of course he was "disrupted" again.
___________________________

Obviously he was "disrupted" by a shrieking 2 ft. tall hairy fellow shouting "GAINZZZZZ" at the top of his tiny little lungs.
Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:28 PM (dIske)
***

Shout out "Shelves!!!" and watch him scamper under a table.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (W/lyH)

126 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm RFKjr.

You should read the comments. He got his ass scorched.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (PMtkd)

I will consider taking Mike Pence's opinion seriously when he learns to pump gas.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (MGB5H)

127 Why are they allowing the audience to cheer? Also why has no Dem brought up Caroline's video?

==

Love this one.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (g47mK)

128 Steak and Shake is now preparing golden brown, lightly salted fries in beef tallow. Enjoy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (gm9Sb)

129 Warren perhaps would be well suited as a Kindergarten teacher, (although even that would be debatable) but clearly has no business anywhere near government. She does have that school marm thing going on. You’ve Come a Long Way Baby!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (ZSozY)

130 One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

Early Photoshop. They learned how from Stalin.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (xCA6C)

131 46 We’ll, his cousin says he’s a philanderer, so I guess will just have to stay sick!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:16 PM (Hkcdp)

well, who doesn't like to visit Philidelphia?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:19 PM (D7oie)

I used to collect stamps when I was a kid..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (l3YAf)

A Philandering Philatelist Phrom Philadelphia!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (wtvvX)

132 Just a rich, stupid, entitled, lazy, drug-addled dumbass with a famous last name.

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But enough about Hunter.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

133 Red #3? Who cares about that! I want to know why when I eat Lucky Charms it turns mt shit bright green. Them green marshmallows never used to do that when I was a kid. I demand an investigation into this!

Posted by: JROD at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (IlL6s)

134 Apparently there is math at this hearing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (ufFY8)

135 Pfizer's shot is NOT a vaccine.

It is an experimental gene therapy shot originally intended for cancer.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:15 PM (cpQD

If you said the shot is meant to cause cancer I'll buy it.

Posted by: Dandalo at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (3QsZU)

136 DU bringing the delusional. As usual.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (cpQDJ)

137 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm
———

Who?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (ZSozY)

138 Steak and Shake is now preparing golden brown, lightly salted fries in beef tallow. Enjoy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (gm9Sb)

Yes they are. 😁

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (4tmpE)

139 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm RFKjr.

You should read the comments. He got his ass scorched.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:30 PM (PMtkd)

I will consider taking Mike Pence's opinion seriously when he learns to pump gas.

Why is he continuing to hang around DC? Who exactly breathlessly awaits his opinion?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (xCA6C)

140 In light of the reprehensible actions of RFK, Jr. in supporting Donald Trump, today I signed a pardon for Yu N. Mi who I am informed killed the Kennedys.

For a long time people wanted to know who killed the Kennedys, when after all it was Yu N. Mi.

History now demands this pardon and so long as I have my pen history will not be denied!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (5WaoI)

141 Re: DUers I seem to remember the left being radically in favor of health food.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (kTd/k)

142 I wonder if they'll touch on an issue that relatively recently came to light. New Jersey takes blood tests of all newborns. They've been doing so for decades. That in itself is not unusual (and even expected). They test for medical issues, congenital problems etc.

However, then NJ stores the blood and holds onto it (over 30 years in some cases). They share this with law enforcement without a warrant. So, technically if you were born in NJ in the last 30 or so years, NJ has you in their DNA database, and has no problem handing it over to law enforcement upon request. Other blue states do this as well.

Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (dIske)

143 And the thing that stands out is there are almost no fat people.

*************

The funniest (or most disturbing depending on how you look at it) is the photo comparison of 80s kids, with healthy skin tones and unkempt hairs, to the Gen Z vampiric looking soy shits of today

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (HYKHz)

144 One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

These are generally pictures that normal people took, not official destination photography. See for example https://tinyurl.com/373tbwxe

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (t0Rmr)

145 This issue of "BigPharma and BigCarbohydrate (junk food) are willing to kill us for their profit" could become another "85% oppose" issue.

Like open borders and late term abortion are already 85% oppose, but they kept doing it. Global Warming is another BigIssue that needs to be recognized as Bunk by a large majority. Not sure what the numbers are on Grooming Children to be trans or queer, but I'd guess that is also a majority oppose.

Other issues ... endless war -- and infinite spending on welfare for the world.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

146 Is that Megyn Kelly behind RFK Jr., or Cheryl Hines, or are both there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (J2vNu)

147 Too many corporations, politicians, and bureaucrats are making too much money keeping Americans sick and drugged up for life. Hopefully RFK Jr. has good security.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (qUkBO)

148 Pardon me if you've seen this but it's pertinent to this thread.

In part... "I will make it my personal mission that you lose your seats in the Senate if you vote against the future health of America's children."

"To senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, James Lankford, Cory Booker, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, and Catherine Cortez Masto..."

"This is a bipartisan message and it comes directly from me. While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won't if you vote against him."

"I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election, and I will enlist hundreds of thousands to join me."

@NicoleShanahan
Dear U.S. Senators,
Bobby may play nice; I won’t.

@SenMcConnell (R) | Call: 202-224-2541
@LindseyGrahamSC (R) | Call: 202-224-5972
@LisaMurkowski (R) | Call: 202-224-6665
@SenatorCollins (R) | Call: 202-224-2523
@SenBillCassidy (R) | Call: 202-224-5824
@SenThomTillis (R) | Call: 202-224-6342
@SenatorLankford (R) | Call: 202-224-5754
@CoryBooker (D) | Call: 202-224-3224
@JohnFetterman (D) | Call: 202-224-4254
@BernieSanders (D) | Call: 202-224-5141
@SenCortezMas

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (Wnaut)

149 141 Re: DUers I seem to remember the left being radically in favor of health food.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM (kTd/k)

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Health food is what the HHS says is healthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

150 Mrs. anchorbabe just turned off the hearing, since bimbo soaps are now on the air...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (ufFY8)

151 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm RFKjr.

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Too Republican.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:34 PM (L/fGl)

152 One can only draw the conclusion that the government wanted a less healthy and dumber population....

Posted by: steevy at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (KQk9m)

153 Nicole Saphier, MD
@NBSaphierMD

JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, posted a video mocking RFK Jr’s spasmodic dysphonia, a disabling neurological disorder.

Family members attacking their own family says more about them than RFK Jr.

https://tinyurl.com/ycytzcyk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (NpAcC)

154 He wants Food and Drug to be as transparent and honest as possible. Herculean task if you ask me. But it has to start somewhere.
Posted by: runner

I certainly wouldn't mind a requirement that everything they put in the food or detergent be listed on the label, even if it is non-nutritive or chemically inert.

I've started hearing rumors that the FDA decided to allow a certain percentage of ground-up plastic filler in flour of all things, and if it's true now I'm wondering when they started allowing Chinese food manufacturing practices.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (hB7mE)

155
Pfizer needs a steady cash flow. It's difficult to get that when you're curing your patients.

So I think they own health policy so much that emphasizing maintenance (or outright inventing the need for it) is the focus of overall health policy in the US.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2025 12:24 PM (PzXaK)

This. Chronic illness ensures boats and beach homes!

Posted by: Moki at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (wLjpr)

156 146 Is that Megyn Kelly behind RFK Jr., or Cheryl Hines, or are both there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at Janu
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Both

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (G0vdT)

157 Yes Megyn Kelly is there behind RFK. She said on her show yesterday she was going there to support him.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (MZsCp)

158 Democrats are loathsome creatures. I cannot believe Bernie is pushing socialist bullshit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (aOqEy)

159 Sen Lujan seems a bit dippy.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (Jfw7U)

160 >>
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 29, 2025 12:29 PM (JCZqz)

So we can shoot all the Bushes, Obamas, Kennedys, Newsomes, Pelosis, McCains, et al into the sun with a cannon? Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (gWBY1)

161 For years a leftwing political position is that the US should follow the same food rules as Europe.

RFK wants to do at least some of that and...that's what they are attacking him for.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (t0Rmr)

162 Health food is what the HHS says is healthy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

First, start with a solid foundation of lots of carbohydrates to spike your insulin levels and make you hungry again as soon as possible...

Posted by: Official Health Guidance from the State at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (JCZqz)

163 Sen Lujan seems a bit dippy.
Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (Jfw7U)

He was the superior candidate to that loathsome Keri Lake.
-McCain Machine

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (MGB5H)

164 Sen. Lujan just made an ass of himself demanding that RFK not eliminate medicaire. RFK rightfully responded that that's the purview of Congress, and apparently the audience laughed at the question. Lujan then lashes out at the audience in a huff. Nice.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (ERYKL)

165 Meanwhile, Savannah's fat, closeted gay mayor says the city will NOT cooperate with ICE.

I wish they'd arrest him and send him back to NYC where he came from

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (4tmpE)

166 One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

Shorpy.com

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:36 PM (D7oie)

167 Pence doesnt want RFK confirmed because HES NOT PRO LIFE REEEEEE!!!!!11111111111

and also a danger to health because red-45, purple-23 and soylent green is very good for us

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (HYKHz)

168 Has Nadler been up yet ?

He is a picture of health

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (NtVYv)

169 Here's the link: https://tinyurl.com/3ahrfhzv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (Wnaut)

170 Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (kTd/k)

171 I've started hearing rumors that the FDA decided to allow a certain percentage of ground-up plastic filler in flour of all things, and if it's true now I'm wondering when they started allowing Chinese food manufacturing practices.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:35 PM (hB7mE)

Not necessarily. There's a big push amongst the "we can't have anything" Luddite-Marxists that everything has microplastics/nanoplastics in it, and this move could be related to neutering their dumbassery.

But also, China is indeed asshoe. So who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (+iIV1)

172 However, then NJ stores the blood and holds onto it (over 30 years in some cases). They share this with law enforcement without a warrant. So, technically if you were born in NJ in the last 30 or so years, NJ has you in their DNA database, and has no problem handing it over to law enforcement upon request. Other blue states do this as well.
Posted by: Orson

Sounds like a lawsuit could bankrupt the state.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (zmGDy)

173 A woman was in getting fitted for her wedding dress and insisted on white. The dress maker protested, saying, there was no way she was still a virgin as this was her fourth marriage.

The soon to be bride explained that even though she had been married three times, she was still a virgin. She went on to say her first husband was a car salesman and when it came to be that time, all he could talk about was how great it was going to be. The second husband was a gynecologist and all he wanted to do was look. Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (tT6L1)

174 Stephen’s Miller says the overwhelming majority of federal workers supported for Kamala.

Tapper: you’re “demonizing” them.

Miller bursts out laughing.

Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)

175 >>>What I mean is, Trump was always trying to do unconventional things, and Pence was at least publicly on board with all of it.

word is that he and his staff were always undermining Trump behind the scenes and leaking negatively to the press.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

176 168 Has Nadler been up yet ?

He is a picture of health
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (NtVYv)

======

What would a member of the House be doing at a Senate committee hearing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

177 "I'm going to bring a native in....He..."

He's gonna get grilled on that by the left. Luckily the indigenous tribes voted majority Trump so they probably don't care.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (gWBY1)

178 Fat, closeted and gay is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (DobEs)

179 Lujan, who's idiot is this?

Will Maisey get a chance to shine?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (cpQDJ)

180 Well, recess in RFK's hearing. Depends change and Scotch.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (gm9Sb)

181 Here's the video if you want to save it:

https://tinyurl.com/nd49hbbb

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Wnaut)

182 word is that he and his staff were always undermining Trump behind the scenes and leaking negatively to the press.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

This is why Pat Summerall's daughter is keeping a TIGHT circle around him this time around.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (MGB5H)

183 Every time there are hearings that involve our esteemed political betters I'm always remined that, by and large, they are unqualified to run the merry-go-round at the county carnival and cannot complete a cogent sentence.... shrieking or not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

184 >>>Going to need a glass of wine today.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

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That's a given, Cousin Liebfraumilch.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (HdrJu)

185 Lujan is a new New Mexico sen, not AZ. He makes Gallego (who beat Lake) sound practically smart.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Jfw7U)

186 Meanwhile, Savannah's fat, closeted gay mayor says the city will NOT cooperate with ICE.

this is all bluster and virtue-signaling. ICE doesn't need cooperation from anybody to do their job
Resistance is another matter though. Notice how the big sissies don't say they're going to resist??

Posted by: kallisto at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (dCxaZ)

187 The trouble is, of course, that Establishment-approved people are cowards and dullards without chests or passion.

Disagree about the 2nd part...

Posted by: AOC at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (w9Wax)

188 "Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?"

She is A Piece Of Work.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (fTu9b)

189 Family members attacking their own family says more about them than RFK Jr.

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That the Kennedys are scum? I already knew that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)

190 174 Stephen’s Miller says the overwhelming majority of federal workers supported for Kamala.

Tapper: you’re “demonizing” them.

Miller bursts out laughing.
Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)

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Yeah, saying "98% of federal workers who made donations donated to Kamala" is demonization?

How? I need specifics. Grammatically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

191 “Why are they allowing the audience to cheer?”

Waaaaaahhh, only protesters can make noise!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Hkcdp)

192 Are there any guard rails to ensure RFKjr can't go completely nuts at HHS? That would probably help.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (+oR7L)

193 Will Maisey get a chance to shine?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (cpQDJ)

She is going to ask, "have you ever made unwanted sexual advances against a woman" and he will of course respond "No more than my Uncle Ted who was pretty famous for that sort of thing"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (D7oie)

194 Trump has ordered the students who have been protesting on campus for THE RIVER TO THE SEAAAAAS deported

lolz

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (HYKHz)

195 These D Senators are against most of where the country is today. I am glad the hearings are exposing them. Many do not even know who their Senator is.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (g47mK)

196 Lujan is a new New Mexico sen, not AZ. He makes Gallego (who beat Lake) sound practically smart.
Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (Jfw7U)

ahhh ya, Gallego, my bad.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (MGB5H)

197 I would not vaccinate my children if I had to do it over again. NO effing way. They'd be fine. Not one vaccine. Not one.

Hey, hypocrite Sanders, Unvaxxed and unafraid is not the same as NO VACCINES.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (PMtkd)

198 194 Trump has ordered the students who have been protesting on campus for THE RIVER TO THE SEAAAAAS deported

lolz
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (HYKHz)

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Well, foreign born students on student visas who express vocal support for a terrorist organization.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

199 3 Sen Lujan seems a bit dippy.
Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025

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"Lujan" is a long-time famous name in New Mexico. Is that where he/she is from?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (J2vNu)

200 BTW, the absolutely non-political Federal civil servants on Reddit are melting down:

We watched this goon try to overthrow the government on live tv four years ago. Now, we are witnessing him try to overthrow it from within. We are the last line of defense against fascism. If we leave, we will be replaced by loyalists. Read P2025 and, for the love of god, please believe what is written because that is what is happening. All the EOs are directly from that document.

I didn’t dedicate years of my life serving this great country to be bullied into quitting my career by a bunch of fascists. We are being led by the same types of people our grandparents fought against in WW2. They don’t care about us, regardless of the fact that one-third of us are veterans and many are military family members. They don’t care about your kids, your homes, your bills, your livelihood. They don’t care that you’re an American citizen. They don’t care that the annual spending on us is only 4% and won’t make a difference if we’re gone. They don’t care that we’re middle and lower class employees. They want to harm you.

It goes on...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (uxCna)

201 Nicole Saphier, MD
@NBSaphierMD

JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, posted a video mocking RFK Jr’s spasmodic dysphonia, a disabling neurological disorder.

Family members attacking their own family says more about them than RFK Jr.

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No one will be allowed to leave the Death Cult Plantation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (PTR5d)

202 "Health food is what the HHS says is healthy."

If it says 'healthy' on the label, quitcher beefin.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (fTu9b)

203 > word is that he and his staff were always undermining Trump behind the scenes and leaking negatively to the press.
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IIRC Pence wasn't Trump's pick for VP. Pence was chosen for Trump. I think he even alluded to this in one of the podcasts before the election.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (Q4IgG)

204 192 Are there any guard rails to ensure RFKjr can't go completely nuts at HHS? That would probably help.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (+oR7L)

The other people there. It's not like every government agency has a big red self destruct button just waiting to be pushed. Even if I wish they did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (wyMQY)

205 it turns mt shit bright green. Them green marshmallows never used to do that when I was a kid. I demand an investigation into this!
Posted by: JROD

Modern Lucky Charms "marshmallows" are made of a patented blend of wood, coal, rubber, and asbestos. Green shit is the least of your worries.

Posted by: Evil Leprechaun at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

206 Ha! Ray Wise being a villain on Young and the Restless.

I just saw him last night, watching a couple Twin Peaks episodes.

Looks the same after 35 years.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (ufFY8)

207 Sounds like a lawsuit could bankrupt the state.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:37 PM (zmGDy)

Which is why the courts will never allow it. The Courts serve the state

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (D7oie)

208 80s kids, with healthy skin tones and unkempt hairs, to the Gen Z vampiric looking soy shits of today
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

They've been told for 40 years that the sun will kill them and it's too dangerous to play outside, so, I'm not sure what else anyone expected.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (hB7mE)

209 A little walk dow memory lane.. I remember JFK's health initiative. No foods were banned that I remember but kids in school had to do exercises and try to pass fitness tests. And I can pretty much guarantee kids are not as fit now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (A3KQx)

210 Will Maisey get a chance to shine?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (cpQDJ)

She is going to ask, "have you ever made unwanted sexual advances against a woman" and he will of course respond "No more than my Uncle Ted who was pretty famous for that sort of thing"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:40 PM (D7oie)

Shes gonna ask if he is attracted to portly Hawaiian retards who use the potty by themselves.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (MGB5H)

211 Im trolling Pence on X asking when he'll finally come out of the closet and admit his wife is trans

Time to join the Obama club, Mikey

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (HYKHz)

212 What would a member of the House be doing at a Senate committee hearing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks Dad

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (NtVYv)

213 192 Are there any guard rails to ensure RFKjr can't go completely nuts at HHS? That would probably help.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (+oR7L)

His driver will be taking him across the river bridge both to and from his office. So, there is that.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (z+ik4)

214 These D Senators are against most of where the country is today. I am glad the hearings are exposing them. Many do not even know who their Senator is.
Posted by: runner

Ted Cruz and RINO Cornyn.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (zmGDy)

215 If a survey simply asks, are you satisfied with Medicaid or should we abolish it, of course, they will answer that we are satisfied with it.

Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (RHGPo)

216 Did Pence keep the guy on staff whose wife worked for Strzok?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (Hkcdp)

217 A woman was in getting fitted for her wedding dress and insisted on white. The dress maker protested, saying, there was no way she was still a virgin as this was her fourth marriage.

The soon to be bride explained that even though she had been married three times, she was still a virgin. She went on to say her first husband was a car salesman and when it came to be that time, all he could talk about was how great it was going to be. The second husband was a gynecologist and all he wanted to do was look. Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025

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I heard that in the voice of my ex-mother-in-law, the mom of the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2. It would have been just her kind of joke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

218 It goes on...

Somebody noted that almost all the posting on Reddit fednews, where the Feds are melting down, occurs during working hours.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (uxCna)

219 Im trolling Pence on X asking when he'll finally come out of the closet and admit his wife is trans

Time to join the Obama club, Mikey
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving

*scurries over to X*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (4tmpE)

220 Sen Lujan seems a bit dippy.
Posted by: lizabth

Sour cream?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (L/fGl)

221 Bring back the original Coke!

Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (QB+5g)

222 Even if everything they are smearing JFKJ with is true, I don't care. Not at all. Maybe the guy is a philandering, cheating scumbag. He probably is. Don't care.

Democraps have spend decades defending much worse sexual abusers and rapists and appalling criminal scumbuckets.

So I'm all out of fucks. I don't care how many women anyone cheats on their wife with, or vice versa. That's between him and his wife. I don't care. I care solely about one question: is the guy gonna vote and take action the way I want him to?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

223 Ben Ray Lujan is the new senator from NMex, yep.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (Jfw7U)

224 I have two toddlers and fortunately our pediatrician has been good about us declining some of the vaccines on the cdc list. I swear it's double what I got as a kid at least. The hospitals at delivery though, you get the full court press there that every vaccine is mandatory, at least in out experience.

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (f3RJ8)

225 Which is why the courts will never allow it. The Courts serve the state
Posted by: Kindltot

Time to take it federal then.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (zmGDy)

226 None of the Senators who take money from Big Pharma should get a vote.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (yT7Wa)

227 They are Irish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (E0r6f)

228 Every single time I watch one of these hearings I think the same thing. Why are the Senators sitting on a raised dais. They are representatives of the people, as such should not be elevated above anyone testifying in that room who is, also, a citizen of the US. It may seem petty, but it is also indicative of the entitlement and self-importance festering in Congress.

Posted by: Orson at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (dIske)

229 Yay..we get most screeching Wyden in a bit!

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (Jfw7U)

230 Ted Cruz and RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (zmGDy)

are they voting against Trump nominees ??

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (g47mK)

231 that the sun will kill them and it's too dangerous to play outside, so, I'm not sure what else anyone expected

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Goes in line with telling us to "shelter in place" and indoors to protect us from the wong fong your dingaling dong dong virus that gets immediately killed off when exposed to sunlight

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (HYKHz)

232 218 It goes on...

Somebody noted that almost all the posting on Reddit fednews, where the Feds are melting down, occurs during working hours.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 29, 2025 12:43 PM (uxCna)

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Declaring open resistance on government computers seems like a bad idea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

233 Old and busted: Who cares about Clintons sex life, it was two consenting adults!

New hotness: RFK cheated on his ex wife over a decade ago, so he’s unfit for government work!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (Hkcdp)

234 More like Do You Feel Lucky Charms.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (fV+MH)

235 What, you are saying Race Judas Bannon might have loyalty issues?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)

236 > ICE doesn't need cooperation from anybody to do their job

As Mr. Homan pointed out, when a municipality cooperates with ICE, that means ICE can pick up criminals at the courthouses and jails. When they choose not to cooperate with ICE, ICE has to go into the community to find them. Then, if Tia or Abuela are found in the house with the gangbanger fuck they're looking for, Tia or Abuela get scooped up too.

Cooperating with ICE is the more "humane" mode of operation by their stated standards. But they're too captured to see it.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (Odg76)

237 One might consider the idea that, in order to make the tourist destination look more attractive, they just didn't photograph any of the fat people who might have been there.

These are generally pictures that normal people took, not official destination photography. See for example https://tinyurl.com/373tbwxe
Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:33 PM

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Also, fatties tended to eschew the beach, as I recall. At least what young fatties there were. Teasing was herd hygeine back in the day. Tough love.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (HdrJu)

238 >>> JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, posted a video mocking RFK Jr’s spasmodic dysphonia, a disabling neurological disorder.

Now do Rosemary!

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (gWBY1)

239 Ted Cruz and RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (zmGDy)

are they voting against Trump nominees ??
Posted by: runner

Don't know. But I do know who mine are. And I wouldn't put it past Cornyn.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (zmGDy)

240 It is an experimental gene therapy shot originally intended for cancer.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's a bingo~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop Batman at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (mlg/3)

241 Jazzy DJ Dank Moss
______

If you suffer from moderate to severe dank moss, ask your doctor if pubiclearex is right for you!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (M0vIC)

242 Will McConnell continue his fuckery and vote NO on RFK as he did with Hegseth. Or maybe he only cares about military grift so he’ll vote YES on this one… I’d guess he’ll be a NO on Tulsi as well. Is it possible to impeach a Senator? Because I’d bet dollars to donuts his voters in Kentucky don’t want him anymore

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (6RwsA)

243 I never heard of peanut allergies until the last 15 years.
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Yep. Those kids likely died before kindergarten.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (Wg6v7)

244 Even if everything they are smearing JFKJ with is true, I don't care.

Caroline Kennedy has known for years that her cousin was a "predator", but rather than warning people about him for all these years, she waited until he was up for a Cabinet post.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (uxCna)

245 New hotness: RFK cheated on his ex wife over a decade ago, so he’s unfit for government work!

Don't forget Biden's affair with Jill Biden is what drove his first wife to suicide...oh and that he molested his daughter and his son molested his niece.

But...that's just a family matter amiright?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (t0Rmr)

246 He's a warlock! Burn him!

Posted by: Government Science Believers at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (aBgBM)

247 Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

The dolt from Dolton.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (OUMaO)

248 It is an experimental gene therapy shot originally intended for cancer.
Posted by: Anna Puma

**********

This is a popular theme that I hear frequently.

I would be interested to hear you explain how an mRBA vaccine is intended to work, how it can be categorized as "gene therapy" and what you consider a vaccine to be.

Posted by: muldoon at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (991eG)

249 Someone should tell Race Bannon Pence that purity votes are SO yesterday.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (Jfw7U)

250 Trump should nominate Madison Cornbread to be US ambassador to Lichtenstein.

It would be hilarious the spectacle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (cpQDJ)

251 No one will be allowed to leave the Death Cult Plantation.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 29, 2025 12:41 PM (PTR5d)

The Schlossberg boy also posted himself doing a "nazi salute" and a recipe using human blood. He's a pathological weirdo like his mom.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (2NXcZ)

252 Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?
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Just another example of a fundamentally non-serious choice.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (TN0g+)

253 Apparently Reddit is blocked on govt servers, but if they are working from home they can use other means to access it.

Yeah, we know why you can’t come in to work. You no longer work.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (Hkcdp)

254 Can you demonize a demon?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (63Dwl)

255 When you live in the real world, one where decisions are life and death consequential, you quickly learn the person with “crazy” or unconventional ideas is probably the smartest guy on the room.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (ofdHm)

256 As a Virginian I feel compelled to apologize for Mark Warner. What a jerk.
Posted by: bluebell at
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I think Whitehouse is scheduled. I too feel for the people, and apologize.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (4780s)

257 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (xCA6C)

258 @247..ha..the dolt from Dolton. Only in Illinois! I wish there was a pic of her after she lost her wig in the scrum.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (Jfw7U)

259 47 snacks Cheryl Hines and Megyn Kelly sitting behind RFK
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything

Looking forward to the luncheon together Mike Pence will never enjoy.

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (j4U/Z)

260 242 Will McConnell continue his fuckery and vote NO on RFK as he did with Hegseth. Or maybe he only cares about military grift so he’ll vote YES on this one… I’d guess he’ll be a NO on Tulsi as well. Is it possible to impeach a Senator? Because I’d bet dollars to donuts his voters in Kentucky don’t want him anymore
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (6RwsA)

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He's probably not running for re-election, so this is his last hurrah. Expect more fuckery for the rest of this Congress.

And no, no impeachment for Senators.

Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

261 Ben Ray Lujan is the new senator from NMex, yep.
Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025

***
Socialite Mabel Dodge married a Tony Lujan way back in the '20s, around the time Georgia O'Keeffe first started coming out to Taos every summer. I think Lujan was part Navaho, but I'm not sure. Mabel's NYC friends were horrified; she didn't care.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (J2vNu)

262 243 There's a news story currently about a potato chip recall, with warnings of lethal consequences from eating them. It seems there's some milk in there that wasn't listed in the label ingredients.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (fTu9b)

263 did Warncock ask questions someone wrote for him yet ??

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (g47mK)

264 257 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (xCA6C)

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Licked a lot of stamps, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

265 But...that's just a family matter amiright?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (t0Rmr)

Or almost FLOTUS Doug Emhoff, nanny fucker, and girlfriend beater. Why do democrats always get a pass.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (2NXcZ)

266 Whitehouse spoke earlier. No questions asked of RFK. Just screeched about CMS killing Granny.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (MZsCp)

267 He's probably not running for re-election, so this is his last hurrah. Expect more fuckery for the rest of this Congress.

And no, no impeachment for Senators.

Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

It's almost like the framers knew what they were doing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

268 BTW, I would follow a guy like RFK jr to hell and back. He actually believes in what he espouses, and has spent enough time examining the issues to know precisely what he’s talking about.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (ofdHm)

269 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes

He. Licked. The. Stamps.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (zmGDy)

270 151 Mike Pence tweeted that we should NOT confirm RFKjr.
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What he needs is some good Hawaiian Punch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (Wnaut)

271 Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg make my skin crawl. They are truly appalling moist scumbags of the most fecal order.

And that video Jack posted about his mother? Creepy. I sense a Joe Biden-and-his-daughter thing.

I hope Satan has some very choice punishments in store for these two. If now, I have some suggestions . . . .

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

272 @261..that's interesting!

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (Jfw7U)

273 Milk. Noooo. The inhamanity.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (E0r6f)

274 The hospitals at delivery though, you get the full court press there that every vaccine is mandatory, at least in out experience.
Posted by: brak

I know the justification is "We have to vaccinate the kids at birth because their parents will never bring them in for another medical appointment" but I have to wonder if the vaccines are even effective that early.

At that point isn't the kid still depending on its mother's antibodies? Is the kids own immune system even capable of reacting to or learning from the vaccines?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (hB7mE)

275 Caroline Kennedy has known for years that her cousin was a "predator", but rather than warning people about him for all these years, she waited until he was up for a Cabinet post.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Well, it wasn’t politically convenient before.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

276 Ted Cruz and RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (zmGDy)

are they voting against Trump nominees ??
Posted by: runner

Don't know. But I do know who mine are. And I wouldn't put it past Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:45 PM (zmGDy)
*****
They are voting for Trump's nominees.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

277 With a name like Schlossberg and being a US Democrat.

Being a Nazi is a surprise? How?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (cpQDJ)

278 267
It's almost like the framers knew what they were doing.
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 29, 2025 12:48 PM (MGB5H)

======

The House represented the people.
The Senate represented the states.

It was a pretty good system, but corruption was made a deal of so corruption had to be snuffed out. And now the Senate is free from corruption.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

279 > Can you demonize a demon?

Interesting question. We sometimes talk about humanizing people who are generally ignored or disliked. I suppose demons could undertake a similar effort for demons who are too liked or not ignored enough.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (Odg76)

280 >>Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

America's Mayor!

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (xk5j8)

281 Ted Cruz and RINO Cornyn.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:42 PM (zmGDy)

Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin
Ugh.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (ufFY8)

282 They don’t care about your kids, your homes, your bills, your livelihood. They don’t care that you’re an American citizen. They don’t care that the annual spending on us is only 4% and won’t make a difference if we’re gone. They don’t care that we’re middle and lower class employees. They want to harm you.

****

All true. Fuck ‘em all.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (l3YAf)

283 Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman
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Something good about the good old days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (Wnaut)

284 Race Bannon was a well built martial arts expert, Mike Pence is more Pop'n Fresh the Pillsbury doughboy.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (2NXcZ)

285 Rfks brother, zJoe tried to annul his first marriage to marry the secretary he was sleeping with, iirc. This was requested despite having twin boys.

Rfks other brother was an alcoholic who slept with the baby sitter from her from when she was 24 to age 19.

Honestly, who cares about what he did?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (Hkcdp)

286 And no, no impeachment for Senators.

Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

Yet one more illustration what a disaster was the 17th amendment…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (6RwsA)

287 I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes

He. Licked. The. Stamps.

Joke's on you. Philatelists don't lick the stamps.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (xCA6C)

288 283 Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman
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Something good about the good old days.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (Wnaut)

=====

"If you want appointment of Senators by state legislatures, then you want a return to slavery!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

289 They don’t care about your kids, your homes, your bills, your livelihood. They don’t care that you’re an American citizen. They don’t care that the annual spending on us is only 4% and won’t make a difference if we’re gone. They don’t care that we’re middle and lower class employees. They want to harm you.

****

All true. Fuck ‘em all.

----
Yep. I don't really care, Margaret.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (MZsCp)

290 Warncock. Pretending to be a Senator. Nice suit...

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)

291 >>Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

America's Mayor!
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (xk5j

Supermayor, yo!

Dolton Mayor AND Thornton Township Supervisor.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (ufFY8)

292 🚨GAME CHANGER: APPLE QUIETLY ADDS STARLINK TO IPHONES IN iOS 18.3

Apple just opened iPhone doors to Starlink's satellite network, giving users an alternative to their Globalstar service for off-grid communication.

The key difference?

No more pointing your phone at the sky - Starlink works right from your pocket.

Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (RHGPo)

293 Being a Nazi is a surprise? How?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (cpQDJ)

Schlossberg is Jewish.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (2NXcZ)

294 273 CBS: "Frito-Lay recalls some Lay's Classic Potato Chips over "life-threatening" allergy risk"

"the product might contain undeclared milk."

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (fTu9b)

295 286 Yet one more illustration what a disaster was the 17th amendment…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (6RwsA)

=====

Repealing it now would make things worse.

State governments are addicted to federal funds. They'd send senators with explicit instructions to just increase it no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

296 286 And no, no impeachment for Senators.

Pre-popular elections, state legislatures would recall senators with some frequency.

Pre-Civil War, average tenure of a senator was 4 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

Yet one more illustration what a disaster was the 17th amendment…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (6RwsA)

It's a six-year term...so I guess they got booted or died in office?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

297 Dems invoking "settled science" as a political tactic after even the CIA discredits the previous "settled science" that bats transmitted COVID in a wet market.

Can't wait for Dems to step on another garden rake. That's my take on "political" science. Unsettling.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (rj6Yv)

298 280 >>Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

America's Mayor!
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (xk5j

SUPER-Mayor, no less.

Because she's also the county supervisor.

Posted by: XTC at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (sm6Pk)

299 Afternoon Ace. Just took a nice long walk about 45° out after 5° over the weekend.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (6v8aM)

300 293 Being a Nazi is a surprise? How?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:49 PM (cpQDJ)

Schlossberg is Jewish.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (2NXcZ)

So is/was Soros...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

301 Supposedly so is Soros.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (cpQDJ)

302 Let's be honest: If Harris had won the Presidency, RFK would be a brilliant visionary that was going to usher in a new healthy era for this nation.

But since he's working for orangemanbad, he's a demon given human form that wants to set grandma on fire.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (99eI0)

303 296 It's a six-year term...so I guess they got booted or died in office?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (ynpvh)

========

A LOT of senators got recalled.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

304 I was wrong...Lujan's been in there since 2020. I thought he was brand new, and cut him some slack for his dippy-ness. Guess it's endemic in the lad.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (Jfw7U)

305 Honestly, who cares about what he did?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (Hkcdp)

Not me. Dems had no concern about Rachel Levine and his desire to mutilate kids. They have no right to question anyone's personal life.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (2NXcZ)

306 257 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes

STAMPS USED TO BE LICKED, AND GIRLS LIKE TO HAVE THEIR CLITORIS LICKED FOR SEXUAL STIMULATION, WHICH SHE CAN STILL CLAIM TO BE A VIRGIN AFTER BECAUSE SHE WASN'T PENETRATED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (JCZqz)

307 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM

Paging Ben Roethlisberger.....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (+QlJh)

308 >>SUPER-Mayor, no less.

>Because she's also the county supervisor.

That bitch crazy. That entire saga has been endless entertainment.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (xk5j8)

309 "We are being led by the same types of people our grandparents fought against in WW2."

Your grandparents would shove you down a set of wooden stairs if they knew how you turned out.

Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (QB+5g)

310 294 273 CBS: "Frito-Lay recalls some Lay's Classic Potato Chips over "life-threatening" allergy risk"

"the product might contain undeclared milk."

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (fTu9b)

Just declare it then...
Bought a pot pie made by Costco. The label said, made in a facility that processes milk, soy, nuts, fish, shellfish...
Well yeah, guys, it was made at YOUR Costco...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

311 Warncok is tryin to soundsmart...lol

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (g47mK)

312 >>Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

America's Mayor!
Posted by: garrett

-
Vote Tiffany! She'll Fight For You!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (L/fGl)

313 Apple just opened iPhone doors to Starlink's satellite network, giving users an alternative to their Globalstar service for off-grid communication.

We had Globalstar service?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (zmGDy)

314 All these Democrats, from city to Congress, screech and howl about keeping everybody safe. Oddly, that never happens nor do any of them ever see to give shit about expanding liberty and prosperity.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (Q8Bj8)

315 >>STAMPS USED TO BE LICKED, AND GIRLS LIKE TO HAVE THEIR CLITORIS LICKED FOR SEXUAL STIMULATION, WHICH SHE CAN STILL CLAIM TO BE A VIRGIN AFTER BECAUSE SHE WASN'T PENETRATED.

Ben.

Settling Comedic Science since 2010.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (xk5j8)

316 "If you want appointment of Senators by state legislatures, then you want a return to slavery!"
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Mmm, we are already their.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (Wg6v7)

317 309 "We are being led by the same types of people our grandparents fought against in WW2."

Your grandparents would shove you down a set of wooden stairs if they knew how you turned out.
Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (QB+5g)

=======

"I wish to make government smaller, more transparent, and more in line with the people's wishes."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

318 >>> "the product might contain undeclared milk."

I don't see how milk finally declaring a major donut can get on a path to graduation makes it more safe, but that's just me.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (gWBY1)

319 RFKJ slipped a bit. He should have channeled Obama, "If you like your McDonald's cheeseburger, you can keep your McDonald's cheeseburger."

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (1bNHn)

320 Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

America's Mayor!
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:51 PM (xk5j
*
SUPER-Mayor, no less.

Because she's also the county supervisor.
Posted by: XTC at January 29, 2025 1

***
I just did an image search so you don't have to. "Fani Willis, have you met Tiffany Henyard? I think you'd be good friends."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

321 I don't recall Biden's tranny HHS nominee having any trouble whatsoever getting confirmed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (WPL6O)

322 >>>No more pointing your phone at the sky - Starlink works right from your pocket.
Posted by: SMOD
---

Within a year or so we'll be able to tell AT&T etc, buh bye.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (Wnaut)

323 The wife divorced the philatelist because the US Postal Service converted to self-adhesive stamps.

Posted by: AOC at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (w9Wax)

324
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta laughs at countries that are upset over Trump’s statement that he will no longer provide unlimited funding to foreign governments.

“Why are you crying? It’s not your government. It’s not your country. He has no reason to give you anything. You don’t pay taxes in America.”

https://tinyurl.com/42cbcpbu

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (NpAcC)

325 Her third husband was a philatelist. "I really miss him.

I don't get it. He was a stamp collector.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:47 PM

Colonel Angus?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (ufFY8)

326 Who is Tiffany Henyard and why was she in a public brawl?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

The dolt from Dolton.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM

This whole saga has convinced me that Dolton is, indeed, well named.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (+QlJh)

327 The lobbyists who give money on behalf of the Big Food and Big Pharma to "our" senators are sure getting their monies worth. Seven martini lunch for everyone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (6v8aM)

328 Kennedy has the passion. Mike Pence and his fellow bloodless, cowardly parasites do not.
______
That was obvious before Trump picked him for Veep. Mollie H was one of the few who saw it, over his caving on RFRA.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (1bNHn)

329 Can you name two allies , "Senator" Warncock ?

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (g47mK)

330 You know who else was a populist?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (E0r6f)

331 323 The wife divorced the philatelist because the US Postal Service converted to self-adhesive stamps.

Posted by: AOC at January 29, 2025 12:56 PM (w9Wax)

Stamps will soon be $20, same as in town.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

332 Warncok is tryin to soundsmart...lol
Posted by: runner

Thankfully so because the senator I am stuck with, NM Sen. Lujan. would be the winner for dullest and dumbest.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (Q8Bj8)

333 "If you want appointment of Senators by state legislatures, then you want a return to slavery!"

Who's gonna pick our blueberries??? Reeeee!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (zmGDy)

334 I did not expect a weak joke to require explanation by the great BEN ROETHLISBERGER.

I'm not sure if I should laugh or be appalled.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (tT6L1)

335 Let's be honest: If Harris had won the Presidency, RFK would be a brilliant visionary that was going to usher in a new healthy era for this nation.

But since he's working for orangemanbad, he's a demon given human form that wants to set grandma on fire.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 29, 2025 12:54 PM (99eI0)

Never would've happened, with his attitude about Pharma. Ds and far too many Rs are whores for those people.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (w6EFb)

336 329 Can you name two allies , "Senator" Warncock ?

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (g47mK)

Satan and Beelzebub?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

337 “Many scientists believe that most of the moon’s geological movements happened two and a half, maybe three billion years ago,” said Jaclyn Clark, an assistant research scientist in UMD’s Department of Geology, in a statement. “But we’re seeing that these tectonic landforms have been recently active in the last billion years and may still be active today.”

.. recently active in the last billion years

Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (RHGPo)

338 "Reverend" Sen. Warnock. 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (4tmpE)

339 Who puts stamps on their clitoris?

Posted by: I still don't get it at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (M0vIC)

340 301 Supposedly so is Soros.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2025 12:53 PM (cpQDJ)

Nice deflect, but the assumption that the name made him some obvious stormtrooper was dumb. Yes, having any nazi interests is surprising for the son of an orthodox family.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (2NXcZ)

341 330 You know who else was a populist?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM (E0r6f)

that would make Pol Pot an anti-populist...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

342 Colonel Angus?
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One of the enduring mysteries of the English language is how a word spelled "Colonel" could sound virtually nothing like its spelling.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

343 Don’t fool yourself. A lot of the big pharma donations are to Republicans. Marsha Blackburn, for example.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (ofdHm)

344 >>I'm not sure if I should laugh or be appalled.

Either way: The Science is Settled.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (xk5j8)

345 I just did an image search so you don't have to. "Fani Willis, have you met Tiffany Henyard? I think you'd be good friends."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

They would brawl over the last slice of pizza.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

346 339 Who puts stamps on their clitoris?

Posted by: I still don't get it at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (M0vIC)

Tramp stamps go on the other side

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

347 Why shouldn't the headlines be pre-written? The stories are. Everyone knows what the spin will be. It's long been a joke here and other conservative sites, predicting exactly what the Establishment Media will say, as they speak power to truth.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (1bNHn)

348 Whenever I cross the WI-IL border, the guards ask if I have any dairy products to declare. I slip them a quart and they let me pass.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (fTu9b)

349 LOL, Warnock trying to claim that anyone who resigns are the ones who have "other options" and should be the one's we want to keep.

Sure Jan, whatever you say.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (jKKXJ)

350 Come to think of it, the "philatelist" story was exactly the kind of joke Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 would have loved, too. As she and her mother used to say about each other, "The apple does not fall far from the tree."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (J2vNu)

351 I would be interested to hear you explain how an mRBA vaccine is intended to work, how it can be categorized as "gene therapy" and what you consider a vaccine to be.
Posted by: muldoon at January 29, 2025 12:46 PM (991eG)

I don't understand such things, and I have to rely on the researcher who developed it, Dr Robert Malone, who both calls it gene therapy, since he developed it as such. I think he wrote a book, or some papers in Cell.
The only education I got about immune response I got from my ex who worked in an immunological tech company as a bench tech, and she liked to talk about her job as a way to wind down.
Out pillow talk was LIT

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (D7oie)

352 There is no room for debate in science.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (E0r6f)

353 Who puts stamps on their clitoris?
Posted by: I still don't get it

Women who want a nerd stamp collector to find it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (zmGDy)

354 Whitehouse droned on fir seven minutes and told Kennedy "you can respond in writing"
If I'm Kennedy I respond "dear senator, blow me"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (6v8aM)

355 Thankfully so because the senator I am stuck with, NM Sen. Lujan. would be the winner for dullest and dumbest.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 12:57 PM

Have you met Sen. Ed Markey (D-umbass)?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (+QlJh)

356 "the product might contain undeclared milk."

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I saw a crime documentary in which the motive was the $900 K trust set aside for the victim's badly disabled son. He became disabled because he was not diagnosed with lactose intolerance until a week after birth. I had no idea it was that severe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)

357 352 There is no room for debate in science.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (E0r6f)

Globul Warmening is the Wurst; you see how the political sausage is made.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (ynpvh)

358 Warnock is making Hank Johnson sound mildly intelligent.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (4tmpE)

359 QUESTION FOR THE HORDE ... Does anyone know of a list anywhere reminding us which food items and/or medications were touted as being healthy -- then, later, NOT healthy -- by government "experts" over the past 50+ years? ... Am guessing there could be several more flip-flops regarding eggs or coffee in my lifetime.

Posted by: Kathy at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (qpw89)

360 Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

Vampirism

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (k9OZB)

361 RFK Jr. should not be confirmed because his....................

"BREATH STINKS" Too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You cannot have a Secretary of HHS with BAD BREATH !!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (RXgJO)

362 Tramp stamps go on the other side
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

Exactly. And they don't peel off.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (2NXcZ)

363 Don't get too out of line, Warnock. Nicole Shanahan will light your butt up.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (gWBY1)

364 “Why are you crying? It’s not your government. It’s not your country. He has no reason to give you anything. You don’t pay taxes in America.”
_____

African can be based. My favorite is the news host who's first question to his transsexual guest was "Why are you gay?"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (M0vIC)

365 332 Warncok is tryin to soundsmart...lol
Posted by: runner
---

Shanahan looked him in the eye and said that her money put him in office and if he didn't vote for Bobby she would primary him out.
'Choose wisely', she said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (Wnaut)

366 One of the enduring mysteries of the English language is how a word spelled "Colonel" could sound virtually nothing like its spelling.
Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025

***
I think it was Italian, and was originally spelled "coronello" (for "little crown"), or something close to that. We somehow kept "kernel" as a close approximation of the Italian spelling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (J2vNu)

367 Well, at least ONE reporter has a pre-written headline, as demonstrated by the video. I'm quite willing to believe that many of them do, but the video proves only one instance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (8zz6B)

368 One of the enduring mysteries of the English language is how a word spelled "Colonel" could sound virtually nothing like its spelling.
Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

What about Corpsman ???!

Posted by: Bronco Bama at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (NtVYv)

369 I keep wondering what Cheryl Hines thinks of her beloved Democrat party now. It probably looks a lot more beneficent at cocktail parties in LA and Aspen than it does face-to-face with these idiots.

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (rbKZ6)

370 I put Caroline K. And Chelsea C. In the same category. Highly educated but dullards in the real world. The speak in the same monotones while reading words written for them while banking their entire lives on their last names. Ironically, neither have families to brag about.

Posted by: Cheri at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (FGQ5G)

371 Warncock does not appreciate you not appreciating him, Mr Kennedy.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (g47mK)

372 If I'm Kennedy I respond "dear senator, blow me"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2025 01:00 PM (6v8aM)

On a piece of paper. Right there. And hold it up for the cameras.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (+iIV1)

373 Miller bursts out laughing.
Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 12:38 PM (RHGPo)

He's one of my favorite Trump advisors.

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (2NXcZ)

374 Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

Vampirism
-------
And demonic possession.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

375 Trump really knows how to take the Dems' greatest strength - taking the worst position on almost every issue - and turning it into weakness.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (hfo2g)

376 The Democrat senators have shown themselves to be hectoring hens and then we get to woman Democrat senators.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (Q8Bj8)

377 One of the enduring mysteries of the English language is how a word spelled "Colonel" could sound virtually nothing like its spelling.
Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025
*
What about Corpsman ???!
Posted by: Bronco Bama at January 29, 2025

***
That was those French guys with their silent letters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

378 "Can you spell the alphabet with your tongue?" said the saucy English barmaid at our local pub to anyone coming on to her.

Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (QB+5g)

379 Man, that Warner MFer sure is a mealy mouthed little c*ck!

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg -Buff, Buffer, Buffest Freaking Mayor EVAH! at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (ztkvk)

380 Well, at least ONE reporter has a pre-written headline, as demonstrated by the video. I'm quite willing to believe that many of them do, but the video proves only one instance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (8zz6B)

If by pre-written you mean pre-written by the DNC, yes.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (hfo2g)

381 The horror stories about the reality of "socialized medicine" coming out of England and Canada are shocking. Endless waits, third-world-level hospital conditions,, rude incompetent immigrant doctors with degrees from the Medical Collage of South Bumfuckistan, etc.

So socialized medicine is not an option (at least in nations that allow unfettered immigration).

But as Ace and RFK note, "our current system is not working."

Nearly everyone (whether named Luigi or not) has a low opinion of the Health insurance Industry, who are generally just obstructionist middlemen who jack up prices without contributing anything useful.

So what IS th solution?

There may not be one. We'll have to settle for the least-bad option.

(Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

382
ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
I will dedicate my time to defeating Senators that do not confirm RFK Jr.,

even those that are Republican.

May I remind you that our work helped to defeat Bob Casey in PA.

I’ll even take it a step further & work to defeat Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska.

Try me.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

383
for me, it's the magic tasty Nacho Cheese dust put on Doritos.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (tT6L1)

I don't see the problem.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (/TzNd)

384 Shanahan looked him in the eye and said that her money put him in office and if he didn't vote for Bobby she would primary him out.
'Choose wisely', she said.

I think she erred in making it about her money. The Dems will immediately start in with "the GOP is the party beholden to big money" stuff.

Because, you know, they would never, ever rely on rich oligarchs for funding.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

385 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (DobEs)

386 If you suffer from moderate to severe dank moss, ask your doctor if pubiclearex is right for you!
Posted by: Chuck Martel
------

Now, quickly recite the list of possible side effects, overlaid by cheery music and smiling actors.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

387 Never would've happened, with his attitude about Pharma. Ds and far too many Rs are whores for those people.

******************

Coconut didnt even respond to RFK's request to chat, to her he was an unperson, much less anyone who would ever have a position in her lolz admin

Trump by contrast threw the doors open when RFK contacted him and gave him and his staff a luxurious stay at Mar A Lago

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (HYKHz)

388 Does RFK Jr. get confirmed? Seems like a lot of anamosity there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (Q4IgG)

389 374 Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

Vampirism
-------
And demonic possession.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

Intertubes say it's called aquagenic-urticaria.

https://tinyurl.com/4nsn3as8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

390 Shanahan looked him in the eye and said that her money put him in office and if he didn't vote for Bobby she would primary him out.
'Choose wisely', she said.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (Wnaut)

The election ads she cut during the campaign were top-tier. The best.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (rj6Yv)

391 Baby you need to ditch that philatelist and come see me.

Posted by: The Spelunker at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (HdrJu)

392 What studies is she cherry picking that no school shooters took mental health drugs?

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (gWBY1)

393 381 Nearly everyone (whether named Luigi or not) has a low opinion of the Health insurance Industry, who are generally just obstructionist middlemen who jack up prices without contributing anything useful.

So what IS th solution?

There may not be one. We'll have to settle for the least-bad option.

(Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)
Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

=====

Well, people weren't trying to murder insurance CEOs before the ACA, so we can start by repealing that.

And then we can think about how regulation ratchets up costs across the board in the healthcare space.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

394
What about Corpsman ???!
Posted by: Bronco Bama at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (NtVYv)

I don't see the problem

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (/TzNd)

395 389 374 Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?
Posted by: SFGoth at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (KAi1n)

Vampirism
-------
And demonic possession.

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 01:02 PM (TN0g+)

Intertubes say it's called aquagenic-urticaria.

https://tinyurl.com/4nsn3as8

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

Also Aquadynia

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

396 Soma for everyone!

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (Jfw7U)

397 "Isn't there a rare skin condition where even purified water makes it "burn"?"

With seawater, it's called triffidism.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (fTu9b)

398 Cue Yoko Hirohito. TORA!!!TORA!!!!TORA!!!

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (E0r6f)

399 Trump by contrast threw the doors open when RFK contacted him and gave him and his staff a luxurious stay at Mar A Lago
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 29, 2025 01:04 PM (HYKHz)
----------------

I think that gesture also opened the eyes of Nicole Shanahan. I believe she was shocked at the warm reception from MAGA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (tT6L1)

400 If President Trump wants him hope he gets in. Know the Leftists will fight against him

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (fwDg9)

401 (Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)
Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

Duct tape a taser to an iphone and slip on an oura ring and you're basically there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (+iIV1)

402 391 Baby you need to ditch that philatelist and come see me.

Posted by: The Spelunker at January 29, 2025 01:05 PM (HdrJu)

Depends which cave you spelunk in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:06 PM (ynpvh)

403 She needs some Rogaine.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (Jfw7U)

404 All senators sponsored by Big Pharma should wear racing suits with big patches displaying the names of their Big Pharma sponsors.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (5WaoI)

405 Good for you, Scott Pressler. Nicole Shanahan said the same thing. This is a crucial moment. We need pressure from every corner.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (UseAb)

406 Do you perform the natural obligations?

Utube link to based African-
https://tinyurl.com/438ujmzz

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (M0vIC)

407 Sen. Tina Smith (D) just noted when she was a young woman (how brave to admit that as a Democrat) she was depressed. All I can add to that she has single handedly managed to turn that in contagious disease every time she opens her mouth.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (Q8Bj8)

408 I think it was Italian, and was originally spelled "coronello" (for "little crown"), or something close to that. We somehow kept "kernel" as a close approximation of the Italian spelling.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 01:01 PM (J2vNu)
---------
Spanish. Term "cabo de colunela." "Colunela" became corrupted into "coronela."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (6K6Eu)

409 As someone who loves other people's stories... no one cares about your story about your depression, senator. Your experience with drugs isn't everyone's. And you aren't a suicidal teenager.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2025 01:07 PM (gWBY1)

410 RFK, Jr.'s entire argument is "President Trump and I will protect your children." I'd say that's a compelling argument.

Dems aren't very bright and are not very good at playing a losing hand.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (rj6Yv)

411 "Colorado basketball coach hangs Palestinian flag at game against Jewish students
Attendees at the game said that some members of the basketball team followed their coach's lead by not shaking the Jewish students' hands after the game."

Deport, Deport, Deport.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (g47mK)

412 248 It is an experimental gene therapy shot originally intended for cancer.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Exactly, and for cancer it is probably fine eventually and is begining worked on today. Experimental vaccines for covid were not ok. I had the J&J to travel as it was old technology.

If I had cancer and with my gene profile and that of the cancer, go for it if nothing else may work. I guess. It takes a decade to determine if a vaccine is not harmful if babies or people don't die right away. They pushed the covid vax out prematurely.

When it was originally tried in the '60's for RSV toddlers died. RSV is only dangerous to premature babies, or those that are immunocompromised. Or that is what I learned in the distant past as a RN.

Everyone, I think, has had a version of the "common cold." Which is how RSV hits most people. I refused the "new" RSV injection (with mRNA), and the shingles vax, which is going to have this technology that are being offered today. I do still get the flu vax and the pnumonia vax. They are made from old technology not mRNA.

It has become difficult to find why it was cancelled in the '60's...but with digging it is there.
https://tinyurl.com/sjfje4py

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (gi+MR)

413 Hm. Do they actually have chronic diseases, have they merely been diagnosed with chronic diseases, or are they just being treated for chromic diseases?

What does "chronic diseases" encompass in this context?

I'm not contesting that there are a whole bunch of people in not-great health, but when 65 years of age is no longer generally considered "old", can you really say that "Americans' health is the worst it's ever been"?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 29, 2025 12:23 PM (hB7mE)

Good point! It really comes down to how you define "chronic disease". I would define voting Democrat as "chronic mental illness".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (8zz6B)

414 Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

The solution is letting the commies go where their beloved socialized medicine is and letting us get on with it.

Posted by: ... at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (hfo2g)

415 Joke's on you. Philatelists don't lick the stamps.

They lick those little hinged glue things to fix the stamps into their collection book. Smaller target, finer control...

Posted by: Rob Crawford at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (wYGHU)

416 Baby you need to ditch that philatelist and come see me.

Posted by: The Spelunker

If you help me find my keys, we can drive out of here.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (zmGDy)

417 @407..ha! It worked for me!

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:08 PM (Jfw7U)

418 PFE down 0.4% on news of undeclared milk scare.

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 01:09 PM (fTu9b)

419
This hearing is another demonstration of how "Our Democracy" looks like the palliative care ward discussion of who gets the first pudding cup this afternoon.

Posted by: Auspex at January 29, 2025 01:09 PM (j4U/Z)

420
I never thought that I'd see the day that RFK Jr was the hero we deserved, second only to a Queens vulgarian who indulges in professional wrestling.

These are great times we're living in.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 29, 2025 01:09 PM (y9nCu)

421 Take a look at the food pyramid to start. High carb, low salt, seed oils, etc

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 29, 2025 01:09 PM (EV2jz)

422 Fireball XL-5>>>Herge's Adventures of Tin-Tin>>>Jonny Quest

Posted by: Saturday Morning at January 29, 2025 01:09 PM (G5+As)

423 49
"Mr Kennedy, when is a Hot Dog a sandwich, and when do you know it?"
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

"Yes or no! Yes or no!"

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (9W+cE)

424 What studies is she cherry picking that no school shooters took mental health drugs?
Posted by: LizLem

The science here is settled which means you need to shut the f' up.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (Q8Bj8)

425 Yes but one of the things that led to an increase in childhood chronic illness is the recognition of all those poor little girls who were born with a penis and testicles, and all those poor little boys who were born with breast tissue, vaginas, and uterusesesses. What a horrible burden for their parents.

Posted by: Run, Juan Mateo, Run! at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (Ybyk2)

426 423 49
"Mr Kennedy, when is a Hot Dog a sandwich, and when do you know it?"
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

"Yes or no! Yes or no!"

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (9W+cE)

Yes, when it's not a taco

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

427 Turn the food pyramid upside down.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 01:10 PM (E0r6f)

428 I need a drink.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 29, 2025

***
That's like stating today is Wednesday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (J2vNu)

429 "Mr Kennedy, do you put carrots in chili? Don't wait on the translation...answer me now!"

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (TN0g+)

430 In regards to Levine's comfirmation:

On 24 March, the Senate voted 52–48, with all Democrats and two Republicans — Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — joining all members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to confirm her nomination

So, the Reps couldn't have stopped him - Harris would have broken a tie but they did have a couple of traitors in the vote.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (t0Rmr)

431 Trump said the other day that "half of them are crazy"

and he's not wrong. The best part is now people are paying attention and seeing it for themselves

Posted by: YOHAN THE LIBRARIAN at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (3TalN)

432 "Mr Kennedy, when is a Hot Dog a sandwich, and when do you know it?"
Posted by: Frank Barone

When your "bun" is a slice of bread, you 1%'er.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (zmGDy)

433
No more pointing your phone at the sky - Starlink works right from your pocket.
Posted by: SMOD
--------

If we could see the rf fields around us, there would be an immediate sense of drowning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

434 429 "Mr Kennedy, do you put carrots in chili? Don't wait on the translation...answer me now!"

Posted by: Crusader at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (TN0g+)

No, carrots don't help when it's cold.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

435 430 In regards to Levine's comfirmation:

On 24 March, the Senate voted 52–48, with all Democrats and two Republicans — Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — joining all members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to confirm her nomination

So, the Reps couldn't have stopped him - Harris would have broken a tie but they did have a couple of traitors in the vote.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 01:11 PM (t0Rmr)

=======

And even then, Murk and Collins felt no need to eve signal opposition to Biden.

But they're the best Republicans we can get and we have to support them in the general election no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

436 Not Sending Their Best: Haitian President Says Accepting Haitians Deported From U.S. Would be Catastrophic for his Country

-
What about us? Our country is going to be overrun by feral cats!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)

437 The Four Foods Groups are:

Goat Testicles
Fermented Tofu
Celery
Monkey-Serum Vaccines

Posted by: Your Government at Work at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (pMi6S)

438 NOOD

OMG FUNDING FREEZE WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (Vqx30)

439 Don't take the abortion pill if you are allergic to the abortion pill.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (v0R5T)

440 436 Not Sending Their Best: Haitian President Says Accepting Haitians Deported From U.S. Would be Catastrophic for his Country

-
What about us? Our country is going to be overrun by feral cats!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)

Haiti is already in a state of "catastrophic".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (ynpvh)

441 >>>I think she erred in making it about her money. The Dems will immediately start in with "the GOP is the party beholden to big money" stuff.

Because, you know, they would never, ever rely on rich oligarchs for funding.
Posted by: Archimedes
---

She's an honest woman with more brains and money than her opponents. And of that group Warnock and Osoff are not the only two she's pushed across the line. They won't come after her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (Wnaut)

442 436 Not Sending Their Best: Haitian President Says Accepting Haitians Deported From U.S. Would be Catastrophic for his Country

-
What about us? Our country is going to be overrun by feral cats!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (L/fGl)

========

It's great how other countries can talk about how they want to control their own borders up to and including not accepting their own citizens back from other nations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 29, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

443 Mr Kenneddy? Crossbow or Longbow?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (E0r6f)

444 By the way if Levine got his vote on Mar 24, Trump is moving MUCH faster with RFK getting a vote on Jan 29

Posted by: 18-1 at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (t0Rmr)

445 So what IS th solution?
There may not be one. We'll have to settle for the least-bad option.
(Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)
Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

Probably direct patient care. At the moment the health management companies have vertical integration in the industry, from Insurance to pharmacies up to hospitals and care homes, with every decision made being a payment to the company. (I have no evidence that any HMO owns a crematorium so there may be limits to what they do)
'
Direct Patient care and some sort of health savings account, as well as catastrophic insurance and some sort of managed bridge loans for medical care will reduce costs and increase access, both of which are restricted under HMO and Insurance directed care.

It won't be fair and good for everyone, but what we have now is increasing suffering and disability

Posted by: Kindltot at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (D7oie)

446 378 "Can you spell the alphabet with your tongue?" said the saucy English barmaid at our local pub to anyone coming on to her.
Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (QB+5g)

In cursive

Posted by: Inogame at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (53oGX)

447 I am calling it right now. Ron Wyden won the bitter cat lady lesbian academy award with today's performance.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (Q8Bj8)

448 Mr Kennedy, your cousin Caroline says your like, you know kind of like well you know kind of like icky.
How do you respond?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (6v8aM)

449 "No more pointing your phone at the sky - Starlink works right from your pocket."

So all the people who paid approx $500 for Starlink home base-stations and antennas over the past few years just got suckered?

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (fTu9b)

450 No, carrots don't help when it's cold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

What's up, Doc?

Posted by: Mr. B. Bunny at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (rj6Yv)

451 No, carrots don't help when it's cold.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

What's up, Doc?

Posted by: Mr. B. Bunny at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (rj6Yv)

452 436 Not Sending Their Best: Haitian President Says Accepting Haitians Deported From U.S. Would be Catastrophic for his Country

WGAF?

Posted by: Long night... darkness lifted. at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (2NXcZ)

453 433
No more pointing your phone at the sky - Starlink works right from your pocket.
Posted by: SMOD
--------

If we could see the rf fields around us, there would be an immediate sense of drowning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2025 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

Now you can have empathy for those liberals who actually see racism, sexism and xenophobia all around them.

Posted by: Roy at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (z+ik4)

454 Know what's chronic in this country right now? Mental illness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2025 01:15 PM (Q4IgG)

455 131
A Philandering Philatelist Phrom Philadelphia!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 29, 2025 12:32 PM (wtvvX)
----
A Philosophical Philandering Philatelist Phrom Philadelphia!

Posted by: Ciampino - phrasing at January 29, 2025 01:15 PM (KjLnc)

456 More thoughts...

I was recently diagnosed with high cholesterol. Doc showed me the blood test results which, me not being a doctor, meant little to me other than the big red letters saying OUT OF RANGE YOU FAT LAZY IMBECILE (I may have added that last part).

First question though is...have those ranges always held constant or have they changed over time?

Second question I had is...what can be done about it? Dr. Google tells me there is conflicted opinion on whether diet has a significant impact, but generally medication is the route to take. Did some Pharma say that and pushed for the "acceptable" ranges to narrow?

I can think of no worse indictment than our inability to trust our on-the-ground doctors. If they aren't pushing drugs they're asking me about my guns....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2025 01:16 PM (PzXaK)

457 We need to return to lard. Lard is good food.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 29, 2025 01:16 PM (Wg6v7)

458 I am calling it right now. Ron Wyden won the bitter cat lady lesbian academy award with today's performance.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 29, 2025 01:14 PM (Q8Bj

Senator Wyden represents the Caroline Kennedy wing of the Dem Party.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:17 PM (rj6Yv)

459 25% of the national healthcare budget is to provide free medical treatments to homeless bums and illegal immigrants.

25% of the national healthcare budget is to "treat" vague poorly-defined "chronic ailments" and minor psychiatric "disorders" (aka "moods).

25% of the national healthcare budget is to fund the unnecessary government and corporate bureaucracy.

25% of the national healthcare budget is to treat sick Americans.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:18 PM (pMi6S)

460 I had to go get a big peanut butter/ chocolate chip cookie (homemade with butter) to help me get through the rest of this...

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:18 PM (Jfw7U)

461 Using leaf lard makes the best pie crust.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:19 PM (rj6Yv)

462 452 436 Not Sending Their Best: Haitian President Says Accepting Haitians Deported From U.S. Would be Catastrophic for his Country
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Send in the Marines and make things bloody. Problem solved.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 29, 2025 01:19 PM (Wg6v7)

463 I watched about 30 seconds of Indian Chieftess Warren scolding Kennedy. Muted because I can't stand her voice (or her).

She was SCOLDING as well as pointing that index finger and looking angry. Sort of bouncing in her seat. So angry to the point of a stroke.

Which is how she always looks to me. A harridan librarian with menopause symptoms and a dangling hemorrhoid, scolding someone who had the audacity to fart. Or laugh at a book in her sanctuary sealed bubble of absolute silence. She needs xanax and maybe a new hairstyle and glasses.

I seriously hate some of these people. If I watch them on mute I last 30 seconds.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 29, 2025 01:19 PM (gi+MR)

464 445 So what IS th solution?
There may not be one. We'll have to settle for the least-bad option.
(Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)
Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)

Probably direct patient care. At the moment the health management companies have vertical integration in the industry, from Insurance to pharmacies up to hospitals and care homes, with every decision made being a payment to the company. (I have no evidence that any HMO owns a crematorium so there may be limits to what they do)
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Direct Patient care and some sort of health savings account, as well as catastrophic insurance and some sort of managed bridge loans for medical care will reduce costs and increase access, both of which are restricted under HMO and Insurance directed care.

It won't be fair and good for everyone, but what we have now is increasing suffering and disability
Posted by: Kindltot

Best answer so far! If RFK doesn't make it through, I nominate you.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:20 PM (pMi6S)

465 Are there any guard rails to ensure RFKjr can't go completely nuts at HHS? That would probably help.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 29, 2025 12:39 PM (+oR7L)

Trump can fire him, I presume.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:21 PM (8zz6B)

466 "Lawless rampage", sez younger old coot senator from Vermont.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:21 PM (Jfw7U)

467 Who puts stamps on their...

It was an upside-down biplane.
And I cancelled it.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 29, 2025 01:23 PM (zdLoL)

468 "Lawless rampage", sez younger old coot senator from Vermont.
Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:21 PM (Jfw7U)

He was probably referring to another Kennedy.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)

469 I still can't figure out Caroline Kennedy Sloshingbored's speech making her cousin a predator. I sort of listened to it but was mostly focused on her super ugly glasses and odd mouth/cheeks. I am very superficial and judge people, being a formal supermodel. I don't care if I am judged for judging as it is what I do best.

The only thing that struck me as creepy was him blending a mouse and baby chick or something for his hawk. Gross. He had a gross blender that I sincerely hope he did not make drinks with or smoothies for humans. But that is al I got from her speech.

Did he touch her boob? Expose himself? Play doctor?

I could have missed something as she droned on.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 29, 2025 01:25 PM (gi+MR)

470 I think "kernel" is a completely different word, from an Old Anglo-Saxon "kern" that's related to "corn" (in Europe, one single grain of a cereal plant, like barleycorn). So spacing of type is "kerning."

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 29, 2025 01:25 PM (zdLoL)

471 That lithp can have no other cause but a lifelong diet of sperm and stolen taxes.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at January 29, 2025 01:25 PM (ymPMS)

472 Remember....this guy voted against helping late term babies live when surviving abortion. SO don't buy his lecture.

Posted by: lizabth at January 29, 2025 01:26 PM (Jfw7U)

473 The only thing that struck me as creepy was him blending a mouse and baby chick or something for his hawk. Gross. He had a gross blender that I sincerely hope he did not make drinks with or smoothies for humans. But that is al I got from her speech. - CBTG

It's science if he used a beaker for his bird.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2025 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

474 Joke's on you. Philatelists don't lick the stamps.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 29, 2025 12:52 PM (xCA6C)

In Soviet America, stamps lick you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2025 01:31 PM (8zz6B)

475 Caroline Kennedy and her Shmuck Son Jack have formed a tag team to slam Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sure, politics motivates them but so does just flat out JEALOUSY. RFK, Jr. is the only Kennedy cousin of his generation to have achieved anything on his own of significance. His book about the REAL Anthony Fauci alone is a masterpiece exposure of the corruption of Big Pharma. And yet we have Caroline Kennedy and Shmuck Son Jack desperately attacking RFK, Jr. Their big NIGHTMARE is that he becomes the only Secretary of HHS to achieve big goals that affect people in their everyday lives thus making him without question the most important Kennedy of his generation.

Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2025 01:38 PM (RHGPo)

476 Whatever you think of RFK Jr., you have to admit his voice is painful to listen to. Sounds like he spent the last thirty years gargling with rocks every day.

Posted by: craig at January 29, 2025 01:41 PM (1dUlh)

477 Nearly everyone (whether named Luigi or not) has a low opinion of the Health insurance Industry, who are generally just obstructionist middlemen who jack up prices without contributing anything useful.

So what IS th solution?

There may not be one. We'll have to settle for the least-bad option.

(Until and unless someone invents Dr. McCoy's tricorder soon.)

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2025 01:03 PM (pMi6S)
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Sorry this is not correct. Just stop. If you don't understand it, don't act like you do.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 29, 2025 02:24 PM (GZYu7)

478 We get to see which senators have been bought and paid for by Pharma. Its disguising to see these bought senators do their kabuki act. I am not agree with Kennedy but I trust him more than these "gentlemen of the evening."

Posted by: TJ Jackson at January 29, 2025 02:48 PM (bXvrr)

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