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Killer 🤡 🤡:  Hey Siri:  How can I kill hundreds of thousands of people and/or put them on respirators or in wheelchairs and leg braces for the rest of their lives? Answer: Confirm RFK Jr as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services. If that sounds like hyperbole to you, then you likely missed the news that one of RFK’s closest advisors is a lawyer named Aaron Siri.  Siri specializes in vaccine lawsuits.  In 2022 he asked the FDA to revoke approval for the polio vaccines.  He’s also petitioned the FDA to “pause distribution” of 13 other vaccines, including combination products that cover tetanus, diphtheria, and hepatitis A. As if those “requests” aren’t concerning enough, RFK, who wants Siri to be the FDA’s chief legal counsel, has Siri advising him on employee selection, a process that involves a touchy-feely questionnaire that asks about their sex lives as well as their views on vaccines.  Their goal is to load HHS with as many vaccine skeptics, also known as anti-vaxxers, as possible. The news about Siri touched a nerve with outgoing Republican Senate leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell who issued a statement saying that “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous….Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.” That’s great, but McConnell who will be just another member of the Republican Senate caucus when the confirmation votes are taken has a habit of falling into line, so we won’t know where he really stands on RFK’s confirmation until the vote.  Lawyer Siri is not an outlier, Trump’s pick to run the Center for Disease Control is physician Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman whose views are aligned with RFK’s.  Despite all evidence to the contrary Weldon stands by claims that vaccines cause autism, basing his assertions on the debunked, withdrawn, falsified study responsible for that lie.  Over the weekend, possibly because he’s a favorite of Melania, Trump finally appointed Ric Grennell, his former ambassador to Germany who managed to totally offend most of Germany during his tenure and who also briefly served as his Director of National Intelligence, to serve as an envoy for special missions.  That’s a consolation prize for Trump loyalist Grennell who had lobbied hard to get the Secretary of State spot.  By the way, one of the reasons that Melania likes Grennell so much is because he helped her get two $500,000 speaking gigs during Trump’s campaign.  Trump has also picked Devin Nunes, the former Congressman, current CEO of Trump’s Truth Social, to serve as Chair of the Presidents Intelligence Advisor Counsel.  Before leaving Congress, Nunes was the senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, a job he took seriously until he became a complete Trump toady.  Sadly, Pete Hegseth is still Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Defense. Trump and JD Vance brought Hegseth to the weekend’s Army Navy football game, their way of making it clear that Trump really wants him confirmed.  Keeping with that theme, Senator Lindsey Graham once again questioned the veracity of all those accusations about Hegseth being a rapist with a drinking problem, insisting that those assertions have to be in front of the cameras and on the witness stand to count.  He also claimed that Hegseth will release his rape accuser from her NDA.  It’s not clear that Hegseth will but we know that if he does, he and the MAGA crowd will eviscerate her, tearing her life apart while they also see to it that any Fox person who comes forward about him repeatedly showing up for work inebriated loses their job. For what it’s worth, given its current leadership vacuum, it’s reported that Hegseth is now cooperating with the FBI on a background check.  Though Trump hasn’t appointed him to anything yet, he and Vance brought former Marine Daniel Perry, the guy now being deified for having been acquitted in the NYC subway vigilante chokehold death of Jordan Neely, the mentally ill knife wielding subway rider.  Regardless of how you feel about the verdict, Perry becoming the newest MAGA hero ala Kyle Rittenhouse is kind of gross.  Tulsi Gabbard is still Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, but reports are that her meetings with Senators haven’t been going well, not only because of her affinity for Putin and Assad, but because she’s been coming off as an airhead with little expertise in any relevant areas.  Maybe she has a hard time expressing her views without Putin whispering in her ear?

More 🤡 🤡:  Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Congresswoman who brought us Jewish Space Lasers is set to run the House DOGE subcommittee which is probably all you need to know about what is likely to come out of that committee. Add Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, to the growing list of Tech CEO’s contributing $1 million to Trump’s inauguration committee.  Depressing but not surprising to see all these techies line up to support Trump, they are doing their best to curry favor and hinder future regulation of their businesses, one of the reasons that Elon Musk is so invested in Trump.  Count Disney among the complicit.  Just days before Trump and ABC were due to sit for discovery depositions, ABC which is owned by Disney, agreed to apologize to Trump and to give $15 million to his future ”presidential library” to make Trump’s defamation lawsuit go away. Trump had been suing ABC and George Stephanopoulos for Stephanopoulos calling Trump a rapist.  ABC decided to settle even though the New York judge who presided over the E Jean Caroll case where it was adjudicated that Trump had sexually assaulted Caroll was on record saying that despite the limitations of the NY State definition of rape, it was okay for E Jean to characterize Trump as a rapist.  Given the judge’s statement, ABC’s decision to capitulate is confusing, either Disney has decided that being on dictator wannabee Trump’s good side is more important than standing on principle or they feared the outing of some incriminating emails and texts during the discovery process or both.  Regardless of their reasoning, the decision is expected to empower Trump and his MAGA crowd, already a litigious bunch, to continue to intimidate the press which is why many fear that the whole concept of the free press took a major hit with the Disney decision.   Also, given Trump’s aversion to reading, isn’t $15 million a lot for his library?   

Droning On:  Either we’re being attacked by an army of drones from some extraterrestrial force, Iran, China and/or Russia or our collective imaginations have gone into overdrive and we’re experiending a War of the Worlds mass panic moment.  At least so far the authorities who are supposed to be in the know insist that most of the sightings are planes, commercial and private, and the ones that aren’t planes are garden variety drones rather than poison spewing attack missiles.  Time to chill. The drones are likely the least of our problems, at least until some 🤡 starts shooting at passenger planes in an effort to protect us from an ET or Chinese attack.  Of course Trump has taken to Truth Social to suggest that we do just that and Joe Rogan is very concerned too.

And:  On Friday Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi broke her hip in Luxembourg while attending a conference. She was flown to Landstuhl Air Force Base in Germay where she had hip replacement surgery.  Reports are that she’s recuperating. Wishing her well and also recommending that no one, least of all an 84-year-old, wear four inch heels 👠 while walking on marble floors.  Congress is up against another funding deadline and ironically negotiations are  being held up because a group of mostly red state representatives want more money for their farmers, the ones still suffering from Trump’s last round of tariffs.  How’s that DOGE thing going?   

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