The guy IS 79 years old….
He does NOThing to keep in shape….
Has had TWO medical’s in the past few months
Last one witha MRI for what reason?
He can’t speak and stay on topic…
He HAS slowwed his activities….
Hmmmmm?
The day before Halloween, President Trump landed at Joint Base Andrews after spending nearly a week in Japan and South Korea. He was then whisked to the White House, where he passed out candy to trick-or-treaters. Allies crowed over the president’s stamina: “This man has been nonstop for DAYS!” one wroteonline.
A week later, Mr. Trump appeared to doze off during an event in the Oval Office.
With headline-grabbing posts on social media, combative interactions with reporters and speeches full of partisan red meat, Mr. Trump can project round-the-clock energy, virility and physical stamina. Now at the end of his eighth decade, Mr. Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated: Mr. Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency, and he is aging. To pre-empt any criticism about his age, he often compares himself to President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who at 82 was the oldest person to hold the office, and whose aides took measures to shield his growing frailty from the public, including by tightly managing his appearances….
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Still, nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to, according to a New York Times analysis of his schedule. Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office, in 2017, although he is taking more foreign trips.
He also keeps a shorter public schedule than he used to. Most of his public appearances fall between noon and 5 p.m., on average.
And when he is in public, occasionally, his battery shows signs of wear. During an Oval Office event that began around noon on Nov. 6, Mr. Trump sat behind his desk for about 20 minutes as executives standing around him talked about weight-loss drugs.
At one point, Mr. Trump’s eyelids drooped until his eyes were almost closed, and he appeared to doze on and off for several seconds. At another point, he opened his eyes and looked toward a line of journalists watching him. He stood up only after a guest who was standing near him fainted and collapsed….
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“I have no idea what they analyzed,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One recently after he was again asked about his M.R.I. “But whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.”
Mr. Trump also applies makeup to a bruise on the back of his right hand, adding speculation about a medical condition that his physician and aides say is caused by taking aspirin and shaking so many hands. In September, the bruising on his hand, coupled with swollen ankles, caused observers on the internet to speculate wildly about his health…
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Many of the facts that concerned critics about Mr. Trump’s physical health during his first term are present now. He does not get regular exercise, in part because he has a long-held theory that people are born with a finite amount of energy and that vigorous activity can deplete that reserve, like a battery. He enjoys red meat and is known to eat McDonald’s by the sackful….
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Presidents, in general, try to paint the best picture possible of their health. Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said that Mr. Trump was following examples set by his predecessors, including his most recent one…
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There is one thing Mr. Trump is doing more of in his second term: talking about the afterlife. He has brought up heaven — and the question of whether he would get in — half a dozen times since taking office for the second time….
Note…
There HAS also been a change in the media, which WAS afraid to write ANYTHING Negitive about Trump less they be sued…
The last few weeks have been filled with daily negitive stores about Donald , his health, policies (shutdown, Economy, Immigration) and personal life (Epstein)….
image….Mr. Trump during a 9/11 commemoration event at the Pentagon in September. Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times
New Open Thread IS HERE…..
Morning People……
Breaking……
2 National Guard members shot in D.C. near White House….
More on this later
Will this affect Supreme’s review of National Guard in cities?
Will we get trigger happy troops?
DC Police have one in custody
This will go Federal in DC
Reports are the two Guardsmen have died from their wounds
Muriel Bowser will not seek another term as mayor of Washington, D.C., so Trump’s reaction will have limited permanent effect.
But having caused the chaos, the administration will say that the National Guard is needed to stop it.
D.C. Mayor Bowser will not run for fourth term
…Her decision comes as the city faces myriad challenges. Further threats loom over its limited right to self-governance, and the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees and a still-struggling downtown real estate market have created major economic woes for D.C.
Bowser said D.C. faces a tough budget again in the spring, but that in her final year in office, she hopes to push new economic and tech incentives that she thinks could boost the economy in the wake of federal job cuts….
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She became known for a steady hand and measured approach under fire — the same type of restraint that has guided her strategic approach to Trump’s second term, seeking to forge a relationship with his administration while the city’s home rule has been on the line. She tore up the most visible symbol of her resistance to first-term Trump — Black Lives Matter Plaza — after Republican threats and was willing to coordinate with the Trump administration on some public safety issues in the hopes of avoiding even more intense attacks on the city’s autonomy. Reacting to Bowser’s announcement, Trump told reporters Tuesday that he got along with Bowser “very well.” “We worked together,” he said…..
Morning All….
Morning All
Morning……
The American Head Criminal keeps it going while we watch it in AL REAL Time
Ole Sam Alito HAS to be proud …
Trump will probably make some attempt to prevent Washington D.C. from holding municipal elections or elect a new Mayor next year. He will say it is necessary for the city needs to be under federal control.
Republican kook Laura Loomer ,a key adviser to Trump,has announced she “ wants a king.”
Huey Long’s slogan was “Every man a king”.
So while the Trump Republican administration is making a big deal about fighting drug smuggling with “tough guy”street drunk Pete Hegseth babbling on “ kill them all,” his owner is pardoning drug smuggler accomplice Juan Hernandez.
Makes sense doesn’t it?
Sure…..
That IS how Fucked Up ur President IS……
Running a Criminal Enterprise
Alternate Universe…..
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
By Santul Nerkar, Annie Correal and Colin Moynihan, The New York Times
Nov. 29, 2025, 7:16 p.m. ET
He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
Last year, Mr. Hernández was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. It was one of the most sweeping drug-trafficking cases to come before a U.S. court since the trial of the Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega three decades before.
But on Friday, President Trump announced that he would pardon Mr. Hernandez, 57, who he said was a victim of political persecution, though Mr. Trump offered no evidence to support that claim. It would be a head-spinning resolution to a case that for prosecutors was a pinnacle, striking at the heart of a narcostate.
The president’s two-week trial in Manhattan, and those of his associates before it, offered a glimpse into a world of corruption and drug running spanning several countries. Bags of cash, a machine gun with Mr. Hernández’s name emblazoned on it, and bribes from the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, the Mexican kingpin known as El Chapo, featured heavily.
Prosecutors said Mr. Hernández was key to a scheme that lasted more than 20 years and brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States.
“The people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” Merrick Garland, then the attorney general, said in 2024, after Mr. Hernández was sentenced…
When drug-trafficking routes began shifting toward Central America in the 2000s, Honduras came to play a role in transshipment, moving cocaine from South America toward Mexico and the U.S. border. Over that decade, trafficking rose, along with the murder rate, and drug planes arrived with regularity. The June 2009 coup that ousted Manuel Zelaya, the country’s left-wing president, ushered in a golden age of drug corruption…
As president, Mr. Hernández told U.S. officials that he was doing his utmost to stamp out drug trafficking.
But prosecutors said his political career had been fueled by drug money as early as 2009, when he was still a lawmaker and vying to lead the Honduran legislature. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Mr. Hernández was photographed smiling and giving a thumbs up alongside a known Honduran cartel chief.
Mr. Hernández ran for president on the ticket of the conservative National Party and was elected in 2013. Prosecutors said Mr. Hernández relied on his connections to the world’s most powerful cartels to fund his campaign, including a $1 million bribe from El Chapo.
He used the weapons and power of the state for his own ends, according to prosecutors, jurors and the Hondurans who came to despise him. The threat of being extradited to the United States made drug traffickers eager to bribe anyone who could protect them, prosecutors said, and they came to know they could rely on Mr. Hernández.
Mr. Hernández directed the police and military to protect smugglers who paid him off, and he promised to shield them from extradition to the United States. Mr. Hernández once reassured a Honduran cocaine trafficker that “by the time the gringos find out, we will have eliminated extradition,” according to prosecutors.
Mr. Hernández even boasted, “We are going to stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses, and they’re never even going to know it,” according to a witness who testified at the 2021 trial of a drug trafficker.
Investigators said that Mr. Hernández went to pitiless lengths to cover his tracks. One accused co-conspirator was killed in a Honduran prison to protect the president, according to court documents. He used drug money to manipulate the vote in two elections, the documents said.
In 2017, Mr. Hernández again became president after an election so laced with allegations of fraud that days of violence ensued and about two dozen people were killed as the military cracked down….
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-trafficking.html
And THIS IS what we get when we Elect a criminal mind to run a country…..
In BROAD Daylight we get to what this shit….
History and Karmam are NOT gonna be knind to this excuse for a President….
News Analysis
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
By Tyler Pager, The New York Times
President Trump and his top aides have said that drug cartels present one of the most pressing dangers to the United States, and have promised to eradicate them from the Western Hemisphere.
As part of that effort, Mr. Trump signaled on Saturday that he was ratcheting up his campaign against drug cartels, saying in a social media post that airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”
Less than 24 hours earlier, Mr. Trump had announced on social media that he was granting a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the United States of drug trafficking charges in what was seen as a major victory for authorities in a case against a former head of state. That pardon has not yet been officially granted.
The two posts displayed a remarkable dissonance in the president’s strategy, as he moved to escalate a military campaign against drug trafficking while ordering the release of a man prosecutors said had taken “cocaine-fueled bribes” from cartels and “protected their drugs with the full power and strength of the state — military, police and justice system.” In fact, prosecutors said that Mr. Hernández, for years, allowed bricks of cocaine from Venezuela to flow through Honduras en route to the United States.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, called the pardon “unconscionable” and said that Mr. Trump’s actions were more evidence of a “bogus narrative” around his strategy to counter illicit drugs.
“It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation,” he said.
The Trump administration has struggled to provide a clear strategic rationale for why it has amassed such a large military presence in the Caribbean. The president has most often pointed to counternarcotics operations, but the size of the U.S. forces in the region suggests bigger ambitions. In private, the president has shown an interest in Venezuela’s oil reserves, while he and his aides also have said they want to oust Mr. Maduro.
In a statement, Mr. Trump said he had issued the pardon to Mr. Hernández because “many friends” had asked him to do so, adding, “They gave him 45 years because he was the president of the country — you could do this to any president on any country.” (After Mr. Trump left office, he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, related to the reimbursement of hush money paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels to cover up a sex scandal around the 2016 presidential election.)
“By securing the border and striking designated narco-terrorists smuggling drugs to kill Americans, the president has undoubtedly done more than anyone to take on the scourge of illicit drug deaths,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Over the last several weeks, senior officials have made clear that the administration is focused on taking on drug cartels in the Caribbean and South America.
“We are going to make sure that the American people are safe and protected from transnational organized crime,” Stephen Miller, a top adviser to Mr. Trump, told reporters earlier this month. “Venezuela is run by a narcoterrorist ring that traffics drugs, weapons, human traffics, as well, into the United States.”
And just over two hours after Mr. Trump’s announcement of a pardon for Mr. Hernández, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media: “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.”
Over the last several months, the United States has been building up its military presence in the Caribbean, part of a campaign that the administration has said is primarily about stopping the flow of drugs in the region. The U.S. military has launched nearly two dozen strikes since early September on boats that it claimed were carrying drugs to the United States, killing more than 80 people. But the administration has yet to detail evidence for those claims.
“Hernández was convicted of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine in to the United States, and he gets a pardon,” said Tommy Vietor, a former spokesman for the National Security Council in the Obama administration who now co-hosts the liberal podcast “Pod Save America.” “Meanwhile, these unknown individuals who may or may not be fisherman or drug traffickers — we don’t really know — are getting murdered in the open seas. The policy is nonsensical and blatantly illegal.”…
The president’s decision to pardon Mr. Hernández shocked officials in Honduras and in the United States. Prosecutors had asked the judge to make sure Mr. Hernández, 57, would die behind bars, citing his abuse of power, connections to violent traffickers and “the unfathomable destruction” caused by cocaine. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison, and his conviction came as part of a sweeping drug case in which several former traffickers took the stand as government witnesses.
Mr. Hernández’s family has attempted to portray his conviction as political persecution, seeking to win over Mr. Trump. But much of the investigation occurred during Mr. Trump’s first term, and one of the lead investigators in the case was Emil Bove III, then a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York and later one of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers. Mr. Trump installed Mr. Bove as a top official at the Justice Department in his second term before nominating him to serve as an appeals court judge….
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Donald only showing his ‘True’ disregard for ANYTHING that stands in way of trying to do WHATEVER. He wants …..
Laws, Rgs or even Norm’s are just things to be ignored or broken….
The man IS a criminal
He SHOULD REMIND people of this almost every day
As I have said here over and OVER
He IS giving Democrats a chance to Rally
Are they gonna ?
Donald LIKES Crooks Like HIM….
And as President?
He CAN Help them out….
Seem’s Netanyahu has got on line for the Pardon’s in Israel also
Donald is not just getting old…..
He’s getting DANGEROUS
Texas MAGA Congressman Troy Neil’s says he isn’t running again and wants to be replaced by his brother.
Nehls is fully in the Cult .
How about this jewel., “If Donald Trump says jump three feet high and scratch our heads,we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads.And that’s it.Hes the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
Those Texans are real tough guys!
They gonna be REAL Sad when. The Big Guy ain’t there anymore
Midterm results gonna be interesting
Morning…..
Trump Jr closes the gap with JD Vance
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-jr-presidential-run-vance-b2874488.html
No Kings?
Perhaps the U.S. will become as democratic and egalitarian as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Kim the Father, Kim the Son and Kim the Holy Grandson.
Guys REALLY?????
Jr would political TARGET FOR All his fathers sins
Father – Son Conflict
GOPer’s chance to flex
He’s NOT his father who ALL OF US HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF ALREADY
Besides
Dem’s gonna have Congress
Morning All…..
I saw that Sott
Probably a GOOD THING FOR Newsom
President Trump formally pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras on Monday evening, fulfilling a vow he had made days before to free an ex-president who was at the center of what the authorities had characterized as “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.”
Mr. Trump pledged to issue the pardon last week, after Mr. Hernández sent him a four-page letter casting himself as a victim of “political persecution” by the Biden-Harris administration and comparing his fate to that of the American president.
Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trump’s longtime on-and-off political adviser, said on his radio show that he had sent the letter, which was dated Oct. 28, to Mr. Trump hours before the president announced his plan to pardon Mr. Hernández. When asked whether he had been compensated for his role, Mr. Stone said he was not.
A White House official said Mr. Trump had not seen the letter before his announcement on Friday about the pardon. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying the administration by matter of routine did not discuss pardons on the record.
Mr. Trump discussed the planned pardon with reporters over the weekend in terms similar to those Mr. Hernández had used in his letter, saying that “the people of Honduras really thought he was set up, and it was a terrible thing.”
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“He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country,” Mr. Trump said. “And they said it was a Biden administration setup. And I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them.”
Mr. Hernández’s lawyer said on Tuesday that his client had been released from a federal prison in West Virginia. The White House confirmed the pardon had been issued….
Mr. Hernández’s letter contained all the ingredients that, over time, foreign leaders, lobbyists and others who interact with Mr. Trump have found effective: flattery, a sense of shared persecution and an appeal to Mr. Trump’s perception of himself as the final arbiter of justice.
Addressing Mr. Trump as “your Excellency,” Mr. Hernández, who last year was sentenced to 45 years in prison for flooding the United States with cocaine, wrote, “I have found strength from you, Sir.”
“Your resilience to get back in that great office notwithstanding the persecution and prosecution you faced, all for what, because you wished to make your country Great Again,” Mr. Hernández wrote. “What you accomplished is unprecedented and truly historic.”
Mr. Hernández was convicted last year, but the investigation that led to his imprisonment began years earlier, before Mr. Trump was elected the first time. Investigators with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Manhattan federal prosecutors worked their way up a chain of cooperators involved in what they said — and multiple juries agreed — was a conspiracy to traffic enormous amounts of cocaine through Honduras and into the United States.
In his letter, though, Mr. Hernández characterized the case as a fly-by-night affair run by unscrupulous prosecutors in an office Mr. Trump has long resented — the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York — and directed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris. The description was reminiscent of how Mr. Trump often refers to the four separate criminal cases against him.
“The politicization and selective application of justice in my case is undeniable,” Mr. Hernández wrote in his letter, adding, “I was prosecuted without solid evidence, based on the testimonies of violent traffickers and professional liars motivated by revenge and by get-out-of-jail deals.”
He also worked to remind Mr. Trump of their personal relationship, reminiscing about remarks Mr. Trump had made at the 2018 Israeli American Council National Summit, in which he had spoken about halting the flow of drug trafficking at the Southern border.
“We’re winning after years and years of losing,” Mr. Trump said then. “We’re stopping drugs at a level that has never happened.”
Mr. Hernández, reflecting on the remarks from prison, informed the president that “those words meant a great deal to me, my family and the Honduran people.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/hernandez-honduras-trump.html
Donald Has a ‘Thing’ for criminals like himself….
He’s working hard to help them get around the ‘Law’….
Easy job for a felon US President….
Trump nodded off 4 times while getting his ass kissed at the so called “cabinet meeting” today.
It serves those toadies right that im the middle of their verbal blojobs to their bloated king he falls asleep on them.
Don’t matter….
He’s their ‘Savior’
They will go down with him in the end….
Lawmakers in the Grand ole Party already eyeing the escape hatch jump to save their assess in blue, purple and even a few red ststes
Donald IS NOT WELL
IN Body and a Lost Mind…
Tennessee 7th CD race tight as a drum with half the votes counted. Just a little more than 700 votes (out of about 95,000 counted so far) separate Matt Van Epps (R) from Aftyn Benn (D):
Matt Van Epps
R
47,288
49.8%
Aftyn Behn
D
46,585
49.1%
Jon Thorp
I
482
0.5%
Teresa Christie
I
376
0.4%
Bobby Dodge
I
122
0.1%
Robert Sutherby
I
107
0.1%
Total
94,960
55.4% expected votes in (Est. remaining 77,000)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-special-elections/tennessee-house-results
GOP edge in Tenn. 7th widening as count goes on (and, presumably, red rural or suburban counties call in):
With 64.4% counted:
Matt Van Epps
R
58,937
53.4%
Aftyn Behn
D
50,374
45.6%
Jon Thorp
I
553
0.5%
Total
110,453
It looks like it will definitely be a single digit margin in the end.
All of that while the Dem nominee is someone who is really far to the left and who said a lot of crazy things in past years that were able to be used against her.
A legitimate centrist Democrat may have won this special election.
That it IS this close says something….
But NOT enough….
I agree with that Aftyn Behn wasn’t the ideal candidate for this district and still shifted every county in the district from 7 to 25 points.
Trump-backed Van Epps ekes out win in Tennessee House race
The big picture: Republicans have held the seat since the Reagan administration, but the off-cycle election helped turn the district into a surprising battleground.
Morning……….
Now u tell us?
😌
United States Institute for Peace is now the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace, as the World’s Greatest Peacemaker (perhaps the Greatest Peacemaker in History) seeks his rightful Nobel Peace Prize — that was so unfairly/b> awarded to his first predecessor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/trump-us-institute-peace-name.html
Just a tempory name change like Gulf of Mexico and Defense Department…..
The guy REALLY has lost a sense of reality…..
Morning People….
The Raccoon didn’t even need a lawyer, eh?
Well, I dunno, James: there are some places in this country where taking down a liquor store is treated rather seriously.
But perhaps an old-fashioned retail lawyer could plead that the raccoon was either (a) overwhelmed by his first encounter with alcohol, or (b) so addicted to booze that he could not be found fully conscious of his offence and its consequences.
And since this blog takes contributions from the Greatest Constitutional Lawyer in the History of the Republic (or at least of the Palmetto Republic), maybe he could volunteer his services with as much publicity as possible — like Ben Crump [with Al Sharpton] at any and every police/minority tragedy — Rodents’ Lives Matter!
If the raccoon is related to a powerful Delaware political figure, it has nothing to worry about….
Yo!
It least they should made the rascal clean up his mess and take out the garbage
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett
The New York TimesMore …
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Christina Jewett
The New York Times
Throughout his two-decade crusade against vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. viewed the federal government’s Vaccine Safety Datalink as a kind of holy grail. With millions of confidential patient records, the database, he believed, held the potential to prove whether vaccines cause autism.
After he became President Trump’s health secretary, Mr. Kennedy demanded access to the data, and assigned an old ally to examine it. But the scientists who managed it were standing in his way, worried that the data could be used improperly. …
Mr. Kennedy took over the Department of Health and Human Services in February after assuring skeptical senators weighing his confirmation that, despite 20 years of hostility toward the country’s long-established vaccine system, he would do nothing that “makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines.” He sought to present a more unifying agenda, vowing to target ultraprocessed foods and minimize toxic exposures as part of a broader mission to “reverse the chronic disease epidemic and put the nation back on the road to good health.”
But an examination of Mr. Kennedy’s tenure atop the nation’s massive health agency shows how, in ways not previously known, he has methodically laid the groundwork to overhaul American vaccine policy, following a blueprint he laid out in books, speeches and podcast appearances during his years as the leader of a movement attacking the system he now oversees. He has walled himself off from the government scientists and other civil servants he distrusts while elevating longtime allies to help carry out his vaccine agenda.
Mr. Kennedy has denied misleading senators about his intentions. He said in an interview that it should be no surprise that he brought in people he can trust, including parents who believe their children were injured by vaccines.
“I don’t want to perpetuate a system that everybody knows is broken,” he said, adding, “I need people in there who are highly motivated to challenge the inertia, challenge the orthodoxies, because the biggest threat to the system is inertia, because it will just continue this terrible sick care system where everyone is sicker. You need to disrupt it.”
On Thursday, Mr. Kennedy’s efforts came into full public view during a chaotic and contentious meeting of a panel of vaccine advisers, handpicked by the health secretary after he fired the old group. They delayed a vote on changing the decades-old recommendation that newborns should be vaccinated against hepatitis B. On Friday, they will reconsider the suite of vaccines given to young children.
Unraveling the vaccine schedule would mark a radical and, experts say, dangerous shift. Public health officials warn that if Mr. Kennedy succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children. Six medical organizations have taken Mr. Kennedy to court, accusing him of “a clear pattern of hostility toward established scientific processes” that has resulted in chaos throughout the health care system….
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/rfk-vaccines-hhs-trump.html
Good Morning….
Another day dealing with the Trump ‘Chaos Protocol ‘……
Morning All
Morning people…..
Reportedly, the DC pipe bomb suspect has told the FBI that he believes the 2020 election was stolen.
Definitely not what they or MAGA had in mind.
The suspect is probably making that up now, but he does know that is his path to charges being dropped or receiving a pardon. You cannot blame him I guess.
YO!…..
They ARE ALL Crazy!….
But Trump will probably pardon the guy……
He’s Trump’s kinda guy!
Rumor mill has it that Intellectualy challenged Homeland Security Sec.Kristi Noem is going to be replaced soon by former Va. Gov. Glenn Youngkin .
Noem is reputed to be a poor administrator and ,despite her fawning idiotic praise for Trump,( she thanked him for keeping the hurricanes away) is not popular among the White House people.
Trump is really mad at Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar ,whom he just pardoned for saying he’s going to run for reelection as a Democrat.
No “loyalty” Trump claims.
Apparently Trump thought that the unspoken price for the pardon was that Cuellar would run as a Republican.
What kind of corrupt Democrat officeholder did DJT think he was dealing with?
Eric Adams?
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The art of the ‘DEAL”?
Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon
The president criticized Cuellar for a “lack of loyalty” after he filed to run for reelection as a Democrat.
The art of the ‘DEAL”?
Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon
The president criticized Cuellar for a “lack of loyalty” after he filed to run for reelection as a Democrat.
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Supreme’s hearing on Trump firing the FTC Commissoner and in effect ANYONE in the executive branch….
Thus nullifing the concept of Congress making Independent agencies…
Case…
Morning….
Another rock and roll Trump Protocol Day
Morning………
Could the Supreme’s be on the edge of actually giving Trump TWO thumbs down?
Birth Right
Tariffs’Import Taxes
Or?
What are probably equally important — if not more important in the struggle against despotic one-man rule are the challenge to U.S. v. Humphrey’s Executor (1935) [can the President fire independent commission members without good cause?] and the campaign-finance case (can billionaires funnel tens of thousands of dollars indirectly to specific candidates?)
The court keeps moving to over turn Congress trying to balance the government’s action from see-sawing back and forth every 4 years.
james often says that “everything Trump touches turns to….”
Well, I cannot help but notice that he did attend the last Super Bowl and things have gotten really bad lately for both the Chiefs and the Eagles.
Speaking of the Orange Jinx, remember that the First Showboat is 100% certain to be as a host as he’s always been for world-wide audiences at the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup (at which he’s sure to display his FIFA Peace Prize medal as prominently as possible over that long red tie).
Loud booing is certain to ensue.
And (though I haven’t followed this World Cup so closely as previously), there’s no guarantee that Team USA will win. It’s customary for the host country’s Head of State (e.g. Queen Elizabeth II in 1966) to present the cup and medal to the winning team’s captain. Should that be the USA’s, the President will be even more insufferable at the end of the tournament ((held at the Rose Bowl) than he will be at the start. Suppose how he’ll behave if the winner is some loser country like France or Brazil (let alone Algeria). If England or the US don’t reach the final, then I’m rooting for Curaçao (pop. 140,000, smaller than Providence’s).
But as for jinxes, the host country’s team has won only 6 Jules Rimet Cups in 22 tournaments since 1930:
1930 Uruguay
1934 Italy
1966 England
1974 West Germany
1978 Argentina
1998 France
Trump is speaking off teleprompter.
He said Karoline Leavitt has “lips that do not stop” and then said words that sounded exactly like “I love minors.”
Donald IS Donald…
The sorry thing IS his followers HAVE drank the Kool-Aid and think he’s the second coming….
A convicted criminal and sexual harasser ….