The Absurd GOP

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’d rather see him arrested, handcuffed, and frogmarched off to jail for contempt of court.

Boru

I prefer a French solution.

Beat him with a baguette while quoting Balzac?

Boru

[Jackalope]

I prefer a French solution.

Beat him with a baguette while quoting Balzac?

Boru

That's a funny way to spell "off with his head".

[Fireball]

If the baguette is 4140 steel, I'm on board. But a section of rebar would be easier to come by, and cheaper.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If the baguette is 4140 steel, I'm on board. But a section of rebar would be easier to come by, and cheaper.

You don’t have a local ‘Steel Baguettes R Us’? Must be a regional thing.

Boru

[Silver]

Privacy laws ‘don’t apply’ to trans people using public toilets, claims EHRC chair

Pink News

[Angrboda]

[Angrboda]

“Some people believe that the term anti-vaxxer is a pejorative,” the physician Robert Malone wrote on June 9. “I do not — I view it as high praise.”

Early in the pandemic, Malone campaigned for treatment with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and against mRNA vaccines, which he described as “causing a form of” AIDS, though he later admitted he received the Moderna vaccine to treat his own long Covid. In 2021, Malone circulated a 2013 video of a high school athlete collapsing on the football field, blaming coronavirus vaccination for the death before he was served with a cease-and-desist letter from the family. More recently, he dismissed as “misinformation” news reports attributing the deaths of two girls in Texas to measles, blaming not vaccine refusal but “medical errors,” and last fall published a book, “PsyWar,” claiming that between the C.I.A. and Department of Defense, the United States maintains “reality-bending information control capabilities” and that much of federal government’s business is conducted via sexual favor. “The term ‘anti-vaxxer,’” he repeated June 9, “it is not a slur, but a compliment.”

Two days later, he was appointed to the advisory board that steers America’s vaccine policy.

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The new appointees are not all fully committed skeptics — though, beyond Malone, they include several people who have testified in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers, as well as a longstanding board member for an anti-vaccine nonprofit and an M.I.T. business-school professor who has been publicly describing mRNA vaccines as mass killers since 2023. (The choices also include a nutritional scientist focused on fatty acids in the brain and a founder of a biotech company without a single piece of published research to his name.)

The new group fails to include experts on any diseases that vaccines prevent. Or experts on vaccines themselves. Or experts on infectious-disease epidemiology. Or experts on clinical trials....

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opini...panel.html

[Angrboda]

There is also a bigger risk, Offit says — one that might sound like a worst-case scenario but is, to him, the most likely one. It is that Kennedy finds an excuse to add autism to the list of compensable vaccine injuries, for which manufacturers are legally responsible. This would be a kind of rerun of the D.P.T. vaccine scare of the early 1980s, when a flood of litigation drove the number of vaccine manufacturers from 18 to four and forced the Reagan administration to step in and establish the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to minimize the exposure of manufacturers. Adding autism, Offit says, would break the program, making it immediately untenable for manufacturers to continue producing or delivering shots in the United States. The liability would be simply too much for drugs that offer the companies almost no profit. Suddenly, we would be faced not with problems of guidance or coverage but of simple accessibility — all those shots that brought such miraculous ends to centuries of infectious diseases in the second half of the last century no longer available in this one.

“I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country,” Offit says. “And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it’s aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism,” he goes on. “I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.”

-ibid

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Having spent a significant portion of my life in a place where this kind of wall was a thing, I offer an observation: they don't work.

Boru