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Libertarian's avatar

Pocahontas was particularly shrill shouting Yes or No!!! As if every answer is a binary. And to think that guy in the dress Levine was their pick before. Amazing hypocrisy.

Thanks Sasha for keeping us so well informed.

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Texyz's avatar

Pocohontas...er Chief Running Mouth. Her only 2 gears are Low Shrill and High Shrill.

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Just An American's avatar

She was totally unhinged, just like the last hearing, and the one before that, and ALL the Democrats before that. They are really flailing.

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Messenger17's avatar

The RFK Jr hearing convinced me that Sen Warren got real COVID shots, and the spike proteins and what all else in them have clogged the coolant lines to her head. Unless it was a masterful act of irony to help RFK Jr get confirmed while appearing not to.

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Tom Kennedy's avatar

Fauxcohantis is one of the largest recipient of money from Big Pharma. She stated RFK would be swayed by his lawsuits against Pharma.

Per Walter Kirn she sounded like a nasty Big Pharma lawyer.

Spot on summary Sasha.

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Jaynee Beach's avatar

Yes — I personally believe that every Senator (in every confirmation hearing, actually) should be required to disclose every possible conflict of interest dollar that they have received, PRIOR to being allowed to ask a question.

“I’m Elizabeth Warren, and I have received over one point seven million dollars from pharmaceutical companies. My question for you, Mr. Kennedy, is…”

Can you imagine how completely different these hearings would be if that rule was in place?

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cat's avatar

That's a great idea. If not before they start their rant (aka "questioning"), then they could do it afterward. This would be similar to all the big pharma TV ads that list all the side effects in the last half of the commercial.

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Jaynee Beach's avatar

They could just continually run it on a ticker under their faces the entire time they are speaking

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Ann J. Gavin's avatar

That would really put things into perspective. Great idea.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Interestingly, Javier Becerra was the Sec of HHS and Levine was the assistant secretary. Most of us have no idea who the assistant of anything is in government, which goes to show that Biden wanted Levine out there to hammer home his trans pick.

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Steve's avatar

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of The Lefts Obsession on transgenders?

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madaboutmd's avatar

Most definitely not!

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Messenger17's avatar

Another angle is that it perfectly fits a depopulation agenda.

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Steve's avatar

It seems to me the mass hypnosis/ brainwashing, is focused on a very narrow segment of society, an only in one county...America.

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Steve's avatar

Europe has walked away from it.

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Messenger17's avatar

As RFK Jr will be the real HHS director as "assistant secretary" or the highest position the fiugurehead secretary can appoint if the corporate minions seal their fate by not confirming him.

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Full Court Free Press's avatar

RFK as HHS secretary, Dr. Vinay Prisad as assistant HHS secretary! (Or that great British gentleman, Dr. John Campbell)

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Marilyn's avatar

Good point!

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KaiKai's avatar

While I agree with you just one minor correction: Rachel Levine was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at DHHS. RFK will replace Xavier Becerra as the Secretary of Health. They both had to be confirmed, were confirmed across party lines and both were useless.

Warnock was pretty obnoxious too. Heck, the entire democratic side was uncivil and never once mentioned diabetes, cardiac disease and any other chronic disease. They do not care about the people, only theater for their sad and angry base.

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Marilyn's avatar

They are POed that RFK Jr left DNC and joined Trump. Actually, Bernie was pretty civil but got a bit hostile the last minute or so. Warren must have kicked him, LOL.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

To be fair, Levine was Deputy Secretary, Becerra was the theoretical head

I do understand the confusion, the Admiral was the face of HHS for the last few years

Which seems to be a questionable decision in hindsight

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madaboutmd's avatar

Levine's Wiki page says assistant secretary which I don't think requires Senate confirmation. If Becerra was just the theoretical head, even more reason to believe they wanted the trans out there.

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John Smithson's avatar

Levine had to be, and was, confirmed by the Senate. The vote was 52 to 48. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm him, along with all 50 Democrats.

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madaboutmd's avatar

Ok

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Kathy Christian's avatar

Thinking themselves wise, they are become as fools.

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Louis Bingo's avatar

Anthony Fauci is not the Pope of Science as he claimed, the vicar of Science on earth. He's the embodiment rather of the decay of science, originally a mentality of inquiry and investigation by the free and critical mind, ossified by institutions into the slave of politics and ideology.

Both novels 1984 and Brave New World present just such worlds in which science is destroyed by ideology and the politics of control and domination. It survives only in the most truncated forms, while the critical mind that created science to begin with is demolished because it can;t be made to serve any narrative, let alone a totalitarian one.

This is what is at stake in the RFK hearings--whether the scientific mind is still permitted to live or whether it has to be sacrificed to the kind of ideological control the Democrats these days so desperately desire.

It's quite a remarkable thing for anyone who came up during the Civil Rights movement or the Vietnam War to see how the democrats have become not only shameless apologists for the military industrial complex and the natsec state, but for big pharma, big ag, and big food too.

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GabeReal's avatar

Great comment. You really hit the nail on the head with this, especially the referencing of 1984 and Brave New World…

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Libertarian's avatar

That’s why we call him Bingo.

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Lightwing's avatar

As a former Dem, it’s horrifying and heartbreaking.

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Jim M's avatar

Yeah... we used to be the good guys.

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TeeJae's avatar

BINGO, Bingo! ;)

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David White's avatar

Becoming elitist goes with becoming plutocratic.

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Susan G's avatar

I cannot find a recent HHS secretary with either a scientific or medical education. Biden's HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, a lawyer, served in the US House for 24 years, then as AG of California. Trump's secretary, Alex Azar, also a lawyer, was a pharma exec, and served in GW Bush administration as Gen Counsel and Deputy Secretary of HHS. Obama had two - Sebelius, former Kansas governor and public office holder, and Burwell, who held positions in the Clinton administration and then with the Gates Foundation, then Walmart's foundation.

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KaiKai's avatar

Tom Price, MD was Secretary of HHS for a short time under Trump v1

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Susan G's avatar

Seven months. That's why I didn't list him.

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G Reyes's avatar

I'm from a family of medicine, I wouldn't trust any of them to run a lemonaide stand. Surgical procedures? Sure. Business administration? Not a chance.

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Dick Minnis's avatar

It will take a lawyer to dismantel the revoving door of corruption at the HSS complex. Kennedy can do that. He has first rate sciebtists backing him up at CDC, NIH, & FDA.

Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com

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Xavier Becerra had no medical or health background either.

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It was actually his wife Cheryl who required attendees to be vaxxed for that party. Bobby mentioned in a few podcast interviews that he didn't know she did that until after the fact.

As to his knowledge of the science, he learned a lot during his time at Children's Health Defense, as most of the articles he wrote/edited demonstrate.

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Sue Rosenthal's avatar

i.e. he DOES have scientific and medical education. He was self taught. You are right. Just like Da Vinci, Abe Lincoln, Ben Franklin, to name a few.

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Oh Sarah's avatar

The medical folks are on the dole and drove us through the guardrail.

The better question is why haven’t we found a non medical person before now?

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John Smithson's avatar

What makes you think Bobby Kennedy is good at solving problems? He has never been in any sort of normal job where he solved problems, but has been a trial lawyer. No trial lawyer in history has ever solved a single problem. That's not what they do.

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Alison Bull's avatar

The D’s have this one last chance to keep the media on their side. If RFK/Trump bans pharma advertisements, they go under and that’s not an exaggeration. I worked in TV ad sales and they get the most from pharma, at good prices and they never canceled their schedules. If the politicians don’t boot Kennedy, all bets are off.

It’s wonderful. I pray Bobby is confirmed.

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JoAnna Shaw's avatar

I sold radio advertising at a time in history when the big news stations wouldn’t even run a Beano add 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 What the ad business has turned into is pathetic.

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Alison Bull's avatar

Haha! It was different even when I started in the late nineties! It changed after the money started to go to the internet.

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Jim Ryser's avatar

Same here, Allison. If for no other reason, then to watch 24 hour news take a dirt nap.

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BertPE's avatar

Let's point out that Sanders leads the pack of pathetic panderers to pharma in contributions he must pay back at well over $1,000,000; and Warren comes in a close 2nd. Snakes, all of them, snakes in the weeds. Do they think we are stupid? (Rhetorical question).

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/whos-trying-to-stop-america-from

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AJoy's avatar

They make me ill.

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julia payne's avatar

At this point I hope and pray there is no saving them. They are rude, puffed up windbags who do not care at all about the American people. They merely wish to impress enough constituents to remain in their cushy jobs. We need to find out how much each of them is worth....and how did they get to be that rich?

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Steersman's avatar

🙂 Good question. Mark Twain's answer -- a golden oldie; the more things change, the more they remain the same:

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14916-it-could-probably-be-shown-by-facts-and-figures-that

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Jim Ryser's avatar

Yeah, their lack of caring for people was very clear. It’s almost someone in power like Pelosi sent out a memo saying how many millions they will lose if so, and so and so and so get in.

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Sally Sue's avatar

I bet if there was a WikiLeaks of their emails, it would say exactly that!

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Marilyn's avatar

Type in their name and “net worth” on your search engine and you will find that info!

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Steersman's avatar

> "Galileo is turning in his grave."

Couldn't have said it better myself ... 😉🙂. Him, and Darwin and his "bulldog", T.H. Huxley.

Lotta ideological claptrap -- articles of faith -- floating about. On both sides of course, though that on the Left, among Democrats, kind of has to take the cake. In particular, the rather demented idea that people can change sex, and that it is "good medicine" to sterilize and castrate autistic and dysphoric children -- turning them into sexless eunuchs -- because they happen to be "gender non-conforming".

Crime and medical scandal of the century that the Democrats are going to have to wear for a very long time.

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Alice Ball's avatar

I will never forgive them. Ever.

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Steersman's avatar

Pretty unforgivable. Maybe only "Gawd" can do so -- "forgive them lord, they know not what they do".

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Alice Ball's avatar

I don’t think so. I think even God will look at them as child torturers. And one of the worst parts is that they pat themselves on the back for this twisted satanic ideology. Virtue signaling PLUS money grubbing by the university clinics. Pray they are sued into bankruptcy and the “doctors” go to jail.

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Glenda's avatar

Not that I needed confirmation for “Walking Away” in the Summer of 2020, but I would think this display of hostility, stupidity and willful blindness would dislodge any remaining hangers on. One thing the Democratic Party is clearly adept at is making Republicans of Democrats at Warp

Speed..

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John Haupt's avatar

It would be nice if they really wanted answers.

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The Outsider's avatar

I rarely pay attention these days to hearings because they are never about getting answers. Hearings have degenerated into opportunities of posturing before the cameras for as long as I can remember. Perhaps it has always been that way.

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John Haupt's avatar

It’s all performative. It doesn’t reflect well on congress.

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The Outsider's avatar

Agreed, but I watched much of today’s performance because I believe if RFK is not given this job, the health of our nation will only get worse. It is about time we got control of the medical-industrial behemoth.

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John Haupt's avatar

100%

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

Lol, Dems bombed with so many "Do you still kick your mother?" questions with a demand for an immediate yes or no answer.

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David White's avatar

I thought that was "Have you stopped beating your wife?" That is the fallacy that I call "embedding". No doubt there is some "official" other name.

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Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's avatar

It is so apparent that NONE of them has EVER read a vaccine package insert. They have no idea they contain aluminum, mercury, cow blood, chicken parts, polysorbate 80, formaldehyde, and more, including highly toxic adjuvants. The myths of "safe and effective" and "the science is settled." is all they know. They dance well to the tune of their masters.

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AJoy's avatar

Many Americans are just like them unfortunately parroting “safe and effective and trust the science” all day long:/

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reality speaks's avatar

The lesson is and has been for a very long time Democrats can only get power by lying their entire worldview is built upon lies. Truth and facts are foreign concepts to them. They believe the ultimate lie that a man can become a women by declaring it to be so.

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Alice Ball's avatar

The biggest lie in an extraordinarily long list! How can anyone vote for these people? It’s like a collection of the top stupids in the country

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PSW's avatar

They are stupid people. That's it.

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Deb Nance's avatar

I remember Hillary saying that the democrats are stupid and easily manipulated. That's the easy part she said.

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Judith Hopkins's avatar

Not stupid as much a GREEDY

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publius_x's avatar

not either/or - both/and

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Jim Ryser's avatar

Which / as they fall from their own grace / makes them say and do stupid things.

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Christiane Northrup, M.D.'s avatar

Thank you Sasha. I am so honored to have been named in this piece.

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AJoy's avatar

You are the best Dr Northrup! Been following you since 2020 and have read ALL your books :). Miss hearing you play your harp 🥰

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TeeJae's avatar

Great to see you in the comments, Dr. Northrup. You were one of a few dissident voices who kept me sane during the scamdemic. I can't thank you enough for that!

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Liz LaSorte's avatar

Democrats are going the way of the Whigs and should be remembered as the party that went full on totalitarian until enough people took notice and left.

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David White's avatar

No, they're locked in as a semi-official party due to the primary system. The Whigs did not have that to keep their heads above water.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

"The world's greatest deliberative body" my hind end. What a load of cow purge. If I were not in favor of RFK Jr. before, I would certainly be now.

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thomas buckley's avatar

Kabuki on the Potomac.

Every senator already know how they will vote - Sanders will be an RFK vote, as most likely be Whitehouse - the Kennedy's and Whitehouse's go waaaay back (remember how Patrick Kennedy somehow moved to Rhode Island in time for the congressional election?) and Sheldon and RFK were college roommates. RFK jr. is in by two (maybe one if Crypt McConnell can be roused.)

The rest is all yelling and posturing and empowering staff by making them write "questions" that are not meant to elicit answers but to simply be embarrassingly spraye across the face of the witness, no matter who they are.

So, actually, it's not kabuki, but actually more like bukakke on the Potomac.

Eww.

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The Outsider's avatar

I hope you are correct, but it didn’t sound like either one was likely to vote for Kennedy.

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Susan G's avatar

I agree. If they do, to whom were the histronics directed?

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