Scottish Leader Sums It Up

[Grogan]

Oh, I love those angry Hitler parodies. I haven't seen one in a long time, good show.

"I would imprison you on the moon. At once!"

[Zema Bus]

I'll have to see what else they have

I saw this on FB tonight:

Elon Musk’s push to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes two weeks after he struck a deal with Visa to launch a payment app on X. Sabotaging the agency would shield him from having to follow consumer protection laws. This is why you follow the money.

[Grogan]

I remember one of those where Hitler got a speeding ticket. It was a funny one.

Yes, that's what all this killing of agencies is about, leaving nothing to stop them and their billionaire benefactors from sucking the life out of the nation.

P.S. Here it is:

[Zema Bus]

lol!

[Grogan]

Seeing as we can now rename places arbitrarily...

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[Dark Angel]

I see a petition has been presented in Canada for Musk's Canadian citizenship to be revoked over his conduct in the US government. In response he has said that Canada is "not a real country". Seriously, get on with it! Revoke that shit!

[Grogan]

Indeed, I signed that today on our House of Commons' petition site.

He's weaponizing his money to undermine our sovereignty, so I agree he should have his citizenship revoked. It's mostly symbolic, it probably won't happen and wouldn't matter to him if it did, but fuck him.

[Dark Angel]

Last I saw it's over 250,000 and climbing

[Grogan]

250,001... I got my mother to sign it

[Zema Bus]

We need a similar petition here to revoke Musk's US citizenship

[Zema Bus]

A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season’s flu shot has been canceled, a panel member said Wednesday.

Federal health officials notified members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the cancellation in an email Wednesday afternoon, said committee member Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

The email, Offit said, offered no explanation for the scrapped meeting.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The cancellation comes as the United States is in the midst of a particularly severe flu season. So far, 86 children and 19,000 adults have died this season, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“I’m quite shocked,” Norman Baylor, a former director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccine Research and Review, said in an email. “As you know, the VRBPAC is critical for making the decision on strain selection for the next influenza vaccine season.”

In January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. Federal health officials were later ordered to stop communicating with the WHO.

Stat News reported Monday that officials from both the FDA and the CDC would participate virtually in the WHO meeting, however.

The canceled FDA advisory meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

That meeting included a presentation and vote on a number of vaccines, including the use of the British drugmaker GSK’s meningococcal vaccine, as well as for a new chikungunya vaccine and the recently approved at-home nasal spray for influenza.

The canceled meeting in March is likely to add to concerns among scientists that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an anti-vaccine activist, could undermine the vaccine regulatory process in the U.S., possibly leading to a resurgence of preventable diseases.

Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, said this is a “clearly emerging pattern to undermine, even eliminate, scientific advisory committees at HHS.”

“I fear that Secretary Kennedy is implementing his long held skepticism of science and scientific evidence,” Gostin said.

Earlier Wednesday, Texas health officials reported that an unvaccinated child in the state died from the measles, the first death from the virus in a decade. An outbreak in the state has led to at least 124 cases, mostly in children.

“It’s a bad day for infectious diseases,” said Dr. Ofer Levy, director of the precision vaccines program at Boston Children’s Hospital, who has advised the FDA on vaccines.

From nbcnews.com

They are going to destroy 100 years of progress.

[Grogan]

NBC threatened for reporting on this in 3, 2, 1...

Once you start to realize that the consequences are part of the plan, it all makes sense. Not only don't they want to spend one tin dime on the population, they want people sick, weary, bankrupt and desperate. They'll dutifully work for slave wages, and properties and assets will be sold off to the billionaire class for a fraction of their worth. It's all designed to funnel the nation's wealth (and that of as much of the world as they can too) into the hands of the wealthy. When the government is broke from lack of taxation, they'll justify invading other countries for wealth.

[Zema Bus]

I heard a little bit of that meeting when I stepped away from work today, Trump was berating Zelenskyy and calling Biden "stupid".

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[Grogan]

Yes, that was planned. To humiliate him and kick him out of the meeting. Vance was fucking smirking. The press is going around saying shit like Zelenskyy was goading them, too.

This bully behaviour is actually going to weaken America, because now nobody respects it. Other leaders will now plot around this administration, give false or no intel, and give a big middle finger to the USA.

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

That's actually pretty good Neil Young emulation (the way he sings in Southern Man).

A lot of truths in it "Got distracted by your culture wars... while billionaries swooped in and took what's yours". It's generally nicer than I would have been though.

Trump's golf course was vandalized in Scotland, by the way

[Dark Angel]

Yes, that was planned. To humiliate him and kick him out of the meeting. Vance was fucking smirking. The press is going around saying shit like Zelenskyy was goading them, too.

This bully behaviour is actually going to weaken America, because now nobody respects it. Other leaders will now plot around this administration, give false or no intel, and give a big middle finger to the USA.

NATO met today to discuss the Ukrain situation. America was not invited.

[Grogan]

It would be like inviting army ants to a picnic

I hope NATO helps them, in spite of the trumpanzee troop that thinks they run the world. They should actually be kicked out of NATO because nothing good will come from them undermining and vetoing everything for the benefit of the world's dictators. They wouldn't want to because of the money, but the U.S. is a hostile government now and there will BE no funding from them. Hungary too.

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

"I have bone spurs"

A photon torpedo up his ass would be too much to hope for.

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

"Mr. Leon Musk"... good clownish caricature of him

[Grogan]

This is what's going on in America right now, ignorance celebrated, knowledge punished.

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[Zema Bus]

Yeah it's a dark time for science and medicine.

[Grogan]

"Never underestimate the vanity of a guy who paints himself orange, and tapes dead ferrets to his head each day before going off to berate the public."

- D. Earl Stephens, Editor, Columnist, Writer

[Zema Bus]

lol!

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

The only person he's going to be able to order to make something named after him is the undertaker. When even his Republican loyalists and their wealthy benefactors have had enough (after a bunch lose their fortunes and/or get thrown under the bus) he'll be toast.

He's gutting the nation to pay for things that stroke his ego. What a horrible man.

[Zema Bus]

[Grogan]

If it goes too far, we're going to need Arnold to revive one of his roles and go back to the past to fix it.

"You're the President of the United States, you're not supposed to do that." <--- Sounds like something he'd have said in one of his old movies, right before he bashes them.

One of his earlier movies where he didn't speak English as well, Raw Deal. He's fighting mobster type guys, and at one point in the movie they are in an actor's dressing room. While laying a beating on one of them, he smears red grease paint on the guy's face and holds him in front of the mirror "See dis? It's what you're going to look like dead!" That's one of my favourite Arnie lines ever