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JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 07:15 PM Oct 2024

Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To 'Yank' Vaccines 'Off The Market'

"Billionaire Howard Lutnick said anti-vaxxer and Trump ally Robert F Kennedy Jr. wants to get "the data" to help him pull vaccines.

The co-chair of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s transition team promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism in a CNN interview Wednesday. He also said Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hopes to get “data” through a Trump administration to have vaccines pulled “off the market.”

Howard Lutnick, the billionaire CEO of investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a longtime friend of Trump’s, told the network’s Kaitlan Collins that vaccines are “not proven” to be safe. Lutnick said he’d recently been schooled on vaccines by Kennedy, the failed independent presidential candidate and anti-vaxxer who has endorsed Trump.

Kennedy has said he would have significant influence over public health policy if Trump wins the White House.

“So, I spent two-and-a-half hours this week with Bobby Kennedy Jr., and it was the most extraordinary thing. Because, let’s face it, we’ve all heard on the news all sorts of sort of snarky comments about him,” Lutnick told Collins.

Recounting his conversation with Kennedy, Lutnick went on to link autism to the growth of vaccines — a discredited idea that dates back to a retracted study from 1998 —"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/howard-lutnick-trump-vaccines_n_67237fe0e4b02f5ab1d287fe

They are out of their collective minds!!!

WTF!!!

These are supposed to be "educated" people.

If trump wins we are so screwed.

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Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To 'Yank' Vaccines 'Off The Market' (Original Post) JohnSJ Oct 2024 OP
Pillow Guy can help with the data. Permanut Oct 2024 #1
Seriously? Even if people WANT the vaccines we won't be able to get them? That's insane. Jmb 4 Harris-Walz Oct 2024 #2
They are out of their minds. JohnSJ Oct 2024 #4
On Facebook - "Measles liked this" "Polio liked this" "RIP Smallpox liked this" ck4829 Oct 2024 #3
Next they will disavow Germ theory JohnSJ Oct 2024 #5
Take the vaccine from my cold dead arm! yellowcanine Oct 2024 #6
As Madam VP says, "They are out of their minds!" PA Democrat Oct 2024 #7
Outright MURDER of Women, Children, and Seniors. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2024 #8
Vaccines aren't the only thing these crazy fkrs will "yank." B.See Oct 2024 #9

Jmb 4 Harris-Walz

(1,117 posts)
2. Seriously? Even if people WANT the vaccines we won't be able to get them? That's insane.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 07:25 PM
Oct 2024

On one hand they are forcing women to stay pregnant presumably to increase the population. On the other hand, they will do away with vaccines which will likely kill off those same children they forced into existence. And others as well, the old, the infirm, health care workers. Crazy!

B.See

(8,469 posts)
9. Vaccines aren't the only thing these crazy fkrs will "yank."
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 07:43 PM
Oct 2024

Contrary to what they're crowing now, they'll YANK,

-All Abortions
-the Affordable Care Act
-All Birth Control and Contraceptives
-Planned Parenthood Funding
-All DEI Initiatives
-The Voting Rights Act
-The Civil Rights Act
-Public Education
-Child Nutrition and Free Lunch Programs
-Legal Immigrant Status for DACA eligibles and others
-Social Security and Medicare
-Student Debt Relief and Loan Forgiveness (except for rich mfkrs and bankers, that is)
-Separation of Church and State
-Consumer Protections
-Environmental Protections
-Any History or Social Studies curriculum that "makes them feel bad"
-Gay Rights
-Women's Rights
-Collective Bargaining and Worker's Rights


-and ANY FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS... Chump told us so, UP FRONT.

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