Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

Interestingly, the justice department have removed links to the evidence which may show Trump, but they haven’t removed the underlying pdf files. Someone posted this as an example. There are pictures clearly amongst those on the desk.

Yes they are corrupt but they are also useless. They were removing the content seemingly on the basis of reviewing SM posts identifying bits that were embarrassing to them, and even (very illegally) threw in some images there were not part of the files. And it was uncovered in minutes of release

https://x.com/ap/status/2002491799890239621?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g

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I just saw this article, and it sounds like RFK Jr is going the full Mengele:

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’

His ducking wife, an American citizen born in this country, is Hindu

https://x.com/redwave_press/status/2002848391475372296?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g

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Cool cool cool
https://x.com/grynbaum/status/2002876877082652914?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g

Wide spread reporting this decision come straight from Weiss and staff are up in arms rejecting any journalistic reason to justify holding it

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This is really bad. Doing a placebo controlled trial while there is an established standard of care commits a portion of the patients to certain harm. It is simply unethical to do that and is why so many clinical trials are done without a true placebo these days. But the same principle is still applied, they are just compared against a different standard and the studies are designed to account for that and analyzed accordingly. Kennedy has this thing that this lack of placebo control makes the trials substandard, but that is the claim of a moron or a charlatan.

This is worse than just the study though because of the knock on effects it will have to global public health. One of the biggest challenges global health has faced since its become a field is getting subsaharan africa to accept medical care from outsiders due to very reasonable concerns over their historical treatment. This sort of moves has the potential to set back trust in these communities with impacts on rates of infectious disease that ripple all through the world.

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Bari has addressed the newsroom telling them the story did not advance the ball and it needed input from the white house to justify running

This is what the lead on the story sent to the entire team on hearing the news
https://x.com/grynbaum/status/2002943084322287815?s=20

“Government silence is a statement…If the standard for airing a story becomes
‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.”

The right is so comically thirsty for celebrity endorsement that no matter how much they deride celebrities talking politics they will roll out anyone the second they have something nice to say about MAGA no matter who they are

https://x.com/yashar/status/2002821540295868687?s=20

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Nicki Minaj isnt the brightest tbf, as she proves in the X clip and the youtube clip below
not sure why folk would listen to her opinion

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Trump’s still after Greenland then…

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That is a completely different black woman

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my bad, I thought that was Nicki Minaj,

I even searched Nicki Minaj magician on Youtube and that what came up!

Obviously I’m not the brightest then!

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Also, isn’t she an immigrant?

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Trinidadian, and I don’t think she has US citizenship

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She certainly wasn’t yet in 2012 when she started making a lot of noise about feeling let down by Obama and how she won’t be voting for him :joy:

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Satire is dead…

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This is further proof he needs help,they cant even build half their target,in subs alone and now they are going to magic these things,meantime our STUPID Aust.govt sends more money for subs the were never on and now beyond any hope.

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Trump class i.e painted gold!

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Textbook fascist tactics…

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