"Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to favorably report the nominations of Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Martin Makary to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by votes of 12-11 and 14-9, respectively. Their nominations will now move to the Senate floor for a final vote at a later date."
What a heartwarming story. Dr Jay, concerned with truth and what's actually important, lost his career to the covid cult for speaking out. What redemption!
I'm so glad Dr. Jay glided through his confirmation hearing, as you say. From all reports, he's a smart guy and a wonderful human being. I followed him from the beginning of Covid. I'm very encouraged by the emphasis on transparency and openness from him and RFK Junior.
I really wish we had your system of public hearings for when ministers/heads of agencies are appointed.
While the PM can theoretically appoint whomever he pleases to whichever executive position he wants, Parliament can (and would) call for a vote of no confidence in his pick, if it's "too extreme" (i.e. picking someone from outside the party system).
This has led to all departments et c virtually always being headed by politruks hand-picked for loyalty to the bureaucracy more than any actual skill, integrity, knowledge or experience.
Oh we get that backscratcher-crap too, don't worry. Old Red and Anarchistsaying here was:
"You can't vote Wallenberg out", meaning the banking clan/business family that's been a prime meddler in Swedish politics since the late 1700s. Think Blackrock et al, but on a national scale. Same family as Raoul Wallenberg came from - while he tried to save people from the Holocaust, his elders in the clan laundered gold fillings, jewelry, art et c that the nazis had stolen from their victims.
The older I get, the more positive I get about the idea of either having a 'Starship Troopers'-style (the novel) process for franchise and running for an office, or a public lottery.
Seems the only two fair ways of kofferdamming against always getting a oligarch-based corruptocracy in office.
Until Hawley's video was only audio, I was getting suspicious about Banks video being only audio. His picture is no where I have seen his name. I was beginning to believe Indiana elected a ghost. Maybe they did. `\_(•_•)_/`
Honestly, I swear, Trump is just the worst. By trying to limit the number of deaths of young eastern Slav men in a war that we've been provoking and funding, he's also limiting the number of young eastern Slav women who might potentially some day end up in my bed.
No, it's not likely, but the more of their men who are dead, the higher my chances are, and if it takes a couple gigaliters of *their* blood to get *me* laid again, I'll consider it totally worth the price.
(For the viciously dry sarcasm impaired, you may consider this your notice.)
I was... I was just having a *moment*, apparently. ;(
No wait, actually, I can even name what that moment was. When the very first missiles and bombs hit Kharkiv, Ukraine, I was working (remotely) for a company that was based in UA. I was on the company Slack and the last thing I heard from the CEO of a sub 50 person company for three days was "That sounded like a bomb!" I'd been employed by this place for a grand total of less than 90 days at that point. In fact, I had started December first of 2021, so, the math can be done, but I'm lazy.
Needless to say, this was... distressing, as it was effectively the job I had dreamed of having since I was a teenager reading far too much cyberpunk science fiction. So, suddenly, my job shifted from "being a Unix sysadmin" to "assisting with refugee evacuations" without a clutch overnight. Conveniently, I also hold a CDL-A, so I'm pretty good at shifting without a clutch. Still, this was stressful, and I spent the next six weeks trying to get people out of the country. Yes, explicitly, I was working to primarily make sure that various men of conscriptable age (my primary co-employee cohort in this industry) made it out before they got drafted. Some people who will forever have my respect actively chose to stay, instead. But over the course of that period, we got everyone who worked for us, and their families, and even just their friends and the families of their friends out of Ukraine. Likely 200 people, related to folks of a less than 50 person company, half of whom were outside of Ukraine to start. We also got people out of both Belarus and Russia itself, because oddly enough, none of my coworkers wanted to get drafted to shoot at their own coworkers.
And then I was watching a video about Trump, of all of the presidents I have lived under -- whether he actually feels this way or not, not that I have any particular reason to doubt it -- at least even *saying* that he has as a goal to reduce the number of deaths in conflict that we're involved in. Like I say, I'm not disputing that he actually feels that way, but *even if he doesn't*, he's the first one to even *say* that he wants to end that. Even the notionally antiwar ones of the people who have held that office in my 48 years of existence have been like, "yeah, it's terrible, but sacrifice, and blah blah blah" but Trump is like "this is fucking stupid, let's stop paying for it".
And then I was watching some other video, and thinking about how Zelensky has asked other countries to actively deport men of conscriptable age -- which in this case is from 16 to 60 -- *back to Ukraine* to get sent into battle. Look. I'm not at all a fan of conscription. And frankly, if your country has been invaded, and it *needs* to conscript people to fight, your country isn't worth fighting for.
The contrast there... I dunno. I just had to say something, and being me, that "something" had to be as hard, and crass, and vicious as possible to try and make my point. I've just seen too many people advocating for spending infinite US taxpayer dollars to make sure that as many Ukrainian and Russian young men as possible die horribly, for something that those young men would be *far* better off turning around and just shooting the idiots leading them into.
...
And so I decided to be a dick about it, and thus hopefully make it really clear to the people pushing it that while I was being a dick in jest, they were being dicks in reality.
"And so I decided to be a dick about it, and thus hopefully make it really clear to the people pushing it that while I was being a dick in jest, they were being dicks in reality."
Oh, no. He didn't write too much. He f*cking nailed it.
Dedicated to the Virtuous and Vulnerable who, once again, fly the Blue and Yellow colors while cheering on rivers of Red from Real Victims of OUR senseless, bloody, proxy war.
Regardless of whether there was an actual pandemic, even going by the science of immunology that was available before Covid , it ran counter to everything they proclaimed eg. a ‘novel’ coronavirus ( not possible, too many overlapping functionally constrained proteins) or serum antibodies ( no primary role in mucosal infections), masking etc.. I see little value in the political opinions of anyone who hasn’t acknowledged the egregious actions taken by themselves or the government etc, during that time.
The people who were so tyrannically wrong on Covid need to shut the hell up. They don’t get to be so effing wrong and evil and then brush that aside so they can pretend they oppose fascism or whatever evil they supposedly ‘perceive. They effectively exhausted their credibility and it hasn’t recovered in my eyes.
From my recollection & I could be absolutely wrong or delusional, but Batacharia & Makary were not completely anti-vax - they recommended it for some (mainly elderly?). They were both definitely anti-lockdown & against mandates but I was put off by their thinking that poison was appropriate for anybody
Cindi - Thanks. As one of the "elderly" (I despise that term, old is fine), I was not heartened by any of those doctors advocating a poison shot for me and my cohorts.
A couple of mysteries - Anyone know why it's taking so long for Congress to hold these hearings? And can anyone explain how the Dems, in a minority in the Senate, managed to quash the bill to exclude men from women's sport?
IIRC, it has to do with 'cloture'. The bill needed 60% to even come to table to be discussed and voted on. There are not enough R's (yet) in senate to bring it to a vote.
Please see my comment above (or below). All of the R's voted to hear the topic and bring it to a vote. However, there would have had to been a number of D's to jump ship and provide cloture. The Dinos are worse than the Rinos at this point.
"Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to favorably report the nominations of Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Martin Makary to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by votes of 12-11 and 14-9, respectively. Their nominations will now move to the Senate floor for a final vote at a later date."
From https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/senate-help-committee-votes-to-approve-president-trumps-nominations-for-nih-director-fda-commissioner
Thanks for the digest.
Separate from the politics and the substance, this is the first time I’ve heard Sanders sound like the years are beginning to catch up with him.
What a heartwarming story. Dr Jay, concerned with truth and what's actually important, lost his career to the covid cult for speaking out. What redemption!
It's weird how everybody just sort of acknowledges he was right but that's where the analysis stops.
Agreed, feels like the punishment portion of proceedings won't happen (yet again).
I'm so glad Dr. Jay glided through his confirmation hearing, as you say. From all reports, he's a smart guy and a wonderful human being. I followed him from the beginning of Covid. I'm very encouraged by the emphasis on transparency and openness from him and RFK Junior.
Just a wonderful guy. Full disclosure: He once complimented me on one of my covid-era stories.
I really wish we had your system of public hearings for when ministers/heads of agencies are appointed.
While the PM can theoretically appoint whomever he pleases to whichever executive position he wants, Parliament can (and would) call for a vote of no confidence in his pick, if it's "too extreme" (i.e. picking someone from outside the party system).
This has led to all departments et c virtually always being headed by politruks hand-picked for loyalty to the bureaucracy more than any actual skill, integrity, knowledge or experience.
Ours are usually picked for loyalty to whatever industry has captured that agency 😬
Thanks to the highly controversial nature of anything Trump, people are finally paying attention to these hearings, which are normally ignored.
Oh we get that backscratcher-crap too, don't worry. Old Red and Anarchistsaying here was:
"You can't vote Wallenberg out", meaning the banking clan/business family that's been a prime meddler in Swedish politics since the late 1700s. Think Blackrock et al, but on a national scale. Same family as Raoul Wallenberg came from - while he tried to save people from the Holocaust, his elders in the clan laundered gold fillings, jewelry, art et c that the nazis had stolen from their victims.
The older I get, the more positive I get about the idea of either having a 'Starship Troopers'-style (the novel) process for franchise and running for an office, or a public lottery.
Seems the only two fair ways of kofferdamming against always getting a oligarch-based corruptocracy in office.
Would you like to know more?
whaddayagot?
> Senator Bernie Sanders (D I-VT)
No, that's Bernie Sanders (C-VT). The "C" stands for "Cunt".
Warmek LOL
Until Hawley's video was only audio, I was getting suspicious about Banks video being only audio. His picture is no where I have seen his name. I was beginning to believe Indiana elected a ghost. Maybe they did. `\_(•_•)_/`
Weird!
The worm is turning.
Honestly, I swear, Trump is just the worst. By trying to limit the number of deaths of young eastern Slav men in a war that we've been provoking and funding, he's also limiting the number of young eastern Slav women who might potentially some day end up in my bed.
No, it's not likely, but the more of their men who are dead, the higher my chances are, and if it takes a couple gigaliters of *their* blood to get *me* laid again, I'll consider it totally worth the price.
(For the viciously dry sarcasm impaired, you may consider this your notice.)
Now I know what to say...
Holy fk'n shit man! May I use the word "parity", or is it "parody"? Kudos & Golf Claps!~
I want to say something, but I can't think of anything else to say... except "Well Stated".
I was... I was just having a *moment*, apparently. ;(
No wait, actually, I can even name what that moment was. When the very first missiles and bombs hit Kharkiv, Ukraine, I was working (remotely) for a company that was based in UA. I was on the company Slack and the last thing I heard from the CEO of a sub 50 person company for three days was "That sounded like a bomb!" I'd been employed by this place for a grand total of less than 90 days at that point. In fact, I had started December first of 2021, so, the math can be done, but I'm lazy.
Needless to say, this was... distressing, as it was effectively the job I had dreamed of having since I was a teenager reading far too much cyberpunk science fiction. So, suddenly, my job shifted from "being a Unix sysadmin" to "assisting with refugee evacuations" without a clutch overnight. Conveniently, I also hold a CDL-A, so I'm pretty good at shifting without a clutch. Still, this was stressful, and I spent the next six weeks trying to get people out of the country. Yes, explicitly, I was working to primarily make sure that various men of conscriptable age (my primary co-employee cohort in this industry) made it out before they got drafted. Some people who will forever have my respect actively chose to stay, instead. But over the course of that period, we got everyone who worked for us, and their families, and even just their friends and the families of their friends out of Ukraine. Likely 200 people, related to folks of a less than 50 person company, half of whom were outside of Ukraine to start. We also got people out of both Belarus and Russia itself, because oddly enough, none of my coworkers wanted to get drafted to shoot at their own coworkers.
And then I was watching a video about Trump, of all of the presidents I have lived under -- whether he actually feels this way or not, not that I have any particular reason to doubt it -- at least even *saying* that he has as a goal to reduce the number of deaths in conflict that we're involved in. Like I say, I'm not disputing that he actually feels that way, but *even if he doesn't*, he's the first one to even *say* that he wants to end that. Even the notionally antiwar ones of the people who have held that office in my 48 years of existence have been like, "yeah, it's terrible, but sacrifice, and blah blah blah" but Trump is like "this is fucking stupid, let's stop paying for it".
And then I was watching some other video, and thinking about how Zelensky has asked other countries to actively deport men of conscriptable age -- which in this case is from 16 to 60 -- *back to Ukraine* to get sent into battle. Look. I'm not at all a fan of conscription. And frankly, if your country has been invaded, and it *needs* to conscript people to fight, your country isn't worth fighting for.
The contrast there... I dunno. I just had to say something, and being me, that "something" had to be as hard, and crass, and vicious as possible to try and make my point. I've just seen too many people advocating for spending infinite US taxpayer dollars to make sure that as many Ukrainian and Russian young men as possible die horribly, for something that those young men would be *far* better off turning around and just shooting the idiots leading them into.
...
And so I decided to be a dick about it, and thus hopefully make it really clear to the people pushing it that while I was being a dick in jest, they were being dicks in reality.
So... asshole mission accomplished? :D
I mean "WTF do you really think?"
I think you write too much.
It's true, that happens sometimes. :D
"And so I decided to be a dick about it, and thus hopefully make it really clear to the people pushing it that while I was being a dick in jest, they were being dicks in reality."
Oh, no. He didn't write too much. He f*cking nailed it.
Dedicated to the Virtuous and Vulnerable who, once again, fly the Blue and Yellow colors while cheering on rivers of Red from Real Victims of OUR senseless, bloody, proxy war.
Talk it, Janet!~ I'm with you!
Thank-you for the laugh. (I, personally, am not sarcasm impared.)
After all the abuse we've been through, my heart sailed to hear Dr. Jay. Such a return to sanity! Thank you so much for reporting on this hearing.
YEA!!!!!!!!!!
Pleasantly surprised that things went moderately well for him. He's a really good pick.
One of the very best.
Regardless of whether there was an actual pandemic, even going by the science of immunology that was available before Covid , it ran counter to everything they proclaimed eg. a ‘novel’ coronavirus ( not possible, too many overlapping functionally constrained proteins) or serum antibodies ( no primary role in mucosal infections), masking etc.. I see little value in the political opinions of anyone who hasn’t acknowledged the egregious actions taken by themselves or the government etc, during that time.
The people who were so tyrannically wrong on Covid need to shut the hell up. They don’t get to be so effing wrong and evil and then brush that aside so they can pretend they oppose fascism or whatever evil they supposedly ‘perceive. They effectively exhausted their credibility and it hasn’t recovered in my eyes.
From my recollection & I could be absolutely wrong or delusional, but Batacharia & Makary were not completely anti-vax - they recommended it for some (mainly elderly?). They were both definitely anti-lockdown & against mandates but I was put off by their thinking that poison was appropriate for anybody
Cindi - Thanks. As one of the "elderly" (I despise that term, old is fine), I was not heartened by any of those doctors advocating a poison shot for me and my cohorts.
That's correct. He took it himself.
Dr. Jonathan Engler (United Kingdom Why I asked for my name to be removed from The Great Barrington Declaration https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/why-i-have-asked-for-my-name-to-be
I remember reading that at the time, but it was already way too late.
A couple of mysteries - Anyone know why it's taking so long for Congress to hold these hearings? And can anyone explain how the Dems, in a minority in the Senate, managed to quash the bill to exclude men from women's sport?
It takes a while for the committees to handle all the nominees a new president puts up. It's only been 6 weeks, and they are doing other work as well.
IIRC, it has to do with 'cloture'. The bill needed 60% to even come to table to be discussed and voted on. There are not enough R's (yet) in senate to bring it to a vote.
These Dems are shameless.
🙌 That was my thought exactly! I fugured it was the evil RINOs.
Please see my comment above (or below). All of the R's voted to hear the topic and bring it to a vote. However, there would have had to been a number of D's to jump ship and provide cloture. The Dinos are worse than the Rinos at this point.