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56 minutes agoYeah nothing to add but re: the dems it certainly feels like just as they have sought to run to the right on national security and immigration, they wish they didn’t have to pretend to give a hoot about people like you.
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Guys c’mon it’s just edgy humor, learn to take a joke, don’t be so thin skinned, comedy is legal again. Right up until one of theirs pours a quart of clamato juice out of his neck.
Just shooting the shit here but I was watching a few videos on the decline of tourists visiting LV recently and besides the obvious fact that only the rich have any money to burn, a lot of what kept people coming to the city was cheap flights, cheap accommodations, cheap food and cheap entertainment. Subsidized by the casinos, because people would come and have a great time and be more than willing to piss their money away gambling, 'cause why not they’re having a blast! Then the gaming industry became more ‘professionalized’ and filled up with B-school grads and MBA-havers who saw all those potential profits being left on the table and used their big boy degrees to tighten things up and whoops now there’s no one coming to visit! Capitalism unable to think beyond the next quarter etc etc.
Also I think this was a
FNV reference, which I’m hesitant to admit 'round these parts but I’m unfamiliar with.FFVII reference which i didn’t get, edited and corrected.
7·5 hours agoThank you, it did not occur to me to contextualize this and I couldn’t have said it half as well as you. I saw the data they were pulling from would likely be making wild conflations between receiving the vaccine and any symptoms that happened after, that they might be double-counting because “Reports can be submitted by anyone and no effort is made to verify the details or prevent duplication” (lol), and they’d be cherry picking like all hell. But I did not even consider that were the worst of their anti-vaxxers claims true here, we’d still be looking at a successful intervention in terms of deaths and disease prevented.
That rolls off the tongue better and if you were feeling diabolical you could likely antagonize some folks with that. “Kirk was tragically struck down by an assassin’s buwullet” with more or less emphasis on the pronunciation depending on how much plausible deniability you wish to pretend.
Hadn’t seen this here yet, I think it is newsworthy. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/moderna-falls-trump-officials-tie-155222738.html
(Bloomberg) – Vaccine makers’ shares fell after a report that Trump health officials plan to link Covid shots to the deaths of around two dozen children in a presentation to advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention next week.
The Washington Post reported Friday that a group of health officials appear to have used the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, to tie the deaths of 25 children to Covid vaccines. A high-profile advisory committee that Kennedy revamped to include vaccine critics is scheduled to discuss the shots from companies including Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and BioNTech SE at its meeting next week.
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Moderna shares dropped as much as 8.7% during trading in New York Friday. Pfizer shares fell as much as 3.6%. BioNTech’s US-traded shares sank as much as 14%.
Covid vaccines have become a political flash point in recent weeks as conflict between Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former CDC director Susan Monarez led to her ouster just weeks into her job. Kennedy has previously claimed that the shots crafted during President Donald Trump’s first administration — largely credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic — cause deadly complications, despite rigorous studies involving millions of people that found serious side effects are rare.
VAERS collects copious amounts of unfiltered data in an effort to detect early signs of side effects. Reports can be submitted by anyone and no effort is made to verify the details or prevent duplication, a format that scientific researchers said makes it difficult to draw clear conclusions.
“FDA and CDC staff routinely analyze VAERS and other safety monitoring data, and those reviews are being shared publicly through the established ACIP process,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said, referring to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Pfizer could not immediately be reached for comment. BioNTech did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a statement, Moderna said the safety of its Covid vaccine, Spikevax, is “rigorously monitored” by the company, the FDA and regulators in more than 90 countries. Safety monitoring systems have not identified any new or undisclosed safety concerns in children or in pregnant women, the company said, adding that research “continues to demonstrate a favorable risk–benefit profile for Spikevax.”
A 2022 Lancet study of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults who received messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines found no known deaths, with most patients recovering within 90 days.
The Data System
The Food and Drug Administration had already indicated it was investigating reports of children dying due to the Covid vaccine.
“There have been children that have died from the Covid vaccine,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this month. “We’re doing a proper investigation. We’re going to release a report in the coming few weeks.”
Patients, health-care providers, caregivers and companies are encouraged to notify the agency about adverse events following immunization, “even if they are not sure the vaccine caused the problem,” according to the CDC, which manages the VAERS database with the FDA.
Yet VAERS warns that some of these reports “represent true vaccine reactions and others are coincidental adverse health events and not related to vaccination,” according to its fact sheet. “Overall, a causal relationship cannot be established using information from VAERS report alone.”
For 2021 alone, there were more than 11,000 reports of deaths. While many mentioned Covid shots, it’s impossible to know from the database alone if they stemmed from the shots. Many of the submissions detailed “breakthrough” Covid infections, the ones that happened after a patient was vaccinated. This makes it possible that the virus — not the shot — was deadly.
Even Kennedy has raised concerns about the system’s reliability. “It’s outrageous that we don’t have a surveillance system that functions,” he said at an event in Indiana in April.
Kennedy has long said that the government should focus more on vaccine injuries. Before taking office, he made money connecting people with claims of vaccine harm to a law firm that sued manufacturers. More recently, his allies in Congress have hosted hearings featuring people who said their family members experienced vaccine injuries.
The Washington Post report came as the as the CDC reported that Covid hospitalization rates are peaking nationwide. The virus has contributed to more than 15,000 deaths in 2025 through the first week of September, according to the agency.
–With assistance from Madison Muller, John Tozzi, Anna Edney, Michelle Fay Cortez and Phil Kuntz.
Bruh they are trying to kill us. Also without looking up any of the cranks RFK Jr has brought into the CDC, I am getting the vibe that these must be people who really believe their own line of BS.
Getting got by the .30-OwO-06 is objectively funny aaaand POST
That is very cool, congratulations. I have only minimal knowledge of wrestling but it is a brutally tough sport and frankly I think that a hexbear poster being a coach will mean an actual positive role model for young men who might otherwise get lead by some real reactionary.
Guy I worked with a few years back was in his 50s and the cartilage in his knees was gone and he was waiting for the shop’s busy season to be over before he’d be able to take time off for transplant surgery.
I respect whatever makes him like this. If I were demonstrating to people how little I cared about the deceased by talking up my big beautiful ballroom project, I would have a tinge of shame when I sensed people’s awkwardness. Which good, fuck 'em if they have one soft word to say for Charlie, but that conditioning is there in me. But our big wet president just powers through.
I know this is a problematic twitter account but here is the clip if you want to hear it. I feel like we all deserve a little respite in these trying times. Cowboy-ass sheriff in the back trying to look somber and not crack up.
Just keeping up whatever personal/household/family emergency readiness plans you already have in place and if you are more based than me some kind of community defense planning.
Telling one or two conservative commentators that the shell casings had ‘pro-trans ideology’ is wild. The most charitable explanation is that the federal investigators are so out of their depth that they would leap to that interpretation and selectively release it to their favorite chud mouthpieces without regard for how inflammatory that is - but I don’t think that generous scenario of them being too dumb to do their job effectively withstands any scrutiny.
For MSM to immediately run with it is malpractice - color me surprised - and yeah also the media as self appointed understanders and explainers of what is going on are fully unable to interpret what they’re seeing.