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Another lie. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination https://historyofvaccines.org/history/measles/timeline

My position is that it's irrelevant whether the increase is due to increased diagnoses or an actual increase in occurrence. What is relevant is that massive studies have shown no correlation between autism and vaccination s.

Most likely if pressed, they'll do what they always do. Take comfort from the polls that support their positions and claim that the ones that don't are fraudulent.

And approximately what year would that have been?

I have made my position very clear. There was no ambiguity in what I said. I'm not here to provide you a course in remedial reading. Whether he blames vaccines for autism or is merely questioning their relation is irrelevant. The fact is that massive studies have shown no correlation. In the face of that, he should be looking elsewhere. Obviously, continuing to cast dispersions or doubts on vaccination and autism is being done either in bad faith or because he suffers from some form of mental disability.

I'm going to say you're making that up. Four children at one school. You can prove me wrong by providing a name for that school and it's location. Something dramatic like that it's got to be a matter of public record

Not a 440% increase in autism. A 440% increase in diagnoses. There's been a concerted effort to make health and education professionals More aware of autism. So naturally there's been an increase. But even if the increase were totally real, there have been massive studies done that show that there is no correlation between vaccines and autism. So why is Kennedy still blaming vaccination for the increase, since, if the increase is real, then the cause or causes should lie elsewhere.

So gullible. No way of telling if the investment will take place. And no way of telling if it would have taken place anyway. It's amazing how paranoid or trusting Trump supporters are depending on whether the news reflects badly on Trump or well.

He's a failed real estate guy who torched the huge and profitable business his father left him. And spare us the cliches about how NY real estate guys talk, The competent businessmen in charge of the successful NY real estate business don't sound like loud ignoramuses when they speak. They are smart, sophisticated business people. We know it will antagonize the Arab world because it will enrage the average Arab citizen of those nations. And given that for Trump's proposal to work, he needs their active cooperation. And there could be nothing secret about that. Trump's proposal isn't about Hamas. It's about displacing 2 million people permanently. And given that Trump wants the Arab regimes public cooperation on other matters, how does this fantasy he's promoting help that?

Case in point: how many billions of dollars did China promise Trump it would buy in US products...was it 200B or so? Did it happen? No. Promises are cheap.

It's funny. People who support the Trump administrations current actions claim that since voters knew what he said, that means that they support what he's doing now. Do you and they have some kind of magic wand to tell when he means it and when he doesn't? As for it being a negotiating position...a position that is sure to antagonize the Arab world? A position that will make it harder to negotiate whatever it is he's looking to gain in the mideast. If it is a negotiating position, and unlike you I don't read Trump's mind, it's a remarkably stupid one. Well, considering the source, maybe not so remarkably.

False: "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip," Trump said in a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We'll own it ... We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal ... the Riviera of the Middle East." https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5287576/trump-gaza-takeover

Utterly false. The big enchilada were the lies propagated by Giuliani. Such as that Dominion was founded to fix elections for Hugo Chavez.

Violent speech bad. Violence against police, not so much.

Fox was sued on a lot more grounds than that..

More conspiracy nonsense.

"Trump is not proposing a permanent move. It is temporary, to allow the rapid rebuilding and development of the area." False “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza,” Mr. Trump said. “I heard that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They live like hell. They live like they’re living in hell. Gaza is not a place for people to be living, and the only reason they want to go back, and I believe this strongly, is because they have no alternative.” He suggested that nations in the region could finance the resettlement of Gazans to new places — perhaps “a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land” — that would provide better living conditions, either as a single territory or as many as a dozen. “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really good, where they wouldn’t want to return,” he said without offering details of what that would entail." https://archive.ph/waJg0

This story was about a drug bust in Canada. No reference made to the USA. Much less to Trump Canada has its own domestic market for fentanyl. Spare us your paranoia. Looks like you're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump was elected. In The Economist/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration, while 29 percent wanted “a little” and 12 percent wanted him to have “none at all.” Today, however, the share of Republicans who say they want Musk to have “a lot” of influence has fallen substantially to 26 percent. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5129353-gop-support-for-musk-influence-with-trump-falls-dramatically-poll/ The article goes on to say that 43% of Republicans want him to have a little influence and 17% who want him to have no influence.

I read a couple of articles about this bust and there's just a tiny little problem with your characterization of it: nowhere did I find any claim that this fentanyl was being exported to the USA. I did find this though: "Fentanyl is a main ingredient in much of the toxic illicit drugs that have killed nearly 48,000 people across Canada between January 2016 and March 2024, according to the Canadian government." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-drug-super-lab-busted-fentanyl-guns/

Not just that. Even if the Mediterranean diet had begun in Italy, the Italians are no longer following it. So what's the point? Why make the diet the target? In addition, the data on that chart is never explained. What are these "hidden health costs of the agri-food system:? Also, the article takes no account of population. For instance, Italy's population is about 43 times as much as Estonia's. Which means that those costs, whatever they may be, are actually higher than in Italy on a per capita basis. It would make much more sense for that chart to be based on a per capita basis.

Deflecting much? The evidence you offered in the case of Saudi Arabia was obviously irrelevant. And what does it mean that both sides of the issue are inextricably linked? Ii will say that it's nice that, unlike Trump, you wish Ukraine well.

Bust used to justify ‘massive’ jump in fentanyl was not from Canada The White House used 43 pounds of fentanyl crossing into the US at its northern border to justify tariffs on Canadian imports, but the drugs came from within the US, media reports said Wednesday. The 43-pound total represented a “massive 2,205 increase” the White House said in comparison to the previous year’s total of two pounds, the Globe and Mail Newspaper reported. But according to the US border agency, about one-third of the total, 15 pounds, was actually seized in July in Spokane, Washington, not entering the US from Canada, court records show https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/bust-used-to-justify-massive-jump-in-fentanyl-was-not-from-canada/3473198

Well, he's certainly given Israel an incentive to assassinate him. Although, I don't know if the Israelis can count on his claim of what would happen afterwards. Maybe he plans to come back from the dead?

Saudi Arabia Reiterates Support for a Palestinian State "Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its support for an independent Palestinian state on Tuesday and said establishing diplomatic ties with Israel would depend on the creation of such a state, hours after President Trump proposed permanently moving all Palestinians out of Gaza and making it a U.S. territory. The Foreign Ministry’s statement early Wednesday local time, which said that Saudi support for a Palestinian state was “firm and unwavering,” contradicted Mr. Trump. While hosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Tuesday, the president had said that Saudi Arabia was not insisting on a Palestinian state." https://archive.ph/QFyNd And the clown wants to get the Saudis to cooperate on lowering oil prices and on actively opposing Iran.