Matt Davies : @MatttDavies :: Slayin' 'em. http://Newsday.com/matt
The CDC is coming apart at the seams. Highly qualified career professionals with deep medical and scientific expertise are resigning rather than participate in or give cover to the massive fraud that is about to be perpetrated on the American people.
Here is what those resigning are saying: Robert Kennedy and his antivaxxer allies are requesting the underlying data on studies conducted over the last several decades. And Kennedy has promised to announce “the cause” of autism in September.
The most logical inference from those facts is that Kennedy will use magical thinking instead of the scientific method to override the conclusions of those studies, which uniformly concluded that there is no link between vaccines and autism.
But Kennedy is on a crusade and will not be stopped—unless the public demands that Trump fire RFK Jr. It is unlikely that Trump will do so, but the demand “Fire RFK Jr.” should appear in every pro-democracy rally, town hall, and freeway overpass ASAP. And we must keep it up until Republicans turn on Kennedy just to shut down the chants and make the signs disappear.
Senator Bill Cassidy, who was the key vote in Kennedy’s confirmation, has called for the cancellation of the CDC’s September meeting on vaccine recommendations. Cassidy is angry that Kennedy lied to him during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing.
In unusually blunt language, Cassidy called for the cancelation of the APIC September meeting until a Senate committee can understand the turmoil at the CDC. See Newsweek, Republican Senator Issues Warning as Leaders Depart RFK Jr.'s CDC.
Per Newsweek, Cassidy said,
"Serious allegations have been made about the meeting agenda, membership, and lack of scientific process being followed for the now announced ACIP meeting. These decisions directly impact children's health and the meeting should not occur until significant oversight has been conducted.
[Cassidy] continued that if the meeting proceeds, any recommendations should be "rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership."
The key phrase in Cassidy’s call for cancellation of the APIC meeting is that its recommendations will “lack legitimacy.” That criticism is about as serious as it gets from a member of the president’s party attacking a cabinet secretary.
Tens of millions of Americans will be put at risk by Kennedy’s refusal to allow the newest COVID-19 vaccines to be administered to adults under 65. When Kennedy announces in September that autism is “caused” by vaccines, tens of millions of Americans will believe him—to the detriment of their children, who will be exposed to serious childhood diseases that have been nearly eradicated.
The chaos at the CDC makes all Americans less safe. The CDC chaos is immediately understandable in a way that other actions by Trump are not. People know whether they can get a COVID or flu shot, and whether their children’s classmates have been immunized against measles and mumps.
Americans are fed up with being lied to by their representatives in Congress. In three GOP town halls this week, crowds of constituents have booed and jeered when representatives repeated Trump’s lies. See, e.g., The Daily Beast, Republican Hit With Furious Boos at Town Hall Disaster in JD Vance’s Backyard, and The New Republic, Susan Collins Drowned Out in Boos as Protesters Disrupt Ceremony.
The tide is shifting. Americans are fed up. The pundits are gazing at their spreadsheets and missing the real story—the efforts by tens of millions of Americans who will decide the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election. Do not be distracted by the naysayers and data masseuses. You have the power to shape the outcome of America’s future, even amidst the chaos being created by Trump and his cabinet of dunces.
That’s all for this evening.
