Transcript of RFK Jr.'s Speech Yesterday

So one incident with a manufacturer 69 years ago? And that affects someone's viewpoint about the polio vaccine in 2024? Really????

 

Glad I don't give much thought to vaccines. At my age I probably don't have much time left on this earth. I will go at the time and in the manner in which God has ordained, just like every other human being and every other living creature on this planet.

 

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'

And then God said,

Quit whining you'll come up with a vaccine in the latter days.

Maybe we can improve the MRNA, "vaccine," that changes our DNA and live forever.

 

Oops, I see I designated Jack's PT boat as the household lubricant, rather than PT 109. My memory doesn't work as well as it should.

 

Not about vaccines but perhaps relevant:
After a major A-fib episode in 2018 - pulse jumping between 70 and 170+ for 5 hours - I had Eliquis prescribed. The literature listed many adverse side effects, from bruising all the way to death by internal bleeding. The fine print included estimates of the odds for each side effect, and the odds for death were listed as 1 million to one. The odds for death related to continuing A-fib are probably about 100,000 times worse than that. IMO, the strongly anti-vaxx people are hunting mice while ignoring tigers.
Note: Back in 1954 (IIRC) I was a Polio Pioneer, 3 shots of the Salk vaccine. Several years later I had the oral Sabin vaccine, administered on a sugar cube.

 

I grew up in the late 1940"s and 1950"s. Kids at my Elementary School, had Polio braces on one or both of their shriveled legs. And I was aware of a medical device called an "Iron Lung" where all you could do was lay on your back and look at a mirror. I lived in dread of Polio.

I received the Polio vaccine, about age 12, and later took the oral version. And I no longer dreaded being put in a wheel chair due to that disease, If I Recall Correctly (IIRC)..

 

I was born in 1955, so my knowledge of the world began after the polio outbreak of the early 1950s. @OnlyaSinner and @Van, I appreciate your sharing of your experiences during that time.

 

I didn't listen to his speech. I have a really hard time listening to his voice for very long because of the condition he has(and I know his condition is not his fault).

 

It's too long to read since I am not a supporter of him. How about copying the main points you think are salient and paste them in this thread so they are more quickly read? That would be helpful. I could handle reading a 5-10 minute recap.

 

Thank you, @Scarlett O.

I reply:

One could just as easily refer to the Republican Party as having departed so dramatically from the core values of being the party of Ronald Reagan and becoming the party of Donald Trump and MAGA National Conservatism.

If they tried to conceal President Biden's aging, then they didn't do a very good job. I(along with LOTS of folks) was well aware of his situation.

It's only been 5 weeks and Vice President Harris had to jumpstart a presidential campaign, select a running mate, and prepare for a national convention. She has done yeoman's work in accomplishing all of that in such a short period of time and doing so successfully. Now VP Harris has time to catch her breath and do interviews and such, especially after the debate on September 10(provided Trump does not back out of the debate).

As I mentioned before, VP Harris has been rather busy for the past 5 weeks. She had a huge surge of popularity as the Democratic Party managed to convince their old man presidential candidate to withdraw for the good of the country in the effort to defeat Donald Trump and the National Conservatives(Nikki Haley famously said that the major party that retired their 80-year-old candidate first will win this election). I had my doubts about VP Harris stepping in after Biden withdrew, but she has grown a lot since her presidential campaign in the previous cycle flamed out. I am really impressed by how much more assertive she is now and certainly can make the case against Trump that Biden could not make due to his age-related issues.

 

A Vice President can give all the advice he or she wants, but the Vice President has only one power according to the U.S. Constitution - to preside over the U.S. Senate. Otherwise, the Vice President is to wait in the wings in case something should happen to the President of the United States. As John Nance Garner, who served two terms as FDR's vice president, famously said(and this is the cleaned up version), the vice presidency is "not worth a bucket of warm [spit]."

 

If people have not liked this relatively minor inflation problem the United States has had after the pandemic ended, compared to the Great Inflation of the late 1970s-early 1980s, just imagine what the inflation problem will be if another $35 trillion is added to the national debt over the next 10 years and the Federal Reserve has to monetize an additional $35 trillion into the U.S. money supply to accommodate the federal government's profligate spending.