Covidiots

CNN has the transcript: SMERCONISH: Is it possible that you will seek – as you are running as an independent – you will seek still to be the Libertarian candidate, which would assure you getting on all 50 state ballots? KENNEDY: That is something that we’re looking at. We have a really good, relationship with the Libertarian Party. I’m going …

Reuters reports: The vaccination records of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro are false, the country’s comptroller general’s office said on Thursday after an investigation regarding the alleged tampering of information on his COVID-19 vaccination card. The records show that Bolsonaro, a COVID-19 skeptic who publicly opposed the vaccine, received a dose of the immunizer in a public healthcare center in …

Politico reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr., calling it a necessary step amid the political tensions of the Civil Rights era. Kennedy’s provocative comments came as he was on a campaign trip to Atlanta on the eve of the Martin Luther King., Jr., holiday. “My father …

The Daily Beast reports: “Take your remote, and turn this [bleep] off,” Ramaswamy says in a direct-to-camera ad set to air during the debate. “The mainstream media is trying to rig the Iowa GOP caucus in favor of the corporate candidates who they can control,” Ramaswamy says over an ominous soundtrack. The 38-year-old then proceeds to list off “the truth …

CBS News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after celebrity guests Martin Sheen, Dionne Warwick, Mike Tyson and Andrea Bocelli, who were reported to be attending, instead stated that they would skip it. The gala is hosted by the super PAC American Values 2024, which backs Kennedy’s presidential candidacy, and another PAC. …

“The evidence is a combination of their guidance documents in the past that acknowledged the risk of DNA integration and the need to test for it to make sure you’re not fouling up the human genome. “Their evidence is their acknowledgment that there is DNA in there. And that’s been found to be billions of particles, small particles of DNA …

The Washington Post reports: “We’ve seen this pattern from Dr. Ladapo that every few months he raises some new concern and it quickly gets debunked,” said Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s public health school who led the White House’s national coronavirus response. “This idea of DNA fragments — it’s scientific nonsense. People who understand how these vaccines are made …

The Messenger reports: Right-wing social media accounts are sharing fake transcripts from the newly released court documents that name more than 150 people with ties to the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein that falsely include Jimmy Kimmel. This comes after Kimmel fired back at Aaron Rodgers, after the NFL star suggested that he might appear in the list of people …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took the extraordinary step Wednesday of “calling for a halt to the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” a move that contradicts federal health authorities and again makes Florida an outlier. Ladapo said in a statement released by the Florida Department of Health that he raised questions about the safety of the …

NBC Sports reports: Aaron Rodgers might soon add another title to his list of individual accolades. Defendant. Rodgers took another shot on Tuesday at Jimmy Kimmel, suggesting that Kimmel’s name might appear on the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein client list. Kimmel fired back with a not-so-subtle threat of a defamation suit. “There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, really hoping …

NBC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-shot presidential campaign has a new communications director — prominent anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree. In a letter to supporters, Bigtree called the appointment “my greatest opportunity to date.” Bigtree is the executive director of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), the country’s second best-funded anti-vaccine organization, after Children’s Health Defense, the group from …

The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has met the 1,000-signature threshold necessary to propel him onto the presidential ballot in Utah, according to state authorities, making it the first state to offer the independent candidate as an option to general election voters. Every state has its own requirements for independent and third-party candidates to qualify for its ballot, …

Politico reports: The super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid is narrowing its ballot access campaign focus to seven states — including crucial battlegrounds that will determine the outcome of the presidential election. American Values 2024 will now prioritize helping to get Kennedy on the ballot in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Texas, according to …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: When U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and two other Republicans decided to ask the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the fines they paid after refusing to wear masks on the House floor, they put the chamber’s new GOP leadership in a tough spot. And those leaders, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, have chosen to …

The City reports: The makers of the “Invisible Mask” — which New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda [photo] touted as a shield against COVID-19 in the weeks before Mayor Eric Adams brought him into the administration — have agreed to a $150,000 settlement following a FTC complaint that charged them with making a host of “deceptive claims.” Gary Kong, a …

Courthouse News reports: Justice Samuel Alito dissented on Monday from the Supreme Court’s decision not to allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to intervene in a lawsuit claiming the Biden administration censored conservatives in its attempt to fight online misinformation. “Our democratic form of government is undermined if government officials prevent a candidate for high office from communicating with voters, and …

“They broke our elections on purpose, OK? COVID was designed to break our elections. That was the purpose — they had mail-in balloting all set up already. The drop boxes. Do you think that stuff, like, happened by accident? “These were pre-planned. This was designed. Voting should be hard. I know this is gonna get me in trouble, of saying …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused drugmaker Pfizer of fear-mongering and lies about the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine, which the company insinuated would end the pandemic, according to a lawsuit Paxton announced Thursday. “In a nutshell, Pfizer deceived the public,” reads the 54-page lawsuit, filed in a Lubbock state district court. The lawsuit alleges Pfizer …

“It was engineered, came out of the Wuhan lab, and then China tried to cover it up — that doesn’t tell me anything about whether or not it was intentional. I mean, is there a chance that China released this virus on America intentionally? “Disrupt the country, get Donald Trump out, get your man in there, Joe Biden, and then …

NBC News reports: The number of kids whose caregivers are opting them out of routine childhood vaccines has reached an all-time high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of children unprotected against preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough. “There is a rising distrust in the health care system,” said Dr. Amna …