The Washington Post editorial board accuses me of a conflict of interest that might bias me against Big Pharma, whose interests they apparently seek to protect. The alleged conflict comes from money I supposedly made from a settlement in a lawsuit against Merck for injuries caused by its Gardasil vaccine. The problem is that I never received a penny from the Merck Gardasil settlement, and neither has my son nor anyone else in my family.
Before taking office, I relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm, which publicly confirmed this during my confirmation process. Yet @SenWarren, @Reuters, and @washingtonpost editorial board — in their ardor to protect Big Pharma — continue to push a false narrative that makes Big Pharma the victim and me the mendacious villain. They should correct the record — and spend more time examining the real conflicts that have long disabled the regulatory function of my Department, all of which I am now deconstructing.
I’m firing corrupt regulators and dismissing the panels formerly populated by heavily conflicted “experts.” We are dismantling the mechanisms of corporate capture that made this agency the sock puppet for the industry it was supposed to regulate. Why are Reuters, Warren, and WaPo inventing lies to besmirch the first @HHSgov Secretary in modern history to stand up to industry?
@shellenberger@FrancescaHongWI It is absolutely disqualifying. Lithium is awful and no matter how well your meds work you more than likely WILL still cycle sometimes. No one but the Lord knows when it will happen.
@FacistColonizer@laralogan Its also pretty common for someone with Bipolar to be completely reckless and irresponsible with money during (hypo)manic episodes. Its one of the bigger concerns for those with bipolar. Completely agree with you about financial irresponsibility being a deal breaker for office
TEDDY ROOSEVELT: "Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought.
If the peoples of Europe in the 8th century had not possessed a military equality with the Muslims, the Christian religion would be exterminated."
No city can safely absorb the equivalent of most of its population overnight. Nor can a country preserve its culture and civic institutions if it abandons any expectation that newcomers enter legally, assimilate, and respect its values.
America should watch closely. Sovereignty is not cruelty. Order is not hatred. Secure borders protect lives, preserve nations, and make lawful immigration possible. What we are witnessing in Spain is absolute insanity and a warning we cannot afford to ignore. Common sense is a wonderful gift that was given to us by our creator. Let’s make sure we use it.
@OldeWorldOrder This is why I was hoping he would be the Pope. And also why I knew he would not be the Pope. I thank God for Cardinal Sarah's conviction in his Faith
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after a Charlotte NC man who was PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED of M*RDER was LET OUT OF JAIL ON BOND by a judge for possessing a weapon...
...AND 84 MINUTES LATER he sh0t 2 men IN THE BACK and K*LLED ONE OF THEM
His name is David Simpson and he was sitting in the Mecklenburg County Jail on a warrant for possessing a WEAPON.
He posted a $10,000 bond.
The doors opened at 12:21 in the morning.
At 1:45 AM, 84 minutes later, he sh0t 2 men at the Country Club Apartments on Dunlavin Way.
One de*d at the scene. One in the hospital.
Investigators say surveillance video shows Simpson walking up BEHIND both men and firing twice.
Why?
A PARKING SPOT.
The victim lived a few doors down and had parked in the spot in front of Simpson's door.
That's it. That's the whole reason.
In 2013, Simpson was charged with FIRST-DEGREE M*RDER for shooting Richard Bonds during a fight in an uptown parking lot.
He pleaded it down to voluntary manslaughter.
He served ONLY FIVE YEARS.
He was out in 2020.
His record and found TEN more notable arrests AFTER that release!!!!
I found 9 separate sets of charges in the last 3 years alone.
He has literally been charged OVER AND OVER with possession of a firearm by a felon.
A man who already k*lled someone.
Who is BARRED BY LAW from touching a gun.
Who kept getting caught with one anyway.
...AND SOMEHOW A JUDGE SAW ALL OF THIS AND LET A MAN OUT ON BOND????????????
He refused to even come to court Friday morning!!!!!!
A judge had to ORDER HIM BACK that afternoon!!!
WHY WAS HE LET OUT OF JAIL??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
@TurkLurken@BetsyAnn1979@pepesgrandma@PeterBernegger@Sherry_Gatlin11 The most wonderful thing about knowing I am saved by grace through Faith, is knowing that every other person on this Earth has that same opportunity. Jesus longs for you to be with Him even more than he longs for me to stay. He loves you and is waiting to call you His ❤️
@Bond49867 Heartbreaking 💔 Keep sharing your struggles if you can. It has to be so very difficult but these atrocities are reaching more and more Americans. And America is nothing, if not the land of opportunity. Even for those who aren't here yet ❤️ you never know who may see your strife
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING... Such an accomplished individual... in the eyes of the ignorant maybe.!.
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@jannykmak@pepesgrandma@PeterBernegger@Sherry_Gatlin11 Im about 6 yrs out from diagnosis and still learn new things every time I cycle. Its awful. Ive been very consistent on my meds for almost 2 yrs now but I still have episodes. Finding the right med combo is torture. God Bless you for your caring heart&prayers for whomever suffers
Bill Maher’s audience audibly gasps when he reads what the Democratic Socialists of America are actually saying out loud:
MAHER: “Trump has told 1 trillion lies, but when he says the DSA are actually COMMUNISTS, that’s not one of them.”
“And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates.”
“J.D. Vance was on the show, and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the direction of the DSA, my vote was in play. And all I heard all vacation was, ‘Oh, my God, you’re a Republican now.’ No, that's not what I said. I said in play, and here’s why.”
“Because not a week goes by where I don’t read about some newly chosen, exciting new face in the Democratic Party. And then when that face opens its mouth, the Communist Manifesto or some other crazy shit comes out! Again.”
“Let’s just read the quotes. The DSA platform says: ‘You work as much as you are able and no more than needed.’ If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum, from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs, they’d be sued for plagiarism.”
“New York Mayor Mamdani once tweeted, Karl Marx’s words exactly. They’re not trying to hide it. Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of two of the most murderous regimes in history, the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.”
“Mamdani's aide, his top aide, Cea Weaver, said, ‘If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property, it's over.’ And ‘impoverish the white middle class.’ What? That's a goal? You know you're supposed to scare people into voting for you, right?”
“One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.”
“Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.”
“Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance. And I must take them at their word. When their words include, ‘Our commitment is to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.’”
“What do they have to do, tweet out ‘Elect more communists’? Oh, yeah, Cea Weaver did that.”
[Shows tweet, audience audibly gasps]
“Yes, [she really did that]! ... People gotta realize this is going on.”
Someone who has Bipolar Disorder should not be a Governor. ALSO.. comments like the ones in this thread are maddening. People with Bipolar disorder want to be 'normal' a million times more than those who feel superior and 'bothered'.
@PeterBernegger@Sherry_Gatlin11 I twice worked with bipolars, one untreated, the other mostly treated. Why do they always go off their meds? It was h*ll on earth.
@pepesgrandma@PeterBernegger@Sherry_Gatlin11 If you actually want answers to those questions, the book 'An Unquiet Mind' by Kay Redfield Jameson will help you understand. Maybe then you wont be so inconvenienced by 'bipolars' 🙄
@mwstormwatch@PeterBernegger@realgreggd For what its worth, aside from the self-harm, I could be the subject of that list. I know it would be irresponsible of me to run for office. Im even medication compliant almost 95% of the time and I still cycle. A person suffering a manic episode can NOT be a governor