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Chris Lingle's avatar

Two related comments pertinent to court cases and appeals. First, yes, regular people can appeal assuming they have the financial resources to pay lawyers. Second, one is curious about the extent of financial burden that taxpayers have had to take on because of the administration's efforts to push through legally uncertain cases at all levels. How might this compare to previous administrations? Are taxpayers paying for some cases that should actually be shouldered directly by the Trump family or businesses or Trump personally? What fraction of DOJ cases seem unusual in terms of what historically has been the perceived appropriate missions of the DOJ, although certainly what kinds of cases the DOJ pursues is always somewhat dependent on the focus of the AG and the administration?

Michael Cunningham's avatar

"Trump’s recommendations also called for the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine to be “administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available.” This is likely a moot point as you mentioned it could be a decade before separate vaccines are produced, but I'd just like to add on what stupid idea this is. So instead of subjecting children to a single shot (which most children hate anyway) this order would subject them to three shots, and likely three times the cost.

DerekF's avatar

I predict that Roberts will maintain the stay until such time as the ballroom is effectively completed. This way, SCOTUS need not rule on it because it will become moot. If they can finish building it over the next 2-3 months, there will be nothing more to discuss.

William m Gaffney's avatar

I'm beginning to hate the term gold standard. There is no gold standard in this administration, especially Trump and Kennedy. They tell so many lies about immunization that people believe them. Meanwhile we have the biggest rise in measles in 20 or 30 years. A won't go on with the list.

Palin talked about death panels. Trumps administration is definite a death panel How man millions of deaths will be caused by their decisions?

Helene Hilger's avatar

I hope that if there ever is a next administration that ballroom is converted to a homeless shelter or a portrait gallery of all the enslaved individuals who labored to build the White House.

Michael Bower's avatar

The vaccine changes appeared rather benign...until I read the footnote indicating measles, mumps and rubella could be kept from being administered for up to a decade! Shouldn't there be a "stay" on this one until the individual vaccines are produced separately?

The "ballroom" has been called out as an underground data center for military and gov Ai by a prominent video Substacker. Why can't our Congressmen get to the bottom of this stuff? They could all possibly be "in" on it, but if it is true, the cat is outa the bag! So concealing stuff from "adversaries" is not really an issue now. Let's have some honest assessment of the drawings and specifications for that project. AND...Let's NOT be paying for it with our tax dollars if it is a ballroom OR another War Dept. expense! (if war oriented, take the $ from their outsized piece of the pie!)

Michael Kupperburg's avatar

In the 1940's and 1950's three shots for each, measles, mumps, and rubella, was standard practice. It may have continued longer, but have no knowledge of that. For what it is worth, the degree of autism was quite diminished by comparison to today.

Amber's avatar

Can we say that didn’t have anything to do with the ability to or increased practice of diagnosing autism in children?

Michael Kupperburg's avatar

I don’t know. My experience from that time, across various states and school systems, was an absence of anything that might indicate autism.

Granted it is only one person’s experience but the increase over the years may or may not correlate to prior practice, which can be verified by using historical records of when vaccines were condensed to fewer than nine shots in all, over three visits.

Randy Marks's avatar

The CDC vaccine recommendations, while fortunately not binding on doctors or parents, MAY lead insurers and CMS (which insures many kids) to cut reimbursements for non-covered vaccines.

George Hicks's avatar

I wish people would stop referring to the ballroom. He is building a military command center that he intends to use somehow to defy his term-limited status. Whatever he does will be every bit as poorly planned and absurd as Jan 7, but this time, instead of a virtuous VP, he’ll have Hegseth and Vance. It will be the ultimate disgraceful act by which he somehow one-ups his own lifetime of shameful egoism.

Paulie's avatar

Awesome! Thank you for this in-depth explanation! So refreshing to hear real answers, Gabe! And interesting vaccine table to show the differences.

jane's avatar

Thank you, Mr. Fleischer.