Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) now demands “forced mandatory vaccinations”
During confirmation hearings this week on Trump’s nominee to take over the Department of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy, Jr., Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island once again demonstrated his fascist and petty dictator nature, demanding that Kennedy support “forced mandatory vaccinations” of Americans or else he will vote against Kennedy’s nomination.
Whitehouse also demanded that Kennedy promise to never again say “that vaccines are not medically safe when they in fact are.”
In other words Kennedy is to put aside his own research and knowledge, that has found some vaccines efficacy and safety are questionable, and join the government swamp to lie to Americans while forcing Americans to take drugs they might not want.
Sounds insane? If you don’t believe me then watch:
What made this egregious example of Whitehouse’s desire to smash his boot into the faces of all Americans so frightening is not that he believes such things, but that he has been pushing similar dictatorial ideas for more than a decade, and the voters of Rhode Island have eagerly voted for him again and again. This isn’t a new thing for him. He has been a full grown power-hungry thug almost from the first day he entered the senate in 2006. And yet no one in his state seems to care, or object.
For example, in 2013 he immediately blamed Republicans for a tornado that destroy a town in Oklahoma, claiming their opposition to global warming regulations led to such tornadoes and calling them “deniers” and “polluters.”
One could excuse this as just another example of political demagoguery, except in 2014 he advocated using the IRS during the Lois Lerner scandal to encourage the IRS to file criminal charges against conservative organizations, merely because they were conservative organizations.
Then, in 2015 Whitehouse upped the ante by demanding the government use the law to punish anyone who dared to disagree with his opinions on global warming.
Thankfully, the government had a playbook, too: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. In 1999, the Justice Department filed a civil RICO lawsuit against the major tobacco companies and their associated industry groups, alleging that the companies “engaged in and executed — and continue to engage in and execute — a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public, including consumers of cigarettes, in violation of RICO.”
The instruction manual of Sheldon Whitehouse
and the Democratic Party.
Whitehouse advocated using RICO against scientists and think tanks and politicians who dissented from the still unproven theory that humans were causing global-warming. Even today he advocates this policy, repeatedly calling for federal legal action against anyone who disagrees with his leftist positions on the environment.
By the COVID panic of 2021 he expanded this effort, demanding the IRS strip the nationwide conservative organization Turning Point USA of its non-profit status because it — just like Black Lives Matter — had held public meetings during the lockdown. For Whitehouse, only during conservative rallies can a respiratory virus spread. Leftist protests and rallies however are immune, and must be allowed.
Thus, for Whitehouse to call for “forced mandatory vaccinations” now is hardly a radical position for him. He has always relished the idea of telling people what to do. He has always opposed the idea of free speech and honest debate and dissent. The only opinion that should be allowed are his own. All others must be squashed, brutally.
I would say thank god he is only one senator, except the bulk of his Democratic Party agrees with him entirely. And even more horrifying, so do the Democrat voters who keep voting for him.
Give these thugs the chance and all our rights and freedoms will vanish, in an instant.
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Sheldon Whitehouse should be known as Sheldon Outhouse. His threat is hollow since he would already vote against ANY Trump nominee (even a flaming Leftist Democrat and that will not happen). Outhouse is a bully. I wish that Connecticut would quit electing him.
Ever notice how the “bird flu” only affects chickens and humans?
Weird.
“RFK Jr. Triggers Breadline Bernie After Being Called Out for Taking Millions in Big Pharma Cash [VIDEO]”
https://rumble.com/v6f57q7-rfk-jr.-triggers-breadline-bernie-after-being-called-out-for-taking-million.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
(1 minute)
I don’t actually understand the politics at play here, but feel it’s worth putting my pennyworth take on the whole vaccine question… Which may surprise the regulars here.
There are vaccines which have been proved to be safe and effective over decades. Polio has been almost eliminated, the MMR is also a life saver and does not cause autism, the line that it does was a money grab by Dr whatshisface who had patents on individual vaccines. No one ever questioned that measles, mumps, and rubella can be very serious, even fatal. It’s heartbreaking that the whole debacle over this vaccine has led to the death of children. If you doubt this do some research outside the echo chamber. The facts are there.
Where I have serious problems are with the COVID “vaccines”. I have questioned many of my skeptical peers, and received no answer regarding… How a medicine that requires boosters every few months can be classed as a vaccine, how a medicine which imparts no immunity, only supposedly reduces the severity of the symptoms can be classed as a vaccine ( paracetamol does the same for a cold… It is not a vaccine). And requesting more studies regarding the untimely death of young folks after taking the COVID vaccine.
I am classed as a fool for asking these questions by the skeptical community, which hurts me deeply, I am only being skeptical, and I think we skeptics need to question our own views as often as anyone else.
This is not a partisan issue… It is neither left nor right, it is common sense.
And for the record, I think that vaccination for kids, with proven safe vaccines should be mandatory, terrible childhood diseases can be eliminated, and death and suffering removed from the childhood of our kids. It should not however be taboo to question, and to ask for a deeper dive into vaccines where questions remain.
BillB: Rhode Island, not Connecticut
It is neither left nor right, it is common sense.
To the Left, blind compliance to the diktats of credentialed experts “because they say so” IS common sense. To them it is the safe bet.
But still a bet, made in faith that the experts actually have it right.
Their greatest fear, illustrated by Sanders in his onesie rant, is that we will treat the experts as the fallible humans that they are, and might make what they consider the wrong choice … whether or not the experts made the right choice.
Which, unless our choice poses a clear, present and significant interference to others’ unalienable rights, is OUR unalienable right … no matter how much the safety-obsessed central planners disagree.
It is what keeps the system honest and stable, instead of acting like a stampeding herd.
Looking for Lee S: Related?
Do you understand these politics Lee S? Are you able to comment on this?
“Migrants and a once-liberal paradise where the PM now admits: ‘We’ve lost control’… SUE REID reports as Sweden is engulfed by a crime wave of rape, gang bombings, assassination – and even a reported lynching…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14347033/Migrants-liberal-paradise-PM-lost-control-SUE-REID-Sweden-crime-rape-bombings-assassination-lynching.html
Lee S.:
I disagree with your opinion that, “…vaccination for kids, with proven safe vaccines should be mandatory”, to the point where I would resist such a law with physical force. Just exactly why would you demand that the awesome power of government, enforced by threat of death (because that is ultimately what government enforcement boils down to) should be used to carry our such a law based on your opinion? Remember, you’ve got collectivist/statist/authoritarians like Sen. Whitehouse who would have had us shot on sight for failing to get the Covid-19 clot-shot.
NO health care, of any type, should be “mandatory” since our bodies are our ultimate property.
Now if you intended to mean that you would use various forms of government-based persuasion to “assist” (i.e., coerce) people in making a decision about their children’s health, you could have proposed something like, “No un-vaccinated child (for diseases X, Y, and/or Z) shall be allowed into a government-run indoctrination center (aka, public schools)”, I could completely agree with you. Note that private schools should be left free to make their own policies, based on how they assess their own risk/reward equation. Since putting a child into a government-school is de facto child abuse (in MY opinion), further abusing a child by allowing them to be injected with fatally-questionable “vaccines” (like the mRNA gene-altering substances) is simply more of the same, but probably not as effective as the brain-washing indoctrination that occurs in these government centers.
I forget who said it, but it was something on the order of , “Before you pass any law, remember that you are making it possible for the government to enforce it to the point of killing citizens.”
Blackwing1: I have fixed you post to eliminate your childish attempt to use an obscenity in place of a person’s name.
I DO NOT ALLOW OBSCENITIES! What part of the rules do you not understand?
This is a warning. Next time I’ll ban you for a week.
Related:
THE NATURE OF THE COMMUNIST: VIOLENCE!
“Why is it the nature of the Communist, the Marxist, the radical, the “progressive” to introduce and promote violence and unrest instead of offering hope and freedom for a positive and prosperous future for the individual?
Because that is ALL they have!”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/the-nature-of-the-communist-violence
Lee S wrote: “I am classed as a fool for asking these questions by the skeptical community, which hurts me deeply, I am only being skeptical, and I think we skeptics need to question our own views as often as anyone else.
…
“And for the record, I think that vaccination for kids, with proven safe vaccines should be mandatory, terrible childhood diseases can be eliminated, and death and suffering removed from the childhood of our kids. It should not however be taboo to question, and to ask for a deeper dive into vaccines where questions remain.”
It is not your questions that skeptics question, it is your opinion that government should tell us what to do, such as making vaccinations mandatory no matter someone’s individual situation. If vaccines are such a good idea, then enough people will get them to make them effective. If they are not a good idea, then people should not get them. Either way, the government should not be running (ruining) our lives for us.
That you do not understand that simple basic tenet of liberty and freedom is why you are left-wing, and it is why you say things that people are skeptical of. Leftists insist upon government controlling our lives. The right-wing believes that adults are grown up enough to make their own decisions, even if that decision is to find someone to run their own lives. If you want someone to run your life, hire your own power-hungry person to do it (I am willing to do it, and as your life-director, I require you to hire me to be your life-director). In the meantime, allow me to choose for myself myself as the person running my own life, and quit insisting (another directive for you to follow) that government do it for me.
Besides the ‘mandatory vaccinations crap’ that Sen.Whitehouse was spouting,I noticed that he repeatedly either went into a rather deep sleep or passed out between his turns at harassing the nominee.Even Sen. Warner,a rather odious person to sit next to,couldn’t keep him awake.I worry about government representatives being either so sick,or so medicated,that they can’t even stay awake while in committee meetings,while demanding to make life-affecting decisions for the rest of us.
This might be of interest to some here: SUBJECT: 9-11
“They Ended My Career To Hide The Truth About 9/11!” – Fmr Congressman Curt Weldon
This is how the game of politics and power in Washington is played.
https://youtu.be/u9Q9WqtASRA?si=bWMUXuwCFLQKw3Ok
The Constitution should be amended to make such demands unconstitutional. The government does not own your body. How does this differ from slavery. Where does it control end?
TJ Jackson recommended: “The Constitution should be amended to make such demands unconstitutional.”
We already have that amendment: the Tenth Amendment. The Ninth Amendment supports this concept. The Preamble (the mission statement for the U.S. government) also limits governmental authority and specifies clearly that We the People are to enjoy “the Blessings of Liberty” and that the government’s job is to secure those blessings.
The United States may promote (encourage) the general welfare of the nation, but it does not have any right — nor has it been delegated the power — to govern healthcare, and a government mandate is antithetical to the concept of liberty.
In the Alternate Universe, Whitehouse is toiling away in a labor camp.
Dinner for Few/ One of These Days
https://youtu.be/YZCqh0beUwM
(5:32)
“One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces.”
The first rule of command and leadership.
Never give an order you do not expect to be followed. It just erodes your authority.
The best rule of governance. Never make a law that could be turned against you when your enemy takes power.
I have nothing against vaccines but I must have the choice to use them or not.
There seems to be evidence that certain vaccines can cause mutations:
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-evidence-bird-flu-vaccinations-virus.amp
In terms of vaccines being mandatory—Mississippi had stouter laws than California—that saw a spike in Measles.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26858391/#:~:text=For%20more%20than%20three%20decades,%2DPeople%20Health%20Foundation%2C%20Inc.
I remember conservatives lambasting Californians about not getting a measles shot:
https://redstate.com/ameliahamilton/2019/03/28/amidst-measles-outbreak-kids-seek-vaccination-on-their-own-n103863
Mississippi had among the highest rate of vaccination.
COVID is a different case, however-what with genetic tampering.
All that needs to be done off world:
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20241216/The-risks-of-reversed-chirality-Study-highlights-dangers-of-mirror-organisms.aspx
Don’t forget Ebola/Reston
A centrist position is best.
I frequently get the impression that demagogues like Whitehouse see us as heard animals. They’ll tend us like a shepherd (or rancher.) So why grow up?
Whitehouse is just a player on a team and is only concerned with making points for his team, and he knows he is going to lose anyway.
He is not seeking truth or some measure of justice, just points so he can point out to his “fans” that he played hardball.
You will remember this oldie but goodie:
Sheldon Whitehouse under fire for membership at all-white Rhode Island beach club
https://nypost.com/2021/06/21/sheldon-whitehouse-under-fire-for-membership-at-all-white-club/
Just a third string player on a now losing team.
The Euroweenies are welfare serfs. They are the property of their owners, the government, not free people responsible for their own fates. Hence the idea that a thing should be compulsory.
The increase in autism rates in the last few decades warrants investigation. It does coincide with increased childhood vaccination but that is just a correlation. Dispassionate research needed. There are too many financial and other interests here.
Better living circumstances, less crowding etc reduced childhood disease spread anyway. To assign this solely to vaccination programs is naive.
Thank God and some liberty loving patriots 250 years ago for the USA. Without the USA the idea of free people is dead. AFAIK the only government founded on the idea that government is a problem, not a solution.
Mike Borgelt wrote: “The Euroweenies are welfare serfs. They are the property of their owners, the government, not free people responsible for their own fates. Hence the idea that a thing should be compulsory.”
So much for Europeans living in democracies.
“The increase in autism rates in the last few decades warrants investigation. It does coincide with increased childhood vaccination but that is just a correlation.”
Correlation is not causation, correct. Autism rates also coincide with a lot of other factors, such as micro-plastics in the environment (I heard a report on the radio, this week, that these will kill us all, or something), increased obesity among the population, decreased sleep among the population, inflation, global warming, increased populations in urban areas, and the approach of the coming ice age. I’m going with the ice age hypothesis, but only because it is mine, and the guess is not quite as educated as a hypothesis should be.*
“AFAIK the only government founded on the idea that government is a problem, not a solution.”
It is important to note that when government solves a problem for one person, it harms someone else or everyone else. For example: the tax code is full of solved problems for various people or groups of people, but now our taxes are so complicated that we have to hire expensive professionals in order to fill out the forms properly — and even then, “properly” is dubious. Four decades ago, Money Magazine used to annually have 50 professionals fill out a hypothetical 1040 long-form for someone who rents out property. They always got 50 different tax-due amounts, and they all differed from Money Magazine’s own “correct” amount, whatever “correct” meant. Would any of them been audited by the IRS? I doubt it, but who knows, as it was a hypothetical exercise. By the way, the magazine stopped doing it when the professionals were no longer willing to be so public with their answers, because they thought the exercise made them seem wrong and incompetent. So, the tax code and the tax forms are so complicated that we all have absolutely no chance of filling them out right. Whatever “right” means in the U.S. tax arena. Congress solved some problems for some people, and now we are all subject to audits, fines, and prison.
South Lake Tahoe had contradictory laws. Homeowners were required to clean the fallen pine needles from their yards for fire protection, but they were also fined for environmental reasons if they cleaned the fallen needles. What a dilemma. I was talking to a friend about buildings as landmarks, and he had a tale that one homeowner had a historic house that needed its porch balustrade rehabilitated. It was too low for the current height requirements, so legally he had to make it higher. The landmark regulator insisted that it must be kept to the now-illegal historic height. The homeowner solved the dilemma by asking each what the fine was for a violation, and the landmark regulator said a one-time $150 fine, but the city compliance officer said it was $1,000 a day for each day it was out of compliance. The homeowner followed the city’s requirement, and the landmark regulator asked her lawmakers to authorize the same $1,000 a day fine for non-compliance with her own requirements.
When it comes to making laws to solve one person’s problem, someone is always harmed.
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* A hypothesis is an educated guess, based on limited evidence rather than stupid blather, that warrants an investigation. Could we even measure the nearness of the next glacial period of the current Ice Age so that we can compare it with autism rates? Even if we could, how does a theoretical future event affect past phenomena? Isn’t it more likely that current autism rates affect the timing or intensity of the proposed potential future glacial period?
A theory has experiments, research, or tests to back up the hypothesis. A theory may still be wrong (a couple of Nobel Prizes were awarded for theories that turned out to be wrong), but at least it is better than a mere guess.
A Law is immutable and is known for sure to always apply, such as the law of gravity. Which is not such a good example, because Einsteinian physics demonstrates that gravity may not follow the Newtonian physics that the law is based upon. But, at least we can still calculate useful paths at non-relativistic speeds using the Newtonian law.