Why Kennedy’s decision to fire everyone at the CDC advisory panel was only a start
One of many sudden public collapses from jab-induced heart failure.
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On June 9, 2025 the head of the Health and Human Services at the federal government Robert Kennedy fired all seventeen members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).
According to Kennedy, each member was appointed by the Biden administration as part of a “concerted effort to lock in public health ideology” and to limit the Trump administration from taking “the proper actions to restore public trust in vaccines.” ACIP members usually serve four-year terms. Because 13 appointees took their seats in 2024, without the complete ouster, the committee would not have had a Kennedy-selected majority until 2028.
“A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy said in the HHS release. He will be responsible for appointing the new committee members, which are scheduled to meet from June 25 to June 27 to discuss a slate of vaccines, including those for anthrax, chikungunya, COVID-19, cytomegalovirus, influenza and HPV.
All the usual suspects on the left, including members of Congress and in the propaganda press, immediately went into a hissy-fit, claiming Kennedy’s action was “politicizing the ACIP,” even though it is blatantly obvious that Biden had made his 2024 appointments, just before the election, for his own political reasons.
Politics aside, however, the real reason to dump these Biden-era appointees is that they were also part of the “intellectual” cabal that foisted jab mandates, mask mandates, six-foot social distancing, and lockdowns on everyone. None of these policies were based on any proven science research, and in fact they violated decades of infectious disease policy that recommended doing the exact opposite, across the board.
Worse, there is now clear evidence [pdf] that these same people demanded the imposition of jab mandates, even though they were well aware at the time that the jab caused serious side effects that killed. As noted in this June 11, 2025 report:
Recall that in 2021, then-President Joe Biden and his appointees claimed—in the teeth of emerging evidence—that the COVID-19 vaccines would prevent infection. They ignored or downplayed the power of natural immunity and then falsely insisted that the pandemic was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”; a claim that was obviously untrue in the daily experience of millions of Americans. And finally, they tried to impose an unprecedented vaccine mandate on 80 million private employers and employees, an illegal diktat struck down by the Supreme Court.
This series of measures not only undermined public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine and public health officials but also contributed to a broader vaccine hesitancy, a profoundly dangerous development.
Worse, Team Biden ignored or downplayed crucial evidence of adverse COVID-19 vaccine reactions. Because of Kennedy’s promise of full transparency, we have proof. He delivered 2,473 pages of previously withheld records to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Johnson subsequently published an explosive report revealing that in early 2021 Israel’s Ministry of Health told Biden administration officials that their own comprehensive data showed a “large number” of myocarditis cases among young people. An internal federal working group then received data indicating a “safety signal” for myocarditis among persons aged 16 to 24 years of age. By May 2021, the Senate report proves, Biden administration officials had ample reason to warn the public about the dangers of vaccine-induced myocarditis. They failed to do so. [emphasis mine]
None of this is really a surprise if you had had an open mind in 2020-2022 and had been paying attention. I reported the growing data about jab-caused myocarditis in young people as early as June 2022.
Our bankrupt “intellectual class”
The real take-away from Kennedy’s actions and the lies of these CDCs officials from 2020-2022 is how it proves the utter bankruptcy and dishonesty of our so-called “elite” intellectual class. When faced with clear evidence that their policies were wrong and were killing people, they were incapable of processing that reality. Instead, they not only lied about what they knew, they doubled down on those policies, pushing the jab mandate even harder.
A house-cleaning was certainly in order, and it is grand that Kennedy appears willing to do it.
These facts also demonstrate the bankruptcy of America’s “elite” universities. All of these people were educated in such places, such as Harvard, Yale, and so forth. Yet all appear to have gotten nothing from that expensive education. Instead they graduated from those schools as fools who are unable to think critically or honestly.
Thus, Kennedy’s actions this week are barely a start. A lot more people within the entire government health industry need to be removed, and as quickly as possible.
Nor is the problem limited to the health field. This bankruptcy can be seen at all levels of government and intellectual life, throughout the nation. It is a bankruptcy so deep and profound that most of our “intellectual elites” can’t distinguish the difference between someone who came to this country legally, and those who snuck in illegally, breaking the law. They are so incapable of critical thinking that they can’t recognize a lawless riot by anti-American invaders, even when it is right before their eyes.
SUPERCUT!
Corporate media: These murderous riots are actually mostly peaceful pic.twitter.com/9Aig54BoH2
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 9, 2025
More important, we need to build an entirely new generation of thinkers. What we have now is an government class incapable of doing anything but push their policies blindly, even when faced with evidence that proves those policies are promoting death and destruction. What we need are new leaders who have been educated to think critically and honestly, to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, even if that truth proves them wrong. To do this however will require new universities and a different education system, as our government-based system today is a disaster.
Home-school your kids. And when it comes time for them to attend college, think hard about where you send them. The so-called elite universities are garbage, despite their long storied history. Consider schools with ranked high in supporting free speech (something no Ivy League school believes in). Pick schools that support freedom, western civilization, and rigorous intellectual training. Avoid schools that advocate blacklisting and bigoted racial quotas.
Above, don’t be lazy. Recognize that to restore our nation is going to take decades of work. It can be done, but only if Americans recognize the problem with an open-mind and take action.
If not, the future was amply displayed this week in Los Angeles by the image to the right. These violent pro-illegal protesters were clearly hostile to the rule of law and everything the United States and western civilization has always stood for. They made their loyalties to other nations and other ideologies — including Marxist, Hamas, and communism — imminently clear.
Is that what you want for your children and grand-children?
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“”restore public trust in vaccines””
I doubt this will happen in my lifetime.
I have self censored myself to keeping our of commenting on political issues here… We are never going to agree, so why wind each other up unnecessarily… Anyway, I have many issues with the covid vaccines… I am sceptical of the effececy of the MRNA for covid ( although had to have them , my kids also, to even go to a concert! ) …. But I feel that there is a danger that the uptake rate of tested and proven vaccines for measles, mumps, chicken pox etc , proven safe and effective over decades will fall .. and horrible preventable childhood ailments will rise under the current policy.
Yes, be sceptical, but also embrace the science… Some of these childhood illnesses can be fatal, and the vaccines are proven to be very safe. Don’t let your crazy health guy pee upon decades of research and development of vaccines that have saved many children’s lives, and saved many more from the misery of suffering a horrible illness.
Lee,
Not so long ago, I would have had similar thoughts, but the lies and self-dealing I have seen in this process have undercut a lot of the medical establishment’s credibility.
They didn’t have to do it, but the financial temptations were too great.
Nothing generates retractions like the medical field.
Each individual’s body chemistry is unique.
Penn & Teller had a vaccine special–but that was before the more recent genetic Frankensteinery
Lee S,
The one thing I expect to see from HHS Sec’y. Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s march through Georgia – I mean the federal “health” bureaucracies – is a cold and clear-eyed determination of just how safe extant vaccines are as well as how effective. It’s the same bureaucrats, after all, that have told us for years how supposedly safe these vaccines are that also spun us so many malicious fairy tales during the erstwhile Covid Reich. At this point, they have all entirely forfeited the right to be believed by default about anything. Zero-based credibility needs to be the order of the day.
And, while we’re on the subject, could we please invent a different word to apply to these Covid-19 shots? They manifestly are not “vaccines” as they confer little if any actual immunity to the disease. They may or may not be palliatives, at best, for old crocks like me, but there is substantial evidence now coming to light that they have been far more injurious than helpful to those recipients younger than retirees.
Personally, I was vaxxed and boosted to the max and still caught Covid. It wasn’t pleasant, but it was far less life-threatening than was a case of garden-variety seasonal flu the following year. I had to be hospitalized for that one whereas Covid I was able to shrug off in a few days at home.
Just for the record, far from being an anti-vaxxer, I am something of a vaccination collector. I had smallpox, diptheria and polio vaccinations as a child. There were no vaccines addressing the more common childhood maladies then and I caught all of them except whooping cough with minimal consequences. In recent years I have been vaccinated against shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis A & B, meningitis and several other things with acronyms and have suffered no ill-effects from the jabs and no occurrence of the diseases vaxxed against. I did this because I am partially immuno-compromised owing to treatment some years ago for an auto-immune disease. I also get the annual flu vaccines, though doing so did me no good a couple of years back.
More effective and safer vaccines should certainly be developed. I have seen countless articles over the last two decades about this or that research aimed at coming up with a broad-spectrum influenza vaccine to replace the annual hit-or-miss shots. So far, no joy. I attribute this, in large part, to the almost total reluctance of the pharmaceutical industry to seek actual cures anymore. They much prefer palliatives that one must take for life. The federal health bureaucracy seems fine with this too. I’m hoping Sec’y. Kennedy can knock some heads together and get at least the federal labs working on actual cures again.
You and your fellow Europeans have some skin in this game too. Pres. Trump’s recent “most favored nation” pricing order for prescription medications will require all of the European national healthcare systems that have been freeloading on US drug price forbearance for decades to pay significantly more for such things going forward. A renewed concentration on cures over palliatives would go a long way toward keeping these national systems in Europe from going broke over time.
Love these pages. We have raised three GenZers through the Scamdemic and they all went to college(engineering, nursing) and are fully educated on America and its communist left that is in control here in Minny. Housing is unaffordable here and kids know exactly why.
Related: How did we get here?
UNPACKING THE STRATEGY AND COUNTER STRATEGY
Without question the Democrat party leadership, and those who installed Joe Biden as their Potemkin facade president and those who had control over the “Auto Pen” executed a political warfare strategy seeking absolute power and control.
Their prime strategy over the term of the Biden presidency was to on day one, open the borders of America and incentivize the masses of the world to flood into it. And they did just that. That is crystal clear. It was crystal clear on day one to me and many others, and it is established through evidence based on the perverted numbers of illegals ushered into the country that it is so.
And it was really a brilliant although desperate and ballsy political warfare action. You must give the Socialist, Communist. “progressive” Democrat political operatives their due. There are no rules in warfare, political or otherwise.
And now after the Trump decisive overwhelming win for the presidency with a clear mandate supported by the American masses based on one of the primary reasons he was elected: TO REMOVE ALL ILLEGALS FROM THE UNITED STATES. The people clearly have transmitted that sentiment and agenda. But Americans are compassionate to a fault.
But there is a second component to the radical Democrat leaderships flooding the country with the illegal and unvetted, the removal itself. Because of the cynical, really evil, Democrat party leadership political warfare action strategies desperate as they were and are the second component is that the Trump administration must be ruthless in the mass removal. And in that action, many we will all have to admit are primarily people who have come to America in order to escape the Socialism, corruption and economic wasteland in which they live and worse within their home countries. You know, exactly the dependent welfare state that the Democrat leadership planned to install in America to retain political power and control.
Remember, your American tax dollars were confiscated and redirected by Democrat party operatives and empowered political actors within government to financially support the illegal invasion at all necessary sustaining levels. You the American people have paid for the invasion of your own country for political control reasons! How do you feel about that?
And in the now required ruthlessness of the current administration those people who have and continue to be clearly used by the Democrat party machine will suffer once again because of it. Desperate people were incentivized to uproot themselves and their families by the Democrat party leadership and the many anti-American NGO’s that the Democrats ensure are well funded by the American people to overthrow their own country to ILLEGALLY enter America. Illegally enter America in the hope that the Democrats would retain political power.
And now the paid for and organized riots in Democrat strong hold cities around the country will ensue and the chaos, looting, Molotov cocktails and violence that the Democrat party leadership are wed to will be the background to those people who have been used by the Democrats, rounded up and shipped back to their homeland.
America is a country of immigrants, LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
And that is how evil those “progressive”, radical, Socialist, anti-American, race panderers and hate promoter, firebomb throwing, power-hungry Democrat party leadership members are. On one level you have to admire their stone cold, ballsy move to execute their strategy and to take over America. But on another level, you must more significantly admire the American people, and their ability see through the fog of political warfare to coalesce and take care of their business for THEIR country when they need to.
The continuing strategy the Democrat party leadership is counting on is the American people’s compassion for desperate people to remain where they have been ILLAGALLY installed for Democrat party political power control purposes. Some will remain, many will go.
Do you as an American appreciate being used in such a cynical and politically desperate way as the Democrat party leadership is counting on? I did not think so.
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 6/13/25
“The Most Decisive 37 Weeks in American History”
Sherman Invades Georgia; Marches Toward the Sea (April 1864)
https://youtu.be/HliG1HWD320
44:46