Politics Break - 04 September 2025

A Nobel Prize if he ditches RFK Jr? Things just got even weirder. 

It's all about the Covid vaccine - Trump and RFK Jr have been in a tug-of-war about them. And the bottom line is NOT about our health, but only what LOOKS better for each of them, politically. 

Do YOU want a vaccine? Sure. You can get one. Except you need a prescription from your doctor, now. (Ka-ching! Office visit charge). 

And then since the CDC doesn't recommend one, you gotta see if your health insurance will cover it. (Ka-ching! Another couple of hundred bucks right there.)

And then you need to find a pharmacy that is willing to give you one. The two biggest chains, CVS and Walgreens already pulled back giving vaccines in over a dozen states, while SOMEBODY figures this whole thing out. 

That is because Kennedy did more than oust the head of the CDC last month. He also ousted the ENTIRE Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and replaced them with vaccine skeptic cronies. 

And THEY make the guidance recommendation followed by health insurance companies and pharmacies. But they don't meet until September 18. And when they do, if they rubber stamp the decision made by Kennedy's cronies at the FDA, then only people over 65 or people with certain health conditions will get the recommendation.

And the recommendations will NOT cover people who live or work with people who are immune compromised, and they will NOT cover people who just want to STAY healthy, and not miss work, or end up with long term side effects. 

Not only that, Kennedy's new FDA quacks announced today, Wednesday, that they are not recommending people get different vaccines, for flu and other respiratory diseases, together. They know that people are less likely to make multiple appointments to get them individually. Meaning less people will get vaccinated for them as well. 

What can possibly go wrong? 

Trump may not care about our health, But he DOES care about his image.

You see, Trump was REALLY proud of his "Warp Speed Covid Vaccine" that he claimed credit for during his first term. In his whole disastrous term, it was one of the only things he COULD claim went right. His response resulted in the deaths of over a million Americans BEFORE the vaccine became available, but as soon as it did, we ALL saw how rapidly the disease came under control. 

Sure, Trump tried to hedge his bets. At the same time, he was promoting the crazy "cures" the MAGA faithful - and the billionaires who exploited them - came up with. He tried to play both sides.  But he couldn't claim credit for bleach and horse de-wormer. He COULD claim credit for the Warp Speed vaccine. And he WANTS credit. He ALWAYS wants credit. 

But then Trump went and made a deal with the devil (though which of them was the devil is debatable). If Robert F Kennedy Jr dropped out of the presidential race, and threw his support (and electors) behind Trump, Kennedy would get the job he REALLY wanted, to run the Health Department. 

RFK Jr was up-front and VERY vocal about his HATRED of vaccines. Of any kind. BUT he had his OWN children vaccinated against the childhood diseases that had killed vast numbers of children for centuries. 

So, maybe Trump figured that since he was a hypocrite like himself,  RFK Jr would just concentrate on his Autism conspiracies and leave Covid alone. Silly Trump. 

Kennedy's condemnation of the Covid vaccine not only makes Trump look bad - even worse - it takes away his biggest first-term trophy. 

So Trump demanded that the Covid vaccine producers, Pfizer and Moderna, rescue him. He told them to gather all the evidence they had that the Covid vaccine WORKED, and make it PUBLIC. STAT! 

And boy, did Pfizer come through for him. 

CNN reports that not only did Pfizer just post a collection today, Wednesday, of more than 200 news releases and statements and 27 peer-reviewed data publications since early 2020 ....