Join Mike Gallagher as he examines the political and personal landscape of vaccine mandates. With Florida at the forefront of this controversy, Gallagher dissects the debate, highlighting the perspectives of key figures like Governor DeSantis and Senator Rick Scott. He questions the rationale behind religious exemptions and delves into the broader implications for public health and parental rights. Intertwined with these discussions, Gallagher shares a candid look at his own family dynamics during the holiday season. Through a blend of humor and candid storytelling, he reflects on the challenges and joys of family gatherings, exploring how personal loss and
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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I kind of hate the idea of going back to another, you know, another… I’m waving at Tracy to get her out of the shot, so… Tracy is hovering in the camera shot as we start a Friday. Welcome in. Hey, we’re all kind of weary if you’re in Dallas. What do I do as a Cowboys fan to not trash the Philadelphia Eagles knowing I’ve got plenty of people who love the Philadelphia Eagles? What do I do? What do I do about that? I feel terrible. I feel guilty. I feel sad. Because I want to unleash on the Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, come on. The star defensive player for the Eagles spitting in the face of our quarterback? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Well, that’s the Eagles for you. But I don’t want to really go all out because I don’t want to dump on… Our friends who are Eagles fans, we got a big, great station in Philadelphia. I don’t want to make you mad at me, but doggone it. I wanted the Cowboys to win so badly. I couldn’t stay up. They had a weather delay in Philadelphia because God was unhappy with the Eagles. I’m just kidding. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. But anyway, all right, Eagles win 28-24. Talk to Mark Davis, and Mark is like, well, we could have gotten blown out. We should have gotten blown out. I was like, oh, great. You lose by a little bit? What, are you into participation trophies, Mark? Stop it. Eagles. Eagles. Aren’t they the ones that booed Santa Claus? Eagles. Are you an Eagles fan, Christian? Good. I think Eric is. So I’m sure he’s gloating on his vacation. Anyway, I’m a little leery about diving into the vaccine stuff again like we did yesterday after RFK Jr. spoke. But we got some of the highlights. Dana Perino on The Five didn’t like it because they all yelled at each other. Well, wait a minute. So the senators get to beat up on RFK Jr., but he’s supposed to sit there and take it? Come on, Dana. I love Dana Perino, but she said she doesn’t like these hearings because nothing much comes from them. Everybody’s just trying to get sound bites, and she was annoyed that everybody was interrupting everybody. Well, again, wait a minute. The senators can browbeat the Health and Human Services Secretary, but he has to sit there and just say, thank you, sir, may I have another? No, this guy’s the most popular member of Trump’s cabinet for a reason. He doesn’t want to make parents be forced to vaccinate their kids. But U.S. Senator Rick Scott, here in Florida, is now opposed to Florida ending vaccine mandates. Um… Axios reports that Senator Scott argues that the state already strikes the right balance between children’s health and parents’ rights, saying that parents can claim a religious exemption if they don’t want their child to be vaccinated. I don’t know that this is a religious exemption issue. This strikes me, Senator Scott, as you trying to skirt The truth by pretending that parents who don’t want their child to have 76 vaccines before they’re 18 years of age to have to claim a religious exemption. I don’t know that religion has anything to do with it. It’s a parental right. It’s a fundamental freedom. to say I’m not going to have the government mandate what is injected into my child’s veins. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Nobody is stopping you from getting a vaccine. Wednesday, the DeSantis administration announced that Florida will be the first state in the country to end all vaccine mandates. The left is flipping out. They’re freaking out. Oh, we’re not going to be able to go to Disney World now. Wait a minute. If your kid is vaccinated, what do you care if the other kid isn’t vaccinated? What in the world are people talking about? And according to Senator Rick Scott, who is now breaking with this policy, he said, quote, Florida already has a good system that allows families to opt out based on religious beliefs. So Senator Scott wants parents to have to claim a religious exemption from all the gazillion vaccines that their kids are supposed to take at the state’s directive. All Governor DeSantis and the Florida Republicans want to do is end the mandate. Vaccine mandate. You take that expression. You take that phrase. You take that topic. There are two issues there. One is the vaccine. And yes, we could have the whole argument all over again about COVID. COVID vaccines. Again, mandate. That’s the issue. Here’s what Axios writes about this Florida drama, which is what they say is another sign of fractures within the Republican Party. I don’t think we ought to be fractured at all. And to be honest with you, I don’t think Senator Rick Scott ought to be thumbing his nose at this very common sense directive. No more mandates. What’s hard about that? And here’s what Axios writes before you call. And I want you to call here in the Relief Factor studios. You join me here on a Friday, 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Here’s what Axios writes. Case in point, parents can already obtain a religious exemption. They have to visit the county’s health department. So, Senator Rick Scott… thinks that if you don’t want your child to be vaccinated, you’ve got to travel to the county’s health department and claim a religious exemption. I mean, to me, a religious exemption is very specific. If I’m opposed to my employer telling me I’ve got to get a COVID vaccine or I can’t do my show, I’m not going to claim a religious exemption. I’m going to argue that my freedom, that my rights should allow me to say, no, you’re not going to force me to get a vaccination. And that’s not a religious exemption. That’s an American right. Now, what am I missing here? Let’s revisit this for a few minutes. Here on this Friday, September 5th episode of the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. One number does it all. You can call or text us on the MyPillow text line. And I love your texts, but I want to hear your voice. I want to put you front and center here on the show. 800-655-MIKE. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. 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I want to go back to Japan. It’s one of the most beautiful, well-run, modernized, impressive places on the planet. And when I went a year or so ago, I was blown away by how efficient, how wonderful everything is. And I just I was a little frustrated because I thought, why can’t things be like this in the United States? So I’m curious. I don’t want to be like Japan. You know, I know that we’re not about a mass conformity and culturally there’s differences. But I am curious. Does Japan have a vaccine mandate? I don’t think they do. And if that’s true, do you know that their mortality rate is better than ours? You know, the left wants to paint this picture of we’re all going to drop dead if we don’t have mandatory vaccinations. So Delaware is right. The same people screaming about vaccine mandates, demanding vaccine mandates, could give a rip about whatever diseases illegals are bringing in. Here’s a text from Tampa. The only way you can enter a Florida public school without all the childhood vaccinations is to claim a religious exemption, and you have to bring that document with you when you register your child for school. That’s what Senator Rick Scott wants people to do. Rick Scott thinks you claiming a religious exemption is perfectly fine if you don’t want to have your kid get a vaccine. It’s not a religious issue. I mean, it could be for some people, perhaps. I know there are different religious organizations that oppose medication of all kinds. There might be some unusual religious path you want to carve out, but it’s not a religious exemption. You just very well may be a parent who doesn’t want your child to be forced to be vaccinated. Rick Scott, the senator from Florida, claims that you should have to hide behind a religious exemption, which it isn’t. That’s unethical. It’s unethical to claim a religious exemption if it’s not a religious issue. I guess that’s what Rick Scott wants. And finally, before we go to your calls… A text from Texas on the MyPillow text line. Follow the money, Mike. See if any of these senators have been invested in by Big Pharma. Well, look, Bernie Sanders addressed this yesterday. I’ve got the answer for you, Texas. Were any of the senators in that room yesterday recipients of Big Pharma’s generosity? Senator Sanders can give you the answer to that question.
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Every single Republican, I don’t mean to be political here, Mr. Chairman, has received PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. Are they all corrupt as well? And I’m telling you, the American Heart Association has been co-opted by the food industry. Everybody but you, Senator. But you know what? When you ran for president, you know, we have a corrupt campaign finance system. Maybe you will agree with me on that. Okay, you were running for president, you got a billionaire behind it. You received $300,000 from people not from the industry, people in it as I did, from individuals. You corrupt. President Trump got $3 million. Every Republican got corporate PAC money for the pharmaceutical industry. Democrats as well. Everybody is corrupt, but you corrupt. Is that what we’re looking at? I don’t think so. And I think the issue now… I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Well, I think you do know what you’re talking about. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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The issue is, every time anyone disagrees with you… Are you saying the pharmaceutical industry was supporting my presidential campaign? No, I’m saying… I don’t think so.
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No, I’m not saying that. As a matter of fact, it was revealed that the pharmaceutical industry targeted RFK to be fired. Mike Benz reports on X… that a leaked April 3rd BioVaccine Policy Steering Committee memo showed that pharmaceutical industry insiders were openly plotting to go to Capitol Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go. So spare me your mock indignation, Bernie Sanders, but thank you for admitting that every single politician is bought and paid for By Big Pharma. Brad in Sarasota has got an answer to my question. Does Japan have a mandatory vaccination policy? Are there vaccine mandates in Japan, Brad?
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No, they have recommended vaccine, but they don’t have any. Anything’s mandatory. It’s entirely voluntary.
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Wow. And of course, the vaccine, I mean, the mortality rate in Japan, pretty dramatically better than ours, isn’t it?
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Yeah. Matter of fact, they have quite an aging population.
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I know they do. I know they do. And what a place to, I mean, Brad, I was so blown away by the quality of life in Japan. It’s like, why can’t we do things like that? Why can’t we be like that?
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I loved it there. Me too. Me too. It was a significant time in my life of four years that I spent living there.
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Wow. You lived there for four years?
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What city? Well, the name of the city was Nagai, but it was about 14 or 15 kilometers from Yokosuka.
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Everybody around here is cranky. Poor Christian is coming off of nicotine. Good for him. I’m so proud of him. Our video producer, he’s got the patch. He’s got pouches. He’s got gum. He says his head is like in a vice grip. He’s going through nicotine withdrawals. And I’ve heard nicotine withdrawals are horrible. And he looks like he’s been run over by a truck. We’ve had a couple of technical things, and he says the mouse keeps freezing. It ain’t the mouse. It’s him because he’s losing it. And I’m so proud of him. You know how much guts it takes to say, you know what? I’ve smoked cigarettes for years. It’s bad for me. It’s a terrible habit. Stunts everything. Risks my life. I’m done. And I know how proud his girlfriend is of him. We’re all proud of you, Christian. We’re pulling for you. People ought to be proud of me. I came up in the middle of the night and got up and said, all right, I’m going to try Christmas again with the family. I explained this to Mark Davis this morning. And Mark said, you are depressing me so badly. I have a very hard time with Christmas. And I have a hard time with the family at Christmas. Four sons, two daughters-in-law, a granddaughter, and our family is like a hybrid of the Munsters and the Adams family. I mean, we, as I always say, we put the dis in function. People ask me how the kids are doing. I always like to say, hey, any day that the morgue or the sheriff’s department doesn’t call, it’s a good day in my world. And we are a little fractious sometimes. Let me put it this way. Brady Bunch, we ain’t. So when the pandemic, the first year of the pandemic, I had a big Christmas plan for the family. We’re going to run a big… Airbnb in Yellowstone. I want a Christmas with snow and a ski lift and hot chocolate. I mean, I’m always looking for the perfect Christmas, and I never find it. In fact, just the opposite. Normally, when my family and I, when my kids and I get together at Christmas, it’s a bloodbath. It’s like Nightmare on Elm Street. They don’t get along. This brother doesn’t like this brother, and the other brother’s mad at that brother. I mean, and they’re all grown. These are grown men with their wives. The wives are fine. I love the wives. The sons, they’re a nightmare. So I’m trying to figure out. So I got up in the middle of the night. I said, you know what? I’m going to try it this Christmas. Let’s try it. Because we did it. I had it all booked. We had it all planned. We didn’t do an Airbnb. I did a bunch of hotel rooms at Yellowstone. I don’t even remember what city. Jackson Hole, maybe. I don’t even know where we were going. But we were going to do sleigh rides and skiing. And then, of course, China decided to unleash its wrath upon the world. And we all had to say no holiday for the Gallaghers, which in a way is a blessing. Because I’m not kidding you. Typically, I’ve tried Christmas with them. It always goes badly. Every time. Every single time. One of them gets into the fight with the other one. Then I get stressed. And then I get mad at them. And they’re mad at me. And I’d just rather do Christmas alone. You’d think they’d know how weird Christmas is for me. I mean, this will depress you. If you’re a new listener to the show, you’ll hear this for the first time. You’ve heard me talk about this before. My dad died on Christmas Day when I was a little boy. And then a few years later, my mom died the week before Christmas. I know that’s sad. You don’t have to feel sorry for me, but you wonder why I’m so messed up. Brian the Troll didn’t call in. We gave him every opportunity, but Brian, you ought to appreciate why you don’t like me so much. I’m not well. I’m not a well man. I’ve had some trauma in my life. I’ve had stuff happen. So anyway, I got up in the middle of the night and thought, you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to say… Let’s try again. And I reached out to Matthew. I reached out to one of my kids. I said, call me right away about Christmas. We called right away with a few seconds, which is very rare for him. Normally calls me in about three days after I text him. He called me right away because it was a Christmas and trip. I said, let’s try again. Let’s let’s let me get in. I’ll try to find a big Airbnb. We’ll get all the brothers together. We’ll get the all of us. And he loved the idea. I said, but how are we going to navigate this? Because the one brother is mad at the other brother, and it’s a nightmare. But I want to get everybody together. But when I get everybody together, it’s hell on earth. It’s like Dawn of the Dead. Remember that movie, Dawn of the Dead? That’s what it’s like. It’s like Night of the Living Dead. It is a horror movie. And all I want to do is enjoy it and relax and have fun and appreciate everything. That’s all I want to do. I just want to like Christmas again. And I fear that I never will. Look, I’ve done cruises by myself. I’ve gone with friends. I’ve been with Peg and Joey in South Carolina. I’ve done all kinds of different stuff. Just to get away from it because I don’t want to have a bad Christmas. And I don’t know how to convey. I mean, again, these kids are not. I mean, I’ll call them kids. These are 40-year-olds. These are not children. Can we have a nice Christmas just once for the old man where we’re not fighting and we’re not arguing and one isn’t triggered by the other one? So I’m going to try it. I’m embarking on an adventure. I’m going to try to find it. I don’t even know how to do this. I don’t even know where to go. You’ve got some ideas for me. Share them. You can email them to me, mike at mikeonline.com. That’s our email address, mike at mikeonline.com. I want snow.
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I want reindeer. I want jingle bells. I’m going to have the ho, ho, ho happiest Christmas I’ve ever had.
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Imagine it not going well. Speaking of Joey and Peg at Christmas, and I have spent lots of Christmases in the upstate of South Carolina. We’ve got a big event a week from Saturday, the Family Farm Fest. It’s going to be so much fun. Hudson Farm is being thrown open to the public for a big 4th Congressional District event. I’m going to be there in person along with Joey Hudson. We’re going to be your co-hosts. Tuck and Hal, the big sponsor, 989WORD.com for tickets, and they’re going fast. It’s a week from Saturday. I think it’s like 6 o’clock at night on the farm. And we’re going to have a great time. It’s a week from tomorrow. For tickets, go to 989WORD.com, or you can just text the keyword farm to the MyPillow text line, and we’ll send you back a link where you can order your tickets. We’re going to have a great time. We’re going to talk about politics. We’re going to talk about South Carolina. We’ll talk about the Trump era. It’s going to be fun, food, fellowship, the family farm, and it’s at the Hudson Farm. You’ve heard me talk about I’ve spent many a Christmas at Hudson Farm. So you’ll get to see this beautiful, beautiful place that Joey and Peg call home. Again, 989WORD.com for tickets or just text the keyword farm to 800-655. Mike, text farm to 800-655-6453. Mike, you should look into Mission Ridge in Washington State. We listen to you on 106.7. It’s the perfect family-oriented place to go. Teresa’s in Houston, Texas. Teresa, do you think people think I’m a jerk for dreading the family drama at Christmastime?
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No, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I have two 40-year-olds. I call them Whirlpool and Maytag because they’re like two agitators. I don’t know what a good Christmas is all about. I don’t know.
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I forget what it is. I don’t remember. Well, when Denise was alive, back then, I got to go back years before I had a good Christmas.
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Mm-hmm. My husband passed away about 11 years ago. We had a good Christmas, and then all of a sudden, as I said, they became like agitators. They don’t want to talk on it and bark with each other. But I just want to say we’ll get through it. You don’t get over it, but you get through it.
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You and I ought to go to a diner together, just you and me, and we’ll have eggnog.
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There you go.
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I’ll come to Houston.
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There you go. You have a blessed rest of your day and enjoy your show so much.
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Thank you, Teresa. God bless you, Teresa. Thank you very much, and sorry for your loss. Kentucky, you should hold Christmas at the hotel where they filmed The Shining. That way, if it goes south, then it’s the perfect place. That’s exactly right, Kentucky. That is exactly where we should go. That hotel, The Shining, is one of my favorite movies. You ever seen the Jack Nicholson movie, The Shining? It is so good, and that’s where we should go. And then when they start acting up, those little girls will show up at the end of the hallway, and it’ll scare the heck out of them. That’s a great idea. Can you stay there? What was it called in the movie? Was it The Overlook? I think it was The Overlook Hotel. And Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, the late, great Shelley Duvall, they went up there. He was going to be a caretaker. before the snows hit and he went crazy, start chasing her around with an ax, that’ll be me. I’ll be Jack Nicholson. I’ll be chasing the family around with a hatchet. That’s where we’ll go. And hopefully there’ll be a big snowstorm, and we’ll get in there in time, and then we’ll be isolated, and then they’ll act up, and then one of them will look at the other one funny, and then the other one will say, I don’t like the way you’re dressed, and I don’t like what you say, and I don’t like your, and look, politically, look out. Because I got one of them that’s MAGA. I got three of them that aren’t. Politics comes up, I’ll be chasing them around with a hatchet. I could do that. Wendy, I’m home.
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Open this door or I’m going to bash your head in.
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Tracy says the Stanley Hotel served as the direct inspiration for the fictional Overlook. All right. I got to look up the Stanley Hotel. Do you think it really snows like that up there, wherever it is? It’s in Colorado, I think. Absolutely. I could do Jack Nicholson stuff. I’ll be staring at the typewriter, the blank pages. Thank you. That’s the best suggestion of the day. And I won’t remind the kids where it is that we’re going. I’ll just say, look, I found this great resort. It’s up in the mountains. Now it’s going to snow. And when we’re there, we’re just going to be kind of isolated. But we can get through it. Estes Park, Colorado is the Stanley Hotel. I won’t say anything about The Shining until we get there. And then we’ll start looking at the room with the blood. Red room, red room, red room. Love that movie. Okay. By the way, quick text message from Illinois. What happened to your chest pains? Gone. No problem. I went to an urgent care the other day when I was in New York and EKG was fine. So who knows? But I’m good. Thank you for asking, Illinois. And Illinois adds, expect nothing and you cannot be disappointed. Old Chinese proverb. Well, don’t worry. At Christmas time, that’s what I expect in abundance. Maybe I’m part Chinese because I expect nothing. I just expect a nice, peaceful, quiet time. Can’t be hard. It can’t be hard. Here’s Arizona. You’re doing it all wrong with your sons. Here’s my idea. Invite only one son for Christmas. How’s that going to go over? How do I tell the other sons? Just do this in a revolving manner. I told Mark this morning we ought to do it in shifts. I’ll bring in the one that doesn’t like the other one, the two that are always at each other’s throats. I’ll bring one in and then fly him out and bring in the other one. It’ll be like a factory shift. You know, one of them can have Monday through Wednesday and the other one will have Thursday through Saturday.
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Plenty of headlines today. Last night, Trump hosted the big tech elite at a big White House dinner. They’re all… Suck it up to him. The meta CEO Zuckerberg was there. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder. They each praised him. Trump is going to rename the Defense Department the Department of War. And, you know, I think to ordinary Americans, that sounds pretty good. Instead of kind of positioning America as being on the defense… We’re actually on the offense. Don’t mess with the United States of America, or you’re going to have hell to pay. Yesterday, RFK Jr., the Health and Human Services Secretary, was grilled by a bunch of banshees on Capitol Hill. The hearings, of course, were, as expected, heated. And what resulted was a meltdown from the left that just continues to astound. I saw on social media, A Democrat official posted this on X. The vaccination issue is going to divide America and real separation is coming. No one will take their children to Florida and expose them to measles and rubella at Disney World but lunatics. Only the lunatics are going to go to Disney because it’s like an unvaccinated playground, I guess. The West and East Coasts, writes John Bowser Bauman, the West and East Coasts, because that’s where all the smart kids are, right on the coasts, they’ll isolate themselves as best as possible and protect their kids. Now, I’m no scientist, but if John Bowser Bauman is so worried about his kids being exposed to an unvaccinated child, Well, then make sure your kid gets 19 vaccinations against measles and hepatitis B and everything else that you think that the government should mandate your child should get. Doesn’t that sum it up perfectly? This one post, I don’t even know who John Bowser Bauman is. I don’t care. But here’s what he wrote. Let me repeat this post. The vaccination issue is going to divide America and real separation is coming. No one will take their children to Florida and expose them to measles and rubella at Disney World except lunatics. The West and East Coasts will isolate themselves as best as possible and protect their kids. Good. You should do that, Bowser. Isolate your kids. You isolate. Hunker down. Why don’t you stay home for about the next 20 years? Do us all a favor. Isolate. The reason the vaccination issue does divide America is because normal Americans know about the politicization of COVID. And people like this guy contribute to it. Yesterday, RFK Jr., he just went off for two straight minutes, actually a minute and 44 seconds, about the politicization of COVID. And for one brief shining moment, those rabid Democrat senators, maybe a Republican or two, all on board the vaccine mandate train, shockingly, the whole room fell silent.
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Do you believe COVID-19 was politicized?
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Yeah, the whole process was politicized. Senator, I mean, we were lied to about everything. We were lied to about natural immunity. We were lied to about, you know, we were told again and again the vaccines would prevent transmission, they’d prevent infection. It wasn’t true. They knew it from the start it wasn’t true because that’s what the animal studies and the clinical trials showed. We were told that there was science behind cloth masks. The CDC allowed the teachers union to write the order closing our schools, which hurt working people all over the country, and then pretend it was science-based. All of these issues, and then I can show you, for example, Chairman Wyden was talking about me politicizing ACIP during COVID-19. Probably the most famous scientist on ACEP was Martin Kuldor from Harvard, the world-renowned epidemiologist and vaccinologist. And he criticized the COVID booster mandates. They ejected him from COVID because he wasn’t in the orthodoxy. The two biggest health officials at FDA during COVID, Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause, criticized the Biden mandates, vaccine mandates. You know, President Biden said in August, I would never take that vaccine, the Trump vaccine. And he came in, he mandated it, and then he fired the two top health officials at FDA who said, hey, this thing has not been properly tested. So the whole process was politicized, and even today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, how good is that? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to restore public trust in the CDC. That’s it. That’s it. And I don’t know why it’s so hard. to accept that parents don’t want to be forced to have their children take a vaccine. Senator Rick Scott here in Florida is opposed to the abolishment of the vaccine mandates for children in Florida. And his logic to me is astounding. His logic is that parents already are allowed to seek a religious exemption. A religious exemption? This isn’t a religion. I mean, why do you think a parent, Senator Scott, should go to the local county health office and fill out paperwork claiming a religious exemption because you don’t think your child needs to get a hepatitis B vaccine? Why does a child need to be vaccinated against hepatitis? Is that child a drug user? Is the parent a drug user? How many vaccines do kids have by the time they’re 18 years old? I mean, it’s extraordinary. And normal Americans are fed up. And the left, of course, they want all the vaccines they can handle. Everybody’s telling me that this tweet was from the lead singer of Sha Na Na. Tell me I’m not citing the lead singer from Sha Na Na. That can’t be right. John Bowser Bauman. Let me look this guy up. There’s just no way. If I’m quoting the lead singer from Sha Na Na, I’m going to go on an immediate vacation. Here it is. John. No, no, no, no. That’s not the same one. Oh, no. Maybe it is. President Social Security Works PAC, Vice Chair DNC Seniors Council, 110 Biden and Harris events. Boy, there’s a chunk of your life you’ll never get back, Bowser. Senior Issues Expert, Columbia Class of 68, Legendary Greaser. If he’s a legendary, I think that’s him. I think that’s the guy from Sha Na Na. So the guy from Sha Na Na is claiming that the only people who are going to go to Disney World are the lunatics who haven’t vaccinated their kids. So and in order for him to keep his. well, I guess in his case, grandkids, safe is to isolate. The West and East Coasts will isolate themselves as best as possible and protect their kids because no one is going to take their kids to Disney World anymore because there are children who are going to be unvaccinated for hepatitis or measles or rubella. Well, there you go. I got your daily dose of wisdom. from a greaser, from Sha Na Na. This is the world we’re in right now.
