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Trump Moves to Scale Back Childhood Vaccines Over Conspiracy Theory The president signed a new executive order based on the myth that vaccines cause autism. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol ...

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-- Rolling Stone (@rollingstone.com) 5:12 PM · Aug 10, 2026

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Gotta love the picture in the article, which is a massively dishonest graphic that made the rounds in anti-vaxx circles a while back.

It compares the 11 agents that are vaccinated against to the 72 doses US children get throughout the schedule, most of which are combination injections with 3-4 agents in a single dose.

That brain dead piece of s*&^ RFK can't move his lips without lying.

Oh, and f*&^ you MAGA.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-10 05:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Orange Chomo Nods Off After Claiming Kids Get "Soda Bottle" Worth of Vaccines

www.yahoo.com

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-10 05:25 PM | Reply

The EO:

www.whitehouse.gov

First of all, *gag* to the tacky newsletter sign up pop up ad that says "Welcome to the Golden Age!"

Reading this, there are some real gems of idiocy that only a s*&^ for brains like RFK could say with a straight face.

For instance:

it is the policy of my Administration that Federal programs and funding should support maximal parental choice over childhood vaccines, consistent with the Federal Government's constitutional and statutory obligations and the fundamental principles of personal autonomy and informed consent.

Existing case law affirms the power of state and local governments to enforce vaccination mandates for the public good. The Jacobson decision, IIRC, is well over a century old.

The Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations also recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.

So here they are meddling in markets, forcing companies to produce products they don't want to produce.

Also, the last part all but guarantees that overall vaccination rates across the board are likely to fall. Expecting constant visits ensures all won't be administered and spacing them out removes synergistic effects of co-injections that are designed into the schedule. This is anything but "gold standard science" driven. It's bulls*&^ driven.

Section 4 opens a free for all for the stupidest, least capable parents among us to ensure their little spawns have every chance to become typhoid Marys.

I hope states counter this with new laws that state any parent whose unvaccinated child causes death or serious illness to another child by transmitting a preventable disease should be criminally charged. You want "freedom"? Fine. You should also get the consequences of your negligence.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-10 05:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

And when the Catholic Church refused to let parents get out of their vaccine responsibilities in regards to their kids, the anti vaxxers said....
www.cbsnews.com

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-11 06:26 AM | Reply

So much of this nonsense is just Trump/MAGA flipping the bird at civilized society.

I'm trying hard to find something else than that to it.....Nah, it's just flipping the bird.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-11 09:40 AM | Reply

Another view ...

Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don't exist
arstechnica.com

... Trump falsely claimed the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal" and linked shots to autism. ...

During a signing event at the White House on Monday afternoon, Trump falsely claimed that pediatricians "have a vaccination that looks like the size of a bottle of soda," that is "poured into a little child's body, and bad things happen in too many cases. This is an explosion; this is an epidemic," Trump said. ...


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-11 12:40 PM | Reply

This isn't law. It's simply advice.

FTA

"Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration's preferred schedule, according to a White House fact sheet."

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-11 02:48 PM | Reply

This isn't law. It's simply advice.

#7 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Nah, it's just flipping the bird.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-11 02:56 PM | Reply

@#7 ... This isn't law. It's simply advice. ...

It is more likely putting down the groundwork for Pres Trump to withhold funding to states which do not comply with his EO.


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-11 03:03 PM | Reply

I see Cassidy got his panties all knotted up over it. He should shut his pie hole. His state doesn't even require that children be vaccinated to attend public schools. And I don't really care but he's just virtue signaling.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-11 03:17 PM | Reply

This isn't law. It's simply advice.

FTA

"Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommendations, states, not the federal government, have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws to reflect the administration's preferred schedule, according to a White House fact sheet."

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So why did he do it?

Perhaps to toss some red meat to his cult of morons, while he burdens them with inflation and debt from the esptein war?

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-11 05:38 PM | Reply

So why did he do it?

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-11 05:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

He did it to advise states according to the information he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? Anyone can continue the pervious regiment. Your problem is you're an authoritarian.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-11 05:55 PM | Reply

He did it to advise states according to the information he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? Anyone can continue the pervious regiment. Your problem is you're an authoritarian.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

What else in his agenda makes you think he actually cares about the health of kids?

The previous regimen was working. Trump changed it to cast doubt on the whole concept of vaccines to please his base of morons and try to rewrite his terrible performance during covid.

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-11 06:03 PM | Reply

-It is more likely putting down the groundwork for Pres Trump to withhold funding to states which do not comply with his EO.

That seems like a lot of headaches in exchange for no benefit.

Childhood vaccines have been an ongoing debate with regards to autism and such but it's not been a social political wedge issue. IOW, elections are won or lost on that issue.

COVID immediately became one but I don't see the win here for Trump which is odd because usually the "win" he's aiming for is obvious.

IF there is a benefit to this (or at the very least an opportunity to frame a benefit or a "win") wouldn't it be at least a decade before you'd be able to take credit for it?

Trump isn't interested in waiting a decade to take credit for anything........so where is the short term "win" for him on this?

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2026-08-11 06:18 PM | Reply

MAGA is vehemently against vaccines.

Thats the win.

He's pandering to his base and hoping that will secure him additional midterm seats.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-11 06:29 PM | Reply

Pediatricians in Florida are pushing back on President Donald Trump's executive order calling for changes to the childhood vaccination schedule.

And the state's leading pediatric medical association, the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said they're not on board.

"We don't answer to this nonsense; we don't recommend changing it," said Dr. Rana Alissa, president of the FCAAP and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida. "We go by evidence-based science, we don't go by politics and politicians."

www.orlandosentinel.com

---- off, paste-eaters.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-11 07:23 PM | Reply

@#12 ... He did it to advise states according to the information he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? ...

Yes.

However, if your current alias had stated it as ...

... He did it to advise states according to the misinformation he's privy to. Is that so hard for you to understand? ...

That would be a lot easier to understand.

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-11 07:34 PM | Reply

A meaningless, toothless order that will kill children from a know child rapist.

GOOD GOING REPUBLICANT CLOWNS

#18 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-11 08:41 PM | Reply

He can sign any such "order" and it's still all for show, like everything else he does. It has no legal standing nor will 99% of the pediatricians and hospitals follow it.

#19 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-08-11 08:53 PM | Reply

I love how he proudly displays someone else's Nobel Peace Prize front and center on his desk.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-08-11 10:19 PM | Reply

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