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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, on Sunday countered President Donald Trump's recent claims that the measles, mumps and rubella " or MMR " vaccine could be lethal.

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BRENNAN: The president twice said the MMR shot may be lethal. Do you want to clarify that? DR OZ: We want parents to have the autonomy to decide what their kids receive BRENNAN: But he used the term 'lethal.' Do you want to clarify? OZ: The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine

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-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 10:58 AM · Aug 23, 2026

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Is Oz next up for stinky's chopping block?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-23 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

He also said -

"We want parents to have the autonomy to decide what their kids receive"

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-23 03:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

We want parents to have the autonomy to decide what their kids receive

---- that ----.

You scientifically ignorant dumb ----s don't get to endanger the entire country because you believe politicians instead of doctors.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-23 04:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Ozzie's license to practice medicine should be revoked. He clearly has forgotten the Hippocratic oath ...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2026-08-23 05:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You scientifically ignorant dumb ----- don't get to endanger the entire country because you believe politicians instead of doctors.
#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-23 04:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

--------. You authoritarian gay ----- have killed 88 million people doing your own thing. None of you morons have the right to tell anyone what to do with their health.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-23 06:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Anti-intellectualism threatens humanity

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-08-23 07:02 PM | Reply

*** GOP FL Candidate to "Study" Rolling Back Polio and MMR Shots, Blames Migrants for Measles Outbreak ***

Byron Donalds: AIPAC ------- of the Day.

Source: Another AIPAC pod person that wants to hurt Americans and the US


"FUNNY"

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-23 07:03 PM | Reply

The White House clarified that Trump misspoke, possibly mishearing MNRA for MMR. The MRNA Covid vaccine is documented to have killed more than it saved in populations that not at risk from Covid but got the vaccine anyway.

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-08-23 07:29 PM | Reply

---- you, imbecile.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-23 07:34 PM | Reply

--------. You authoritarian gay ----- have killed 88 million people doing your own thing. None of you morons have the right to tell anyone what to do with their health.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-23 06:31 PM | Reply

Closet case. 99% of your posts are about gay ----.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-23 08:25 PM | Reply

"You authoritarian gay ----- have killed 88 million people doing your own thing."

Authoritarian?

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-23 08:48 PM | Reply

You hate gay people. What's wrong with them dying, exactly?

Also, how many people did tobacco farmers and beer brewers kill, or is that different.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-23 08:50 PM | Reply

The MRNA Covid vaccine is documented to have killed more than it saved in populations that not at risk from Covid but got the vaccine anyway.

#8 | Posted by visitor_

It is documented? Could you please share that documentation?

Because what I hear most commonly cited is myocarditis. But studies showed (I actually do provide documentation when I claim something) that while vaccination did give you an increased chance of myocarditis, getting COVID without vaccination gave a 7x higher risk of myocarditis than if you did get vaccinated.

"The relative risk (RR) for myocarditis was more than seven times higher in the infection group than in the vaccination group"

But the intellectually lazy chose to compare myocarditis rates to the population of people who had neither gotten vaccinated nor ever gotten COVID. How many people do you know that were never vaccinated and never got COVID? Because I do not think any of those people exist.

And the myocarditis claims seemed to be the best ones that the anti-vaxxers had. So can you please share the documentation that you claim is so readily available?

#13 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-08-23 09:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

And then in looking at all cause mortality...

"In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months."

Studies like this protect against cherry picking the data by singling out specific causes of death. It is very hard to manipulate all cause mortality (people either died or they didn't).

It is hard to know for sure in the middle of it, but now five years later studies are coming out that give the full picture. It was valid to worry that the vaccine COULD POSSIBLY have had unknown long term effects. Only time could tell for sure. But, now time has passed and five years later there has so far been NO INDICATION that the vaccine has any adverse effects that are worse (or that anyone had a higher risk of) than contracting COVID unvaccinated would cause.

I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

#14 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-08-23 09:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Covid vaccine is documented to have killed more than it saved in populations that not at risk from Covid but got the vaccine anyway.

Liar.

How is it you think you can your maga spread OFFENSIVE lies with impunity?

Because that's how the King of maga rolls. A lie a day keeps democracy at bay!

There is no documented scientific evidence showing that ANY COVID-19 vaccines killed more people than they saved in any population.

GFY with your fkkn hateful maga/maha lies.

Accountability is coming.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-24 12:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Accountability is coming.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-24 12:58 PM | Reply | Flag: Hilarious

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-24 03:31 PM | Reply

Turds:

Where's that 88 million figure coming from? Who does that include?

#17 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-24 06:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Hilarious

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-25 02:43 AM | Reply

None of you morons have the right to tell anyone what to do with their health.

#5 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

At this point we're just telling you what stupid pieces of scientifically illiterate, ignorant s*^% you are.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-25 05:31 AM | Reply

The White House clarified that Trump misspoke, possibly mishearing MNRA for MMR. The MRNA Covid vaccine is documented to have killed more than it saved in populations that not at risk from Covid but got the vaccine anyway.

#8 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

For instance, this gem sharted into existence by this stupid pile of s*^% who supposedly works in healthcare ...

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-08-25 05:33 AM | Reply

"The White House clarified that Trump misspoke"

That's what happens when (always) Old Yeller blows it out his ---- trumpet.

#21 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-25 06:46 AM | Reply

Hilarious
#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds

AI: Globally, over 44 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the epidemic began. While the virus affects people of all sexual orientations and genders worldwide, men who have sex with men remain a key affected population in many regions.

Not AI: A lot of those deaths were in Africa and were women and children, whose husbands/fathers had, um, sex with other men.

Or men who had had sex with other men and got AIDS, then had sex with virgin girls to cure the men. Results? You tell me.

Oh, more AI: In the US, almost 300,000 gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have died from AIDS since the epidemic began.

Stay safe, dude.

Where's your 88 million number from, Turds? Your adding up what your personalities tell you? Republican math?

#22 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-25 07:35 AM | Reply

None of you morons have the right to tell anyone what to do with their health.

"In fact, hospitals now are doing reverse surgery at my order," Trump told supporters at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in South Carolina. "They're doing reverse surgery. Nobody ever heard about it."

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-25 07:35 AM | Reply

Turds: I'm not providing links. Look it up and think about any aspect of it, if you can.

In the 1930s, heart disease was the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for roughly 30% of all mortalities.

Remarkably, one-fifth of these heart disease deaths (about 6% of all US deaths) were due to cardiovascular syphilis, while non-cardiac complications of syphilis ranked as the fifth leading cause of death.

Syphilis affected 10% of Americans, and gonorrhea was even more widespread, with up to 25% of the population infected.

#24 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-25 07:44 AM | Reply

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