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This genius saw the future:

Trump's about to achieve a personal best in popularity: Specifically, he's just become more popular than unpopular for the first time in his political career.

Or, at least, he's on the cusp of that:

From the Department of Yesterday's Conspiracy Theory Is Today's Scientific Fact: a study connects the fluoridation of water with lowered IQ scores in children.

From the New York Times:

A comprehensive federal analysis of scores of previous studies, published this week in JAMA Pediatrics, has added to those concerns. It found a significant inverse relationship between exposure levels and cognitive function in children.

Higher fluoride exposures were linked to lower I.Q. scores, concluded researchers working for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

None of the studies included in the analysis were conducted in the United States, where recommended fluoridation levels in drinking water are very low. At those amounts, evidence was too limited to draw definitive conclusions.

Observational studies cannot prove a cause-and-effect relationship. Yet in countries with much higher levels of fluoridation, the analysis also found evidence of what scientists call a dose-response relationship, with I.Q. scores falling in lock step with increasing fluoride exposure...

For every one part per million increase in fluoride in urinary samples, which reflect total exposures from water and other sources, I.Q. points in children decreased by 1.63, the analysis found.

Sexton notes that RFKJr. is a longtime fluoridation skeptic. And of course, denounced as a conspiracy-addled crank.

Speaking of The Science (TM): A 19-year-old claims that the jab had an unexpected side-effect: It swelled her small breasts into massive G-cup monsters she requiring to breast reduction surgery. Is this a real side-effect or just a case of something odd happening after the jab, but not because of it? I don't know.

The unidentified "healthy young woman" reportedly started experiencing the rapid growth one week after getting vaccinated in September 2022 -- and it worsened after her second dose.

"The patient believed that the vaccine caused her breast growth; however, her concerns were not adequately addressed by her primary care physicians, leading to mistrust in the healthcare system," Toronto-based researchers wrote last month in the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open journal.

The study authors pointed to the so-called "Pfizer boob job" phenomenon -- some women claimed their breasts grew after getting the shot, but there's no evidence that was the case.

The researchers report that while lymph node swelling is a "known side effect" of COVID-19 vaccination, changes to the structure or density of breast tissue are "exceedingly rare."

She reduced them to a dainty DD size.

I am officially against all of this crap now. These people just don't know what the hell they're doing. They're experimenting on us like we're lab rats. If we get cancer or lowered IQs or genetic mutations, they just say "Whoops! Whoopsie!"

Trump returned to Congress for the Jimmy Carter corpse-acknowledgement:

Boy, Obama sure doesn't seem to think he's seated next to Literal Hitler who will destroy Muh Precious Democracy.

Michele Obama, on the other hand, reportedly did not attend the funeral precisely because she'd have to sit near Trump. She is made of garbage and racism.

The rest of the "DC Swamp," including George W. Bush, seemed to snub Trump.

Here, Gore and Pence shake Trump's hand, while Pence's Karen wife (who's coincidentally named "Karen") pretends he doesn't exist.

I'm so glad the left and the neocon New Left have such a monopoly on civility and Normzzzz.

Supposedly this video shows Kamala "furious" at Obama speaking with Trump, but I don't see it. I think this is clickbaity, but if I didn't post it commenters would mention it, so here it is.

Noted Disinformation Pusher and Credibly Accused Defamer Jake Tapper says it's different when Democrats object to elections and bring forward challenges to slates of electors.

Note that Democrats have objected to, mounted challenges to, every single Republican who won an election since 1988. This is the first one they didn't object to, and they only refrained from challenging it because they've been running a four-year op claiming that it's "insurrection" to challenge the results of an election.

Jake Tapper, of course, wrote of "The Plot to Steal the Presidency" regarding the 2000 election:

posted by Ace at 06:42 PM

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