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@JDVance says : ".... people become trans to improve Ivy League chances"
Vance pushes anti-vaccine message during Joe Rogan podcast, says people become trans to improve Ivy League chances
Vance claimed he was "red-pilled" after his side effects from a COVID vaccine.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vance-pushes-anti-vaccine-message-joe-rogan-podcast/story?id=115392678
By Hannah Demissie November 1, 2024, 2:16 PM
With days until Election Day, GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance appeared on the "Joe Rogan Experience" Thursday and voiced skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine.
During the three-hour conversation on Thursday, Vance talked about the vaccine to Rogan, who himself has pushed false claims about vaccines on his show, which has millions of followers.
The COVID-19 vaccines have been proven effective in preventing serious illnesses and death from the virus. Some side effects of the vaccine include "pain, redness or swelling at the injection site, tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever, and nausea," and typically resolve themselves in a few days, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..............
............The New York Time's reported that Trump's former Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, said at the American Public Health Association Annual meeting on Monday that if Kennedy has any influence on the next administration, it would hurt America's health..............
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@JDVance says : ".... people become trans to improve Ivy League chances" (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 2
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bucolic_frolic
(47,963 posts)1. Says the Ivy Leaguer who wears eyeliner??
It doesn't get any better than that!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,956 posts)2. Yet one more complaint from a privileged white male
that he can't stay utterly privileged anymore. Like when they started letting women and minorities into colleges.
My father-in-law, who was Jewish (he's long since passed away) always told the story of when he was interviewed to get into medical school, was told "We already have too many of your kind here." This would have been in the early '30s. He complained to the president of the school and was admitted the next year.