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A dangerous group of whacko militants threatens to destroy Florida as we know it
D. Earl StephensSeptember 07, 2025 | 07:37AM ET
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Florida announced plans this week to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, INCLUDING FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN.
Read that again.
I had intended to write about the Epstein files today, and the incredibly brave survivors of alleged child rape, who gathered on Capitol Hill to tell their stories. They were there because it is beginning to look like our president who ran on releasing those files, instead has a starring role in them, and will do everything possible to make sure they never see the light of day.
That would generally would be a banner story. In a sane, just world, it would have the potential to end Donald Trump's presidency, and ultimately land him jail for the rest of his miserable life.
But because you hang around places like this and pay attention, you don’t need me to tell you that we are not living in a sane, just world.
Just how insane and unjust is the world? Consider that the possibility of the president being accused of sexual abusing underage women was by far only the second-biggest story of the day ...
Truth is, this vaccine news might be one of the most significant stories of the century, because of its gruesome ramifications on the future of our rattling civilization.
Bluntly: If Florida goes through with this death plan, it could potentially result in one of the largest losses of human life ever.
Look, vaccines have been a life-changing discovery, and one of mankind’s greatest achievements. The advent of vaccines has saved hundreds of millions of lives the past 100 years or so.
That we are reversing our thinking on the use of vaccines in America is almost too absurd to contemplate. The profound stupidity and danger this presents really can't be overstated.
MILLIONS of lives are at risk if Florida out-Floridas itself and actually puts this deranged plan into action.
We need only look at COVID to see this.
Despite what you’ll hear from many ghoulish, anti-life Republicans, millions of lives were saved thanks to COVID vaccines. Maybe even more startling, an estimated 317,000 lives in the United States alone would have been saved during the COVID outbreak had everybody just done their civic duty and gotten vaccinated.
If Florida goes ahead with this insane plan, just as sure as I am typing this, all kinds of otherwise preventable diseases will begin reappearing all over the place — measles and polio just to name a couple. And while our children will be most vulnerable, because Republicans never saw a kid whose life wasn’t worth jeopardizing, Florida’s huge population of retirees will also be under direct threat.
We will ALL be under threat.
Today’s gruesome news comes in the backdrop of the insane vaccine guidance being shoveled out to the American public by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our secretary of Health and Human Services, who listens to everybody but professionals in the medical and scientists communities, ignores a century’s worth of vaccines’ positive results, and has been a vocal vaccine skeptic.
Last month, after Kennedy proudly announced the rollback of nearly $500 million in vaccine funding, I typed this:
“Instead of answers and more science and discovery to make sure we are ready for the next mass-medical emergency, Trump instead has inflicted us with this gruesome stray from the Kennedy dynasty, who is quickly becoming a one-man pandemic.”
Last week, Susan Monarez, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was forced out by Captain Death less than one month into her job for refusing to go along with this maniac’s plans to end us.
Four other leading officials at the CDC resigned because they too had come under extreme pressure from the sickening Kennedy. One of those officials said Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” to fit Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views.
Yep, “change studies.” Just make stuff up. I mean, it’s only people’s lives we are talking about …
So who are the players down in the Sunset State, who are putting this latest death plan into action?
Let’s start with Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, who made the announcement standing beside the state’s grotesque and Trump-slobbering Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Ladapo is a COVID vaccine-denier. A quack. A nut. A complete moron.
And dangerous as hell.
He has associated withccalled “America’s Frontline Doctors,” which is led by Texas physician Stella Immanuel, who has put forth the theory out loud and often that sperm from alien or demon sexual visitations are responsible for much of what ails us.
With qualifications like that, there is a good chance Ladapo has the inside track to the 2028 Republican Presidential nomination …
In announcing what will henceforth be known as the “Florida Death Plan” Ladapo said this:
“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?”
Who are YOU to tell us??? You are allegedly a doctor, sonny. Should we be going to an exterminator to get advice on medical issues?
Er … That actually might be advisable in Florida.
He added that the administration would be “working to end” all vaccine mandates, because “every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.”
I’m not making this up.
Not a single word about the lives vaccines have saved, just lies and conspiracy theories, because that is the Republican way in 2025.
And then, of course, there’s DeSantis himself. A dumb man’s idea of a smart person. The ultimate Florida Man. A guy, who says, “Watch this!” while playing with matches and gasoline, as is the case with this maniacal, evil vaccine plan.
While standing next to Ladapo with that beachball-sized smirk on his face, Trump’s willing punching bag announced that his wife, Casey DeSantis, will head the commission on the Florida Death Plan, because if we are going to kill hundreds of a thousands of children best we have a dreadfully unqualified ghoul doing it.
Her beaming husband, Ron, ended the press conference by bragging:
“We’ve already done a lot. I don’t think any state has come even close to what Florida has done.”
He’ll get no argument there.
D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.
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A federal court issued an order blocking Florida state officials and in particular Gov. Ron DeSantis' health secretary Joseph Ladapo, from threatening TV stations over ads in support of Amendment 4, the constitutional ballot referendum that seeks to repeal Florida's near-total abortion ban, reported constitutional attorney Adam Steinbaugh.
DeSantis' administration sent letters to TV stations threatening to prosecute their employees for airing the ad, citing an obscure "sanitary nuisance" law intended to apply to physical health hazards like improperly sealed septic tanks. Specifically, they argued that the law might falsely persuade women who are eligible for abortion under health exceptions from seeking care.
The court didn't buy the argument and called out the state for violating the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
"While Defendant Ladapo refuses to even agree with this simple fact, Plaintiff's political advertisement is political speech — speech at the core of the First Amendment," said the ruling. "The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech 'false.'"
The ruling cited the conclusion of the Supreme Court in the 1945 case *Thomas v. Collins*: "The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech, and religion."
"To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it's the First Amendment, stupid," the ruling continued.
This comes after a tough day of oral argument, in which U.S. District Judge Mark Walker appeared visibly exasperated with Florida attorneys' arguments that the prosecution threats against TV stations were legitimate.
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Florida’s surgeon general is scheduled to speak at a conference with a Hitler-promoting antisemite
Written by Eric Hananoki
Published 10/17/24
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is set to speak at a conference this weekend with Christiane Northrup, a health misinformer who has repeatedly promoted pro-Nazi and antisemitic material.
The 2024 “Back to Basics Conference: Summit on Family, Food and Healthcare” will be held in Waltham, Massachusetts, on October 19. The event claims to bring “together renowned experts in the fields of medicine, agriculture, parental and legal rights.” The conference's listed schedule as of today includes Ladapo and Northrup, who have each confirmed their attendance on social media.
Ladapo, Florida’s top health official, has gained notoriety for spreading misinformation as he openly criticizes and recommends against vaccines. Northrup is a discredited health commentator who has frequently promoted health misinformation and pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The event will also feature Mary Holland — the CEO of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense — and anti-vaccine commentators Ryan Cole, Meryl Nass, and Leah Wilson, among others.
From the Back to Basics Conference's website, accessed 10/17/24.
As Media Matters previously documented, Northrup has repeatedly promoted antisemitism:
- In December 2021, Northrup shared a link to the film Europa: The Last Battle. The film is pro-Nazi propaganda that portrays Jewish people as the real villains of World War II and Hitler as someone who “ensured racial security for the people,” battled against supposed Jewish subversion, and actually wanted peace. It also features rampant Holocaust denial.
- In February 2022, Northrup also shared a clip from Europa: The Last Battle and wrote: “The Bolshevik Revolution. Substitute the word Jew in here with Khazarian. These are not the Hebrews of the Bible.” The clip is virulently antisemitic and states near the beginning: “The fact that we will never learn in school is that communism actually was a Jewish totalitarian ideology invented by Jews, funded by Jewish bankers, and economically manifested by Jewish Bolsheviks.”
- During an August 2022 interview, Northrup shouted out the antisemitic text Protocols of the Elders of Zion as the “playbook” of people she opposes.
- Northrup has repeatedly promoted the antisemitic “Khazarian mafia” conspiracy theory, which essentially claims that a group of fake Jewish people stole Jewish identity centuries ago and now hides behind Judaism to control world affairs.
Northrup has also spoken at events with other prominent Republicans, including Eric Trump and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump.
Ladapo has previously appeared with QAnon conspiracy theorists to push health misinformation. In October 2022, he was also a guest on the show of Stew Peters, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has become a pro-Hitler commentator.
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Published Feb. 10 2024
TALLAHASSEE — After a 14-month investigation, a statewide grand jury impaneled by Gov. Ron DeSantis published a report blasting mask and lockdown mandates adopted during the pandemic.
The panel, charged with investigating “criminal or wrongful activity in Florida relating to the development, promotion and distribution” of COVID-19 vaccines, made it clear that its work is far from finished and that it’s gathering “much more testimony and evidence.”
The grand jury process has been blasted by Democrats as a political stunt while its report — released last week — has been criticized by some scientists for being one-sided....
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alex Griffing @ Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/floridas-controversial-surgeon-general-calls-covid-vaccines-the-anti-christ-in-bonkers-comments-to-steve-bannon/): Florida’s Controversial Surgeon General Calls Covid Vaccines ‘The Anti-Christ’ in Bonkers Comments to Steve Bannon.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo joined former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon on his hard-right War Room podcast Thursday and railed against the Covid-19 vaccines, which he called the “anti-Christ.”
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Alex Henderson April 26, 2023
Throughout most of his career, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 82, was hardly an object of hatred among Republicans. Fauci, who began working for the United States' federal government in the late 1960s, served under several conservative GOP presidents without any problem: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
The younger President Bush, in fact, praised Fauci when he gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 2008. George W. Bush's exact words: "As a physician, medical researcher, author, and public servant, Dr. Anthony Fauci has dedicated his life to expanding the horizons of human knowledge and making progress toward groundbreaking cures for diseases. His efforts to advance our understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS have brought hope and healing to tens of millions in both developed and developing nations. The United States honors Anthony Fauci for his commitment to enabling men, women, and children to live longer, healthier lives."
But that was before Donald Trump's presidency, the far-right MAGA movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Attacking Fauci's response to the pandemic became a badge of honor among MAGA Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — whose surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, disagreed strongly with Fauci and President Joe Biden on the value of COVID-19 vaccines. DeSantis and Ladapo made vaccines a culture war issue in Florida, and according to Politico reporter Arek Sarkissian, Ladapo "personally altered a state-driven study about COVID-19 vaccines" in 2022 "to suggest that some doses pose a significantly higher health risk for young men than had been established by the broader medical community, according to a newly obtained document."
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Politico published Sarkissian's report on Ladapo and the study on April 24. And CNN's Jamie Gumbrecht offered additional reporting in an article published on April 26.
Gumbrecht explains, "Politico said it obtained a document as part of a public records request that shows Ladapo's changes to the eight-page analysis. The changes deleted comments that said a link with slightly increased risk of cardiac-related deaths after COVID-19 vaccination was 'no longer significant' for multi-dose vaccines and 'there is little suggestion of any effect immediately following vaccination.' The document shows an added line that says mRNA vaccines may be driving an increased risk of cardiac-related death in males, especially those ages 18-39."
The CNN reporter adds, "The version released publicly in October 2022 said COVID-19 vaccination was 'associated with a modestly increased risk for cardiac-related mortality 28 days following vaccination,' and says the vaccines may be driving the risk, especially among younger men."
Gumbrecht notes that the "Florida analysis" of last year "was not peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, but was posted online by the Florida Department of Health and shared in a news release" published on October 7, 2022.
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The Florida Health Department, on April 26, said it stands by Ladapo's 2022 statements. But Gumbrecht points out that the Sunshine State "is an outlier in its recommendations against the COVID-19 vaccine for young men and healthy children" and is "at odds with" the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
Fauci and Biden, in contrast to Ladapo, have been aggressive proponents of COVID-19 vaccines — which they believe have saved countless lives. Both Fauci and Biden had mild COVID-19 infections in 2022 and believe that their infections might have been worse had they not been vaccinated.
COVID-19 has been the world's deadliest health crisis since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918/1919. According to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, COVID-19 has killed more than 6.8 million people worldwide since it was first reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. That death toll includes over 1.1 million people in the United States.
But much has changed since the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Although COVID-19 is still highly contagious, most of today's COVID-19 infections are not fatal and do not require hospitalization. Many COVID-19 restricts around the world have been lifted.
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Read CNN's full report at this link and Politico's full report at this link.
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Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo went mask-off (so to speak) at a press conference in Winter Haven, Florida, Thursday, revealing himself to be an unvarnished antivaxer.
"These vaccines have a terrible safety profile at this point in the pandemic," Ladapo said of the covid vaccines, "You know, I'm not sure anyone should be taking them and that's the honest truth."
"Respectable" antivaxers are normally at pains to convince the public that they're only concerned about the mRNA vaccines, or the use of vaccines in certain populations. For example, they'll say they're not against covid vaccines per se, they're just worried that the risks don't justify the benefits for young men, or for boosters, or whatever. That was Ladapo's tack until the CDC and the FDA eviscerated him in a letter last week, debunking his insinuation that an uptick in reported adverse events is an indication that the covid vaccines are unsafe.
Last month, Ladapo wrote to the heads of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Like so many antivaxers, Ladapo has been doing his own research. Unlike most cranks, he briefly came under investigation for allegedly falsifying the data his department put out about covid vaccines. In his letter, pointed out that reports of adverse vaccine events to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database had risen since the covid vaccines were introduced.
Judging by his grumbling about federal health agencies at the press conference, Ladapo's feelings were hurt by the reply he got last week from FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. Anyone would be. The two agency heads neatly dismantled Ladapo’s claim that an increase in adverse event reports since the advent of the covid vaccines is an indicator that the covid vaccines are unsafe. The two agency heads also accused Ladapo of fuelling vaccine hesitancy and undermining public health.
"The claim that the increase of VAERS reports of life-threatening conditions reported from Florida and elsewhere represents an increase of risk caused by the COVID-19 vaccines is incorrect, misleading and could be harmful to the American public," the commish and director wrote. They went on to explain exactly why Ladapo's inflammatory statistics are misleading.
"Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination do not mean that a vaccine caused the event," Califf and Walensky said, zeroing in on the logical fallacy behind Ladapo's inflammatory claims, and adding that "The Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for the COVID-19 Vaccines require sponsors and vaccine providers to report certain adverse events through VAERS, so more reports should be expected."
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In other words, anyone can submit a report to VAERS if they think there's any connection between a vaccine and a symptom. Moreover, covid vaccines are special because healthcare providers are required to report adverse events even if they don't believe there's any link between the shot and the symptoms. This extra-low reporting threshold is part of the most intensive vaccine safety monitoring program in US history. As Califf and Walensky pointed out in their letter, the CDC and FDA are already well aware of the VAERS reports and that they've been actively looking into them to make sure they're not signs of a larger safety problem.
"Both FDA and CDC have continued to collect outcome data from multiple sources that demonstrate the clear benefit of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing death, serious illness, and hospitalization from SARS-CoV-2 infection, along with indicating a modest benefit in the prevention of infection and transmission that wanes over time, even as new variants have emerged."
ladapo's shift to a hardcore antivaxery may also reflect the presidential ambitions of his boss, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. DeSantis believes that antivax is the fast lane to the White House, and Ladapo is his eager co-pilot.
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- Lance Wallnau instructed his followers to support Republican candidates in the upcoming elections because “when you’re dealing with the Nazi Party, or you’re dealing with the KKK, or you’re dealing with organized antifa… you can’t afford to go too neutral.”
- Roger Stone got all dressed up for his appearance on white nationalist Christian fascist Dalton Clodfelter’s livestream last night.
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In contrast to President Joe Biden and his top White House medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci — both of whom have aggressively encouraged Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19 — Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo has been critical of COVID-19 vaccines, often inspiring vehement rebukes from medical experts. Ladapo revisited the subject of vaccines on Friday night, October 7, when he urged younger men to avoid the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and linked them to an “abnormally high risk” of heart-related deaths. And once again, health experts are pushing back against his claims.
Dan Diamond, reporting for the Washington Post in an article published on October 12, explains, “Ladapo’s recommendation — extrapolated from a short state analysis that has not been peer-reviewed, carries no authors and warns that its findings are ‘preliminary’ and ‘should be interpreted with caution” — was swiftly condemned by medical and public health leaders, who said the Florida surgeon general’s announcement was politics masquerading as science and could lead Americans to forgo lifesaving interventions.”
Ladapo, picked for the Florida surgeon general position by far-right Gov. Ron DeSantis, has been a highly controversial figure in the medical community. And according to Diamond, medical experts are taking issue with his latest claims about COVID-19 vaccines.
“More than a dozen experts interviewed by The Washington Post — including specialists in vaccines, patient safety and study design — listed concerns with Florida’s analysis, saying it relies on information gleaned from frequently inaccurate death certificates rather than medical records, skews the results by trying to exclude anyone with COVID-19 or a COVID-related death, and draws conclusions from a total of 20 cardiac-related deaths in men 18 to 39 that occurred within four weeks of vaccination,” Diamond reports. “Experts noted the deaths might have been caused by other factors, including underlying illnesses or undetected COVID.”
Daniel Salmon, who heads the Institute of Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, slammed Ladapo’s claims as “dangerous” and unscientific.
Salmon told the Post, “If you submitted that to a peer-reviewed journal, unless you were paying them to publish it, it would get rejected. Putting out half-baked reports from a Department of Health is a dangerous thing to do.”
Salmon strongly disagrees with Ladapo’s recommendation that younger men avoid Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines, saying, “The vaccines are not perfect, but the benefits still outweigh the risks.”
Robert Wachter, who chairs the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, told the Post, “We’re talking about a very small number of deaths. An extra death or two would potentially change these results. I’m hesitant to even call it a paper; it isn’t published anywhere. The idea that (the analysis).… is being used to change policy — it does not have the scientific chops to do that.”
COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Since then, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the pandemic has killed more than 6.5 million people worldwide —including over 1 million people in the United States. Although COVID-19 continues to be highly contagious, fewer people are dying from it — a fact that many medical experts have attributed to the availability of vaccines. Biden and Fauci were both infected with COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, but they suffered only minor symptoms.
Another critic of Ladapo’s latest vaccine recommendation is David Cutler, a health economist at Harvard University. Cutler described the study that Ladapo cited as seriously flawed, telling the Post, “If I was a reviewer at a journal, I would recommend rejecting it…. Anytime you tell people to do something incorrect, you risk causing harm.”
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