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The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.

“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”

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        Boomer lead poisoning strikes again.

        I sincerely hope Maher is unvaccinated & gets Long COVID.

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          When a public figure is this loudly anti-vax, you know they’ve had at least three jabs.

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        It’s sad that corporations have effectively commodified the mental decline of Society’s elders and packaged it as “entertainment.”

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      I think he’s always been a populist mouthpiece. It’s just that during the Clinton era what populism even looked like was very different.