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RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services
- taylodl 2y agoGiven the track record of Trump's cabinet picks, it seems fitting that the Secretary of Health and Human Services would follow the same trend of 'unique' qualifications. Consistency is key, right?
- hagbard_c 2y agoCompared to the calibre of people the previous regime put in place the current crop actually looks quite a bit more competent. It is also refreshing to see most of them being being picked not because of their skin colour, sex or sexual orientation but because they are deemed to be competent. You may not agree with their ideas - elections have consequences after all - but they have for the most laid out specific plans on what they intend to achieve. The 'MAHA' idea seems like a good idea, don't you agree? If you do not agree I'd like to hear why without any references to either Trump or Kennedy - just why it is not a good idea to improve the American diet.
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- defrost 2y agoFirst Lady Michelle Obama famously promoted both good exercise and good diet from an early age onwards. No one is against improving the USofA diet, it's globally infamous for sugary toxicity. RFK Jr's idea of a good diet, however, includes parasite ridden roadkill. Then there's all his other weird little fringe beliefs.
- taylodl 2y agoAnd conservatives famously skewered Michelle Obama for promoting good exercise and good diet from an early age onwards. They think I have a short attention span.
- kcplate 2y agoI don’t recall this happening, do you have an example? Edit: All the criticisms I can find online seem to point towards creating a top caloric standard with no change as kids age (and that seems to be pretty valid criticism to me). Also that she established low fat options which increased sugar intake (perhaps wasn’t as dubious then, but definitely seems to be more valid criticism now)
- consumer451 2y agoThe current "regime" is so obsessed with anti-DEI that they managed to create a government consisting of the most unqualified group of humans since Nero. I could not be more embarrassed for humanity, and my country. If anyone would like an escape, please watch the amazing, and incredibly ignored show Pantheon.[0] The main topic covered is uploaded human intelligence. The script tech advisors, animation, and voice actors are excellent. Check it out. Much better than dealing with this folly. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
- david38 2y agoThese two things are orthogonal. You can not be pro DEI and still find competent people. Just by the numbers, it’s possible. To be “most unqualified” you can select from DEI or not, as any group will have horribly qualified people. There are many in the medical field that aren’t DEI that care deeply about, and are knowledgeable about the major health issues in this country - vaccines, obesity, malnutrition, mental health, fertility, cancer, food supply (and its poor quality), environmental, activity, elder care, dementia, early childhood health care, just to name a few. I am unaware of his qualifications to lead such an org, but at that level, he’s mostly a political talking head anyway. Still, I agree it’s quite bad. We’ll know in a few years the outcome. All that said, “could not be more embarrassed for humanity and my country” - really? You think this is worse than the Great Depression when security forces were paid to guard piles of rotting fruit so the starving couldn’t eat them? The rise of the KKK? The horrors of the civil war? Inflationary language might feel good, but its effect is it encourages the forgetting of worse things, increases internal conflict, and makes reconciliation and course correction even harder. So the next time you read how someone is “the worst” or a Nazi, ask yourself if you are truly aiming for the erasure of Nazi crimes and further fracturing of society or simply exaggerating to highlight a point. One person’s exaggeration becomes someone else’s truth.
- consumer451 2y agoYou are correct, I could have provided a time window for my shame. Obviously, there have been worse events in the United States' history. To qualify it clearly, I have not been this ashamed of my country since the entirely fabricated story of WMD in Iraq, which led to hundreds of thousands of lost lives, all for nothing.
- jmclnx 2y agoThe sad fact is, his policies will cause more harm to rural areas then urban areas were Doctors have far many resources.
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- outside1234 2y agoGod save us. Just a total disaster for health in the country.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoDisgusting. The guy is clearly unqualified and has extremely uninformed opinions about health.
- i80and 2y agoI was a little shocked to learn he associates himself with Miasma theory of all things over germ theory https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoSure, why not. We can have 19th century medicine alongside our 19th century tariff and trade strategy.
- Fauntleroy 2y agoHopefully this round of extremely poor government decisions helps edify the populace in future elections.
- theultdev 2y agoThe last 4 years of extremely poor government decisions edified the populace in this last election.
- consumer451 2y agoMight I ask, which specific decisions are you talking about? Please provide supporting evidence. I don't write this flippantly. You may have some excellent points, but in this environment, I would love to read more than just a broad statement. This website is one of the last places where we might expect such a thing.
- theultdev 2y agoI replied to GP's broad statement with another broad statement. The supporting evidence is the economy and world state of affairs. Turns out printing a fuck ton of money, handicapping energy and massive amounts of fraud lead to inflation, who woulda guessed. Not to mention the millions dead while Biden sit back and watched conflicts. All of which can now have peace talks. Then there's the disastrous Afghanistan withdraw. Want anything else?
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- rbetts 2y ago> Want anything else? Yes. The Truth. Economy: US economy out-performed the Europe, Japan, India, ... during Biden's tenure. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=CN-US-EU&start=2017 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023... Energy: Production is at historic highs and the US is a net energy exporter. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ World Affairs - I suppose you could concede portions of the Ukraine to Russia. Those aren't my politics. Maybe you believe in conquest by violence, though. Afghanistan withdrawal was Trump's plan. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51692546 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51692546. I credit Trump with ending this conflicting. It should have been ended a long time before that. But he signed a weak deal in February of 2020 that left a lot political pain for his successor.
- archagon 2y agoHow long until masks, COVID boosters, and flu vaccines are banned outright, I wonder?
- b0dhimind 2y agoHe's always been for scrutiny and freedom over these choices.
- gigatree 2y agoPlease refrain from touting conspiracy theories
- kccoder 2y agoWe will, when they do. Snark aside, these actions are more likely than many would like to think. Ask American Samoa.
- deeg 2y agoWe're getting close to banning vaccines: https://nbcmontana.com/newsletter-daily/proposed-bill-would-ban-administration-of-mrna-vaccines-in-montana https://nbcmontana.com/newsletter-daily/proposed-bill-would-...
- longitudinal93 2y agomRNA vaccines. As someone who suffers from permanent heart damage after my first (and only) dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine I have some sympathy for this course of action.
- archagon 2y agoI am sympathetic to your struggles, but a small percentage of patients suffering from vaccine-related conditions should not be a reason to ban vaccines for the millions of others benefitting from their effects. (What we should be doing is studying why the vaccines may cause heart damage in rare cases and then finding ways to mitigate that.)
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoI can't decide which is worse: - Closing the Dept. of Education - An anti-vaxx, anti-flouridation nut for HHS - A traitorous Putin-lover for DNI - Head of DOD throwing Ret. Gen. Kellogg's work and Ukraine under the bus - The world's richest man ransacking government with unvetted persons on a plan to commit maximum chaos and destruction - HN flagging, censoring, and condoning what amounts to fascism rather than promoting rule of law, common sense, and freedom of speech
- archagon 2y agoMigrants getting sent to Guantanamo's high-security prison without access to lawyers or media is pretty high on the list for me: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/immigration-flights-elpaso-guantanamo/ https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/immigration-flights-... When ICE starts detaining people who go up against them online (https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-media-surveillance https://theintercept.com/2025/02/11/ice-immigration-social-m...), it won't just be poor brown folks being memory-holed.
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoThis is another absurd, brutal act. Also some countries are denying landing of removal flights because, from what I hear, the current removals contain people with violent criminal records in nations other than America but may well include non-violent people being thrown out for reasons of paperwork simply to make mandated quotas.
- basementcat 2y agoTaking away life saving medication from over 20 million people takes the cake for me. After having visited Auschwitz and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I'm really having trouble relating to friends and colleagues who are with the administration on this. This is not to say the other concerns aren't valid.
- cantrecallmypwd 2y agoAgreed. That's pretty craptastic. And the cutting of ongoing AIDS treatment in South Africa and the oxygen bottles in places like Myanmar and Bangladesh. People have already died because their previously stable medical management resources have been cut.
- 0n0n0m0uz 2y agoDemocrats are to blame for this or at least share a huge part of the responsibility that led to this moment.
- cocacola1 2y agoAdults are usually blamed for children’s actions, so this tracks.