InevitableSwing [none/use name] @hexbear.net

3mo ago

Trump picks RFK Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary

www.cnn.com Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans.

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jeffw @lemmy.world

3mo ago

Trump is on the verge of announcing RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary

www.cnn.com /2024/11/14/politics/robert-f-kennedy-donald-trump-hhs/index.html

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Child predator as attorney general, man who eats roadkill and had a worm turn what was left of his brain into a block of swiss cheese as HHS head...
Linda McMahon as the likely pick for Commerce Secretary lmao
Deeply unserious country
- Also an out neonazi as secdwf and Elon musk
  
  out neonazi as secdwf
  Thought that was a preferred qualifier for the defense post tbh
- Linda McMahon as the likely pick for Commerce Secretary lmao
  i don't know this particular ghoul, do tell
  
  Wife to Vince McMahon, also known as the former WWE head, who herself served a big role within that org for decades. Vince had to step down due to being a sex pest
  Also I didn't know this
  [Vince] McMahon later resigned from TKO in January 2024 after allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault. [Vince] McMahon is currently under a federal probe.
  ed. changed 'Husband' to 'Wife', god I'm tired

This is the guy who’s gonna lead the Trump administration’s response to H5N1
- :fuck:

This would all be funny if it weren't for the fact that I live here
- Although I liked to meme about 99% Hitler vs 100% Hitler as much as the next person…
  Truly an accelerationist administration forming. Keep your people close.

confirmation processes will test the loyalty of Senate Republicans.
Not to worry, I'm sure they'll pass with flying colors.

EVERY DAY IS A NEW NIGHTMARE

Kennedy was later seen carrying a book titled "To Serve Humans."
- I'm going to do the reddit thing and say the title was ackshually "To Serve Man", but the reason I mention it is that the pun works much better with the uncountable noun "Man" than the countable plural "Humans", because it's more like how we speak of most types of meat, as an anonymous, indifferent material (lamb, beef, pork, chicken), and I think that's kind of interesting.
  
  I was attempting to riff on the name of "Health and Human Services" but "human" probably still would've worked better than "Humans"
- Legit, exactly what it sounds like

he will put brain worm eggs in the water
- Too much work. Just slash all the funding at the water and wastewater treatment plants.

Welcome back, polio.

He’s going to send out pills to every American to take containing brain worm eggs.
- South Bronx Paradise baby! :carl:

Well. That ain’t good
- Stock up on antidepressants. He will go for them.
  
  What is it with these RFK style "health" freaks and being against antidepressants? Its like the one thing enabling probably millions at this point to cope with the effects of capitalism. Exercise and organic produce is not a cure all

Chris Hayes post
RFK announcement puts a fine point on something I've been trying to articulate and is a theme of the Trump years. It's something I've wrestled with and that a lot of Dem messaging has gotten wrong. Part of what Trump does is constantly divide the country along the lines of pro-system and anti-system.
And because Trump is such wrecking ball, you end up in this defensive posture of pro-system, pro-status quo. HHS/FDA is a great example.
Of COURSE the US food and drug system is captured and bad in a million different ways: from nutritional recommendations, which are often laughably wrong or corrupted to our outrageous regime of drug patenting etc.
https://subium.com/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3lawu76wogk2v
- Part of what Trump does is constantly divide the country along the lines of pro-system and anti-system.
  Oh yeah, only Trump does that.🙄

oh yeah lets do this speedrun baybee
only plus side is maybe stuff like kratom can be protected from scheduling a bit longer? he seems like he might be down with "natural" opioid "cures"
especially since Pelosi is on the way out and her kid is basically the director of the kratom lobby group
but then again he might push hard to get rid of it because he had an addiction so idk
- He claims to be pro psychedelic as well
- DEA handles scheduling and is in the DOJ I think?
  
  yeah but there is a new "study" being done through HHS right now which could determine a new attempt at scheduling

Put the Ancient Apocalypse guy in for Department of Education. Rogan is press secretary of course.
- God, that Graham Hancock guy would have an absolute blast purging the archaeologists. I never did figure out what he thinks they did to him. I feel like fewer archaeologists hated him before he started complaining about the Deep Archaeology State like it's a pack of wild Mayor Petes coming after his dog.

My ass is learning how to fluoridate my own water if that goes. Not because I think it does anything, but because I don’t want to hand the altmed types a w they’ve been thirsting for longer than I’ve been alive
- theyd be getting their win whether you flouridate your own water or not.
  
  But I can make it immensely more frustrating for at least one person involved

death to america, now in worm form

- Perfect response

"You get a brain worm, you get a brain worm, you get a brain worm!"

Measles futures are up.

This is going to be a fun pandemic

finally, someone is gonna be out there fighting for the little guy.

The luna-tic is in my head...

Speedrunning collapse

I give him a week at most before he tries to ban diet coke and Trump cans him
- It's funny how predictions about Trump - no matter how ridiculous or how jokey - could come to pass.
  --
  "We will ban Diet Coke due to the presence of globalistides..."
  A few hours later angry Trump bellows "RFK Jr. says Diet Coke has globalistides and globalistides are bad. Globalistides? Nobody knows what that is. Even doctors. 'What?' they say. Nobody knows. And I love Diet Coke. RFK Jr. is out. I fired him. Dr. Phil's gonna head the Department of Health..." Trump has a confused look on his face. "The Department of Health... and the Other Stuff."

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