This guy needs to eat a lot more roadkill
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This guy already has a body count and he will kill and kill again.
He wasn't in power then. I'm fine with screwballs testing to the system to keep it honest. Now he's about to be head of the Department of Health & Human Services. That is deeply concerning.
Wtf happened to his skin? When you look like that you don't get to talk about health, get healthcare yourself first. He looks like he literally got roasted
14 years of heavy heroin addiction leaves a toll. Kudos for him for getting clean, but also its reasonable to think that massive iv drug use at a young age causes developmental deficits.
I've worked with a lot of people who have chronically abused opioids. None of them look like this guy. I suspect it's chronic, heavy smoking plus a horrible, horrible diet. And maybe using some comedically nonsensical, quacky health 'supplements' of some kind.
That would count as attempted murder in thousands of cases.
What was RFK’s end game? Watching a large slice of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists die off?
The insidious piece here is that healthcare was COVID vaccine prioritized and thus the biggest beta test ever. A 2-for-1 special of sorts. Happily, that beta test worked out. At this point the testing sample and time frame is robust, and the tech used for the COVID vaccine has led to an experimental cancer vaccine. The man needs to chill and let science keep hold of the wheel. The vaccine kept the bulk of the healthcare industry working instead of quitting. Hospitals stayed open because the vaccine promised a modicum of safety for staff they otherwise would not have had.
In RFK’s version of the pandemic timeline, hospitals shut down due to lack of staff, healthcare worker losses (from quitting, noping out, illness, and death) soar, and people suffocate to death at home in a horrific state of panic. RFK would likely make an appearance on Joe Rogan to say that an all natural organic death at home is preferable to vaccines.
I don't think he has one. He's one of those people convinced of their rightness and will see it through no matter the suffering it causes, no matter the demonstrable harm he has already done. In a sane world this kook bastard would be laughed at and ignored, minimizing his ability to harm anyone. Or better yet charged with culpable homicide. Instead he'll put in a position that allow him to harm EVERYONE.
In a fair world he would get punched in the jaw every time he said something anti-human and without a shred of kindness while trying to speak on behalf of others, especially after he helped cause an outbreak in Samoa that killed nearly 100 people.
As far as endgame, he presumably is a true believer.
As to letting "science take the wheel", given the stakes it makes sense but the largest medical experiment in history is a frightening concept.
Particularly for folks that lived when they DDTed the hell out of everything, or when doctors would lobotomize or electroshock people for mildly inconveniencing their family, or eugenics programs that went and sterilized "undesirables". Some skepticism of "science" can be expected.
The thing is these people bake in their mindset when they are relatively young and do not adjust to account for improvements or for the dire contexts.
What was RFK’s end game?
What do you think goes on in the mind of someone with a dead brain worm?
Sometimes, the simplest answer is the most plausible answer.
Fair.
And yet. Trump looked at RFK, considered his pandemic presidency, then said this is the guy I want to go wild on healthcare this term.
What happened is that a lot of competent folks who worked with Trump before don't want to work with him anymore. So he is left scraping for the bottom of the barrel to appoint as government officials.
That’s not exactly true. The statement is true to a point, sure. The part you didn’t say is that he doesn’t want to work with them either. He wants loyalty before competence.
Hence his DoD pick. No qualifications except loyalty. So when he wants to turn the American military on the American people, there will be no objection.
I hear the brain worm died because it starved
If I was a brain worm that had taken control of a US politician, the first thing I would do is say that the worm is dead.
What a fucking stupid period of history to live through
Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times.
If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.
Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved. Although I guess it's classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.
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Gonna be an interesting few years if you get another pandemic. The man is batshit.
If WE get another pandemic, comrade!
I voted against this bullshit. Ugh.
RFK jr. is an example of how ignorance is in itself a great evil.
That man looks like a chicken nugget
No he does not look delicious, okay?!
Is he turning orange now too?
[read in the tone of a comic book]. Once upon a time, RFK jr was a normal government bootlicker. Then one day he was bitten by a radioactive donald and became SUPER SPREADER!!! A masked hero fighing against common sense medicine and validatable science.
Does remind me of the Republican blonde stereotype
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/politics-of-blonde-hair-from-persephone-to-ivanka-trump.html
There is a minimum required amount of bronzer you're required to apply to be accepted into the MAGA leadership. See also the transformation Ron DeSantis pulled.
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What a bunch of fuckin rubes, we just put all the people who should be prosecuted in charge.
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I am not a prognosticator, I can't say how bad things will get. I can say that Covid didn't just magically disappear, and Bird Flu won't just go away. The reality is ignoring zoonotic pathogens is a surefire way to kill off a large portion of the population. RFK Jr is just another old fucking shit bag that wants to be right even if he is wrong and who doesn't care if his ignorance or self-righteousness kills you or anyone else. Your health is not his priority. His wealth and power are where his priorities lie. Please take care of yourselves and don't rely on a person with a letter by their name or fame and fortune to save you, they won't. Check on your loved ones, volunteer to help those vulnerable, and be empathetic and kind and we will get through this. Good luck.
Edit: I wanted to expand on the bird flu comment, as a couple of DMs pointed out there have been no sustained human-to-human transmissions of H5N1 to date.
A Science study published in December 2024 identified a single amino acid mutation, Q226L, in the hemagglutinin (HA) protein of H5N1. This mutation increases the virus's affinity for human-type receptors. While it does not enable human-to-human transmission, the virus’s capacity to mutate—especially with prolonged exposure—means it could potentially evolve in that direction.
This concern is underscored by the 2012 Erasmus Medical Center study, where gain-of-function experiments in ferrets demonstrated how easily H5N1 could acquire airborne transmissibility. Combine that with the risk of reassortment with H1N1 or H3N2, and the potential for an H5Nx strain to emerge becomes a legitimate concern.
That said, this is speculative, and I am neither a virologist nor a doctor. Please don't take this as a prediction or diagnosis—just an example of a "what-if" scenario from an old South Texas peckerwood who reads too much.
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THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN.
Imagine a world where this asshat managed to hold up the lifesaving vaccination. The fact that donvict killed more Americans than anyone else in history infuriates me as it is, but the fact that dickhead thinks he has standing for something like this. Just the fucking balls. The sense of fucking baseless entitlement ....JFC.
Good luck America, the lunatics are running the asylum and that’s not going to be good for anyone.
When stupid meets power, everybody loses. Usually except the rich.
Ok so, when you intend to run a dictatorship and let people suffer at the expense of idiots with actual dead brain worms in their head it's important to remember that if you kill off people's children and loved ones and others survive - the ones that survive typically lose their "civility" and take matters into their own hands.
All it takes is one member of the secret service to lose someone that matters to them by something this administration causes for the administration to be done with.
At some point, the people guarding the vault will realize that they can distribute the vault amongst themselves and get rid of the individual who owns the vault.
I was just discussing this with a conservative relative. It’s meet in the middle in dead agreement territory.
A lot if the tariffed Chinesium is going to be PC parts. Think of your mouse. I paid $10 for my ergonomic mouse with extra buttons. I had to replace it last year and it was $15. The guesstimates have prices doubled. Who wants to pay $30 for an $10 mouse? Those increases add up in trying to keep your entertainment source alive. My point is people already can’t buy groceries.
They’re working very hard to shut down streaming sites like fmovies. Everything has subscription fee now, even single news articles. Again, people can’t afford to buy groceries.
The last time people were bored with nothing left to do we had riots. In the name of a cause that deserved justice, yes, but the not having anything else to do part contributed a lot to the number of people outside, and stealing diapers.
They’re creating an environment that will prime people for pushing back by simply taking away free and cheap entertainment.
Pushing further on the rest (groceries, healthcare, workers rights) is just an ignition switch. We all feel it. That’s the sense of impending doom thats been lurking all year.
Healthcare upheaval would be a societal nuke at this point.
And yet that’s where Trump wants to go. And that’s where my conservative relative and I split. Oh no, T is going to solve the problems. Seriously. That was said.
So politically, we agree an ignition point is approaching. We don’t agree on whether Trump will ignite it or diffuse it.
Interesting times suck.
They're are only two things I can guarantee Trump desires: self-preservation, and his daughter.
He wanted the presidency to avoid prison and it worked. I assume he'll use the military to protect himself and his interests above anything else.
After that? I don't really think he cares.
Well yes. This is why he picked a dipshit Yes Man for the DoD. So there would be nothing stopping him from turning the American military on Americans.
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