Trump Officially Gives RFK Jr. Chance to Destroy Country’s Health

https://newrepublic.com/post/188456/trump-robert-f-kennedy-rfk-jr-health-hhs-secretary

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  1. “When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat.” George Carlin

  3. Trump couldn’t even be bothered to destroy the country himself. He just had to outsource it.

  4. Jokes on you, RFK. I destroyed my own health before you could get to it.

  6. This looks like a throw away appointment. When he doesn’t pass the Senate, another, scarier sycophant will be appointed.

    There’s a list somewhere of people Trump owes a favor. Who would be worse than RFK Jr? One of the Sackler family?

  7. What’s crazy about all this is that Trump himself is a massive hypochondriac, and he was certainly among the very first people to get a Covid vaccine. Like I’m sure Trump personally thinks RFK is a fuckin nut job.

  8. Guess Trump didn’t just grab America by the pu**y.

    He is grabbing Americans by the lungs, spleens and the livers too.

  9. This will be horrible for your insurance coverage because they base policy off of research and risk factors, with proven scientific data. 
    I have friends that are seeking unpasteurized milk but are completely oblivious to the bird flu risk in variants. In addition to not believing in vaccines. 

    We are living in 2024 and our President elect nominated someone who is NOT a doctor to be in control of our health. What in the actual F!

  10. I guess the same with Gaetz as AG, the Fox News guy (now with fascist tattoo, who would guess) as Sec of Defence, Gabbard as director of national intelligence and now RFK Jr as Sec of health and human services Trump is saying fuck you to America… He doesn’t care that America will burn.. I’m the King now.

  12. I’m not religious and I’m not American but may god have mercy on you all.

  13. I’m so excited for polio to finally make its big comeback!

  14. The last 3 months have been revolving The Onion headlines. Emperor Orange is sure fast tracking us to a dystopian Idiocracy in record time.

    At least the eminent destruction of the country will be hilarious.

  15. RFK Jr. stands ready to finish the job Trump started during COVID!

  16. My heart breaks for the people who will die because of this.

    We will literally see god knows how many people dying every day, with loved ones being left behind to grieve without help from the government and rates of depression, PTSD, and complicated grief disorder arising, and the increased need for mental healthcare workers arising. Not to mention, the rise for funeral home services arising.

    People will NOT be happy with this.

    It seems to me that unfortunately many people who didn’t live through authoritarianism will learn lessons about it the hard way…by losing a loved one.

    This suuuuuucks. It honestly does.

  18. This how bad a pick this is: if the nation followed his anti-vax views, we would have approximately 2-3 million more Americans dead from COVID, if not more.

  20. Can you imagine how covid would’ve turned out with RFK Jr. in charge? The hundreds of thousands of deaths would’ve been millions.

  21. “MAGA doesn’t want to destroy America” they said, over and over, knowing full well that the plan was to burn it to the ground.

  22. So I’m really confused here.

    From what I gather, RFK Jr wants to ban toxic food chemicals and end the corporate capture of the FDA, but in order to do that, he wants to… Remove regulations? And instead of punishing the corporations, he wants to dismantle the FDA?

    None of this seems honest or thought out. It’s insane.

    Oh, and also he is one of the world’s leading anti-vaxxers so have fun with that.

  23. As a parent of a kid who is 1 of 12 with a rare genetic condition, we spent a week at the NIH this summer for the first time with a team of amazing doctors and researchers. Due to his immune deficiency, some of what keeps him safe is herd immunity towards illnesses that he cant be vaccinated against. What have we come to as a society if we don’t care for the most vulnerable of our society. Because that is who will be most affected. I know we’re not the only ones who have found such hope in the incredible science based research at the NIH.

    I am terrified of RFK turning a whole country against actual public heath and real science. I’m terrified of how public health might change. I’m terrified for anyone with pre-existing, chronic, rare or other hard to treat condition.

  24. A bunch of maga people are all excited because he is supposedly going to ban all sorts of artificial ingredients and increase food quality standards…

    But like, do these people not realize they can already buy food like that? It’s just more expensive and goes bad faster, and is generally less convenient to prepare so most Americans don’t. No one is forcing anyone to buy mcdonalds or lucky charms or whatever today.

    It’s going to be really weird when the burn-all-regulations magas finally meet the regulate-every-choice magas.

  25. He’s not a doctor, healthcare worker or public health expert. He’s never worked in any area of the healthcare system. How on earth can this vaccine denier be nominated for this job? As an RN I just pray his nomination is denied by the elected officials who truly care about public health.

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