Welp, it occurred. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
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That’s proper, the highest-ranking well being division within the nation is being run by a COVID conspiracy theorist who dabbles in medical racism, thinks Lyme illness is a “extremely probably militarily engineered bioweapon,” and, throughout his affirmation listening to, struggled to reply fundamental questions any well being official ought to have the ability to reply, such because the distinction between Medicare and Medicaid. He’s solely the newest version to President Donald Trump’s MAGA DEI Administration.
From NPR:
Kennedy confronted opposition from the left for his a long time of espousing conspiracy theories on vaccines and from the suitable for his previous help of abortion rights. For a number of weeks, it was unsure whether or not he had sufficient senators backing him to get by way of. Yesterday, Democratic senators made speeches on the ground previous midnight in protest. However on Thursday morning, he had the votes to be confirmed. The vote was 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the previous Republican majority chief and a polio survivor, was the only real Republican becoming a member of Democrats to vote towards Kennedy.
“In my lifetime, I’ve watched vaccines save hundreds of thousands of lives from devastating illnesses throughout America and all over the world,” McConnell stated in an announcement explaining his vote. “I can’t condone the re-litigation of confirmed cures, and neither will hundreds of thousands of People who credit score their survival and high quality of life to scientific miracles.”
You realize the Republican Occasion is down dangerous when Yertle the McConnell is its voice of purpose.
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It’s virtually as if each new addition to Trump’s cupboard is a testomony to how filled with it white conservatives are after they babble on about “meritocracy” of their anti-DEI propaganda.
If it’s about advantage, why is Pete Hegseth — a Fox Information host with zero expertise in nationwide protection who additionally failed to indicate fundamental overseas coverage information throughout his affirmation listening to — serving because the nation’s Secretary of Protection?
Trump additionally nominated former Military Particular Forces veteran Joe Kent, who believes Jan. 6 convicts have been “political prisoners,” to move the Nationwide Counterterrorism Heart (NCTC), and he tapped his former speech author, Darren Beattie, a white supremacist who thinks solely “competent white males needs to be in cost,” to function performing Underneath Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
After all, Trump himself is now a two-term president who, earlier than his first time period, had zero expertise serving in any of our three branches of presidency or the army.
So, yeah, they don’t care about advantage. They care about making white nationalism nice once more. That’s about it.
