The Trump administration has a behavior of doing this factor the place they draw all the consideration to points about race and the “woke” teachings, (which is mostly a option to do away with extremely certified folks of colour), solely to switch them with a few of the dumbest conspiracy theorists that worship the bottom the president walks on.
So just some weeks after profitable his second time period within the White Home, President Trump was fast to announce that Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a Fox Information contributor, was going to be the subsequent U.S. surgeon basic.
“Nesheiwat was a frequent Fox Information medical contributor and labored as a doctor on the Instances Sq. CityMD pressing care clinic earlier than changing into considered one of its medical administrators,” ABC Information studies.
However there was just one drawback: Proper-wing nutjob Laura Loomer didn’t like her. Apparently Loomer discovered that Nesheiwat received her medical diploma from American College of the Caribbean as an alternative of the College of Arkansas. And Loomer believed that Nesheiwat was pro-vaccine, which all the “belief me, bro” social media medical doctors are in opposition to.
So Loomer referred to as on the president to fireside Nesheiwat, an precise physician, and the president listened.
In response to ABC Information, Loomer isn’t just in Trump’s interior circle, however he trusts her sufficient to take heed to her recommendation on whom he ought to rent and hearth.
“She makes suggestions of issues and folks, and typically I take heed to these suggestions, like I do with everyone,” Trump stated final month. “I take heed to everyone, after which I decide. However I noticed her yesterday. She was on the ceremony, and she or he is — she’ll all the time have one thing to say, normally very constructive.”
So now, Nesheiwat will work on the Division of Well being and Human Companies in “one other capability,” and Dr. Casey Means, the White Home’s second selection for surgeon basic, is as much as bat.
Means has by no means practiced drugs, however she’s actually good pals with Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who as soon as dumped a useless bear in Central Park, so there’s that.
In truth, Trump doesn’t even know something about her, simply that she comes extremely advisable by Bobby.
“Means, who acquired undergraduate and medical levels from Stanford College, has held analysis positions on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, New York College and Oregon Well being & Science College,” MSNBC notes.
“She is a proponent of metabolic well being, when your physique processes meals in a method that retains your blood sugar, blood stress, ldl cholesterol, triglycerides and weight inside wholesome ranges.”
Right here’s how MSNBC explains her rise:
Whereas U.S. surgeons basic are inclined to have intensive expertise in drugs and public well being, Means was described by the AP as a “wellness influencer” who dropped out of her surgical residency program and has no expertise in public well being administration. The identical report famous that Means has supplemented her earnings by promoting “dietary dietary supplements, lotions, teas and different merchandise sponsored on her social media accounts.”
The Wall Road Journal reported that Means’ political profile acquired a major increase after she taped interviews with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and podcaster Joe Rogan. The identical article added, “Means’s publication provides a mix of sensible well being recommendation (‘Train to spice up blood stream’) and broader takes (‘After we struggle the pure cycles, we exploit’). She has taken some positions, akin to on uncooked milk, at odds with public-health officers.”
As for her strategy to vaccines, the New York Instances reported, “Dr. Means has echoed a few of Mr. Kennedy’s skepticism of vaccines, calling on the brand new administration to review their ‘cumulative results’ and to weaken legal responsibility protections supplied to vaccine makers.”
The one good factor that I can take away from this nomination is that if Means and Kennedy have been to throw a celebration and there was tons of meals left over, they might each merely take away their tin foil hats and make to-go plates with ease.
Additionally, how can we get off of this loopy practice?
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