RFK Jr. To Lead Division of Well being and Human Companies

Welp, it occurred. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies.

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 possible militarily engineered bioweapon,” and, throughout his affirmation listening to, struggled to reply primary questions any well being official ought to be capable of 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 correct for his previous assist of abortion rights. For a number of weeks, it was unsure whether or not he had sufficient senators backing him to get by means 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 in opposition to Kennedy.

“In my lifetime, I’ve watched vaccines save tens of millions of lives from devastating illnesses throughout America and world wide,” McConnell stated in an announcement explaining his vote. “I can’t condone the re-litigation of confirmed cures, and neither will tens of millions of Individuals who credit score their survival and high quality of life to scientific miracles.”

You already know the Republican Get together is down unhealthy when Yertle the McConnell is its voice of cause.

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It’s nearly as if each new addition to Trump’s cupboard is a testomony to how stuffed 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 primary overseas coverage data 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 must 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.