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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

I think that's a great idea, but maybe don't be assigned in charge of health.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy said.

Well then, the next questions should be, "what is your job title?" and "what exactly is it that you DO here?"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Strictly speaking his job is administrative - he's not an expert on health nor does he really need to be. He's a political appointee charged with advising the president and enacting the president's policies. The career bureaucrats and scientists in his employ are the experts.

It is, however, expected that he would at least understand and listen to those teams on what the correct science is and provide feedback from those teams upward to the president to ensure that the president's goals align with good public health policy.

But he's a whackjob conspiracy theorist who has no idea what he's doing.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thinks people shouldn't take medical advice from him,

...proceeds to give medical advice to people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Becomes head of health

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like the Joe Rogan Experience.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"No one listen to what I'm about to say, but eating roadkill possum cures chlamydia."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But what if I don't have Chlamydia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You seem to have skipped step 1: Get chamydia. Please start the instructions from the top

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Then you haven't joined RFK swimming in sewage yet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Then eating roadside possum will cure you of not having something else. Also, have you considered swimming in sewerage?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, I already am ignoring the medical advice he gives me.

I sadly can't ignore the medical advice he is giving the country as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

So when he says you shouldn't take medical advice from him, you would not listen?

/j

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

its more or less a distraction of the tariffs, and trumps own doge who is run by vought now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

He doesn't want you to take medical advice from him, but he does want to dictate what kind of medical advice your actual doctor is legally allowed to give you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Is that stuff on his face removable?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

People gotta remember this guy has been as desperate as Trump his whole life to be accepted as a legitimate member of elite society. You factor that in, you factor in that Trump also wanted to be a crime boss like his mob affiliates from the early part of his career, the motives become more clear, the outcomes become more predictable.

Also remember, some of this is engineered by both parties to distract us from the everyday realities we are facing.

Don’t take your eye off the prize. We want a centrally planned economy, we want universal healthcare, we want federally funded infrastructure projects, and we’re gonna take that money from the wealthy.

Beware “abundance” grifters…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We want a centrally planned economy,

Lmao what? Is this a #JustLemmyThings meme?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also remember, some of this is engineered by both parties to distract us from the everyday realities we are facing.

Funny how one party seems to push this sort of shit way way more than another party.

Don’t take your eye off the prize. We want a centrally planned economy, we want universal healthcare, we want federally funded infrastructure projects,

I just want a functioning democracy, one with less fascists and corruption in it.

and we’re gonna take that money from the wealthy.

And how are you going to do that? Are you willing to take it by force? Because that's the only way it's going to happen. You have to take it by force.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And how are you going to do that? Are you willing to take it by force? Because that's the only way it's going to happen. You have to take it by force.

No, we'll take it by legislation and re-writing the tax code, but if they want to hold out, than yes, we'll take it by force, and that will be a LOT worse for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

WTF is wrong with you? Of course I'm not taking it personally, and obviously we wouldn't be taking away billionaire's fortunes under the current regime. There isn't the Congressional votes to pass it, nor would HitlerPig sign it.

IF we manage to take our government back, AND remove the DINO Democrats who are nothing more than Republican-Lites, then we can hopefully have a Congress who will pass legislation authorizing a re-write of the 1974 Tax Code, which baked-in Trickle Down Economics, resulting in an annual $2 Trillion shift of revenue from the middle/working class to the wealthy.

Study: Inequality Robs $2.5 Trillion From U.S. Workers Each Year

'We were shocked:' RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1%

And who would take it? The Democratic government, acting on behalf of the American people. It's not done with guns (or shovels, WTF?), it's done with computers, and law enforcement. Their bank accounts will be frozen and confiscated, and their properties and assets seized and sold at auction, or utilized by the government.

These mechanisms have always been available, the Dems just never used them, while the MAGAs never histate to exploit them as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You personally? You're going to take it by force?

So, when democracy is dismantled in the next year or two, and it's no longer possible to "take it by legislation" or "re-write the tax code", you personally are going to take it by force?

With what? Do you have a gun? What you are going to take it with? A shovel?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Then resign your commission, wormbreath

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

I do.occasionally agree with RFK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Self aware wolf? That title made me laugh, and question what he's doing in that position, to administer eugenics only?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Useful idiots; remember that.

The Heritage Foundation is the one enacting the policies. White supremacist billionaires with the idea that they know what's best because.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe the brain worms will save us after all... I was so confused about the brainworms, and finally I read an article that said that he licked His hand after sticking it in a dead deer's mouth and got brain worms.

Not the type of guy I'd take advice on anything from... Well, that's not true. Maybe were to o score some...Nose beers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I honestly don't know if the absurdity in your message is absurdist humor, or absurdist factual reality.

Life isn't fun when you're living in the world of an article from The Onion.

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