MAGA DEI: Covid Conspiracist RFK Jr. Confirmed As…
Welp, it occurred. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed to guide the Department of Health and Human Services.
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That’s proper, the highest-ranking health division within the nation is being run by a COVID conspiracy theorist who dabbles in medical racism, thinks Lyme illness is a “highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon,” and, during his affirmation listening to, struggled to reply fundamental questions any health 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 many years of espousing conspiracy theories on vaccines and from the appropriate for his previous help of abortion rights. For a number of weeks, it was unsure whether or not he had enough senators backing him to get by way of. Yesterday, Democratic senators made speeches on the ground previous midnight in protest. But 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 millions of lives from devastating diseases across America and around the world,” McConnell stated in a assertion explaining his vote. “I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures, and neither will millions of Americans who credit their survival and quality of life to scientific miracles.”
You know the Republican Party is down dangerous when Yertle the McConnell is its voice of motive.
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It’s virtually as if each new addition to Trump’s cupboard is a testomony to how full of it white conservatives are once they babble on about “meritocracy” of their anti-DEI propaganda.
If it’s about benefit, why is Pete Hegseth — a Fox News host with zero expertise in national protection who additionally didn’t show fundamental overseas coverage data during his affirmation listening to — serving because the nation’s Secretary of Defense?
Trump additionally nominated former Army Special Forces veteran Joe Kent, who believes Jan. 6 convicts have been “political prisoners,” to move the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and he tapped his former speech author, Darren Beattie, a white supremacist who thinks solely “competent white men should be in charge,” to function appearing Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
Of course, 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 authorities or the navy.
So, yeah, they don’t care about benefit. They care about making white nationalism great again. That’s about it.
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