Donald Trump is nominating Robert F Kennedy Jr to be the director of the Department of Health and Human Services. Much like Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Doug Burgum, Doug Collins (there was a special on Dougs), Chris Wright, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Stephen “Baby Goebbels” Miller, Little Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Kristi “Dog Killer” Noem, John Ratcliffe, Lee Zeldin, Elise (principles for sale) Stefanik, and JD Couch “Flipper” Vance, RFK Jr has zero experience to be the head of a $3 trillion health agency.
Remember the movie, Major League? An evil rich showgirl inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband except she doesn’t like Cleveland, so she tries to use an escape clause that would allow her to move the team if attendance falls below a certain level, so she stocks it with shitty players played by Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheene, Dennis Haysbert, Corbin Bernsen, and Wesley Snipes. I think Donald Trump is attempting to stock the government with enough shitweasels that they’ll do such a godawful job that he’ll be able to move the government to Florida. He’s going to Major League it except it’s not going to be funny.
Kennedy, who is not a doctor but did watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy once, has proposed tighter regulation of the pesticides farmers use, a reexamination of vaccine safety data, a ban on highly processed foods in schools, and a remaking of the agencies making the rules around health and nutrition. RFK Jr is a conspiracy theorist who opposes vaccines. He may help Trump get rid of Obamacare and bring back leeches (which is a creature that’s been used to describe his cabinet).
Aiono Prof Alec Ekeroma, the director general of health for Samoa’s Health Ministry told The Washington Post that Kennedy “will be directly responsible for killing thousands of children around the world by allowing preventable infectious diseases to run rampant.”
RFK visited Samoa in 2019 and discouraged the government from using vaccines. Four months later, there was a major outbreak of measles. More than 5,700 out of Samoa’s population of 200,000 were infected and 83 died, with many of them being children. Hospitals were overrun, and the nation declared a state of emergency. Samoa launched a massive vaccination campaign to stop the outbreak, and unvaccinated families were asked to hang red flags outside their homes.
Kennedy later described the outbreak as “mild,” much in the same way Trump claimed Covid wasn’t serious and would “disappear” like a “miracle” before he told the nation to ingest bleach.
If we lost the same percentage of our population that Samoa did due to RFK Jr’s ineptitude, over ten million Americans would die. Donald Trump is not taking any of this seriously. For him, this position is a payback for RFK Jr’s endorsement, not because he’s qualified for the job.
Those who don’t die because of RFK Jr will probably lose their teeth because he’s looking to remove fluoride from drinking water. This is going to suck.
We saw what happens with a health crisis with Donald Trump in charge but now, we’re going to get Doctor Dumbass joining him in Shitler 2.0.
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RFK Jr is even worse. That agency also runs Medicare and Medicaid, the FDA, CDC, and other agencies that save lives literally around the world. "Bobby" will kill people. Measles is already coming back in many areas. Won't polio be a trip?!
Gotta love those MAGAts proudly displaying their IQs…