Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of DOGE
Zoom meetings are avoided out of fear they are being secretly recorded. Conversations about budgets and policies are held in soundproof offices, as if they were matters of national security. Many employees carry small notebooks with them, jotting down notes instead of logging them on a computer. The desks of several sacked colleagues are empty — save for the few who have left family photos and possessions behind in case a judge rules they can return.
“There is a constant sense that we’re being watched and monitored,” the source said. “DOGE leadership are located several floors above but they have this omnipotent presence … We’re counted when we swipe our badges into the building.”
Everything under this Chicken Taco Turd’s shadow has been a disaster
Not quite. Israel is getting its wishes granted, and that’s all that really matters.
Like that hasn’t been happening for a while now
RfK is doing great! - Lord of Pestilence Nurgle
don’t besmudge-tain the great-famed god Nurgle like this!
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honorary pestilens
(still salty that 40k doesn’t have skaven)
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he is pestilence acolyte. controlled by goauld.
If it’s too much chaos for you, you need to buy a bunch of crystals, and place them in strategic places on your body, and let the crazy flow through you.
This way you adapt to your surroundings, and everything will make sense without even thinking about it. And you definitely don’t want to read scientific papers, they will just confuse you.Hallelujah to the brave new world.
I don’t know. I’m leaning more towards a raw sewage bath, to strengthen their immune systems, and toughen them up.
Yes all Republicans should do that. It makes you STRONK!
Have they tried eating more roadkill?
We are uniquely vulnerable now.
Imagine a biological weapons attack on the US. Do you think RFK would support giving out the anthrax vaccine after an attack? Would Americans even do it if the government recommended it?
What about telling people to lock down for bird flu?
We’ll never see a lockdown again. If there’s another pandemic, millions will die, and MAGA won’t care.
Duh
His face really exemplifies my impression of the entire Boomer generation.
They’re obsessed with chasing aesthetics of wealth (tanning their skin) but are also too arrogant to reconsider their values in light of all the new knowledge we’ve discovered (using sunscreen). So they just end up with avoidable consequences (extra wrinkly), pissed off, and don’t even know why or how so they just take their angry out on everyone else.
You might enjoy the Kyle Dunnigan impression of RFKjr
Rude
Omg too close, lol.
I’m always so blessed to be in the presence of greatness on Lemmy. Now it’s all clear exactly how an entire generation of people think and behave. Thank you 🙏
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Why do I want to listen to King Crimson now?
We did get beef tallow fries back in the United States again available at Steak 'n Shakes because of RFK Jr
Guess we gotta take the wins we are given
Yeah nothing says win like doing away with seed oils for no fucking reason.
Nothing like having “bro influencer science” being applied by the federal government…
Eicosanoids are created when polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as highly refined vegetable and seed oils, are oxidised. They increase oxidative stress on human cells. I’d err on the side of caution and avoid consuming more than necessary.
Is that more or less harmful than the cardiovascular effects of beef tallow?
Deep fried food is bad for you in general, but personally if I had to I’d take the beef tallow over PUFA for deep frying, although if the oil is used for a long period of time they are both terrible.
What are the cardiovascular effects of beef tallow that you’re referring to?
Even if we took that “win” which is just some junk science to make idiots think they got a win the net gain is still significantly into the negative. You can’t run a country on one false step forward and 100 real steps back
RFK jr prefers finer things, like wild animal carcasses, with side dish of parasitic eggs. he would probably actively fight scavengers for the roadkill.
Ah yes. Eating deep fried food, for your health.
Fucking America.
A reminder enough Democrats voted to approve this guy to be there. Everyone saw this coming.incorrect statement. (Edited)This is totally false. No Democrat voted to confirm him. It was 52 R for, 45 D, 2 I, and 1 R against. See https://ballotpedia.org/Confirmation_process_for_Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._for_secretary_of_health_and_human_services#Confirmation_vote_roll_call for more details.
A reminder that even if it is false in this case, many Dems did vote for many of Trump’s appointees. Kristi Noem comes to mind immediately.
I will admit to being wrong here. I mis remembered.
Holy fuck, it’s literally every piece of news about what a disaster the trump admin is, someone has to butt in with a reminder “what about the democrats”. Democrats are irrelevant, have been since November. Even if all of them voted against, the gop would have approved this guy and all the other guys anyway. This is a gop nomination, approved by gop politicians, implementing a gop agenda, voted for by gop voters.
It’s not irrelevant. Voting to confirm some obviously incompetent moron into a cabinet position makes you complicit.
Edit: in this case, they didn’t actually vote for him. All Democrats voted against.
This never happened. The Democrats did not vote to confirm him.
True, but his main point stands. It’s not just this. Every single time the Trump admin does something shitty, one of the first three comments is about how it’s the Democrats fault.
Lemmy is being manipulated.
I’m hoping the truth can prevail over the very loud noise. But if five people come after me to argue against Democrats, what will most people in here end up believing?
I’m fine with criticizing Democrats when it’s specific and targeted. This one kind of gets there. But, you know, isn’t there a bigger issue?
What Lemmy threads have you been in for the last two years? The constant refrain in every political thread was about how the Democratic Party, in control of the executive, should not march into genocide, fascism, and hand Trump a second term. Those people got heavy resistance in every thread likewise without fail. There were those who felt a stance on Gaza was hypocritical and that a genocide should not have any place in their politics.
This is the entirely preventable and predictable reality.
Yep. No one except leftists tried to hold Dems accountable, so the politicians got lazy and complicit.
The point is that the Democrats aren’t doing anywhere near enough to resist the fascist takeover and that had been true pretty much since day one. They are so hell bent on preserving the status quo that they’ll rather hand the country to the fascists than support any meaningful change.
They should be calling for impeachment every single day. Obviously it’ll never pass, but it’ll gum up the works and at least show that Trump’s shitshow it’s unacceptable.
The point is that you want to discourage/split the vote for next election.
You’re doing the same the Fox News and talk radio did to Hillary Clinton over 20 years.
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I’m sure you will achieve these goals any day now.
Yes, the fight against capitalism and the fascists that back it is an existential issue for all peoples. So it is incredibly important to point out how the Democrats are controlled opposition and waiting for them to save us will just allow us to sink deeper into the shit.
Republicans are certainly to blame for all their crimes, but the Democrats are accessories before, during and after the fact, when they should be the cops.
Remember when RFK jr was trying to hitch his wagon to either Biden’s camp or trumps?
Dems didn’t call out his pseudoscience then and distance themselves.
Dems voted to confirm wormbrain.
The DNC is complicit in this shit show and enable the GOP
Dems rejected his proposal and he went to trump. If the dems voted not to confirm him it wouldn’t have mattered. The republicans are in charge, full control of all branches of government. Complaining about the dems everytime a republican does something barbaric is just excusing their behavior.
If none of it mattered, why tf would Dems vote to confirm him? It’s spineless leadership that spits on voters who are sick of not having any representation. The establishment Dems are complacent and can’t bothered with showing any form of resistance. It is not excusing the GOP to say the DNC is complicit trash.
If the dems voted not to confirm him it wouldn’t have mattered
Oh, well if it didn’t matter if they chose to confirm him or not, why did they do it?
Complaining about the dems everytime a republican does something barbaric is just excusing their behavior.
And you’re excusing the Democrats for confirming an anti-science wormbrain to the highest medical office in the land.
I get not wanting to blame the Democrats when the Republicans are shitty, but that only really works WHEN THE DEMOCRATS AREN’T PART OF THE REASON IT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Generally I’d be with you in trying to shift the unwarranted blame, but it’s not unwarranted in this situation at all.
It’s still important because the Democrats are our opposition to the GOP, so we need to work on replacing establishment Dems with people with a soul and a spine or we’ll never get anywhere.
Not if you’re Israeli, which is all that counts. You got your boom boom tonight!
approved by gop politicians
…and a shocking number of democratic ones. It SHOULD have been a party lines vote. But Democratic politicians did what they always do: extend an olive branch while they’re in the process of actively getting fucked over, and then portray theatrical shock and dismay when entirely predictable consequences issue from the situation.
Genuinely, I have a very hard time believing the Democratic Party and its leadership isn’t just controlled opposition at this point. They’re so consistently feckless and ineffective - and have been for so long - that it’s got to be intentional at some level.
This is not true at all.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00052.htm
Look at this, not a single (D) amongst the Yeas
Agreed.
ready the tribunals.
i swear to god if americans don’t drag these democrats out of the country (and maybe into an el salvador prison) for collaborating with fascists they don’t deserve a democracy ever.
Not a single democrat voted for rfk jr
Who are twenty people who downvoted the comment? As is the attribute of the party, there are always enough Democrats who are bootlickers and vote for oligarchic policies to keep the corruption going!
The 20 of us who looked up the vote record for his confirmation?
Democrats do bad things, but let’s at least complain about the bad things they actually did.
