Public health experts and scientists say RFK could do "infinite" damage if he's appointed to lead HHS. It's not just vaccines or fluoride: it's Medicaid and Medicare funding, drug development, cancer research, funding for Indian Health Service... it's endless. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... - ThreadSky

annamerlan.bsky.social • 103 days ago

Public health experts and scientists say RFK could do "infinite" damage if he's appointed to lead HHS. It's not just vaccines or fluoride: it's Medicaid and Medicare funding, drug development, cancer research, funding for Indian Health Service... it's endless. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/robert-f-kennedy-jr-donald-trump-health-and-human-services/

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wndlb.bsky.social•102 days ago

Should I put up the Native vote breakout?

cogbarn.bsky.social•103 days ago

Let’s not sugar-coat it:

He wants people to die. The more the better.

suezq8000.bsky.social•103 days ago

That’s the point of nominating him

europeusa.bsky.social•103 days ago

I would love to see fight between RFK and big Pharma.

vinosmax.bsky.social•103 days ago

Maybe someone could clue @NPR into that.

black-butterfly00.bsky.social•103 days ago

ssbrenn.bsky.social•103 days ago

Let's hope members of Congress have friends and family with cancer and disabilities. So,so pathetic.

meave.bsky.social•103 days ago

oh, we do. but most of them are millionaires who themselves have amazing insurance, and this list is uses 2018-2019 data, ie before the covid grifters got into office. the only thing i trust a plurality of these people to do is mind their own interests in pharma, &c.

ssbrenn.bsky.social•102 days ago

Thank you for this!💕

hazeleyes61.bsky.social•103 days ago

Sighs.... went into a conservative representatives office in DC to tall about healthcare...and the Republicans idea if tax credits for it... I directly asked if he had a parent on Social Security/medicare ...and

hazeleyes61.bsky.social•103 days ago

just exactly how a tax credit would help his mother... all I did was literally piss him off... deer in headlights.

ssbrenn.bsky.social•103 days ago

Ugh. I'm sorry. Sorry for all of us

dadoftwins.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yeah, but it’ll be a real laugh when the next pandemic hits. We’ll have a good five minutes of comedy before we all kick the bucket!

katie-kurtz.bsky.social•102 days ago

As well as child and family services and substance use and mental health which will deeply impact evidence based treatments within the field, access to funding and best practice oversight leading to potentially devastating neglect and harm

mtn-mama.bsky.social•103 days ago

This is not hyperbole. He is incredibly dangerous to the health of our country.

exmemoriam.bsky.social•102 days ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cjOPLTTjnwc

shawnjohn.bsky.social•100 days ago

This is what selling your soul looks like. Anti seed oil guy being forced to eat McDonald's by his new boss. Sorry not sorry. He deserves this.

johnlk.bsky.social•103 days ago

Is he anti Medicaid and Medicare funding more than the replacement Republican? I'd have thought he'd potentially be *better* on that (and abortion related stuff). Like worse on everything else for sure.

annamerlan.bsky.social•103 days ago

It's more who he could appoint to lead CMS which oversees those programs. It's not an area he seems to know anything about and the kind of person he'd consider appointing might not either. Would love to be wrong

johnlk.bsky.social•103 days ago

I think that's just something horrible that is going to happen regardless of RFK.

m00psy.bsky.social•103 days ago

and there are so many leopard-eating-face-party conservatives who are just salivating at the thought and will keep doing so until it somehow effects them directly 🤦🏼

accountabilabuddy.bsky.social•103 days ago

Assuming they will understand they did it to themselves is giving them far too much credit.

The oligarch media will instruct them to blame trans people (somehow) and they will comply.

m00psy.bsky.social•103 days ago

as a trans person oh yeah i know… sigh 🫣

synthwhoa.bsky.social•103 days ago

Say what you will about big pharma, they do have the budget to put the leopards in their place on this one.

I don't think Big Brain Parasite has nearly the same lobbying power.

deramin.bsky.social•103 days ago

This is remarkably comforting, actually. The same fuckers who won't let us improve the status quo also won't let these chumps degrade it too far. They protect the money factory at all costs.

m00psy.bsky.social•103 days ago

i hope that is true but also nothing is certain when trump said he wanted to become a dictator on day 1

synthwhoa.bsky.social•103 days ago

Dictators and wanna-be dictators are influenced by flattery, conservatives are influenced by paychecks and kickbacks. Pfizer offers both.

I mean it's an Alien vs. Predator situation but at least if the predator wins we still have vaccine development.

hazeleyes61.bsky.social•103 days ago

I guess we will see...

wagley.bsky.social•103 days ago

And four cases of malaria in Florida.

joelkleinman.bsky.social•103 days ago

Let’s also keep in mind that the mass suffering that will occur from an RFKjr appointment would disproportionately affect working class people who rely on public health services, as we saw during the pandemic.

kelliesteinberg.bsky.social•103 days ago

YES!! As a nurse, I'm terrified

annamerlan.bsky.social•103 days ago

I'm so sorry

yepmeamalie.bsky.social•99 days ago

Public health psychiatric social worker, and same. Huge potential for unnecessary and inhumane suffering. And death. Which I truly believe is the objective

doubtful-guest.bsky.social•103 days ago

Great time to “give infectious disease a rest.”

fightlies.bsky.social•102 days ago

Trump killed nearly a million people in the U.S. with his COVID lies last time. Do we think this could be worse?

embiggened1.bsky.social•103 days ago

Don’t forget the damage to the bear population when they end up on menus everywhere

erinire.bsky.social•103 days ago

Our food supply too.

sterne.bsky.social•103 days ago

brain worm, stop slacking and get to work!!

metatheory.bsky.social•103 days ago

We also need a full examination of what steroids have done to his addled brain.

waynep2.bsky.social•103 days ago

My multiple myeloma has been held in check for three years by a recently approved monoclonal antibody. New drugs have doubled the life expectancy of myeloma within recent years, but we still need a cure. Research is underway that gives us hope. RFK will destroy that with his anti science agenda.

maryjanesbiatch.bsky.social•71 days ago

📌

raidersyourface.bsky.social•103 days ago

This pick was clearly telegraphed, and the likely consequences known well before the election. Trump was still elected...

annamerlan.bsky.social•103 days ago

There is quite simply so much to worry about here I'm going to have to do multiple stories but we're looking at a possible collapse of large, large portions of the public health infrastructure as it exists today.

newsynonsense.bsky.social•103 days ago

Every single thing RFK says makes me worry more.

julesandjames88.bsky.social•103 days ago

It is just preposterous that he will get the job. My God we are living in stupid land

mxeddynikko.bsky.social•103 days ago

It unbelievably sad that anyone this reckless could even be floated. It's weaponized paranoid stupidity and potentially negligent homicides. But these fashy wackos don't care

markpritchard.bsky.social•103 days ago

Bannon is positively salivating

backgroundmusings.bsky.social•103 days ago

And here I was naive enough to believe they'd just stick him in some independent, toothless, made-up position where he could go on the podcast circuit and cable news, bloviating about things while doing nothing substantial

pissedoffwoman.bsky.social•102 days ago

🤬‼️

comassion.bsky.social•103 days ago

The damage can't be infinite, there's only a few billion of us.

snarkos.bsky.social•103 days ago

That's the whole point. His entire four-year plan is based on revenge against those who showed disloyalty by not voting for him and self-preservation (avoiding jail time be pardoning himself). Just watch.

sunsparkda.bsky.social•103 days ago

As opposed to the next Trump appointee who will do just as much damage, but won't be as obviously unfit at first glance so they can pretend he isn't unacceptable.

If you think stopping RFK (or anyone in the current clown show) is any kind of a win, you're dreaming.

garynordell.bsky.social•101 days ago

Maybe some day DJT and RFK butt heads & then DJT kicks him to the curb DJT has no idea what the HHS does nor does he know of or care about the extent of RFK’s far reaching wacko conspiracies, he’s just the anti vax guy RFK’s now alarming farm coalition and may be too annoying soon

sfineville.bsky.social•103 days ago

Biden: Cancer Moonshot
Trump: RFK Jr. and ivermectin and colloidal silver probably

rphwkns.bsky.social•103 days ago

Trump effectively snuffed the lives of tens of thousands due to his certifiable malfeasance in handling the Covid epidemic with nary a serious reproach. Does anyone seriously think it will be any different in the eventual human toll?

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