I’m not sure how to do a ranking but voting to confirm rfk jr at hhs is maybe one of the most self destructive things republicans have done in the second trump admin, and there’s a long list
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The response I got from Susan Collins’s office was along the lines of “I believe Presidents should be given ample latitude to choose their cabinet members.” Yes, assuming they’re basically qualified.
RFK Jr's tenure at HHS is the best thing to happen to America's health in decades. Possibly ever. Those who oppose him are either A) Honest & brainwashed or B) pharma PR operatives paid to smear him.
Feel like it's tied or at least in a close race with Pete Hesgeth getting confirmed. Both fuck with the safety and effectiveness of key parts of the goverment from two essential directions.
Feel like rubio gets some points knocked off because on paper, he makes sense for SoS. He's been disastrous, but that's also partly DOGE. But even in a perfect situation hesgeth and RFK should have been an easy rejection for them.
Bondi, RFK, Patel, Hegseth, McMahon, Noem, Gabbard and invertebrate Rubio are competing in a dizzying rotation of ineptitude, cruelty, stupidity and illegality for worst Cabinet member in American history.
I thought inept narcisstic Chavez Deremer, Sean Duffy and even Energy Sec Wright is giving them a run for their money in the race to the bottom. #TrumpFailure
It's a race between RFK and Hegseth to see who is the meanest, craziest, dumbest, and most incompetent in the cabinet. And sadly, it looks like RFK is going to hang on through the entire administration.
They should have convicted him in the Senate in 2021. It would have saved the country and it probably would have saved their party. Now, extinction is their only future.
I didn’t believe they would do it because “everyone eats food, everyone depends on vaccines—even US Senators.” Wow was I wrong. I still don’t understand why they think they don’t need science and medicine. Is their fear of Trump greater than their fear of food poisoning?
Wondering whether anyone has recently asked Cassidy, Collins, & Murkowski — who all laughably said (om one version or another) they were reassured by his claim that he would stick to the science on vaccines — about him recently. I'm sure they would be very … concerned.
And the vast majority of Americans don’t have the faintest clue what Trump, Musk, and RFKjr are doing to our science, medical, and public health infrastructure. The corporate news media sure as shit isn’t informing them, and as always there’s no coherent, coordinated, and consistent Dem response.
I disagree. It's a master stroke if you want large proportions of Americans to die, especially vulnerable people, and THAT is exactly what the GOP wants.
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Which is Adam?
Think the only other contender for kills will be Rubio with USAID shutdowns
Then I agree, it’s RFK, then Hegseth, then Rubio a ways down
"Self-destructive" we can watch from afar. But we're all within the blast radius.
There's the fog and swerve of politics at the front, but there's physics and epidemiology marching to the tune of their equations right behind.