This is a dangerous (and deeply embarrassing) moment for our country. Republicans just put a conspiracy theorist in charge of one of the most important federal agencies for safeguarding public health and guiding the nation through health crises.
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The Republican senators have sold us all out hoping their loyalty to a con man is going to somehow save them. They’re betrayed their oath of office. Every single one
McConnell: "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" Well Mich you did this. It's all a product of your spineless GOP. Now it's called MAGA you own this clownish disaster JFK Jr.
Dangerous 😳 is right. And as frustrating as this is there is little we can do till 2026. Even then I'm not sure where the heads, of 49% of the Americans who voted for DJT & Musk thrown in are at. Do they think we're great again. Isolationism is never good for any country least of all this one!
Predictably, Senate Republicans have now proven themselves to be not only cowardly but stupid. Do these idiots think that they are exempt from consequences? Illness isn't selective: no medicare for some means no medicare for ALL. Yes, YOU TOO, Sen. Collins. Bravo Mitch McConell for speaking up!
McConnell stood up because he has nothing to lose. That’s spineless given that he had the chance to end this—twice—by simply standing up & voting to impeach Trump. Others would’ve followed him.
Totally agreed! But…publicly vilifying him further may not be the best means of encouraging him to continue to vote against the rest of the nominees. Yeah, he’s an asshole but let’s have him be an asshole on the side of the Democrats for the last few votes.
The civilized world will have to put backwater USA in a permanent quarantine to contain all the infectious diseases that will spread across the country when this man's anti-vaccine 'health' policies start taking effect.
But DEM Senators all voted NO. So they are at least voting unified. And I'm donating to the Indivisible Payback fund to get rid of the GOP senators that are complicit. Please also support Gay Valimont and Josh Weil for Fl special house elections April 1st. Tough races they need support.
When republicans’ family members are dropping like flies because a kook is in charge of major medical decisions, maybe they will stop drinking the kool-aid.
We are DOOMED…this Drug Addicted, Brain Worm FOOL…is the last PAPER STRAW. He will totally DESTROY what’s left of our Research and Healthcare System. OMG…I assume that the MAGA CULT doesn’t care about their children/families healthcare. PERFECT!!
Thank you to Senate Democrats for holding the floor all night and doing everything they could to fight another completely unqualified Trump nominee. If you’re represented by a Democratic senator, be sure to say thank you and encourage them to keep fighting like this to delay and defy Trump’s agenda.
Thanks to all Dems who are trying to hold the line. Let's not fool ourselves we cannot stop them yet. We must wait till
1. They try to get a budget through we must make sure we do not give them the money or raise the debt ceiling to much. We must force this issue.
Yet again, Republicans refused to put their sacred obligation to their constituents and the Constitution over their loyalty to President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump.
VOTE NO on the budget, make them own it. Don't let dems help. Let republicans screw it up on their own. Glad these nominations are on party lines. MAKE them own it too.
We really need to shift our pressure to the Republicans whether we live in their states or not. We are still their constituents by the very fact that they serve in Congress. We have every right to call and demand that they act on our behalf.
I called Murkowski, Collins, Curtis, Cassidy, Young, Tillis and McConnell today with three messages 1) Stop the illegal seizure of funds out of bank accounts, 2) Stop the corruption of Elon Musk's unconstitutional power of the purse, and protect our private information by eliminating DOGE access.
I'm not gonna deny our health and food regulations need reform, but he's not the guy to do it, and, like everything in this admin, they're going to do more harm than good.
He is one of the most unqualified and dangerous persons to ever be confirmed. His lack of knowledge and uninformed opinions on vaccines will cause the death and compromise the health of both children and adults. He will protect trump at all costs.
Just remember that the sycophants and senile prunes that voted to confirm this grifter DNGAF about you or your health. They are opportunists, spineless jellyfish, and fascist enablers.
People will pointlessly die of diseases we fought to eradicate for generations: TB, measles, polio, etc.
This should be all the proof one needs to understand the devastating low that Republicans have sunk to. If this man isn’t an easy no vote, who exactly is?
This isn’t holding your nose to get past the stench. This is saying they’re fully on board with the plan to destroy this country.
Here comes the next pandemic. Already TB outbreaks in Kansas and Michigan, Measles in Texas, Bird Flu all over. How soon will the Marburg virus reach our shores. Still more I’m sure. We need protection not denial.
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Are you kidding me??? This is so unbelievable. RFK probably wouldn’t even be hired to work at my pediatrician’s office much less run the whole country’s health agency.
Everything since the election day has been dangerous and embarrassing for the country period. The disillusioned idiots who put them back into power and in this position where are in right now everyday. They can't do their job and put country over party and their Project 2025 agenda.
Could someone toss that brain worm on the back of a toad and give it to this guy to lick? Let it finish the job and rid this word a different type of parasite.
Let’s start holding people accountable by messing with their money. If enough people call the businesses of those giving big bucks to the republicans, we can be heard. Start at the top?
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Depending on democrats to stop them will only waste time and energy the people could otherwise use to unify and violently oppose them. Democrats had a front row seat and behind closed door look at this dumpster fire over the last few years but still chose greed and power over the American people.
This guarantees that millions will die in the next pandemic. Just make sure to tell the sane to take precautions and most of those will be Republican voters.
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This will be disastrous.
Millions of human lives are at stake.
Die magats die!
Sorry, but votes and niceties no longer matter…it’s time for magats to pay for their ignorance!
Welcome to Hellscape. Return to 1950.
Handpicked incompetents and doge is how he will do it.
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I mean, talk about Big Balls…
have a good flight, cowards.
1. They try to get a budget through we must make sure we do not give them the money or raise the debt ceiling to much. We must force this issue.
Now, it’s time to make GOP senators pay a steep political price: https://indivisibleteam.medium.com/they-ignored-you-now-its-time-for-payback-a7e87ed31ed9
I don't recall hearing about them denying unanimous consent and making quorum calls.
https://bsky.app/profile/senategabe.bsky.social/post/3lhzqyonvvs2a
People will pointlessly die of diseases we fought to eradicate for generations: TB, measles, polio, etc.
This isn’t holding your nose to get past the stench. This is saying they’re fully on board with the plan to destroy this country.
https://bsky.app/profile/jamiedupree.bsky.social/post/3li3lcwmibs23
How can anyone in his/her right mind vote for such a moron?
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I feel punched in the gut by that
They are either actual conspiracies (Watergate, Tuskegee) or conspiracy *fictions* (Qanon, pizzagate, antivax).