I read about one of the statements that the nominee for HHS made during his hearing and it shows how clueless this toad is….
The Trump Administration’s pick to run America’s incredibly consequential Health and Human Services Department, Robert F. Jennedy Jr., declared during his contentious first confirmation hearing today that he was “raised at a time when there was no chronic disease epidemic.”
It’s a claim as sweeping as it is idiotic. Kennedy is 71 years old, born in the year 1954, when the world was awash — as it’s always been — in chronic diseases ranging from diabetes to arthritis to asthma, and far beyond (his uncle, former US president John F. Kennedy, suffered from a range of chronic conditions including Addison’s disease.)
https://futurism.com/neoscope/befuddled-rfk-jr-chronic-disease
What a delusional tool and it makes him perfect for a delusional twat in the White House.
This was not the only ‘confrontations’ during the hearing which is still in progress….
Robert F. Kennedy returned to the Capitol on Thursday for Round 2 of his confirmation hearings, and the hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was as testy as Wednesday’s before the Senate Finance Committee. Some key moments from the hearing:
- “What will you do with that trust?” The panel is chaired by Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor. He asked Kennedy if he would continue to make unfounded claims about vaccines if he was confirmed as America’s top health official. Cassidy recounted the “worst day” of his medical career when a young woman needed an emergency liver transplant that could have been prevented with “$50 of vaccines,” Politico reports. Cassidy said there are people who trust Kennedy more than their own doctors and asked, “What will you do with that trust?” At the end of the hearing, Cassidy told Kennedy he was “struggling” with his nomination.
- Vaccines and autism. Cassidy, considered a key vote for confirmation, repeatedly asked Kennedy if he would accept data that shows no link between the measles vaccine and autism, ABC News reports. Kennedy said he would look at the studies. “That is a very troubling response, because the studies are there,” independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said. “Your job is to have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job.”
- Two doctors clash. Republican Sens. Markwayne Mullin, Rand Paul, and Tommy Tuberville expressed skepticism about vaccines during the hearing, the New York Times reports. Mullin suggested that vaccines cause autism and said he doesn’t like how his kids “look like a freakin’ pin cushion” after being vaccinated. Cassidy fact-checked Paul, a fellow physician, after Paul questioned the need to give children hepatitis B vaccines.
- An emotional moment from Hassan. The Times reports that Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, whose 36-year-old son has cerebral palsy, broke down in tears as she recounted how she thinks every day about whether something she did during pregnancy caused his condition. “So please do not suggest that anybody in this body of either political party doesn’t want to know what the cause of autism is,” she said. Hassan also asked Kennedy about aspects of Medicare. “You don’t know the basics of the program,” she told him after he failed to identify parts of the program.
- “Your views are dangerous.” Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks pressed Kennedy on claims he has made that Black people should receive vaccines on a different schedule because they have better immune systems, the Times reports. Public health agencies haven’t recommended a different schedule. “What different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received?” Alsobrooks asked. She told Kennedy she will vote against his nomination because his views “are dangerous to our state and to our country.”
- Another clash with Sanders. NBC News reports that there was a shouting match between Kennedy and Sanders after Kennedy alleged that “almost all” the committee members had received millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protected its interests. “I ran for president like you,” Sanders told Kennedy. “I got millions and millions of contributions, they did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceuticals, they came from workers.”
This stooge is making my case that this is a kakistocracy so far I have seen NOTHING that gives me confidence in this administration.
Is this what we voted for?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Re Mexico and tariff burden on Americans : just read Trump suspended tariff for 1 month and Mexico sending 10,000 troops to its side of the border and dems and fake news screaming about Trump initiating trade war which is not going to happen. Trump ‘s outrages are “The Art of the Deal” to achieve behavior modification and threats rarely occur. .
Yes he did postpone the tariffs but that does not mean it is over….to turn a blind eye to this is just wishful thinking and you will be punished. chuq
This DOGE nonsense worries me most. A bunch of unfettered lunatics goon squad.
It worries a lot of us….people that will do what benefits them not the country. chuq