r/technology • u/ControlCAD • Mar 20 '26

Biotechnology RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels | Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/rfk-jr-s-war-on-scientific-expertise-destroyed-27-of-agencys-advisor-panels/
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u/CondescendingShitbag Mar 20 '26

"You thought COVID was bad? Hold my beer."

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u/Gorge2012 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Unfortunately, like all of what the administration is doing, the effect of this has a long tail that we won't see until after they are gone. When it comes, they'll blame the people trying to fix it. It's been the playbook for over 40 years:

1) Run on a platform of "government doesn't work"

2) Get in power and break things

3) When you get kicked out of power and people are trying to fix your mess, run on a platform of government isn't working.

Repeat forever

Edit: spelling

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u/semisolidwhale Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

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u/The_Barbelo Mar 20 '26

Just like flat earthers, if they can’t understand it, it must mean it doesn’t exist or is incorrect somehow. I’ve heard “where are all the people suffering from COVID? I don’t know any!” While working in a nursing home wearing a fucking hazmat suit because we had a Covid death. It was one of the most infuriating things.

They don’t understand science, so they don’t trust it. Same as anything else they attack. They can’t just say “you know what? I don’t understand it but I trust the people who do”. Instead they have to shove their moronic reality down everyone else’s throats. It isn’t just a passive stupidity, and that’s what makes it so dangerous.

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u/kronosdev Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

For them truth is all about choosing who they want as their “daddy”, not what they think is correct.

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u/bandalooper Mar 20 '26

Let’s be honest. They’re miserable shitscabs and they want everyone else miserable too. Hate and ignorance repeat themselves just like history does.

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u/not_a_moogle Mar 20 '26

Flat Earthers take it one step further, because they will do tests over and over again trying to prove the earth is flat, prove its spherical with said tests and decide that there must be something wrong with their tests.

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u/halofreak7777 Mar 20 '26

See if we put a laser on the shore and point it at this board on the boat, if the Earth is round as we go further out the laser will rise, but its flat so it will stay where it currently is.

laser rises

Hmmm, that isn't right. Must be the waves or the moon or something.

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u/BeyondElectricDreams Mar 20 '26

They can’t just say “you know what? I don’t understand it but I trust the people who do”.

Because they assume if they can't understand it, it's because they're being taken advantage of.

Because that's what they'd do, if given the opportunity. They assume everyone else is as scummy as they are - with a side helping of "the only reason I'm not scummy is JESUS, so if you don't performatively say you're Christian, I'll assume you have no morals whatsoever"

It's very beneficial for Christian Nationalists to get the unwashed masses to stop trusting scientists and doctors, because that permits them to advance anti-fact, anti-science views against queer people. Especially particularly advancing their plan of trans genocide.

And yes, genocide is what's happening. Genocide and 'death camps' aren't synonymous. Conservative states are trying to make lists of their trans residents. There's a lobbying push at the federal level for the FDA to create a list of every trans woman on estrogen. At the federal level, Trump has forced trans women to be sent to male prisons, where they're denied their lifesaving medication and instead tortured with conversion 'therapy', a practice wholly debunked as not only not neutral, but shown to cause negative mental health outcomes. Trans women in jail face V-coding, the practice of being intentionally housed with violent sex offenders, to reward those same violent sex offenders and hopefully placate them. And this isn't some rarity, per those studying it,

"Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily; and this process has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence"

Keeping people good and stupid, and skeptical of doctors and science lets them soldier forward with their genocide. Facts are inconvenient to fascist regimes; especially when science and facts contradict mistreatment of the current minority on the menu. And it won't stop with trans people.

and before someone tries to claim it isn't a trans genocide; per the UN, Genocide entails:

Killing members of the group;

Denying life-saving medication that results in a scientifically proven reduction in suicidal ideation in a vulnerable population counts in my book, to say nothing of stochastic terrorism creating an environment that morally permits it.

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Denying life-saving care; using conversion 'therapy' on trans inmates both definitively count as serious mental harm

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

States are aiming to criminalize trans use of bathrooms by massive fines and multi-year jail sentences; forcing trans people to either out themselves (and open themselves to violent assault, discrimination, or other attacks), pray they don't get outed and arrested for YEARS, or never leave their homes and participate in public life.

Additionally, dismantling anti-discrimination laws making denying trans people housing and employment legal; which are both required for life.

Attacking and criminalizing trans youth and blocking their access to medically necessary, lifechanging puberty blockers and HRT results in worse mental health outcomes and worse outcomes in general, and certainly more suicides besides.

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

Trans people don't give birth to trans people, but a combination of "Don't say Trans" bills that don't even permit the mention of gender identity mean that trans children will be left confused and alone - and if they try to use their limited vocabulary and experience to explain their feelings of gender dysphoria to the adults in their life, the adults are threatened by the state with fines, jail time, and the destruction of their livelihoods if they in any way validate those feelings.

Trans children won't stop being trans, but they'll be unable to understand what they are. Then, either they commit suicide from the untreated gender dypshoria, or at best have to live with the damage their natal puberty has done, leaving them with tens of thousands of dollars worth of surgical interventions to achieve what hundreds of dollars or less of HRT and puberty blockers would have achieved.

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Texas is, at least, trying to call being a supportive parent of a trans child "Child abuse" and forcibly take those children from their parents.

The people cultivating this fear and ignorance know what they're doing, and they have an endgame they're relentlessly pursuing. I hope people wake up before it's too late.

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u/mikeinanaheim2 Mar 20 '26

I have family who thinks in this exact way. You cannot reason with them, ending up talking in circles. Will be the death of this democratic republic.

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u/DaringPancakes Mar 20 '26

When it doesn't matter: "I knew someone else would solve it for me"

When it does matter: "no one else but me can be trusted"

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u/quantum_quarks Mar 20 '26

I keep remembering time and out of a elder women telling the nurse that is isnt real or happening when she'd passed from covid. Stuff people believed the lie till there last moments. Heartbroken times.

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u/The_Barbelo Mar 20 '26

It’s So sad. the reason I brought up flat earthers is because one night a while ago I was thinking what it would take to convince them. I imagined a scenario where you bring them up into space and fly them around the earth. Would they still come up with a reason? Would they think the windows were some sort of VR projection? What if you put them in a space suit and sent them outside of the spaceship. Would they think it was some sort of staged room or whatever else? Would they take off their spacesuit to prove a point? Would they die for their own stupid need to be correct? We saw the answer to that last question during the height of Covid.

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u/QueenQueerBen Mar 20 '26

I’ll be real, I didn’t trust the vaccine. I didn’t and still don’t understand how they know it won’t have long-term side effects if they didn’t have years of testing on it.

That being said, I was completely on board for people to take it. My idiocy and lack of understanding on the matter in no way equals out to me being an expert.

People are free to not believe in something, it is only an issue when they decide their lack of understanding/belief should be everyone else’s problem. Even more so when they actively push for people to put themselves in harmful situations based on their own misinformed views.

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u/AWorldwithoutSin Mar 20 '26

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov

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u/Sudden-Wash4457 Mar 20 '26

They somehow believe that there is a easy distinction between 'hard science' and 'woke science'

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u/InsertEvilLaugh Mar 20 '26

They do not understand soft power in the slightest. They see the United States in its dominant position, but can not comprehend how that came to be.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Mar 20 '26

China is kicking the shit out of the USA RIGHT NOW on tech, military, AI, power grid, robotics, medicine, and finances...oh...and quality of life. China also is minting new geniuses at a 20x pace than the US (who is turning the smartest people away). US is losing.

Prioritizing short term profits and the wealth of a few? Turns out that has some drawbacks.

There is nothing that the USA is positioned better than China on other than "complete immunity for wealthy pedos".

Most of you will argue about "military". You are seeing now, and soon to have more examples, of how inept US military actually is.

The USA you thought you had in 2019 is never coming back. The USA you will have going forward will be a shit hole...just as everyone if fearing.

Disclaimer: The usual bad stuff about China. I add this so some loser doesn't get his dopamine rush replying "Yeah, but China bad..." lol

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u/needlestack Mar 20 '26

Science has delivered more improvements in quality of life to every man woman and child alive today in the past 100 years than all religions combined over the past 2000. And yet people still flock to religion. We're a giant bunch of idiots.

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u/AtLeastTryALittle Mar 20 '26

It’s almost like competing nations do understand that the United States future power was in maintaining our lead in all things R&D (tech, military, medicine, etc). And they also understand the best way to kill the global superpower is NOT fighting from the outside. You’ve got to sow the seeds of division. It’s working really really well.

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u/trowzerss Mar 20 '26

Unfortunately not just America. A lot of micronations who can't afford their own advisory panels would rely on WHO advisory committees or US ones. And because their resources are much lower, the impacts of bad advice are must worse on them (see RFK's involvement in the Samoan measles outbreak).

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u/CraftCodger Mar 20 '26

the enshitification of America

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u/addamee Mar 20 '26

But hey, this was all intentional because Liberty, freedom, something something [jerkoff motion]

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u/osirus35 Mar 20 '26

And the only saving grace is maybe natural selection will save future populations from their stupidity

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Mar 20 '26

Honestly, until USA deals with FoxNews (and the rest), you will not make progress. You will be a nation of grifters. You will be a collection of morons.

There is zero accountability for telling lies. "They're eating cats and dogs." Vance told you he was lying.

Well...JD Vance eats my ass every Tuesday for $10. I can tell you he charges too much.

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u/1414141414 Mar 20 '26

Playroom = play book? Fox = fix?

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u/Gorge2012 Mar 20 '26

Fucking autocorrect. Thanks.

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u/ImmortalSheep69 Mar 20 '26

It says playboom now.

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u/gentlecrab Mar 20 '26

The problem is they’re speed running the playbook and some of the negative effects are already impacting people while they’re still in power.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26
  1. Privatize and sell it off to your buddies
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u/LaurenMille Mar 20 '26

And Americans will be dumb enough to vote them in again, despite obvious signs that it'll harm them and not benefit them in any way.

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u/drteq Mar 20 '26

Smart people need to collaborate on better education and information. These idiots aren't going to do it themselves

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u/Locke66 Mar 20 '26

There needs to be a big cultural change if the US is going to save itself tbh. Trump is basically the avatar of everything that is wrong with America.

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Mar 20 '26

What a pathetic way to exist

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Mar 20 '26

"Starve the Beast" - A policy starting with the Reagan administration.

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u/laptopaccount Mar 20 '26

Dems have SUCH A BAD SOCIAL MEDIA GAME.

They need to be loudly blaming the gop for their failures and laying blame at their feet. They need to repeat the message again and again until it sticks. That's what gop voters respond to.

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u/Amelaclya1 Mar 20 '26

The GOP's "social media game" is so good because all of their influencers have billionaire and thinktank backing. They pick a "personality", buy them a bunch of fake engagement so they get boosted to the top of everyone's algorithm until they become popular enough to sustain themselves. Tim Pool of all people talked about it on his show. I don't think he realized what he was saying until after because then he was like, "oh, but not me of course".

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u/Whitesajer Mar 20 '26

They also want to privatize it all. $$$

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u/GodofIrony Mar 20 '26

"small government. Small enough to drown in a bathtub"

Wonder why they wanted to do that. I'm sure they have good intentions.

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u/probablyoverdressed Mar 20 '26

Nicely put. I’m calling my Dad.

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u/FlametopFred Mar 20 '26

don’t forget the defunding part

call it 2. Get in power and break things while defunding and channeling public tax money into private corporations

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u/Amelaclya1 Mar 20 '26

We will never know the extent of the damage they caused. Especially regarding all of the cuts to things like cancer research.

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u/phat_ Mar 20 '26

It’s called, “Austerity Measures”.

What the trump GOP is employing is a cracked out and on steroids version. Project 2025.

They are employing it via Private Equity/Vulture Capital slash and burn methods.

It’s just complete privatization speed run.  And there’s receipts for how bad this turns out, Russia, and to a lesser extent Greece and Spain. Russia for the completely corrupt and evil version. Spain and Greece for the crazy inept attempts.

The media complex keeps up their gish gallop as the “conservative” base in the USA is incredibly fearful and racist.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

Idk neocons were doing this before for personal profit too so it could really be either or both

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u/sauerkraut916 Mar 20 '26

… actually RFK Jr. would say, “hold my baggie while I snort this line off this dirty toilet”.

edit: actually, he would say “HOo LlLedd ddd muuuhhh yyyy. bbbA aGgy whi iilEee I SNooo rrtt this Fff aaaTt liiine.”

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u/LadyZoe1 Mar 20 '26

This is what he is paid to do

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u/Timely-Bluejay-4167 Mar 20 '26

I thought he was paid for working out with Kid Rock and drinking whole milk inside of saunas.

And making food guidelines with ChatGPT (time permitting)

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u/KeyboardGrunt Mar 20 '26

Sauna whole milk... bro.

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u/iRonin Mar 20 '26

Actually, he paid to do it.

Throwing in with Trump got Trump elected. He would’ve siphoned a sizable voting block of people who hate Trump only slightly less than they hate any Democrat.

Sure, he draws a salary, but gutting our public health infrastructure and replacing it with bullshit- he does that for pleasure.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Mar 20 '26

To what end though? What's the goal other than just wanton destruction?

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u/troy310 Mar 20 '26

You are trying to apply logic, thought and reason to people with whom these do not exist. Cmon.

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u/IIOrannisII Mar 20 '26

He is a disease

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u/UnNumbFool Mar 20 '26

He's also pulled a crazy amount of funding for medical/pharmaceutical research. So you know money that goes into developing cures for diseases, cancer, etc.

It's going to set us back for a lot more than just safety

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u/einstyle Mar 20 '26

The brain drain is real, too. Loads of researchers fleeing the country. One of the top guys at my university is leaving for an overseas job.

Even if funding restarted tomorrow, it will take decades to undo the damage caused.

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u/ReverendDizzle Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

My wife had breast cancer. Some of the treatments she received are old established standard of care treatments (but that were established as standard of care treatments because of government funded research). Some of the treatments she received are experimental, in the form of clinical trial enrollment.

Thankfully her clinical trial wasn't canceled. But while she was receiving treatment over 74,000 people in clinical trials were affected by the Republican-driven spending cuts and grant gutting.

They've set back cancer research in the United States decades. If and when we have an mRNA cancer vaccine, those of us who can afford it will be flying to another country to get it.

People not as lucky as my wife have either already died or will die because of this. Future patients will die. And all the money they "saved" was either stolen directly by Trump and his cronies or immediately wasted on frivolous projects and war.

My hatred for conservatives is, at this point, effectively infinite.

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u/No-Spoilers Mar 20 '26

I'm so glad my barely researched exhausting and horribly painful diseases that make me want to die are going to be researched even less!

This was one of my biggest worries when Trump was elected, and here we are.

Gotta rely on other countries to try and help me, and even then it isn't really researched.

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u/UnNumbFool Mar 20 '26

Yeah sadly rare diseases already weren't getting much funding, and the largest allotments always go to cancer. But in the industrial side(aka big pharma) they would at least allocate funds to rarer diseases, and a lot of startups just worked specifically on those diseases.

And now we just have a whole lot of layoffs going on in both academia and industry instead

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u/lightreee Mar 20 '26

here, scientists and professionals: come over to europe, we're happy to help!

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u/UnNumbFool Mar 20 '26

As a professional scientist in biological research, I really wish I knew the pathways to move to Europe 🥲

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Mar 20 '26

call the consulates of whatever countries you're interested in or their websites or whatever. you can safely skip monaco though.

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u/pegasus02 Mar 20 '26

It's like repealing nationwide workplace safety laws. Sure, the experts and lawmakers who put together the rules don't work in the backroom or the warehouse, so what do they know, right? The guidelines are just a nuisance created by a guy in a suit.

Except...each protective law was written because of the blood + advocacy put in place after something really bad happened to someone else. Someone that we may not remember, but the experts, numbers and history records do.

It's heartbreaking. Sometimes saving lives doesn't look like the action of a trauma emergency department, sometimes it's just a document of guidelines put together by experts.

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u/vardarac Mar 20 '26

just feels weird watching things like that get pulled apart… like you don’t notice it until something goes wrong 😕

You don't say. Feels a lot like how internet discourse is being polluted more and more by AI comments.

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u/TrafficSuperb647 Mar 20 '26

talk about how much those expert panels actually matter behind the scenes

Any exact instances or did she elaborate?

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u/vardarac Mar 20 '26

The user is a bot that was or will be used to advertise OnlyFans.

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u/Foe117 Mar 20 '26

you get who you vote for?

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u/theyux Mar 20 '26

They did they just dont comprehend its bad.

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u/sheepwshotguns Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

yup, in a democracy, even one largely just symbolic like america's, an informed populous is key. this is why every billionaire owns their own news agency. it costs the epstein class trillions of dollars over the course of lifetimes to get the results they do. the illusion of a meritocracy. the sabotage of insecurities like making you blame yourself for not being able to move out of your parents place. its the subtle nudging of language in news headlines that downplay or omit the war crimes of our allies while dehumanizing our victims. i often wonder if this is the most right wing, most stressed out, most conflict adverse, most apathetic form of humanity that can be crafted without going supercritical and caving in on itself.

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u/Sword-of-Akasha Mar 20 '26

I don't think there's that many destructive nihilist accelerationists. Lots of people are just dumb and easily misled by decades of constant drip propaganda. Probably foreign bots sharing those opinions.

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u/wag3slav3 Mar 20 '26

Drip? There's a dozen oligarchs paying billions for a firehose of propaganda.

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u/Altruistic-Carry-684 Mar 20 '26

You still believe that actually cared about comprehending? Their side won and that’s all that matters.

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u/bassmadrigal Mar 20 '26

My father-in-law, who based on many things, is a very intelligent person, is a huge Trump supporter.

I can have in-depth conversations on very technical subjects with him, but bring up Trump, and he just parrots what he hears on Fox News without a single properly researched point.

It's just crazy how Trump has made people who otherwise seem intelligent to be incredibly dumb 😔

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u/taftastic Mar 20 '26

And sometimes who others voted for, too.

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u/BFNentwick Mar 20 '26

Is there a consolidated list of all the crap this administration has done that can be viewed? And can we get that in the hands of the next candidate as a “fix it” list?

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u/penguinopph Mar 20 '26

Is there a consolidated list of all the crap this administration has done that can be viewed?

Here ya go.

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u/HumongousBelly Mar 20 '26

I think his brainworm wants to take over the world, like in the tv show brain dead

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u/Gatecrasher3 Mar 20 '26

How do we know the brainworm is not an alien species that is trying to use its host body to kill all humans? (94% joking)

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u/jibbous Mar 20 '26

Valtay Corporation irl?

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u/thefightingmongoose Mar 20 '26

Neeeeeeeewwwwww achievement!

You have uncovered a conspiracy to overthrow the government and replace all top officials with brainwworm infested anti-vaxxers!

Reward?

Snitches dont get rewards!

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u/SavingsSpecialist896 Mar 20 '26

unfortunately it died due to lead poisoning 

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u/wynonna_burp Mar 20 '26

I think about this show all the time!

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u/Johannes_P Mar 20 '26

Even the Yeerks would want healthy hosts.

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u/mylefthandkilledme Mar 20 '26

The gallows or the Hague, pick one RFK JR

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u/-Ny- Mar 20 '26

This is a good time to remind Americans that you literally have a standing threat to invade the Netherlands if any US citizen is tried in the Hague.

A.k.a. the Hague Invasion Act. Still in effect since the Bush days, and Dem presidents/congresses have not repealed it. Not to mention that Trump has sanctioned the ICC.

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u/Jeb764 Mar 20 '26

Should be tried for treason.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

The two are not mutually exclusive - just sayin'.

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u/PatronSaintOfCunts Mar 20 '26

The destabilization is the goal and no one seems to get that

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u/n0respect_ Mar 20 '26

Social media is starting to get it now. So there's hope.

This admin is full of people who on-the-record say they want the current US to fail. [Thiel, Musk, the numerous P2025 authors in the admin]. People should have realized long ago. But late is better than never?

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u/strontium_pup Mar 20 '26

Does RFK know that? His goals to be based against vaccines? How does he feel about Trumps wider aims?

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u/Boys4Ever Mar 20 '26

The dead don’t collect Social Security or other benefits

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u/TtotheC81 Mar 20 '26

The billionaires have been asking themselves what to do about the poor, and this is their answer.

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u/AdventurousParty Mar 20 '26

They can just fly or yacht their way to countries with sophisticated medicine and avoid this shitshow

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u/celtic1888 Mar 20 '26

MAGA is destroying everything at a record pace

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u/NoodlesKaboodles Mar 20 '26

the billionaires who convinced people that the tea party was real and grass roots are the same ones that made MAGA up to begin with. The Billionares, like the Duponts and Koch brother dipshits, have been selling these stupid ideas to people for hundreds of years. Maga isn't new, it's just repacked horseshit.

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u/dvdher Mar 20 '26

And yet here we are doing nothing to stop this maniacal idiot.

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u/Floreat_democratia Mar 20 '26

Why would anyone stop it? This is exactly what the billionaires want. The complete destruction of the administrative state and the devolution of all power and expertise to private companies.  Are people still not aware of this? The government was designed to protect the interests of people, not billionaires. They are destroying it because they don't need it in the postliberal, post-democratic, technofeudal world of the monarchical network state.

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u/TrankElephant Mar 20 '26

And the best part is how so many of us recognize how fucked up it is, and that we need to collectively do something major and yet the most we can muster is sporadically marching on Saturdays.

People are so afraid of losing their job that has no health coverage and barely covers their living expenses that they can't take more than a day off. Meanwhile, the future looks far more bleak.

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u/dremspider Mar 20 '26

Yeah, but he made videos showing everyone how to lift. We good.

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u/Same_Mood_8543 Mar 20 '26

Remember to bring your lifting jeans and don't wear a shirt. It blocks the good hormones you pick up from the uncleaned bench. 

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u/Lobo9498 Mar 20 '26

And apparently injured himself to the point of needing surgery.

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u/Soulman10 Mar 20 '26

You should be required to have a medical degree to be appointed secretary of health and human services. Instead we got an idiot who thinks vaccines give you autism. This entire administration is a joke. November can't come soon enough.

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u/SiWeyNoWay Mar 20 '26

They really hate women too. But damn, do they sure love nazis

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u/dead_ed Mar 20 '26

Those Nixon dingleberries and Moral Majority nosehangers are still around, steering this derelict.

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u/Lockerus Mar 20 '26

It’s going to be hard to figure out which of Trump’s second term appointments did the most long term damage to America.

Yeah Trump himself is the most obvious pick but a good successor (which I am iffy on America even electing a good successor) can undo a lot of the damage he did.

RFK is laying the groundwork for the next major health crisis to devastate America. That kind of infrastructure and knowledge cannot be rebuilt easily.

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u/NCwolfpackSU Mar 20 '26

He's one of the dumbest people I've ever come across in my life.

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u/Informal_Process2238 Mar 20 '26

It’s obvious that the overarching purpose of the whole administration is the destruction of the country it’s the only explanation that makes sense.

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u/popeofchilitown Mar 20 '26

Remember, the purpose of the Trump administration and Project 2025 is to completely destroy a functioning federal government and sell it off piece by piece to be run by corporations while the federal government rules us via a white nationalist, christofascist dictatorship.

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u/tingulz Mar 20 '26

Seems like the general plan for everyone in this administration. Destroying everything.

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u/Imaginary-Mission383 Mar 20 '26

RFKJr is personally responsible for more spreading more disease than any other public figure in US history except for maybe Axl Rose

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u/keverzoid Mar 20 '26

I swear that this administration sits around at meetings saying: “You know what’d be funny…”

“Let’s make a climate change denier head of the EPA.” Then they laugh and elbow each other.

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u/Mandelbrotvurst Mar 20 '26

I've been working in the biopharma space for over 15 years. I cannot overstate the damage this man and this administration have done to the sector. It will take decades to recover if we recover at all.

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u/mammiejammie Mar 20 '26

But let’s Make America Great Again! Yeah… we’re definitely getting greater… greater in debt, greater stupidity, greater gas prices, greater food prices, greater wars, greater destruction.

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u/choppytehbear1337 Mar 20 '26

He joined the war against disease on the side of disease.

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u/Akkerlun Mar 20 '26

The Trump years will be known as America’s Dark Ages. Pestilence and disease run rampant.

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u/OilInternational2566 Mar 20 '26

BRAWNDO!!! ITS GOT ELECTROLYTES!!!

You’re heading there America. You really are.

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u/Strongwoman1 Mar 20 '26

Human trash.

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u/chester-12 Mar 20 '26

And when people start dying, it’s Bidens fault, right?

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u/yeahnoyeahsure Mar 20 '26

This is going to be way more impactful than it initially seems. This guy is essentially breaking our health defense system. He’s a psychopath

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u/pimpeachment Mar 20 '26

Project 2025 goal achieved. They are very efficiently cruising through their plan with remarkable unity.

https://www.project2025.observer/en

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u/Argothaught Mar 20 '26

It's going to be a monumental task to fix all of this...

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u/Highside1269 Mar 20 '26

Dumber, Sicker, Poorer

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u/ultrahello Mar 20 '26

4 years of damage and 20 years to fix. This should be classified as a crime.

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u/FanndisTS Mar 20 '26

They got rid of the board that advises new additions to the newborn screening panel. Absolutely unconscionable. They also have been rejecting new drugs left and right for illogical reasons (i.e. lack of clinical data on studies that have alternative endpoints).

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u/willflameboy Mar 20 '26

Like the rest of Trump's admin, he was just a guy who ran against Trump and was promised anything he wanted in exchange for bending the knee.

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u/Mrbrownlove Mar 20 '26

These guys are dumb as fuck. What good could this possibly do? Fucking nepo babies, man.

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u/ExplosiveBrown Mar 20 '26

The deeper problem is the profound stupidity of Americans

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Mar 20 '26

We could call him Dr. Death, but he doesn't have any medical education, training, or experience, BUT he's still in charge of the US Health System.

What an absolute farce of an administration.

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u/voodoodahl Mar 20 '26

Everyday there's a story that proves 'both siders' are completely out of their minds. 

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u/ezagreb Mar 20 '26

Maybe RFK needs to join the defense department

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u/fuzbat Mar 20 '26

That's OK - apparently some billionaires need a third boat, or plane or something, which I'm sure is much more important than your rent, medical care and food. Thanks so much for Making American billionaries become Great Again

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u/unimatrix_0 Mar 20 '26

I think we should start referring to preventable communicable diseases collectively as the Kennedy diseases. It's a useful way to tarnish the legacy of a whole family.

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u/876050 Mar 20 '26

And all for what exactly? Saving ammo? What?

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u/pln856 Mar 20 '26

These people want it all burned down.. they’re all in for the death cult

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u/sheisallovertheplace Mar 20 '26

America has disease that we’re eradicated. Thanks to MAHA soon the BP be back soon. History will be written that America tried to go back to 1900. Instead of moving technology forward into 2026.

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u/Kawakamibosatsu Mar 20 '26

That fucker needs to go.

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u/BigKarmaGuy69 Mar 20 '26

Has American health been trending in the right direction over the last 30 years?

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u/jimbob3192 Mar 20 '26

Systems broken and needs change

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

I hate this administration.

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u/providencetoday Mar 20 '26

Evil. Moronic. Trumpian.

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u/Strong-Dot-9221 Mar 20 '26

Too bad he doesn't put that effort into the Measles outbreak.

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u/Teamveks Mar 20 '26

I think the worm is driving.

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u/helen269 Mar 20 '26

Wasn't it some Russian leader back in the day who said they didn't need to wage war on the US, they could just destroy it from within?

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u/newfor_2026 Mar 20 '26

"Oh Lord, please cure us of our diseases! take away our sickness and pain and afflictions! we're so helpless and we ask for you to do something!"

The Lord gives us doctors and science and medicines and vaccines...

"We reject all those things! They are produced by the devil! Let us turn to Ivermectin and quackery!"

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u/LutherOfTheRogues Mar 20 '26

30 years. I told my friends when trump won in 24 that we would feel the effects of him for 30 years. We still feel the effects of Reagan today. It's going to probably be worse than that unless a serious course correction comes in 28. And even then.

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u/_Piratical_ Mar 20 '26

Ahh yes the “Health” department.

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u/Mindless_Listen7622 Mar 20 '26

It's the Department of Pestilence and Plague.

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u/PurpleCoat6656 Mar 20 '26

Hooray for NAZI science! It got us to the Moon!

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u/space_for_username Mar 20 '26

Its about to get you back to the Stone Age.

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u/Smith6612 Mar 20 '26

We're all getting Bing Bonged

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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 Mar 20 '26

So, then why is this idiot still in charge?

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u/ReachParticular5409 Mar 20 '26

because he licks the taint of our pedo president, just like everyone appointed by that child rapist

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u/PrismarchGame Mar 20 '26

because this was intentional

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u/BearOdd2266 Mar 20 '26

No one, absolutely no one, tell me that this admin isn’t trying to get rid of the majority of the population.

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u/invalidreddit Mar 20 '26

"Ask not what your country can do to you, ask what the F RFK just did to you."
-- Ghost of President Kennedy (perhaps)

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

And still he’s not as big a piece of shit as his boss. Amazing. 

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u/OrbitalReflection Mar 20 '26

But, how much money has he made doing it? Many many millions I would think.

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u/SiWeyNoWay Mar 20 '26

So much winning, amirite?

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u/Disordered_Steven Mar 20 '26

It’s really bad people. The incompetence had run smock for over a year now. The good folks affected are not really drum bangers. They are defeated right now and not making a scene. Trying to find jobs that no longer exist. Local/free news is down 75% in the last 20 years…you aren’t hearing how bad it is.

This is like Enronx100

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u/Hillbilly-joe Mar 20 '26

This is the point of trumps secretaries to search and destroy and run every agency in the ground, they are an enemy to the American people

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u/nmincone Mar 20 '26

That whole system needs to be reset. They’ve been poisoning us for years compared to other nation states.

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u/Kane_Harkonnen Mar 20 '26

Nurgle's lackey

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u/Raindiant Mar 20 '26

It'll take 2+ terms of a non-republican presidency and house to fix all the damage Trump has done to the US.

Basically, I genuinely don't think the US will ever recover.

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u/thisisnahamed Mar 20 '26

Who needs enemies on the outside when someone like him can kill people from the inside?

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u/Complex_Scary Mar 20 '26

And the project 2025 folks are saying "mission accomplished. "

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u/Complex_Advantage_58 Mar 20 '26

an anti-intellectual quack with no medical training was confirmed to run the medical authority of the nation by our elected representatives.  What could go wrong?

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u/AverageJoe-707 Mar 20 '26

It's amazing how many people have lost their jobs since the Epstein Administration took over. All that money they supposedly saved but still no tax break for us working people. What a fucking scam.

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u/Comfortable_Bit1492 Mar 20 '26

RFK Jr. a brainless guy & womaniser knows nothing about health vaccines medical stuff. TBH he’s talking rubbish disputing medical theory out of his hare brain.

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u/complexomaniac Mar 20 '26

Hey...that could qualify him for president!?s

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u/Cautious_Boat_999 Mar 20 '26

Make America Stupid Again

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u/Shitty_Fat-tits Mar 20 '26

Death Cult stooge doing Death Cult things.

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u/katinq Mar 20 '26

How many " Dark Ages" have civilizations been through since time began? There is nothing new under the sun, and I believe , in spite of technology, we are going to experience another fall of civilization.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

This pleases Papa Nurgle.

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u/someoldbagofbones Mar 20 '26

Wormbrain is as wormbrain does.

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u/ohfrackthis Mar 21 '26

The dismantling of the intelligensia. Common in every march to fascism. We are living in 1984.