RFK Jr, HHs & MAHA News | Chaos at HHS

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[It is difficult to be much more consistently pro-Trump than Strassel has been for a decade]

“During the Biden years, Republicans skewered Xavier Becerra—a career litigator and politician—as incompetent and unsuited to serve as health and human services secretary. Oh, for the days of mere incompetence.

Donald Trump’s HHS presents something far more absurd. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency. The agencies Mr. Kennedy oversees—the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health—already had problems after years of politicization and squandered credibility. Now they have problems on RFK levels of testosterone.

… Strip away how one feels about food dyes or processed food, Covid boosters or failed “experts,” and you are still left with a mess.

… One big problem: RFK alone among Mr. Trump’s cabinet members is pursuing his own agenda, not the president’s vision. … Mr. Kennedy? He’s perusing lists of his trial-lawyer friends, deciding whom to award influential government positions.

You’re forgiven if you don’t remember Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to empower Mr. Kennedy’s litigator set.

Performance? Nothing is getting done, in part because Mr. Kennedy can’t put together or keep a team.

… If Mr. Kennedy can’t find anyone to work with, it’s because he’s one of the only Trump cabinet officials who divide the base. The Make America Healthy Movement has gained some steam, mostly because of the Kennedy perch. But if there is a minority of HHS “customers” that gets jazzed by a raw-milk debate, there are many more (including Republicans) who find Mr. Kennedy a quack or would appreciate if he devoted even a few minutes to improving their Medicare experience.

And literally no one feels more confidence right now in the CDC or FDA—since no one knows who is in charge or how they are going to reverse themselves next. You can count Mr. Kennedy’s genuine GOP supporters in the Senate on one hand—even if their colleagues are too chicken to say anything publicly.

… This is overshadowing Trump successes. Are we talking this week about how the administration cut crime in Washington, or GOP plans for housing? No. We are talking about a Kennedy mess.

… Mr. Kennedy’s headlines are of the latter [negative] type, and they are making it too easy for critics to smear the entire administration.

… Mr. Trump presumably has to see that one of his departments looks decidedly unlike the others. And that this situation isn’t going to improve or settle down. The question is how long he allows this exercise in political self-harm to continue. The president honored a rival’s endorsement by giving him a top job. But no cabinet position is a sinecure, and Mr. Kennedy has had his trial run. There are plenty of other bold transformers that can take that job. Maybe it’s time for some interviews.“

Knives out.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

“… did your department do any data analysis of how many new cases of these diseases there will be with no vaccine mandates?

JOSEPH LADAPO: Absolutely not

TAPPER: You didn't even do a projection?

LADAPO: It's an issue of right and wrong…”

What do you expect from the DEI hire of a DEI graduate of a woke medical school?

@Ramrouser @Callatoroy - did I do that right?

 

[Mulberry Heel]

Knives out.

I think some of the smarter Trumpers - and there are some who are smart enough to still know reality but are going along with Trumpism for grifting or political agenda reasons (and these people are horrible, btw) - are well aware that what Republicans are doing to medical and healthcare research and vaccines and other things is going to end in disaster, and that - most importantly for them - not even their wealth or power or prominence may save them from deadly viruses or germs, so they're turning against RFK, Jr. and Ladapo and these other nutcases and want them gone. The problem is that when you support Trumpism you can't just pick and choose, you get all of the crazy in every area all of the time.

Not that I have any sympathy for them, but as healthcare is important I guess in this instance I'll take any help in getting rid of these frauds and loons that I can get.

 

[nycfan]

An ugly con

 

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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates."I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for...

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"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

"This is in your own report, your own department's report," the host noted. "Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida, which include, obviously, public schools, did your department do any data analysis?"
"Did you do any data projection of how many new cases of these diseases there will be in Florida once you remove vaccine mandates?"

"Absolutely not," Ladapo insisted. "In terms of, you know, like analysis, well, ultimately, this is an issue very clearly of parents' rights. So do I need to analyze whether it's appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children's bodies? I don't need to do an analysis on that."

 

[Mulberry Heel]

'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates."I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for...

www.rawstory.com

"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

"This is in your own report, your own department's report," the host noted. "Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida, which include, obviously, public schools, did your department do any data analysis?"
"Did you do any data projection of how many new cases of these diseases there will be in Florida once you remove vaccine mandates?"

"Absolutely not," Ladapo insisted. "In terms of, you know, like analysis, well, ultimately, this is an issue very clearly of parents' rights. So do I need to analyze whether it's appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children's bodies? I don't need to do an analysis on that."

The GOP has been very effective in their messaging for a good while, and in framing issues in the way they want. This whole "parental control" nonsense is just the latest example. Of course parents have certain rights in terms of their child's education and medicine, but as parents are also US citizens and part of a larger community they also have responsibilities as citizens. And one of those is - or ought to be - protecting not only their children but other people's kids from deadly diseases. If you want your child to attend a public school then they should be immunized, otherwise you can do homeschooling or some such. "Parental Control" has become the GOP byword for forcing conservative religion into public schools while simultaneously defunding them for vouchers, charters, etc. ("school choice"), and for parents being able to deny vaccines or any other medical treatments despite any dangers involved. They've been very successful at framing public debates to their favor - after all, who could be against parental choice?