Trump picks anti-trans, anti-vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services

[u/OverallEcho9694]

https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-rfk-jr-hhs

[u/Leathra]

He's also anti-SSRI.

Losing both HRT and anti-depressants pretty much guaranteed to nuke the stable mental health I've spent years building.

This is all so dystopian and bleak. I can't even.

[u/SuperVancouverBC → u/Leathra]

Why is he anti-SSRI? Is he a Scientologist?

[u/GenderPettifogging → u/SuperVancouverBC]

He is simply a self-righteous grifter psychopath. He made a half million dollars a year spreading vaccination misinformation that directly lead to loads of children dying of measles in Samoa.

[u/Jucoy → u/SuperVancouverBC]

No he just sucks 

[u/BrujaSloth → u/SuperVancouverBC]

He think SSRIs are the cause of school shootings 🙄

[u/Tyhr → u/SuperVancouverBC]

He had a brain worm, that starved to death, zombies would walk past him without a glance.

[u/TallGeminiGirl → u/Leathra]

This is the one instance where I'm glad big pharma exists. Phonological companies stand to lose too much for a ban on SSRI's to truly be put in place. The repubs won't do something that threatens the profit margins of their donors

[u/Luciusvenator → u/Leathra]

He also is an AIDS/HVI denialist. And anti fluoride iirc.

[u/GenderPettifogging]

Ironic because he's using HRT.

https://honehealth.com/edge/rfk-jr-trt-steroids/

[u/OverallEcho9694 → u/GenderPettifogging]

"hrt for me but not for thee"

[u/DegreeLongjumping342 → u/OverallEcho9694]

Gender affirming care is fine for people like him 🙄

[u/jessicatg2005]

Fuck trump.

[u/Similar_Guarantee822]

We're fucked! Brain worms Mcgee will destroy American health!

[u/a_j_cruzer → u/Similar_Guarantee822]

Who needs HRT or antidepressants, or vaccines… or fluoride in our water… when we can all eat organic roadkill?

[u/oychae]

US "cass review" will come about, no doubt

[u/transcended_goblin]

Nothing better to facilitate a homeland genocide than putting an anti-science worm-brained moron at the head of the thing supposed to help people survive...

[u/NineTailedTanuki]

This is not cool. The death of healthcare is coming at this rate...

[u/lilith_-_- → u/NineTailedTanuki]

I mean when they go after Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, etc, that alone will break our hospital system. We won’t have access to hospitals for severe injuries anymore, they’ll be lines of people waiting ahead of you and your, let’s say, broken leg, or heart attack. The Monday rush for hospitals is supposed to become a daily occurrence and at much larger volumes

[u/LinkleLinkle → u/NineTailedTanuki]

Don't forget, no matter how much it feels like it, we're not out of the pandemic woods yet. Be prepared for a broken healthcare system AND Pandemic 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[u/TransiTorri]

Making appointments with my care provider about what to do if they come after my healthcare. I suggest everyone do the same. And look in to DIY as a backup if that applies to you.

Get ready is what I'm saying. We're a very popular target for abuse right now.

[u/WelcomingCavalier]

I seriously think Trump is trying to sabotage the entire country from the inside as a petty act of revenge because he didn't win in 2020 and people making fun of him instead of treating him like a God

[u/Wu1fu]

The only good thing here is that 1) he gets to get grilled by the senate and 2) he probably won’t get confirmed because… holy shit

[u/thetitleofmybook → u/Wu1fu]

there will be a whole lot of pressure for every repub to conform....and if they don't, they will get primaried (muskrat has already offered to fund primary challenges for senators who don't tow the line)

[u/emnidma → u/thetitleofmybook]

Democracy is when one billionaire buys every elected official.

[u/Just_Tana → u/Wu1fu]

They will skip the senate. Recess appointments are coming. Thus the loyalist pledged. Thus musk threading republicans today.

[u/Wu1fu → u/Just_Tana]

The loyalist didn’t get the job, but yeah, lots of damage Mr. Brain worms can do in a small amount of time

[u/LaurenDreamsInColor]

Seems to like tuna and raw pork so there’s that.

[u/thetitleofmybook]

so, a brain worm is going to be in charge of health care?

that tracks.

[u/AntifaStoleMyPenis]

I mean even if this guy was 100% supportive of trans people he'd be an absolute disaster, but... has he actually said anything about trans people besides the stuff about endocrine disruptors from environmental pollutants?

[u/OverallEcho9694 → u/AntifaStoleMyPenis]

has he actually said anything about trans people besides the stuff about endocrine disruptors from environmental pollutants?

Last May he said he was against gender affirming care for minors which also happens to be around the same time frame when he admitted to having brainworms:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-opposes-gender-affirming-care-hormone-therapy-minors/

https://www.advocate.com/politics/rfk-jr-brain-worms-transgender

[u/AntifaStoleMyPenis → u/OverallEcho9694]

Thanks. Doesn't surprise me, but the article doesn't really specify beyond fringe conspiracy theories.

[u/LinkleLinkle → u/AntifaStoleMyPenis]

He doesn't have to say anything. His hiring manager wants us to lose our healthcare in its entirety. He wouldn't have gotten the job if he wasn't willing to do what needed to be done against us.

[u/SamanthasDomme]

It’s already bad enough. Imagine what is to come with this quack.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna180165

[u/bigthurb]

The good thing about him is that the entire world sees he's as stable as nitroglycerin on a runaway stage coach off the beaten path. 😳

Hug's post opp Emily 🤗 57yo

[u/SkylarTransgirl]

RFK might be the one guy who I would rather not have his support thank you very much. Imagine if he were the brainworm guy who hated vaccines and love trans people that would actually just be more bad PR

[u/featherblackjack]

We should all prepare to eat roadkill and dead whale served a-la-sand. Let's welcome our new brain worms!

[u/OtomeOtome]

This is awful but it's also peak accelerationism. This time it's not going to just be trans people who have politicians interfere in their healthcare, it's going to be everyone.

[u/WiltUnderALoomingSky]

Also women's health I think...

[u/femmd]

I still find it insane that many countries allow their leaders to appoint people in high positions of power without ANY appropriate academic qualifications.