Trump's first administration was a kakistocracy

[UltraChad]

No such person was running.

Harris and Walz both. So...yea you're wrong again.

Not even you can possibly defend RFK for HHS!

He's not a big pharma boot licker, that makes him better than anyone the Democrats would put up. They're big pharma boot lickers too.

 

[Politruk]

Harris and Walz both. So...yea you're wrong again.

No, you're lying again. Not even wrong -- you know you're lying.

He's not a big pharma boot licker, that makes him better than anyone the Democrats would put up. They're big pharma boot lickers too.

You don't need to bow to Big Pharma to see that vaccines work and are necessary.

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[TD]Repeat after me: pharma being shit does not mean magic beans cure cancer.[/TD]
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[TD]—Ben Goldacre[1][/TD]
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Big Pharma is the pejorative nickname given to the pharmaceutical industry. Critics of the industry often use this nickname when discussing abuses by the industry, including:

• Trying to suck every penny out of the pockets of the sick, injured, dying, and hypochondriacs[note 1]
• Inventing new maladies so people will buy more drugs (as opposed to inventing better drugs so more people would become addicts)
• Censoring alternative treatments that would be cheaper or more effective, rather than patenting and industrializing them (much as proponents of free energy claim censorship by energy companies, without basis)
• Renaming old maladies so people will think their conditions are more serious, making them more willing to pay higher prices for prescriptions[2]

There are scientifically literate criticisms of Big Pharma. However, the overwhelming majority of criticism comes from non-scientific bases. Many alternative medicine merchants (such as homeopaths and naturopaths) stridently blame most or all opposition on Big Pharma rather than, say, a lack of scientific evidence for their claims.

 

[UltraChad]

No, you're lying again. Not even wrong -- you know you're lying.

Not at all, they are both very openly pro social justice progressives.

You don't need to bow to Big Pharma to see that vaccines work and are necessary.

Then you shouldn't worry at all about losing your ability to use the federal government to force people to bow to big pharma.

 

[Politruk]

Not at all, they are both very openly pro social justice progressives.

Pro social justice progressives != Jew hating race socialists.

Then you shouldn't worry at all about losing your ability to use the federal government to force people to bow to big pharma.

Interference with universal vaccination is something to worry about. Putting RFK in charge of HHS is like putting a Flat Earther in charge of NASA.

 

[Holy_Seduction]

"kakistorsky"... no it's spelled, klusterfuck

“Kakistocracy” is a good word; basically, it refers to government by the worst people in the state — i.e., those least fit for, or suited to rule. Clusterphuck I take to refer to multiple disasters arrayed in a, downward spiraling negative symbiosis.

Eventually, things reach total systemic collapse which is sometimes designated …

FUBAR!

 

[Politruk]

Secretary of the Interior is North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

Energy and environment​

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Burgum supports the fossil fuel industry, especially in the Bakken region of western North Dakota.[101] He supports the Dakota Access Pipeline.[102] He has said that American energy independence is an issue of national security. He derided what he called a "full-on assault of liquid fuels in this country" and has regularly criticized policies to subsidize electric vehicles. He called for opening Bureau of Land Management land for energy-related activities such as rare earth metal mining and oil and natural gas drilling. He promised to make North Dakota carbon neutral by 2030; he said he would loosen regulations for the gas industry, but also said he is committed to clean energy projects.[103]

Burgum criticized the Biden administration for policies phasing out gas stoves in some forms of new housing.[8]

OK, really trolling us now!

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

The TDS Libtards are foaming at the mouth already. This is going to be fun.

The level of screaming tell us all we need to know.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

“Kakistocracy” is a good word; basically, it refers to government by the worst people in the state — i.e., those least fit for, or suited to rule. Clusterphuck I take to refer to multiple disasters arrayed in a, downward spiraling negative symbiosis.

Eventually, things reach total systemic collapse which is sometimes designated …

FUBAR!

Said with no irony

The Americans have spoken. Suck it up buttercup.

 

[Rightguide]

He drained the swamp directly into the West Wing.

And this time around, he's not showing any signs of improvement.

Marco Rubio for SoS?! Don't you remember the 2016 Republican primary debates?! Rubio is an idiot!

And this border czar Homan is a fucking monster!

If Harris had won we'd have a Cackletocracy

 

[Politruk]

If Harris had won we'd have a Cackletocracy

Lame even for you.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Tulsi Gabbard — nominee for director of national intelligence and Russian asset?

‘A Russian asset’: Democrats slam Trump’s pick of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Gabbard accused the US of running biological weapon laboratories in Ukraine – a falsehood often touted by Russia.

We don’t have to worry about Tulsi selling information to the Russians. Trump will make all those sales himself.

 

[Rightguide]

Immigration is not a border-control problem. A wall wouldn't help.

You are awash in ignorance and too uninformed to be of use in any conversation about immigration.

 

[Politruk]

You are awash in ignorance and too uninformed to be of use in any conversation about immigration.

At least I am not so ignorant as to think immigration is a problem.

 

[Politruk]

At least he hasn't named Giuliani for anything yet.

 

[Politruk]

And the new Secretary of Education is a pro wrestling magnate.

Geez, we really are living in Idiocracy now!

 

[Politruk]

Gaetz is out, but this problem remains:

Rubio is an idiot -- remember his performance in the 2016 primary debates?

 

[Politruk]

In place of Gaetz for USAG we now have Pam Bondi.

Not much improvement:

Tenure​

Bondi was the lead attorney general in an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (known as Obamacare) in Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services. In the lawsuit the State of Florida and 26 other states argued that the individual mandate provision of the ACA violates the United States Constitution.[14]

In 2016, Bondi gave a speech at the Republican National Convention, during which she led "Lock her up" chants directed at the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.[15]

In 2018, Bondi joined with 19 other Republican-led states in a lawsuit to overturn the ACA's bans on health insurance companies charging people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums or denying them coverage outright.[16]

Bondi opposed same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ rights issues on behalf of the state.[17] Following the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016, Bondi was interviewed by CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, who said that Bondi's expression of support for the LGBT community was at odds with her past record.[18][19][17] Cooper said that Bondi was "either mistaken or not telling the truth," while Bondi accused Cooper of fomenting "anger and hate."[18]

In August 2018, while still serving as Florida Attorney General, Bondi co-hosted The Five on Fox News three days in a row while also appearing on Sean Hannity's Fox News show.[20] Fox News claimed that the Florida Commission on Ethics had approved Bondi's appearance on the program; however, spokeswoman for the commission denied that, telling the Tampa Bay Times that no decision was made by the commission and that the commission's general counsel did not make a determination whether or not Bondi's appearance as a host violated the Florida Code of Ethics. The Tampa Bay Times described it as "unprecedented" for a sitting elected official to host a TV show.[20]

 

[Politruk]

We really need to get rid of Rubio -- we'll go to war with Venezuela if he is SoS.

 

[Politruk]

Now Trump wants Russell Vought to head the OMB.

This Vought is a Christian Nationalist who was involved in drafting Project 2025.

 

[Politruk]

Sebastian Gorka is going to be counterterrorism advisor!

 

[Politruk]

Kevin Hassett to head the National Economic Council.

He's the one who crafted the 2017 tax cut -- which even RWs by now must agree was a Very Bad Idea.

 

[Politruk]

Now it's Kash Patel for FBI Director.

Patel, who during Trump's first term advised both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, has previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump's agenda.

"The biggest problem the FBI has had, has come out of its intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state," Patel said in a September interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show.

Nobody who believes the Deep State exists is fit for federal office.

 

[Politruk]

Peter Navarro for top trade adviser. Navarro spread lies about the 2020 election and went to jail for ignoring a congressional 1/6 Committee subpoena, so I guess this is his reward for loyalty.

 

[Politruk]

And now Jay Bhattacharya is to head the National Institutes of Health.

Bhattacharya opposed the lockdowns and mask mandates imposed in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5][6] With Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, he was a co-author in 2020 of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through widespread infection, while promoting the fringe notion that vulnerable people could be simultaneously protected from the virus.[7][8][9] The declaration was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.[10]

An extremely dangerous crank.

 

[Politruk]

And now there's the Surgeon General who sells bullshit diet supplements.