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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals plans to fire 600 federal health workers

www.motherjones.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals plans to fire 600 federal health workers

The Trump ally and anti-vax conspiracist takes aim at the agencies he loathes.

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Are ya'll ready for how fucked we are? None of this shit is getting fixed, considering we're still living with Reagan's damages.
- Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m hoping their overreach is so bad that the pendulum aggressively swings back in the other direction.
  
  Eventually. It will. How long? That's impossible to say. As is how bad it will get before a correction occurs. Hitler was in power for twelve years. 70-85 million people died during his reign between slaughters and fighting. And Germany was not the strongest nation in the world (and definitely not the strongest by a wide margin) at that time. Imagine Germany starting off 1933 with the military might to fight two wars at once with the two strongest nations on the planet. And imagine their border was basically impenetrable by any combined force of countries while they fought those two wars. That could easily be where we're going to be at. No one is coming to save us.
  
  I think you underestimate the rippling damage of four years with Trump loyalists running the HHS, FDA, CDC, EPA, DoE, CIA, FBI, etc. can do to the world.
  
  That’s on top of the damage from rapidly repealing regulations by the President.
  
  Even if we replace the whole government with progressives, it’ll take decades to fix, assuming we survive that long.
  
  Tariffs alone will probably lead to a very bleak outlook for Republicans in the midterm elections.
  
  That'd be nice and I'm sure sentiment will swing but I don't think they'd go through all this trouble of remaking the government (and essentially the whole country) just to get "voted out" and have to spend billions more regaining power. It'll be way cheaper just to rig things.
  
  That's kind of why I don't think the RFK stuff is actually going to happen. Trump can sell the economic populism stuff but he lost in 2020 because of anger over public health. Letting RFK be crazy is just going to cause headaches.
  
  Democrats are not coming to save us... They love neoliberalism
- What till you see the Liberty Law School zealots who find their way to SCOTUS for lifetime appointments
  
  Thing about lifetimes is that they can be ended prematurely.
- No
The worst part about this is that it will take 20 years for the damages of this to become really apparent, and the dumb fucks who voted for trump will just blame whoever is currently in charge. Or claim that Democrats have some kind of disease gun.
- I think it will have impact a lot sooner than 20 years. As soon as no one can trace the next listeria or salmonella outbreak, or evenrecognize there is a flu epidemic happening, or whatever. There will be kids dieing from bad ice cream before summer is over.
  
  The illegals did it
  
  Of course, if you don't collect any data on it so no one will know. Problem solved.
Well, we're boned.
- You're just NOW realising this? Most of us came to that conclusion right around 1am on election night, when we realized that Harris had no path to victory without PA.....and then lost PA.
  
  Now to be fair, SOME people took a little longer to realise this......and by that I mean they'd already went to sleep and realised hours later when they woke up.
  
  They never said they just learned this, you just showed up all rude for fun
  
  Wow, you're* fun.
. . . to be replaced by bloodsucking leeches no doubt
- His brain worm is going to feel to betrayed.
  
  Neither are going to like the bleach much.
What a time to be immunocompromised.
So will insurance companies stop covering vaccines after the federal government no longer supports/requires them? I guess state education departments could still require them.....right?
- So will insurance companies stop covering vaccines after the federal government no longer supports/requires them?
  
  I'm betting insurance companies will still cover vaccines. If they didn't covered individuals will still get sick and consume even more costly medical, hospital, and surgical services. Getting customer to get vaccines are good business for insurance companies.
  
  If they didn't covered individuals will still get sick and consume even more costly medical, hospital, and surgical services.
  
  So is covering preventative care like physical therapy after an injury so you can heal correctly and not require further treatments but my insurance gives diddly for PT. They should cover gym memberships and aerobic classes too. If they can deny coverage for smoking them I should get extra benefits if I exercise and eat properly.
  
  We just don't know what is gonna happen next year when the shit hits the country.
  
  Unless regulation is so loose they basically don't have to pay a damn thing even when you get sick.
So it begins...
- Big oof
The kennedy clan are known to be very protective of their reputation, hence being so reluctant to speak out about the insane russian asset in the family.

I'm going to enjoy watching their family name associated with the largest rise in preventable deaths in american history. At least until I contract polio.
- Pay attention. They've spoken out a lot.
I really hope someone is keeping a list of all of the saboteur hires, not just the cabinet level posts but stuff like this, in case we have the chance to remove them later.

I know in Mexico and other countries higher on the corruption index, where there are still elections that aren't pre-decided but a lot of additional corruption and arbitrary politicking, this purge-and-replace cycle happens every election. It's so unfortunate but may just be the new way of doing things, even if somehow we retain democratic elections.
Yikes. Awful decision here.
Vaccinate while you can, this is gonna be a hell of a ride
Probably a whole lot more than that. This is just the start.

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