Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of DOGE
Zoom meetings are avoided out of fear they are being secretly recorded. Conversations about budgets and policies are held in soundproof offices, as if they were matters of national security. Many employees carry small notebooks with them, jotting down notes instead of logging them on a computer. The desks of several sacked colleagues are empty — save for the few who have left family photos and possessions behind in case a judge rules they can return.
“There is a constant sense that we’re being watched and monitored,” the source said. “DOGE leadership are located several floors above but they have this omnipotent presence … We’re counted when we swipe our badges into the building.”
Everything under this Chicken Taco Turd’s shadow has been a disaster
RfK is doing great! - Lord of Pestilence Nurgle
We are uniquely vulnerable now.
Imagine a biological weapons attack on the US. Do you think RFK would support giving out the anthrax vaccine after an attack? Would Americans even do it if the government recommended it?
What about telling people to lock down for bird flu?
We’ll never see a lockdown again. If there’s another pandemic, millions will die, and MAGA won’t care.
A reminder enough Democrats voted to approve this guy to be there. Everyone saw this coming.incorrect statement. (Edited)This is totally false. No Democrat voted to confirm him. It was 52 R for, 45 D, 2 I, and 1 R against. See https://ballotpedia.org/Confirmation_process_for_Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr._for_secretary_of_health_and_human_services#Confirmation_vote_roll_call for more details.
I will admit to being wrong here. I mis remembered.
Holy fuck, it’s literally every piece of news about what a disaster the trump admin is, someone has to butt in with a reminder “what about the democrats”. Democrats are irrelevant, have been since November. Even if all of them voted against, the gop would have approved this guy and all the other guys anyway. This is a gop nomination, approved by gop politicians, implementing a gop agenda, voted for by gop voters.
It’s not irrelevant. Voting to confirm some obviously incompetent moron into a cabinet position makes you complicit.
Edit: in this case, they didn’t actually vote for him. All Democrats voted against.
True, but his main point stands. It’s not just this. Every single time the Trump admin does something shitty, one of the first three comments is about how it’s the Democrats fault.
Lemmy is being manipulated.
I’m hoping the truth can prevail over the very loud noise. But if five people come after me to argue against Democrats, what will most people in here end up believing?
I’m fine with criticizing Democrats when it’s specific and targeted. This one kind of gets there. But, you know, isn’t there a bigger issue?
The point is that the Democrats aren’t doing anywhere near enough to resist the fascist takeover and that had been true pretty much since day one. They are so hell bent on preserving the status quo that they’ll rather hand the country to the fascists than support any meaningful change.
The point is that you want to discourage/split the vote for next election.
You’re doing the same the Fox News and talk radio did to Hillary Clinton over 20 years.
Republicans are certainly to blame for all their crimes, but the Democrats are accessories before, during and after the fact, when they should be the cops.
What Lemmy threads have you been in for the last two years? The constant refrain in every political thread was about how the Democratic Party, in control of the executive, should not march into genocide, fascism, and hand Trump a second term. Those people got heavy resistance in every thread likewise without fail. There were those who felt a stance on Gaza was hypocritical and that a genocide should not have any place in their politics.
This is the entirely preventable and predictable reality.
Yep. No one except leftists tried to hold Dems accountable, so the politicians got lazy and complicit.
Not if you’re Israeli, which is all that counts. You got your boom boom tonight!
His face really exemplifies my impression of the entire Boomer generation.
They’re obsessed with chasing aesthetics of wealth (tanning their skin) but are also too arrogant to reconsider their values in light of all the new knowledge we’ve discovered (using sunscreen). So they just end up with avoidable consequences (extra wrinkly), pissed off, and don’t even know why or how so they just take their angry out on everyone else.
You might enjoy the Kyle Dunnigan impression of RFKjr
Rude
Omg too close, lol.
I’m always so blessed to be in the presence of greatness on Lemmy. Now it’s all clear exactly how an entire generation of people think and behave. Thank you 🙏
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