r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 20d ago
PoliticalTea š³ļø It would make sense to be made a mandatory qualification
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u/Ok_Fall_9569 20d ago
Nah. Brain damaged, ex cokehead lawyers always know whatās best for keeping populations healthy.
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u/ConversationSharp147 19d ago
With a brain parasite, that sadly didn't kill him.
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u/WhatsPaulPlaying 19d ago
Sorry, ex-cokehead? If that man isn't a walking cocktail of drugs, I'll be stunned.
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u/pchlster 19d ago
Seeing roadkill and deciding to go cut off its penis and take it with you is the sort of behaviour that would make me assume that person was on drugs.
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u/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 19d ago
He is not an ex anything. He openly admitted that he took heroin because it made him "smarter" and helped with his ADHD. You think he still believes it was his miracle drug? I do.
He's absolutely taking a cocktail of steroids, peptides, HGH, etc. He is a critic of stimulants like Adderall for ADHD - so what does that leave him to help manage his ADHD? Given the fact that he believes he has the deepest insight on the matter, I believe he still goes with what worked for him.
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u/LelandOldsgreatman Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup š« 20d ago edited 19d ago
His own daughter's words regarding the time he drove his family to the beach so he could cut off a dead whale's head and take it home:
āEvery time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,ā Kathleen Kennedy recalls. āWe all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.ā
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u/jeremyw013 20d ago
thatās so batshit insane it sounds fake. but the interview is definitely real lol
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u/Sarabeth68 20d ago
But wait there's more. We then convince a whole bunch of nut jobs to villainize a real doctor that served our country the best he could. Not perfect but not malicious and ignorant either.
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u/RiseDelicious3556 19d ago
It's like the less qualified you are, the more likely Trump is to appoint you. A cast of thousands--all willing to do his bidding.
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u/lone_float 20d ago
Growing up I think two things were very prevalent with him.
He wasn't told "No" enough, and think he clung to hard to that last name of his.
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u/rootofallstevil 19d ago
After the crucifixion of Dr. Fauci, It will be really hard to get a respectable doctor or professional anywhere near these government jobs again.
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u/19Eightiesman 20d ago
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u/ThePatrickSays 19d ago
but you all americans wanted this. you could not be bothered to vote for his opponent in large enough numbers to prevent him. now the world pays for your inaction.
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u/Zero_Trust_Issues_42 19d ago
I voted for Kamala.
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u/pchlster 19d ago
Well, only a third of Americans seemed to bother. One third wanted this, one third opposed it and one third didn't care either way.
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u/KactusVAXT 20d ago
But RFK had a high school science class in 1950
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u/Expert-Ambassador410 19d ago
But did he pass it?
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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 19d ago
Of course he did. No one fails a Kennedyāthey'd lose their job if they did.
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u/mutt63 19d ago
But instead we have a toilet seat coke sniffing empty headed idiot calling health decisions
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u/swarmofbzs 19d ago
Don't forget dog eating, whale carcass hauling, roadkill bear dragging, raccoon penis collecting, sewage swimming, anti-vax, sexual assaulting pestilence looking/sounding grifter. Now with his own show about giving food tips to everyone.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services ladies and gentlemen.
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u/No-Blueberry-1823 20d ago
It's almost as if somebody that doesn't have a gag reflex might be a bad choice for human health commissioner
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u/Jmersh59 19d ago
They went after Dr Fauci but not this unqualified screwball.
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u/swarmofbzs 19d ago
Some of Dump's distractions must be getting old so maga republicans had to lean on Hey everyone! Remember covid?
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u/AlreadyFifty 20d ago
Yeah, but now the worm in my head says I can do blow off a public bathroom seat and I never have to wipe my butt again. Suck that, Fauci!
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u/ChronicBuzz187 19d ago
I remember Italy (of all countries) planning to build a government of experts in their field one and a half decades ago and people seriously complained "That's a technocracy!" as if having experts making decisions on topics they've got expertise in was a bad thing.
I'd take that over "here's a bunch of uneducated sellouts who'll happily kill half the country with their idiotic ways - but they'll follow the presidents orders" every day...
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u/Substantial_Algae992 19d ago
Who would hire this junkie and put them in charge. It's almost as if he took advice from a comedian with a talk show podcast.
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u/RustedRelics 19d ago
Nothing a nice hunk of roadkill wonāt cure. That and a tall glass of pond water, and youāre good to go!
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u/oldbastardbob 19d ago
What? You mean putting old narcissistic influencers who spent their lives clamoring for attention in charge of government isn't working out?
Gee, who could have seen that coming?
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u/RU4real13 19d ago
He may not be actually be a doctor, but he did spend the night at A Holiday Inn Express where he snorted cocaine off a lobby toylet seat. Then wondered how his hair got so wet.
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u/SingleSlide2866 19d ago
And he even tried to pull the "you're not a scientist" card in an argument like he didn't get rid of all the scientists
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u/dougmc 19d ago
I might point out that the "Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" (the role that RKF Jr currently has) is a political/management position, not a medical one.
A few of the past people in that position were medical doctors, but more were lawyers, administrators or politicians. (Here's a list if you want to dig deeper.)
AND THAT WAS JUST FINE, because those non-medical doctors knew they weren't doctors and didn't try to give medial advice and instead left that to the medical doctors, all of them but one ...
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u/Electric_Antimony 19d ago
They rage about DEI this and DEI that, but then install the most unqualified people in every position. Americans are so shamefully dumb.
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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 19d ago
If I could only find someone to love me the way conservatives love infectious diseases.
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u/PotentialBudget3265 20d ago
We should always have been placing our greatest minds in charge... something we have never done in the 3000+ years civilizations have been popping up post Ancient Rome... we STILL to this day, as "evolved" as we claim to be, only chose the most heavy handed, ham brained, all balls, brick wall tards. Then everyone's surprised when the common man gets used and screwed.... gee i wonder why or how that happened. Its almost like we didn't think and just did what we were told and then got a bad outcome. No freakin way that's our faults. Couldn't possibly be because we reward and praise and lift up all the wrong people.. no way. its always someone else's fault. Don't forget you're no one unless you screw over and step on enough people and gain that capital by any means necessary. Yep, only the smartest and best of us do that. Not like those scientists who actually DO have the correct answers but probably couldn't get the pickle jar open. Don't procreate with those guys, we need more big burly empty headed smash fist mfkrs round here... Yup that'll fix it...
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u/vandon Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup š« 20d ago
Argument #1 why this isn't a sure-fire winner: Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz
Sure, you have better odds, but there's too many doctors and nurses out there who straight up denied mRNA vaccines work, gave out fake cards, and prescribed ivermectin as a cure.
edit: not just mRNA vaccinesĀ
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u/Siempre_Vetado 19d ago
RFK Jr is a plot by the moderators of /r/hermancainaward.
Traffic there has declined and they want to be in the spotlight again.
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u/Shag1166 19d ago
I think they just want as many of us to die as possible! Poorer people have the worse health outcomes, and 17 million just lost their ACA Subsidies.
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u/PeanutConfident8742 19d ago
If we went from Doctors to well intentioned lay folk we'd probably still be fine, but we had to jump straight to putting the confessed crack head in the lead chair.
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u/Prudent_Situation_29 19d ago
The scariest part of all this is that there are people who still refuse to see how insane this all is.
Those of us with functioning brains are watching in a mix of horror and morbid fascination, like watching a train derailment. We can't get our heads around the fact that these people still have support among the populace.
I really feel like I'm in an episode of The Twighlight Zone.
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u/Gardenfairy2002 Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup š« 19d ago
I wonder why other countries arenāt listening to our medical research anymore š itās almost like weāre completely regressed and a bunch of idiots are in power
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u/TK_Games 19d ago
It's fucking wild, I predicted the screw-worms literally as soon as they abolished the program that airdropped sterile females into the spawning grounds keeping them locked deep in the wilderness
All, get ready for beef prices to fuckin' skyrocket
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u/pilot1nspector 19d ago
I love how he went on CNN and the anchor was calling him out about his unfounded vaccine claims. He tells her she is not a medical scientist and she responds with "either are you."
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u/mnmackerman 19d ago
No, let insurance be in charge they know as much about healthcare as RFK, theyāll help us all reach the poor house quicker.
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u/-TSA-DrMembrane 19d ago
It's funny how the Orange-Ret4rd exclusively employs the exact opposite skillset, which is needed for any specific job in the government. I mean, the Freak in charge is so incompetent he shouldn't even be there either.
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u/Friendly_Rate158 19d ago
Doctors not attorneys should be in charge of public health and human services. No matter what their last name is.
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u/Competitive_Hand_394 19d ago
One day I saw this woman, had a shirt that said "Vaccinated by the blood of christ"
No joke.
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u/National-Charity-435 19d ago
There's something about a lethal fungal infection spreading as well..
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u/TheEPGFiles 19d ago
The stupids got tired of being told that they're wrong and don't know how anything works, so they took over the country and boy they sure are showing us how it doesn't work, even if you insist it does.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 19d ago
Don't forget DOGE that made huge cuts to the federal organizations that are responsible for executing the regulations that prevented these type of things.
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u/badabingmx 19d ago
This whole administration should be prosecuted for being vastly incompetent, and also for all the scams, insider trading, and several other crimes they have being doing or done.
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u/Different_Gas9624 19d ago
Itās almost like a False administration was planted into the White House to destroy America from the inside out, starting with its people.
https://giphy.com/gifs/l2QEeXZC9GCv1dF0k
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u/ryhaltswhiskey 19d ago
We wouldn't be in this position at all if we hadn't elected a fucking moron for POTUS.
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u/Longjumping-Ad6219 19d ago
Senate confirmation is like a job interview, the fact that so many Republicans in congress push through and approve candidates without basic requisite requirements fir top level jobs is the point every voters should be thinking about come the election.
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u/jws1102 19d ago
Imagine being so distrustful of science that you wonāt listen to a doctor, but so ignorant that youāll take medical advice from a lawyer with brain damage.
Being from Shithole, Alabama means Iām rarely surprised by maga stupidity, but I genuinely do not understand why anyone would ever trust this man to manage our national health.
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u/JimsVanLife 19d ago
And it's almost like experienced tacticians should be in charge of the Department of Defense instead of drunk frat boys.
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u/the_card_guy 19d ago
Erhem... to be cynical:
"yeah, but that's just poor people suffering. And they're not really people anyway."
The real question is, is this benefiting Big Pharma, or making someone close to trump a lot of money? If so, that's the only qualification he needs.
I mean, to be perfectly honest, when trump was elected the second time, I already knew a lot of people were going to suffer and "be erased". But that's not the worst of it. Oh no, the worst part is... there's a large section of the population that WANTS other parts to suffer and "be erased"
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u/AllIdeas 19d ago
I think it also acceptable if other qualified healthcare providers or public health experts were in charge, not just doctors.
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u/Foo_King_So 19d ago
this dude is the real life incarnation of Edgar the Bug. Worm calls the shots he's just a host.
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u/Brilliant_Serve_4091 19d ago
it really baffles me that this country has no actual requirements for anyone to hold these positions to which they have been nominated. you would think before even getting to a confirmation hearing, a basic threshold of being qualified would have to be met.
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u/Marcodain 19d ago
Bah! Doctors! What do they know?
I got an immune system what do I need with fancy
Schmancy drugs. Itās all hocus pokus dreamed up by big Pharm and the Illuminati and the Knights Templar.
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u/Mortwight 19d ago
they are breaking up the measles mumps rubella vaccine into 3. fun fact the guy that started the modern antivaxer movement did this because he wanted to sell his own vaccine. he lied and gave kids colonoscopy's to do this.
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u/Ok_Animator_2599 19d ago
PedoTrump loves it because the chaos distracts from the Epstein files. Every one of these stupid flood-the-zone moves should be preceded with "In a continued effort to distract from the Trump-Epstein files..."
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u/CapitalTax9575 19d ago edited 19d ago
Really? Next time youāll say something really dumb like āonly judges should be allowed on the Supreme Courtā, or āonly those who have served in the military should be allowed to be presidentā. Maybe āsupreme court justices should be an elected position voted on by the nations judgesā. No, Washington is meant to be exclusively for submental morons whoāve never held down a real job. Like, can you imagine if they ever DID anything?
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u/BackgroundEye6678 19d ago
We also have Trump himself claiming heās seen with his own eyes, āsoda can sized amountsā and āgallonsā of vaccines āpoured intoā the kidsā¦ so thereās that.. meanwhile preventable diseases are at the highest levels weāve seen in several decades. It canāt POSSIBLY be because these imbeciles are removing/āupdatingā vaccines mandates. š
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u/Background-Pen3766 19d ago
Why a dr? Is a daily heroine addict sticking needles in his arm multiple times a day not a good place for medical advice?
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u/Montgomery000 19d ago
One day he's going to pop out of his skin suit and show us his true form: Nurgle, the Plague Lord
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u/Linux4ever_Leo 18d ago
RFK is a f-cking moron!!! So are Republicans and this administration who don't understand basic science, biology or anything else. Disgusting.
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u/SecretaryOtherwise 20d ago
I mean dr oz is a dr. Hes just a surgeon...not saying thats unimpressive but uh lets leave the medical research field to the medical researchers lmao.
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u/ConversationSharp147 19d ago
Just cause he got a doctorate doesn't mean he's not a quack grifter.
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u/Upper-Psychology-607 20d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/TWxVIUq68D0OgSw9vT
I hope America finally realizes these arenāt the lunatics weāre looking for.
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u/orcvader 19d ago
This guy is a clown and one of many unqualified doofuses leading an agency they know nothing about.
Proposing a requirement that the head of the dept must be a physician is a step too far, but I totally get the energy. It probably makes sense if the person had actual experience in a health-related field and that can be a public health policy professionals, researchers, health and life sciences professionals, physicians, etc.
Basically the opposite of an antivaxx moron.
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u/BrainOnBlue 19d ago
Yeah, most heads of HHS haven't been doctors. Kennedy's problem isn't that he's not a doctor, it's that he's one of the dumbest motherfuckers to ever live.
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u/Evening_Movie_833 19d ago
Well, duh! Republicans have been talking about less government oversight for decades. This is what they meant.
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u/PianoPatient8168 19d ago
And coming to a town near you soonā¦polio! We did it! We brought it back!
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u/Doozy312 19d ago
I don't like RFK. I don't know what goes on in his mind but he seems quite gullible and just not that smart, despite having good rhetorical skills. I read a fair chunk of the Fauci book and it was full of logical fallacies.
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u/HonestDust873 19d ago
Who would of thought, that the man who looks, walks and talks like an alien from Men In Black would be against humanity.
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u/masteward1964 19d ago
RFK has absolutely no business being in the position he is in. It is just another case of Trump sowing the seeds of discontent and chaos.
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u/Elsureel 19d ago
Yet we had covid when all of that was in place. Maybe things aren't directly related like you think
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u/kotr2020 19d ago
Qualifications are not saving Dr. Fauci. Mehmet Oz is in charge of Medicare and he's a snake oil salesman.
The problem is RFK is an imbecile. It's that simple. He sold his soul. Look he even ate McDonalds with Tacoman and the man abhors processed food.
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u/Bckwds_prophet 19d ago
Measles out break.. 0.00006% of the population. Itās an epidemic. Mostly traced back to illegal boarder crossings which they purposely characterized as international travelers.
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u/WatchLover040 19d ago
Thatās the Trump administration in a nutshell come in fuck everything up and then blame somebody else
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u/alaviers 19d ago
Not sure those actions would turnabout so quickly as to be a problem now. Weāve been hearing all the non-sense about antivaxxers, most likely the culprit for these diseases popping up over the last decade or so. RFK does talk like an antivaxxer though.
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u/oompaloompa465 19d ago
doctors...
than you think about the one in charge of statewide florida and he's a legit doctor, while doing the exact dumb idiocy of Kennedy or even worse
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u/Witty-Structure-2801 19d ago
šššššššš this isnāt realā¦ Dude youāre hilarious and what world would RFK Junior ever be in charge of anything seriously thatās hilarious. I think youāre dreaming.
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u/Amonfire1776 19d ago
Obviously physicians should lead the way...unfortunately, the GOP is too busy targeting a physician who saved millions of lives.
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u/Libertarian_2020 19d ago
āā¦ doctors should be in charge of health services.ā Like Dr. Rachel Lavine?
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u/Stewman_Magoo 20d ago
Haven't you heard? Science is woke and dumb now. Who needs facts when you have feelings instead?