He really has talent in choosing all his picks. “Ummm who could be the worst person ever to fill this role?”
Every one of those terrible picks has been a deliberate, careful choice to destabilize the country.
Except the NASA guy. He’s probably pretty good. But his job is to funnel contracts (and therfore billions of dollars) to spacex.
Anyone decent will be fired for not doing terrible things or quit because there’s too much pressure to do the terrible things (cf Trump’s first term). Most of them are happy to do the terrible things this go round, though, because they were identified in advance for being willing to do the terrible things.
Why should only the military pay for overpriced stuff they don’t need?
Being serious, it seems like he picked his people from a couple of pools.
- Republicans with a lot of social media clout.
- People plausibly accused of being Russian agents.
Don’t forget name-recognition (even outside the social media spheres.) When’s the last time so many cabinet picks were names the average American already knew? It’s not like we’re the most informed group of people. Yet out of all the millions of people in the United States, what are the chances that the best people for these jobs are ones the public has already heard of?
Trump has gotten as far as he has by treating his own name like a brand. It’s not surprising that he prefers to associate with others who’ve done the same.
Dr. Oz is a charlatan who’s allowed to exist because the vitamin and supplement industry lobbied against FDA oversight and won.
He’s the literal product of corruption.
And Snakeoil
They do in other modern countries. Oh wait, except they don’t have “uninsured” people. If your government can’t guarantee you basic things like clean air and water, protection, health… what the fuck are you paying taxes for!?
what the fuck are you paying taxes for!?
dead brown kids!
Dont forget the billionaires!
Luigi didn’t.
More lanes for more roads, because more lanes will definitely fix gridlock
More of them, but no plan or resources towards maintaining them
Just think: you all did the right thing, holding your nose at the polls, voting for Fetterman to block Oz. And now you have both of them.
Life, uh, finds a way…
Brain damage causes conservatism.
Nah, I probably have some decent brain damage and am solidly progressive.
Same here. My brain injury made me even more radical. If anything has me wondering if I’ve gone paranoid and insane seeing all this coming danger while the rest of the world just goes about their business.
Hmm yeah fair point, I’m in the same boat.
Proposed amendment: enough brain damage causes conservatism.
We better lay off the concussions, got it haha
Not fucking happy about it. Worst possible outcome.
America Last. WTF, the Government of Putin wants an epidemic to break out. How many people in the red run welfare counties would be affected by Dr. Oz’s plan? Indeed, a shit ton and they voted for it.
I’ll make it much simpler to understand. The only thing putin wants. Is America out of the way. Whatever form that takes. So that he can pursue his plans in Eurasia.
Behind the bastards podcast on this piece of shit.
Oz went on to explain that most people have misread the Constitution and Bill of rights, people can have life OR liberty OR the pursuit of happiness. Only the rich will get all three…
It’s an interesting perspective on a phrase that literally says “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”.
FFS, this guy thinks it’s a prix fixe menu!
Funny because you can only pursue liberty or pursue happiness when dead. Almost like the afterlife, religion is an instrument of class oppression
It’s neat watching lemmy’s centrists acting like they object to the idea of letting people go bankrupt and die, in that order, for insurance companies’ bottom lines.
Democrats killed the public option before a single Republican voted on the bill. Joe Lieberman was enough of a Democrat to run for VP, and you don’t get to disown him just because he did what you wanted but don’t want to admit wanting. And it’s not like he did what every centrist wanted by his lonesome, either. Ben Nelson was instrumental in killing the public option.
Biden promised that he was going to revisit the public option. Like so much of what he promised, it was always a fucking lie.
Telling the truth that their favorite political sports team actively hates them just much more subtly always gets them upset.
No matter how much you use their preferred sources, reasoned arguments, direct quotations, there’s always someone or something else to blame or they do illogical comebacks and then claim they won. If I wanted that, I’d be a Republican.
It’s genuinely bothersome that the defaulted “Not evil party” has a bunch of mindless zombies who will agree with everything like the “Actually Evil” party, but they have enough IQ points to reason their way why they love a party that doesn’t know they exist, and would gladly have them removed from the country if it meant a bit more money or 0.1% election gains.
What a piece of shit.
And anti-healthcare weirdos don’t have a right to anybody ever respecting them.
I’m no Trumper, and definitely don’t think Dr Oz is the right person for this job, but this is yet another case of words being taken out of context. Watch the video for yourself.
Dr. Oz told members of the National Governors’ Association (video below) that uninsured Americans “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss of darkness of fear over not having the health they need.” That, he suggested, could come via physicals in a “festival-like setting.”
Additional context doesn’t make him sound much more convincing.
He literally says “…because they don’t have a right to health…”. What are all of us missing that you’ve so handily figured out the context for?
I don’t think he’s saying people _shouldn’t _ have the right health, just that in America, they currently do not.
But that’s just my interpretation and it still doesn’t help qualify him for the role trump selected him for.
We can see your comment history.
Including the Modlog.
I don’t care lol. The last screenshot is a movie reference. It wasn’t malicious in the slightest.
Ohhh, so I can say whatever I want as long as it’s a movie reference?
Sigh, you nerds are too much sometimes.
In the context of the movie, that was a perfect joke.
The character delivering it was a doctor delivering results to the patient: an average Joe from the early 21st century (or late 20th. I forget exactly when he was from). The person you expect to speak professionally and intelligently. But in this world everyone is crass, profane, and idiotic, having a vocabulary that’s rivaled by most 2nd graders today. It’s fitting, then, that someone like a doctor, speaks like a schoolyard bully.
The quote omits the beginning part of the line, “It says here on your chart”, which makes it more clear that it was originally delivered by a doctor.
Ergo, despite the words themselves being considered more inappropriate than they were even when the film was (relatively recently) released, the parent posters usage of them was perfectly appropriate: he was trying to present himself as intelligent, like the doctor, but instead came across as a crass schoolyard bully.
Though it does raise the question at which point it is okay to use inappropriate words as part of a quote. I was listening to an audiobook in the car today, a nonfiction history book, in which letters and poems from freed slaves were read aloud. These readings made strong and contemporarily appropriate usage of the “n” word, but when it gets shouted out my speakers at a red light, it’ll turn heads.
I know the plot of Idiocracy. It is one of my favourite movies. I also love Pulp Fiction, but I sure as fuck am not going to go around talking about dead n_____ storage.
can you quote it so i don’t have to watch it
Burn it to the ground Trump. Make the idiots in America suffer for their choice.
I voted Harris, I’ll die under this you fucking ghoul
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Just wish the US would get a universal healthcare system like every freaking other developed country in this world. Will never happen. Ugh.
Wish granted. The government is now responsible for paying whatever premiums the health insurance companies demand. But everyone with a social security number is covered.
There’s a way of dealing with insurance company CEOs who aren’t good people don’t worry
It will happen, we just haven’t fought hard enough for it yet.
