Yea, there was a contentious hearing with a certain someone, the idiot I love to hate, because I have yet to find anything good about him. And he got hammered by one of our *female* Congresspeople, which I would be willing to bet was a *huge* surprise for *everyone*. This is where I want to use a slang phrase, as in “You go, girl”. Now, I did already rant …. Er, talk about RFK Jr. I cannot stand the man, so yes, I *am* biased about this worthless person full of hot air. From Raw Story:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy shouted at each other during a contentious hearing on Thursday. While appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Warren challenged the secretary about earlier claims that he would not restrict access to vaccines. “So last November, while you were under consideration to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mr. Kennedy, you said, quote, if vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away,” Warren noted. “No exceptions, no ifs, or buts. You would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them.”
That’s exactly what he *said* and not what he *did*. Nope, that anti-vaxxer bullshizzle came right out as soon as he was confirmed. And he keeps pushing it today. He refuses to say that antivaxxers *kill* people, not save them. He pays no attention to medical records at any time. Come on, Dr. Oz, who we *know* is a fake as part of his entourage? Get real. He’s going to do more harm than good.
“Then last week you announced that the COVID-19 vaccine is no longer approved for healthy people under the age of 65,” she continued. “It’s not recommended for healthy people,” Kennedy agreed. “If you don’t recommend, then the consequence of that in many states is that you can’t walk into a pharmacy and get one!” Warren exclaimed. “You are effectively denying people vaccines!” “We’re not going to recommend a product for which there’s no clinical data for that indication!” Kennedy shouted back. “Is that what I should be doing?”
Good gods. How can he say there’s no clinical data for Covid, of all things?! There certainly is! How about the vaccines that have nearly eradicated diseases in our country? What more proof does he need??!! DUDE, how in the hell can you believe that and say that??!! Does it not fit in your worldview? Because if not, you’d better change that post haste. And look at how defensive he got busted for his antivax views even though he doesn’t come right out and say it.
“Do you tell the head of the CDC that if she refused to sign off on your changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, that she had to resign?” the senator asked. “No, I told her that she had to resign because I asked her, are you a trustworthy person?” Kennedy said. “And she said no.” Warren pointed out that Monarez had publicly disputed Kennedy’s claim. “So you’re saying she’s lying?” she asked. “This is the same person that, less than a month earlier, you stood next to her and described her as unimpeachable.” “It looks like she didn’t bend the knee, so you fired her,” Warren remarked. “Look, you’re putting America’s babies’ health at risk, America’s seniors‘ health at risk, all Americans’ health at risk, and you should resign.”
Touche, Senator Warren. Finally, someone said the quiet part out loud, right to RFK’s face. It’s about damn time that happened. The guy is a joke. He has no medical knowledge that I’ve seen, so why is he the head of HHS?
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Because RFK Jr. gave all his MAHA constituents to Trump when he bowed out of the race that’s why!!
Well, there were no “MAHA constituents” for rFKjr to give in the first place. Those “constituents” were already MAGA in the first place. Kennutty had ZERO chance of winning the Democratic nomination (or any serious party’s nomination, for that matter) but he had some weird supporters, the majority of whom were antivaxxers but all of whom were enthralled by the name so when he endorsed Drumpf (in all likelihood for the HHS nominated–clearly a quid pro quo situation which, if Harris had done the same, the right-wing media and the Republicons would’ve been railing against at every opportunity but because Drumpf did it, they found every way to say, “nuh-uh, no problems at all, you people are just imagining things”), that was likely enough to tip the scales for Drumpf.
The antivaxxers will stick by Drumpf as long as he continues endorsing their position and it doesn’t seem like Dumb-old is going to break that.
Jimmy Kimmel nailed it this week when Jimmy “jokingly” renamed the HHS the Department of Health and Human Sacrifice.