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"John Oliver discusses the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s new leadership, the many ways those cuts will impact all of us, and how WWII really ended. Trust us, it’s not how you think."
(This is about RFK Jr., huh? Okay, yeah, just gonna go ahead and slip that middle-finger-worthy tag down there real quick. I'm sure it will be justified very quickly. Also, going to type this up as I watch it.)
I will give RFK Jr. only this much credit for the name AHA: it's still a better name than fucking DOGE.
RFK Jr. or anyone else in government, let alone the fucking Department of Health and Human Services, freely admitting that they're doing anything at all out of fear that they might "lose political momentum" is goddamned ghoulish. (Especially given that all of the shit stupid things they are doing are accomplishing absolutely nothing good at all but losing them political momentum. That is probably the only silver lining to come out of all this horror.)
All right, that alone justifies the inclusion of the racism, transphobia, and homophobia tags.
This video is mostly about RFK Jr., so far, but... there's Phony Stark. I mean, he's not even doing anything in that clip but just sitting there, looking stupid, and nodding along as a fellow Department of Obnoxious Memelords asshat said asinine things, but that alone would have definitely justified the middle-finger-worthy tag, even if RFK Jr.'s comments about "los[ing] political momentum" hadn't already done so.
"Shitshow is an understatement for what just happened." I'm sure that will be an evergreen statement when it comes to pretty much anything that the Trump """""administration""""" does for the next four years. (Seriously, it still has been barely more than three months so far, everyone.)
Holy shit... so yeah, okay, Indiana Senator Jim Banks just skyrocketed up my list of "biggest shitstains on the underwear of humanity in all of federal government right now." He's probably even in the top 10 now, somewhere below Donald Trump, Elon Musk, JD Vance, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Gym Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, six of the nine Supreme Court Justices, and... well, okay so maybe not top 10, but at least top 20, probably.
Ah, and there's the vaccines = autism bullshit again. Kind of surprised it took around two-thirds of the video passing before they really got into that. I guess it just goes to show that RFK Jr. is a disaster in so many other ways as well.
"As a physician, I pledged to first do no harm and to speak up when I see harm being done by others. Secretary Robert Kennedy is a danger to the public's health and should resign or be fired." That about sums it up, yeah. That said, I think you could replace the "Secretary Robert Kennedy" in that second sentence with "President Donald Trump," "Vice President JD Vance," "Co-President Elon Musk" and many of the other rancid puddles of diarrhea who were appointed by Donald Trump to positions for which they were woefully (and intentionally) unsuited, as well, and it would still be 100% accurate, but yeah, RFK Jr. is the big one in this particular case.
