This is an excellent question.

So funny to watch commentators twist themselves into pretzels arguing that Trump's Iran "strategy" is all about China. It's not about China. It's about trying to find some way to avoid admitting he completely f-ed up.

I do appreciate that we’re seeing more of, “Reclaiming my time,” when these prevaricating little toadies try to deflect.

If you socialize with the worlds most notorious child trafficker and are the Commerce Secretary you don't get the luxury to only respond to questions about the budget.

No truer words were spoken. It’s not difficult to imagine the evolution that created Trump, but humility certainly wasn’t part of the equation. Humility isn’t a weakness, it’s the strength to acknowledge one’s flaws and improve. Trump’s need for affirmation is an insatiable thirst without a quench.

Yeah, get a job, scrub jays!

He couldn’t lead in any kind of grieving, because the tack he took from the get-go was that it was no big deal and if we just ignored it, it would go away.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya gets candid about academic freedom at USC Open Dialogue Project event “I don’t see any way through but to be brave,” Bhattacharya said in conversation with USC Price Professor Neeraj Sood.

I just stumbled across this. Warning: it may require deep breathing to get through.

The fact that Bhattacharya continues to tout academic freedom after censoring people, science and projects at both NIH and CDC is wildly absurd.

His hypocrisy is astounding.

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Bhattacharya says: “I don’t see any way through but to be brave.”

Be brave standing up to whom? YOU are the one in power, Jay!

It amazes me that Bhattacharya, RFK jr, and other leaders in this administration are still positioning themselves as the aggrieved outsiders.

Bhattacharya Narrates Personal Struggles, Urges Academics To Fight Political Pressure - IndiaWest News Bhattacharya Narrates Personal Struggles, Urges Academics To Fight Political Pressure.

Any thoughts for the COVID's millions of victims?

Of course not.

Podcast Jay spoke about the "severe personal consequences he faced".

Podcast Jay recognizes only one victim in the world, Podcast Jay. And he'll never stop talking about the suffering of Podcast Jay.

Wasn't there once some issue where the President's son was supposedly (though without much evidence) profiting off of his father's Presidency and it was the worst thing in the world during the last administration...

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

it wasn’t just liam—

Let’s not let Bobby escape responsibility.

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That’s certainly where it belongs.

1/ Also ... "sick people" and "healthy people" is not a permanent distinction. We all go through phases of sick and healthy. I gained weight during the pandemic, so now I'm a sick person, at least in RFK's view. If I lost it, I'd be a healthy person again. Honestly, this sounds like witchsmelling.

My face itches.

The Bible does indeed talk about shitposting and the lesson is "don't you fucking dare"

Apparently we just intercepted an Iranian tanker off Malaysia, and two others off India and Sri Lanka. It’s Iranian oil, but it’s also their oil.

More progress. Whatever you think this is, you’re probably wrong. :)

No. No no no. Stop doing this. Phelan wouldn't know one end of a battleship from another. This is about internal palace politics, Game of Thrones stuff. Stop looking for *interesting* explanations and go for *simple*, and *likely*, and very *human* explanations.

Man, no offense, but so many of you do not understand what's going on in this administration. John Phelan would probably chew a ball of tinfoil before "speaking truth to power"

Which is, apart from being reprehensible, also absolutely bonkers — because if that were going to happen, it would have already happened a very long time ago.

Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."

It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”

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This reveals something fundamental.

RFK doesn’t grasp he’s the medical establishment now.

It’s not his job to judge who caused this epidemic (though we all know who).

It’s his job to stop it.

He’s failing.

To be clear, what I mean by careless people are the Republicans who couldn’t be bothered not to confirm RFK Jr., and the people who voted for them.

The ones who could impeach RFK Jr. but are too busy currying favor with The Regime, and who think that public health is for Other People.

Thank you. My whole family isolated hard until I could get vaccinated, so that I wouldn’t be adding to the hospital numbers.