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Trump’s Hantavirus Official Is a Penis Implant Specialist (newrepublic.com)

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"Before Dr. Brian Christine was tapped to lead America’s public hantavirus response, he was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants, CNN reported Friday.

Christine currently serves as the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as such is one of the top public health officials running the country’s infectious disease policy. Earlier this week, he told reporters in Nebraska that the agency’s response to the dangerous outbreak would be “grounded in science” and “grounded in transparency.”

Yet Christine’s resume seems far and away from that of a typical U.S. health official. While he has some public health experience under his belt, having served as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he has also espoused dangerous far-right beliefs and spread wellness conspiracy theories.

He rebuked coronavirus mandates and spread conspiracy theories about treatment plans that sowed doubt and division over the government’s public health response at the time. He has claimed that the pandemic was a part of a wider government plot to control people, and he skirted questions from the U.S. Senate as to whether or not he would recommend the Covid vaccine to his patients.

The 62-year-old admiral also hosted a YouTube series titled “Erection Connection,” a professional show for other urologists discussing erectile dysfunction..."

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because ~40% of our voter base HATES nice things and consistently votes to hurt and punish nice things. And, worst of all, those people are concentrated in low-population states, which our profoundly stupid electoral system gives far more representation to.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That is a very incomplete Take. As if the Democrats were blameless. To make that argument after to say nothing before them, Clinton, obama, clinton, biden, then Harris without even a contest with 4 months to go.

The fact of the matter, all major parties in all Western Nations have been seized by the oligarchy. The only answer is to take one of those parties back and run a populist campaign, to make and run a political machine. But that's not in the cards because you (collective, not you neccessarily,) mother fuckers trust these fake leftists to run the opposition.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

many far right parties all over the world is primarly funded by putin anyways, it is not accident the sudden amount propaganda propping up them all at once. Billionaires are only taking advantage of what russia has lead the way.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

While true, putin only took advantage of the situation that the rich and business interests have created, making an alternate reality and everything else. This didn't start with Putin, it started with the Business Roundtable in 1971 that made the first iteration of the long game to overthrow the Republic, and all the rest of the western republics. The Heritage foundations project 2025 could probably be seen as a further iteration of the public part of their long game.

Putin saw how stupid and greedy the right wing was and dropped any lingering support for leftists, that are notoriously divisive and difficult to tool, and switched to supporting the far right.

[–] Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to see a bunch of parties...especially far left parties with a legit shot at the white house. that being said, as inept as the democrats are non of them have been trump by any stretch.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Forget left and right, we're talking about popular and unpopular, and the Democrats are not popular, and they're not trying to be popular, in a system that elects People based on popularity. Otherwise known as populism, which they consider the greatest of all evils.

Associating it with fake populism on the right that blames scapegoats for the real villains. That is why they suck.

Stop covering for them and help us get candidates that can win and can improve our situation because we are on the path to fucking ruin in case you haven't realized that.