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The United States of America is now a full blown Kakistocracy. Europe has made it clear they are no longer tying their future to Crazytown. Here is the definition:

kakistocracy
/kakɪˈstɒkrəsi/
noun
government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
"the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"
a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.
plural noun: kakistocracies
"the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"

By electing Trump by the narrowest of margins, just 1.5% over Kamala Harris, the country of my birth and upbringing, the country which has given me so much, has chosen national suicide rather than allow queer people to be themselves. That’s really what it comes down to. Oh, and fear of brown people cleaning the kitchens of the Mexican restaurants they love to stuff their faces in when it’s Taco Tuesday. Those nasty brown people doing construction in 95 percent humidity in Florida, picking the oranges, get them out!
I have had to accept that tens of millions of Americans would rather burn the entire country down than have to see a man wear a dress. Or a woman with studs in her temples with green and purple hair arm in arm with her wife. Seriously.

It’s been brutal to watch the downfall of the world’s preeminent superpower in less than one year. Everything moves so quickly these days. Progress and forward motion are things MAGA hates. That’s why they voted for someone who promised to take the country back. Back in time, to when colored people knew their place and a woman’s place was in the kitchen or making white babies so that white people can remain the dominant race. This is one of the reasons why MAGA went so ballistic over a talented and handsome brown man doing the halftime show at our favorite group sporting event.

My favorite philosopher drummer Michael Jochum picks up the beat from here:

There is something grotesque about a president who claims to “hire the best people” and then hands life-and-death authority to loyalists whose primary qualification is obedience. Donald Trump does not appoint experts. He appoints sycophants. He appoints people who mirror his defiance of reality. And nowhere is that more dangerous than at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a harmless eccentric. He is the top public health official in the United States telling a podcast host he is “not scared of a germ” because he “used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.”

That isn’t edgy. It isn’t rebellious. It isn’t brave.

It’s reckless.

I am twenty years sober. Twenty. I know addiction intimately. I know the humiliation of it. The secrecy. The selfishness. The moral erosion. I have suffered consequences. I have made amends where I could. I have looked people in the eye and owned my failures. Recovery, if it’s real, strips you of bravado. It replaces swagger with humility. It teaches you that addiction is not a punchline, it is a grave.

So when I hear the Secretary of Health reduce drug abuse to a chest-thumping anecdote, as if snorting cocaine off a toilet seat is some badge of anti-germ toughness, it turns my stomach. That isn’t recovery language. That’s ego. And ego is the first thing sobriety is supposed to kill.

I have compassion for anyone who fights addiction. But compassion does not mean lowering standards for public safety. Recovery should produce responsibility, not podcast theatrics.

This is the man responsible for vaccine policy. For infectious disease response. For the health infrastructure that protects infants too young to be vaccinated, cancer patients fighting for their lives, grandparents whose immune systems are fragile. He has repeated debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. He has downplayed measles vaccination during outbreaks that have killed Americans from a disease eliminated in 2000. He frames immunization as a personal lifestyle choice while viruses spread without regard for politics.

Viruses don’t care about bravado.

Meanwhile, this administration labels immigrants with past addiction struggles “the worst of the worst,” while their own health secretary jokes about cocaine. The hypocrisy is staggering. The double standard is structural.

And let’s be clear: Donald Trump did not hire RFK Jr. because he is qualified. He hired him because he is useful. Because he undermines trust in institutions. Because he feeds the grievance machine that distrusts science itself. Loyalty over competence. Always.

Public health depends on trust. Once that trust fractures, it doesn’t heal easily. When the nation’s chief health official treats germs like a punchline, it sends a signal, that seriousness is optional, that expertise is elitist, that swagger is strength.

It isn’t.

Real strength is accountability. Real strength is humility. Real strength is knowing that your words ripple through 330 million lives and choosing them carefully.

I worked twenty years to earn back credibility, in my family, in my profession, in my own conscience. I know what it takes to rebuild trust. And I know what it looks like when someone squanders it.

This isn’t partisan outrage. This is parental instinct. Grandparent instinct. The basic human expectation that the person in charge of our nation’s health understands that germs are real, addiction is serious, and public office is not a stage for self-mythology.

If you cannot speak about recovery with humility, you have no business running public health.

Resign.

-Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
 
The United States of America is now a full blown Kakistocracy. Europe has made it clear they are no longer tying their future to Crazytown. Here is the definition:

kakistocracy
/kakɪˈstɒkrəsi/
noun
government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state.
"the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"
a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.
plural noun: kakistocracies
"the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"

By electing Trump by the narrowest of margins, just 1.5% over Kamala Harris, the country of my birth and upbringing, the country which has given me so much, has chosen national suicide rather than allow queer people to be themselves. That’s really what it comes down to. Oh, and fear of brown people cleaning the kitchens of the Mexican restaurants they love to stuff their faces in when it’s Taco Tuesday. Those nasty brown people doing construction in 95 percent humidity in Florida, picking the oranges, get them out!
I have had to accept that tens of millions of Americans would rather burn the entire country down than have to see a man wear a dress. Or a woman with studs in her temples with green and purple hair arm in arm with her wife. Seriously.

It’s been brutal to watch the downfall of the world’s preeminent superpower in less than one year. Everything moves so quickly these days. Progress and forward motion are things MAGA hates. That’s why they voted for someone who promised to take the country back. Back in time, to when colored people knew their place and a woman’s place was in the kitchen or making white babies so that white people can remain the dominant race. This is one of the reasons why MAGA went so ballistic over a talented and handsome brown man doing the halftime show at our favorite group sporting event.

My favorite philosopher drummer Michael Jochum picks up the beat from here:

There is something grotesque about a president who claims to “hire the best people” and then hands life-and-death authority to loyalists whose primary qualification is obedience. Donald Trump does not appoint experts. He appoints sycophants. He appoints people who mirror his defiance of reality. And nowhere is that more dangerous than at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a harmless eccentric. He is the top public health official in the United States telling a podcast host he is “not scared of a germ” because he “used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.”

That isn’t edgy. It isn’t rebellious. It isn’t brave.

It’s reckless.

I am twenty years sober. Twenty. I know addiction intimately. I know the humiliation of it. The secrecy. The selfishness. The moral erosion. I have suffered consequences. I have made amends where I could. I have looked people in the eye and owned my failures. Recovery, if it’s real, strips you of bravado. It replaces swagger with humility. It teaches you that addiction is not a punchline, it is a grave.

So when I hear the Secretary of Health reduce drug abuse to a chest-thumping anecdote, as if snorting cocaine off a toilet seat is some badge of anti-germ toughness, it turns my stomach. That isn’t recovery language. That’s ego. And ego is the first thing sobriety is supposed to kill.

I have compassion for anyone who fights addiction. But compassion does not mean lowering standards for public safety. Recovery should produce responsibility, not podcast theatrics.

This is the man responsible for vaccine policy. For infectious disease response. For the health infrastructure that protects infants too young to be vaccinated, cancer patients fighting for their lives, grandparents whose immune systems are fragile. He has repeated debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. He has downplayed measles vaccination during outbreaks that have killed Americans from a disease eliminated in 2000. He frames immunization as a personal lifestyle choice while viruses spread without regard for politics.

Viruses don’t care about bravado.

Meanwhile, this administration labels immigrants with past addiction struggles “the worst of the worst,” while their own health secretary jokes about cocaine. The hypocrisy is staggering. The double standard is structural.

And let’s be clear: Donald Trump did not hire RFK Jr. because he is qualified. He hired him because he is useful. Because he undermines trust in institutions. Because he feeds the grievance machine that distrusts science itself. Loyalty over competence. Always.

Public health depends on trust. Once that trust fractures, it doesn’t heal easily. When the nation’s chief health official treats germs like a punchline, it sends a signal, that seriousness is optional, that expertise is elitist, that swagger is strength.

It isn’t.

Real strength is accountability. Real strength is humility. Real strength is knowing that your words ripple through 330 million lives and choosing them carefully.

I worked twenty years to earn back credibility, in my family, in my profession, in my own conscience. I know what it takes to rebuild trust. And I know what it looks like when someone squanders it.

This isn’t partisan outrage. This is parental instinct. Grandparent instinct. The basic human expectation that the person in charge of our nation’s health understands that germs are real, addiction is serious, and public office is not a stage for self-mythology.

If you cannot speak about recovery with humility, you have no business running public health.

Resign.

-Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
Another original, eh dipshit?

 
Obama let the cat out of the bag the other day and then walked the cat back. I bet you these "beings" are hiding out over by the Arctic. Popcorn is popping. Also, Epstein was for sure working for the leader of this group. No one can escape earth.

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