On Wednesday, President Trump, like the Road Runner kindly returning Wile E. Coyote’s misplaced explosives, dropped an Acme Gaetz-grenade down the back of progressive Washington’s trousers while it was distracted looking for the President down in the gulch of Florida. After Gaetz’s nomination for Attorney General, was
inconceivable the President could have been any more provocative, but he managed it anyway. CNN covered the story under the headline, “
Trump’s latest controversial Cabinet pick could have a huge impact on Americans’ health and lives.”
Hopefully.
While DC was distracted, distressedly leaping around frantically trying to get the Gaetz-grenade out of its back pocket, the news of Kennedy’s nomination for Secretary of HHS fell out of the Mar-a-Lago-colored sky like an
entire crate of Acme Gaetz-grenades and squashed CDC headquarters.
A few second later, a little cloud of black smoke exploded out from under the Kennedy-crate, along with a blackened arm holding a little sign that said, “boom.”
The implications are so stunningly vast that no single headline could do the story justice. CNBC took the economic view, reporting “
Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS.” (Losers included Moderna, Pfizer, Novavax, GlaxoSmithKline, and others.) The far-left UK Guardian headlined its story, “
RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination.”
It was a total freak out, from one end of J-street to the other.
Fox:
NPR, which should be busy polishing up its resume instead of running hit pieces against my home state, darkly wondered in its headline, “
What happens when a vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida.”
Incidentally, why do they hate the Sunshine State so much?
Hey M’arn’a, what’s the worst thing xe can think of, besides Florida?
Returning to NPR’s headlined question, the answer to
what happens was, get ready,
more vaccine skepticism. Dr. Lisa Gwynn, a licensed Miami doctor who believes men and women are biologically indistinguishable, is frankly terrified. She’s terrified because so far this year, Broward county has seen
five measles cases. Five! (Everyone was fine, of course, but still.) Five! (In a county of millions.)
‘Measles cases’ is the metric the Establishment is using to measure vaccine skepticism these days. Whatever.
But possibly the best description of what terrifies the Establishment the most appeared in the sub-headline to one of the myriad New York Times articles about RFK’s nomination. It read, “Whether the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic
who has unorthodox views about medicine, is an open question.”
Unorthodox views.
A special Robert Kennedy, Jr. edition, pushing past the hot takes and quieting the media racket to explore the profound significance of this revolutionary, historic nomination.
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