A new month of dread has dawned as we wait with bated breath for the next steps in the dismantling of the United States. As always in these turbulent times, it's hard to single out individual - or even group - winners for our Ass Clown Awards, but I think there's a clear winner this time.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, we present the tinfoil and toilet paper crown to
The Right-Cheek Ass Clown for September, 2025
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., noted anti-vaccine activist and purveyor of odd theories of health, nutrition, and medical care, was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services by Der Furor, with the aid of a compliant Senate that included Senator Bill Cassidy - a physician (gastroenterologist) and a man who certainly should have known better.
Mr Kennedy's HHS appointment was enabled in large part by an initially skeptical Senator Cassidy, who extracted a promise from Mr Kennedy that he would not interfere with the vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mr Kennedy, once confirmed, fired the entire panel and replaced the members - all physicians and scientists - with a collection of vaccine skeptics more in line with his personal beliefs.
Under Mr Kennedy's leadership, the state of public health in the United States has, arguably, declined precipitously. The downgrading or elimination of vaccine recommendations alone has led to outbreaks of measles - a deadly disease once thought eradicated, and an erosion of confidence in the safety and efficacy of long-standing medical opinions. The wholesale firing of experienced scientists and physicians from the CDC and other HHS offices and their replacement with unqualified hacks distinguished only by their rejection of proven science and medicine has set the nation on the road to the public health status of the most backward third-world country.
On September 4th, former CDC Director Susan Monarez published an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal in which she claimed she was after 29 days on the job because she insisted on rigorous scientific review of administration policies. Her article was a damning indictment of an incompetent person selected for political reasons to run an organization crucial for public health and safety. She wrote that Kennedy and his anti-vaccine colleagues
“use a familiar playbook: discredit research, weaken advisory committees, and use manipulated outcomes to unravel protections that generations of families have relied on to keep deadly diseases at bay. Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined. That isn’t reform. It is sabotage.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the Right-Cheek Ass Clown Award for September, 2025, is presented to HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In an administration intentionally staffed with incompetent officials whose only qualification is slavish devotion to Der Furor, Mr Kennedy stands alone as the one most likely to cause lasting harm not just to our economy, our infrastructure, or our international standing, but to our very health.
Have a good day, and come back tomorrow when we cook up a tasty Cartoon Saturday. More thoughts then.
Bilbo
4 comments:
He is quite the piece of work!
Excellent pick. I'm beginning to dislike this POS more than tRUMP.
A great choice! Perhaps you could add a special designation, aside what there already is for multiple awards for those individual recipients, like this one, who are especially worthy. Perhaps Right/Left Ass Clown with a special service award for bad conduct? t.
Look forward to Cartoon Saturday!
A great choice, even with the embarrassment of choices available. That man is looney, genuinely looney, which is slightly different from the rest of the Trump pack who are power hungry and cruel.
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