Saturday, August 30, 2025

White House Names RFK Jr Deputy as Replacement CDC Director

The White House has named a replacement for the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after its previous leader was forced out of the job.

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"I've never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead' as I have today," an agency employee told STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c ...

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-- STAT (@statnews.com) Aug 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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US health policies and strategies as a result of political obsequiousness, and not as a result of medical information.

How can that possibly go wrong?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-29 02:18 AM

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (1982)
www.youtube.com

Yeah, that's the ~not often played~ full-length album version.

Enjoy!

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Intro]
daeh ym ni sneriS
yznerf a otni snips efil elohw yM
Somewhere in a lonely hotel room
There's a guy starting to realize
That eternal fate has turned its back on him
It's two a.m.

[Verse 1]
It's two a.m., the fear has gone
(It's two a.m., the fear has gone)
I'm sitting here waitin', the gun's still warm
(I'm sitting here waitin', the gun's still warm)
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances

Yeah, there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
Cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy

[Chorus]
Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-29 02:24 AM

Go to his wiki page.

en.wikipedia.org(investor)

What a creepy looking MFer.

One line stood out to me

After working at HHS, O'Neill was managing director of Clarium Capital, a Thiel-led hedge fund, during 2008"2012.[4][6][7] During this time he was also CEO of the Thiel Foundation from 2009 to 2012 and was managing director from 2008 to 2012 at Thiel Capital.

So a puppet with zero actual experience beyond having Peter Thiel's hand up his a&& as a professional "investor" is now leading what was the world's preeminent public health institution before the Trump morons got a hold of it.

I'm sure that's going to work out great for the rest of us.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-29 02:53 AM

This Peter Thiel puppet is going to monetize every patient using AI or other Palantir-type technology. This cabal of ghouls are going to make money off of people's illnesses and miseries.

First half of GOP control of America: Dummkopf Trumpf and Felon Musk.

Second half of GOP control of America. JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

And JD Vance told USAToday that after 200 days of experience flying around on vacation with Usha, he's ready to step into Trumpf's shoes as President if a tragedy should befall Dear Leader.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-29 03:59 AM

CORIOLANUS

"And JD Vance told USAToday that after 200 days of experience flying around on vacation with Usha, he's ready to step into Trumpf's shoes as President if a tragedy should befall Dear Leader."

I don't know about you but I'm getting the impression that "tragedy" has already befallen Dear Leader.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-30 11:51 PM

It would be an interesting twist if Putin poisoned Dementia Donnie in Anchorage. Those GCCCP suits coming out of the Putin meeting sure did look shaken.

#6 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-08-31 01:31 AM

@#4 ... This Peter Thiel puppet ...

At first, I had thought your comment might be referring to VP Vance.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-31 02:21 AM

CHUFFY

Not likely. Putin farms out his dirty work. Notice, for example, that he has never been connected to the multitude of his enemies who have fallen out of windows after opposing him.

Unlike Trump, Putin is smart enough to make sure nothing can be traced to him.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-31 03:50 PM

Posted this about him on a different thread.

O'Neill will be the first person in the 80+ year history to head the CDC who is not a doctor. He has one of those elitist masters degrees in humanities from the University of Chicago (Obama liked that school) with a background working in hedge funds. Aren't those things the right are always crying about?
He has no qualifications that should make one believe he's an appropriate pick for this role, not even if it is only an interim stint. He favors deregulation of the pharmaceutical industry and thinks patients should be free to take pharmaceuticals at their own risk. Wants to leave determining efficacy up to the free market. Putting it another way, he's an advocate for snake oil salesmen.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce

#9 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-09-01 10:58 PM

@#5 ... "And JD Vance told USAToday that after 200 days of experience flying around on vacation with Usha, he's ready to step into Trumpf's shoes as President if a tragedy should befall Dear Leader." ....

Wow, that's real.

Scary as it may seem.

Vance, in exclusive interview, says he's ready to be president while hailing Trump's health
www.usatoday.com

... The first time Vice President JD Vance walked into the Oval Office, he noticed the drapes ("dark and gloomy") -- but he insists he's not measuring them for a future turn behind the Resolute Desk.

"I've gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 days," Vance said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY on Aug. 27, when asked if he was ready to assume the role of commander in chief. ...


#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 11:54 PM

My first question ...

Why would a Vice President even see the need to express such a comment?

Did fmr Pres Johnson say something similar regarding fmr Pres Kennedy?


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-01 11:56 PM

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