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[Reelya]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/white-house-installed-oan-reporter-as-fda-spokesperson-she-lasted-11-days/

The Food and Drug Administration has ousted its controversial chief spokesperson, Emily Miller, following botched communications about using blood plasma as a potential COVID-19 treatment, according to multiple media reports.

Miller, who held the position for just 11 days, aggressively defended FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn this week after he grossly misstated benefits of the treatment during a press briefing last Sunday. In the briefing, President Trump announced that the FDA had authorized emergency use of the treatment, despite reports that experts at the National Institutes of Health objected, saying the evidence was too weak to justify use. Though Hahn apologized for his misstatements, controversy over the authorization continued, raising questions about the credibility of the FDA and the independence of Hahn.

But even without that fiasco, Miller’s presence at the agency was controversial, drawing further concern that the traditionally apolitical agency has been politicized by the Trump Administration.

The White House installed Miller, a right-wing activist, to the FDA August 17. Though she has no background in science or medicine, she was appointed to the position of assistant commissioner and chief spokesperson for the regulatory agency, a position that is typically filled by non-political civil servants.

[delphonso]

20 bucks says when Trump goes to Kenosha he has a speech where he announces he'll shut down the polls in Kenosha to protect the property they would be at.

[hector13]

Nah he’ll praise the police that handcuffed to a hospital bed a man they paralyzed, and allowed a murderer to walk through their lines to safety.

[Starver]

I'm still wondering benefits from intelligence. No, actually I'm not.

edit: "...wondering who benefits..." that should have said. Doh!

[hector13]

He’s politicizing things that haven’t hitherto been (particularly) political, and all in the “interests of democracy” which is quite disgusting.

He’s laying the groundwork for something in case he loses. Hopefully it’s just to salve his wounded ego.

[Reelya]

Good luck people, you have two months until then. It's going to be a loooong two months.

I can already tell that "200,000 deaths" is going to be a thing you're going to hear about 10 million times.

[wierd]

...

I am super cynical right now, but we know basically everything we need to know already.

Biden is a geriatric fossil that somehow managed to placate irrational fears a portion of our electorate have about "SOCIALISM!!" (specifically, "OMG! BERNIE IS SOCIALIST! woooo!!"), by being a stale, geriatric old fossil that is basically an oldschool conservative in disguise. (and seems like a blatant case of "Better the devil you know")

Trump probably still grabs women by the pussy, has been sending jackbooted thugs to make tense civil situations worse, seriously fucked the country with his "But the democratic states would get hit hardest, so we wont actually implement this rather simple set of public health guidelines to prevent a crisis, because it is more politically advantageous for us to let one happen" bullshit he went along with, etc.


It's fucking space mutants all over again, but this time I am being arm twisted to vote for the least dangerous of the two.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Nah, America is helpless before Trump. He'll lose the election, stay in office because he says so and probably some Q thing, and Pelosi will agree to it in exchange for keeping the pre-existing conditions clause of Obamacare, which Trump will then pass an executive order against.

Also the military will kill everybody and the metahorror schizoid existence will break escape velocity, etc, etc.

[wierd]

That shit happens, I am quitting my job, packing a bugout bag, and walking. I dont care it will be winter. 

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's ok, you won't have to leave your house to slaughter the stars in heaven once human instrumentality is achieved, which will be around March 2021 at current progression rates.

[MrRoboto75]

I for one can't wait for the rise of fascist authoritarianism, and how it will purge undesirables like me (disabled)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The best part of being murdered by the government is that it will automatically raise your oppression rank in twitter discussions (they have twitter in hell, also everyone goes to hell, largely because of Earth's twitter).

[wierd]

As a single white male (who makes BARELY 20k a year, so clearly MASTER RACE!, SUPER PRESTIGE, SUCH PRIVILEGE!), I cant wait for the resulting bullshit that causes me to get EVEN FURTHER smeared in the public eye.

I can hardly wait for the nazi uprising to blow the lid off shit, so I can be maligned as a racist nazi just for being male and white.

[MrRoboto75]

As a single white male (who makes BARELY 20k a year, so clearly MASTER RACE!, SUPER PRESTIGE, SUCH PRIVILEGE!), I cant wait for the resulting bullshit that causes me to get EVEN FURTHER smeared in the public eye.

I can hardly wait for the nazi uprising to blow the lid off shit, so I can be maligned as a racist nazi just for being male and white.

something something original sin

[Egan_BW]

As a single white male (who makes BARELY 20k a year, so clearly MASTER RACE!, SUPER PRESTIGE, SUCH PRIVILEGE!), I cant wait for the resulting bullshit that causes me to get EVEN FURTHER smeared in the public eye.

I can hardly wait for the nazi uprising to blow the lid off shit, so I can be maligned as a racist nazi just for being male and white.

I'm sure that that will be your biggest problem[/s]