In response to It’s Hegseth we need to get - Politics & Elections - Straight Dope Message Board, I don’t know, there are so many horrors all over. If you haven’t seen Last Week Tonight With John Oliver from last Sunday (April 27) I can’t even find words to express my feelings. It’s about across-the-board cuts to vital medical research and oversight in America’s key institutions like the NIH, and mass firings in all those places. And the spread of toxic disinformation by RFK Jr, a completely deranged lunatic in charge of it all.
As Oliver points out, in even the best of times it’s hard to restart research programs after they’ve been terminated and the key people have been fired. This cadre of rampaging lunatics will have a direct impact on human health for decades to come. Is Hegseth even worse? It depends who or what you’re more likely to be victimized by, a fatal disease or a fatal encounter with the Trump Gestapo.
I’ll say it again. This is a thousand times worse than I could ever have imagined. There are no checks and balances. Congress is spineless, and the Supreme Court is toothless.