The new pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, doesn’t have an active medical license. But she does have ‘impeccable MAHA credentials’

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    She also makes money from dietary supplements that she promotes on social media and has co-authored a book with her brother that claims “almost every chronic health symptom that Western medicine addresses is the result of our cells being beleaguered by how we’ve come to live”.

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      Well obviously, she and Rat Fucker Kennedy would make quite a pairing.

      While we will all be unhealthier (if not deader), the poorest among us are being forced into also being the unhealthiest among us.

      🤡 🖕

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      I think that last sentence actually does have some value, if one isnt just saying it to hock dietary supplements.

      Its hard to argue against it though if you consider all the issues with highly processed foods, nutrition deficiencies, the fact that we are meant to move far more than we usually do on a daily basis, microplastics, screen time, etc. I mean hell even eating 3 square meals a day is pretty unnatural from your body’s perspective. Kids being put on ADD medication just for normal child behavior instead of any severe issues. Theres a million examples of how our lives are deeply disconnected from the way that our bodies developed over hundreds of thousands of years

      I dont think the point should be used to sell shit so much as it should be used to get people to reconsider their lifestyles. And it especially shouldnt be used to argue that modern medicine is entirely useless or that correcting any of those kinds of things can cure everything that is wrong with anyone. Obviously there are all kinds of heath issues that arent derived from some externality. That said, I think its fair to say we are all round pegs trying to fit the square hole of modern life to some extent; which reframes many health issues people can have as logical results of that situation, instead of just as an isolated problem

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    Honestly, the author of this article, Arwa Mahdawi, is hands down the worst columnist at the Guardian.

    She’s an internet reporter who thinks she’s reporting news when she’s just regurgitating the most surface level takes from bluesky and reddit.

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    Ok, so…

    The surgeon general is going to be ‘We have crunchy-mom brand Julianne Moore from Children of Men at home’.

    Got it.

    Sure yep, ok, makes sense, thematic continuity, sure.

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    MAHA is Make America Healthly Again…

    I assumed that was some acronym for job in the health care industry like someone in health insurance like a benefits manager. No it’s just complete fucking bullshit.

    I don’t believe in God, but if there is a God, she isn’t testing us. She is mocking us.

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      Why would God even be gendered? Sorry, kind of a stray thought your post brought to the surface after seeing someone on late-night get a bunch of cheers for saying God was a woman.

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    Finally I see something that calls out the total hypocrisy of this regime. They claim merit hires and then literally only wtf hires. The wtf as we all know is blind moronic loyalty or blackmail loyalty.

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    The president has broad authority to nominate who ever he wants for these roles whether they are qualified or not. I don’t think this is up for debate, and to be frank it shouldn’t even be debated. The boss gives the job to whoever he wants (a good leader chooses the right person, a bad leader does what Dozing Donald does).

    But if a blatantly unqualified person gets the job, that’s on congress for playing politics instead of doing their job as they are supposed to.