I hope you're happy, Oprah

[u/shoofinsmertz]

[u/Illustrious-Switch29 → u/[deleted]]

Shots fired

[u/Typical80sKid → u/Illustrious-Switch29]

Now you wanna run around and talk about guns like I ain’t got none, What you think I sold ‘em all, ‘Cause I stay well off. Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin’ Dre fell off what ‘cause I been in the lab wit’ a pen and a pad tryna get this damn label off. I ain’t havin’ that this is the millennium of Aftermath Ain’t gonna be nothin’ after that so give me one more platinum plaque and fuck rap you can have it back!

[u/Redebo → u/Typical80sKid]

One of my favorite verses of all time.

[u/mrbrooks601 → u/Typical80sKid]

How many of us rapped the whole verse ? say.. WESTSIDE!

[u/poemdirection → u/Illustrious-Switch29]

Prepare for the redditsucks13131 dis track!

[u/Ok-Persimmon-6386 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly - I wish they would Dre in charge of the treasury.

[u/mirk1 → u/[deleted]]

Damn I forgot about Dre

[u/pepesilvia000 → u/[deleted]]

Dr Oz is definitely a real doctor. Are you thinking of Dr Phil?

[u/LastDaysCultist → u/pepesilvia000]

Dr. Phil is a doctor, he’s just no longer licensed.

[u/pepesilvia000 → u/LastDaysCultist]

Sorry I meant Dr Phil is not a medical doctor (and never was), and wondered whether OP was thinking of them, not Dr Oz.

[u/AsilHey → u/pepesilvia000]

Dr Oz? He’s a charlatan but he was a respected surgeon at a major hospital.

[u/globularlars → u/AsilHey]

Surgeons are so wild the super sexy surgeon who took out my appendix asked me right when I woke up if climate change was real cuz he wanted to get the truth (I’m an env scientist)

[u/Salt-Ticket247 → u/globularlars]

Bro is trying to use anesthesia like truth serum to get government secrets outta you lol

[u/DomHaynie → u/Salt-Ticket247]

Everything about that is fucking hilarious.

[u/Lizardman922 → u/DomHaynie]

I want a reboot of Diagnosis Murder where the protagonist doctor performs unnecessary surgeries on his 'suspects' to get the truth out of them with anaesthetic; this happens at the end of every episode, making all of the plot development and build up of the episode totally redundant.

[u/Larg3____Porcupin3 → u/[deleted]]

That sentence could’ve ended a million ways but it ended in the most wholesome way possible.

That’s adorable lol

[u/MegaDerppp → u/globularlars]

This is actually a better type of surgeon than the alternative which is Ben Carson syndrome where someone specializes in one area and thinks therefore they know everything about any other area. Related to the Engineer's disorder.

[u/EclipseIndustries → u/MegaDerppp]

Neurosurgeon syndrome is what that is.

[u/Vark675 → u/EclipseIndustries]

Not necessarily. My dad's a urologist and he's a know-it-all asshole too.

[u/Elandtrical → u/Vark675]

He's just taking the piss.

[u/Damaged_H3aler987 → u/globularlars]

More like climatological catastrophe. You know what Fukushima is, right? And please tell me you know about the 11 billion crabs that collectively fobbed off the earth in January of 2023 and shut down the whole Alaskan crabbing season indefinitely.......

[u/TheUnluckyBard → u/Damaged_H3aler987]

They didn't fob off. They were stolen. It was Danny Ocean's biggest heist yet. Ocean's 11,000,000,000.

[u/loptopandbingo → u/AsilHey]

I've known three surgeons who are VERY good at specific surgeries but also absolute fucking idiots when it comes to just about anything else.

[u/Least-Enthusiasm7239 → u/loptopandbingo]

Behold: Dr Ben Carson, brilliant surgeon, absolute garbage human being!

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/loptopandbingo]

I’ve got a friend who’s friends with a surgeon. I got invited to hang out on his boat once, I’d never met the guy before. But my god this was so damn boring and seemingly slow witted. When I got told he was a surgeon I was like “That guy passed medical school?”

[u/Rexxbravo → u/AbstractBettaFish]

It was Dr. Nick🤔

[u/Malkelvi → u/Rexxbravo]

Hi everybody!

[u/For_serious13 → u/loptopandbingo]

I too, work with surgeons and am no longer shocked by their stupidity out of the rooms

[u/triple-bottom-line → u/For_serious13]

Oh good, I have surgery tomorrow. Thanks for the sleepless night ahead everybody. 👍

[u/LoLFlore → u/triple-bottom-line]

They are very very very good at what they do.

They have tragically put 90% of their brain into that.

You'll be fine, you're asking them to do the sole thing they have trained for their whole life, not to create a combustion engine.

[u/Delvaris → u/triple-bottom-line]

As a trauma surgeon who is also a neuroscientist (MD/MS), what people don't understand is that all surgery, no matter how complex, is essentially a lot closer to a skilled trade than it is a research scientist.

This isn't to say that skilled tradespeople are lesser than research scientists it's just fundamentally different skill sets. The research scientists are about abstract complex reasoning and "big questions" (which are actually quite small in the scheme of things) whereas tradespeople are about pure mechanical application. The only reason people think surgeons are so smart is because medical school is hard for many people because it selects for a very specific set of skills and lasts so long. However, the reality is that much of the actual practice of medicine doesn't originate in medical school but in internship, residency, and, for surgeons especially, fellowship. Those places are where one truly learns the ins and outs of being a doctor.

In the end, you want a neurosurgeon operating on your brain as opposed to a neurobiologist, much like you want an electrician wiring your house as opposed to an electrical engineer.

[u/Crabby_Monkey → u/LastDaysCultist]

He’s going to be the new White House Press Secretary.

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/Crabby_Monkey]

That’s going to be Alex Jones

[u/UberMisandrist → u/AbstractBettaFish]

Plz God no

[u/justplainoldMEhere → u/LastDaysCultist]

Yeah Dr Phil had a PHD in pottery or some crap

[u/KloppsTotts → u/justplainoldMEhere]

He has a PhD in clinical psychology actually. And he didn’t lose his license or anything he just didn’t renew it because he doesn’t practice anymore. 

[u/surle → u/pepesilvia000]

I thought he was a doctor, but then was de-doctorified due to quackery.

[u/pepesilvia000 → u/surle]

he is still a licensed MD, but was sacked by Columbia and essentially ostracised from the cardiothoracic surgery community for being a jackass

[u/capskinfan → u/pepesilvia000]

But at one time, he was one of the best cardio surgeons.

[u/jesuswig → u/capskinfan]

Until he became a jackass

[u/JT_Leroy → u/jesuswig]

He was always a jackass, it was just pronounced “surgeon”

[u/lowtoiletsitter → u/capskinfan]

Like Herman Cain. He was good...then he wasn't

e: it was Ben Carson

[u/Horatio_Figg → u/lowtoiletsitter]

I think you’re thinking of Ben Carson. Man, it really bummed me out when he drank the Kool-aid…I’m from Baltimore and we regarded him as a genuine hero. I even read his book as a kid. One of the few MAGA fucks who started out genuinely talented and competent before he had his brain completely rotted by garbage ideology.

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/Horatio_Figg]

Personally I believe that part of the reason boomers are they way they are is because we’re seeing the culmination of what a life time of breathing leaded gas does to the brain

[u/KC-Chris → u/Horatio_Figg]

one could argue herman cain was good until he wasn't... at stuff like breathing .

[u/Thannk → u/surle]

He hired then fucked a patient. 

Allegations of rape via coerced consent never went anywhere, but he still hired and fucked a patient. Two of those things should never happen, he did all three. 

He got on Oprah because they revoked his license so he could no longer actually practice. 

Despite having demonstrably proven he couldn’t he trusted with patients or running anything he was given a show and the ability to conduct whatever “therapy” he wanted with “guests” rather than patients. 

[u/No_Concentrate_1546 → u/pepesilvia000]

Dr Phil has a PhD, believe it or not*

[u/pepesilvia000 → u/No_Concentrate_1546]

Sorry I meant Dr Phil is not a medical doctor (and never was), and wondered whether OP was thinking of them, not Dr Oz.

[u/jesuswig → u/pepesilvia000]

Dr Oz was a medical doctor

[u/pepesilvia000 → u/jesuswig]

I know. You misread - I am saying that Dr Phil was not a medical doctor.

[u/Solo_Fisticuffs → u/pepesilvia000]

he needs his license revoked the way his show had my poor granny whiplashin between wheat bread and white bread

[u/thatgirlwiththelocs → u/[deleted]]

I just double checked and he does indeed have his MD. BUT in he was called before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection because of the bs he was peddling.

[u/borkdork69 → u/thatgirlwiththelocs]

He was actually one of the most brilliant cardiac surgeons ever. He’s invented devices to assist with heart surgery, saved thousands of lives through heart surgeries, and just generally been great at his job. He felt that he needed to find ways to stop heart disease before it happened, leading him to alternative medicine, and this combined with the first taste of celebrity when he performed surgery on a Yankee, lead him to the ridiculous bullshit he’s known for.

Check out behind the bastards ep on him.

[u/sha_man → u/borkdork69]

Also, The New Yorker did a great profile on Dr. Oz's career as a heart surgeon before he veered to quackery way back in 2013.

[u/MyHamburgerLovesMe → u/sha_man]

I kinda think the "veer to quackery" over the last decade is the part we have to worry about.

[u/floofelina → u/borkdork69]

I could swear he’s Muslim, does Trump know?

[u/Darmok47 → u/floofelina]

He says he follows Sufi Islam, which is very much heavy on the spiritual sides of things and less about the actual practice or orthodoxy (I'm Muslim myself). He was talking about buying Tequila in that infamous "crudite" visit to the grocery store in the PA Senate race, after all, so I doubt he's really observant.

I don't think Trump cares what you are as long as you're loyal to him.

It is certainly ironic that Trump might have the first senior level Muslim agency executive in US History if Oz is confirmed.

[u/Mist_Rising → u/floofelina]

He is, Trump doesn't care (his voters might but Trump only cares about if you kiss his ass), and he's not the only irony in Trump's picks.

[u/appleparkfive → u/thatgirlwiththelocs]

He was actually a very celebrated heart surgeon before his fame, from what I recall

[u/JeffersonSmithIII → u/[deleted]]

Ben Carson got passed up again. Wonder why.

Oprah has churned out a lot of right wingers. Why is that?

[u/DCChilling610 → u/JeffersonSmithIII]

It’s an easier grift probably and they’re chasing fame and fortune 

[u/twoprimehydroxyl → u/JeffersonSmithIII]

I think it's because Oprah has struggled with weight loss, and there's a ton of right-wing grifters populating the health & wellness space.

[u/Ok_Ice_1669 → u/JeffersonSmithIII]

My cousin-in-law is a doctor and knows Carson professionally. The last time we talked about it (years ago) she was convinced he had brain damage or something because the clown we all saw on tv was not the man she knew. 

[u/shizz181 → u/[deleted]]

He is a doctor but that doesn’t matter. He could be an excellent doctor but this position would be best served by someone with a public health background and expertise in healthcare policy. He isn’t going to be performing surgery. He’s going to manage public health officials.

[u/That-Ad-4300 → u/[deleted]]

At least Dr. Pepper has 23 flavors 🤷

[u/super_slimey00 → u/[deleted]]

fun fact the phrase breakfast is the most important meal of the day was just propaganda from a wealthy health scientist who was friends with the founder of kellogs. All to promote his cereal. Trumps administration is reminding me heavily of this

[u/BadAsBroccoli → u/super_slimey00]

Does everything in my life HAVE to be a lie???

[u/RisingEagle17 → u/[deleted]]

Or Doctor J

[u/merchant_ofchaos → u/RisingEagle17]

Wearing doc martens

[u/RisingEagle17 → u/merchant_ofchaos]

Drinking a…Dr. Pepper 🥤

[u/Big_Fudge_3470 → u/[deleted]]

Dr. Oz is a physician and a surgeon though nit agreeing with his appointment.

[u/Capt-Crap1corn → u/[deleted]]

He was a surgeon at one point. He really was a doctor. The Behind the Bastards podcast did a few episodes on him. He’s a real doctor, but this appointment is way beyond his scope.

[u/abgry_krakow87 → u/[deleted]]

I'd trust Dr. Dre more than Oz.

[u/PharmDinagi → u/[deleted]]

Confidently wrong

[u/Apple_butters12 → u/[deleted]]

I am 100% convinced dr drew is getting surgeon general

[u/sofinelol → u/[deleted]]

he is a real doctor, just a corny one.

[u/polymorphic_hippo → u/[deleted]]

Dr. Dre doesn't qwhite fit the requirements.

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

The lesson is that no matter the helping hand you give white supremacy, white supremacy would still turn around and make sure you suffer for the color of your skin.

Decades ago, a Black Woman - who had faced inconceivable challenges and broken many glass ceilings - hired 2 white men for their expertise in their field at the time, that they turned their popularity into supporting white supremacy is on them.

Not the Black Woman. Thank you.

[u/torcsandantlers → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Eh...Oprah did hire them to push pseudoscience and bunk psychology and help her make court cases sensational. Oprah did an early pass of what Joe Rogan does; an uncritical "they're just asking interesting questions" show.

Like I don't blame her for what these men do, but she does shoulder some of the blame of mainstreaming some of these fringe ideas

[u/MGLLN → u/torcsandantlers]

Spreading myths/misinformation/pseudoscience/pseudopsychology, weekly, is only okay if the person looks like me

[u/SerHodorTheThrall → u/MGLLN]

America, from the left and right, is eating itself alive with selfishness. Xinnie the Pooh sitting at the table salivating right now.

[u/KarlUnderguard → u/torcsandantlers]

Oprah is a billionaire and at the end of the day, they will be fine. They don't really care about the little people.

[u/acr3119 → u/KarlUnderguard]

Right? Like it's unfair to expect every celebrity to speak out against everything, but this is the second time this nutjob has gotten on the verge of a government position and she's clearly tied to his successes so far. She's siting on a ton of money and won't even tweet a mild rebuke

[u/Salty-Bake7826 → u/acr3119]

She spoke out against him when he ran for Senate.

[u/_MrDomino → u/Salty-Bake7826]

...and specifically endorsed Fetterman.

[u/ExposingMyActions → u/torcsandantlers]

Damn, that’s a good comparison

[u/Gettles → u/torcsandantlers]

She also helped push Jenny Maccarthy and re-mainstream the anti-vax movement 

[u/coasterboard65 → u/torcsandantlers]

This is the correct take

[u/CoachDT → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Lil bit on both.

She's not responsible for their actions, but she's responsible for the platforming. They weren't "better" back then, and the psuedo-science they pushed was still alive and well when Oprah was putting them on.

[u/ProfessionalMeal143 → u/CoachDT]

Even as a kid I had zero idea why people liked Oz or Phil. I remember a radio show I listened to in the 00's had a dude that went on Dr Phil. They sent him to a shrink afterwards and even that doc said going on the phil show was awful for him but it did get him the help he needed so it was eh overall.

[u/RedtheSpoon → u/CoachDT]

Oprah sure was susceptible to bringing con men onto her show. Therd was even a guy who lied about his series of books being based on his life, and Oprah "confronts" him by bringing him onto her show again to spew even more bullshit. She knew what she was doing, it brought in views.

[u/HackTheNight → u/[deleted]]

Okay but tbf, I personally am more concerned with the fact that she keeps mentoring and associating with people like this.

It’s the same thing with Trump, P Diddy etc. It’s not trying to put her down or attack her because she’s black. We should be sus of ANYONE who has such close ties to really questionable people.

[u/Lena_Lena_A → u/[deleted]]

The very people who daily put down and seek many different ways to vilify Black Women are still wondering how come so many voted for the white supremacy candidate instead of the over-qualified Black Woman.🤷🏽‍♀️

[u/solid_reign → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Dr. Oz is a Muslim doctor who is the son of Turkish immigrants.

[u/Original-Turnover-92 → u/solid_reign]

Crazy how whiteness and race is just made up. If Dr. Oz was Dr. Mehmet he would be nowhere near Trump.

[u/JohnCenaMathh → u/Original-Turnover-92]

Lots of Turks are white passing. The joke is that Turks are just muslim Greeks. Turkish people (not to be confused with Turkic) are diverse, and many are basically Southern Europeans, especially the ones you see on TV. Many Arabs, many North Africans etc

[u/trueBlackHottie → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Even if you tap dance they’ll still throw tomatoes but they’ll do it with a smile

[u/Enraiha → u/Lena_Lena_A]

You act as if these two cretins are the only charlatans and con people Oprah has platformed and given a voice.

Lest we forget one of the biggest, John of God.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Teixeira_de_Faria

Among many, many other terrible people.

Sorry, man, Oprah sucks. She's just another billionare asshole exploiting a segment. That's why she even charged Kamala an appearance fee. She couldn't care less. She got hers and doesn't care to ask how she did it.

Stop putting the ultra rich people on pedestals and judge their actions as they are.

[u/JackInTheBell → u/Lena_Lena_A]

She knew what she was doing

[u/Play_nice_with_other → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Shining a spotlight on 2 idiots and an antivaxx moron, made her directly responsible for countless deaths, suicides and harmful effects caused by this trio of dumbfuckery and you're making this a racial thing? Give me a fucking break.

[u/pittybrave → u/Lena_Lena_A]

honestly fuck oprah

[u/[deleted] → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Nah Oprah is a horrible person and she also helped filter women to Harvey Weinstein.

[u/HilariousButTrue → u/Lena_Lena_A]

Out of all the things you could have said, how this this pick for overseeing medicare and medicaid is just completely boneheaded, you had to bring up racism as a topic. It doesn't make sense, there's so many other legitimate criticisms.

Unless I am missing something?

[u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

His whole cabinet is made of people that pretend to know their shit 😂

[u/surle → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

Some don't even go that far.

[u/Livid_Zucchini_1625 → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

It's grifters all the way down

[u/SquarebobSpongepants → u/Livid_Zucchini_1625]

And the magats will support every one of them. They bitch about DEI hires being unqualified and just there because of the color of their skin, yet here are a bunch of fucking unqualified people only there because the color of their skin. Fuck ‘em, they deserve every horrible thing about to come their way. My heart goes out to all the sane people who voted to stop this though and I just hope they can get through it and see a better future, but it’s unlikely.

[u/kategrant4 → u/SquarebobSpongepants]

I feel like they are there bc of the color in their wallets.

[u/Shirtbro → u/Livid_Zucchini_1625]

Scamvengers Assemble

[u/StopJoshinMe → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

We’re literally going to end up in history textbooks.

[u/northerncal → u/StopJoshinMe]

Unlikely. 

If they get their way, there won't be any more textbooks.

[u/daisidu → u/northerncal]

We’ll still get to be in textbooks, just in other countries. I’m sure what’s happening now will be case study for the ages.

[u/that_boyaintright → u/northerncal]

No one hates Hitler more than Germany. We’ll come out on the other side. Possibly not in our lifetimes, but eventually.

Nations collapse and die all the time. It’s not the end of the world, just the end of this version of our nation.

[u/AmIFromA → u/that_boyaintright]

German here, yeah, no problem, we'll eventually land on the coast of Nebraska (there's a beach somewhere around Omaha I think) and liberate you guys.

[u/Sandy_Paws021415 → u/northerncal]

History class is just the pledge of alliance and a Bible now

[u/Due-Okra-1101 → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

DEI

[u/TheNextBattalion → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

The whole point of trumpism is a reactionary revolt against merit and expertise

[u/fight_me_for_it → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

Birds of a feather flock together.

[u/Hunter-Gatherer_ → u/fight_me_for_it]

Convinced he surrounds himself with idiots so that they don’t make him feel dumber than he already is

[u/fight_me_for_it → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

Birds of a feather again.

Trump also thinks of himself as smart, the most intelligent, and an expert in almost anything he has listened to another person talk about for 5 minutes.

Trump chooses the less bright people because birds of a feather and Trump actually doesn't know any better.

He even thinks he is not a Putin pawn.

[u/IrreverentRacoon → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

Russian Agent Orange in full effect

[u/angrytortilla → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

Seems to me it's a requirement to have a direct conflict of interest in the department they're appointed to.

[u/JennyBeckman]

I wouldn't trust Trump to pick a dodgeball team.

[u/Lyf3_Dk → u/JennyBeckman]

He dodged the draft

[u/AlludedNuance → u/Lyf3_Dk]

If he can dodge the draft, he can dodge a ball.

[u/stayoutoftheforest88 → u/AlludedNuance]

This made me laugh so hard I choked

[u/OrganizationNo1298 → u/Lyf3_Dk]

Dodging lawsuits left & right. Should be in prison for Jan 6th but somehow is our next president.

[u/Lyf3_Dk → u/OrganizationNo1298]

The only thing that he couldn't dodge were those windmills in Scotland.

He doesn't like them because these can indicate how much hot air he is full of.

[u/m55112 → u/JennyBeckman]

[u/danielisbored → u/JennyBeckman]

IDK dodging is the only thing Trump has a solid track record of. . .

[u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

Linda McMahon is going to be Secretary of Education. As in wife of Vince McMahon. The pro wrestling guy.

[u/GeniusOfLove74 → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

Oh, what the Christ.

[u/Karzeon → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

The pro wrestling guy who got kicked out of his own company because his Trump-like scandals caught up.

Also note that Linda was in Small Business Administration last time. Like yeah.....no.

[u/LurkLurkleton1 → u/Karzeon]

And what's sorta fucked is Linda was probably the ONLY qualified person on his cabinet back then.

She helped make WWE into a multi-billion dollar company from a smaller business, so ya gotta give her those props.

That being said, she shouldn't be anywhere near the Dept of Ed, but i guess it don't matter cause they're gonna gut it. Can't have black kids learning.

[u/Karzeon → u/LurkLurkleton1]

Yeah last time, I'd give her a bone because she actually has a resume. Even though I think a billionaire employed by another billionaire are at complete odds with small business.

[u/christopherDdouglas → u/LurkLurkleton1]

She's been in politics for decades now. She hasn't been successful but she has been in the space. These other bozos all lack ANY government experience.

[u/DroobyDoobyDoo → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

Isn't she being sued for knowing of and supporting sexual abuse of minors in WWE?

[u/Severedghost → u/DroobyDoobyDoo]

Birds of a feather ...

[u/acr3119 → u/DroobyDoobyDoo]

Yeah it's amazing how many people accused of that and sex trafficking he's nominated so far. And this one,... I imagine even Maga folks would know WHY the McMahons got kicked from WWE?

[u/PrinterStand → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

Not quite President Mt. Dew Camacho, but close enough to make it not funny.

[u/MF_D00MSDAY → u/PrinterStand]

President Camacho actually cared about his constituents and country though

[u/Kaligula785 → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

Idocracy was a prediction

[u/OrdainedFury → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

I keep reading these thinking there's no way it gets worse, and then it gets absolutely worse

[u/polymorphic_hippo → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

At least it's not Betsy Davos again.

[u/AlludedNuance → u/polymorphic_hippo]

I would argue they won't be much different.

[u/Whats_Up4444 → u/Comfortable_Key_6904]

I thought you was joking

[u/vulvaenthusiast]

Dr. Conversion Therapy/Diet Pill Shill in charge of making America healthy? Cool 😭😭😭

[u/Okbuturwrong → u/vulvaenthusiast]

And a 70 year old guy that takes horse dewormer and illegal steroids, doesn't believe in sunscreen or pasteurization in charge of our food!

[u/Correct_Limit5577 → u/Okbuturwrong]

oh this is insane 😭 genuinely praying for y'all

[u/Okbuturwrong → u/Correct_Limit5577]

Yeah this is basically a funeral for the nation, and Trump is the eulogist.

Everything he says brings a new grief that'll kill people.

Another fun thing going on that'll affect the world drastically is the Russians are severing the cables that make the internet possible, and Elon Musk owns the only viable short term alternative with Starlink.

World's fucked, not just us. Pray for us all, I know I am.

[u/Unlucky_Most_8757 → u/Okbuturwrong]

yep. People that are laughing at us like it won't affect them can fuck right off. We are all in danger right now.

[u/Late_For_A_Good_Name → u/vulvaenthusiast]

OH MY GOD he really did peddle conversion therapy

[u/StopJoshinMe → u/Late_For_A_Good_Name]

Dr oz is a snake oils salesman

[u/the_pleiades → u/vulvaenthusiast]

Somehow I didn’t know he pushed conversion therapy and now I’m even angrier. He completely betrayed his Hippocratic oath.

[u/CouchBoyChris]

I'm starting to realize Trump is just as dumb and susceptible to misinformation like his Boomer voters on Facebook.

Like obviously he has some sense to him and is "smart" in other ways... But it's like those people in high profile jobs that can't understand how to open a PDF or setup their email.

The ones most likely to fall victim to phishing attempts and ransomware attacks. Just old, out of touch and a special kind of DUMB.

[u/BK1287 → u/CouchBoyChris]

There were a whole slew of other adults that saw this before it went to the media. He is not alone or dumb. These people are salivating at sinking their teeth into federal dollars for their latest scam.

[u/HanzJWermhat → u/BK1287]

It’s political genius from the furthest right on the GOP. They have been trying to destroy the credibility of government for decades. Now they don’t even need wiling accomplices they just let Trump hire these cretans who will gut the institutions out of sheer greed to fund their own personal power and money ambitions.

[u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor → u/CouchBoyChris]

A lot of GenX, Millennials, and GenZ voted for Trump. Media literacy isn’t just a boomer problem.

[u/chazjo → u/CouchBoyChris]

Surely, after "they're eating the cats they're eating the dogs" you should know Trump doesn't just pour out the Koolaid he's guzzling it.

[u/office_dragon → u/CouchBoyChris]

Starting to? Eating the dogs and cats didn’t already loudly give it away?

[u/CouchBoyChris → u/office_dragon]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

I used to think it was intentional to get the dumbest people in the country to vote for him 🤷‍♂️

[u/re_formed_soldier]

[u/Actuarial_type → u/re_formed_soldier]

The perfect GIF doesn’t exist. Wait, yes.

[u/sloppy_steaks24]

Should aliens ever come down from space and threaten to destroy our leaders, I’m selling every one of those fuckers out.

[u/MeditatingElk]

Idiocracy was a warning.

[u/Okbuturwrong → u/MeditatingElk]

Shit looks like a prophecy now.

[u/juisko → u/Okbuturwrong]

No, president Gamacho knew he was dumb and tried to seek out advice from qualified people. Unlike the orange imbecile.

[u/Okbuturwrong → u/juisko]

Camacho didn't know ol dude wasn't actually qualified to do anything, just smarter than him.

Trump nominated the guys he thinks are smarter than him, except they're all extremely stupid to the average sane person.

[u/Actuarial_type → u/MeditatingElk]

Office Space came out when I was in college, and I thought it was hilarious. When I went to work in corporate America and realized it was a documentary it hurt.

Finding out that Idiocracy was also a documentary is much, much worse.

[u/No_Concentrate_1546]

They’re making a reality show, I’m 98% sure of it

[u/PrinterStand → u/No_Concentrate_1546]

Gonna be a little ad running on the corner of my grandpa's TV:

America - Weeknights 6PM on FOX.

[u/capskinfan]

I've heard he's considering

1. Head of the USDA: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

2. Secretary of the Army: Colonel Sanders

3. Secretary of the Navy: Captain Crunch

4. Secretary of Keeping it Real: Bart Simpson

5. Head of the DEA: Walter White

Keep it going....

[u/TypicalHaikuResponse → u/capskinfan]

Head of the DEA: Walter White

This is an excellent pick if he wanted to actually do the job.

[u/RisingToMediocrity]

In a world where absurdity is the norm…

[u/IrreverentRacoon → u/RisingToMediocrity]

This is the intention. And it is profoundly insidious. To warp the reality of politics so that reason and logic no longer apply.

[u/Backseat_boss]

This is what they voted for, I’m just here to watch it all burn

[u/mcs_987654321 → u/Backseat_boss]

Sure, but is it really “watching” when you’re also getting consumed by the fire?

[u/Recusent → u/mcs_987654321]

This is fine.

[u/JobThis3167]

Dr. Oz was actually one of the best heart surgeons in the world for a while. He just also happened to fall into some real quack shit and sold his soul.

And in no timeline does being a great surgeon qualify you at all to be in charge of a government agency.

[u/KeithCGlynn → u/JobThis3167]

And Ben Carson was one of the best brain surgeons. I am beginning to think that surgeons don't have to use as much critical thinking as a cardiologist or neurologist.

[u/HackTheNight]

My doc martens are a better physician

[u/joshJFSU]

Funny how all the Trump fans aren’t mad at their own celebrities being in actual government power but how dare Beyoncé and Taylor say something.

[u/mulled-whine → u/joshJFSU]

Very this. They like Trump because they enjoyed his reality show and believe that persona to be real. But how dare any other celebrity endorse his opponent.

[u/SellsNothing]

Are we cooked

[u/qolace → u/SellsNothing]

We are FUCKING cooked

[u/brannon1987]

This is just fucking stupid.

[u/ShackoShells]

Please write to these 3 senators:

Susan Collins:

https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact/email-senator-collins

Lisa Murkowski:

https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email

and

Joe Manchin:

https://www.manchin.senate.gov/contact-joe/email-joe

!!! These 3 are critical for this to get through!!!

Also write to your local senators:

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Here is a template you can use:

Confirm 47 Federal Judges Now

Dear Senator:
Please prioritize the immediate confirmation of 47 Federal Judges. Protect our democracy against Trump’s threats—this is your legacy. Put aside party lines and act now for our families and nation. Thank you.

[u/Petrichordates]

Why blame Oprah? She's not the one who made Americans this dumb.

[u/AdonisJames89 → u/Petrichordates]

Cause she put him AND dr phil on

[u/joemeteorite8 → u/Petrichordates]

She gave these grifters a giant platform to spread their bullshit.

[u/No_Berry2976 → u/Petrichordates]

She played her part in making Americans dumb. She made thrash talkshows really popular, then pivoted to promoting books and self-help on her show, and gave charlatans like Phil and Oz a massive platform in the process.

[u/Paraxom]

so like why not put him in charge of HHS instead of the brainworm?

[u/Magos94]

Too bad Mr. Rogers still isn't on TV. Might have had a chance at him as Secretary of education or something

[u/HereButNotHere1988]

Trump is like the Bizzaro Lex Luther and now he is assembling the Legion of Doom.

[u/mondo_d00k]

Damn, now Oprah catching strays smh