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Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’ (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 137 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Exactly. That's like SecDef being like "idk, I'm really not in a position to give military advice". I say that fully aware of the irony, but it's hard to pick a non-busted example since Trump's cabinet is just completely full of "meritocracy".

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

since Trump's cabinet is just completely full of "~~meritocracy~~".

Mediocrity.

Ha, if only. I wish it could be that rosy :'(

Maybe midiocracy?

[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Kakistocracy

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It’s called that cause our government is lead by a bunch of KACKS

[–] forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

don't do my MIDI interfaces and keyboards like that :(