Goofing Off on Your Phone on the Taxpayer's Dime
Another Serving of Crow for the Liberal MAHA Fluffers
In many workplaces across America that pay substandard wages, you will find no shortage of signage scolding the “wagies” to stay off of their cellphones during work hours. In this new era of the Department of Health and Human Services under RFK Jr., goofing off on your phone all day, when you do manage to bother to show up to work, seems to be a requirement of senior leadership roles. As reported by The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg on June 7th:
“When [RFK Jr.] is in town, he exercises at his gym before work, then usually arrives at about 10 a.m. and leaves by 4 p.m., his colleagues say. He spends much of his day in closed-door meetings ... At the outset of his tenure, Mr. Kennedy was rarely there, either virtually or in person ... he now shows up once a month. But when he does attend, he often appears disengaged and spends the time scrolling on his phone”
Well, well, well. It was not so long ago that journalist Liz Highleyman suggested that we could “work with” RFK Jr. on “good policies”:
It turns out he’s not working at all, he’s just goofing off on his phone! Let us also not forget either the deluge of propaganda The New York Times has produced legitimizing this anti-vaccine scam artist in the past. From the ancient past of September 18th, 2024 by Emily Baumgaertner:
“Some of Mr. Keneddy’s philosophies during the COVID-19 pandemic were more mainstream. He opposed stay-at-home orders and mask mandates.”
The New York Times causally omits that part of RFK Jr.’s opposition involved marching with German (!) neo-Nazis. I guess The New York Times, having previously praised Adolf Hitler, doesn’t think that’s so bad. Having already gotten the blood of dozens of American children on his hands, The New York Times pretended that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. somehow has a genuine concern for the health of America’s kids:
“Expressed worry about children missing months of in-person schooling … even some who were involved in the pandemic response said the critique was warranted … public health leaders had made the really unfortunate mistake of ignoring all the collateral damage that would come from school closures, business shutdowns, and other policies designed to curb transmission.”
Or perhaps, Little Miss “Paper of Record,” these were all simply bad-faith attacks from a social media obsessed provocateur who, upon being given real power and responsibility, simply goofs off on their phone all day while autistic children are pumped full of ketamine and injected with of stem cells by exploitative quacks. Similar behavior among other members of RFK Jr.’s goon squad has also been reported.
Before being ousted from the Food & Drug Administration, former Commissioner Marty Makary produced an endless stream of social media videos whilst his agency fellow into chaos and disarray. Before being ousted twice in a year, it’s rumored that Vinay Prasad would neglect patients to goof off on Twitter while at UCSF Medicine. Jay Bhattacharya, as NIH Director and Acting CDC Director, has neglected his responsivities to appear on countless podcasts and smear his face across Twitter. HHS’ Martin Kulldorff is generating AI-generated slop for official presentations.
This should come as no surprise; spewing harmful disinformation and cheap insults on social media is how these people became public figures & plucked to serve in the second Trump Administration. Yet, liberals such as Ashish Jha called these social media trolls “reasonable,” Leanna Wen called them “surprisingly strong,” and Princeton’s Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee have championed Bhattacharya with a completely fictionalized retelling of his actions around the COVID-19 pandemic.
So why are we still waiting for these 5,000 word apologies from the liberal-minded, COVID-minimizing MAHA fluffers acknowledging that they have proven to be terrible judges of character? Where is the acknowledgement that those of us who correctly connected all of the terrible and often harmful garbage they said about COVID-19 was proof that they would fail in leading these critical federal agencies? Simply because you also supported repeatedly infecting unvaccinated children with COVID-19 doesn’t mean that these cranks were acting in good faith.
Our media outlets have done the American public a grave disservice, especially in the opinion editorial writers they chose to let ramble on endlessly about COVID-19. While RFK Jr. is goofing off on his phone, Leana Wen is still writing that we should just give up on kids winding up hospitalized because their parents fell for a “raw milk” scam, instead of advocating for Democrats to legislate these harmful scam artists out of business.
Now if Democrats wanted to be really clever, they would introduce legislation to protect employees’ rights to goof on their phone in the workplace. If it’s good enough for the Trump Administration, it’s good enough for the rest of America! Make America Goof Again! Or even better, how about a new federal regulation that the leaders of public health agencies are restricted to social media free flip phones?
In truth, and this is a major part of the thesis of my upcoming book, political pundits embraced dangerous medical disinformation they read on Twitter, then repeated it to the public in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Policymakers, including the Biden Administration, read these garbage opinion-editorials and made terrible decisions that harmed countless American lives. Did it save the Democrats in 2024? No? Is RFK Jr. not pissing his pants about accurate reporting of how he’s doing a terrible job? Also no!
Perhaps it’s time to recalibrate our thinking.
