Trump's Appointments

[WAB]

I was studying to be a diet tech for two years, while I worked as the dietary manager in a big skilled nursing home. I was being schooled by a consulting registered dietician who came once a month, did a thorough inspection, and brought me tests.

Anyway, based on my own experience, and what the RD said, doctors are typically not up to snuff when it comes to nutrition, and very often they are not terribly interested. They are usually more than happy to just sign off on RD assessments, and most of the time don't even take the trouble to contest a dietary manager. Of course this is only my experience, and in geriatric care.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Well, they are somewhat right. I have found the medical community very lacking in an understanding of nutrition. General ideas as to what constitutes a healthy diet but no ideas what to do when that's not enough of an answer.

That's the system working as designed.

Your GP/PCP has a general idea about how to spot a problem with your heart, but if they find one they have no idea how to perform bypass surgery.

Which is no problem, because they just refer you to a cardiac surgeon.

Similarly, if their general ideas about diet are inadequate, they refer you to a dietician or nutritionist.

No doctor is expected to know all of medicine, and your expectation that they might is unreasonable.

But who do they refer to?

See bold, above.

Nobody.

??

What part of "nobody" do you not understand?

I have not found anyone who has any useful information on working around food intolerances.

I've had to do a lot of reading on my own, especially in regard to where the boundaries are rather than what's ideal. A piece here, a piece there, nobody with an overall picture.

Try a dietician, or a nutritionist.

Around here, the Dept of Health is very keen to encourage people to see such specialists, because of the long run saving in health care costs it entails.

The same cost incentive should apply in your daft health insurance environment - even more so than it does here.

I know one. "How can I improve my diet?" Yeah, she can answer that. "How do I maintain nutrition while minimizing the amount I piss my body off?" <No answer>

 

[ideologyhunter]

Give me a break! I know I've been posting YouTubes about Trump's atrocious cabinet on a daily hourly basis but this one, narrated by Jen Psaki is too hilarious to pass up. The country's very top Republicans, if still in sixth grade, would be told they were being held back and to work harder so that they could advance to 7th grade a year late.

A top GOP Senator multiplies 1.5 billion by ten and gets a trillion.

Another GOP Senator asks "What was[sic] we ranked in reading and math in 1979?" Top Education expert Linda McMahon answered "We were very very low on the totem pole." The intended answer to this softball question was "#1."

I suppose the Senators and Secretary were "joking," which FEMA director did pretending he'd never heard of hurricane season.

RFK Jr was laughed at when his department produced a major report full of fake citations. His department apologized and produced a totally new report ... full of totally new fake citations!

The windows of airport traffic control towers cannot be washed without cumbersome compliance with new red-tape required for even small expenses. (Starve the Beast, even the "Beast" that helps avoid aircraft collisions.)

And so on. The garbage from HHS and DNI are even worse.

Your examples are mind boggling. Trump obviously isn't boggled (but then again...)
My favorite cabinet hippo turd was deposited on April 8 by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who was trying to impress everyone with her familiarity with using high tech in instruction, in this case, AI. I quote:
"There was a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders, or even pre-Ks, have A1 teaching that far down in the grades. That's a wonderful thing. Kids are sponges. They just absorb everything...Now. let's see A1 and how that can be helpful."
To be fair, the administration is probably interested in training kids for their future careers in fast food, but in that case, I say let's cut costs and use Grade A fancy catsup, in the packets.
Still can't get the image of kids sponging up the A1 out of my mind. Jesus MAGA Christ.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Much more savings to be found in replacing students with AI!

 

[Swammerdami]

Trumpsucker Hegseth, the alcoholic FoxNews liar who now heads the multi-trillion dollar war machine, appeared before a Senate committee. I don't think Tammy Duckworth likes him.

 

[starwater]

Trumpsucker Hegseth, the alcoholic FoxNews liar who now heads the multi-trillion dollar war machine, appeared before a Senate committee. I don't think Tammy Duckworth likes him.

Go Tammy! Take no prisoners. What an utter failure Hegseth is.

 

[Elixir]

Trumpsucker Hegseth, the alcoholic FoxNews liar who now heads the multi-trillion dollar war machine, appeared before a Senate committee. I don't think Tammy Duckworth likes him.

Go Tammy! Take no prisoners. What an utter failure Hegseth is.

Failure by design.
I am surprised that Putin, having gotten everything he wanted from the Felon, has made a show of humiliating him. I guess he feels he’s at zero risk. And considering that he holds Trump’s tiny balls in his hand and can twist any time he likes, I am surprised that I’m surprised.

 

[unapologetic]

Tuesday 06/24/2025 - 7am
I've just seen an ad on youtube with RFKjr pushing avacados to cure whatever, Claiming big pharma is willing to spend 2 billion dollars to stop the ad from running.
WTF.
Sorry, I don't know how to capture the ads. It ran during this vid about bombing Iran. But ads are inserted randomly.

 

[Swammerdami]

US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs

Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants

www.theguardian.com

The US state department has been advised to terminate grants to nearly all remaining programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which would effectively end the department’s role in funding pro-democracy programming in some of the world’s most hostile totalitarian nations.
...
In a separate incident this week, a new senior adviser to DRL recommended that the bureau’s leadership use funds earmarked by Congress for foreign assistance to cover pet projects for the administration including the resettlement of Afrikaners to the United States and to support the legal defense of the rightwing French politician Marine Le Pen.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Movin

US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs

Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants

www.theguardian.com

The US state department has been advised to terminate grants to nearly all remaining programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), which would effectively end the department’s role in funding pro-democracy programming in some of the world’s most hostile totalitarian nations.
...
In a separate incident this week, a new senior adviser to DRL recommended that the bureau’s leadership use funds earmarked by Congress for foreign assistance to cover pet projects for the administration including the resettlement of Afrikaners to the United States and to support the legal defense of the rightwing French politician Marine Le Pen.

Moving funds around would depend on how specific Congress was on their use when they were allocated. They get used for their intended purpose of they go back to the treasury.

 

[Swammerdami]

Moving funds around would depend on how specific Congress was on their use when they were allocated. They get used for their intended purpose of they go back to the treasury.

True IF the Administration obeys the laws and obeys court orders. But that does not appear to be the case under our present Dictator.

 

[Swammerdami]

The thousand richest Americans have wealths averaging about six billion each. I consider this "well off" but a top priority for America is to make them all about 100 million richer. Spread out over a decade that extra wealth is just 1/100 of a terabuck per year -- chump change.

Does anybody else watch YouTubes where a Democratic Congressperson interviews a MAGAT witness? The MAGAT never has anything intelligent to say, and is unable to answer the most trivial of questions, but drowns out the Congressperson with fatuous digs at Biden and praise for Der Orangefarbene Führer. AOC made mincemeat of RFK. I wonder what our own MAGAT Misogynist thinks of that. And just now I watched Kari Lake. For an utter nincompoop she sure has become a celebrity!

Kari Lake achieved her initial fame as the weekend weather girl for a minor TV station. She developed into a right-wing conspiracy-theorist newscaster, was just pretty enough to attract Trump's attention and became a candidate for Governor and then Senator. Now she's Special Advisor in charge of dismantling the Voice of America.

The Voice of America is/was a radio network charged with transmitting U.S. government news behind the Iron Curtain and elsewhere. My liberal friends disliked it ("right-wing jingoist propaganda") but I thought it was an important force for good. Even Dubya Bush, loathe to badmouth even the filthiest Republican, thinks it a bad idea to cut VOA. VOA broadcasts in several languages, e.g. Armenian. The Armenian project at VOA had one employee and four consultants, all fired by DOGE. I think five million would be enough to run that project for several years. We could do that if we cut the billionaire's kickback down to $99,995,000 instead of the whole hundred mill.

Is somebody saving all the links to the most hideous MAGAT behavior? I nominate Kari Lake's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Kari Lake defended the termination of the Armenian project by repeatedly saying that it "wasn't a statutory language." The Congressman asked her which language she was talking about, but Special Advisor Lake didn't even know. When informed that "Armenian" was the answer she accused the man of asking a "trick question."

The intellects of the Trumpo-fascists would be hilarious if plunging Amerika down a cesspool weren't so utterly tragic.

 

[ZiprHead]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

 

[Politesse]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Faaaaaake.

 

[crazyfingers]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Possibly fake

 

[crazyfingers]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

But she does do ethics violations and breaks state laws on side businesses for government officialss. Just on a smaller scale than her lying sack-o-shit boss.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.

Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.

...

The fact that Ashwood Strategies is Noem’s company only emerged through the confirmation process for her Trump Cabinet post. South Dakota has minimal disclosure rules for elected officials, and Noem had not previously divulged that she created a side business while she was governor.

Noem’s outside income may have run afoul of South Dakota law, according to Lee Schoenbeck, a veteran Republican politician and attorney who was until recently the head of the state Senate. The law requires top officials, including the governor, to devote their full time to their official roles.

“There’s no way the governor is supposed to have a private side business that the public doesn’t know about,” Schoenbeck told ProPublica. “It would clearly not be appropriate.”

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.

www.propublica.org

 

[ZiprHead]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Faaaaaake.

Nope. It's real.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who also serves as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, has made the statement: “ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal”.
This comment has drawn attention, particularly the use of the term "normal" to categorize people who are not "black, brown, or yellow".

Per Gemini.

 

[bilby]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Faaaaaake.

Nope. It's real.

Is it?

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who also serves as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, has made the statement: “ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal”.
This comment has drawn attention, particularly the use of the term "normal" to categorize people who are not "black, brown, or yellow".

Per Gemini.

WTF is "per Gemini", and why should it make me think the quote is real?

 

[Politesse]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Faaaaaake.

Nope. It's real.

Is it?

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who also serves as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, has made the statement: “ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal”.
This comment has drawn attention, particularly the use of the term "normal" to categorize people who are not "black, brown, or yellow".

Per Gemini.

WTF is "per Gemini", and why should it make me think the quote is real?

C'mon bilby, if you can't trust an AI search bot, who can you trust?

 

[bilby]

Kristi Noem: "ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal."

Faaaaaake.

Nope. It's real.

Is it?

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who also serves as the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, has made the statement: “ICE agents are not racist. They don't care if you're black, brown, yellow or normal”.
This comment has drawn attention, particularly the use of the term "normal" to categorize people who are not "black, brown, or yellow".

Per Gemini.

WTF is "per Gemini", and why should it make me think the quote is real?

C'mon bilby, if you can't trust an AI search bot, who can you trust?

Google Gemini-AI^TM is perhaps just barely believable as a source of evidence that a claim has been made by someone somewhere on the Internet.

That's a surprisingly long way short of being evidence that the claim is in any way true.

Indeed, this little passage of posts serves as an excellent example of the serious dangers posed by "AI" to the cause of fact-checking in general.

The software-enhanced ability to inject into a debate a well-written and well-worded defence of literally any claim, true or false, is not a positive step in the quest for knowledge.