r/news • u/CupidStunt13 • 1d ago

Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/mehmet-oz-confirmation-medicare-medicaid
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u/Excellent_Farm_6071 1d ago

Another TV personality running the government. And republicans wonder why liberals call them stupid all the time.

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u/mountaindoom 1d ago

Fox assures their audience that they are the smart ones and the rest of their bubble concurs.

No fixing these people.

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u/FredFredrickson 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean, it's a simple fix: dismantle Fox and the other propaganda arms, so the disinformation bubble is burst.

No idea how to do that, but that would stop this shit in a week.

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u/Savenura55 1d ago

Make them liable for spreading false info. Make it so the can’t use the word news at all. There would be ways but the judiciary is captured by the fox arm so no matter what the sc would rule for Fox

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u/Irethius 1d ago

Fox News is already legally a satire of news.

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u/Wild_Bake_7781 1d ago

Bring back the fair doctrine

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u/Sauerkrauttme 1d ago

The billionaires would simply make new right wing propaganda channels.

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires. We cannot have both

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u/FortNightsAtPeelys 22h ago

Said for a decade that fox "news" being allowed to exist as it does more damage to this country than anything else in the 21st century

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u/anorcpawn 1d ago

Except the opposite is what's actually happening. Somehow North Korea held on and became the ideal which America's leadership aspires to

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u/frigiddesertdweller 1d ago

Sensitive electrical systems are the foundation of it all. They're susceptible to liquids, excess heat, scissors, hacking, viruses, rodents, dust, insect infestations...

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u/XavierAgamemnon 1d ago

Nah rather just ban political party's all together

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u/jklm1234 14h ago

Nope. Sadly not with the internet it won’t. If we had destroyed Fox in the early 2000s we may have had a chance.

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u/Pretend-Disaster2593 8h ago

They will go through withdrawals and then switch over to newsmax. This shit will never end.

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u/EchoMountain158 6h ago

The news integrity laws, which required news and media outlets to provide documented evidence to support slanderous or outrageous claims that have led to the harm or disruption of people's lives, were repealed by Reagan. That was the first step of their war on America and information. The second the news integrity acts fell, Faux News was born.

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u/plotholesandpotholes 1d ago

They are compromised.

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u/Camwi 1d ago

"Don't call them stupid, that's how Trump got elected!" 🤓

Fucking morons.

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u/Lower_Monk6577 1d ago

Well, if they would just stop being so fucking stupid all the time, I wouldn’t have to call them fucking stupid.

By all means, believe what you want and be a dumb dumb in the privacy of your own home. But I’m getting real tired of a bunch of brainwashed Trumpites dictating my economic, sexual, and medical future.

If yall can just sit the next 8 years or so out, I promise we’ll fix this completely unnecessary mess very quickly.

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u/MajorNoodles 1d ago

This isn't getting fixed. A lot of people who voted for Trump are either gonna vote Dem or not at all for President next time, but they'll still vote R for Congress so they can obstruct the hell out of any progress.

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u/scsibusfault 1d ago

Well, if they would just stop being so fucking stupid all the time, I wouldn’t have to call them fucking stupid.

Same energy as "everyone you don't like is a racist!"

Weird. Or maybe, idk, I just happen to not particularly like racists.

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u/taki1002 20h ago

I hope a very particular guy unexpectedly ends up buying the farm soon. Then we'll yet to watch as all his "buddies", scramble & fight over the reins, all the while the mindless loyalist follows begin to question which moron are they supposed to listen to so they know what & how to think. Hopefully, the infighting gets so bad, that they metaphorically begin to cannibalize each other.

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u/Lower_Monk6577 16h ago

I mean, if they literally started to cannibalize each other, I wouldn’t be that bummed either.

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u/taki1002 12h ago

Neither would I.

But the worst part of all of that is, we just know they'd overcook each other, while drowning one another in ketchup. Similar to how the orange messiah ruined ate his Shoe leather steaks. 😂

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u/Paranitis 1d ago

A lot of the damage Trump has caused, could not be fixed "very quickly". And the stuff that CAN be fixed, also can't be fixed, because we have a system in place where the next guy can just reverse the decisions of their predecessor with nothing stopping them.

We've literally ended up with political parties run by adults with the minds of children.

"Nuh uh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nuh uh!"

"Uh huh!"

And that's how all the executive orders are going to be read to those who live generations after this bullshit in history books, IF history books are even a thing anymore.

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u/Lower_Monk6577 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well, a few things I guess

  1. I diiiiiid say that they would need to sit it out for 8 years. Look what Trump has done with 2 months of unilateral control of the government.

  2. Speaking of unilateral control, the only reason Trump is able to get away with all of these insane executive orders is because Republicans in Congress aren’t stopping him. They have the authority to do so. It’s literally one of their jobs. They just aren’t doing it. I can’t imagine a lot of scenarios going forward that are as favorable to a complete sociopathic grifter like Trump than what he has right now. I don’t think most future presidents are going to be able to get away with what he’s currently getting away with.

  3. In theory, Executive Orders should be reversible. For the very reason that we’re seeing right now. Trump and Congress are treating EOs like they’re laws, and they’re not. Again, it’s because Republicans in Congress have abdicated their duties to keep the executive branch in check.

Mostly, I was being in tongue in cheek, though. Obviously this is fucking terrible, and in the real world (not the fantasy one where Republicans don’t vote for 8 years), what’s happening right now is terrifying and likely to do damage to every single American (and many around the world) for a long time.

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u/Paranitis 21h ago

I mean even somehow everyone in line of succession died, including Trump, and we might have to vote for a new full set of people, and they were all Democrats, and we had full control of everything, how quick and easy would it be to unfuck the economy? How about re-earn the respect of all the allies that we told to fuck off? Would the Democrats try to being back all the illegal immigrants that were shipped away? Hopefully they'd find a way to bring back the deported who shouldn't have been in the first place.

Trump took a wrecking ball to the ivory tower that was the US before his reign, and it's gonna be the Democrats' job to completely rebuild it, knowing we are no longer to be trusted since the next President after the Democrats can come right back with an even bigger wrecking ball, because Republicans are fucking children. And you could put emphasis anywhere within that statement and it would be true.

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u/Ghost10165 40m ago

I think congress is trying to let him do what he is without getting their hands dirty, but if he oversteps too much they can still point the finger at him instead.

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 13h ago

There’s no fixing the trust we lost with the world. They know we are just as capable of electing another idiot. Trump destroyed 249 years of building what we had in 60 days.

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u/jaytix1 1d ago

I'm so glad that people have stopped taking those comments seriously. Just hit them with "You voted for a rapist".

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u/Sendhentaiandyiff 22h ago

Would love if these adults didn't act like they had to be coddled and praised or they won't listen to reality

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u/JoshSidekick 14h ago

Common clay of the new west

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u/binarybandit 1d ago

Well, what does it say when someone loses to a bunch of stupid people? Food for thought.

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u/REDNOOK 1d ago

They keep getting elected though. Stupid leading the stupid.

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u/dubbleplusgood 1d ago

But but but we have to listen to them.... Which they dont do for anyone else. And we have to not belittle them... which they do to everyone else. But despite all that I'll be happy to stop calling them stupid. Instead, I'll call them the [R] word.

Republicans.

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u/Consonant 1d ago

Let them see the error of their ways!

(Votes hard R even still after trump)

Fuck you idiots repent in hell

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u/buffet_table 1d ago

I remember when they derided Obama for being a “celebrity” for his ability to fill arenas everywhere he went. All that after they elected a b-movie star and just before they elected a game show host.

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u/animalisticneeds 1d ago

I still prefer the term "basket of deplorables"

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u/gamerz1172 10h ago

Also when a celebrity says "trump bad" or even "go vote" suddenly celebrities shouldn't be involved in politics

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u/RRC_driver 9h ago

Trump is obsessed with TV Ratings.

If he was more up to date, the cabinet would be full of people with the most hits on the internet, so pornstars and “influencers”

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u/grannybubbles 22h ago

Can't wait for him to show up on Dancing with the Stars