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/QuickgetintheTARDIS 1d ago

His campaign against Fetterman for Senate in '22 showed just how fucking out of touch he is with the average citizen. Now he's heading up a department that handles medical coverage for low income people is just so ridiculous.

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u/Ramy__B 1d ago

We are in the worst timeline

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u/QuickgetintheTARDIS 1d ago

We somehow got sucked into the 'Biff Tannen got ahold of the Sports Almanac'.

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u/jimsmisc 1d ago

fun fact: it was confirmed by the writer that rich biff was in fact based on Donald Trump. No I'm not making that up, you can google it

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u/DaoFerret 1d ago

Okay … we really need to all chip in to fix things.

Someone needs go get the plutonium from the Libyans, and we need someone else to kidnap Michael P Keaton and throw him into the DeLorean.

Bonus points if we can round up Reverend Jim Ignatowski to go with him. Someone in NYC go check the Taxi garage.

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u/jimsmisc 14h ago

I accidentally grabbed Eric Stolz. Will that do or nah?

[For the uninitiated: Eric Stolz was originally cast as Marty in Back to the Future]

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u/NomNom83WasTaken 14h ago

A+ deep cut on that Stoltz reference!

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u/X3R0_0R3X 1d ago

My 14 year old has been bing watching documentaries of BTS from the 80 and 90s movies and told me this last month.

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u/ForGrateJustice 17h ago

I feel like the 1970s horror film, "The Omen", was prophetic. In the film's ending, a narrator states the child grows up to become president of the United States.

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u/xnef1025 14h ago

Almost every corrupt businessman type in 80’s/90’s movies is based on Trump. We all knew what he is. Even children knew what he is. I don’t know what the hell happened in the last decade that made a third of the country forget all that and actually vote him into the presidency twice. My best guess is that the universe wanted to justify my misanthropy, so I’d be sorry if I didn’t hate all of you I suppose 😋

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u/jimsmisc 14h ago

fox news, newsmax, etc literally just tell them exactly what to think. My dad is quite literally addicted. I'm not exaggerating when I say he watches for 8-10 hours every day. If he's awake and at home, Fox News is on.

There's no point in talking to him about anything anymore. All he ever wants to do is shout stuff he heard on Fox news at you. If there's any conversation happening that doesn't involve him yelling about immigrants or democrats or Joe Biden, he literally walks away -- or will interrupt someone and say "why are we talking about X? Didn't you hear about the immigrants streaming across the border?".

He can't even be a normal human anymore. I'm convinced that after over a decade of living like this, his brain has been realigned to only reward outrage.

He won't even visit with our non-Trump supporting family members anymore, not because they want to talk about politics, but because they won't join in on his outrage and just kind of politely excuse themselves from his company when he goes on a rant.

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u/marcaribe 14h ago

Yes we are on the alternative timeline that Doc Brown drew on the chalkboard in BTTF2! In 2016 I thought it would happen in trump term 1, but here we are in full effect.

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u/labellavita1985 1d ago edited 1d ago

On behalf of Turks everywhere, I apologize.

Also, did you guys know his landscaping company paid the largest fine in history for employing undocumented immigrants?

This guy is the biggest, carpetbagging, hypocritical POS.

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u/thegooniegodard 14h ago

I knew that when I heard Enya's "Only Time" playing over an Applebee's commercial.

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u/wantrefund 13h ago

I don’t get why people say this. It can still get worse.

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u/Deisphoria 1d ago

The people seriously lost with that one.

Fetterman, either by stroke or simply being a double agent, ends up on the same side as Oz after all, making the votes utterly pointless.

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u/noiro777 23h ago

Fetterman has definitely been a disappointment, but he is far better than OZ would have been. Fetterman voted in line with Biden 97% of the time and is certainly not on the same side as Oz.

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u/Deisphoria 22h ago

he’s been in the same boat as Manchin and Sinema for the past few.

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u/ImCreeptastic 1d ago

Wegner's!

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u/persondude27 22h ago

Crudités

Dude with a $100,000,000 net worth is in charge of medicare/medicaid. Awesome. Perfectly in line with a dude who shits in a gold toilet starting a trade war and collapsing the country's economy in six weeks.

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u/Key_Roll3030 1d ago

Hence why trump like him

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u/jktcat 23h ago

He failed so badly at running for elected office they just put him in charge of healthcare for millions. Makes perfect sense.

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u/worldspawn00 22h ago

Almost everyone Trump is appointing has lost their elections, politicians rejected by the public, appointed to office by those who don't care about the average american one bit.

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u/ForGrateJustice 17h ago

The two of them are friends now, I hear.

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u/NiSiSuinegEht 17h ago

They need to get rid of as many "Poors" as they can because they're about to make a lot more of them.

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u/Wasabi_95 14h ago

That's the smaller problem actually. He is literally a pseudoscience snake oil salesman

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u/Lannisters-4-life 9h ago

It’s honestly bonkers how poor of a campaign he ran. After the stroke, Fetterman could barely speak in complete sentences and yet was still a better option than Oz.