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RFK Jr. and DJT Hiring Policies Would Scare the Hair Off a Sweater

The Second Professional Generation of Grift - The Means Kids

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Joshua Powell
Jun 09, 2025
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In America, wealth doesn't just open doors—it erases rap sheets. This inconvenient truth explains the improbable career trajectories of Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, RFK Jr., two men who share a crucial bond: neither would have a professional pulse if not for the golden passports of inherited privilege.

Trump's résumé reads like a masterclass in disqualification—allegations of academic cheating, sexual predatory behavior, criminal and civil convictions, and business failures that would silence a carnival barker. RFK Jr.'s greatest hits include drug binges, serial philandering, and sticky fingers when it came to other people's intellectual property. In any workplace operating under normal rules of consequence, these records would be career death sentences. But when you're born into the right zip code, apparently, even spectacular failure becomes a launching pad for power.

What's tantalizingly revealing is how both men collect questionable characters like some …

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