There's something mesmerizing and horrifying about watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s current performance as Health Secretary as he transcends garden-variety chaos and worms deeper into the territory of genuine public threat. This conspiracy-drunk legacy case has selected America's HIV/AIDS infrastructure as the sacrificial offering for his ideological debut—blissfully detached from the reality that flesh-and-blood Americans, not theoretical villains from his delusional worldview, will be the ones who die.
The sheer audacity is breathtaking. Kennedy has fired the entire 60-person staff of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, obliterating decades of painstaking progress with the casual brutality of someone who's never had to worry about accessing basic healthcare. It's part of his broader vandalism spree to eliminate 20,000 HHS positions—a number so large it suggests either complete incompetence or deliberate malice. Given Kennedy's track record, it's probably both.
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