trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
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The more any person sees of Republicans the more obvious it becomes they are evil incarnate.
jul 27, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not a business. Vought and his Project 2025 traitors will tell you that your life is a privilege granted by the potential for profit to them.
jul 27, 2025, 2:40 pm • 8 0 • view
Vought is a damn fool. Wow!
jul 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 6 1 • view
Comrade Vought is LYING.
jul 27, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Now do "if they were a pedophile. . ."
jul 27, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
I recall being revolted when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and destroyed ancient temples and other relics, for no larger purpose than to impose their backward vision. In Trump II I feel the same as they do just that.
jul 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Their examples are always taken out of context. NIH is a SERVICE, not a private company who must provide a return to shareholders. It's stupid to expect government to operate like a private company.
jul 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Did I just hear a WH official claim that the NIH, while under Trump's leadership, caused the pandemic?
jul 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
1. They are NOT a company, so 'if they were' is irrelevant. 2. They were not responsible for the pandemic, but we all know who is responsible for a lot of American deaths. 3. The executive has NO right to withhold funds already appropriated by Congress. 4. We don't give a damn what Vought thinks.
jul 27, 2025, 9:55 pm • 31 1 • view
The delusion that everything can be made to turn a profit is a sick way of thinking, but it's so deeply ingrained without the bedrock of our country. This goes back to gilded age, when they all thought of themselves as gods. This is what they want to return to and we are well on our way.
jul 28, 2025, 2:18 am • 4 1 • view
I can't believe the shit they are force feeding the public. Liars, cons, and criminals.
jul 28, 2025, 11:00 am • 4 1 • view
Such a liar in service to his ideology. He’s the one whose policies and budget cuts will allow the next pandemic.
jul 27, 2025, 2:31 pm • 8 2 • view
YES - trump is in no way smart enough to do any of this mess by himself; he's the Trojan horse that the white supremacists, the Proj2025ers, the cryptotech billionaire bros, etc rode in on - & he's a perfect vehicle for them cos his psychopathology makes him so vulnerable to getting played
jul 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Most of these cranks got their start in the Bush White House
jul 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't compare our country to the stock market.
jul 28, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
He is so deceitful and greedy.
jul 28, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
OMG, this guy is as evil as Miller
jul 27, 2025, 4:01 pm • 8 0 • view
Vought is a christofascist. This is fascist dictatorship cosplaying constitutionality. The Constitution was retroactively nullified July 1, 2024 by SCOTUS, simultaneously nullifying the federal government’s authority to govern, including taxation, dissolving the Union of states. #NQNQ247
jul 27, 2025, 6:17 pm • 6 2 • view
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jul 28, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
What is “DEI research” and why does Tapper never even think to ask about it?
jul 27, 2025, 2:32 pm • 128 5 • view
“DEI research” from these guys could easily mean “research that considers demographics” You know, like you would expect basically all health research to do?
jul 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 91 1 • view
Research that included the difference between male and female wasn't taken into account until like the 1990s. They want to go back to the before time.
jul 27, 2025, 2:40 pm • 54 0 • view
I think the problem was actually worse, research that was simply genderblind would be less good but still useful given a large enough sample, IIRC the problem was that study samples were very heavily men.
jul 28, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
I worked as an RN on cancer drug clinical trials. The trial sponsors would definitely care about any response differences that might exist between gender/race/nationality/etc. Inclusion is important—all drugs don’t work the same for all people.
jul 27, 2025, 3:58 pm • 7 0 • view
Tapper never even thinks to ask because he's paid specifically to never ask those kinds of questions. He's not a journalist, he's a tout who hosts infomercials.
jul 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 1 • view
I don’t know if Tappet was ever a decent journalist but he is no longer a journalist and rather a soldier for the darkness.
jul 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Right? In February I was led to believe dei was about hiring practices. Gonna need all media people to ask for definitions every fucking time.
jul 27, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Not the point of the post, but I’m eager for reactionary Democrats to eventually start saying “hey asshole DEI is good.”
jul 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 16 0 • view
whoa whoa buddy… we’re a big tent party. we need those white christian bigots to … i dunno, but we can’t make them mad(der) by supporting good things that help people. what would our base think?!
jul 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop yourself at the idea of Tapper thinking. He's a mass media TV "reporter". They don't think, they look thoughtful tug their chins and never ask a follow-up question
jul 27, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you
jul 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Could easily be that “polymerase transcription” got flagged by AI as woke based on full text search
jul 27, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Any research on diseases that affect anyone else more than white men?
jul 27, 2025, 2:39 pm • 5 0 • view
They just want to destroy the government. Any fake excuse will do.
jul 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm guessing Vought is referring to the NIMHD www.nih.gov/institutes-n...
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 5 1 • view
Tapper isn’t really a journalist. He exists to comfort the comfortable and doesn’t want to jeopardize his career by confronting anyone in power.
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure going down that rabbit hole would have been productive in the moment. Remember that guy wants to talk about anything BUT what will hurt Americans.
jul 27, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re probably only five years from CRISPR cures for cancer.
jul 27, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Forget whether or not you think them wasteful; How are ANY of those research projects DEI?
jul 27, 2025, 8:26 pm • 5 0 • view
Anything that focuses on women's health is DEI. Any disease which may affect minorities differently (think sickle cell anemia) is DEI.
jul 27, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth. But the examples he gave (dogs and cocaine, lizards blown off plants) have nothing to do with either of those.
jul 27, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps to him, women rank down there with dogs and lizards? Since the main point of all of the appointees is to make sure that poor, old, and minority people die, I guess it doesn't matter what the examples are.
jul 27, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Truth again. I guess I want folk to realize basically what you said. America First means killing off all non-white males and the women NOT subservient to them (AF asshats).
jul 27, 2025, 11:21 pm • 2 0 • view
What would they say if they didn’t have D.E.I.???????
jul 27, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
"If they were a company" is ONLY uttered by morons who simply do not understand how and why civil society and civic infrastructures work. If you're hearing that from a "public servant", then the public is fucked.
jul 27, 2025, 2:52 pm • 12 2 • view
I mean, studying drugs and animals seems like pretty standard research.
jul 27, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
That's right. And in that way, while Trump isn't really the worst of these guys, he is the singular lens that can focus their evil. Nobody else has the juice that would bring the Voughts of the world to power.
jul 27, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you ever see Vought smile?
jul 27, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
NIH does not exist to make money.
jul 27, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I've looked up all kinds of things that the NIH has published and is publicly available.
jul 27, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Who writes the scripts for these guys?
jul 27, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't suppose Tapper had a follow up question that didn't somehow involve Biden?
jul 27, 2025, 5:38 pm • 8 0 • view
Another thing to add to the post-Trump to-do list: 1. Every potential government employee must pass a test testing if they know how to verify facts and if they do in fact verify facts. Fundamental. (Actually implied in the Fifth Amendment back when I studied it.)
jul 27, 2025, 5:48 pm • 4 1 • view
Lets start with “journalists”
jul 27, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
DEI is the Neo-Jew for Neo-Nazis.
jul 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Follow up: What makes you qualified to determine which NIH research is “important” and deserves funding?
jul 27, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Narrator: Vought has no idea. He just wants a far-right regime that benefits only Christian nationalists and broligarchs.
jul 27, 2025, 11:33 pm • 4 0 • view
What a 💩 Vought is 🤬 He’s arrogant and insulting. And BTW. What is DEI research. What utter BS. Americans deserve better than this. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬💩💩💩
jul 28, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
why can't any of these people speak, goddamn. they all swallow words, mumble and stutter and trip over them jesus christ
jul 27, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
But no company would do what the NIH does. Government does what private capital doesn’t.
jul 27, 2025, 3:34 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s full of absolute shit
jul 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
There are 27 Institutes and Centers within the NIH. One is the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparity. This is what he is calling DEI. It includes rural health discrepancies.
jul 27, 2025, 8:54 pm • 18 1 • view
Make Vought nought. Vote.
jul 27, 2025, 4:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Who was in the white house for the first 11 months of the pandemic?
jul 28, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 1 • view
And Tapper let him go on.
jul 27, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm a writer, and I can't even come up with the words to describe the excrement that exists where this guy's soul should be. I know he must be thoroughly heinous because his wife divorced him, and in his religious subculture, man, that is not allowed.
jul 27, 2025, 3:56 pm • 3 1 • view
Pretty sure he's talking about things like research into sickle cell anemia and malaria with his "DEI" comment.
jul 28, 2025, 8:37 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, so he knows what is valuable research? Countless inventions, innovations, life-altering medicine came from obscure research- Studying cone snails, they have discovered compounds that ease pain and compounds that help combat epilepsy, diabetes, addiction, etc.
jul 27, 2025, 8:54 pm • 4 1 • view
The danger is that he looks and sounds like a reasonable dude. He’s not. Sending him my darkest energy
jul 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
When the war starts he’s at the top of my list.
jul 27, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
DEI is used as an excuse, a cudgel, a way of expressing racism without fear of retaliation by the media, employers, and our government. I’ve met a few who don’t know what DEI stands for only that it’s said a lot and is negative.
jul 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 24 1 • view
An extension of the racially coded language ginned up by Reagan which allowed both parties to implement racist policies, almost always aimed at Blacks, under the guise of 'law and order', without any fear of being called out. Instead, they received enthusiastic support from the media.
jul 27, 2025, 3:08 pm • 11 2 • view
The smartest response I heard in an interview from some head of DEI in the federal govt (I don’t remember her name or exact job title) was that DEI initiatives want the same thing as anti-DEI proponents- to put the most qualified people in all facets the govt.
jul 27, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Which bolsters the argument that anti DEI proponents are using it to promote their racist misogynistic ideologies.
jul 27, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, just like they are calling anti-genocide anti-semitism.
jul 27, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t forget to include misogyny in their DEI - greatly expands where they feel they can “justify” the use it as motivation.
jul 27, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
“The USPS loses money” is another example of this false rhetorical trope. It’s a service, it’s right there in the name. It’s not supposed to be Trump’s cash cow, Russell. You deceitful nitwit.
jul 27, 2025, 6:02 pm • 45 4 • view
I don’t know if you take suggestions, but I think it’s long past time someone breaks down the GOPs “if it were a corporation” ploy. It’s completely invalid on most occasions. It’s a semantic trick to put things in a negative light. The NIH is not a corporation, it’s a service US citizens want.
jul 27, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 1 • view
wut if da NIH was a corporation. deep thoughts
jul 27, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Gosh, he's ignorant.
jul 27, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought - scourge on humanity
jul 27, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Stupid got what stupid wanted. A stupid country steeped in stupid.
jul 27, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
So it was always about DEI? Just look at him and you wonder why he feels so privileged.
jul 27, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought acts like he and those like him are the only people worth walking this earth. They're absolutely despicable. Worse even.
jul 27, 2025, 7:18 pm • 2 0 • view
They look down on everyone not as healthy a them what you don’t own a Rolex and a Maserati ? You such a looser. What’s what they think about everyone having less money then them
jul 27, 2025, 7:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Meant wealthy of course
jul 28, 2025, 4:28 am • 1 0 • view
Would love to hear him name this DEI research?
jul 27, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Health care was ruined when the MBAs stepped in!
jul 27, 2025, 5:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow. "All right, that's all the time we have" was a mighty pushback, giving Vought's the last word on this nonsense.
jul 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
This has actually been going on since maybe the late '80s: 5 minute segment with a highly-trained RW think tank comms person on one side of the split screen, and a hapless, nominal "Democrat" on the other side who gets his lunch money stolen by the devil. Then: "WE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE IT tHERE!"
jul 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Nonsequitor strings of obfuscation as usual...
jul 27, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
NASA wasn't a money-making endeavor either, but the discoveries made for that program literally have changed our world. The same is true for health research. It is a necessary expense to keep making discoveries that will benefit all people.
jul 27, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
What an absolute ignorant disgraceful person.
jul 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok. All doubts allayed. Vought is insane.
jul 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly right
jul 27, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
They are too dim and narrowly focused to see everything they believe and all the examples they use exist in the context of a powerful state that insures, protects, and develops a workforce and technology for all of this to consistently function.
jul 27, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait... why is he making the rounds?? He is on Face the Nation now. Is this yet another "stop talking about Epstein" thing?
jul 27, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Jake Tapper is a platform for MAGA
jul 27, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
“If they were a company…” Notice how he reduces everything to its supposed profitability. This is the core of neoliberalism.
jul 27, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
So sick
jul 27, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
“mediocrities” is right
jul 27, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
How many rw buzzwords can you get into a word salad? That made no sense, not even in his own head
jul 27, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn’t know before but I guess this is what evil looks like.
jul 28, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
Just wow. The government is NOT a company. It is not for profit the role is to protect and serve the interests of its citizens and WTF is DEI research? They have replaced "woke" with DEI but basically the same idea about excluding anyone other than straight white men from medical research.
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 7 0 • view
A good demonstration of the fundamental misunderstanding from these bozos about the nature of science, research, and health care. These cannot and should not be run like traditional businesses. The laws of our nation (specifically EMTALA) prohibit it.
jul 27, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought DOES NOT UNDERSTAND GOVERNMENT……THERE IS NO INDUSTRY OUT THERE WHO WILL UNDERTAKE THE RESEARCH NEEDED TO SOLVE CANCER OR CLIMATE CHANGE OR ALZHEIMERS…..CHILDHOOD CANCER OR ANY CHRONIC DISEASE……HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT NIH DOES
jul 27, 2025, 4:14 pm • 6 2 • view
He does, because his daughter wa saved by cystic fibrosis treatment developed by the NIH.
jul 27, 2025, 4:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Russell Vought is my nomination to take one for the team (from a 2A advocate).
jul 27, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 0 • view
He is just saying words.
jul 27, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I hate this man with the white-hot heat of a billion suns
jul 28, 2025, 4:11 am • 5 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 6:26 pm • 30 7 • view
Project 2025 seems very well thought through and Trump is facilitating it's enactment.
jul 27, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Director, I've served with mediocrities. I've known mediocrities. Mediocrities, at times, have looked back at me from the mirror. Director, you're no mediocrity - you're a certifiable loon.
jul 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
It probably wouldn't hurt we on "the other side" to repost the pictures and videos every week of the trailers with the ad hoc morgues and the people banging pots for the medical workers every night at 7. I drove past those lit up trailers next to NYU Med Center on 1st AV every night. They were REAL
jul 27, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
DEI research?
jul 27, 2025, 2:31 pm • 12 0 • view
Not a thing!
jul 27, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Basically if you answer “yes” to the question: “does it help anyone other than white men?” It’s DEI to a conservative.
jul 27, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 1 • view
Cancer loves Jesus or whatever.
jul 27, 2025, 3:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I really get tired of people who start their rationalization by saying, "If the government were a business ...". It's not and it's not supposed to be. Properly run, it should net exactly zero. At BEST, it should spend all that it takes in on the public good - not turn a profit.
jul 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 26 2 • view
More people need to learn the phrase "and if the queen had balls she'd be the king."
jul 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 6 0 • view
And that idiot Peter Navarro is another "paradigmatic example" of a delusional extremist. Geez!
jul 27, 2025, 5:57 pm • 2 0 • view
I can’t even watch it interview psychopathic administration pushing lies
jul 28, 2025, 11:58 am • 2 2 • view
Vought is a leader of no one. Who does he think he is to dictate his values as the only values for the country. Put him on a disposal list.
jul 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 6 0 • view
extremist mediocrities is the core of the problem
jul 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I just noticed he's saying NIH caused the pandemic. What a nutjob.
jul 27, 2025, 2:49 pm • 27 1 • view
I noticed too - what a low-life jerk - his maga cult eat up anything that will find someone specific to blame for the pandemic.
jul 27, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Because all they do is study woke dei and everyone knows that’s terrible
jul 27, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
These guys make me want to scream vile expletives I don't even know. The greed, stupidity and ignorance is awful. All the people who are helped with cancer every day because of the amazing research of NIH - and other diseases too - but cancer research has done lightyear leaps due to NIH work. 🤬🤬🤬
jul 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 8 1 • view
That doesn't fit into the equation for these guys. If people can't get treatment or die, that's less drag on the profit system.
jul 27, 2025, 6:41 pm • 5 0 • view
👍
jul 27, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Also it then good will that’s what they say to the family of those people then when their family members dies it was gods will and now they in heaven
jul 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
After being hospitalized for covid, I participated in a study at the NIH hospital. I was impressed at the excellence of the facility, the medical staff, and the cutting edge equipment. I felt fortunate to be seen by “super doctors”. Vought is willfully trashing America’s crown jewel institutions.
jul 28, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
The government shouldn't be run like a fortune 500 company. Just because it has some bloat doesn mean you slash and burn. A governments job should (ideally) be to provide services and protections for people. Rn we have a malicious government that attacks and only serves the capitalist class.
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Omfg Woke and DEI excuse again. They need to made to be more specific. It’s all meaningless slop to execute their white nationalism. I’m already pissed and I just woke up. Woke 😄
jul 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The NIH "CAUSED the pandemic"?? These people have lost their GD minds & need to be held accountable for the shit they spew. I can't have a conversation w/ my mom bc she can't figure out what objective facts & reality are anymore. They've destroyed an undereducated generation. Anti-American C*nts.
jul 27, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I can't even put into words what a disgrace this guy is, being the architect of project 2025. He is truly the epitome of a horrible person & his ancestors are undoubtedly ashamed of what he is doing to our nation. An embarrassment for the history books, for sure. End rant! 🤣👍
jul 27, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
He used a lot of MAGA buzz words in there. What he said is utter bullshit.
jul 27, 2025, 6:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Vought hits 3 regime talking points in one MadLib sentence: “Regard all things governmental as a company” “Covid” “DEI” — The NIH is a massive engine of scientific discovery and development. This ignorant, destructive regime is endangering lives and crushing livelihoods.
jul 27, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Blah blah DEI blah blah MAGA propaganda blah blah contempt for America blah blah lies and more lies…
jul 27, 2025, 4:55 pm • 7 0 • view
Lunatic.
jul 28, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
That would be the DEI institute for women's health, right? That majority minority group?
jul 27, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
One has to wonder if something missing from your frontal lobe is a requirement to belonging to the Heritage Foundation. 🤪
jul 27, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Their whole "merit" argument against DEI crumbles when one considers that some of us have the bare-minimum requirement of a high school diploma and STILL can't get our first job while our dropout relatives get hired almost immediately for JUST vaguely APPEARING to be cis straight white men.
jul 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
"part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations." ~ Robert Anton Wilson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
jul 27, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Is the DEI research in the room with us now?
jul 27, 2025, 9:01 pm • 6 0 • view
The ONLY purpose he and his lackeys serve is a reminder: Don't be these nasty fuckers. Be human.
jul 27, 2025, 5:44 pm • 7 1 • view
I continue to be amazed at how these people were ever successful in business with what appears to be a lack of critical thinking skills.
jul 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Serious question: Where did all these lunatics come from?
jul 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Heritage Foundation .
jul 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Why is there never the question, “are you nuts?”
jul 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 0 • view
White men intent on burning it all down to hurt black and brown people. It’s modern day slavery.
jul 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 4 0 • view
It feels a lot like attempting to impeach Vought and Miller regularly might pay dividends, if some House Reps felt so inclined.
jul 27, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Let’s just say it. These are some seriously racist people.
jul 27, 2025, 10:37 pm • 5 0 • view
His answer is just pure nonsense too. Just throw as much shit against the wall to make the base froth at the mouth. The NIH is one of the greatest things about the US and these fucking weasels are destroying it.
jul 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Russell Vought is a singular traitor. He is using his Office to overturn the Constitution by using Donald Trump as a useful idiot who will sign any Executive Order put in front of him. Vought was witnessed writing well over a hundred Orders before Trump was even inaugurated, all of them P2025.
jul 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 5 1 • view
How did the NIH cause the pandemic?
jul 27, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
his head would make a lovely canoe
jul 28, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
he just articulated a great rationale for stripping govt provided healthcare from veterans. its not generating a profit.
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Sickle Cell anemia studies are DEI according to these cretins.
jul 27, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought was one of the primary authors of Project 2025…..which Trump denied knowing anything about during the campaign.
jul 27, 2025, 2:43 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s why these agencies and institutes are NOT for profit- they are for the public good not for investors. Are we going to get updated flu vaccines this fall?
jul 27, 2025, 2:40 pm • 3 0 • view
same could be said for tapper, frankly
jul 27, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s a total incompetent. As are all the others picked
jul 27, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
it’s just a collection of the countries most boring individuals who have no real education or desire to help humanity
jul 27, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
“People” like Vought know the price of EVERYTHING and the value of NOTHING…
jul 27, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Tapper another one.
jul 27, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
A criminal president running an illegal government staffed by incompetents
jul 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
🎯
jul 27, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
ITS NOT AN EFFIN COMPANY!!
jul 27, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
this guy is fucking insane posing as a serious person
jul 27, 2025, 5:15 pm • 2 0 • view
The man is basically a religious extremist psycho with money and power. Heritage Foundation architect of the P2025 recipe to dismantle American democracy in favor of an autocratic theocracy and aimed at the biblical Armageddon End Times. And he is not alone in this administration and GOP Congress.
jul 28, 2025, 3:59 am • 8 0 • view
Lies keep getting bigger.
jul 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait what? They believe research only helps dei? So it’s not helpful to white middle aged men…..
jul 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn republicans always talk about government being run like a business. Government is a service. We pay taxes for these services.
jul 27, 2025, 10:35 pm • 9 0 • view
If the government were run like a company the board of directors would fire the CEO for cutting revenue (taxes) just because some of the highest paying customers asked them to.
jul 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 4 0 • view
Given they use “DEI” as they do the N-Word, it’s always shocking when they say these things.
jul 27, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Tapper is a turncoat.
jul 27, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He is literally destroying the national government as a step towards theocracy. He wants to make of us a polity that would please Jesus if, indeed, Jesus believed exactly the way Vought does.
jul 27, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Call this evil fucker out main stream media
jul 27, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
The country is NOT A F*CKIN COMPANY JACKASS
jul 27, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Jake Slapper says .....
jul 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I want to pull my hair out when these gas station brainiacs think comparing the government to a private business is all the excuse they need to cut critical funding. The government is not a business! It’s a service! And I have no hair left!
jul 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Tapper: say three things that are false. Vought: Tapper: okay moving on with absolutely zero pushback,
jul 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Why Jake Tapper not even asking follow up questions about what DEI research mean and what research the current NIH is allowed to fund? Sickening 🤮🤮🤮
jul 27, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Never knew “waste, fraud, and abuse” was one syllable
jul 28, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
Koch-funded libertarian cabal: burn down the government.
jul 27, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
14 Republicans say? That's the best Tapper can do? How about coming into the interview with specific facts regarding the devasting NIH cuts to critical projects? How about pointing out that the NIH did not, in fact, "cause" the pandemic through gain-of-function research (the anti-Fauci BS).
jul 27, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Moronic.
jul 27, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Christian Nationalist (& a Project 2025 author) Vought says NIH is ‘weaponized & wasteful against the American people’? That describes trump perfectly, yet he’s fine with him sticking around.
jul 27, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
he's like the paradigmatic example of a guy who has never in his life held a real job. interesting that his parents had extremely real jobs (electrician and school teacher).
jul 27, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 1 • view
Government is not business. Wtf.
jul 27, 2025, 5:21 pm • 18 0 • view
But it is a business under this administration. A losing business.
jul 27, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/fuba...
jul 28, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Seriously, the doofuses currently running the country are like the boys you would try to stay away from in middle school bc they were so arrogantly dumb
jul 27, 2025, 6:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Bingo. It’s the idiots around Trump who are the biggest problems right now.
jul 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Again, you are so kind, Jamelle. Most of them don't approach mediocrity; they are completely inept.
jul 27, 2025, 2:51 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 28, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
No kidding
jul 27, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
illuminating give and take w/ typically crucial pushback from tapper...hahahaha. i'm kidding, of course.
jul 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 28, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet investment into the NIH is very profitable. Every dollar gives $2.5 dollars in economic return. But let’s not get these pesky facts in the way of a good propaganda. www.nih.gov/about-nih/im...
jul 28, 2025, 2:45 am • 7 0 • view
This endless obsession with stock price. As if it means anything real. and as if that is the sole yardstick by which to measure success. needs to be stopped.
jul 27, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Such BS
jul 27, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Anytime people like this start spouting off about science and medical research, the first thing to ask should be what is their educational background or experience working in science and medicine? How could they even understand what is being researched? Vought has no STEM background or training.
jul 27, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
This is leaving aside his obvious bad faith strawman. It would be absurd to ask someone with only a science or medical background to pontificate on the meaning & acceptability of highly specific legal arguments & legislation. Yet lawyers like this guy are taken seriously waffling on about "science."
jul 27, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
No good faith person ever uses the phrase DEI as a pejorative.
jul 27, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
👏🏻
jul 27, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
"Let's check in with our next guest, Jared from Subway, to provide a balanced perspective on child pageants." - cnn
jul 27, 2025, 8:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Vought: what we need is more research into internal terrains. Find out what makes people strong. Then we’ll have viruses on the run.
jul 27, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s. So. Stupid. And thinks we are, too.
jul 27, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Russ Vought couldn't win a student government election at Wheaton College.
jul 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey, Jake? Why do you appreciate him being there to spew that lunacy, bud?
jul 27, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
jul 27, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, paradigmatic? If the Kennedy center is renamed after Melania, I’m blaming you!
jul 27, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought is pure evil - he is the worst of the worst
jul 27, 2025, 6:00 pm • 21 2 • view
In his eyes probably the best was if they did no research in the pandemic and the USA just had fully ignored it don’t do any measurements to protect people just look and see who dies such an disgusting dude
jul 27, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup, a very dangerous crackpot.
jul 27, 2025, 6:34 pm • 5 1 • view
Listening to these chucklefucks try to talk is revolting. We’ve elevated the absolutely least capable among us to run the country.
jul 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
wtaf
jul 27, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought is a liar and he's evil.
jul 27, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 1 • view
Dismantling a crown jewel of medical research. So they and their cronies can sell snake oil.
jul 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 1 • view
Nutbar which, now that I think about it, is really an insult to tasty and nutritious nut bars
jul 27, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I've been a mediocrity for decades, so I can say these guys are much worse.
jul 27, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6k4KH7y/
jul 27, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Why talk to this person ever? He said he wants fed employees to not just lose their job but to also have additional suffering? Bc getting a federal job is what? Evil? This is insanity and we need to out him everytime he shows up anywhere.
jul 27, 2025, 9:14 pm • 9 2 • view
Because CNN's ownership benefits from Trump/GOP policies, and they wish to promote those policies. Tapper is merely a tout who hosts infomercials.
jul 27, 2025, 9:23 pm • 3 0 • view
😡
jul 27, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Their only response to valid questions about strangling the government funding of research, any social support program or action to increase equality in opportunity and development is to scream DEI …..responsible journalism would insist they specify and show proof of their allegations.
jul 27, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
As I see it, it all comes down to: "if I don't understand it, it can't be true".
jul 27, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The fact that CNN even gives these fascists air time at all, makes me sick
jul 27, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump is the autopen for Stephen Miller and Russel Vought
jul 27, 2025, 9:56 pm • 24 5 • view
Every executive order and policy paper cites "the director of OMB" as the person executing this policy, so this leads to to believe that vought is the actual president
jul 29, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Why do all of these dorks keep on trying to compare the govt to a business? I mean most basically they are ALL shitty at running businesses. All of them have failed miserably and are only rich because the government propped them up.
jul 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 32 5 • view
None of them can think beyond making money hence everything run like a business - making money is the ultimate God, not what you spend it on but having more than others. Any service is suspect and to be eliminated. How could something just exist to help people? It makes no sense to the greedy?
jul 27, 2025, 6:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Yes it’s basically a giant dick measuring contest for them who got more it’s like what Rappers Rap about 24/7 for them Money, Cars and Bitches that all what counts and of course having big mansions, private jets expensive clothes and shoes
jul 27, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
👍
jul 27, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly! We wouldn't have the internet, cell phones, lots of other technologies and medical advances without the govt. They don't understand the concept of The Greater Good. If it doesn't line their pockets, then it's a waste.
jul 27, 2025, 7:03 pm • 8 0 • view
🎯
jul 27, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly healthcare cannot be looked at as a business. Education cannot be looked at like a business. They need to have budgets and pay people but that’s where it ends.
jul 27, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
because enough time has passed that people don't realize it's a rerun www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
jul 27, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not a fucking company get it through your thick head! Dumb fuckstick
jul 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
This admin is essentially a make-work program for guys who got laughed at in high school.
jul 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 83 10 • view
Or were so insidiously creepy, their classmates just gave them the side-eye and quickened their pace.
jul 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 21 2 • view
This 👆👆👆
jul 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s much much worse than that imo.
jul 27, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Love the use of ‘mediocrities’. Without tRump, we would have never heard of these clowns.
jul 27, 2025, 9:44 pm • 4 0 • view
But the NIH is not a “company” or business, & is not supposed to be a company satisfying stockholders by engineering unsustainable profits, quarter after quarter. Such a disingenuous, irrelevant response from Vought. Get these dolts out of DC!
jul 27, 2025, 2:43 pm • 7 0 • view