Kamala Harris had a terse reply to Trump’s plan: “No.”

Donald Trump said Thursday that vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in charge of “women’s health” if the former president is reelected to the White House.

The comments reflect Kennedy’s growing role in a potential administration and his rising standing in the Trump orbit after he dropped his independent bid for the presidency and endorsed his onetime competitor. But calls for a senior position have troubled health advocates, who point to Kennedy’s long history as a skeptic of widely accepted science surrounding vaccines. Those concerns grew this week after the co-chair of the team planning Trump’s potential transition said Kennedy had persuaded him in a 2.5-hour meeting that vaccines caused autisma widely debunked stance.

The Harris campaign was quick to share footage of Trump’s plans for Kennedy on Thursday, and Harris herself tweeted a short response to her opponent’s pledge: “No.”

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    You’re not as stupid as to support the subject of that headline, Reader. Vote for Harris.

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    Is there currently someone “in charge of women’s health” in our government? This sounds ominous af.

    Edit: Turns out there is a Office of Women’s Health in the FDA that is focused on addressing unique biology I guess. That seems to make it even worse.

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    Looks like donnie is really doubling down on hoping the male vote puts him over because this is the exact opposite of outreach to women voters…

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    How is it not a conspiracy that he’s trying to lose this election. And how are his dumb ass supporters, who are often so high on conspiracy theory, oblivious to this notion? And why the fuck is the media making it out to be hyper competitive with both sides bringing equal amounts of crazy and reason to the table

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      Also as a non-American, I don’t get how this is even a close election? To me it seems like the options are Competent Politician Who You May Not Agree With On Everything vs. Actual Cabal Of Demented Fascists, and it seems like it could genuinely go either way.

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      And why the fuck is the media making it out to be hyper competitive with both sides bringing equal amounts of crazy and reason to the table

      The bothsiderist formula is what the corporate media loves best. Doing truth-telling is not really their thing.

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    The man with literal worm-on-the-brain is going to be in charge of women’s bodies. I mean, of course! This timeline is really turning out to be worse than any “alternate universe” episodes of most sci-fi shows.

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    A list of possible new Republican slogans for Women’s rights and women’s health:

    “It all starts out by grabbing the pussy real good”

    “If by the pussy you don’t succeed, try and try again”

    “If you’re famous, they let you health care them by the pussy”

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    Try to stay with me here because I have this crazy idea. It’s out there. So far out there I’m pretty sure it’s never been done. How about we have a woman with medical training in charge of women’s health?

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      The training makes her an expert and you can’t trust those. Can’t trust a woman either, so that’s double untrustworthy.

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        Oh right. Vance’s debate argument that you can’t go with what economists say about the economy.

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      Be careful what you wish for, or they will find the one woman trained in medicine who wants to sterilize people using logic derived from eugenics.

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      Great idea. Also, only gay people get to vote on gay rights.

      Not joking.

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    Ngl it’s kind of a hilarious and baffling self-own with regards to the women’s vote. Like, genuinely, how is this in any way supposed to convince more women to vote for him? An antivax nut job with a literal worm in his brain…? Like… wut.

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    Vance is a bigger problem, he’s a billionaire sponsored corporate entity and he’s going to end up President.

    Thiel replaced Epstein on the board of Carbyne, Mossad’s research and development company.

    Vance is a dubious corporate character. Beware.

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      This is exactly it. I keep waking up expecting to read that Trump died in his sleep, that’s how unhealthy he looks.

      This is the Vance for President campaign, trump is just the fuel in the car that drives him there.

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        I figure they need Trump to also do a bunch of crimes when he’s in office before they pull the plug on him… That way he can blamed whilst they keep all the power.