Bondi, who was diagnosed shortly after being ousted in April, is also joining the White House's new advisory council on AI.
  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    She is continuing to work despite the diagnosis, and will be joining the White House’s new advisory council on AI, the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

    Of all the fucking things. Forget all the blatant corruption and illegal behavior of this administration for a moment. This is why Republican administrations are always a bad idea: They put non-experts in roles that require experts!

    I’m 48 and every single Republican president in my lifetime has pulled shit like this. From John Tower (first Bush) to the severe incompetency of the George W. Bush administration (e.g. “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”) to the catastrophic incompetency and corruption of both Trump administrations.

    Democratic administrations aren’t perfect, but they at least try to appoint actually qualified individuals into any given position. For Republicans, the only qualification necessary seems to be loyalty and/or making friends with the right people (and who knows what back room/hidden dealings).

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      This is why Republican administrations are always a bad idea: They put non-experts in roles that require experts!

      Democrats do the same thing. Sheila Jackson Lee… In 1997, while serving on the House Science Committee, she reportedly asked NASA officials if the Mars Pathfinder rover had taken pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong.

      • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        A congressperson serving on a congressional committee for a technical topic is very different from a rando appointed to the head of a specialized department of the executive branch.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 days ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a worse person

    Actually, strike that, there are still worse, but the day isn’t over yet, there is still hope.

    I feel for anyone who gets cancer. This woman, though, deserves every second of suffering she will get

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Hope she lives long enough to be properly deposed for executing the most horrific and odious cover up of the 21st century.

    Then, then the cancer can have her.

    But first, the people need justice, or things will get very bad, very fast.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

    80+% survival rate. Not impossible but maybe the cancer can manage.

  • 00xide@lemmy.ml
    190·
    4 days ago

    Why are we talking about her cancer? Doesn’t she know the Dow is over 50k?

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
        262·
        4 days ago

        Sorry, it’s thyroid, which has a high-nineties-percent 5-year survival rate. No kind of cancer is good, but most are worse.

        I was rooting for spinal or pancreatic cancer. Oh well, eventually a pin will hit the right spot in the doll.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          12·
          4 days ago

          Survival rate is one thing, thyroid shit is annoying as hell. She’s probably been dealing with complications from it for a while. If that makes anyone feel a bit better via schadenfreude.

        • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          My dad had thyroid cancer and had to have his removed.

          Of course now that means he’s dependent on drugs to get the hormones he needs.

          Pam Blondi is in for a world of change

    • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
      235·
      3 days ago

      Oh look, 3 Magats were triggered by my comment. Your racist/mysogynous/homophobic/uneducated tears are delicious.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
        923·
        4 days ago

        Can you point at these right wingers and magats that reside on this platform? Are they in the room with us?

        It certainly can’t be about how everyone knows someone that died from cancer and that some of those deaths caused some people a lot of pain and making fun about cancer is triggering for those people on a personal level.

        I agree with the sentiment against the fascist regime, but siding with cancer is a bridge too far.

        • frongt@lemmy.zip
          26·
          4 days ago

          Hi, I had cancer myself. Hopefully it stays had. She was part of the administration that is pushing to increase cancer rates in people. She deserves this and more.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          26·
          4 days ago

          Speaking as someone who knows a person who has been utterly destroyed by the kind of shit Pam Bondi worked to cover up so hard, and seen how they live with hells the rest of us can’t imagine because of the casual sexual tastes of the elite class for children, I can honestly and based on real life experience say, NO. It’s NOT.

          Cancer is actually pretty fucking tame, and limited both in scope and time, than the inner hell of a child who has been trafficked and then makes it into adulthood: that’s cancer on steroids for a lifetime.

          And people with cancer also get help and healthcare, maybe not enough, but it’s something that is seen by others and studied and a lot of people care about it. On the other hand, people with experience of being trafficked as children don’t get jack shit, and more often than not any helping hand extended to them is just the doorway into another exploitation because that’s what they were trained to accept from childhood’s earliest hour.

          So as much sympathy as I do actually have for people who have battled cancer, it’s not even a real comparison: the hell of surviving what Pam Bondi protects is magnitudes beyond what people who have never been a survivor or adjacent to what they go through can imagine, day in and day out for as long as they live, more traumas before the age of twelve than they can ever address in a lifetime.

          Glad that your life has been blessed such that you don’t personally know the difference, but honestly you can take your cancer-hating, pedo-protector-sparing outrage somewhere else.

        • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today
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          2 days ago

          I lost people close to me from cancer and currently am getting tested to see if I have cancer.

          She deserves this and I wish it was a more painful and less survivable type