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Minnesota Timberwolves massive man Rudy Gobert has as soon as once more stepped into it. This time, he threw his assist behind one in every of Donald Trump’s heada** picks for his presidential cupboard and is getting roasted for it.
Felon 47, aka Donald Trump, is placing collectively what is definitely one of many worst cupboards within the historical past of the presidency. His newest decide is Robert Kennedy Jr., a continuing promoter of conspiracy theories associated to well being and vaccine hater, to run the Well being and Human Providers Division.
Whereas the remainder of the nation is aware of simply how BAD that’s, Gobert took to Elon Musk’s dying platform, X, previously Twitter, to precise his pleasure for the failed presidential candidate, touchdown a job he has no enterprise having, writing within the put up, “Let’s go @RobertKennedyJr (praying fingers emoji).”
Now, why is that this dangerous, you ask? Nicely, let’s rapidly break it down. The previous environmental lawyer turned his consideration to public well being and wrote quite a few books that promoted baseless conspiracy theories, lots of them about using vaccines, which sarcastically gained reputation through the COVID-19 pandemic, a topic he additionally had conspiracy theories about.
Then there are stories about Kennedy Jr’s nonprofit group, the Kids’s Well being Protection, inflicting a measles outbreak in American Samoa in 2019 as a result of they believed his nonsense about vaccines, resulting in vaccine skepticism, which is on the rise globally and led to the loss of life of 70 folks.
You Know It’s Unhealthy When Individuals Actively Root For Draymond Inexperienced Towards You
Mix the worst Kennedy’s monitor report and Gobert’s presser incident, which many imagine was the catalyst to the NBA shutting down after the professional hooper caught COVID-19; it’s no marvel folks at the moment are saying on social media Draymond Inexperienced was proper for placing him in a chokehold and consistently being a thorn in Gobert’s facet.
The backlash to Gobert’s put up on X has been epic, and actually, we wouldn’t be shocked if it made him cry like when he obtained “snubbed” for taking part within the 2019 NBA All-Star Sport.
On prime of that, Minnesota Timberwolves followers and celebrity Anthony Edwards may need their overpaid massive man to place down his telephone and give attention to basketball as a result of he’s struggling proper now, and the Timberwolves aren’t wanting just like the crew they had been final yr.
Granted, the Timberwolves aren’t the identical crew from final yr, however there have been massive strikes made, with Karl-Anthony Cities being traded to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle, who’s off to an ideal begin, whereas Donte DiVincenzo struggles to slot in on his new crew.
Welp.
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