White House monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskalakis
Another Eclectic Hire
Readers may recall the rather non-traditional individual appointed by President Biden to handle America’s nuclear waste, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy, Sam Brinton.
Meet the non-binary drag queen who’s now in charge of America’s nuclear ☢️ waste.
— Portfolio Armor (@PortfolioArmor) February 10, 2022
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Secretary Brinton now has a similarly eclectic colleague in the Administration, White House Monkeypox Coordinator Demetre Daskalakis.
He runs a satanist/BDSM yoga & spin studio with his partner who looks exactly like him & hey what do you know, they bonded over Pizza https://t.co/nvxJ8Fc6eK pic.twitter.com/3ms7ijWuR3
— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) September 8, 2022
Daskalakis Gets An Interesting Defender
One pundit who stepped in to defend the Daskalakis hire was Andrew Sullivan.
This man's private life has no bearing on his capacity to do his job. And he looks great. What's your point? https://t.co/Wbwzb3CFpI
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 8, 2022
What makes Andrew Sullivan an interesting defender of our Monkeypox coordinator is that he was an early and effective advocate for legalizing gay marriage, and one of his arguments for doing so was that it would have a public health benefit, in reducing an epidemic. He seemed to have forgotten that argument earlier this week but was reminded of it on Twitter.
Didn't Andrew Sullivan promise us that if we had Gay Marriage then gays would knock it off with the orgies and stop unleashing expensive STD epidemics like AIDS?
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) September 3, 2022
What went wrong?
NBC News: "How monkeypox spoiled gay men's plans for an invincible summer"https://t.co/07oWz9R3Pw
I'd love you to prove this by citing something I actually wrote or said. It's a weird distortion of my original argument favored by the woke left and the religious right.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 6, 2022
The argument was that it would help build relationships, stability and family. It was not that it would end many gay men's sexual exuberance - or should.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 7, 2022
I stand by every word. I did not say that marriage would end all sexual adventurism among gays any more than it has ended it all among straights. I said it would make things better. And that discrimination and stigmatization made things worse.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 7, 2022
As Steve Sailer and others have pointed out, it wasn’t so much gay marriage but the fear of AIDS that tempered gay promiscuity, and that fear was lessened with government funding of PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis).
no copay, no deductible - 100% free to the end user https://t.co/Gsz0WBWlPy
— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) September 8, 2022
Better Living Through Chemistry
Since our leaders are repeating their AIDS tack of not trying to rein in the irresponsible individuals spreading this disease, we’re left with America’s preferred response: pharmaceuticals. On that score, I shared a Monkeypox play with you in a post a couple of months ago.
That play was SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA):
Screen capture via Portfolio Armor on 7/12/2022.
SIGA appeared in our top ten again on Wednesday but didn’t pass our options sentiment screens on Thursday. It might be worth keeping an eye on our top names to see if it appears there again soon with more staying power.
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