Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the director of Joe Biden’s National Monkeypox Response team, held his first press conference Wednesday, but attention online focused on degenerate photos from his past.
During the presser, Daskalakis said the administration is “signaling to people who are in the gay/bisexual/other-men-who-have sex-w/-men communities, & also transgender people who have sex w/men, that it’s really important to have awareness that it’s circulating.”
WH monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskalakis: We're "signaling to people who are in the gay/ bisexual/other-men-who-have sex-w/-men communities, & also transgender people who have sex w/ men, that it’s really important to have awareness that it's circulating." pic.twitter.com/Oqb7UiJmar
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
Beyond the irony of having an openly gay man coordinate the response against what is arguably a virus transmitted only among gay men, social media users viewing photos from Daskalakis’ past for the first time are questioning the sanity of the administration’s hiring choices.
One photo from when he was grand marshal of NYC’s Pride 2021 festival showed Daskalakis outfitted in leather s&m bondage gear with a design resembling a pentagram.
Picture I found when googling him pic.twitter.com/SG8YUWaPh5
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
Possible ensembles for his next monkeypox presser:
1) the classic mesh tank top w/ hot pink daisy dukes pic.twitter.com/KuTNbyrtc0
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
2) Nothing screams "expert coming through!" like a black leather biker hat w/ matching leather chest straps. Shirts are overrated anyway. pic.twitter.com/Yiyw0Jbliu
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
3) Look who found the other side of the rainbow and came out looking fabulous! pic.twitter.com/HN7EPwA3Vx
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
4) When Demetre's not dropping science on monkeypox he's happy to give your soul a spin cycle w/ this trendy goblin getup pic.twitter.com/dE00bEjoaC
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 7, 2022
He looks like a monkeypox coordinator.
— Paul W Allen (@TheRantSupply) September 7, 2022
So basically its an STD/STI or a infection that targets the gay community.
— Jemal Baraka (@JemalBaraka) September 7, 2022
Did he say anything about how the children and animals are getting it or is that still something we don’t talk about?
— ████ Dissident (@DissidentRedact) September 7, 2022
The Biden administration was previously criticized over its hire of non-binary drag queen Sam Briton as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition for the Department of Energy.
Pathetic piece of garbage
Biden's new Dept. of Energy hire, Sam Brinton, has just been found to have been defending a website (Rentboy) back on Sept 2nd, 2015. This website was shutdown due to under age prostitution! And now he works for the Biden administration. Surprised? pic.twitter.com/Ab04F2WVpZ— An American Family (@RJTomasiello) July 6, 2022