WASHINGTON—In a stunning shake-up that has sent shock waves through a department already roiled by upheaval, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he had fired the nation’s sitting piss czar.
During a White House press conference, Kennedy explained that he had decided to dismiss piss czar Travis Spragg over concerns that the Biden appointee “could not be trusted” to offer Americans sound piss guidance. Despite Spragg’s stature as a top HHS official whose work on piss-related affairs has garnered respect from both parties, the secretary insisted that a lack of “urinary integrity” made Spragg unfit to serve as piss czar any longer.
“Americans deserve better than a piss czar who colludes with powerful interests behind stall doors to keep our bladders unhealthy and weak,” Kennedy said in his forceful remarks, accusing Spragg of blindly parroting mainstream piss orthodoxy. “He has repeatedly enforced harmful regulations that have stifled research into the potential benefits of piss retention and applying piss to wounds.”
“It’s time to do away with the red tape strangling our urethras and make piss healthy again,” Kennedy added before toasting the announcement with a glass of murky, amber liquid.
During his confirmation hearing, Kennedy pledged to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that he would not change existing piss guidelines, and he ultimately secured the pro-hydration Republican’s support. But with the termination of the piss czar—traditionally a 10-year, nonpolitical appointment—many urologists and nephrologists now fear the HHS chief intends to empower voices who share his skepticism toward science-based pissing.
“America has always been number one in urination, and now some dilettante who doesn’t know his ureters from his urethra wants to undo decades of progress,” said Harvard University piss researcher Edwin Talbot, expressing concerns that a hostile piss czar could make it much more difficult for the U.S. populace to maintain its piss health. “Kennedy has boosted pseudoscientific practices like bladder-sunning, and he has falsely linked shaking out the last drops to early death. Just last month he erroneously claimed on a podcast that women piss through the vagina. Mark my words, our health secretary is about to send American micturition back into the Dark Ages.”
He added, “When I imagine pissing under an RFK Jr.–appointed piss czar, it sends a shiver down my penis.”
While Spragg’s ouster as piss czar has triggered alarm bells in the medical community, it aligns with a growing movement of piss conspiracism amongst the American public.
In a nationwide poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 73% of U.S. residents said they distrusted government guidelines on pissing, while 66% said they believed pissing was less effective at relieving bladders than fresh air and exercise. Half of those surveyed claimed that bathrooms were used to track Americans’ physical whereabouts, and 42% expressed belief that porcelain—a vitrified ceramic used in many toilets—was associated with heart attacks, declining sperm counts, and the prevalence of mass shootings.
“The government shouldn’t have any say in what I expel from my body or how,” said Iowa resident Alice Haines, who added that having voided her bladder at her desk in defiance of federal guidelines had led to her dismissal from a job with the National Park Service. “I’d rather piss all over myself the way humans have for thousands of years than risk sitting my body on some dangerous toilet I don’t even understand.”
“Frankly, I hope Kennedy doesn’t stop with firing the piss czar,” Haines went on, defiantly stomping her foot with a wet squishing sound. “I hope he closes every state-run bathroom, outhouse, and port-a-potty until piss in this country finally gets back on the right track.”
