In news that absolutely nobody had on their 2025 bingo card (except, fine, everyone who has been paying attention since roughly 2022), Dr.
Mehmet Oz is back in the political spotlight after reportedly eyeing another run for office.
Yes, the same guy who once told America that raspberry ketones were basically magic and that you should definitely not skip breakfast.
The cardiac surgeon turned daytime TV fixture turned Senate candidate turned... whatever this is now.
Honestly, the man collects career pivots like my aunt collects decorative gourds.
For those who somehow memory-holed this, Oz already ran for a U.S.
Senate seat in Pennsylvania back in 2022 and lost to John Fetterman.
It was a campaign perhaps best remembered for crudité.
Just a man, a grocery store, and a sad pile of raw vegetables he called a "shopping list." The internet did what the internet does, and Oz became a meme faster than you can say "Ozempic." Now he's reportedly circling the political drain once more, and the discourse is already reheating like week-old leftovers.
Oz: he occupies a very specific cultural space.
He's not quite a celebrity, not quite a doctor to most people anymore, and not quite a politician, but somehow a chaotic combination of all three.
He's the human embodiment of a late-night infomercial that somehow got elected to something.
It's like watching a guy try to parallel park a minivan for three years straight.
The reactions online have been predictably unhinged.
Half of X (formerly Twitter, RIP to a real one) is making crudité jokes again, because we are a nation of people who never let a bit die.
The other half is genuinely asking why anyone keeps handing this man a microphone and a campaign bus.
The remaining 4 percent are just posting clips of him saying "belly fat" in that voice, which is honestly the most honest political commentary available in 2025.
What's wild is that Oz genuinely seems to believe he has a shot.
We live in a country where a reality TV host became president, a professional wrestler ran a Senate campaign, and Kid Rock still gets asked political questions.
The bar is somewhere in the Earth's mantle at this point.
If Oz runs, he'll get attention, he'll get money, and he'll get dragged.
The bigger question is whether America has the bandwidth for another Oz cycle.
Do we really need another round of "is the doctor a senator or is the senator a doctor" discourse?
Another Oz campaign, another round of memes, another opportunity for someone to make a vegetable joke that lands way harder than any policy position ever could.
Oz running for office again is the political equivalent of a sequel nobody asked for, but we'll all watch it anyway because the original was such a trainwreck.
At this point, the man is less a candidate and more a recurring seasonal event, like allergy season but with more raspberry ketones.
Final Thoughts
America, we deserve better, but we're absolutely going to get whatever this is.