Lol, that was quick. Effectively, “Thanks for your supporters but we’ll be fine without you”.

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    This is legit the best political news this week by a wide margin. It’s still gonna fucking suck but at least we won’t have to worry about fucking polio on top of it

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      Kentucky voted to keep public taxpayer dollars from going to private schools.

      It’s not much, but it’s a small win for us.

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        I wish Texas could’ve done the same, but Governor Hot Wheels is bound a determined to take us all back to the 20’s.

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        Not sure about Kentucky, but I know some wingers were concerned about a bill in Colorado and school funds meaning that the government would be peeking into how you did home schooling…so while they were not necessarily opposed to getting the government cheese for themselves, they were paranoid about “too much government” in their lives because they were getting money…

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        Yup, Missouri voted to allow abortion again. It isn’t much either, another small win. That was completely negated when they overwhelmingly voted for the man that will ban it nationally.

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          Since we are going back to the 1800s I was going to start my business of radium water “medical tonics”, mercury medicine and x-ray show sizing machines

    • @Big_Boss_77
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      Thank you, I hope you’re right.

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      It’s definitely a big relief. Here I was expecting the US to throw out a century of medical advancements and halt all vaccine research, which is not only very bad for the US, but leaves a lot of other countries in the lurch (fortunately at least for Australia, our first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant should be online next year).

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    Wait a second, you mean Trump just used the guy and is now dropping him like a half-eaten Big Mac? I am shocked. SHOCKED, I say.

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    Nobody wants JFK Jr in charge of their health, not even Trump and they knew it from the start. But good to see.

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      Eh, the qons would be all over it in order to yell “fuck your feelings” at any liberals they think his policies were hurting. I mean, he was talking about ivermectin again (JFC these people are all so very stupid), and bullshit about that is something that they will seemingly never stop going on about. They were willing to take ivermectin and die from Covid, just to own the libs, because: “fuck your feelings, libs!”

      So yeah, if enough of these brainstems thought that RFK jr was going to be hurting the “right” people, they would be in like Flynn on the craziness, even if their kids’ teeth were falling out as a consequence.

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    As a nearly 80 year old man who is likely eating a fistful of pills every morning, he might want to ensure that the FDA is still regulating that stuff.

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      You don’t really need that if you have access to money. You just get a real doctor, not one of the quacks that you drag out for political theater to appease the ignorant conspiracy loving base.

      US drugs unsafe? import them from europe or directly from the pharmaceutical company that makes them.

      The only people who get fucked by these decisions are the “normal” people without great wealth or connections.

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        And how does one find out that these US drugs are unsafe?

        Oh that’s right, people fucking die. That includes wealthy people btw. If the opioid crisis has taught us anything…

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    Lest anyone think this is about policy or even politics - it ain’t.

    This is about the wrong guy getting the headlines. Simple as.

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    He doesn’t need RFK to run the FDA, because Trump is going to just scuttle it entirely.

    Science bad! Doctors bad! Let the drug companies do what they want! Freedumb y’all!

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    I would love nothing more than for this to be true and to hit that one RFK fan we have on lemmy with it, but the article doesn’t really give much evidence to support the title.

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      hit that one RFK fan we have on Lemmy with it

      Idk why, but this made me laugh so hard. I know I have seen the elusive Lemmy RFK fan in a thread somewhere.

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        Nah, that’s not gonna happen. Mush want’s to hang out with the cool kids oligarchs and will always be willing to lick the boots to be accepted. It’s kinda like Beavis and Butt-head’s worship of Todd, no matter how much contempt and abuse he heaps upon them it just makes Todd cooler in their eyes.

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    pharmaceutical companies probably made some lucrative deals with Trump to be pro vaccine. This guy learned from first hand why he should not suck up to a guy who worships money and power

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      Evil companies pressuring an evil man… equals a positive result?? I’m surprised at the way that math math’ed out

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    Well I got to say I’m relieved that he’s backstabbing the right people… So far. Well honestly anybody they’d be counted as backstabbing I wouldn’t mind.

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        Then they came for the boot licking senators, and I did nothing because I’m not a boy licking senator.

        Then they came for people I cared about and by that time I was prepared because I know they are coming for me

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      Trump? He actually believes they work. He made sure he got vaccinated. He just knows he can pander with it.

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          I don’t know if it was vaccines, but he sent tests to him when we didn’t have enough for our own citizens. You know, America First sort of things.

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          It was testing machines newly developed by Abbott Labs, not single use tests. You know they immediately reverse engineered that too

  • @radiohead37
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    Grifter got used and dumped. You serve no purpose anymore.

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    I see nothing in the article that indicates Trump himself feels this way. What his “advisors” think is irrelevant.

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      The advisors are what makes this time different from last time. This time, they have a plan. Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he can’t.

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        Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he can’t can just ignore it and do what he wants anyway

        That’s like the one silver lining I’m seeing out of this whole situation, is that Trump can’t stick to a plan if his literal life and freedom depend on it. We saw that in action in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit. It doesn’t matter how well the plans are laid by his mice and men, he’s not going to read them. And if we’re lucky that by itself will be enough to prevent a total enactment of P2025.