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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

You spelt ruin incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Broken clock. But honestly this is for the best old brain worm is insane.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Let's see if that even matters. Red States have a history of ignoring votes like that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

Good work Kentucky! I don’t get to say this enough but I’m proud of you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I was considering starting an Iron Lung manufacturing company

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, and there goes my FDR crutches monogramming Etsy along with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Thank you, I hope you're right.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t be ridiculous.

Trump would never eat only half a Big Mac

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Half eaten salad? No, he'd never eat any of a salad. Not enough cholesterol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But it’s a hamburger salad?

(Yeah, that didn’t work in the 5yo either.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I think that’s the answer. He’d eat the hamburger half.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe if it was covered in ketchup like a well done steak

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

These words are violence.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Now hopefully he drops Elon as well!

[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking a Donald Trump promise holds any value

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

A trump never pays his debts

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Donald Trump's promises are a solid as the water they're written on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Unless it has anything to do with making rich people richer, racism, or women... And u can be damned sure it will happen... And we all know it's not for the better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Only inasmuch as it personally enriches him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Water? You mean Pee spread over a russian hooker*?

*


The russian piss tape story was likely fake news

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

So we're past the "big tent" stage and to the "Stabbing in the back" stage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Just wait until him and Elon get at each others' throats.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

That took what like a quarter of a mooch?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

Grifter got used and dumped. You serve no purpose anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

All the alternative health community who voted for Trump got their comeuppance quick.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

First they came for RFK jr and I did nothing because I'm not a brain worm...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Cheezus, this is a win and I’ll take it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking coward. Own up to your shitty beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

He sent vaccines to Putin even.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh, maybe it's was tests is what I read

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

First of many.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

But the donnie dumbfuck fans voted for this! Why would you distance yourself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago