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

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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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    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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    If you think RFK’s whiplash is bad, wait until Musk finds out Trump has no more need for him either.

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        Musk doesn’t want to give money to Trump.

        Must wanted Trump elected so he could make his self driving systems road legal for robotaxis. He’s hoping to get all that money back and then some. If he gets what he wants, he’ll be most of the way towards being a trillionaire.

        But Trump is not a man who pays his debts and I’m here for the inevitable betrayal.

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      Didn’t Musk find that out the first time too? He was advising Trump in 2016 and had a falling out after Trump left the Paris climate agreement.

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      I’m kind of surprised because Tesla and Trumpnis pro coal and gas. Is Elon eating his own face? Or is he willing to cannibalize Tesla because he has government contracts and Trump will probably hand him any government contract he wants?

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        Musk has most of his wealth in Tesla stock. That will skyrocket if his substandard self-driving tech is allowed to be used in unattended autonomous taxis.

        Instead of selling cars, he’ll sell a service. Instead of selling a car costing $40,000, each car will make that in a few months.

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

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