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Trump campaign quietly distances itself from RFK jnr after new vaccine safety comments (www.nzherald.co.nz)

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

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 186 points 1 week ago

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

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago

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

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

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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

[-] prole 16 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 1 week 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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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...

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I was considering starting an Iron Lung manufacturing company

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Don’t be ridiculous.

Trump would never eat only half a Big Mac

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

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

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

These words are violence.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

But it’s a hamburger salad?

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

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[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 56 points 1 week ago

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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[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] prole 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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....

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It’s that if you make enough money from hurting people there are no consequences

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

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

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

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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!

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You spelt ruin incorrectly.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Spelt is a type of grain

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago

Type means writing on a keyboard

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[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

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

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

That took what like a quarter of a mooch?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Musk has money to give Trump

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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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[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Fucking coward. Own up to your shitty beliefs.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

He sent vaccines to Putin even.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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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[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I guess we now know how crazy you have to be for Trump not to want you around. Like "WORM ATE MY BRAIN" crazy.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

But bear meat stocks are at an all time high

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

First of many.

[-] inkrifle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Now hopefully he drops Elon as well!

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