When kids start dying of Whooping Cough, I'm going to strongly encourage people to post their anger and direct it to not only Republican voters, but also to people who stayed home because "it doesn't matter."

It's quite pathetic how so many of these stories have top comments that all blame voters for the decades of compound failures by the Democratic party.

You have it backwards my friend, voters cannot fail the party. It's the party's job to win voters, but instead, they shed 14 million voters over the last election.

Remind me, how many users are on Lemmy?

Democrats were perfectly capable of enacting electoral reform in the blue states they control, allowing these people who felt unrepresented to be involved and engaged. Some of them might have picked the democrats as their 2nd pick.

Why did the democrats say no to these easy extra votes? Why did they say no to having multiple chances at defeating the republicans? Why did they prioritize restricting election access to 3rd parties over defeating the republicans?

Patriotic red tailed hawk screech

And Polio, and Mumps, And Measles, and Rubella, and.... and.... and..

But fellatioborne transmission means the president gets it. The president.

In practice what it probably means is removing all the modern preservatives and added vitamins/minerals. Who’s excited to get goiter and pellagra?!

Doing that would also mean a return to traditional preservatives: salt and sugar. Because we don’t have enough of that in the American diet already.

Depends on what he means by "ultra-processed", but you can bet that it's probably not a reasonable criteria that he'll be using.

The man isn't rational, and doesn't base his conclusions on sound reasoning.

Note the call to lessen regulations around "raw milk, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine". That's pretty insane.

And I can almost be certain that what they'll do is eliminate funding for snap benefits and school lunches going to what they'll classify as "ultra processed foods", without adjusting funding to account for what they left behind being significantly more expensive. Some definitions of "ultra-processed" include things like "store bought bread", "frozen meals", "soup concentrate", "yoghurt" and "sausage".
Call me cynical, but I think if you apply the stricter work requirements for benefits they always want, while reducing the scope of the benefits to cover fewer things, and almost nothing helpful for the people with the severe time restrictions the work requirements can cause you'll end up seeing people use the benefits far less often, because they give less usable food for the money. Then they'll use that to justify reducing the size of the program even further.

We expect people making school lunches to make hundreds of meals that finish at the same time, to have the meal be nutritionally complete, tasty, and now also not use frozen or premade ingredients. We give them literally $1 for the ingredients for these meals, and maybe another $2 for operational overhead like labor costs and equipment.
Saying you can't use canned tomato sauce, peanut butter, pre-packaged bread or ground meats is basically just cutting funding for feeding children under the guise of not paying for a scary sounding classification of food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

I know there’s an /s in there that you forgot. Please say that you forgot it…

I, for one, welcome our new kakistocratic overlords.

Mask your biohazard self if you’re not getting vaccinated for the next 4 years, thanks.

Stephen miller, which is not reassuring.

Lol the whole plan is to fire any government worker that doesn't step into line and replace them with party loyalists.

Every government worker that objects to Trump's Agenda quitting would help that agenda. There's no shortage of cronies willing to do any job for the sake of "Making America Great Again". And it's not like he needs qualified people in these positions. Most of the government agencies, he wants to run into the ground. Easier to get rid of regulations or to privatize that way.

No betsy devos, yet.

Yeeees…out of the blue. Odd coincidence.