RFK Jr. shuts Americans out of health decisions despite vow for transparency
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Ah. So "radical transparency" on policy in the same sense that square wheels is a "radical redesign" on a car?
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Lying liar lies, film at 11. In other headlines, the sky continues to be blue and water is still wet.
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Project 2025 working as intended. The Heritage Foundation now has the power to push us out of democracy and they are using it.
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Great job PA sending the fucking B team to do the job. Keystone state my ass.
Come on America, do the thing you do with Kennedys.
Come on America, do the thing you do with Kennedys.
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I thought the first four years were bad. I am astounded how low they can go right now. This is hitting rock bottom and digging deeper levels of insanity. Astounded, but not surprised. If that makes any sense.
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A simple misunderstanding, they meant radical transparency between corporate interests and their bank accounts.
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I don't believe he wrote that. In my opinion stringing together that many polysyllabic words is beyond his capabilities. Someone wrote it but I suspect it wasn't Kennedy. I wonder if he would have even understood it if it was read to him.
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So in the lead-up to Kennedy's confirmation vote, Senator Cassidy (R-LA) said that he met with Kennedy and received private reassurances that Kennedy wouldn't do, well, shit like this, and that swayed his vote to "yes". Those assurances were evidently a lie (I know, I'm shocked as well), so the question that reporters should be asking the Senator now is "what are you going to do about it?".
(I mean, we all know that the answer will be "posture a bit, but nothing substantive", but the Republicans in Congress are enabling and supporting crap like this, and that needs to be called out. This rot and sabotage is systemic in the Republican party)
(I mean, we all know that the answer will be "posture a bit, but nothing substantive", but the Republicans in Congress are enabling and supporting crap like this, and that needs to be called out. This rot and sabotage is systemic in the Republican party)
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In my arrogant, and ignorant, youth I thought a Judge Dredd/Neuromancer future would be cool. Sadly, much like a lot of "cool" things, they're only cool if you're rich and powerful. Like, the Dark Ages. That looked really cool, as long as you weren't poor, which was nearly everyone.
Now-a-days, I just want equity and consistency. Without it, my children are inheriting a deathscape.
Now-a-days, I just want equity and consistency. Without it, my children are inheriting a deathscape.
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Cassidy was never a "no" vote. If you didn't see that, then you're already three strikes behind.
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Polio. Tariffs. Trade wars. Bird flu. Economic collapse. Capitulation to Putin. This is making America great again.
Break it faster! Burn it the fuck down! I want to see peoples lives destroyed, see them lose their homes and lives. This is what you wanted. Trump the fuck out of America!
Break it faster! Burn it the fuck down! I want to see peoples lives destroyed, see them lose their homes and lives. This is what you wanted. Trump the fuck out of America!
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Did you not read 1984?
We're in "opposite world" right now.
Transparency now means obscurity/secrecy.
Free Speech now means censorship.
Truth now means ...
We're in "opposite world" right now.
Transparency now means obscurity/secrecy.
Free Speech now means censorship.
Truth now means ...
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There will be a day of reckoning for this despicable regime. I just hope it's before every last scrap of the age of reason and the rule of law is eradicated
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Most of the HHS social media posts in the last few weeks are pictures and videos of RFK. An act of an insecure man trying to be validated
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1984 will go on the pile of books to be burned in case the proles read it.
Though they'll keep a few copies for themselves. The need somewhere to get new ideas from, after all.
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Oh, I know that. If nothing else, he's terrified of being challenged in the primary by an ambulatory red hat. But, his public posture was very different. I want to see him squirm, as publicly as possible.
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Over 70 million voted for this administration. They're the enablers that have given us this shitstorm since inauguration. It needs to bite them back, hard.
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According to various articles I’ve seen (based on anonymous sources “close to the senator” so quite possibly seeded by him in an attempt to excuse what he did) it wasn’t just fear of a Musk financed primary. Supposedly he and his family members were getting credible death threats and he was concerned about Trump withdrawing Secret Service protection if Cassidy crossed him by going voting against Kennedy.
Just the totally normal functioning of a healthy democracy.
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IMO, this is exactly what you get when you bring "good business principles" to democratic governance, now exponentially amplified by billionaire wanker ejaculate in the form of Project 2025.
Please welcome fascist dictatorship, United States of America! /s
Please welcome fascist dictatorship, United States of America! /s
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Dr_EluSivE
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RFK hinting that he would like to eliminate ADHD drugs such as methylphenidate has me worried. My 7yo has Severe ADHD and his School work suffers greatly when he is not on it.
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Time to e-mail inigo_mo.tga to the United States administration.
Send them as ambassadors to Japan and/or Australia? Incomprehensible!
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Isn’t this just the standard Republican approach to public health? “If we have no reports of diseases, we have no diseases.”
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I have to wonder how all the corporate supporters are feeling today as their stocks drop......
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Didn't these asshats literally discuss - openly, ironically - how to avoid leaving paper trails?
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Radical transparency is so transparent that it is opaque.
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My wife was diagnosed as an adult and basically felt transformed after a lifetime of having her head in the clouds (not that she minded but definitely helped work). But I guess it's worth it since apparently he's going to go after food dye or something totally life impacting.
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