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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.
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.
If you think RFK's whiplash is bad, wait until Musk finds out Trump has no more need for him either.
Musk has money to give Trump
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.
Also, he doesn’t want Trump to ban EVs, or otherwise put up roadblocks to their adoption.
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.
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?
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.
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
Evil companies pressuring an evil man... equals a positive result?? I'm surprised at the way that math math'ed out
I guess we now know how crazy you have to be for Trump not to want you around. Like "WORM ATE MY BRAIN" crazy.
Nah, "Brain-eating worm tried to eat my brain and died from it," crazy.
I see nothing in the article that indicates Trump himself feels this way. What his "advisors" think is irrelevant.
The advisors are what makes this time different from last time. This time, they have a plan. Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he can't.
Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he ~~can't~~ can just ignore it and do what he wants anyway
That's like the one silver lining I'm seeing out of this whole situation, is that Trump can't stick to a plan if his literal life and freedom depend on it. We saw that in action in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit. It doesn't matter how well the plans are laid by his mice and men, he's not going to read them. And if we're lucky that by itself will be enough to prevent a total enactment of P2025.
Hopefully the doublecross comes soon and they hang him out to dry before they get into office.
But bear meat stocks are at an all time high
I was thinking about this the other day - dimbulbs like ronnie desatan outlawed clean meat in his state - as did Alabama - meanwhile, one of their own apparently eats actual roadkill and had a brain worm?
Cannot make this stuff up. The right wing is just so unhinged. Every time I see one of them doing something dumber and dumber, including to themselves, I think of the state of America in the book Rapture of the Nerds. It was supposed to be parody, but.....
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
Kentucky voted to keep public taxpayer dollars from going to private schools.
It's not much, but it's a small win for us.
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.
Good work Kentucky! I don’t get to say this enough but I’m proud of you.
Let's see if that even matters. Red States have a history of ignoring votes like that.
See: Ohio basically trying everything it could to avoid enacting legal marijuana.
Imagine thinking a Donald Trump promise holds any value
Him not following through on shit is all the hope I have left.
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.
Don’t be ridiculous.
Trump would never eat only half a Big Mac
He already ate 3 full ones. This is the remnants of the 4th.
Nobody wants JFK Jr in charge of their health, not even Trump and they knew it from the start. But good to see.
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.
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.
Lest anyone think this is about policy or even politics - it ain't.
This is about the wrong guy getting the headlines. Simple as.
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!
So we're past the "big tent" stage and to the "Stabbing in the back" stage.
That took what like a quarter of a mooch?