General Politics XII World • Page 360

if someone doesn't run against this dude and call him jared polio what are we even doing, @dylan get on that

 

no, that's aviology

 

@dylan for Governor

 

I liked Hasan's take "this isnt surprising. Polis is the Reddit Mod governor. He is the most Reddit politician in the country. His entire persona is like someone who posts on r/neoliberal all day"

 

I thought it was Ornithology

 

Polis is term limited.. however probably just swaps spots with Michael Bennet in 2026 if Bennet wants to leave senate/become governor. Best case would be Joe Neguse or Denver's mayor as governor and Polis gone forever.

 

I don't believe that Democrats believed that democracy was on the line a week ago, but with these picks, our fucking country absolutely was on the line

RFK, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services is just holy fuck

 

Democrats were absolutely right in their assessment.

They were, however, completely wrong in how they dealt with it.

 

I agree and I think that was an accurate assessment, but I don't think they believed it then or now or ever

 

Just gonna put this out there: I don't want a smooth or even peaceful transfer of power. I want them to throw every wrench they can in the works. Make it really painful, annoying and drawn out.

 

no, that's the study of Ornithopters

 

I don’t know if you saw yesterday’s nice get together between trump and Biden but that’s not going to happen. Frankly lesser evil two party voting has got us to a place where we don’t have an opposition party imo

 

did you not see the photographs of them together at The White House yesterday?

 

every time I vote for 'the lesser of two evils' because 'democracy is on the ballot' the Dems move further to the right

 

A lot if the work needed to slow down this administration is going to be by non profit orgs taking them to court and the dems are going to help vote for a bill that allows trump to label them terrorists and crush them financially. The dems are going to make it harder to fight trump it seems. That’s not an opposition party

 

Osita probably the least wrong commentator of our era

 

ahaha yes, that's low-key i was reacting to. i was so grossed out seeing this, especially with the whole "he's a fascist and a threat to democracy"-spiel beforehand

 

also if i see a single democrat vote yes on any of these nominations i will *doom shotgun wav*

 

Few people at work have said they want to see what RFK does with getting shit out of food and stuff while I am like have you all heard of the Chevron deference and how the Supreme Court ruined that because that shit ain't happening now. Then actually had to explain what I meant.

 

It sure would be nice to see in our government one that actually puts health first for people and promoting disease prevention and healthy diets. One that does things like revisits a lot of approvals that they have made in the past on food additives, ingredients, food processes, approved drugs, chemicals used in agriculture, etc. because there are so many things things we use that have been linked to cancer and other diseases and many that have been banned in other countries for those reasons. We do need someone leading the HHS who will take on big Pharma and big Ag.

In that area RFK Jr. actually does seem to speak to what we need. What we don't need is someone who will vilify vaccines and pose unfounded skepticism, while also advocating for other things not backed by science like getting rid of fluoride in water and boasting the benefits of raw milk. So while I do agree with some of what Polis said, he is obviously totally wrong to be excited about RFK Jr. and it's gross of him to celebrate his work in "defeating vaccine mandates". It's one of these things like some good can probably come from an RFK Jr. HHS, but the bad could be really bad and that's scary.