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

188 points

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

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111 points

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

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

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

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

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3 points

See: Ohio basically trying everything it could to avoid enacting legal marijuana.

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5 points

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.

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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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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.

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15 points

I was considering starting an Iron Lung manufacturing company

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

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Since we are going back to the 1800s I was going to start my business of radium water “medical tonics”, mercury medicine and x-ray show sizing machines

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It’s definitely a big relief. Here I was expecting the US to throw out a century of medical advancements and halt all vaccine research, which is not only very bad for the US, but leaves a lot of other countries in the lurch (fortunately at least for Australia, our first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant should be online next year).

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110 points

Imagine thinking a Donald Trump promise holds any value

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24 points

Donald Trump’s promises are a solid as the water they’re written on.

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Unless it has anything to do with making rich people richer, racism, or women… And u can be damned sure it will happen… And we all know it’s not for the better

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5 points

Only inasmuch as it personally enriches him

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Water? You mean Pee spread over a russian hooker*?

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The russian piss tape story was likely fake news

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1 point

As solid as the bowel movements in his diaper.

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6 points

A trump never pays his debts

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3 points

Him not following through on shit is all the hope I have left.

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83 points

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.

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52 points

Don’t be ridiculous.

Trump would never eat only half a Big Mac

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

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6 points

But it’s a hamburger salad?

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

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6 points

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

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He already ate 3 full ones. This is the remnants of the 4th.

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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.

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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.

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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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Eh, the qons would be all over it in order to yell “fuck your feelings” at any liberals they think his policies were hurting. I mean, he was talking about ivermectin again (JFC these people are all so very stupid), and bullshit about that is something that they will seemingly never stop going on about. They were willing to take ivermectin and die from Covid, just to own the libs, because: “fuck your feelings, libs!”

So yeah, if enough of these brainstems thought that RFK jr was going to be hurting the “right” people, they would be in like Flynn on the craziness, even if their kids’ teeth were falling out as a consequence.

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