RFK Jr. Says He Plans On Getting Rid Of 'Entire Departments' At FDA And CDC In Alarming Interview

While being able to say that a majority of voters wanted it this way because they voted for him.

Make no mistake, if Trump wants it, his supporters want it. I work with a bunch of morons. The country is in the hands of a cult.

My coworkers support political assassination, concentration camps for LGBT, forced Christianity. If Trump said it, they want it.

I am fully radicalized. Fuck this country.

Technically, he said he has no knowledge of Project 2025. Fortunately for Republicans, Trump’s team is all over it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-project-2025-steve-bannon-election-b2642968.html

Oh for sure - and the nutters will be saying it's 'divine mandate' since he survived those assassination attempts. We ain't seen shit yet.

That sneaky bastard!

IRS employees better start job hunting.

You just need to reference their last playbook: less data means it's not happening, like covid.

I can’t see how less staffing is going to make things better.

Oh it makes things better alright. Better for the drug companies who now don't have to deal with pesky things like "safety" and "consequences for killing people".

Not only are a lot of people going to die, the EU is going to be on some "bad" list very soon, because free travel and any kind of "free" shipping won't be possible anymore - and I'd say even some Asian, African and maybe even Australia are going to follow that, heck, maybe even Canada. Although I'm not sure if Canada is able to actually do that...

They’ll blame democrats and win even more votes.

He gutted the Federal Pandemic Response Team in 2018.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

He then took deliberate steps to inhibit pandemic response in 2020.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-white-house-made-deliberate-efforts-undermine-covid-response-report-n1286211

Dismantling the CDC and HHS is absolutely to be expected.

I would have figured losing 1-2 million Republicans would have helped in voting, but my Mexican neighbors decided they like Trump. Guess I'll report them to ICE. The leopards must feed.

Sadly that didn't affect trump voters when Trump kneecapped the pandemic response teams (including the CDC) before covid.

Hell, why should he care if any of it is legal or not? Him being inaugurated after inciting an insurrection is a direct violation of the constitution. His entire second presidency will be illegal.

Jones hasn't crawled under any rocks, he's been going strong even with a billion dollar judgement against him and filing for bankruptcy. Infowars is being auctioned off in a week so it might be bought by someone who will just keep him exactly where he is, but he's been openly setting up a backup business and directing people to it, which he's said ON AIR he'll just fold into the existing business if all goes well. His dad has a completely independent supplement company and he's got completely unaffiliated mates selling his merch.

The only reason he's less prominent now is because the politicians and the mainstream media in the US are so fucking unhinged that he's struggling to stay relevant in his niche.

Alex Jones is probably going to crawl out from whatever rock he crawled under too.

White House Press Secretary Alex Jones is an Onion article that writes itself, 3 times a week

I hate how you right you are.

There may be one or two, but as soon as they imprison or execute one (my bet is that it will be Kinzinger), they'll all fall in line. Or mysteriously vanish.

There is a ray of hope. Historically when the GOP gets power, infighting flares up.

Trump himself has been shown to be quite malleable in the face of hollow flattery, without much in the way of things he actually cares about doing specifically, apart from whatever inflates his ego. Those different camps have had a long time to meditate on how people have manipulated Trump and are likely to be better at manipulating him Putin style.

So while they all may have decided they must be in line with Trump, they may work toward changing what policies that means. So even as they must be behind Trump, that may narrow the fixed outcome to just proclaiming Trump the most awesome president ever, with policy related stuff a bit more malleable.

I would have preferred not to risk this scenario, but for now I'm choosing to hope that there's a more mundane path forward that avoids permanent damage to the political structure, despite this very risky situation.

Awesome, we are in a situation where I am openly hoping for the corrupt commercial outcome....

Would be hilarious considering he dropped out just to beg trumo for a spot. He's pathetic and hope you're right

Also that he demands absolute loyality but gives none.

If you voted for a guy who can't even say his opponents name properly , you are also an idiot voting for another idiot.

Being able to learn to say your opponents name is a life skill which is useful for presidency... And Kamala's name isn't hard

It's absolutely fucked that a lot of them stood their laughing as he displayed that he never left high school

The downvotes on this very obviously correct comment are nearly the same proportion of D votes missing from this election, how befitting.

60% of white men. 53% of white women.

While they didn't help, I suspect their numbers were small enough to not matter in the scheme of what happened.

The answer is likely mundane. My guess is overall turnout was lower because things didn't feel as 'crisis' like as 2020. The needle for people barely aware of politics even as they vote stayed at the same place as it was in 2020: Things aren't great, kick whoever is in office out in hopes the alternative does better. Last time they came out for Biden because Trump was at the wheel. Now they show up for Trump because the president was a democrat.

This segment of the electorate is not particularly politically aware, let alone active, and likely has little to no opinion about the broader world. The relative likelihood of them turning up at all depends on how badly things are going (less likely to show up this time compared to the unprecedented mess of 2020), and to the extent they show up they just vote against whoever is in charge that day.

However, those people are generally quiet, and so we turn our focus instead to the loudest folks proclaiming a refusal to vote for Harris.

If it was close, I would agree. It wasn't even close by such a huge margin the more mundane factors I think are the only ones big enough to explain things.

Keep punching left and down. That will really help build the coalition to resist fascism.

They won't hear about the bad things, or they'll be told it was the Democrats that did it, and they'll be believe it. Convincing MAGA of reality is pointless while they're still feeding from the trough of conservative shit. We're better off protesting and being disruptive in combination with getting our shit together for next round, where hopefully we'll have real primaries and get our first competent general election candidate since Obama.

And the ones who didn't vote.

Biden got 81M votes, Harris 67. Where are the missing 15M people? Where were they?

Nah, let's all take a good honest look at what's happening and start preparing for it.

In not alarming news...Maybe the annual tradition of pardoning a turkey will remain largely unchanged

Given his age, there is a non-zero chance that he may die while in the presidency?

JD Vance isn’t exactly a charismatic individual (some might even go so far as call him ‘weird’); so this entire neo-fascist movement may very well fragment and flounder in the not too distant future.

The Supreme Court will surely block….ummm

I wonder if they will fudge some studies and numbers so that it will be evidence based snake oil?

Medicinal mercury is back baby! Just as long as there's no vaccines!

Polio on the rise outside the Bible Belt.

More like "mysteriously falling from windows."

All hail the brainworms, all hail the brainworms

If you can avoid the dark ages, you should probably consider that a win right now...

Nothing against people with his condition but if you're gonna sound like you're talking underwater make it worth my fucking time.

Most, if not all in some cases, funding for state-level regulatory agencies comes directly from their federal counterparts. This will essentially kill state agencies as well.

Or at the very least, they will be severely reduced in terms of staff and purview.

And that's just the states that don't decide to follow the administration's lead and do the same thing to their state level agencies.

Aww come on, maybe your kid will have super powers then, like an extra arm or glowing in the dark. Where's your sense of adventure?

The brainworms have definitely hatched though

I mean laugh at your neighbors house on fire if you want but the embers are blowing everywhere.

Lol.

Four years? Try four decades. The ramifications of Trump's first term is still being felt now.

The haters will downvote us for it but damn is it a good time to have a dark sense of humor. It's out of our control but its still bad to see the humor in the absurdity I guess.

I'm still holding out for 'President running the country from prison' which would almost make it worth it.

While RFK Jr is the same worm man, let's please remember all the cries about drugs being expensive and regulators stifling competition there, and that (from what I've read, I've never been to US) what can be put into food is already not very well regulated in your country.

Those agencies are problematic. Just like actions aimed at something good may have negative side effects, often outweighing the effect in the intended direction, similarly it is here.

And after typing the previous I've read the article and that's what he's saying, mentioning Canada as the good example. Unfortunately by analogy this would mean that for drug regulation he'd go the same way, only with his antivaxxer views. Also talking about kids being healthier is cringe.

As a American, it's morbidly interesting to me.

those are for sure the ones sticking around

Edit: Literally they're going to put an "ivermectin covid" guy in charge despite the fact quality studies show it at best does nothing and at worst may be slightly harmful

Well after they gut the FDA im sure those people will be gone

Now all drugs from companies who donate to the RNC will automatically be approved instead

Yeah - it's the FDA and CDC that are the true money pits in the US government... Let's eliminate the IRS and EPA while we're at it - really smash those guardrails and let the altruistic market fix it - that always works..

Ohhh look - we're cutting taxes for those that need it least again - but that's responsible spending - it's all been accumulating for over half a century, so it's got to start trickling down any day now, guys.

Anything's possible with lies.

Here's Canada's label:

https://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/en_CA/Product/Index/00064100492455#ingredients

You really think any kellogs cereal has “two or three” ingredients, anywhere?

Canadian ingredients

• Sugars (sugar, maltodextrin)
• Whole grain corn flour
• Wheat flour
• Whole grain oat flour
• Degerminated corn flour
• Corn bran
• Oat hull fibre
• Hydrogenated coconut and vegetable oil
• Salt
• Concentrated carrot juice (for colour)
• Anthocyanin
• Annatto
• Turmeric
• Natural flavour
• Concentrated watermelon juice (for colour)
• Concentrated blueberry juice (for colour)
• Concentrated huito juice (for colour)
• Stevia leaf extract
• Vitamins and minerals:
  Iron
• Niacinamide
• Zinc oxide
• Thiamine hydrochloride
• D-calcium pantothenate
• Cholecalciferol (vitamin D3)
• Pyridoxine hydrochloride
• Folic acid

If this is an actual problem, the solution is to use the FDA to make food healthier or have less junk ingredients or whatever. Getting rid of oversight isn't going to do that. The FDA is what's keeping rat turds from being the main ingredient

Maybe in many cases it's a difference in labeling requirements, and the content is identical?

Definitely not saying always, but the way this is conflated regularly to promote quackery is disheartening.

That said, US brand soda and corn syrup can eat a bag of dicks.

This is such a trump voter comment. lol

Even if it does, trading fewer additives for more outbreaks of easily preventable diseases is probably not going to be a net gain. I'm also curious how this kind of thing would be enforced if we also gut the departments.