The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

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Pretty sure it’s the realm of King Tim Apple

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I would feel sympathy for the kids because no one should be going through that, but the aftermath would be interesting. They could invite trump over to their country to discuss the situation. That would certainly be very interesting.

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Did he get his feelings hurt because they made a deal with Greenland?

And, these two posts were 90 minutes apart. Which is it?

Discussions going nowhere or working out well for all?

The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led to a Trade Deficit with the U.S. of more than $250,000,000 a year, a number which is totally unacceptable. Our discussions with them are going nowhere! Therefore, I am recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025. There is no Tariff if the product is built or manufactured in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

And now he wants to dictate other countries energy policy.

Our negotiated deal with the United Kingdom is working out well for all. I strongly recommend to them, however, that in order to get their Energy Costs down, they stop with the costly and unsightly windmills, and incentivize modernized drilling in the North Sea, where large amounts of oil lay waiting to be taken. A century of drilling left, with Aberdeen as the hub. The old fashioned tax system disincentivizes drilling, rather than the opposite. U.K.’s Energy Costs would go WAY DOWN, and fast!

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Recommending to whom? His handlers?

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Next he’s going to start mumbling about the strawberries.

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Mr. Giant Ego seems to think he runs the world, and all of it should follow his orders (except of course Putin).

I somehow don’t think the world is going to put up with that.

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Fucking RFK Jr was interviewed on CNN last night by Kaitlyn Collins.

He blamed vaccines and “ultraprocessed foods” for childhood illness and that previous administrations “put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid”. He encouraged parents to “do their own research” and “be skeptical”. He said everybody should be buying healthy whole foods and “stop feeding themselves poison.”

When Collins asked the obvious question about what are people who can’t afford or don’t have easy access to healthy whole foods are supposed to do, Kennedy said something along the lines of, “they may think they are saving money now but they pay for it in the long term”, which was so missing the point.

I eventually had to stop watching because I could feel the veins in my forehead pounding out of rage.

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(ETA: context :strawberry:)

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We’ve put Fruit Loops at the top of Health and Human Services.

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Oh, I’m skeptical of anything out of his mouth… I’ll defer to the authority of the bootmaker when it comes to boots, though…

I don’t blame you.

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The top of the food pyramid is the smallest part, right? As in the foods we should eat in very small quantities, if at all? Is this one of those things where pyramids work differently in addle-brained conspiracy land?

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Ha, great gif!

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I said something like this out loud as soon as he started saying this.

The really aggravating thing is that some of what he is saying is not wrong. We do have health problems in the country related to things like easy access to cheap and unhealthy foods. There should be more regulation around things like GMOs, pesticides, chemicals, and artificial ingredients.

The big disconnect here is that RFK Jr’s “answers” to so many of these things is blame the victim like one of those Internet commentors who feel every individual’s problem boils down to personal choice. As if poor people are far more likely to suffer from health problems like obesity and diabetes as if they are eating foie gras, steak, and lobster for every meal and otherwise doing nothing. Not at all because they can’t afford or even access healthier options, or don’t the time to prepare healthy meals because of the 3 jobs they have to work to make ends meet.

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That’s how conspiracy theorists work, of course, all in the service of empowering themselves and tearing down systems that they don’t like.

Yeah, for real. Healthy eating is often a luxury that only the wealthy can afford.

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This is my biggest struggle with this particular asshat. He does, in fact, say things I agree with! Healthy food should not be a privilege of the wealthy! We need to control our exposure to metabolic and endocrine disrupting poisons! I want to cheer for that , but the hard truth is that he has no plan to do any of that. In a regime that is all about eliminating regulations on industry wholesale, you just cannot do this. The only one he actually can do is to get vaccines regulated out of existence. Given his personal history, I suspect he would be all over that. So, yeah, even if some of his spew at least sounds like it would be good, he needs to vanish in a cloud of brainworm dung. That would be lovely.

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