Concerns supporter would struggle to make it through security clearance for top role.

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

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    33·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    43·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
      39·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
    36·
    7 days ago

    Lest anyone think this is about policy or even politics - it ain’t.

    This is about the wrong guy getting the headlines. Simple as.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    34·
    7 days ago

    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!

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    If you think RFK’s whiplash is bad, wait until Musk finds out Trump has no more need for him either.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        17·
        6 days ago

        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.

    • Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      6 days ago

      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.

    • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      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?

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 days ago

    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

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Evil companies pressuring an evil man… equals a positive result?? I’m surprised at the way that math math’ed out

  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com
    9·
    6 days ago

    I see nothing in the article that indicates Trump himself feels this way. What his “advisors” think is irrelevant.

    • morphballganon@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Hopefully the doublecross comes soon and they hang him out to dry before they get into office.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      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…