I mean unless there’s a primary, it’s still the better vote. It’s the hellhole we live in… We have to go with the guy who says he’s going to do good things, then disappoints us and does less than half the good he said, and adds in some bad things.

Or we can go with the guy who says he’s going to do horrific things… and then meets and exceeds all his promises.

Right, but the point is he’s realized that he’s been around long enough that enough things that affect him personally are coming into focus. Which is why he’s stepping down… so someone who hasn’t been effected by polio can take his place, and support the things he can’t bring himself to back.

(will note this is the opposite of a compliment, he’s a piece of shit, and only stepping down because he realizes that there are limits on how big of a piece of shit he can be, so he’s clearing the way for a newer piece of shit to continue the legacy).

It’s because he’s been lately feeling a strange feeling of… having a smidge of humanity in him… IE he spoke up against a polio denier etc… He realizes that having 1% of normal human empathy, disqualifies him from the current republican party.

I mean republicans I get. They don’t want to appear disloyal to trump, and elon’s threatening to oppose them. Democrats… what the hell is wrong with you guys… you already know trump finds you an enemy… why the hell make it easier

I don’t believe they are going for the same position RFK got HHS… Oz is specifically overseeing Medicare/Medicaid… sadly trump can find room for 2 medically focused junk science pushers.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/mehmet-oz-trump-medicare-medicaid/index.html

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2025/01/13/senate-confirmation-hearings-pam-bondi-marco-rubio-donald-trump-nominees/77666657007/

Dr. Mehmet Oz, Palm Beach. Nominated as administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Senate confirmation required, but not yet scheduled.

I suppose we’ll find out when he’s in charge of medicare and medicaid.

One of the few things I actually believe musk was not lying when he said he was joking about it from the begining with no serious intents. IE his line saying “I have a move called the walrus where I just lie on top of my opponent and don’t do anything”. To me more or less backs the statement that he was just goofing around.

Very much unlike his Nazi rhetoric. Where every action he makes and everything he says seems to tell me he’s politically aligned with the worse of white supremacists.

theyre infatuated with musk enough to do his criminal dirty work.

More importantly, I think musk did a background check with a reverse than normal intention. IE guy fired for illegally posting confidential secrets from his previous job… top of the list.

I don’t think he was looking for just young and dumb… he was specifically looking for criminals.

I mean… at least that’s the part of the plan that they SHOULD have been doing for decades… back when the public option was killed from obamacare… no vote was ever heard, and the only person who they announced as the problem was Liberman.

I mean this strategy is just plain common sense that always SHOULD have been the norm. IMO I think half the reason for low information voters now… is that they basically allowed vote information to get muddled for decades. IE If a bill is overwhelmingly popular with the base, but can’t break a fillibuster proof majority, the democrats just go “we don’t have the votes, don’t put it on the floor”, when things do make the floor, we allow riders and compromises to make it so that both sides are attackable.

In short, they’ve allowed the voting record to become nearly useless to look at, practically never use it in their advertising on either front, and then allow a good chunk of bills that happen to basically be the “Save orphanages, and kick puppies” bill, so that no matter which way someone votes on it, an attack add can just cover the bad half of the bill and attack people for supporting it, or cover the good half and attack people for opposing it.

I mean, doesn’t sound like the challange was the issue, it was actually being guilty of what he was accused of. I mean it could be horrible if AOC is doing something terrible in secret, but at least to my knowledge it’s what she’s accused of is what she’s doing publicly (teaching people their rights).

The guard rails have been ropes with a polite “do not cross” sign for decades. Last 10 years the republicans have been jumping over them scribbling on everything… and the democrats are just going “they can’t do that, the sign says don’t cross”.