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BREAKING President-elect Trump says he intends on nominating Dr. Oz to serve as CMS Administrator. As CMS Administrator, Dr. Oz will oversee Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These programs provide healthcare to over 100 million Americans. What a joke... another teevee nomination

Spot on, Magic... The whole thing is a glimpse into the future... And it ain't pretty

Can't help but think the Jake Paul v Tyson thing, and the inability to actually watch the damn thing, is a metaphor for what's to come. Especially given they are both Trumpers

Ackshully, it's because Harris did ________.

https://x.com/wsteaks/status/1857560537594310926 The evidence keeps mounting... Donald Trump nominated a pederast to be his AG

For the folks who cook the turkey at Thanksgiving...... Brine or No Brine? This year is the first time having to the turkey in the oven (have usually smoked), considering whether brining is worth it

Absolutely - part of why I shared the piece above. If you take RFK Jr.'s ideas on ag policy to their logical end, it would be an existential event for large ag producing economies. As someone who lives in large ag producing state, that concerns me. And again, I go back to this point: to the extent there was a "mandate" on November 5th, it was around inflation and the price of goods.... a number of Trump's picks so far suggest that he doesn't understand nor does he care about inflation and, if anything, would be fine to reignite it for everyone.

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2024/10/trump-confirms-rfk-jr-would-tackle-food-and-health-policy/ "Trump did it so it has to be good, right?"

Really interesting piece and concerning if anything like that occurs here. People don't understand how bad it would get for normal people.

Dude, I could care less about whatever beefs you have with romad or Sue or whoever. If you want to engage on any of my points, fine. Otherwise, leave me out of whatever other extracurriculars you got going on.

In other words, Fife is correct, you completely mischaracterized what he said. Thanks for confirming.

Wow, a party trying to learn from their mistakes and not screaming voter fraud, launching lawsuits left and right and fighting to nullify the votes of millions of Americans? The horror.

To be clear, there's truth to it. It's certainly easy to recognize in the abstract. But I don't think the public understands how inflationary some of his beliefs would be in practice, and this again comes off an election that more than anything else was decided on... Inflation. It's a running theme with all of his picks so far... To the extent that he has a "mandate", it's on the prices of goods. And when you look at the picks he's made that touch on the price of goods (Lighthizer, Kennedy Jr.), neither of these guys have prescriptions that would reduce the price of anything

The stance on vaccines, understandably, gets all the attention with RFK Jr. But with respect to his views on food and agriculture, theres something darkly humorous about a President who won election due to inflation backlash giving such a prominent role to a person whose ideas, if taken to their logical end, would cause significant increases in the price of food His stance on seed oils is a good example...

https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1857160447151255587 Good and hard...

Touché, Hank, Touché... way ahead of your time.

It's the easiest hanging curveball for any of the Dems on the Senate Health Committee, but when he's questioned, I would tick down a list of conditions addressed by vaccines (ie. polio, tuberculosis, etc.) and get him on the record as to whether he thinks they should be banned or not. Don't put on a show, just ask him the questions point blank. And don't let him evade. Make sure everyone knows what they signed up for.

Unfortunately, I have a feeling this post will age like a 20 year single malt scotch when it's all said and done.

RFK Jr. likely gets the nomination for HHS Secretary.

People associate Twitter with politics, but like cable, it's the sports content that gives it it's power.

There's a lot of truth to this.... large brands are large brands.... until the market says they aren't.

Not actually Larry Sabato, fwiw... but still, the same is kinda true of Fox News where people are shamed if they don't use or consume the product under the guise of "understanding" the other side. Life is short and discourse on Twitter, while never great, has become really really toxic. Particularly if you end up on the "For You" tab, which the app seems to push me toward every time on log in. The ability to use the product to the product as a news aggregator for things that aren't politics has steadily gone downhill in the time since Musk has owned the product, undoubtedly in large part to changes made (such as eliminating blocking, among other things). Maybe the explanation is as simple as the product just sucks and has gone downhill, just as has happened to many brands over the years. And maybe alternatives are picking up steam because they provide a different experience for users who don't have time or inclination to wade through all the BS that the current environment that Twitter throws at you. In other words, the market is doing what the market does.

https://x.com/notlarrysabato/status/1857062141213204633 I've seen about eight versions of this argument over the past 2-3 days (vis a vis people migrating over to Blue sky) and it remains equally uncompelling every single time. It really isn't about politics or exposure to ideas, it's about wanting to follow different subjects including politics, but also sports or movies or music) without having one's feed turned into a constant stream of angry BS. Maybe people are just tired of it, and maybe to the extent that Twitter (or X) loses usership, it's just the market at work.

A lot of noise about this House Ethics report possibly breaking containment....

Looks like Matt Gaetz to me.... but YMMV