Every Republican Senator except Mitch McConnell voted for this. - ThreadSky

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Every Republican Senator except Mitch McConnell voted for this.

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A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

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naturerulesus.bsky.social•2 days ago

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sailingsteve.bsky.social•2 days ago

We elect the best idiots.

It’s leaches and blood letting for you senator.

alfredpoor.bsky.social•2 days ago

...and McConnell only voted against because he knew his vote wouldn't matter.

musicinhead.bsky.social•2 days ago

right but he failed to protect the constitution not once but twice

scottwithrage.gobirds.online•2 days ago

And, frankly, if McConnell weren't retiring, he'd have voted for it too.

minutesdrag.bsky.social•1 day ago

IDIOT❗️

cmbarnes.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Republicans under the dictator Trump. More government overreach than the Soviet Union.

agaland2dogs.bsky.social•2 days ago

May the Miasma descend upon them and make them unwell.

questioning.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yord willin'

mimilove58.bsky.social•2 days ago

priyachand.bsky.social•2 days ago

Including licensed medical doctor Bill Cassidy

noshytholmes.bsky.social•1 day ago

And Mitch recused only because he's done sucking off Trump's teet

mohawkrainian.bsky.social•2 days ago

Didn’t McConnell just sit that vote out?

gm0rk.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm guessing bc McConnell whipped them into voting for it.

So his biographer and grandkids coukd pretend he didn't *really* support it.

nitengal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fkn Idiot! 😒

attyatlawn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Back in the day, you'd sometimes get a king who was stupid or crazy and that was simply the price society had to pay for the stability provided by clear rules of hereditary monarchy. Nowadays, the stupid or crazy people in power just get picked without society getting anything in the bargain.

greginma.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump/Vance choose the worst person for the job so that entity fails. It’s their plan to destroy all agencies and guardrails that have been keeping government going without rampant corruption from Republicans.

pxtl.ca•2 days ago

reptiledude.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fuck? He managed to write a book? Who am i kidding, he clearly just found the craziest denialist types available and paid them to do it for him

faqa.bsky.social•2 days ago

More Senators should be polio survivors. Fortunately, RFK is here to help with that

caminmd.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is so cool. Can’t wait to do the campfire comic talk about how we briefly had a functional society

graciegracex.bsky.social•2 days ago

This book came out in 2021. Why are we only hearing about this now?

artisanrox.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, Mitch helped all this fuckery right along for decades so fuck him, too

massdisillusion.bsky.social•2 days ago

FUCK REPUBLICANS!

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•2 days ago

Whitehouse was half a world away. You almost think Thune scheduled the vote with that in mind.

megrosejoy.bsky.social•2 days ago

??? Sheldon Whitehouse? He was there for this vote and voted against Kennedy. He also voted against him in committee. The only reason RFK Jr even got to a full senate hearing was Bill Cassidy trusting him and voting to send him to the full senate. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00052.htm

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•2 days ago

My bad. He missed the vote Wednesday on rolling back tariffs. It deadlocked at 49-49.

lakeview2.bsky.social•2 days ago

He was flying back from South Korea and missed the vote.

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•2 days ago

Going too fast earlier. Must've been the caffeine.

suddenlyagoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think the funniest part of that article is that apparently he's actually arguing for terrain theory and just calling it miasma for some reason

suddenlyagoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which does make more sense, TBF, a lot of crunchy thinking comes out of terrain theory. Would be more interesting if he was actually a 16th century miasma theorist.

groove-merchant.bsky.social•2 days ago

Inner monologue: hmmm … Should I like this even though I have NO idea what 16th Century Miasma theory is???? 😆😆😆

suddenlyagoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's just "things that smell bad (and also damp places) cause disease".

Been around as an idea for millennia. TBF to the ancients, its an observational hypothesis, not a crazy thing for people without magnification to settle on (and not the worst rule of thumb to stay healthy).

suddenlyagoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Obviously you shouldn't believe that now, but better that terrain theory (broadly summarized in its modern form as 'disease is caused by poor diet/exercise/pH imbalance etc), which is both Aristotelian & also contemporary with germ theory.

suddenlyagoat.bsky.social•2 days ago

[Béchamp, who came up with terrain theory, thought these imbalances lead to spontaneous generation of microbes as a symptom of disease; the modern woo version mainly seems to waffle about what germs actually are]

groove-merchant.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cool! Thank you.

jdwkarasu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Collins & Murkowski are very concerned right about now...

greginma.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’re the worst

doyle.boston•2 days ago

Maybe he shared his preferred leech species with them

013enterprises.bsky.social•2 days ago

This isn't the best analogue because leeches are still bred and used medically for blood letting. They're *very* good at it and *very* useful even in the modern age.

doyle.boston•2 days ago

Yes, the joke is RFK Jr would use blood letting to cure everything

013enterprises.bsky.social•2 days ago

I thought it was more that his ideas were outdated sorry

the-central-fire.bsky.social•2 days ago

The idea that McConnell could be on the right side of *anything* shows how absolutely batshit insane this administration is.

megrosejoy.bsky.social•2 days ago

The public health field has been banging the drum and screaming about this guy for years but no one listens to us.

lobochop.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every Republican voter voted for this. None of them get a pass.

greginma.bsky.social•1 day ago

Vote them out of existence.

lobochop.bsky.social•1 day ago

CCs 2028

bookofoak.bsky.social•2 days ago

Including Bill Cassidy, who ignored the pleading of thousands of his fellow doctors to kill RFK Jr’s nomination in committee

kakehres.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mitch is a polio survivor. The fact that he could not garner *any* other GOP vote shows how far he's fallen. If he had been majority leader, RFK would have been dead in the water.

greginma.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mitch has been an enabler for years.

kakehres.bsky.social•1 day ago

But in this case, he wasn't. Proving my point.

panelexvan.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are a few months away from a NIH study on “water memory” aren’t we

emmaraew.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is why I don’t care about Murkowski or Collins feelings. They rubber stamped some of his worst picks for his administration.

paulaptb.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health Committee, hasn't raised a finger to exercise oversight. Here is the full list of committee members. https://www.help.senate.gov/about/members

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