Actually, people DID die from these pathogens, in droves, before pasteurization. Most of those didn’t get a chance to “get used” to it, because they were CHILDREN, who hadn’t had a lifetime to get used to it. They’d get sick from this, and either die of some foodborne pathogen, or an opportunistic infection taking advantage of their weakened immune system would kill them off - scarlet fever, mumps, measles, tuberculosis, etc.

It’s not just “well if you drink it you die”. Thousands would likely die from this - in fact, if you pay attention to the raw milk weirdo cultists on Facebook and other outlets, their kids do get sick and die way more often, usually because those people also don’t believe in things like modern medicine. Combine everything ABOVE with a man who has literally stated, multiple times, on microphone, that modern medicine is a sham and he’d love to see the whole modern pharmaceutical industry disappear, and one hopes you can begin to see where the “fear mongering” is coming from, logically.

Don’t forget delicious parasites and their eggs.

He also likely killed some people with his anti COVID vaccine rhetoric back in 2020.

Famously, not really. He’s always stuck to business casual at best to make himself look more like a “man of the people”.

I think some would likely float off to other charismatics like Flynn, RFK, Carlson, and various other grifters like Rogan. I can’t see the movement uniting behind another figure that I know of right now - Trump WAS the syncretic glue, and I don’t see anyone else being able to be all things to all men.

Some will, some won’t. Cults of personality don’t tend to fare well without their personality, and Vance has all the charisma of a used tissue, so it’ll come down to how skillfully he can navigate things.

Remember, a LOT of right-wing Christians think Trump is either a prophet, an agent of God, or (in some cases) literally Christ Himself. That’s an awful hard act to follow when your prophet doesn’t get taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot, or your Messiah doesn’t rise again after 3 days.

I think you should be able to DISTINGUISH it’s a joke. Also, as anyone who does politics will tell you, ANYTHING that comes out of your mouth into any form of microphone can and should be expected to be used against you, and should be expected to be believed.

“Joking” in politics should’ve died with Reagan’s press sec laughing about gay men dying of AIDS.

She’d better get the ball rolling fast. States are already looking at their divorce laws anticipating that no-fault divorce will get SCOTUS’d.

Nah, he says nice things to and about Trump.

That’s all it is. RFK knew how to kiss ass, and because of knowing how to kiss ass, he’s likely going to get some sort of Cabinet position. It has nothing to do with wealth or status (although that helps).

More and more I remember Kreia telling The Exile that “apathy is death”.

Nah, this one’s OFFFICIALLY non-governmental and just makes “suggestions”. Because you can’t just create new departments, nor get rid of them, without Congressional approval.

An efficiency department that apparently needs two leaders, as well. Sounds…inefficient.

IRS, EPA, FDA, OSHA, probably the FBI, the DoL, DoE, DoEd…

Yeah, let’s not forget that Trump learned his negotiating skills, partially, from the Mafia. I’d definitely do a double take on my principled stance if the guy who’s been calling for my head since I started is taking supreme executive power, and will likely have a bullet with my name on it if I don’t get out quick.

For those thinking “well this couldn’t include things like the military”, it ABSOLUTELY CAN AND WILL. The GOP wanted someone who will run the country like a business, AND THIS is how business is run now - absorb a company, strip it for parts to sell off, move onto the next company, repeat. “The next company” here being, likely, another country.

Yeah, but all that won’t matter. I’m sure that Trump will simply eliminate large swathes of the DoD, purely because he wants himself to be closest to the actual command structure. All that squad-level command, the “organized chaos” that gives us a lot of tactical flexibility? I’m fairly sure that’ll be gone, because Trump doesn’t trust anyone but him giving orders now. He’s deeply upset he couldn’t simply order the military into cities to break up the 2020 protests, so he wants to be the first and only important link in the command chain, with everyone below selected for loyalty, not competence.

Or they, themselves, might wind up getting deported or killed. We’ve successfully eroded class and even group consciousness.

Not unless they keep the regulation that ACA established where you need to be covered at a certain level. That way insurance companies can literally just collect money and not actually have to pay for anything.

Either money, or threats. Trump learned his politics from the Mob - you play nice, but when the chips are down, women and kids aren’t off the table, so to speak.

“Official act.” That’s all it’ll take, I’m calling it now.