RFK Jr. and GLP-1s

[Sunflower]

White suburban women may have voted him into office but touch their ozempic or their diet coke and I think you are gonna have problems.

I think you mean white men. Yeah, there were also a significant portion of EVERY sex and race demographic that voted for him. None of those identities are purely intelligent/ moral/ pragmatic.

But I do silently laugh at my fellow suburban white women who are paying a 5,000% markup on their GLP1s while trying to gatekeep it from X type of people whom they claim don’t need/ deserve it.

 

[Grannuaile]

the good news is that it looks like the senate doesn't have the votes for a recess, so these trump appointments will all be getting grilled by the senate. the problem is, there's just so many terrible appointments (take your pick between gabbard, gaetz, rfk, etc) that it's unlikely we'll be able to stop them all.

Devyn - here’s hoping you work on the Hill and have an inside view on this. I can find no senator publicly stating how they would vote to recess. Furthermore, any president can adjourn either body of Congress. I still think they have to go out for at least 10 days for appointments, isn’t that true?

 

[DevynL90]

Devyn - here’s hoping you work on the Hill and have an inside view on this. I can find no senator publicly stating how they would vote to recess. Furthermore, any president can adjourn either body of Congress. I still think they have to go out for at least 10 days for appointments, isn’t that true?

i'm not on the hill, just a concerned american with a vested interest in retaining some shred of democracy over the next 4 years like you.

it sounds like if trump really wants to get his dictator on, he can indeed push through his nominations if he wants but the cost would be insane PR wise. he'd burn a lot of republican bridges in the senate and house but who knows if that even matters in this upside down populist cult world that we live in now.

 

[keangkong]

I'm a partisan guy with strong political opinions, however, I hope to keep this site nonpolitical. Basically, I just don't people who used to get along on the site fighting over politics. If you hate Trump, you'll focus on RFK Jr.'s comments about GLP-1 drugs for weight loss being bad. If you love Trump, you'll focus on RFK's comments about the FDA needs to stop regulating peptides. I'll offer my opinion that while possible changes from a new Trump administration could be good or bad for us, there is no clear answer as to how he'll affect access to GLP-1 drugs obtained through the gray market.

 

[G Vice]

Very well said. Thank you.