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Thread #173649   Message #4213533
Posted By: Thompson
15-Dec-24 - 05:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Let's talk about the US election
Subject: RE: BS: Let's talk about the US election
At the moment, Robert F Kennedy seems to be, in a phrase I heard somewhere, standing back and standing by; we can't know what he'll do until next month when (hell breaks loose), sorry, when the new electees are installed. It's all conjecture right now; conjecture and reply to conjecture. An example, from a piece about 77 Nobel winners signing a letter urging the US Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr as Donald Trump’s nominee for health and human services secretary:
Richard Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine, said scientists had felt the needed to respond to attacks by Kennedy and others.
“These political attacks on science are very damaging,” he told the New York Times. “You have to stand up and protect it.”
In response, a spokesperson for Trump’s transition team said: “Americans are sick and tired of the elites telling them what to do and how to do it. Our healthcare system in this country is broken, Mr Kennedy will enact President Trump’s agenda to restore the integrity of our healthcare and Make America Healthy Again.”