Trump on Wednesday night signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to compel the domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides. Glyphosate is the chemical in Bayer-Monsanto’s
Roundup and is the most commonly used herbicide for a slew of U.S. crops. Trump, in the order, said shortages of both phosphorus and glyphosate would pose a risk to national security.
Kennedy backed the president in a statement to CNBC Thursday morning.
“Donald Trump’s Executive Order puts America first where it matters most — our defense readiness and our food supply,” he said. “We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security. By expanding domestic production, we close that gap and protect American families.”

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    “Elevating glyphosate to a national security priority is the exact opposite of what MAHA voters were promised,” Cook said. “If Secretary Kennedy remains at HHS after this, it will be impossible to argue that his past warnings about glyphosate were anything more than campaign rhetoric designed to win trust — and votes.

    How is it possible that these people are this fucking stupid? I just don’t understand being conned again and again and again and then being surprised each time that these conmen fuck you over? Or are they living by the Bushism “Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice… sh- can’t… can’t get fooled again.” considering Bush fooled them over and over again as well.

    I just genuinely can’t wrap my mind around it because the times I’ve obviously been misled pushed me to be more skeptical and less trusting, not to cynically trust anyone who told me what I wanted to fucking hear.

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      They are animals and i don’t mean that just to be insulting, they are not true human beings. Lack of free thought, the inability to understand language, the lack of empathy, no understanding of cause and effect, the inability to learn. I can’t speak for all of them but when i see certain family members just going limp in front of a tv I’m pretty sure they don’t even have a true internal world. It’s honestly cruel to them to engage them in politics or any decision making at all, they should not be voting.

      Edit: not that this justifies them, a raid animal is a danger even if they don’t know what they’re doing and they ultimately chose to be this way.