I still can’t believe that Jared Polis, the democratic governor of *colorado* praised RFK for his antivaxx stances
I still can’t believe that Jared Polis, the democratic governor of *colorado* praised RFK for his antivaxx stances
Yeah I was reallllllly disappointed that Radio Abundance would invite him as a guest.
what an enormous swing and a miss
What a dingus
You never met Gen-x or Boomer liberal anti-vaxx? You find a lot of them in the west coast.
Instantaneously vaporizing his presidential ambitions
He was really all about trying to appease the (tiny) crunchy MAHA contingent. He thought it was some deft political move to appeal to them. I think that was a gross miscalculation.
Hes just genuinely sympathetic to antivax ideas and has been for years This is from 2019 and Colorado at the time had the lowest childhood vaccination rate in the country www.cpr.org/2019/04/26/g...
The guys from Boulder, most people there buy into this shit. I think a lot of people underestimate just how prevalent this woo bullshit is in many circles across the political span and how genuinely these people believe it. No evidence, no science, just vibes and “Muh evil chemicals”.
We need a monthly reminder of how stupid some Dems were over Trump’s nominees.
Disqualifying
Even if you like the antivax stances, it was abundantly clear that RFK was going to come in and pour gasoline all over everything with a lit match between his teeth and that the resulting fire would not warm the hearts of any of the voters Polis needs to appeal to, so his endorsement was quite odd.
Tag the man. @colorado.gov -- still feel this way?
a reminder that woo woo is not a left-right issue .. sure, the libertarians and crazy Christian sects are probably the worst when it comes to vaccines NOW, but there was a time when anti-vaxx was considered to be a problem with the left ... and it still is!
he could redeem himself immediately by posting an "issuing correction on a previous post of mine" meme
I was a precinct captain in Boulder when he won the Democratic primary for governor his first term. He beat the state treasurer, a woman married to a physician. Well, she won the caucus and he funded a workaround to get on the ballot.
This seems like how it was designed, not a workaround? Also, it looks like he won 32% at the caucus, so maybe he didn't need those signatures at all? www.coloradopolitics.com/2018/03/07/d...
did Jared polis really have any other choice though? or like evidence rfk jr is fucking insane
Yes and yes
it was sarcasm I agree with you