I miss the days when the CDC and the FDA were just quietly operating in the background and there was little reason for the average person to even think about them.
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how about the presidency? I didn't even watch the news for the first couple years of Biden, didn't feel the need after the first month it was so refreshing well I was also very sick but didn't even need the distraction
aug 30, 2025, 3:44 pm • 8 0 • view
Or the nukes
aug 31, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Part of the problem we’re having now is that so many people know so little about how their government actually functions on a day-to-day basis apart from the big bells and whistles
aug 31, 2025, 8:05 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly, I wish I and everyone else knew a whole lot more about these ‘quiet’ departments.
aug 31, 2025, 11:02 am • 0 0 • view
Make Government Boring Again
aug 31, 2025, 1:39 am • 5 0 • view
Same
aug 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I will never forget when Obama said if the government is functioning well you won’t notice you won’t need to pay attention. Something like that. And boy, is that ever the truth!
aug 31, 2025, 2:10 am • 5 0 • view
I do too. Looking back, I think maybe we should have been louder about how good and valuable they were
aug 31, 2025, 12:55 am • 1 0 • view
The Walking Dead fans definitely were thinking of the CDC…
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep, elect a bunch of lunatic seditious christofascist nazis and see what happens.
aug 31, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Know what we need? A deep state.
aug 30, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 0 • view
My guess is that Trump will see the success and put RFK in charge of airplane safety. He'll question the science behind flying.
aug 31, 2025, 5:30 am • 0 0 • view
I miss the days when Congress wasn't actively trying to kill people and there was little reason for the average person to think about them......
aug 30, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 0 • view
I’d say that was more us being ignorant than actual fact.
aug 31, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Even the presidency was quiet. Not the top story every day. Quiet politics
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
Public health operates in relative obscurity. We don't question that the water coming out of our tap or the meal we had at a restaurant is safe and enjoyed in a smokefree environment. We assume people on the bus don't carry undiagnosed tuberculosis. Thank public health for that and much more.
aug 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The same could be said for the FBI,EPA and USAid. Everything politicised, militarized and propagandized.
aug 31, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s how I feel about the entire U.S. gov’t. They were just there governing like champs 24x7x365.
aug 31, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
I'm gonna call the time up to this point, "pre-Mass Listeria."
aug 30, 2025, 10:03 pm • 2 0 • view
The entire establishment. Informed but not ad nauseam
aug 31, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
Went on my CVS app to schedule my covid shot. Not available in Reno, NV. But I can get one in California.
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 am • 2 0 • view