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RFK JR (Presidential Campaign)

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  1. rocketsjudoka

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    Under the First Amendment there is no difference between “scientific speech” and any other speech. As individuals on are free to say things like drinking rat urine cures cancer or the universe is a giant jello mold. The issues are thought he practice of medicine is highly regulated and bound by professional ethics for good reason. A medical doctor advocating drinking rat urine to cure cancer would likely lose their license, get sued for malpractice and face criminal charges. Someone who presents themselves as a medical expert or was selling rat urine as a cure for cancer would be charged with fraud. That said if you made no claims of medical expertise and you told someone that rat urine can cure cancer without any pretense of marketing it you could.

    Regarding making posts in social media saying things like rat urine can cure cancer that again goes to the terms of service and that social media isn’t actually public but is private cyber property. This is a long running debate but even some of the most pro free speech advocates recognize that the first amendment doesn’t apply to social media. As has been noted before that Elon Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist” yet has banned and filtered content on X.

    The governments role is whether the government is pressuring social media companies regarding specific content. I would again say that isn’t a free speech issue regarding the content of what is on social media but whether government is restricting through extra legal means of how those companies can conduct business.
     
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    Why does he need a jury...........lay out the facts, kind of make it like the time Geraldo opened up Al Capone`s vault ;) Man, he is right up y'all's alley, he says can prove it, and then ya`ll never can..............kind of like your my pillow guy, or your leader trump, how did that work for him and his 60-0 in court
     
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    There is no question why he is in the race................why he is doing it is a little baffling. Maybe he thinks if trump wins he gets a good job. He has a ZERO shot of winning so why not take out some votes, but in reality I think that could back fire
     
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    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/fauci-trump-rfk/index.html

    Increasingly, Kennedy’s third-party White House bid is gaining traction by attacking Trump’s Covid-19 policies. He has, for example, accused Trump of “inventing lockdowns” and has questioned the safety of the Covid vaccine his administration helped develop.

    Kennedy has also jabbed Trump over his reliance on Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He recently launched a line of merchandise tying Trump and Fauci together.

    “Vote for Trump/Fauci 2024,” the new campaign shirts say, along with a tongue-in-cheek slogan: “Give us another shot!”

    Trump has attempted to downplay Fauci’s role in his administration. In an interview last month with Tim Pool, a podcaster favored by the far right, Trump claimed Fauci “wasn’t a big player in my administration like he was after I left when Biden made him the king of everything.”

    Kennedy isn’t the first to use Fauci in an attempt to drive a wedge between Trump and his base. During the GOP primary, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis regularly invoked the longtime public health expert to attack Trump from the right, noting the former president gave Fauci a commendation on his last day in office.


     
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    BREAKING NEWS

    Is there no bullshit that you won't believe?
     

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