No, we got dems like this on on the ballot by people not voting in the primaries. If people would get off their asses and participate and vote in the primaries, we could have good candidates. Since it’s too late to change that, though, the only choice now is to vote for the lesser evil. Anything else means letting the greater evil win by default.

Now is not the time for a moral stand. Now is the time to be pragmatic. Don’t vote for what is effectively a Nazi just because the other candidate isn’t perfect.

Price said the state’s policy not to monitor workers is meant to allow farmers to decide whether to contact the health department, rather than “forcing it on them.” “If we started seeing people actively dying from this, obviously that would change how we respond to this,” she said.

We feel that the most reasonable course of action is to wait for the horse to escape before we have a fact finding meeting, probably followed by a public comment period, before we decide whether or not to close the barn door. After all, we don’t want to annoy the farmers.

We are so fucked.

This is absolutely true, but i would challenge the assertion about making people throw away good meds being bad for business.

The law passed in 1979 requiring manufacturers to provide an expiration date of when they could guarantee a drug was still safe and fully effective did not require that the manufacturers do any long term tests, to establish accurate dates though. Many companies slapped a one year date on the labels and called it a day.

They could guarantee a year with then current testing protocols and if people had to toss their perfectly good meds and buy more, then that would just be good for company profits.

The US military keeps huge stockpiles of medicines on hand. Faced with throwing away millions of dollars of meds every year they commissioned a study.

With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.

Pharmaceutical companies were happy to tellpeople throw away medicines years before they needed to.

Alan Dershowitz who, in 2008, helped negotiate a plea deal that gave Jeffrey Epstein and an untold number of his co-conspirators immunity for sex trafficking dozens of underage girls and illegally failed to notify any of the victims before the deal was signed? That Alan Dershowitz?

All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do, or in this case, say nothing.