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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, the regulators are captured and corrupt.  The Biden administration did nothing to protect people from PFAs.  MAHA is more promising, but will ultimately let us down as well.  But no-one should mourn the Biden administration or any FDA or EPA bureaucrats on this issue.  They collectively did NOTHING to protect the public from PFAs.[/quote]

I agree as a leftist, but I have far more faith in Democrats to address it than Trump who has no plan and literally immediately rolled back the one thing Biden was doing to help reduce it in our drinking water.

For all the pseudoscience RFK Jr spouts on about (beef tallow healthier than seed oils? Ugh, what an idiot), here is one thing he COULD actually talk about.

And yet MAHA is completely silent on PFAs even though they are far more significant and impactful to our health, our children's health than seed oils, food dyes, and frankly, fluoride. It just smacks of hypocrisy and I say this while agreeing that Democrats have not done enough either (but anything they try is also countered by the GOP, so it feels hopeless).[/quote]

Our partisanship is of no help on this topic.  Both political parties AND the regulators care far more about polluters than about the public.  The dangers of PFAs are not new news.  Almost everyone who works at FDA and EPA is a Democrat.  Democrats have controlled the White House and Congress at various times.  And nothing has ever been done about PFAs.  In fact, most of them were approved by Democratic regulators AFTER their dangers were clearly understood.

RFK is the only hope, just because he’s possibly a tiny bit different from the status quo.  I don’t have high hopes.  But yearning for a normal Democratic administration on this issue makes no sense.  You already had them, repeatedly, and they showed you what they care about.  Approving MORE dangerous PFAs.  Same with normal establishment Republicans.  Trump and RFK will disappoint us.  But the Clintons Bushes Obamas Bidens etc have ALREADY disappointed us on PFAs and proven there is no meaningful difference between the parties on this issue.  [/quote]

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