LOL, look for the tarmac meeting to come back around. He's gotcha outraging about it ;-)

hokiewolf said:

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We gotta toughen up as a society and eat more roadkill

🚨 JUST IN: Foodborne illnesses have gone up by 400% in 2026.

This increase is linked to RFK Jr.’s radical changes to food safety standards. pic.twitter.com/CgsNZkAjm5

— GOP Ls (@GOP__Ls) August 14, 2026

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Sounds to me like the detection and identification of food borne illness has increased 400% under RFK Jr.

Oldsouljer said:

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hokiewolf said:

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We gotta toughen up as a society and eat more roadkill

🚨 JUST IN: Foodborne illnesses have gone up by 400% in 2026.

This increase is linked to RFK Jr.’s radical changes to food safety standards. pic.twitter.com/CgsNZkAjm5

— GOP Ls (@GOP__Ls) August 14, 2026

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Sounds to me like the detection and identification of food borne illness has increased 400% under RFK Jr.

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Interesting misconception

Trump: These young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls, these young beautiful girls in the White House, they come in. Now I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell. These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls, they want to be safe and they come say Mr.… pic.twitter.com/CBVeRRtUs8

— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) August 14, 2026

Release the Epstein files

Trump: For you to pay a TINY little bit more for your gasoline, you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a nuclear weapon. Remember that when you’re paying $4. I’ll never apologize. pic.twitter.com/SRdBzE3g4h

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 14, 2026

Gas prices coming down any day now… just check Costco.

But hey, at least he tried something. We're definitely not worse off as a nation since the JCPOA

eljefe444 said:

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Oldsouljer said:

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hokiewolf said:

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We gotta toughen up as a society and eat more roadkill

🚨 JUST IN: Foodborne illnesses have gone up by 400% in 2026.

This increase is linked to RFK Jr.’s radical changes to food safety standards. pic.twitter.com/CgsNZkAjm5

— GOP Ls (@GOP__Ls) August 14, 2026

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Sounds to me like the detection and identification of food borne illness has increased 400% under RFK Jr.

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Interesting misconception

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Which is apparently what GOP LS specializes in.

I pulled this from hhs.gemini.ai which I have access to as part of my job.

The 400% figure is misleading
The underlying story appears to be a CNN report published August 13, 2026, which says this is an unusually bad year for foodborne-illness outbreaks, not that Americans are experiencing 400% more foodborne illness overall.
CNN reports that:

• From 20212025, the FDA investigated an average of about 25 foodborne-illness outbreaks per year.
• In 2026, the FDA has already posted 20 investigations, with work still active on 18 foodborne-illness clusters.
• There is a particularly large Cyclospora outbreak contributing to the unusual numbers this summer. For example, Michigan has experienced a major surge, and federal officials have been investigating outbreaks involving produce.

But 20 investigations vs. an annual average of 25 is not a 400% increase. And "outbreak investigations" are not the same thing as "number of people who got food poisoning."
So my assessment of the GOP Ls post is:
The underlying premise is real 2026 has been an unusually bad year for foodborne-illness outbreaks.
The statement that U.S. foodborne illness cases are "up nearly 400%" is not a fair characterization of the federal data.
It's essentially taking a particular statistic/measure from the current outbreak situation and turning it into a claim about all foodborne illness cases nationwide.

Oldsouljer said:

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eljefe444 said:

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Oldsouljer said:

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hokiewolf said:

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We gotta toughen up as a society and eat more roadkill

🚨 JUST IN: Foodborne illnesses have gone up by 400% in 2026.

This increase is linked to RFK Jr.’s radical changes to food safety standards. pic.twitter.com/CgsNZkAjm5

— GOP Ls (@GOP__Ls) August 14, 2026

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Sounds to me like the detection and identification of food borne illness has increased 400% under RFK Jr.

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Interesting misconception

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Which is apparently what GOP LS specializes in.

I pulled this from hhs.gemini.ai which I have access to as part of my job.

The 400% figure is misleading
The underlying story appears to be a CNN report published August 13, 2026, which says this is an unusually bad year for foodborne-illness outbreaks, not that Americans are experiencing 400% more foodborne illness overall.
CNN reports that:

• From 20212025, the FDA investigated an average of about 25 foodborne-illness outbreaks per year.
• In 2026, the FDA has already posted 20 investigations, with work still active on 18 foodborne-illness clusters.
• There is a particularly large Cyclospora outbreak contributing to the unusual numbers this summer. For example, Michigan has experienced a major surge, and federal officials have been investigating outbreaks involving produce.

But 20 investigations vs. an annual average of 25 is not a 400% increase. And "outbreak investigations" are not the same thing as "number of people who got food poisoning."
So my assessment of the GOP Ls post is:
The underlying premise is real 2026 has been an unusually bad year for foodborne-illness outbreaks.
The statement that U.S. foodborne illness cases are "up nearly 400%" is not a fair characterization of the federal data.
It's essentially taking a particular statistic/measure from the current outbreak situation and turning it into a claim about all foodborne illness cases nationwide.

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Fair point. Thanks for responding with some actual analysis.

Are the staffing cuts in the FDA a contributing factor? Seems fairly significant.

Werewolf said:

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🚨Pakistani-born Maryam Khan just won Connecticut’s State Senate primary as another DSA-backed Muslim candidate!!

The Democratic Socialists of America endorsed the Windsor state representative, who becomes the first Democratic Socialist headed to the Connecticut State Senate… pic.twitter.com/8URMk3b9Vt

— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) August 13, 2026

Muslims make up roughly 1% of the U.S. population, yet a striking share of successful DSA candidates this cycle have been Muslim or closely tied to Muslim activist networks.

That overrepresentation is hard to miss when the same pattern keeps repeating in local and state races.

Is this organic political organizing or something more coordinated? Voters should pay attention to who is rising through these far-left vehicles.

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