Pete Buttigieg forced to explain that lead is poisonous to obtuse Republican. Drinking lead can damage people’s brains, but Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach opposes a plan to remove lead water pipes.
by southpawFA
Pete Buttigieg forced to explain that lead is poisonous to obtuse Republican. Drinking lead can damage people’s brains, but Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach opposes a plan to remove lead water pipes.
by southpawFA
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Damaged brains create more Republicans
Kobach must have been drinking from lead pipes.
I’m in the Air Force. The amount of people I work with who believe they have a Yahweh given right to drink lead is insane
Well, decent arguments can be made that widespread lead poisoning is what made boomers more inclined to reactionary anger and having diminished critical thinking skills.
Considering the current Republican party is only viable due to both of those things and boomer votes, maybe Kris Kobach fully understands the choice he’s trying to make for the people who elected him.
Just sayin.
Remember when Kris Kobach promised that we would see proof of 3 million illegal votes in the 2016 election…
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Still waiting.
How do republican voters keep voting for these guys?
>Kobach [recently criticized](https://ag.ks.gov/media-center/news-releases/2024/02/09/kobach-leads-coalition-demanding-biden-drop-unnecessary-epa-rule) President Joe Biden’s plan to replace over 9 million lead pipes nationwide during the next ten years. While a 2022 bipartisan infrastructure law included $15 million for the plan, Kobach and 14 other state attorneys general [signed a letter](https://ag.ks.gov/docs/default-source/documents/comment-letter-to-epa-re-lead-and-copper-pipes—final.pdf?sfvrsn=7b11be1a_4) claiming that the proposal is underfunded, will require homeowners to pay to replace their home’s pipes, and will have a limited effect on reducing lead levels in water.
>In their letter, the attorneys general wrote, “[The plan] sets an almost impossible timeline, will cost billions and will infringe on the rights of the States and their residents – all for benefits that may be entirely speculative.”
>Buttigieg responded by writing, “The benefit of *not being lead poisoned* is not speculative. It is enormous. And because lead poisoning leads to irreversible cognitive harm, massive economic loss, and even higher crime rates, this work represents one of the best returns on public investment ever observed.”
Indeed, other users on X added a community note to Kobach’s original post that said, “Lead is a potent neurotoxin, and childhood lead poisoning has an impact on many developmental and biological processes, most notably intelligence, behavior, and overall life achievement. Lead pipes should be replaced.” The note linked to informative articles from the [*American Journal of Public Health*](https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303003) and [*Current Environmental Health Reports*](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-018-0193-0#Sec8).
>The Brookings Institution, a social policy think tank, [noted](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-would-it-cost-to-replace-all-the-nations-lead-water-pipes/) that the actual cost of replacing all of the nation’s lead pipes is closer to $47 billion. The Biden administration originally requested $45 billion for the project, but congressional Republicans negotiated the amount down to $15 billion. The institute also noted that replacing pipes in crowded urban cities like Chicago could take 40 to 50 years.
So, the Biden Administration asked for a full scale amount of money to replace all lead pipes, but the Republican Party said “Nah! We want people to drink toxic water!”.
Kris Kobach and the Republicans are so anti-progress that they want people to suffer permanent brain damage from drinking water with lead. What kind of stuff is this? We have lead paint in school buildings that cause brain damage for kids and lead in drinking water pipes to cause significant brain damage, despite the fact the U.S. banned lead in gas & paint.
How is it possible we can’t get a deal done on something that should be universally agreed on? Republicans are so dogged with obstructing progress, I swear!
To some Republicans, creating jobs to replace lead pipes to deliver drinkable water and contribute to local economies is woke AF.
Republicans: The government can’t solve problems.
Government tries to solve obvious problem and Republicans run interference.
Republicans: See! Government can’t solve problems!
If there is a wrong side of an argument, Republicans will always take it.
> Kobach and 14 other state attorneys general signed a letter claiming that the proposal is underfunded, will require homeowners to pay to replace their home’s pipes, and will have a limited effect on reducing lead levels in water.
So if the proposal is underfunded, and they fear it will only have a limited rather than complete effect, presumably they’d like to put substantially more government money into it?
They do believe in protecting American citizens, right?
“I been drinking from these pipes all my life, I ain’t got problems.” Cleetus says through a toothed mouth. Singular.
Lead drinkers are the prime GOP base voters.
Republicans would sacrifice their own health and well-being to make sure that people they don’t like suffer as well.
Lead poisoning cannot be remedied. Remove the pipes.
Kobach: I drank leaded water all of my life. Look how I turned out.
I know family in Michigan that thinks lead is safer than flouride 🤦♂️
Sometimes, I hate this country
I guess there is not enough survivors of lead poising left to vote republican?
Kobach would understand if we were talking rich white peoples pipes.
We’re going down the same damn route as the Romans with dictators and lead induced madness!
Well duh, brain damage from lead is how you make GOP voters. How is the party going to survive if people actually have *functioning brains*?
Typical shortsightedness of old incompetent conservatives.
“This will cost billions”
While not understanding that the cost of *not acting* would be far greater.
“All lives matter”
While knowingly poisoning the very people they’ve been entrusted to protect. To save a buck.
Sometimes I think Pete has infinite patience and sometimes I think he just saving up all his frustration for an epically violent outburst
Hand him a glass of lead water and tell him to drink up.
At this point, I think the FDA should launch an anti-eating-arsenic campaign.
Let the MAGA problem solve itself in a month.
Tops.
So wait they didn’t want the vaccine “I don’t want chemicals in my body!”
But won’t have issue with this?
The fuck
“stop making my voter base smarter, they’ll stop voting for me otherwise!“
He just needs to insinuate that lead causes brain damage that leads to becoming a Democrat, or fay, or Trans, or an immigrant, or whatever it is that Fox News is fear mongering about today.
Perhaps Kobach is already a victim of the lead pipes and it has contributed to this choice.
“The Brookings Institution, a social policy think tank, noted that the actual cost of replacing all of the nation’s lead pipes is closer to $47 billion. The Biden administration originally requested $45 billion for the project, but congressional Republicans negotiated the amount down to $15 billion. ”
Of course they did…
Lead poisoning is a huge probem that most people don’t recognize. If you were born before the mid 90s you got lead in you. Before the 70s? Even worse. It’s resulted in a few IQ points wiped off the nation. It also causes a lot of massive health problems outside of this. No lead is good lead. Check your water and check the stuff you eat off of! Don’t use that zany 50 year old glass with the cool colors!
It is glaringly obvious that kris kobachs mother drank a lot of lead-infused water.
AG : it cost to much money to stop poisoning people. Vote blue
Strike a compromise. Leave the lead pipes attached to the AG house. Remove them elsewhere.
Red states love lead poisoning. It allows them to control their cult.
GOP loves damaged brains, their stock in trade, at least of late.
Drinking lead produces republicans……that’s their next stage of gerrymandering
Next week, Republicans will start claiming that drinking unleaded water is woke and that drinking leaded water is god’s will.