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Dana Bash on CNN calling the BS out
Him: You’re not a scientist
Her: NEITHER ARE YOU ^(emphasis added)^
And then he continues to barf up the same conspiracy theories and lies on repeat that have been swilling around (disproven/unproven) for the last 15 years
Until we get large cases all suing him direct for his harm he won't stop. A single large case will sink him, no one care about him. Trump and Co are only with him because he needed the votes and Harris wouldn't allow him to join. Get a judge to rule it, bankruptcy can't get out of it and poof... He would be so dead broke the entire U.S. billionaires would say wait? A Kennedy can't afford a room?
(If you don't think so, look at the state of the Giuliani family.. and that's when his side won)
He doesn't even believe in germ theory of disease. It's hard to think of a less qualified person to be secretary of health.
He has also said that the cause of AIDS is poppers, not HIV:
https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-poppers
Good fucking luck Americans.
He was hired to take revenge on the medical industry because Covid embarrassed Trump and probably caused him to lose the election.
I was so worried that covid would be the ultimate excuse for him to rally people over his failing policies and crashing economy (we were heading to depression / crash before covid!) Then he fucked up the easiest handout of public good and caused millions to needlessly die.
Which is crazy because for any sane president, covid amounted to serving up the election on a silver platter.
"Follow the guidance of the scientists and we'll all get through this together." would have gotten him north of 65% of the total votes, and probably near the Reagan/Mondale level of electoral college victory.
Yup. He was hired to take orders, not do good.
Wait if he doesn't believe in germ theory, what the other fuck theory is there to believe in? Don't tell me he's a bloody miasmatist?
I think that he believes that people get sick because of [ insert alternative medicine here ], and then the microbes follow. So basically he inverts the arrow of causality, because as the interviewer points out, he is not a scientist.
He can believe or not believe however the fuck much he wants. I still don't know why "belief" is used so interchangeably with understanding, by basically everyone. When this angonizing hemorrhoid says "I don't believe in germ theory" what he really is saying is "I don't understand germ theory". Germs are there whether he believes or not.
It's really super neat the way the radical right vilifies smart people while desperately pretending to be them. Very cool and stable worldview that will bring nothing but good things.
"you're not a scientist with all your "research" and "peer reviewed studies" and stupid "evidence"! You're not even wearing a lab coat! I've got a lab coat! You've got to respect me because my lab coat and my name tag says I'm a scientist! This guy doesn't even have a name tag c'mon."
/s hopefully obviously
"You think learning the specifics and intricacies and dedicating a chunk of your life to furthering your understanding of complex systems and decades navigating the rigors of academic study makes you a scientist or something?"
Also super neat that the non-radical right is just the Democratic leadership and the dead-fucking center get called the radical left and the actually slightly left are the Red Menace.
How can you share something this juicy and not provide the video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPP5exb-2rw
15:45
I have to say that until I went looking for this video I had never heard him speak.. What the heck is with his voice?
He developed spasmodic dysphonia (involuntary larynx contractions) in 1996 at age 42.
It was caused by eating tainted hippopotamus meat. He had hit the hippo while driving a mack truck near Pablo Escobar's compound in the middle of the night, pursued by paramilitary forces. He returned 2 days later under cover of darkness to eat its liver and testicles, which an alternative health guru told him contained antioxidants and hormones that could prevent aging. He wound up about a week later in an El Salvadoran prison after rampaging through various towns in Colombia, Panama, and El Salvador causing property damage to several farmers' vegetable stalls, soiling himself repeatedly, and accosting locals. Eye witnesses report that he had the voice at the time of these incidents. The US had him extradited soon after agreeing that they'd try him, but they dropped the charges on administrative grounds almost immediately.
That's probably not true - no one really knows why spasmodic dysphonia happens. Seems to be something to do with your Basal Ganglia.
great yarn there lol
they really had me going there!
Sounded like a McAfee story for a bit. Nicely done.
I mentioned to an acquaintance that this guy seems like an avatar of plague, and he was like “It’s funny, most of his ideas are good.” then went on to list some absolutely crazy bad takes. Clearly this guy is not the one to take health advice from.
What a cringe fest.
I hate watching these idiots. His entire repertoire is classic pseudo science grift.
He allegedly has a medical condition. But these people lie all the time.
Eh.
Republicans crash out 24/7/365. Doesn't matter. Our system is too flawed to hold them accountable and our populace is too stupid to prevent them from having power.
What does crashing out matter if you still get to run the show? I guess eventually the show collapses. But then we're all fucked because the system crashes.
I've been watching Republicans crash out my entire life. Doesn't matter when the populace is this braindead stupid.
Exactly. Nothing is fucking happening to any of these people that demonstrate how unfit for office they are every time they open their mouths. It creates a feeling of helplessness and a fury that will not subside without accountability.
But he plays one ~~on TV~~ in government!
Man, that hype campaign for the new toxic avenger movie is getting out of hand.
The top comments on that YouTube video are insane
Every time he talks it sounds like a boomer reading SaRcAsTiC TeXt
ThE WoRm StrUgGlEs To ConTrOl HiS VoCal CoRds
He sounds like a blown out speaker inside a Ford.
He's the anti-scientist for Christ's sake!
This is a classic example of that "protests too much" Shakespeare line.