RFK Jr. Explodes in Red-Faced Fury in Anti-Vax Grilling
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-explodes-in-red-faced-fury-in-anti-vax-grilling/
RFK Jr. Explodes in Red-Faced Fury in Anti-Vax Grilling
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-explodes-in-red-faced-fury-in-anti-vax-grilling/
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It was a *roadkill* type of grilling. Appropriate.
This guy’s embarrassing.
RFK Jr should be entitled to an honorary Darwin Award – for all the people he’s killing through his stupidity…
next time i’m in front of a judge, my defense will be, no I’m asking the questions. lol
More like “Bronzer Face Fury” he and his buddy Don buy it in bulk.
What a dumb fuck
One of the inmates in charge of the asylum
He deserves a lot worse than grilling. He gets to go home tonight and sleep comfortably in his bed, knowing he’ll face zero repercussions for the heinous crimes he’s committed.
One of the most unqualified people in this admin is being put through the meat grinder. Good
I want to go back to the timeline that had Sinbad playing in *Shazam*
It would be so cool if we could reincarnate JFK so he could publicly smear his douchebag nephew.
Or hell, reincarnate his father who would do the same. This guy is an embarrassment.
He’s like your crazy evil druggie uncle screaming at everyone at Thanksgiving. Then later you find out he ate roadkill and did heroin under the table.
This goes to show that it’s not even about him believing misinformation around vaccination. It’s personal. He’s a contrarian who has found himself an issue where he can believe he knows better than those experts so that he can feel superior to them. Anyone who challenges him on that directly attacks his pride and ego, triggering this kind of rage.
It’s the elitist version of the standard anti-intellectual stance you’ll find festering in every reactionary populist movement. This disdain for truth, scientists, teachers, experts, …, will do irreparable damage to the USA’s society, all because a bunch of people want to be told that they are always right because of who they are, of which this guy is a prime example.
The tens of thousands of people (if you’re lucky) who will die because of this are essentially sacrifices to his ego.
I had never watched him before and was surprised how weird he sounded.
Is he ever anything but red faced?
He was so red in the face, I thought his head was gonna explode. It’s really too bad. I thought there for a second he was gonna keel over from a heart attack.
Damn. One must live in Hope.
The very first question should be, “Do you have medical degree or any sort of medical training?”
He is so unfit for the role he has been put in, well any role really.
The amazing thing is that all over social media the republicans and their stans are claiming how RFK jr ‘schooled’ those idiot democrats.
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Pity he didn’t actually explode. Then again, the man is a walking biological hazard, so maybe that’s a good thing.
Kakistocracy . Having the least qualified people in charge of the most elite people who are also diametrically opposite to them in mission.
It’s like having MLM people in charge of customer protection
He should get criminally charged for all of the people that die because of his policies. Utter trash human
Notice how conservatives were nowhere near as outraged about the gunman radicalized by far right conspiracy theories who opened fire on the CDC, as they are about the recent shooting in Minnesota?
And it’s no coincidence that three days prior to the CDC shooting, RFK Jr announced that he’d be defunding mRNA vaccine research.
It’s a damn tragedy that science has become so politicized by conservatives and figures like Kennedy that deadly attacks like this even occur.
Vaccine skepticism has officially become federal policy.
The current regime has been singlehandedly responsible for sowing distrust in medical science and the medical community—especially during disease outbreaks.
mRNA technology was being funded and researched extensively for a reason. For multiple reasons in fact.
First of all, nearly the entire medical community disputes the claim that mRNA vaccines have risks that outweigh benefits. Beyond that, rigorous studies and reliable data show that they are indeed effective and save lives, even when viruses mutate
Kennedy’s statements are false, flawed, fabricated. He’s promoting disinformation at the cost of scientific progress and lives.
He later stated that the funding for mRNA research would be redirected towards “safer, broader vaccine platforms” for illnesses like the flu and other infectious disease, but mRNA was already being researched for treating influenza and other infectious diseases, and it happens to be one of the most advanced and innovative “platforms” available.
Kennedy sounded like one of those daytime television quacks that push “miracle cures” on the public. The tools and technology were already available to us, you brain worm addled lunatic!
Not to mention, mRNA technology was also being explored to treat multiple cancers, malaria, HIV, even infections passed from mother to infant… Now who’s “murdering babies?”
One of the reasons why mRNA technology is so important and innovative is because it can be used to develop and deliver vaccines faster than other approaches to producing vaccines.
Meaning, of course, that mRNA research and technology helps us respond more quickly to pandemics… Imagine that.
Also, on a global/geopolitical scale, these cuts to mRNA research risk our competitiveness with other countries that actually understand the importance of mRNA research and advancements. Countries that will poach our scientists and researchers while far outpacing the US in vaccine innovation.
It bears repeating that mRNA vaccines/technology are effective. Extensive studies have shown that they reduce severe illness and symptoms, prevent hospitalization and even death.
And again, mRNA technology can be used to develop vaccines rapidly, which helps us prepare better for future pandemics. It treats a multitude of diseases beyond just infectious ones. Cancer, HIV, autoimmune diseases and genetic disorders to list a few…
But it’s also innovative because it doesn’t require lab grown viruses like more “traditional” vaccines; meaning less risk of “lab leaks.” You’d think that would be a huge advantage for all the people warning us about such things.
mRNA is also unique and adaptable technology because it can be designed in a way to instruct our bodies to make specific proteins that act like or “mimic” a particular virus; triggering a response that trains our immune system to recognize and attack the real virus or pathogen. This is how the COVID mRNA vaccines were designed, and while I shouldn’t have to say it, this process does not involve “altering genes.”
But with all of these benefits in mind, Kennedy has chosen to stick with the baseless claim that these vaccines and this technology comes with its outweighing “risks.”
He’s chosen to politicize science at the cost of public health, scientific innovation, pandemic preparedness, and basic trust in medicine and the scientific community in general. Oh, and don’t forget the future generations of Americans who will lose access to advanced, life saving treatments, or the fact that he’s undoing decades worth of scientific progress and advancements in mRNA technology, research and development.
Science has indeed become politicized by the right.
Overwhelming scientific consensus, the latest research and data, and conclusions drawn from peer reviewed, scientific journals are challenged by conspiracy theorists and their “alternative facts.” Legitimate concerns and policies that seek to address things like climate change and pandemic preparedness are blasted as radical left inventions.
It’s gotten so out of hand that the director of HHS basically submerged himself in fecal matter, then Trump supporters and members of the so-called “MAHA” movement applauded his behavior as if it was natural and fucking enlightened.
They deny legitimate science and insist that their ass-backwards and misanthropic views about medicine, biology, vaccines, diseases, etc, are more informed than the leading and relevant scientific research on the matter
This administration is politicizing science at the cost of public health and scientific innovation, but also at the cost of innocent lives.
RFK Jr. is the most unqualified person to be heading HHS due to his dangerously unscientific claims the large role he’s played—thus far—in undermining trust in the medical community and endangering public health.
There’s also his loyalty to Donald Trump and a MAGA agenda that is defunding and eroding the independence of public health related agencies while stripping qualified civil servants of their protections, only to replace them with incompetent loyalists who are committed to reversing decades of scientific progress.
Even as a once arguably prominent environmental lawyer, Kennedy is turning a blind eye to this administration’s rollback of EPA regulations and climate initiatives and its efforts to desecrate our national parks, pollute the environment, tarnish the land, and cater to the interests of the fossil fuels industry.
As HHS secretary, he’s been responsible for defunding scientific and medical research. His department is also taking steps to dismantle agencies and organizations that play a crucial role in protecting the environment and maintaining public health and safety.
His cuts to “DEI” programs have only benefitted the MAGA loyalists and corporate cronies who have replaced actual qualified civil servants who once acted as guardrails against conservatives eager to pollute our air and water, undo decades of scientific progress and compromise the public health.
Id also be remiss if I didn’t mention Kennedy’s founding of The Children’s Health Defense—an anti-vax non profit that played a major role in accelerating the measles outbreak in Samoa that claimed the lives of dozens of children.
At its height, over 1,300 cases of measles were reported in the US as part of a record outbreak that spread to 40 states—with a large chunk of the cases in Texas. 90+ percent of all cases were either unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.
RFK Jr is a menace to society. His combination of incompetency and lunacy should have disqualified him from serving in any position in the federal government, let alone as director of HHS—overseeing the public health and safety of Americans.
Of all the horseman, he is plague manifested. What a crappy human being.
Elizabeth Warren talks for a minute straight and somehow he is the one out of breath. He shouldn’t have the slightest bit of authority over anything to do with health.
In his defense, he’s been anti-vaxx this whole time. It’s not like was hiding that. The senate is kind of bullshit for all of a sudden acting like they didn’t see this shit show coming.
and they say women are too emotional and can’t be trusted in positions of power.
Everything he says and does screams “Eugenicist”, not “anti-vax. He wants to cull the weak and infirm.
He was so mad, you could barely understand a thing he said. Like, even less than usual.
What a fucking weirdo. And the US is on a rapid decline, perhaps the fastest in history. Trump is bankrupting the US as his main priority as dictator and this asshole is trying to find ways to ensure more Americans get sick and or die.
He’s a joke and a disgrace to his family legacy.
mRNA vaccines will be one of the greatest discoveries and inventions of the 21st century, and already has saved millions of lives. It has moved medicine forward that next step. We don’t need to inject the actual virus into ourselves anymore. It’s progress. He wants to bring us back to the days of trepanation and leeches.
depopulation means the billionaire class gets to sweep up a whole lot of discounted assets
Fuck this piece of shit
Unfit and incompetent.
His “red faced fury” should be matched with equivalent anger from those questioning him, as his stupidity is definitely going to get people killed.
Fuck this guy. Hospitals are packed
Its been fun ya’ll.
Already getting my digital Nomad Visa and getting the family out.
I don’t like the lack of responsibility,
The grifting,
The invalidation of the scientific method,
The greed,
The naked disregard for the judicial branch,
Lots of opposite charge building on both sides and my family won’t be caught in the middle when homeostasis is reached.
When he inevitably causes a large amount of deaths, he will plead ignorance, he doesn’t have the data, etc. Him being called a charlatan today was spot-on.
Can we PLEASE pass a law that says you must be qualified and experienced in that field in order to accept high-ranking government position.
RFK is better representing snake oil at a street fair.
He’s going to face jail time when this is over. He sure is risking a lot. Seems so strange to me.
The question remains: How is Cheryl Hines still married to this ‘roid rager?
People need to understand that the quackery this man propagates is eugenicist class warfare against the poor and the working class.
RFK Jr. is a rich asshole who wants to destroy public health care because as a rich man he hates the idea of paying more of his taxes to help people live. That’s the bottom line here. All the quackery and misinformation he spreads is in service of that fundamental aim.
He also is abusing scared & ignorant people’s mistrust of our vastly awful private health care system to wreck what little public health care and what medical R&D research that we do have. As a rich man who has access to the best doctors and clinics for everything he needs for his own pampered life, he has intense and contempt for the poor deigning to access the health care he has at his fingertips. You can see it in his eugenicist views towards people with disability in particular, such as his grotesquely ableist fixation on fearmongering about autism. He will gladly abuse misinformation about autism (alongside his horrendously ignorant views about autism itself) as a pretext restrict and remove people’s access to vaccines, and doesn’t give a fuck if thousands or millions die or are debilitated by the ensuing spread of disease & death that will inevitably result from lack of access to basic medical care like vaccinations. People like him will be fine. Millions of people will not.
His quackery should be viewed through the lens of a marie antoinette ‘let them eat cat’ or of any other grotesquely out of touch and/or maliciously classist aristocracy in history.
How can you tell the red face was from fury – he’s always like that, the lack of oxygen getting to his head and brain explain so much about this moron.
Maybe he shouldn’t have this much power if he can’t keep his emotions in control. Who knows what he might do during one of his hormonal fluctuations.
He looks as though he’s literally been grilled.
He was such a little baby about it, seriously…fuck this dude
The man was a junkie during high school, college and when he took the bar exam…he had to forfeit a job because he failed the bar while doing heroin.
After graduating from law school, he was sworn in as an assistant district attorney for Manhattan but resigned in July 1983 following his failure to pass the exam. This is who is in charge of our healthcare. A f’n junkie.
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