#central park bear

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Reading Between the LIES

A Double-Minded¹ man is UNSTABLE in ALL he does:

wavering in character & feelings

restless & confused in thoughts, actions & behavior

like a drunken man who is unable to walk in a straight line

"I'm fiercely pro-vaccine." RFK Jr

...unless I'm hiking which is when I tell strangers "...better not get (that baby) vaccinated..."

or when I intend to use 6 month old babies as non-consenting VOLUNTEERS aka "human pin cushions" to TEST (study) vaccine safety & efficacy

"Reading between the LIES" by Peggy Hall

¹James 1:6-8

The operative name in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “Kennedy.” -Isaac Schorr

At his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services fielded countless questions about the countless views he’s articulated and actions he’s taken that make him uniquely unsuited for this position.

And, as you might expect of any Kennedy, his answers were full of obfuscations, half-truths, and outright lies.

In his opening statement, Kennedy tried to sidestep the single biggest cloud hanging over his nomination.

“I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care,” he proclaimed.

“All of my kids are vaccinated, I’ve written many books on vaccines, my first book in 2014, the first line of it is ‘I am not anti-vaccine’ and the last line is ‘I am not anti-vaccine.’”If only saying it made it so.

Kennedy has a decades-long record that reveals him to be exactly what he says he’s not.

While he touted his kids’ vaccination status at his hearing, he has previously said he would “do anything” and “pay anything” to go back in time and change that fact.

In 2021, he said that “I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get them vaccinated.’”And that’s to say nothing of him being the founder and former chairman of an anti-vaccine group going by the Orwellian name “Children’s Health Defense,” which is currently promoting a film called “Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill.”

In another notable moment, Kennedy was quizzed about his role in exacerbating a measles outbreak in Samoa that claimed the lives of more than 80 people – most of them young children – in 2019.

Kennedy traveled to the island nation in June of that year at the invitation of another anti-vaccine activist following the deaths of two babies improperly administered vaccines.

On Wednesday, Kennedy insisted his visit had “nothing to do with vaccines” and that he “never gave any public statement about vaccines.”

The Samoan Ministry of Health sees it differently.

“It is well documented that RFK Jr.’s visit to Samoa in 2019 coincided with increased anti-vaccine sentiment, particularly among certain groups,” it said in a statement.

Moreover, in the aftermath of the outbreak, Kennedy sought to exploit the tragedy to push the Samoan Government toward anti-vaccine policies.“It is critical that the Samoan Health Ministry determine, scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate vaccine coverage or alternatively, by a defective vaccine,” wrote Kennedy in a letter to the prime minister.

There he was again, just asking questions.

Kennedy’s attempts to explain away his own words – nay, his life’s work – fell short in numerous other instances.Asked about his suggestion that Covid-19 may have been genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, Kennedy insisted that he was only quoting an NIH study.

The truth? That he said that the virus “is targeted to attack caucasians and black people,” while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese “are most immune.”

As to whether it had been engineered to do so, well, Kennedy thought that was an open question.

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not,” he added.

Asked about a series of overwrought, irresponsible comparisons he’s drawn while promoting his dangerous lies, he denied having ever made them.

Roll the tape, however, and you’ll find that he’s said that the CDC’s decision not to deem autism an epidemic was “like Nazi death camps,” and analogized the agency’s priorities to those of fascist regimes and the Catholic Church’s “pedophile scandal.”

And then there’s his cynical abortion flip-flop, which was addressed by senators of both parties on Wednesday.

“I agree with him [President Trump] that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year,” declared Kennedy at his hearing.

If that’s the case, why did he express support for full-term elective abortions on the campaign trail less than a year ago?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is many things that his famous family resents: A kook, an embarrassment, and, worst of all, in league with the Republican Party.

But his most ignoble trait – the one on full display on Wednesday – is one that he shares with the rest of his clan: He’s a power hungry charlatan willing to say anything to take the next step up the ladder.

[redraspberryleaf]

PLEASE, someone tell me why RFK Jr is me?? Like, I don't like the man, but God damn I also would see a freshly killed bear and think "OMG I gotta take that home!!" Then when I realize I can't realistically keep this bear right now, what do I do?! Then pull some dumbass shit with my friends.

I probably would have tried to burry the bear so I could come back for his bones and inadvertently set off a murder investigation before they realized it was a bear and the whole bear conspiracy dropped, but damn...

I don't think I've ever related to a politician more in my life, and I certainly never thought I'd say that about the antivax kennedy with brain worms.

[mysharona1987]

[baskeigh-ball]

I saw somebody ask what animals Mutant Manhunt Raph likes since he's not a cat person, and I'd say he's definitely obsessed with mice and bears (he also likes any kind of reptile, especially lizards, but that could be said for all of the brothers)

[transpondster]

Somehow, it’s simultaneously shocking and unsurprising to learn that this is absolutely true. RFK Jr picked up a dead bear on an upstate NY road and took it back to the city and dumped it in Central Park while trying to make it look like a bicyclist in the Park had hit and killed the bear. In the video, he’s telling that sociopathic story to, of all people, Roseanne Barr who is definitely *not* shocked.

Worth remembering that he’s still running for President and convincing people to give him money for that campaign.

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Mother Bear and Cub (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Maligne Lake Road with a view looking to the southwest to a mother black bear and her cubs eating away. This is in Jasper National Park. In composing this image, I attempted to center the mother and one of her cubs, as they were eating grasses and wildflowers in this field.

[themuskrater]

I don't usually get political on this page...but,

Did you notice during the VP debate when Vance said he was endorsed by Democrats, he specifically said "Bobby Kennedy Jr" so the audience wouldn't realize he's talking about this guy?

Like there is a REASON Kamala refused to take his calls, this dude is fucking insane

[mudwerks]

(via Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park - The New York Times)

When you really want to bring the WEIRD, search out RFK Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, confessed on Sunday that he had left a dead bear cub in Central Park in Manhattan in 2014 because he thought it would be “amusing.”

In the video, Mr. Kennedy appears to be seated in a kitchen as he casually tells the actress Roseanne Barr about the ordeal. He says that he was driving through the Hudson Valley when he saw a woman in a van hit and kill a young bear...

throw in some incidental Rosanne Bizarre, and you got a hell of a story.

[geminisee]

I beg your finest pardon? What the fucking hell?????

WHAT?

[anthonycrowley]

me when i look back at all the media i’ve consumed

[thingstrumperssay]

???????????????

[rejectingrepublicans]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

NGL I think my job today is going to be memeing RFK Jr. and his bear story. It’s so unhinged, like the hinges fell off when we found out that his brain worm came from eating roadkill but now they’re saying that the crime scene he staged with the bear cub he was planning to eat had stab wounds?

[lonelystotch19]

a bunch of doodles

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

My Vote Is for Nature (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the southwest at a roadside pullout along the Maligne Lake Road in Jasper National Park. This was of a mother black bear and one of her three cubs.

[vermillionbedfellow]

So are toupees handed out upon registering to work for trump? Or is it a requirement that you already have shit hair when you sign up to work for him.