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chuck-glisson · 1 year ago
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Send in the "Clowns"(AKA; RFK Jr.),
there's GOT to be "Clowns"(AKA; RFK Jr.).
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uboat53 · 19 days ago
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Here we go, in no particular order, here are some of my thoughts on what we'll see in the next year or two based on the election results:
THE ECONOMY
Unless something pretty serious happens, it's very likely that Trump will make good on his promise of massive tariffs on all American imports. Given that we import a lot of stuff from the rest of the world (check any manufactured item in your house, I'll bet it doesn't say "made in America"), that means prices will likely increase substantially. The predictable result of that is probably a pullback of consumer spending and a recession. If we're really unlucky, we'll have inflation and a recession at the same time, the dreaded "stagflation".
More broadly, it's likely that the only thing Republicans will do economically in terms of legislation is pass a massive, deficit financed tax cut for the rich. Again. Honestly, this is an easy one to guess because it's what they do every time they have power. It's direct effect will probably be minimal (though any effect is likely to be inflationary) although it remains an open question how long the US can run up the credit card without any major economic consequences.
We're also likely to see a wave of deregulation. Expect the new administration to try to roll back all of the consumer protections that Biden has put in place, end the lawsuits against big corporations that are exploiting their market power, and generally tilt the playing field back in favor of big corporations and wealthy people.
Oh yes, and let's talk about the immigration thing here. Trump is promising to deport millions of illegal immigrants (by current estimates there are about 11 million of them). And, look, I'm not a professional economist, but I think it's reasonably easy to guess what happens when you remove millions of people of working age from the labor pool. Again, this is likely to be inflationary (less workers available, so pay and, thus, costs, go up) and recessionary (fewer consumers buying things) at the same time.
PUBLIC HEALTH
With a knowledgeable public health expert like RFK Jr. leading the government's public health efforts, what could possibly go wr… sorry, couldn't finish that with a straight face. Yeah, Trump's gone off the deep end public health-wise ever since the public health people kept pointing out how badly he was screwing up his last major public health emergency, so now he's only listening to quacks and nut jobs.
The odds are pretty good that vaccines are on the target list and the administration will reduce or eliminate programs that encourage them. It's a good bet that, in the next decade or so, we'll see a resurgence of diseases like measles and polio that we thought we'd eradicated. Of course, if we get another pandemic like Covid, I'd bet on a high body count and massive economic impact as well.
We're also likely to see more and more women dying due to pregnancy-related complications. Biden was pushing hard to enforce a federal law that requires hospitals to save women's lives, but it's doubtful that Trump will keep doing that. He'll also likely not enforce any other protections and allow even stronger crackdowns on abortion in states that are eager to do so.
MINORITIES
If you're not a straight, white, cisgender, Christian man, things are likely to get a lot worse for you over the next four years. Look for the administration to take every opportunity to attack gay and trans people and to promote Christianity over other beliefs. The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is also likely to be neutered, as it has been under every Republican administration since at least Reagan, so many states will happily violate the rights of racial minorities without any federal pushback. The same is true of laws and regulations that protect women.
Beyond the official, though, we also have to face the societal effects of another Trump Presidency. Despite the loud protestations of his supporters, Trump is beloved among the racist far-right, and for good reason. His administration borrowed heavily from their ideas and their language and even used their personnel and there's no reason to expect a second term to be any different. There is a reason that right-wing terror surged in our country in Trump's first term and it'll probably do the same now.
Expect more shootings of black and brown people and more attacks on Jews and Jewish places of worship. The racists believe the President is on their side and he's given them no reason to think otherwise.
THE NEXT ELECTION
All right, I'm going out on a limb here and this is my longest range projection, but it's a fairly reasonable bet that Democrats will take/retake the House of Representatives in 2026. I can confidently predict this because the party that controls the presidency has lost House seats in nearly every election since the Great Depression. Based on current results (which may change as western states count more votes), the Republicans will have a 4 vote margin in the House and the average midterm loss is 27 seats. Heck, they lost 47 seats in 2018 the last time Trump was in office. Even the Democrats who had a good year in 2022 still lost 10 seats. Seems like a pretty good bet.
As for the Senate, that's a bit harder to predict. At the moment, Republicans will have anywhere from 52 to 54 seats when all the votes are counted from this election. Based on the 2020 Senate elections map (that's the class of Senators that will be up for re-election in 2026), I'd count anywhere from 2-4 seats that the Democrats might be able to flip, the rest are probably safe. So is it possible that Democrats could retake the Senate in '26? Absolutely. Is it likely? Good question. Ask me in a year or so.
CONCLUSION
It's likely that life in America is going to get worse over the next year or two, how much worse depends a lot on how we react. At best, we'll likely face further inflation (every economic policy Trump has voiced support for is inflationary), increased sickness and disease, and increased attacks on the lives and well-beings of anyone who isn't a straight, white, cisgender, Christian man. At worst, well, all of those things but much more intense.
If we're fortunate, Democrats will take the House and serve as a much-needed check on the worst impulses of President-elect Trump. If not, at least the next election will likely do it, though a good deal of damage will be done between now and then.
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dicapiito · 1 month ago
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So you're not at all worried The Election will go fubar at the last minute? Like I'm pro-Harris for sure but I just got a lingering feeling there are things at play that would make things go sideways in favor for Trump. Stuff like The News being less harsh regarding Trump's age & mental capacity as they were with Biden earlier in spite of the fact-checking. Musk Buying Twitter & letting Him spread his "The Election was stolen narrative" to rally up the conspiracy nuts (RFK Jr) or the Hate-Mongers in the name of "Freedom of Speech", People just blaming the price hikes or Roe V. Wade on the Biden-Harris administration without really understanding how that works, Or Just plain old fashion sexism.
Not really.
I don’t watch mainstream news media and I haven’t for years. I hate commercials and I loathe the news so why watch shit that would make me upset? They treat Trump like a joke so I don’t need their bullshit near me.
Musty bought Twitter because he’s desperate to be liked by the ‘ cool kids’. Seriously. I try and ignore that man because he’s the ultimate incel techbro that still floors me that he has that many children. He keeps trying to interfere with nonsense but that’s not even working as well as he thinks. Especially after Brazil temporarily banned the app and he had to comply with the bans before it could be restored in the Brazilian apps.
Plus mainstream media isn’t trying to do their jobs; there’s a lot of BTS that the U.S. government is doing because 1/6 could happen again so that’s likely not being shared as of yet. That’s why people are voting early because people are not going back to 2016 -2020 and people are motivated. Media won’t report that because they don’t want Harris to tax them since they make over $400K.
Want the fear of the election to die down? Encourage others to vote and do anything besides follow people who are being doomers about the election. They are doing nothing but making you have a panic attack about an election that’s not over yet. As well as I wouldn’t bother with any posts that have a “ how is this election so close?”
Vote, encourage others to vote and then do anything that makes you happy 😊💙
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sataniccapitalist · 10 days ago
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The clown car is unloading its passengers, and what a circus it’s becoming.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse than Fox & Friends host and alleged sexual assaulter and extremist Christian nationalist Pete Hegseth heading the Defense Department, Trump has named
Credibly accused pedophile Matt Gaetz for Attorney General,
Russian propagandist Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, and
Anti-vax conspiracy nut job RFK, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Make no mistake. Trump, who is driving the clown car, is creating a spectacle and trolling us hard. His own party members, who ought to be used to him acting this way, are reportedly shocked by the appointments. It’s as if Trump is daring his own GOP Senate to oppose him and vote them down.
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pscottm · 3 months ago
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RFK Jr. Brings Much-needed Sanity to Trump Campaign
GLENDALE, ARIZONA (The Borowitz Report)—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald J. Trump on Friday night in order to lend “much-needed sanity” to the GOP campaign, the former third-party candidate said.
“You spend any amount of time with Trump and you realize he’s a whack job,” Kennedy told reporters. “I decided that somebody needed to tell him to get a grip.”
Stating that he hoped to be “the voice of reason” in the Trump campaign, Kennedy ticked off a list of the Republican nominee’s obsessions that he called “just plain nuts.”
“Windmills, sharks, Hannibal Lecter,” Kennedy said. “And why does he keep exaggerating about how big his crowds are? I would never lie about the size of my worm.”
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nightmaretour · 4 months ago
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Can y'all handle something not being about you for ten whole seconds? It won't hurt I promise
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The first is a reply from user datundit saying “PTSD can cause death of neurons and so is technically brain damage.
So is having had a dead worm removed from the brain in 2010 when you are
RFK jr. and may explain why he is a conspiracy nut job.
It was alive once and making wormholes in your brain matter.”
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#like yes a head injury can incur brain damage because that is what the literal definition consists of. a brain that is damaged.
#but guess what? prolonged mental illness can also cause brain damage.
#ptsd/c-ptsd causes brain damage. depression causes brain damage. fairly certain other disorders cause brain damage as well.
#brain damage is not just one thing with one difinitive cause”
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"Brain damage" only sounds like a harsh and offensive way to describe brain injuries because people constantly use it as an insult. It's a totally neutral descriptor of what it is. I have brain damage. My brain is damaged. It's not ableist to call it that, it's ableist to call people you don't like brain damaged because you think it's an inherently bad thing to be.
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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 10 days ago
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New York Post: "Putting RFK Jr. in charge of health breaks the first rule of medicine. We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago."
By Post Editorial Board Nov. 14, 2024
The overriding rule of medicine is: First, do no harm. We’re certain installing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services breaks this rule.
Maybe he’s sworn to focus narrowly on areas where he clearly can help — inspiring Americans to embrace healthier diets and more exercise, etc.
But . . .
We sat down with RFK Jr. back in May 2023, when he was still challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination.
As we noted then, he’s an independent thinker who sees through a lot of bull, an incisive critic of some of Biden’s worst policies, who saw that “the Democratic Party lost its way most acutely in reaction to” Donald Trump’s first election.
Autism is soaring due to the 'medicalization of misbehavior'
Trump plans to bring back what Dems lied and called 'Muslim ban' — it's about terrorism
But the insights we were impressed with had nothing to do with health.
When it came to that topic his views were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.
“Neocons” are responsible for America’s policy ills. “Pesticides, cellphones, ultrasound” could be driving an upswing in Tourette syndrome and peanut allergies.
A radical, prolonged and confused transition ordered by a guy like RFK Jr., who will use his high office to spout his controversial beliefs, leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong, writes The Post Editorial Board.
He told us with full conviction that all America’s chronic health problems began in one year in the 1980s when a dozen bad things happened. 
Convincing to the gullible conspiracy-hungry crowd on Twitter, but not to the rest of us. 
In fact, we came out thinking he’s nuts on a lot of fronts.
And even where he makes fair points as a critic, it’s hard to see how he’s the guy to lead HHS and its staff of 83,000 to practical solutions.
The relationship between Big Pharma and the feds is deeply dysfunctional, for example — but drug companies do a lot of good, and employ a lot of people.
Sending the industry — or even just its stocks — into a tailspin would be a disaster in its own right.
His views also put him at odds with Trump’s aim of supporting energy and farmers, as RFK Jr. wants to ban fracking and many pesticides and fertilizers. 
Look: The HHS chief oversees over 100 programs across 11 operating divisions; keeping the trains running is a major job in its own right.
A radical, prolonged & confused transition ordered by a guy like RFK Jr., who will use his high office to spout his controversial beliefs, leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong — and for people to wind up harmed or even dead.
All that, of course, if the Senate actually confirms RFK Jr., which will be a challenge in its own right: Republicans only have three votes to spare.
Donald Trump won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts — not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.’s mouth. 
We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago.
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misfitwashere · 11 days ago
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Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be Health Secretary. OMG. Really? 
ROBERT REICH
NOV 14
Friends,
Trump is giving his middle finger to America. 
Nominating the alleged sexual trafficker Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General, Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense, and bizarro Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence, are acts of nihilistic disruption.
Now, nominating conspiracist and fabulist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to the nation’s leading health job — overseeing the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health, among other sensitive positions — is an act of utter hubris. 
At a time when the truth is a precious common good, and the public’s health is already precarious, RFK Junior has made a name for himself spreading dangerous health lies.
He claimed that COVID-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” And that “the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”
He has promoted the baseless claim linking vaccines to autism. He’s been a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, erroneously suggesting the vaccine has killed more people than it has saved.
In his 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, he alleged, without plausible evidence, that Dr. Fauci performed “genocidal experiments, sabotaged treatments for AIDS, and conspired with Bill Gates to suppress information about COVID-19.” 
All nonsense. 
Friends, I knew Robert F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy Junior is no Robert F. Kennedy. If not for his lustrous name, RFK Junior would be just another crackpot in the ever-growing pool of bottom-feeding fringe characters encircling Trump like ravenous slugs. 
So why nominate this collection of bozo’s? 
If Trump wants to smoke out the Senate Republicans who aren’t fully behind him, he has easier ways of doing so than putting up an entire Star Wars cantina of idiots up for senate confirmation. 
I can see why Trump might want total loyalists in key positions that would enable him to turn America into a police state — more on this tomorrow — but why nominate a nut job to run America’s health system? 
What possible point is there to subjecting Americans to poisonous food or drugs? Why undermine the Center for Disease Control when Americans and their children need the protections vaccines provide? 
Or is all this just another manifestation of Trump becoming deranged? 
If Americans suffer buyer’s remorse for electing him, the next time we’ll have a chance to do anything about it will be the midterm elections of November, 2026. But how much damage can Trump and his cantina do between next January and then?
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bllsbailey · 30 days ago
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Trump Appears On ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’
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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Avflight at Cherry Capital Airport on October 25, 2024 in Traverse City, Michigan.
Former President Donald Trump appeared in a nearly three hour episode of the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast hosted by UFC commentator Joe Rogan. 
On Friday, the 45th president appeared on Rogan’s podcast, which has 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million subscribers on YouTube. 
Trump talked about a variety of topics, which made the interview nearly three hours long.
The former president began talking about John Bolton, who served as White House National security adviser until he was fired in 2019. He continued saying how he had been warned by businessman Phil Ruffin that Bolton was a “bad guy,” but by then, Trump had already hired him.
“And he was right. But he was good in a certain way. He’s a nut job. And every time I had to deal with a country when they saw this whack job standing behind me, they said, ‘Man, Trump’s going to go to war with us.’ He was with Bush when they went stupidly into the Middle East. They should have never done it. I used to say it as a civilian, so I always got more publicity than other people,” Trump said. “It wasn’t like I was trying,” Trump said. “In fact, I don’t know exactly why. Maybe you can tell me.” 
“I could definitely tell you,” Rogan offered. “You said a lot of wild s— and then CNN in all their brilliance by highlighting your wild s— made you much more popular. And they boost you in the polls because people were tired of someone talking in this bulls— pre-prepared politician lingo. And even if they didn’t agree with you, they at least knew whoever that guy is, that’s him. That’s really him.”
Rogan went on to say that “the rebels are Republican now.”
“The rebels are Republicans now, though, like you want to be invisible, you want to be punk rock, you want to like, buck the system? You’re a conservative now,” Rogan said. “That’s how crazy. And then the liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship online. … [T]hey come in regulating free speech and now regulating the First Amendment. It’s bananas to watch.” 
Trump also recalled his meeting with former President Barack Obama during the presidential transition period in which he said “Obama thought we were going to go to war with North Korea.”
Rogan then recalled how Trump had called North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “Little Rocket Man” early on in his first term.
“I said, ‘Little Rocket Man, you’re going to burn in hell.’ And it was rough,” Trump said. “I got to know him better than anybody, anybody. And I said, ‘Do you ever do anything else? Why don’t you go take it easy and relax? Go to the beach?’ You know, kiddingly, I said, ‘You’re always building nuclear power plants. Just relax. You don’t have to do it. Let’s build some condos.'”
Later on, Trump discussed his initiative to “Make America Healthy Again” to which Rogan praised him for. He also asked if he would consider having Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a part of his administration. 
“Oh, I am, but the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because, you know, he doesn’t like oil. I love oil,” Trump said. “I think just keep him out of the fire. So I’m going to keep him out of a little bit. I said focus on health. Focus. You could do whatever you want, but, I got to be a little bit careful with the liquid gold.” 
Rogan went on to reference how “there are chemicals and ingredients in our food that are illegal in other countries because they’ve been shown to be toxic.” 
“There’s pesticides and herbicides, and there’s a lot of sh– that’s been sprayed on our food that really is unnecessary,” the podcaster said. “And there’s a lot of health consequences.” Rogan added that Kennedy recently told him that “more than 70% of young men are ineligible for the military because of their health.” 
“But RFK is going to be – you know I think he’s a great guy,” Trump said. 
“But I would say that the Big Pharma wasn’t thrilled when they heard that,” Trump said. “I’ve actually always gotten along very well with him. I’ve known him a long time. He’s a different kind of a guy. He’s very smart, great guy, and he’s very sincere about this. I mean, he really is. You know, he thinks we spend a fortune on pesticides and all this stuff, and then you end up at that chart is a terrible shot.” 
Trump then went on to blast the Afghanistan withdrawal under the Biden-Harris administration. Rogan agreed, mentioning the 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport and the billions of dollars worth of equipment left behind now seen in Taliban military parades.
Trump stated that President Joe Biden should have fired everyone involved in the withdrawal plan, criticizing retired Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump and Biden.
He went on to say that U.S. troops should have left last from Bagram Air Base because it is “one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles” and should have taken all of their equipment with them. 
“Every plane, every screw  should have been taken out, every tent. And I said that. That’s when I realized that Milley was a dummy. I said, ‘we’re leaving, but I want to get everything out,'” Trump said. 
“‘Sir, it’s cheaper to leave it,'” Trump said Milley told him. 
“It’s cheaper to leave it?” Rogan asked. “Yeah, he said it’s cheaper to leave it,” Trump affirmed. 
“Cheaper?” Rogan asked again. “Not more dangerous?”
“He just said cheaper,” Trump said. “I said ‘I want every plane, I want every tank, I want the goggles, said night goggles. They have all this stuff that these guys now have.’ He said, ‘sir, it’s cheaper to get out and leave it.’ I said, so you think it’s cheaper to leave $150 million brand new airplane in there than it is to fly it out with a tank of jet fuel and put it in Pakistan, or just fly it directly back?” 
“‘It’s cheaper to leave it.’ I said, ‘this guy’s nuts,'” Trump added. “I’m telling you, he was so stupid. He was so unwise. He was like an unwise man. And there were a number of them.” 
Trump also said that he had spoken with the Taliban’s chief negotiator, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. 
“I had a couple of conversations with Abdul, and from the time I had those conversations, because they were shooting our soldiers, you know, with the sniper stuff,” Trump said. “They were shooting a lot with Obama, much less with me. But they were shooting them. And I said, get this guy on the phone. The press went nuts when they heard this. I had a great conversation – It was a tough conversation. 18 months later, there wasn’t one soldier that was ever shot at, and even Biden admitted it in a moment of stupidity.” 
He concluded by calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “very low IQ person,” referencing when she compared him to Adolf Hitler. 
“There’s the rhetoric is also that you’re Hitler and that in order to stop Hitler, you have to do whatever,” Rogan said. “I mean, you’re hearing this now, Kamala compared you, said you love Hitler yesterday.” 
“Kamala is a very low IQ person. She’s a very low IQ. You know, I’m for taking tests too. I think anybody that runs for president should take, they should give them a test,” Trump said.
“And it’s not an age thing,” Trump stated. “If you look back on history, 70s and 80s, your greatest, some of your greatest leaders in the world, world history, long time world history, they were in their 70s, in their 80s. But I think you should take cognitive tests. I think everybody – they say it’s unconstitutional, but I think that’s ridiculous. I think Kamala should have a test because there’s something missing. There’s something wrong with her.”
“Well, I think it’s pressure,” Rogan said. “I think the pressure and the scrutiny. You’ve been a celebrity for a long time, and you understand what this is like. But for someone who’s in her late 40s, who becomes the vice president, who runs for president, becomes a vice president, and then all of a sudden, the weight of the world is on your shoulders. And there’s all these people, a lot of people clam up.” 
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cadavidson · 1 year ago
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Ben Garrison Cartoons: Election 2024—Walls are Closing In  on Joe Biden
Ben Garrison Cartoons: Election 2024—Walls are Closing In  on Joe Biden   “The Walls Are Closing In On….Joe Biden”   It’s not looking good for Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream propaganda media bashing RFK Jr. as some kind of anti-vaccine nut job, he continues to make gains on Joe in the polls.Despite Biden’s use of dirty banana republic tactics of arresting one’s political opponent, President…
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tomorrowusa · 1 year ago
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Robert Reich has excellent liberal credentials going back decades. He even worked for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1925 - d. 1968) in the 1960s.
Dr. Reich urges us not to be misled by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1954) who is using his family name to mislead voters. RFK Jr. is no chip off the old block.
Some people think that RFK Jr is like RFK Sr or like JFK. Apart from the DNA, RFK Jr is no more like his father or uncle than Donald Trump is like Abraham Lincoln.
Let me paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s remark to Dan Quayle during the vice-presidential debate in 1988: I knew Robert F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no Robert F. Kennedy. I worked in Robert F. Kennedy’s Senate office in 1967. It was not a glamorous job. I ran the signature machine, making sure that letters to constituents were lined up properly so that the pen at the end of a long automated arm would write out the senator’s name appropriately. But I did have a chance to get to see Bobby Kennedy close up. I watched him stand up for economic and social justice. I witnessed him bringing together people of every race and ethnicity — to demand equal rights and an end to the Vietnam War.
Robert Kennedy was a noble and courageous individual. On the evening that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated he spoke extemporaneously to a crowd of black supporters in Indiana.
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His son Robert Kennedy Jr has become an anti-vaxxing conspiracy nut and a bigot.
As someone on the autism spectrum I have long been familiar with his totally unsupported contention about vaccines causing autism. But in recent years he has expanded his conspiracy theories into MAGA territory.
Robert F. Kennedy would never have suggested or even thought that a deadly virus was targeted at certain races. He wouldn’t have repeated the trope, dating at least to the Middle Ages, that Jews unleashed a plague on non-Jews. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands for the opposite of what his father did. In addition to his gonzo bioweapons ethnic conspiracy theory, RFK Jr. has promoted the baseless claim linking vaccines to autism. He’s been a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, suggesting the vaccine has killed more people than it has saved. He doesn’t support a ban on assault weapons and blames the rise of mass shootings in America on pharmaceutical drugs. [ ... ] Were it not for his illustrious name, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be just another crackpot in the growing number of bottom-feeding right-wing fringe politicians seeking high office. But the Robert F. Kennedy brand is political gold.
RFK Jr's relatives have condemned his recent foray into anti-Semitism.
Kennedy family joins White House in condemning RFK Jr’s ‘antisemitic’ Covid conspiracy claim
RFK Jr's vanity presidential campaign, such as it is, has been rather bizarre.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting
Nobody should think that RFK Jr signals some sort of return to Camelot. Nostalgia as politics is a bad idea. It's even worse when a bad actor is exploiting that nostalgia for personal gain.
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auti-starshine · 4 months ago
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The first image is a screenshot of a comment from user datundit that reads, “PTSD can cause death of neurons and so is technically brain damage. So is having had a dead worm removed from the brain in 2010 when you are RFK jr. and may explain why he is a conspiracy nut job. It was alive once and making wormholes in your brain matter”. End of first image.
The second image is a screenshot of tags from an unknown user that reads, “and it also makes it sound like it’s one thing and one thing only. like yes a head injury can incur brain damage because that is what the literal definition consists of. a brain that is damaged. but guess what? prolonged mental illness can also cause brain damage. PTSD/C-PTSD causes brain damage. depression causes brain damage. fairly certain other disorders cause brain damage as well. brain damage is not just one thing with one definitive cause.” End of second image.
The third image is a screenshot of tags from an unknown user that reads, “did you know i’ve lost a huge portion of my memories? we love side affects of depression.” End of third image.
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"Brain damage" only sounds like a harsh and offensive way to describe brain injuries because people constantly use it as an insult. It's a totally neutral descriptor of what it is. I have brain damage. My brain is damaged. It's not ableist to call it that, it's ableist to call people you don't like brain damaged because you think it's an inherently bad thing to be.
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patch-is-disabled · 4 months ago
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The first is a reply from user datundit saying “PTSD can cause death of neurons and so is technically brain damage.
So is having had a dead worm removed from the brain in 2010 when you are
RFK jr. and may explain why he is a conspiracy nut job.
It was alive once and making wormholes in your brain matter.”
The second image is a set of tags saying “and it also makes it sound like its one thing and one thing only
like yes a head injury can incur brain damage because that is what the literal definition consists of. a brain that is damaged. #but guess what? prolonged mental illness can also cause brain damage.
ptsd/c-ptsd causes brain damage. depression causes brain damage. fairly certain other disorders cause brain damage as well.
brain damage is not just one thing with one difinitive cause”
The last image is also a set of tags saying “did you know ive lost a huge portion of my memories? we love side effects of depression” /end ID]
"Brain damage" only sounds like a harsh and offensive way to describe brain injuries because people constantly use it as an insult. It's a totally neutral descriptor of what it is. I have brain damage. My brain is damaged. It's not ableist to call it that, it's ableist to call people you don't like brain damaged because you think it's an inherently bad thing to be.
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