Is anyone watching the RFK Jr hearings?

(I did a search.)

He definitely can't handle the heat from the Senate panel. He's losing his temper, shaking, barely able to control himself.

What a complete fool.

He's showing his nasty side.

I’d rather have my eyes pulled out of their sockets than ever watch that total fucking moron talk about anything to anyone.

I can’t. I’ll have a stroke.

He's very twitchy and convulsive. Is it repressed rage at being challenged or does he have more physical problems than we are aware of? I know what a healthy 71-year-old looks like and he's got issues.

I can totally understand him..

[quote]He's showing his nasty side.

He's got another side?

When Mark Warner was destroying him, I thought he was having a seizure. His eyes were rolling over the place, and he was croaking out words while gasping for air.

He's a "disaster" (to use a favorite Trumpism); but the cowards and quislings in the Senate who voted to confirm him are even worse.

[quote] When Mark Warner was destroying him, I thought he was having a seizure. His eyes were rolling over the place, and he was croaking out words while gasping for air.

Maybe he’s shedding his exoskeleton.

Somebody needs to do a parody of this where parts of his body start exploding.

Here's the exchange referenced at r10

"I wOuLd LiKE to sEE the DATa,"

I, myself, might be having mental health issues. I think RFK Jr is an idiot, sociopathic, and dangerous. But, I swear, I'm watching him; I think he's hot, and I love his voice. I think he's a turn-on.

Have I really gone around the bend?

Bobby Kennedy is a liar.

r15 have you recently had a stroke?

Or have a worm in your brain?

How far we have fallen.

I just watched clips. Every doctor and nurse that I know has PTSD from 2020. Watching especially the Democratic senators stick their feet so far up his ass was fucking orgasmic.

He probably had to skip the drugs for 24 hours and is going through withdrawals. Good- I hope it’s painful.

R14 Jesus, his breathing and wheezing into the microphone when he's not talking. He sounds like Darth Vader with lung cancer.

Robert Kennedy Jr. Sings Sondheim sold poorly.

Maximum stupidity coupled to maximum entitlement.

Americans: This man is incompetent and should be removed before more people get killed.

Republicans in Congress: As long as Trump wants him, we think he’s great.

If I were Dump ...... well ...

But if I were Dump and wanted to have a bit of fun, I'd fire RFK Jr tomorrow after castigating him on Truth Social and then watch amused as the MAGAts in Congress fell all over themselves to fall in line and agree he was a terrible choice.

He's even loonier than Trump.

If nothing else, there's the fact that Cheryl Hines will be known as "The Marvelous Mrs. Measles" for the rest of her life.

R22 Does it remind anybody of Dump's constant sniffing when he speaks? Like he's snorting cocaine, (or Adderall in his case).

Birds of a feather...

r25, if those Senators want to get rid of him, they need to ask Shadow President Russell Vought. Voght is the one who controls the purse strings and the one who decides what the Plantation Owners will or will not pay for.

Trump came into office and Obama had approved a robust anti-epidemic program that included mRNA research on CORONA viruses. Remember how Obama staved off an Ebola outbreak?

Someone convinced an ignorant Trump to refocus the Corona research on COVID-19 and lo and behold in 10 months there was an effective vaccine AND THEN TRUMP GOT THE BILL for the vaccine and went into overdrive and talked up hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, shooting up with bleach and shoving UV light tubes up American's asses. ALL of them cheaper than the vaccine.

So there Trump was, with a scientific victory in the face of spending Plantation money. We all know that the Plantation philosophy is LET THEM DIE. All those Senators who want to return the Healthcare system to a science based institution will never get permission from Shadow President Vought. He spends no money on the health of slaves. Not in the Originalist Constitution.

What do they think would have happened with the pandemic if the vaccine did not become available? How many more people beyond the 1.2 million would have died?

[quote] What do they think would have happened

They don't think.

It would be great if someone just mocked that voice right back at him. He’d probably break down in tears.

Newsome needs to go after RFK jr next.

On top of everything else, he is a tanning salon regular. Quelle surprise.

I’d forgotten he had been spotted leaving a tanning salon. That is part of why he looks so horrible and one of the many ways in which he is such a buffoon.

He sets his tanning booth to extra crispy.

Christ, listen to his wheezing:

Not-so-fine Corinthian leather

At one point an aide behind him got up and told him to mute the microphone which he appeared to do.

He’s like Darth Vader with the shakes.

Luigi !!

Oh, my God, this is hilarious!

It's like Brenda Vaccaro's tampon commercials!

And the social media feeds of our "friends on the right" are probably full of carefully edited snippets to make the questioners look like unhinged psychopaths.

Jim Lankford looks like the ancient spectral lady who would come out after 10pm each night to feed the campus cats when I was in college. She would materialize, giant bag of kibble in her claws, slowly walk up and down the highway that runs through campus, dropping handfuls on the ground as she walked. She never turned around or engaged with the ever-growing line of equally-spectral ragged feral cats silently marching behind her.

Then she would disappear until next night. Lankford creeps me out even more than that crone.

Toxoplasmosis, r45?

R46 = Martina Navratilova

Fucking loser. His only response is “ the Biden administration”. He’s such a lying asshole. No cuts to Medicaid. Right.

[quote]He's even loonier than Trump.

Even among the batshit crazy crowd that's a feat achieved by very few.

I have zero respect and give zero benefit of the doubt to any senator who claims they believed RFK Jr when he said he will not do anything to change vaccine policies. It was obvious during the nomination hearings that he was not only unqualified and seriously mentally damages, but also a bald faced liar.

Certainly Trump will be embarrassed by his performance (‘LOSER!’) and fire him now.

He ain’t tan. He’s fucking boiled and broiled.

From his beady eyes, to his bloated face and his death wheeze, he’s a goddamn joke

Yum, gas station hotdogs. I might have to run to QuikTrip.

Amazingly, the NY Post is acknowledging he is a kook.

^^^Why the fuck did it take them so long to figure that out. Ray Charles could have seen that RFK Jr's ass didn't need to be HHS Secretary and he's been dead 21 years.

R15 Seek help.

He is exactly what Shadow President Vought wants, a Secretary who spends no money at all costs.

He is captain chaos when it comes to settled law and policy and as long as he spends no money on FDA oversight, Vaccine and CDC costs and whatever he signs checks for, he is good to go to kill Americans because the Confederate States did not sign up for any Constitution with Post Civil War Amendments.

You heard Trump take aim at the 16th Amendment and the move to funding the entire government with Import Taxes.

Rich people do not live paycheck to paycheck, they own everything they will need for the next six generations, if you want healthcare, do it with the taxes the Poors pay.

A relief to see even the Murdoch Empire has just taken a big shit all over Brainworm Bobby. Maybe his days are numbered . . .

Here's a video flashback to 2011, when RFK Jr. was still fighting on the side of the angels, talking about corporations destroying the environment for profit, the oligarchy, corruption, and company towns. This is a year after the dead worm parasite was discovered in his brain and mercury poisoning.

(His voice was already affected by spasmodic dysphonia then but not as bad as it is today.)

Is the brain damage enough to explain how he turned into the rancid creature of today?

How did he get the brainworm? Eating roadkill?

I feel sure he nurtured it carefully.

[quote]I know what a healthy 71-year-old looks like and he's got issues.

Truth. Healthy 71 year olds aren't taking HGH and steroids, or whatever he's on that makes him... look... like that. It's not normal for someone in their 70s to have a hulking, muscular body with a thick neck, thick arms and a broad chest. He's always going on about making America healthy when he's always been a drug addicted mess. He replaced heroin with steroids and HGH and god knows what else. Probably the blood of dead virgins. Wackjob.

"RFK Jr.'s spokesperson has said he contracted the parasite by traveling to places in Africa, South America, and Asia in his role as "an environmental advocate." "

Kennedy never released his medical records so all we have to go on is information he and his team release.

It may have been from eating undercooked pork.

He’s simply the most dangerous man in the USA

He eats roadkill. It's no mystery how he got a brain worm.

[quote]Probably the blood of dead virgins.

Helping to clean out the overstock in the White House.

[quote]Here's a video flashback to 2011, when RFK Jr. was still fighting on the side of the angels, talking about corporations destroying the environment for profit, the oligarchy, corruption, and company towns.

And now, not a word about the havoc Trump is wreaking on the environment by rolling back regulations. That's going to kill a lot more people than food dyes in the years to come.

"They weren't virgins anymore when we drained their blood."

I think RFK's mealymouthed previous leftism was performative window dressing to hook liberals into his grift. There's also a well-known subset of hippie-dippy-crunchie-granolas who are libertarian, racist, culty and rapey. Not everyone who bleats about "the environment" is a good person. A lot of them are grifters, crypto-fascists, or just hold a weird mix of conflicting beliefs.

That disease riddled fool shouldn’t be in charge of anything related to health.

RFK thinks tanning salons are healthy, but not proven vaccines?

According to Michael Wolff (cue “Wolff is a liar” poster), it’s a crackhead voice, a result of his extensive drug use. Also, RFK Jr and his ego thought he should be the anointed since he was a Kennedy. When that didn’t happen (his RiverKeeper work was regarded though), he decided to run for President. His campaign was broke when he chose the wife? ex-wife? of Sergey Brin as his running mate ($$$$$$$$$) (where is she now?). When he dropped out, Trump’s advisors realized RFK Jr was no longer a threat to the Dem vote but he was still a problem for Trump’s antivax supporters et voila, his promise of a Cabinet post.

I think it is certainly possible drug use caused his vocal problems. I don't see how Wolff can definitively know that.

Do you think Cheryl Hines is regretting marrying this loon and ruining her career, her acting legacy, and her reputation and is looking for a way out, or do you think she's just as fucking nuts as he is?

I had an acting legacy?

I understand Botox shots could remedy that repulsive voice but he claims ‘’it’s not a good fit’’. He’d rather creep out the public I guess…

I'm dreading the inevitable stories about dead and disabled kids with parents saying "Nobody told me" and "I didn't realize." I guess we're going to have to have a couple of generations maimed by willful ignorance.

R75 She had a pretty good run with Curb Your Enthusiasm.

She's still all in, R74.

Cheryl still thinks she's going to be First Lady some day.

While it's theoretically true that having Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren go after him won't do him any harm, in this case, RFK himself will do RFK the harm.

Cheryl will never leave that troll. The end.

You just know there will be dozens of GoFundMe sites, poor Tragedeigh had polio and measles, please contribute to her medical care—God bless President Trump!

I never saw Curb so the only thing I know Hines from is her bitchy appearances on Match Game.

And to think Jocelyn Elders had to resign from her post as Surgeon General for making a handful of rationalist, science-based statements on sexual health.

My neighborhood CVS was doing a brisk business in vaccinations this morning. I scheduled my Covid booster for next Monday.

Get the lizard person out

Thanks be to God, I'm old. I'll be getting COVID and Flu jabs next week at Walgreens (in a blue state). I'm safe(r) from Brainworm' Bobby's fatal fuckery.

[quote]I think it is certainly possible drug use caused his vocal problems. I don't see how Wolff can definitively know that.

It's spasmodic dysphonia, a real condition that appears to be hereditary in the Kennedy family. I can't stand RFK Jr, but he's not faking this and its not caused by his drug use. His sister Kerry is showing signs of the same vocal issue, Grandma Rose had it in her elder years as well.

How can you definitely say that it is hereditary. Drug use is a known cause, and it is not recognized that Kerry or his grandmother had it. I don't think you find convincing medical confirmation that either has it. In the case of his grandmother it is much more likely normal aging.

Continuation of tweet:

"The challenges before us – from disease outbreaks to mental health crises – demand moral clarity, scientific expertse, and leadership rooted in fact.

The values are not present in the Secretary's office. He must resign."

When I was a kid nobody spoke like a spaz.

Cheryl is one lucky gal!

r90, take a listen to Kerry in her recent interviews. That's not normal speech or speaking, the voice shaking. There's a history of this in the family.

I blame that bitch Ethel.

[quote]take a listen to Kerry in her recent interviews. That's not normal speech or speaking, the voice shaking. There's a history of this in the family.

You are far from the first person to make this argument. and I was very well aware of it before you mentioned it. It seems that there is no consensus that other members of the family have his condition.

Now he wants to blame Tylenol.

Goldwater rule and all that, but hyperfixations on certain things are often a symptom of certain conditions.

I didn’t understand this but Kerry has said she has a completely different condition???

[quote]Do you think Cheryl Hines is regretting marrying this loon

No. Not remotely. She never had much of an acting career to begin with and she's older. She's not getting offers anymore. Hence why she sold her soul to marry a Kennedy; this is her current path to wealth, fame and influence. She married a [italic]Kennedy[/italic], and he works with [italic]the President[/italic]. That's all that matters to her. People like her have no conscience, concrete values or sense of morality. Trump is surrounded by this type so he fits right in.

She married RFK. She wasn't blind to what he was like before this and she has never spoken out once against Trump. She's all in and she doesn't need or want your sympathy, and she certainly doesn't deserve it.

All of this goes for Melania, too. These women aren't victims. They're accomplices.

That was lovely.

[quote]I didn’t understand this

No, you didn't.

[quote]but Kerry has said she has a completely different condition???

No, she didn't.

I'll say it for you, r97. One of the schizophrenic disorders, well hidden because he's smart and has a long practiced ability to keep the mask on? Lots of paranoid thinking and delusional ideation, but that typifies a substantial proportion of the population nowadays. Big psychosis.

It didn't hit me until his comment about looking at children's faces at the airport and just *knowing* about their mitochondrial issues. That floored me. Perceptual distortions, seeing patterns that don't exist and others can't observe? We don’t know what he's like in private and how far he lets on about his beliefs. He doesn't seem to have demonstrated any of the negative symptoms, so there's that.

Like I said, the canon of ethics prevent me from saying exactly what I think.

But for absolutely no reason, I’m remembering that a lot of the biggest homophobes are secretly gay.

Family history is a fascinating thing. Our aunts and uncles often have more in common with us than we think.

On The Daily Beast podcast the other day, Michael Wolff explained how he had spent a lot of time, over many years with RFK jr. when they were younger (including having to share sleeping accommodations on political campaigns) and spoke about RFK jr's drug and sex addictions which they all repeatedly witnessed. Wolf claims that RFK jr's voice is caused by the crack pipe - not by spasmodic dysphonia which has been made up as an excuse to cover the drug use. Wolff says RFK jr. is crazier than a shithouse rat and dangerous.

Thanks for reiterating but we already knew.

Kennedy is a shit house rat.

Michael Wolff's got his hands in every pot these days. WTF is up with him? Tapes about Epstein he's holding onto, and a recording that Epstein said he introduced Melania to Trump?

He seems to be doing the rounds R107 and is a big name for Trump administration insider information at the moment. I'm not 100% sure what to think about him and all of the claims he makes. He certainly does have the history and facetime with these people over the years though.

Are you talking to me R105? I originally posted that in the wrong thread about JFK Jr. and I have never heard in the media nor seen anyone on DL ever discuss that RFK Jr's voice was due the his crack pipe drug addiction and not the official excuse of spasmodic dysphonia. Quite the opposite - much discussion of spasmodic dysphonia by the media/public.

“You’re a charlatan!”

[quote] Like I said, the canon of ethics prevent me from saying exactly what I think.

What are you talking about?

Psychiatry has a thing called the Goldwater Rule, which says that we can't offer armchair diagnoses of mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders that public officials might or might not have.

My doctor friends and I (shrinks and otherwise) have pretty good ideas of what's going on with both Trump and RFK Jr, but we're not allowed to say. I don't mind speculating on medical stuff, because I can put disclaimers up that I haven't examined him. Mental stuff gets a little trickier, especially for me.

Can you answer yes or no questions?

[Quote] Psychiatry has a thing called the Goldwater Rule, which says that we can't offer armchair diagnoses of mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders that public officials might or might not have.

However, without having an appt with a patient, you can guess he has an Alzheimer’s or asthma or is having a heart attack. You can guess what mental health issues someone has by watching them

R111 You're on DL, not the AMA Board of Review, so I think you're okay telling us what you think.

r112, so can a Magic 8 Ball.

If you are going to say that someone has paraphilic serial rapist behaviors that compel him/her to grab pussy because "stars" have been allowed to do it for millions of years, requires a discussion, not yes, no answers.

Yes he is a charlatan

RFK Jr has admitted to long term heroin abuse.

Was the Senate committee that confirmed Jr aware of this peer reviewed data?

I wasn't being serious r115. I don't want anyone to compromise their professional integrity.

RFK Jr has aligned himself with all the medical conspiracy theories: vaccines are more harmful than helpful; fluoride in the water is communism; all doctors are liars because they’re controlled by Big Pharma; cigarettes and alcohol don’t cause any problems because they fund the GOP; parents should be the only ones determining everything for their children except abortion and trans care where the government should have the only say, and on and on and on

[Quote] I don't want anyone to compromise their professional integrity

LOLOLOLOLOLOL! No one on DL has ANY integrity

Could RFJ Jr. be autistic? There is speculation now that Rosemary Kennedy was.

He’s touched

I know, but part of my autistic moral compass is that I take things like HIPAA and the Hippocratic Oath pretty seriously. I know that they're not likely to go after my license for posting with drag queen level shade, but those things are sacred to me anyway. That's autistic rigid thinking. And part of autistic rigidity involves ignoring pieces of data that don't fit your world view.

Like, for example, if you were obsessed with healthy living, but somehow still became addicted to a drug. Or indulged in a well-documented carcinogen like tanning beds.

[quote]He’s touched

He touches

I recall your journey from travel agent through med school, VOTN, but I didn't realize you became a psychiatrist. I thought you were an internist so I was wondering why you brought up the Goldwater Rule.

I don’t know what kind of mental case or moron you have to be to suddenly think that vaccines, which have eradicated diseases, are unsafe. Honestly, it’s stupid people having access to the internet that’ll kill us all.

R126 My sister, who used to a normal, rational person before becoming indoctrinated by Fox News into the MAGA cult, is all in on RFK Jr.'s anti-vax BS. She's convinced that vaccines are killing people, and she blames me getting prostate cancer on the COVID vaccine (even though I was diagnosed with cancer before I got my first COVID shot). She thinks RFK Jr. is truly trying to keep children safe and healthy.

It's amazing what these cult members will believe, even in the face of overwhelming data that proves their loony beliefs to be completely baseless.

R123, eyeroll

I've got news for Cheryl Hines. If your middle-aged husband is working out heavily and going to tanning salons, he's either cheating on you, or looking to cheat.

[quote]I recall your journey from travel agent through med school, VOTN, but I didn't realize you became a psychiatrist. I thought you were an internist so I was wondering why you brought up the Goldwater Rule.

I had every intention of doing Emergency when I went in, flirted with endocrinology, but tripped and fell backwards into psychiatry. Combining quick thinking, running my mouth, and arcane knowledge, plus hearing weird stories. There's a physician, heal thyself joke in there. But it's funny, doing that helped me realize that what had been thought of as bipolar or borderline was actually a fun combo of ADHD, autism, anxiety, and trauma.

The scariest part is that I ended up subspecializing in child and adolescent psych, with my sweet spot being about 15-25. I'm a real softy for kids who were like me, smart, rigid, and not really fitting in. Especially if they're queer and on the spectrum.

And before I'm commanded to get a blog, I have a Substack. DL training and ChatGPT editing have turned me into someone who thinks he's a combo of Oliver Sacks and Truman Capote.

Funny thing is, the reason that I'm here is because of DL.

R129. He’s 71. He’s not going to live to 142.

There was a time many DL were very worried Voice. Glad it worked out.

The guy sitting behind Elizabeth Warren listening to RFK speaking is all of us on DL.

Daily Beast: A leading medical adviser to anti-vax Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is claiming that King Charles and Kate Middleton may have developed cancer from the COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra—the controversial British cardiologist who advises the RFK Jr.-linked activist group MAHA Action cites discredited studies that have also been promoted by senior HHS adviser Steven Hatfill, who became infamous for pushing hydroxochloroquine when he was part of the first Trump administration.

Malhotra was expected to say during a speech at the annual conference of Nigel Farage’s MAGA-inspired Reform Party on Saturday: “We have several published mechanisms of how the mRNA vaccine can increase the risk of cancer confirmed by Steven Hatfill This is also supported by one of Britain’s most eminent oncologists, Angus Dalgleish, who is happy for me to share today."

Because it's otherwise unheard of for a 76-year-old man to acquire prostate cancer.

^^ develop prostate cancer, I should say.

Yeah, it's not like prostate cancer is something that almost all men get eventually.

It's much more common to die with it than of it. It's only when it's early and aggressive that it's unusual.

RFK Jr.'s sister joins her nephew (see R91) in calling for their family member to resign.

Remember when cancer didn't even exist before Covid?

I predict he'll be gone soon. Don't know how, but he'll be gone.

[quote]She had a pretty good run with Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I think everyone already knows this. Seriously. Everyone knows she played Larry David's wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The reason everybody knows this is because it's literally the [italic]only[/italic] thing that she is known for, other than marrying RFK, Jr.

[italic]That[/italic] was her acting legacy in totality. Unless you count [italic]Space Chicks[/italic] or [italic]Herbie: Fully Loaded[/italic].

If Brainworm Bobby believes he's the expert on what's ailing us, we are all within our rights to diagnose whatever is afflicting him.

I know more about medicine than he does. And I'm an English teacher.

Voice @ 136, is that the same for Parkinsons? My father had it and his specialist told me everyone would get eventually if they lived long enough. Some would have to reach age 120 before it killed them, while others like my father would die at age 76.

Why are most of you still giving RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt? (that despite his massive incompetence and lack of qualifications, he has true intentions).

The oligarchs installed him deliberately for those very reasons! They WANT Covid and measles and tuberculosis to come back and spread. They WANT us to get sick and die! It's much easier "governing" us that way.

THEY will continue to have access to all the drugs and cures they want. And they will intentionally withhold them from us.

Why is this message not being screamed from the rooftops?

Trump just had a press conference where he decidedly spoke in favor for most vaccines saying, “they work”, and we need them.

WHO thinks he will dump RFK Jr. soon?

[quote] Republicans in Congress: As long as Trump wants him, we think he’s great.

I'm sure they're reading this thread.

The Covid vaccine is going to be a watershed moment. Despite the wacko MAGA crowd, there are many people who want it.

Tons of people are complaining on Facebook and such that they need prescriptions and such.

Those complaints are just going to grow and grow

That thing we unfortunately have to call our Secretary of Health and Humans Services is considered healthy? This is what they are striving to do to us all?

They all should have pointed at him and laughed..........

[quote] Why are most of you still giving RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt?

Not seeing that here

There are Republicans who are pro-vaccine. They still voted for Trump but they aren't "MAGA."

I don't think RFK is going to get away with this. Too many parents and elderly people in Trump's base are going to revolt. Trump hates losers and is desperate for the unconditional love of his base. He's also vulnerable because of the Epstein files and always looking for distractions. I can see him breaking with RFK, firing him, and making him his new target of ridicule.

Who here has given him the benefit of the doubt, r143?

I hope you are right r149

RFK Jr plan is to sabotage the US health system and cause the deaths of many millions. That along with all the deportation of brown people will help make whites the majority again. MAGA

Red an article a while back that claimed that from the 70s The Soviet Union would pay to publish fake anti-vax and other crazy health studies, just to mislead and fuck with other countries mortality rates.

[quote]Why are most of you still giving RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt?

What on earth are you talking about R143. This entire thread is filled with one post after the other all slamming RFK Jr.

Agree with R152 and have realized that long ago but have never heard anyone in the media state or elaborate on this obvious strategy.