Originally published at: RFK Jr. Set To Face Scrutiny From Dems And Republicans In Confirmation Hearing - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is facing questions from senators today in a confirmation hearing held by the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy’s openly anti-vaccine stance, as well as his history of embracing and spreading conspiracy theories and disinformation, has sparked outrage from science and…
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I wonder who, if anyone, will query him about the dead bear, the whale’s head, or the brainworm. The man is both unserious and crazy.
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RFK Jr., like Mike ‘Pillow’ Lindell, has a drug addled and damaged brain. They are both functional, but nutty and prone to conspiracy theories. That makes RFK Jr. unqualified for such an important job.
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…or about putting chicks and mice in the blender.
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Oh, for Pete’s sake. Will we learn that he has a meth-accicted squirrel, uh, squirreled away somewhere?
I am old enough to remember when Howard Dean’s political career was ended by a public yowl.
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Hooefully, someone has listened to and questions him on it.
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More MAGgot hideousness…
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Caroline Kennedy’s statement (watch the full recording of her reading her letter) is astounding. Sadly, I am not confident that there are many out there who even know who she is, and why you should listen to her when she says JFK and RFK would be disgusted.
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I have the feeling that RFK Jr is going to het a taste of the disappointment of the kind he has for long been a source to his family for so long.
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So Mr. Purple Kool Aid, Jr. is up today?
Should be interesting, but if I were the Senators, I wouldn’t try any of his samples.
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Pence Led Advocacy Group Digs In Hard On Opposing RFK
Bah. You know what Pence could have done to stop Fake RFK from being nominated, confirmed, and then returning us to the age of leaches and bleeding for health care?
WORKING WITH MOTHERFUCKING MITCH MCCONNEL TO WHIP MOTHERFUCKING VOTES FOR CONVICTION IN THE SECOND MOTHERFUCKING IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, THAT’S WHAT.
See what he made me do? Writing in all caps like some sort of mouthbreathing MAGAt. I am really teetering on the edge now.
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This only works if the Dems coordinate their attack. There’s really an embarrassment of gaffes and scandals here. I think the most powerful one would be to talk about how he influenced the people of Samoa to eschew vaccines that lead to a deadly measles outbreak. I’m hoping they just stick to the two or three things that can sink him.
Otherwise, it looks like the Hegseth hearings where only a few Senators did a good job (Duckworth, Kaine) and the Fox News media is able to spin it as Dems grasping at straws.
His bizarre beliefs about vaccines and his embrace of harmful pseudoscience (like drinking raw milk) should be at the forefront.
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But in RFK Jr’s case…he can be very charismatic, as his cousin noted, which makes him much more dangerous than the pillow guy who is an obvious buffoon. Jr is evil. He trades on his family’s name to gain power over people whom he can injure with policy and persuasion. To this man, we are all baby chicks and mice.
I can’t stand this man.
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I got up, got a cup of coffee, looked at my news feed and saw
“Highlights of Trump’s ninth day in office” - AP
So I guess this is really happening.
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Wyden came to fight! LOVE IT
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I hope the goobers see RFKjr is a horrible choice for any sort of government post. Elected or nominated. TSF notwithstanding.
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I agree. He’s a shoo-in!
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Or this: “he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks.”
Hurts small animals is a key symptom of psychopathy.
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