Kennedy Says Trump Will ‘Make Americans Healthy.’ His Record Suggests Otherwise.
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As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards.
  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 months ago

    It’s wild that RFK once was on the side of the environment and worked in that field to do some good things.

    What happened? Did he get brain worms or somethi—ohhhhh

      • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        I know steroids are generally not good for your body, but I would assume steroids at 70 is really really not good for your body.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 months ago

      To be honest - there’s something genetic or just the sheer clout of the family… as someone who grew up in Massachusetts George RR Martin’s quote about targaryens always rung true to me “Everytime one is born the gods flip a coin”… We’ve had JFK and Bobby, but also Big and Little Edie, RFK Jr and Ted. It’s fucking sad to see the offspring of one of America’s potentially most radical presidential candidates so fucking off the rails.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        Not too sure of that, and I would never defend Trump. Fact is that COVID emerged around October of 2019. It was sequenced in December. Scientists developed a vaccine in early January 2020. It went into test then. Production availability started in December 2020. Biden took the distribution into high gear when entering office in 2021. Trump played no role Except being an idiot. Science saved ass.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          He refused to quarantine, wouldn’t wear a goddamn mask, and he thought it was only going to be a blue cities problem so he didn’t care of it spread. He wanted covid to kill off blue (but probably real black and brown people who didn’t vote for him).

          When they realized it was killing Floridians he pushed UV enemas, horse dewormer and injecting or drinking bleach.

          That’s way more than being some kind of passive idiot.

          • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            Of course, that was part of being an idiot. But, the message I responded to had to do with disease spread. It spread with time, but that time wasn’t taken by Trump. Did he make things worse? Sure

            • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I usually try to apply Hanlon’s razor first, but the evidence that they expected covid to be a blue state problem since Boston, San Fransisco, and especially NYC, all had very bad initial outbreaks and high casualties in starting March of 2020, leads me to believe there was malice behind their choices.

              • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 months ago

                How many Lemmy contributions does it take not to be able to follow a string and take comments out of context?

                Three so far.

                As I explained previously, I was responding to an issue of disease spread.

                Read. Stop the knee jerk.

          • Tarogar@feddit.org
            1·
            3 months ago

            Man I remember that time… Mainly because it suddenly got real hard or expensive to get your hands on horse dewormer. I should add that I used that to ensure that my horse had no worms at the time. That kind of dumb actually had impact even outside the US and just goes to show just how much damage that dumb fuck actually caused.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          You’re saying all this like his sociopathic influence over millions of people, telling them masks don’t work, didn’t matter. It did.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      5·
      3 months ago

      An anti vaxxer with brain worms from eating undercooked roadkill is speaking about health, yes.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 months ago

    Robert F. Kennedy had posted this video narrated by Woody Harrelson where he was “setting the record straight” about his reputation and his views. I didn’t know him very well at the time. (I’m Canadian. I don’t follow everything about US politics and the various candidates.) And he had me convinced he wasn’t a bad guy at all. He presented himself as someone who fought for the environment. Someone who cared about working class Americans by defending some people against large corporations, etc.

    However, the more I read about him, the worse it got. His position about the war in Ukraine. His position on the COVID vaccine. His past actions, like dumping a dead bear cub in central park (WTF, for real) among other things. He made some dumb decisions and took some positions that I didn’t agree with. And I realized he was too dangerous to be a world leader. But, I didn’t consider him as someone as fucking crazy as Trump.

    But now… Him supporting Trump and saying he will “make Americans healthy”? Fucking hell. I didn’t think he’d drink the fucking Kool-Aid.

    Like Obi-Wan said: “Who’s the more foolish. The fool, or the one who follows him?”

    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 months ago

      I don’t think he’s consumed the Kool-Aid. I think he’s disgusting and greedy enough to pass out the kool-aid to others for his own gain.

    • SmokumJoe@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Dude has always been nuts. Behind the Bastards did a four parter on him. Goes into the history of the Kennedy’s as well. They were a strange messed up family.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’m a fat guy, so I’m not here to shame Trump for being fat. But my brother in christ, the man can’t keep himself healthy, let alone an entire fucking country.