Great example of a friendly interview eliciting an illuminating answer. RFK Jr’s ideological ally, Sherri “Covid vaccines make you a magnet” Tenpenny, challenged him on his “I’m not anti-vaxx” line. RFK says he doesn’t know of any “safe” vaccines & his kids are vaccine injured. pic.twitter.com/2vPcLsuHba
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) June 28, 2023
So much for the "He's not anti-vaxx" argument. It's a case of automated rolling goalposts. An argument like "Oh, I just think they all need to be tested against a placebo" sounds great, unless you realize most are. Double-blind tests against a control are pretty standard. But when our guy claims that vaccine research led to AIDS and the Spanish Flu. we're in bark at the moon territory.
Some might say it's not news that RFK Jr. has been promoted by Steve Bannon, but it is important to know he's backed with MAGA money. Again, folks--this is a ratfuck, and for some reason, the MAGAs have decided RFK Jr. is their chosen tin-foil wrapped rodent dildo.
But is the rodent dildo made of cream cheese? See, when he decides to speak with the Liberty Mommies, that's sketchy as all hell. For Democrats.
But what I want to know is, does Donald Trump have the stones to debate him? I mean, if the Democrats are sure not to back RFK Jr. because he's got the wrong opinions on Ukraine and Russia, science* in general, etc.--maybe he could seek acceptance elsewhere?
* Despite his reputation for environmentalism, it's possible he also doesn't actually get climate change--in this confab yesterday, he appeared to think it doesn't have to do with carbon and has been against nuclear and hydro power. I will be "doing my research" about that.
UPDATE: Well. Apparently someone competent on his staff had him cancel on the Liberty Mommies. I'm not sure you can sell a Freezepeach Hero stand with the book banners and let's face it, hanging out with Nazis is so last year.
UPDATE: Boy, that penchant for Russia stock photography certainly clings to Republicans some candidates for office for no particular reason, huh?
He deleted the Tweet, but yes, the sweatshirt is Photoshopped onto a model in a Russian photoshoot, as the signs indicate. It doesn't mean anything in particular--OR DOES IT? I'm just asking questions.
UPDATE: The Aesthetics of Quackery--
Alright, this is CNN (extremely James Earl Jones voice):
Did anybody else notice CNN bumped their stupid RFK Jr tweet with a fresh reply 6 hours after they posted it?
— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) June 29, 2023
They were desperately hoping the Musk/Rogan tag team would boost and make it go viral.
Pathetic. pic.twitter.com/s9yv71soGW
The man looks great for a person in his late 60's who is probably eating clean and absolutely basting his kidneys in HGH and test. That's right. I'm an all-natty truther. Why do I care? Well sure, just to point out that vaccines are hardly the worst thing introduced into this man's body by way of needle, sure, but also there's the machismo aesthetics of conflating what it is to be a superior person with having an exceptional physique. I was aiming at this weird aesthetics of machismo with my Aesthetics of Manslaughter post as well.
This is the ironic depths of shallowness. The appearance of physical fitness and actual intellectual fitness or moral readiness are not the same. It's a total non sequitur.
UPDATE: Here we go: Bitcoin. What if a currency, but backed by nothing more than vibes and burning down rainforests, but call it freedom? This dumb motherfucker right here. It's not a tool to fight repressive governments, it's a way to move money on the downlow without having to launder it into like, bullshit art or net-loss shell companies or whatever. And PS--while wealthy holders of bitcoin or other digital currencies can weather market fluctuations, it totally fucks over less wealthy people because that sort of shit always does. It's a buzzy bandwagon for not-deep thinkers--
Just like rejecting fossil fuels because of climate change while not accepting hydro and nuclear is environmental puritanism at the expense of actual progress. It's not getting us anywhere. It's going round in circles. (Although it sounds like he's rethinking it. Sort of.)
Look, I'm biased. The guy is talking about biolabs in Ukraine. He clearly picks up his information from whatever rubbish tip he's last visited, and while everyone has got freedom of speech, no one actually has any particular right to have people respect them for having literally the shittiest opinions possible. No one has to debate you or platform you regardless of your dopey positions. And I really want people to have the skeptical, critical thinking capabilities to recognize not all contrarian views are actually better, braver or especially daring because people are putting them down--sometimes they just suck! They might be superficially attractive, but full of crap! It isn't because the Powers That Be are stifling them. They just don't make any damn sense.
Anyway, I was absolutely not about to write a whole other RFK Jr. piece, so thanks if you stuck with me through these addenda.
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Running to be Trump's VP ...
Only in an alternate universe does this make sense. I would hope this nonsense would disappear with his passing, but the stupid apparently burns rather hotly. I don't understand how this guy got this far in his life by dissing the science behind all vaccines...
They don't care about the primaries, they're just looking for anyone who might have a big enough ego to run in the general and siphon a few votes away from Biden.
He's running to make Biden's Victory slender enough for Republican Ratfvckers and Supremacist Court Con Artists to steal it.
Gene--the messed-up scenario I'm thinking of is RFK Jr does go indy, and takes votes from Trump. And even if he's a whole MAGA op, he's used to demonstrate the "RIGGING!" And because he "ran" as a Dem to start with, despite all the obvious MAGA maneuvering behind him, people assume he's a Dem op, not a Republican op. Assuming the average news consumer has an attention span of a goldfish--which might not be too wrong.
(That's why I'm hollering about it early and often!)
On the workout thing, everything about that clip is unhealthy and possibly dangerous. I count my pushups in sets of thirty, sometimes five, sometimes ten sets, depending on the milage (3 or 5). I don't do it for show, it's routine, an early morning walk in the park, two three times a week three miles, 300 walking jacks, 150 pushups, 75 pullups. Sometimes five miles, double it up. Sometimes with twenty-five pounds of wrist ankle and torso weights, back it down. In my (ahem, very) late sixties.
Nine pushups on someone's concrete deck is nothing, get back to me when he's doing sets of a hundred, like we did in the Army. Not to mention that belly-flop style of pushup is just bad for your body in about nine different ways. My grandmother taught to look for silver linings: pandemic finally got me out of the weight-room. 1994 Oregon state champion. The sixty pounds he's got hanging on that forty-five pound bar (105) is not a bad workout weight, for a guy my size. When I was lifting that was either one of ten sets of ten or so or the beginning set in a pyramid set. More than nine. And not the ninety or a hundred five pounds I hung on it for show.
What's with him and nine? Anywho, like Maggot Traitor Greene the workout thing is for show, they're not in all that good of shape. It's not routine, not healthy. Reaching out to the steroid crowd ...
ROM: I'm working as fast as I can, brother, but there must be some kind of interference disrupting our translators.
QUARK: What kind of interference?
ROM: I'm not sure. Could be solar flares, or maybe ionic interference. Or I suppose it could be beta radiation, but that's only produced by nuclear fission.
QUARK: Don't be an idiot. Nuclear fission doesn't happen within planetary atmospheres.
NOG: It does here. In the twentieth century humans used crude nuclear reactors as weapons. They called them atom bombs. They used to blow them up all the time.
QUARK: They irradiated their own planet?
ROM: If Nog says so, they did. He knows all about Earth history.
QUARK: You'd better fix those translators fast. The sooner we start talking to these savages, the better off we'll be.
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