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RFK Jr.'s issues — he's made it very clear — are censorship, chronic disease in children, and the war in Ukraine.

From RFK Jr.'s speech announcing his endorsement of Trump:
Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place, and these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump. The causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.... 
The military-industrial complex has provided us with a familiar comic book justification, as they do in every war, claiming this one is a noble effort to stop Vladimir Putin. Tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of U.S. neocons for American global hegemony.

I'm not excusing Putin for invading Ukraine; he had other options. The war is Russia's principal response to the reckless neocon project of extending NATO to encircle Russia, a hostile act....

The Ukraine war began in 2014 when U.S. agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed a hand-picked pro-Western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine. In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty.... In April 2022, we escalated the war....

President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia. His defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, simultaneously explained that America’s purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army and degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world. These objectives had nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty. Ukraine is a victim in this war; it is a victim of the West.... 
Judging by her bellicose and belligerent speech last night in Chicago, we can assume President Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other neocon military adventures. President Trump says he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight as soon as he becomes president. This alone would justify my support for his campaign....

Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Calley Means called me on my cell phone.... I was delighted when Calley told me that day that he had been advising President Trump. He told me President Trump had been anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects, and to explore avenues of cooperation.... In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues.

In those meetings, he suggested we join forces as a unity party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s "team of rivals." That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately, even fiercely if need be, on issues over which we differ while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance.... [W]e are aligned with each other on... ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, and getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing, censoring, and surveilling Americans, as well as interfering in our elections....

In case some of you don’t realize how dire the condition is regarding chronic disease, I would urge you to view Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Calley Means and his sister, who was the top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School.... This is the most important issue. It has the potential to bring us together, so let me share a little bit about why I believe it is so urgent....

Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues. Fifty years ago, that number was less than 1%. We have gone from 1% to 66%.... When my uncle was president, juvenile diabetes was effectively nonexistent. Today, one out of every three kids who walk through a doctor’s office door is diabetic or prediabetic.... There has been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid: ADD, ADHD, language delay, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, Asperger’s, autism. In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1,500. Now, autism rates in kids are one in 36 according to the CDC nationally....
Why are we allowing this to happen to our children?... So, what is causing this suffering? I will name two culprits. First, and the worst, is ultra-processed food.... The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, medicine, and environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies. The impact on our children's hormones is relentless.... The good news is we can change all this, and we can change it quickly....
I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to, but because it was thrust upon me. It was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement.... 
For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president, along with ending censorship and the Ukraine war. It is the reason I made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and support President Trump....

If I am given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis, I promise that within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically. We will make Americans healthy again....

MAHA. 

This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer and hard-nosed logic.... I am 70 years old. I might have a decade to be effective. I cannot imagine a President Harris allowing me or anyone to solve these dire problems. After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever.

President Trump told me this is what he wants to be his legacy. I am choosing to believe that he will follow through....

My dad and uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation.... They were able to put their love into the hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans—blacks, whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans—with love, high hopes and a culture of kindness.... That is the spirit with which I ran my campaign and I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump, instead of vitriol and polarization.... The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children....

১১০টি মন্তব্য:

Peachy বলেছেন...

The other happy coincidence of our meddling in Ukraine - Biden family grifting in Ukraine.

Peachy বলেছেন...

Kamala said in her speech - that Jan 6th was an "armed mob"

Not a single person there had a gun. Not one.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Have fun Democrats. You are the party or War, Censorship, COVID Jabs, and open borders.

And you have Kamala Harris as your leader.

You losers cannot mail in enough ballots or funnel enough illegals on the busses.

Peachy বলেছেন...

Watch the corrupt Hack-D Democrat Soviet press either ignore RFK Jr. - or actively bash him at every turn.

Jersey Fled বলেছেন...

On the other hand, Kamala stands for Joy.

FullMoon বলেছেন...

"In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1,500. Now, autism rates in kids are one in 36 according to the CDC nationally...."

? If CDC says it, it must be true. Kids eating ultra processed foods? As usual, I blame the parents.

Mike of Snoqualmie বলেছেন...

Yes. Joy Behar and Joy Ann Reid. Such joyful barbarians.

Breezy বলেছেন...

Impressive speech. I appreciate his clarity of purpose.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

"[W]e are aligned with each other on...
ending the Forever Wars,
ending the childhood disease epidemics,
securing the border,
protecting freedom of speech,
unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, and
getting the U.S. intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing, censoring, and surveilling Americans,
as well as interfering in our elections...."


Amen.

Jupiter বলেছেন...

"Not a single person there had a gun. Not one."
Well, of course, all the Capitol police had guns. And they used them. One of them even executed a woman. And there was one "protestor" photographed with a handgun in a holster. But he turned out to be a fed. Natch.

Eva Marie বলেছেন...

Today’s theme is hangovers. You can take your psychedelics in pill or DNC form, but when the Party’s over . . . ouch.

Achilles বলেছেন...

The Ukraine war began in 2014 when U.S. agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed a hand-picked pro-Western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine. In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty.... In April 2022, we escalated the war.

I just want to politely encourage all the people that support the Ukraine war to go volunteer and fight your own wars. The people of Ukraine never wanted this war. Zelensky ran on signing the Minsk accords before he reneged and started throwing his political opponents and journalists in jail.

If you don't you are a coward and you are dancing on the corpses of Ukrainians as you signal your own virtue and support for "democracy."

narciso বলেছেন...

she really is lillian hellman, she lies even when she doesn't need to, of course some might ask about her part in the pipe bomb hoax

Temujin বলেছেন...

I think of Profiles in Courage.

Then I think of Kamala hiding behind lies and the American press. Refusing to take one unscripted, unapproved question.
And I think of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. giving a speech that he knew would open the door to hate, vitriol, and ridicule from the entire left, including his own family, and- of course- the same press that spends so much time covering for Kamala, telling us of 'Joy' instead of policy. RFK Jr. did it for what he believes is what he has to do for a better America, an America in which we're supposed to strive and thrive. Instead of this awful, contrived "Happy-Happy Show" we're being sprayed with by the Democrats and their mouthpieces.

Profiles in Courage were on display over the last 24 hours. I hope you all saw it.

tim maguire বলেছেন...

I think probably the biggest reason for the explosion of chronic illnesses is over-diagnosis. It’s not that we are sicker than ever before, but that we are being medicalized like never before.

Still, RFK can stick it to the hypocritical corrupt Dems like no Republican can.

n.n বলেছেন...

MAHA begins with informed, responsible Choice... uh, choice. And is imperative to our fiscal salvation and national viability.

Birches বলেছেন...

That was very persuasive. I mean religious freedom, immigration and abortion are my top issues. The war in Ukraine is just gravy, but RFK Jr. just persuaded me that I need to care more about health. He's right.

Dave বলেছেন...

Maha means great. Mahayana is the greater vehicle. The Maha Prajna Paramita Sutra is The Great Transcendent Mantra, The Great Bright Mantra, the Utmost Mantra. It is for the relief of suffering, to Make All Healthy Again.

Neat coincidence.

DINKY DAU 45 বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি একটি ব্লগ প্রশাসক দ্বারা মুছে ফেলা হয়েছে।
Maynard বলেছেন...

Chronic disease in children = lack of exercise, eating mostly fast food, spending half their lives on social media.

West TX Intermediate Crude বলেছেন...

There are more people with chronic diseases because people are living far longer, and getting more and sometimes better medical care. More medical care --> more diagnoses. Also, there are more interventions available, so more motivation to make more diagnoses.
The increase in mental health/neurological diagnoses is more of the same. The kids who were designated "weirdos" in the past are now "on the spectrum," which is considered a mark of status in some circles. More medications are available, more counselors and therapists are out trying to make a living, and more funds are available for "special" education. A market is being made. There may be good data the show that all of these high dollar interventions result in more functional adults, but I have not seen it.
The increased number of diagnoses definitely corresponds temporally with the availability of processed foods, but we all know about correlation and causation.
We don't hear much anymore about standard vaccines causing autism- a good thing.
RFKJr is totally correct about Ukraine.
Not so much about his dad and uncle- but that is understandable and forgivable.
RFKJr is right about some stuff, wrong about other stuff, but for a politician, comes across as more believable than most. It's a good thing that he has aligned with PDJT.

ColoComment বলেছেন...

Metabolical, by Robert Lustig.

Very readable, re: the effects of processed foods on general population health. I didn't understand all the chemistry, but he seems to have credible credentials, and a strong argument, if his premises are true.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240367-metabolical

Michael K বলেছেন...

I agree. As it has been said, Democrats look for heretics, Republicans look for converts.

doctrev বলেছেন...

Tie one to the other. Being ridiculously catty and spiteful drove RFK over to Trump entirely. Contrast that against Trump's record on government and policy differences? Kamala Harris is the elderly woman who peaked in high school.

ColoComment বলেছেন...

Further on health, diet, and the medical/pharmaceutical industry (spotted on ZH just now.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-23/statins-are-pharma-trash-research-mounts

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

I’m hoping that these two head cases will appeal to only other head cases, but I’m an optimist when it comes to America. I think younger generations have had enough mixed messages for a lifetime.

Eva Marie বলেছেন...

Thank you. Just bought it through the Althouse portal. It will be today’s office work soundtrack.

minnesota farm guy বলেছেন...

If nothing else Kennedy laid his, and our, issues out in clear and undeniable language.

hombre বলেছেন...

"The causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on our children...." OMG. Subversive! Just ask his relatives, the leftmediaswine and Kamala.

Maynard বলেছেন...

I’m hoping that these two head cases will appeal to only other head cases

Rich, you really nailed it. That is the Kamala-lala-dingdong campaign in a nutshell.

Good work!

loudogblog বলেছেন...

tim maguire said...
"I think probably the biggest reason for the explosion of chronic illnesses is over-diagnosis. "

It's pretty obvious that your average American is much heavier and has much more body fat than they did decades ago. Being overweight is one of the major causes of chronic illnesses. Just look at the exponential increase of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

loudogblog বলেছেন...

Why are so many people pretending that your average American doesn't have a lot more body fat now than they did decades ago. (and that's where a lot of this chronic disease comes from.)

It's pretty obvious if you just look at people today and look at photographs of people from the 1960s and 1970s.

On average Americans are a LOT fatter than they used to be. Just go to WalMart and see.

Freeman Hunt বলেছেন...

This may be the dumbest election in the history of the United States.

Achilles বলেছেন...

When we moved out of the trees onto the plains we separated from our common ancestors with Chimps. We ate meat. They continued to eat plants.

Out brain to gut ratio exploded.

Then we domesticated wheat and crops. Ever since our brains are shrinking and guts are growing. Our streets look like cattle farms.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Yeah it is just crazy to oppose War and state censorship.

We need our younger generations to stop getting mixed messages and learn to respect their rulers.

David53 বলেছেন...

Make him the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

rehajm বলেছেন...

Kids are fatter yes but aren’t necessarily sicker- the medical complex is far more ambitious at diagnosing things’ like every public school boy has ADHD or some other ‘boys are disruptive to the girl’s’ disorder. Medicine is far more aggressive at providing treatment. Drugs. It’s destructive

rehajm বলেছেন...

Kids are fatter yes but aren’t necessarily sicker- the medical complex is far more ambitious at diagnosing things’ like every public school boy has ADHD or some other ‘boys are disruptive to the girl’s’ disorder. Medicine is far more aggressive at providing treatment. Drugs. It’s destructive

walter বলেছেন...

They had arms. Usually two per person.

walter বলেছেন...

"The what?"

Levi Starks বলেছেন...

I absolutely admire RFK jr and his zeal for the truth.
I’m also afraid he might be just a tiny bit delusional.
He clearly believes every word he says which stands in direct opposition to Harris who says only what will endear her to socialist leaning Democrats and couldn’t identify truth if it hit her upside the head.

GatorNavy বলেছেন...

As someone who has to deal the FDA and principal investigators (MD’s and MD/PhD’s) of oncology research, I can tell you that both parties loathe Kennedy and Trump, because they would interfere with the money train. Your tax dollars aren’t wasted, they line the pockets of pharmaceutical executives and their selected puppets. And yeah, I’m contract QA, so I expect to be hated by both sides.

Michelle Dulak Thomson বলেছেন...

You think so, Rich? The "other head cases" are literally half the country If you think half your fellow citizens are factually insane, you might just possibly be something of a "head case" yourself.

For what it's worth, I think RFKJr's speech was direct, articulate, and on point.

Dave Begley বলেছেন...

MAHA.
Omaha.

Coincidence? I think not!!

walter বলেছেন...

He's being coy about the parents noticing strong temporal correlations to vaccines and hounding him until he looked into it.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Attorney Genearl

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

@Achilles: RFK Jr. is an utterly natural modern Republican: anti-Ukraine; anti-vaccine; a promoter of conspiracy theories; generally zany. He is at one with Gaetz, MTG, and the rest. The GOP is a mixture of George Wallace, Henry Wallace, and Lyndon Larouche. Tragicomical. Or is it the right moved in his direction more than the reverse.

Aggie বলেছেন...

What you say about over-diagnosis might be true, or it may be that chronic illness was once ignored and remained unmeasured. But what is absolutely true today, is that our institutions have so corrupted their mission, that we have lost the baseline against which 'normal' and 'healthy' are evaluated. We no longer can have faith that measurement and diagnosis is being fairly assessed and honestly represented. And that is the death knell for an enlightened society. If there is no longer any trust in the integrity of scientific methodology, then all else falls into chaos.

So, if nothing else, Junior' represents the presence of an honest broker, putting the organizations like the FDA and the CDC back onto their rails, so they can begin re-establishing their reputation. It cannot happen with extensive reform, and that cannot happen if people keep their jobs.

narciso বলেছেন...

Except his son has volunteered fod service in ukraine do they pay you to be this stupid

Rosalyn C. বলেছেন...

Blood sugar is measurable, cancers are measurable.
Increased rates of diabetes and pre-diabetes and colorectal cancer in children is not the result of increased medical care.

Lincolntf বলেছেন...

RFK Jr. says out loud what every Democrat secretly believes. Their Party values their power more than they value anything else. They used to be pro-woman, now they are erasing women. They used to be anti-war, now they crave billion dollar expenditures to prolong war in Ukraine. They used to care about education, now all they want to do is eliminate standards. Sucks to be a Dem, and have to reject all of your former "principles" in order to serve their Party today, and having to do it in full public view.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

"Blood sugar is measurable,"

It is measurable, but it has to be measured. I wonder how often it was measured in children back in the day.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

"Why are so many people pretending that your average American doesn't have a lot more body fat now than they did decades ago. (and that's where a lot of this chronic disease comes from.) It's pretty obvious if you just look at people today and look at photographs of people from the 1960s and 1970s.On average Americans are a LOT fatter than they used to be."

Here's a video edited from movie footage of my parent's 1955 New Year's Eve party. The woman you see from 0:17 to 0:23 was considered the "fat lady." No one else in the neighborhood looked anything like that. She stood out as unique. It was an oddity to be that fat back then. No one else approached that fatness and we didn't see women fatter than that.

john mosby বলেছেন...

Loudogblog: I think a lot of the obesity has to do with central heat and air.

While it really helped economic and social advancement, it also takes away one of the big calorie-burners: keeping the body temperature constant against the vagaries of nature.

Also second-order effects, such as kicking kids out of the house to get exercise , were replaced by sedentary pursuits inside the steady-state house.

And a lot of jobs still involved at least some physical activity, even if it was just standing on the assembly line putting Rivet -A in Hole 1.

Also much more widespread smoking - reduces the appetite and has a diuretic effect.

It all adds up.

JSM

Kit Pollard বলেছেন...

@Tina Trent - I'm sorry that your family had to navigate life with T1D. But some of your comment is incorrect. Type 1 diabetes actually has increased in both incidence and prevalence since the mid-20th century and while the reasons for that aren't completely clear, research shows that the lifestyle factors that lead to Type 2 diagnoses may also influence onset of Type 1 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141720/).

(Side note: I'm a first-time commenter but very long-time reader. Part of my job involves paying attention to epidemiological data - so I'm sensitive to this sort of thing.)

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

You see the woman again from 0:37 to 0:48 (and how affectionate her husband is). By the way, I remember her full name. She's more than just "the fat lady" in my memories.

tcrosse বলেছেন...

For my sins, I worked for a company that made rolls of refrigerated cookie dough. A marketing guy told me that as far as they knew, 40% of the stuff never saw the inside of an oven. They took pains to make it safe to eat raw.

Paddy O বলেছেন...

You say her name in the comments at that linked post

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

This political realignment that has happened to our two parties over the past twenty years fascinates me. Thirty years ago my in-laws were firm members of the democratic party. My mother-in-law was even elected as a democrat in local elections. Today both are staunch republicans and they say that they didn’t leave the party but the democratic party left them. My mother was a life long democrat. But about five years ago she switched. She said she couldn’t take all the hate emanating from the left. In particular she was turned off by the TV show the View.

Dr Weevil বলেছেন...

Kit Pollard:
Doesn't Type 1 Diabetes run in families? If the cause is even partly genetic, the fact that people who have it can now live fairly normal lives and reproduce would tend to increase the frequency, since their children would (if it runs in families) be more likely to have it. Many of those parents would have died without reproducing in the days before effective treatment, which would have reduced the overall incidence. All this assuming that it does in fact run in families.

Maynard বলেছেন...

"Rich" is such an obvious DNC plant.

His utter stupidity and kowtowing to the Party/DNC Media line makes it very clear.

He is paid for this, folks. At least the Idiot Inga is sincere.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

The larval stage.

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

Body positivity. You aren’t allowed to notice that someone is fat. Being fat is now to be celebrated like every other degeneracy. My bet is on high fructose corn syrup. It entered our food supply in the early 80s and tracks the obesity and chronic disease increase. Fructose is metabolized only by the liver. It follows a pathway similar to alcohol metabolism and results in fatty liver. Our livers do one thing to fructose, it turns it into fat.

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

Body positivity. You aren’t allowed to notice that someone is fat. Being fat is now to be celebrated like every other degeneracy. My bet is on high fructose corn syrup. It entered our food supply in the early 80s and tracks the obesity and chronic disease increase. Fructose is metabolized only by the liver. It follows a pathway similar to alcohol metabolism and results in fatty liver. Our livers do one thing to fructose, it turns it into fat.

Achilles বলেছেন...

If we are talking about conspiracy theories then you make RFK look sane. Russian Collusion. Laptop Russian disinformation. Multiple rape hoaxes. Ukrainian Collusion. Fine People. Injecting bleach. J6 protestors killing police.

There are so many obviously fake lies that we can name off the top of our head that you have pushed.

RFK is infinitely more honest and been right about so much more than you. You are a delusional tool.

You are just a dishonest loser with no soul and you are a clapping seal in a marxist party that cannot be honest about a single thing they want to do.

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

It’s worse than that. The dems used to at least support the average working guy. Not anymore. They are beholding to wall street and corporate interests. They let our border be overrun not only to get more votes but to get the cheap labor their donors need.

Lawnerd বলেছেন...

It’s worse than that. The dems used to at least support the average working guy. Not anymore. They are beholding to wall street and corporate interests. They let our border be overrun not only to get more votes but to get the cheap labor their donors need.

Jamie বলেছেন...

I’m hoping that these two head cases will appeal to only other head cases

What have you got to say about his indictment of the invest among the DNC, the media, social media, and the alphabet agencies, Rich? Any comment?

Rabel বলেছেন...

Terrific video. But I see three men who would be classified as obese today and one as overweight, plus two obese women, including the big lady who would probably qualify as morbidly obese. I'm not denying the obesity problems today, but everybody wasn't skinny back then. And the modern day criteria are tight. Too tight, I think.

Obese is an ugly word, but I don't mean it as an insult, just a medical rating.

Kit Pollard বলেছেন...

@Dr. Weevil - apparently there can be a genetic aspect but it's not always present. But you're right - that would explain at least some of the increase. Now that I've spent the afternoon reading about Type 1 diabetes, I've realized there are still a lot of questions about that haven't been answered.

Peachy বলেছেন...

The Government controlled censorship that went on during COVID - made all the world's totalitarian communists blush with envy.

mikee বলেছেন...

Kamala has said that she's going to do so many wonderful things for everyone, from reducing student loan debt to lowering prices to stopping illegal immigration, all things supported also by Rs, that I have to wonder why none of it has happened yet. Is she just blowing smoke up voter backsides or have her excellent, publicly supported policies been somehow thwarted by that evil genius Biden for the past three and a half years? Voters will decide, I guess, although their insignificant votes will be added to the harvested universal mail in ballot votes that will decide the election.

Iman বলেছেন...

I’m wondering why many of the trolls (recent arrivals) are deleting their comments and amscraying. All of a sudden. Orders from Yegg Central?

tcrosse বলেছেন...

They aren't getting their money's worth.

Mary Beth বলেছেন...

There was a lot more smoking then. I think that helped keep people slimmer, but I don't think that's the deciding factor since some really fat people now are also smokers.

Michael K বলেছেন...

There is now video of a cop planting the pipe bomb on Jan 6.

Michael K বলেছেন...

Rich has finally outed himself as a typical Democrat.

Michael K বলেছেন...

I disagree about kids health. The appearance of Type II Diabetes in kids is new. Fatter and less exercise.

RAH বলেছেন...

Thanks for the video Anne. My parents had lots of cocktail parties. We had a large split level so lots of room for 50 or so guests. Like you most of the women were full bodied, but not fat. A few were chunky like the woman in your video. Most children were slim , some larger body shape. As children we were very active. We had AC but stayed outside until dark. Played board games. My father refused to allow us to watch TV. He would take the power cord. We got another to get around that restriction.

My son has always been slim and still is at 34 , except for a a bit of beer fat. He pays a lot of video games so he does not get a lot of exercise. But he was always a high energy boy and was in Boy Scouts so did a lot of outdoor activities until he was 17.

I think a lot of child obesity is from a lazy lifestyle. But not all . I recall one boy in boy scouts that was big and a bit fat. His older brother and family were all big but not fat. So some grow out of the adolescent fat.

Inga বলেছেন...

RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer. Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.

“And so, one question for reporters to ask the new Trump campaigner and potential Trump-administration official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is something like this: The candidate you’re campaigning for, in whose administration you apparently intend to serve, wants our laws rewritten so that drug dealers, particularly those who sell narcotics, face capital punishment. Given that you sold cocaine in your youth, how do you feel about his advocacy of a regime that might have resulted in your own execution at age 19?“

Mason G বলেছেন...

"Today both are staunch republicans..."

Imagine what it's like for actual conservatives, when formerly "firm Democrats" are calling themselves Republicans.

Shouting Thomas বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Shouting Thomas বলেছেন...

How do you feel, Inga, about your party attempting to murder Trump, and leaving RFK, Jr. open to assassination? What’s your complicity in these politics of murder and assassination?

Achilles বলেছেন...

Maoist is mad that classical liberals don't like the democrat party anymore.

The republican party is essentially the 1950/60s democrat party. All of the working class and liberals are republicans now.

paminwi বলেছেন...

Rich at 2:57. Once again you prove to be the perfect Dem lemming. Just spouting talking points someone else gave you. No independent thinking or reading of your own. RFK IS NOT ANTO-VAXX. His children are all vaccinated as is he. The first “vaccine” he declined was the Covid “ vaccine” as we all know is not a true vaccine. But of course, you wouldn’t know that, because your dumb friends won’t let you read anything about how the Covid “vaccine failed. IT DID NOT PREVENT THE DISEASE! It

Mason G বলেছেন...

"Kamala has said that she's going to do so many wonderful things for everyone, from reducing student loan debt..."

Reducing the debt or transferring it to those who didn't borrow any money?

Mr Wibble বলেছেন...

IIRC, something like 40% of American men during WWII were classified as ineligible for military service due to being underweight. For most of history, people were thin because they were malnourished.

Also, be careful when assessing someone's weight from old video. Older fashions focused a lot more on creating the "right" shape through the use of undergarments, padding, and clever tailoring.

chickelit বলেছেন...

Agree with Achilles and Michael K about Rich. Rich even knows that Kamala is terrible politician. But he is so consumed with hatred for Trump that he’s willing to ñbend the truth and to lie about her.

Drago বলেছেন...

Its now classical liberals, the populist right and left and the rational republicans/conservatives against the communists/totalitarians/fascists and NeverTrumpers.

As it inevitably had to be.

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

I’m sure the best way to persuade moderate voters who are concerned you might be a weird conspiracy theorist is to bring in RFK Jr.

Drago বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Drago বলেছেন...

LOL

You're just a glitchy New Soviet Democratical NPC automaton mindlessly repeating the one line you were given!

And thats all you're going to get because your totalitarian leaders have no idea what else to say!

You're in the worst possible place you can be: an unteneable and remarkably stupid Talking Point cul de sac with no real hope of new rhetorical directives.

I guess you cats could always claim RFKjr is colluding with Russia or somethong....and dont get me wrong. Many of your fellow drones are doing just that as we speak!

And its magnificently moronic!

Michael K বলেছেন...

More brain dead posting from the dullard.

Michael K বলেছেন...

"Rich" whatever they are paying you, they are not getting their money's worth. I hope you have another occupation.

gadfly বলেছেন...

All this stupidity from Bobby Jr's speech which mentions nothing about his abandoning his obviously fake fight to save the environment. First Junior claimed that he would be America's first environmental president and then he begged Trump to allow him come on board.

As WAPO pointed out:

During his first term, Trump dramatically rolled back the protections of the Clean Water Act — the landmark 1972 law whose importance Kennedy has emphasized countless times and around which much of his legal work revolved — and sought to slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, which Kennedy has frequently assailed for failing to adequately safeguard the American public. Kennedy, who has denounced the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and repeatedly stood among protesters seeking to block construction on oil pipelines, is now part of a campaign that counts “Drill, baby, drill” among its slogans.

And all this because Kamala wouldn't talk to the guy that Trump called “the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan,” saying, “He’s a Radical Left Lunatic whose crazy Climate Change views make the Democrat’s Green New Scam look Conservative.”

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

I think it’s less left-vs-right and more just conspiracy theorist, swinging from one to the next as the attention and outrage die down. He wants to be in the limelight and be important, and he latches onto whatever to keep his 15 minutes going.

Oso Negro বলেছেন...

As if on cue

walter বলেছেন...

Conspiracies like Russian pee pee tapes? Or Biden's daughter's diary?

Kirk Parker বলেছেন...

Achilles,

Have fun Democrats. You are the party or War, Censorship, COVID Jabs, and open borders

Don't forget infanticide.

cdb বলেছেন...

Choosing to believe that an obese, nearly eighty-year-old man who is famously addicted to Diet Coke and serves McDonald’s at White House functions will band with him to end the scourge of ultraprocessed foods—that’s the kind of judgment he’s famous for!

walter বলেছেন...

Trump was questioning childhood jab schedules before he ran in '16.

walter বলেছেন...

But I understand your family struggles regarding diet.:
"Since Liz and I have lived together, our (formerly her) cat, Athens, has woken us up at ungodly hours, usually sometime between 4:30 and 5:00. I used to be able to placate him with food and go back to sleep; but he's been diagnosed with diabetes, and he's on a controlled feeding schedule. That means there's no way to end the prodding, head-butting, nuzzling, and raking. So I take one for the team and get up with him. And to kill time until the appointed feeding time (6.45), Athens and I watch a movie. It's usually something that Liz isn't interested in watching with me--old crime thrillers, noir, exploitation, blaxploitation, etc. It's a pretty random list, but it's surprising how often themes recur. I've named the series after the cat that's made it all possible. And I'm working on coming up with a system of rating the movies based on how well they distract us from Athens's gnawing hunger."

Narayanan বলেছেন...

and great depression had nothing to do with it

cdb বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
Rusty বলেছেন...

The two brightest minds the left can send us? Ya look forward to a Rubics Cube and they send a couple of ping pong balls.

chickelit বলেছেন...

Althouse wrote "MAHA". Good one, Althous! And it works at every structural level of organization: Make Wisconsin Healthy Again; Make Madison Healthy Again; Make Families Healthy Again; Make People Healthy Again.

It's MAHA turtles all the way down!

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

Because America wants two kooky conspiracy theorist charlatans in charge of public health and science. Both are just the poster boys for health 🙃

Kakistocracy বলেছেন...

Voters say that RFK Jr.'s past as a coke dealer makes him an unlikable surrogate for the Trump campaign. But Donald Trump Jr. isn't so sure. 🤔

dreams বলেছেন...

Sugar, too much sugar is the cause of all these diseases.

Tina Trent বলেছেন...

Dreams: not type 1 diabetes. It is idiots like you, who do not understand the difference between genetic, type 1, aka Juvenile Diabetes, and type 2 -- acquired, diet related, who made my family's life even more hellish for decades, with idiot advice that maybe they shouldn't eat Halloween candy or something to "cure" their type 1. There is no cure for type 1. It kills the pancreas. It is purely genetic. It is like MS or Crohn's disease: the body turns on itself because of genetics. Just genetics. People suffer their whole lives.

Rot in hell. Slowly. Preferably reading a book that somehow enlightens you.

Oh, and, Kit, you're also a moron. You don't know anything about the difference between these diseases. Don't play pretend epidemiologist. Childhood-onset type 2 diabetes is an epidemic and an entirely new health problem. They have vastly improved maintenance treatment of type 1, and so more of those sufferers live longer and can have kids, but it still has nothing to do with type 2.

Jesus wept I am sick of having to explain to idiots what killed my family. Just shut the hell up.