🚨RFK has been confirmed as Secretary of Health & Human Services by the Senate
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 13, 2025
He has dedicated his life to giving children safer foods and medicines
He was censored, banned, ridiculed, and attacked
But now he’s in charge of America’s healthcare
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February 13, 2025
RFK Jr. confirmed!
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Mitch McConnell, as usual, says 'No'. The master class in making yourself irrelevant.
May he select as his priorities the eradication of progressivism in his department of government, and the health and safety of the American population, without any delay.
I'm feeling healthier already!
Good!
I'm glad for him (and us). He's had an epic run at politics. Let's see what he can do with it.
McDonalds beef tallow French fries here we come!!!
Mitch didn't get the memo that Never-Trumperism is dead.
All the 20-somethings I know are MAHA regardless of their other political tendencies.
Mitch McConnell survived polio as a child, so it’s not surprising he voted against the anti-vaccine activist. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board ran a Nov. 15 editorial criticizing RFK, saying: “From vaccines to GMO food, his views put him on the anti-business left.” Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member.
Most of the established vaccines that have been around for a long time are not the issue.
GMO's are controversial not because of the engineering - but because of the pesticides that may or may not be used.
John Althouse Cohen said...Mitch McConnell survived polio as a child, so it’s not surprising he voted against the anti-vaccine activist
Did Mitch's childhood polio force him to vote no on Tulsi as well? Or Pete Hegseth? Or perhaps he is a corrupt bought and paid for geriatric RINO. RFK Jr. is not "anti-vaxx". He is simply pro-truth and accountability when it comes to the current vaccine schedule of babies and children. And he was 100% correct that the mRNA poison forced upon millions was neither safe, nor effective.
If you haven't had a Hepatitis B vaccine, go get one. Even if you don't do heroine. If it's good enough for infants, it's good enough for adults who escaped its injection. Right???
I note that many on the left - like the Penzy's guy - are upset that modern day Republicans are not so "conservative" anymore. The same people who hated Reagan and lied about him - are now whining that we are not like him.
But we are. Only better.
Questioning is now allowed.
Democrats don't question - they demand obedience.
Great energy in that video. Who is it really?
Strategically, RFK Jr's appointment opens one more front in the battle space for the Deep State to defend at a moment when their resources are already being depleted.
"Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member."
I saw a video of RFK Jr talking about the fact that General Electric's massive pollution of the Hudson River constituted, in his view, a taking. The river had been a public resource, available to all for fishing, boating and swimming. Now it was useful only as GE's sewer. That struck me as not only an original and insightful analysis, but also as a profoundly conservative one.
Arithmetic Interpolation (AI). Dance!
JFK is pro-vaccine with schedules consistent with risk mitigation, and generally pro-health. So are all people familiar with the evidence of sterile immunity. He's also pro-choice, as are most people: to fuck or not to fuck, is the choice.
JFK is back in the Whitehouse.
Good for him. Fetterman said the hearings didn’t go well for RFK and the probability was low he would be confirmed. I agree the hearings could have gone better and I’m glad he was confirmed.
I suspect McConnell's staff is nothing but Never-Trumpers and a few undercover Democrats and they are the ones entering his votes. Like I thought with Biden, I don't think Mitch is doing much these days under his own volition.
RFK has hammered on the fact that autism used to be practically unknown, and now one in thirty children is diagnosed with this family-crippling disorder. His insistence that this sickening situation can and will be reversed is not even "conservative", it is downright reactionary. And most welcome. MAHA!
”Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member.”
As long as a liberal is respectful of conservative views (takes them seriously and has thoughtful objections), it’s advantageous to have people with a variety of views in government and especially in the cabinet. I happen to think the conservative view is the correct one but if it doesn’t standup to thoughtful objections, then it needs to be modified or changed or discarded entirely. The fact that JFK is a liberal is a plus.
Yancey - yep. The last dying holdouts. Soon - Mitch will be drugged up like Biden was.
I've been less interested in what RFK Jr. has gotten wrong in the past, and more interested in his capacity to use his power to get at the truth and to restore good science. I think he has that capacity. I'm optimistic. But let Trump fire him if he starts screwing up. I think this is a fantastic opportunity.
Is it a bad thing, that someone in our all-intrusive federal government* will be bringing an impactful level of skepticism, and close scrutiny, to medical & pharmaceutical industries that, seemingly, have not been held to strict regulatory standards for drug and treatment approvals.
How is that a bad thing?
* ...that feeds down to our state and local health dept. levels via influence and / or coercion.
Just saw Ann's comment, 3 mins. before mine. Great minds?
:- ) :- )
Oops, RFK.
"Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member." - This is a complete misunderstanding of MAGA. We abandoned the "principled conservatives" like Mike Pence and Paul Ryan. MAGA knows 16 weeks is better than up until the moment of birth. Gay marriage is fine, but leave the children alone. MAGA seeks 1) get something done, and 2) is willing to find middle ground to accomplish it.
The old GOP is dead. A knew, bigger tent GOP has formed. The current insanity of the Democrat Party keeps the "principled" conservatives under the MAGA tent, or they can go rot in the wilderness alone like Bill Kristol.
"Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member."
And by conservative you mean Establishment Republican. That isn't what's happening here.
"All the 20-somethings I know are MAHA regardless of their other political tendencies."
Overwhelmingly in my experience. Trump is giving people opportunities to realign their political identities. Bondi charging Hochul and James over illegal immigration isn't about throwing them in jail or even deporting a single illegal. It's about playing to New Yorker's dislike of the illegal flood. Another rent in the Donk's fabric. The mid-terms are going to be interesting and all historical assumptions are off the table.
I'm 100% for a non-corrupt democrat party.
Right now- we do not have that. They are insane.
I'm also in agreement with Eva Marie. 11:32.
and Ann - 11:33 - yep.
"The fact that JFK [sic] is a liberal is a plus."
RFK imbibed the American Liberal tradition with his mother's milk, and could hardly become a doctrinaire conservative, despite his family's immense wealth. He could have spent a lifetime wallowing in the slops, like his uncle Edward, and no one on the Left would have held it against him. But he saw the error of his youthful self-indulgence, and resolved to make something useful of himself. His determination to follow the truth wherever it leads has turned most of that family against him. He is a courageous warrior, and a welcome ally in a desperate fight.
I'm optimistic. … I think this is a fantastic opportunity.
Me too.
Might be a good time to short Pfizer.
I too am hopeful and optimistic about RFK Jr.'s appointment. I think he can help restore a, not necessarily adversarial, but at least a not too cozy relationship between the various regulatory agencies and the Pharmaceutical and Food companies. I'm also hopeful he can help change the culture in this country surrounding health and diet. There is no magic wand he can wave to make people care more about their own health, but humans are social creatures and it feels like there could be a positive social contagion effect possibly here where everyone broadly starts to care more about health , diet, and fitness.
@Peachy: "GMO's are controversial not because of the engineering - but because of the pesticides that may or may not be used."
I was talking with an old retired cotton farmer this past week. We were talking about bees, and the effect that large scale farming has historically had on bee populations. Cotton-blossom honey is renowned for its superb flavor. But cotton farming on a large scale has always used lots of pesticides. But now GMOs has revolutionized a lot of farming by creating pest-resistant crops. Cotton farming now is very limited in its use of pesticides, which is great. For one thing, it saves them a ton a money, but for another, it's much better to have active insect populations - not just the bees, but others as well.
Ann Althouse said: "I've been less interested in what RFK Jr. has gotten wrong in the past, and more interested in his capacity to use his power to get at the truth and to restore good science. I think he has that capacity. I'm optimistic. But let Trump fire him if he starts screwing up. I think this is a fantastic opportunity."
I agree wholeheartedly. If a vaccine skeptic looks at our more superfluous vaccines and finds their benefits outweigh the risks, then people are more likely to trust the findings. I don't think the establishment - medical, media, and government - understands the depth of mistrust their obfuscation and outright lies have caused.
Great energy in that video. Who is it really?
It certainly has a Blues Brothers look to me.
- Krumhorn
First step, kill advertising of prescription. Other than to doctors and professionals.
Oh, gee, you mean that this would kill 30-40% of MSM's revenues?
That's a shame.
But maybe they would cover drugs honestly.
Purdue Pharma (Sacklers) have to pay $6bn to settle the Oxycontin lawsuit. Probably rightly. "Probably" because perhaps it should be more.
Lots and lots of coverage of this. Also 2 mini-series about what a bunch of bad bastards the Sacklers/Purdue are.
Johnson & Johnson paid $5bn to settle opioid suits. Anyone else hear of this?
https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-johnson-statement-on-nationwide-opioid-settlement-agreement-
J&J advertises A LOT on TV for prescription and non-prescription (Tylenol, Motrin) drugs as well as other products (Bandaids, baby oil, shampoo etc)
Probably just a coincidence that we hear nothing of their opioid settlement.
New Zealand is the only other country in the world that permits non-trade advertising of prescription drugs.
John Henry
John Henry
Clearly what the public health authorities have been doing for the past few decades is not improving public health, and they have shown themselves to be as dishonest and untrustworthy as all the other government scum. I'm agreeable to hitting them amidships with the RFK Jr torpedo. Some of his ideas are kooky. Most are sensible. Let him run with it for four years and let's see how it goes.
Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member.
I'm not a Republican and I don't care about political parties any more. There's really only one party now, the Party of Permanent Governmental Aggrandizement, and I want it destroyed down to its foundation.
I hope he will also go back to the old, established for centuries, definition of vaccine. It was changed in 2021 to allow the kung-flu medicine, which is really a therapeutic, to qualify as a vaccine for legal liability and approval reasons.
We are now seeing stories like this:
"Personalized Vaccine for Liver Cancer Shows Promise in Clinical Trial"
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2024/04/personalized-vaccine-for-liver-cancer-shows-promise-in-clinical-trial
If it is personalized, based on a specific cancer that a patient already has, it is a therapeutic. It may be a great thing but it is not a "vaccine" which by definition would prevent the liver cancer in the first place.
Words have meanings.
Or should.
John Henry
RFK Jr. will be a test case for Trump's approach to personnel decision-making. Wait and see.
John Althouse Cohen said...Mitch McConnell survived polio as a child, so it’s not surprising he voted against the anti-vaccine activist
Gusty Winds said...Did Mitch's childhood polio force him to vote no on Tulsi as well? Or Pete Hegseth?
I guess Mitch wasn't voting on principle, eh?
I say people should have liberty in vaccines and onesies.
Aggie, if you like insects, I can send you some centipedes. They get 6-10" long here and scare the shit out of me. I use pesticide liberally to keep them out.
Yeah, I know, they are not technically insects. Insects have sexy legs.
John Henry
This is a great move as (1) pick for NIH given the focus on healthy kids etc., (2) way to tweak Democrat beaks by unleashing a Kennedy to reform the mess they made, and finally, (3) he will prove most critics wrong because he will not move to cancel any childhood vaccines. He may hold hearings and have experts testify that the schedule needs revising/rethinking and get buy-in for changes he personally favors, but knowing Trump the effort will be open and more transparent than the COVID machinations ever were.
John Althouse Cohen said...
“Just because the president who chose him is a Republican doesn’t mean there’s anything conservative about this cabinet member.”
About a decade ago when the Export-Import Bank was up for renewal, both the left and the right made arguments from first principles on the issue. Their first principles were very different, yet both came to the conclusion that the Bank should be ended. Of course it was renewed anyway. I am sure I could find several second order things where I agree with the left.
As long as RFKjr stays in his lane and focuses on health and where the science takes him, I’m fine with him in his position of authority.
RJK Jr. is a much needed countermeasure and antidote after having Fauci, Birx, Gates, masks, social distancing and poison mRNA shoved up America's ass.
[American] Conservativism: pro-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness under a Constitution with two named parties: rhe People and our [unPlanned] Posterity, designed to acknowledge individual rights and mitigate authoritarian progress, with a Republican form of government.
If you took COVID mRNA shots 1 & 2, and then skipped the Democrat and CDC recommended boosters, what makes you less anti-vaxx than RJK Jr? If you chose not to get a flu shot this year, what makes you less anti-vaxx that RJK Jr? You can still spread the flu. According to liberals you must want to kill your own Grandma.
Point is, adults were free to figure out the shots were unnecessary, and maybe even unhealthy, and mad a decision for themselves Even the most militant liberal mRNA pushers skipped the boosters.
But when it comes to two generations of American children suffering from massive autism spikes (Z and Alpha), most still want to turn a blind eye and just stick it in their veins.
The support and hope for RJK Jr. represents a much needed awakening.
The "party of science" wants no part of science being applied to food and drugs. Imagine that. What a shame they were out voted.
I've been less interested in what RFK Jr. has gotten wrong in the past, and more interested in his capacity to use his power to get at the truth and to restore good science.
Yes, this is my expectation.
Point is, adults were free to figure out the shots were unnecessary, and maybe even unhealthy, and mad a decision for themselves
Except that many (such as myself) were essentially forced to take the shots or else lose their jobs, be barred from many venues, etc. I was a skeptic, but got the one J&J shot in March 2021 so as to be able to continue working. Meanwhile lots of people around me who got three or more shots are getting Covid, while I (knock on wood) have not since January 2022.
The mandates were the real crime, as they knew early on that it did not prevent spread of the illness. RFK Jr will be a much needed corrective, as others have said.
How are the Kennedy cousins reacting to this? What's Caroline thinking?
Like others, I think this is an opportunity. We'll see what becomes of it.
Trump at RFK Jr's swearing in: "Not long ago 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Now it's 1 in 36. Who can believe that? There's something wrong. And I think it's something that can be found out."
RFK Jr: "For 20 years, I've gotten up every morning and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic."
Finally.
James K said...Except that many (such as myself) were essentially forced to take the shots or else lose their jobs, be barred from many venues, etc. I was a skeptic, but got the one J&J shot in March 2021 so as to be able to continue working.
You were wrongfully coerced. Not your fault. But people in politics, medicine, and education who pushed the mRNA on everyone else, dropped off from booster participation as well. The drop off was quick and massive. Total hypocrisy. Now they criticize RJK Jr. for asking questions.
I'd bet money the politicians who "took the shot" on TV were given saline.
A good drug dealer doesn't do the drugs.
Mitch McConnell does his famous impression of a test tube baby in the fetal position:
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1696939093605634394
First, I do not believe that either Kennedy or Gabbard are all that conservative. But I do believe that they are patriots who really do have the best interests of the country at heart. I may disagree with them on several key issues.....but I would rest easy at night if they were elected President, which is more than I could say during Obama and Biden presidencies. And something is wrong in the vaccination world. Slow it the hell down. And for God's sake, we have the Salk vaccine, what moron decided to start using the much more dangerous Sabin vaccine? And let's do some actual studies on the harm possibly done by multiple vaccinations given all at once. And hold the vaccine producers liable. I remember when the MMR I took with only three vaccinations at once were questioned by my parents.In the freaking late 60s. Before it became verboten to discuss possible side effects.
It's 2025. Who is running in McConnel's vacated seat in 2026? He's not running again - is he? Can we clone Rand Paul?
What a novel idea, actually have a government with people from both parties, coming together to serve the citizens.
Gusty Winds said...
If you took COVID mRNA shots 1 & 2, and then skipped the Democrat and CDC recommended boosters, what makes you less anti-vaxx than RJK Jr? If you chose not to get a flu shot this year, what makes you less anti-vaxx that RJK Jr? You can still spread the flu. According to liberals you must want to kill your own Grandma.
Well, here's the thing about flu shots. They are effective against the strain of flu in the shot. That's it. There are always multiple versions floating around, and the CDC is making it's best guess. And they're guessing game hasn't been all that great. So- you can have the flu shot every year- and still get the flu and infect people. If you've had flue a few times, or a half dozen flu shots- your body is at prepped as it's going to be. No matter what flu you get, your body has a starting point to develop antibodies, and will quickly develop more against the specific version you've got. Keep your Vitamin D levels and zinc levels up, and practice good hand and nose hygiene to lower the viral load. The lower the viral load, the faster the body can overwhelm the virus. Wait, what, nose hygiene? I am forever grateful to the young lady who introduced me to nasal irrigation. Haven't suffered from cold or flu since. Have had a very few cases. Causing me to irrigate 2-3X daily instead of once. And - gone in 3 days or less. Each irrigation lowering the viral load...
Forgot to add- one of the things discovered about the covid vaccine that isn't. Seems it imprints the immune system so if it sees any coronavirus- the body develops antibodies only against the original spike protein. It's why the twice vaxxed and multiple boosted are getting more cases of covid then us totally unvaxxed.
This appointment is the one that concerns me the most. If he stays in his lane? Fine. But he's got a LOT of opinions that reside on the far left.
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