Go back
RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary

RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary

Debates

Clock

How it's going...

BENNET: Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon?

RFK Jr: I probably did say that

BENNET: Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes children to become transgender

RFK Jr: No

BENNET: I have the record.

Yiiiiiikes!

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgvdna7zwj2d

Clock
1 edit

Any normal month this would be a big story. The nominee for director of the DHHS is saying that transgender thoughts are caused by farm fertilizer runoff?

Now,,,, crickets. Normalize incompetence. At the same time, applaud meritocracy.

Clock

I didn't listen to what was being said because I was too focused on watching his face all twitchy and red and his eyes looking like he squirts hot sauce into them just for fun.

If that's what Mr. Health looks like, then I don't want to be healthy.

Clock
1 edit

@wildgrass said
Any normal month this would be a big story. The nominee for director of the DHHS is saying that transgender thoughts are caused by farm fertilizer runoff?

Now,,,, crickets. Normalize incompetence. At the same time, applaud meritocracy.
This is what comes from assuming white people are the best for every job.

Eventually you're gonna run into that dumb AF white guy.

How Trump collected so many of them together is a mystery. (Not really.)

Clock

HHS should be Tom Cruise.

He doesn't age and he does his own stunts.

Clock

@Suzianne said
This is what comes from assuming white people are the best for every job.

Eventually you're gonna run into that dumb AF white guy.

How Trump collected so many of them together is a mystery. (Not really.)
“ Only the best.”

😆

Clock

@wildgrass said
How it's going...

BENNET: Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon?

RFK Jr: I probably did say that

BENNET: Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes children to become transgender

RFK Jr: No

BENNET: I have the record.

Yiiiiiikes!

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgvdna7zwj2d
RFK didn't just say "no" he added "I never said that"

Without seeing this "record" I don't think you can assume that wasn't, at the very least, taken out of context.

Clock

@sh76 said
RFK didn't just say "no" he added "I never said that"

Without seeing this "record" I don't think you can assume that wasn't, at the very least, taken out of context.
It was taken out of context

This is what he was referring to…

“ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-herbicide-turns-male-frogs-into-females/“

Clock

@Mott-The-Hoople said
It was taken out of context

This is what he was referring to…

“ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/common-herbicide-turns-male-frogs-into-females/“
Well, if that's the record that Sen. Bennet was referring to then yup, that's pretty darn out of context.

Clock
1 edit

@sh76 said
RFK didn't just say "no" he added "I never said that"

Without seeing this "record" I don't think you can assume that wasn't, at the very least, taken out of context.
RFK has repeatedly suggested this, using evidence from experiments in frogs that don't translate to human studies.

Here's just one example of him saying that chemical exposures cause gender dysphoria in humans and then segue to the evidence by saying "by the way..." to cite the frog study. None of it is reproduced in humans. Proper interpretation of scientific evidence is kind of an important job for HHS Secretary.

https://bsky.app/profile/out5p0ken.bsky.social/post/3lgveoimyjk2k

Clock

@sh76 said
Well, if that's the record that Sen. Bennet was referring to then yup, that's pretty darn out of context.
No that's not the "record". That's the scientific study that Kennedy refers to when he says that gender dysphoria is caused by pesticides.

Bennet wasn't taking RFKs comment out of context. RFK is taking the science out of context.

Clock

@wildgrass said
No that's not the "record". That's the scientific study that Kennedy refers to when he says that gender dysphoria is caused by pesticides.

Bennet wasn't taking RFKs comment out of context. RFK is taking the science out of context.
Do you happen to have the "record" handy, then?

I'd like to see it.

Clock
1 edit

@sh76 said
Do you happen to have the "record" handy, then?

I'd like to see it.
"IF it's doing that to frogs, there's a lot of other evidence that it's doing that to human beings as well." https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/robert-kennedy-jr-chemicals-water-children-frogs/index.html

Gee, that must be why all those male teenagers are laying eggs all over the place.

Clock
1 edit

@sh76 said
Do you happen to have the "record" handy, then?

I'd like to see it.
I already posted it in a reply to you. See above clip "here's one example" from one of his podcasts.

Clock

@no1marauder said
"IF it's doing that to frogs, there's a lot of other evidence that it's doing that to human beings as well." https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/robert-kennedy-jr-chemicals-water-children-frogs/index.html

Gee, that must be why all those male teenagers are laying eggs all over the place.
===“If you expose frogs to atrazine, male frogs, it changes their sex and they can actually bear young. They can lay eggs, fertile eggs,” Kennedy said in the June 2022 episode of his podcast.

“And so the capacity for these chemicals that we are just raining down on our children right now to induce these very profound sexual changes in them is something we need to be thinking about as a society,” he added.===

Meh. I don't know. A bit of a non-sequitur, sure. But the underlying point that if chemicals are so string they can cause sexual changes in frogs, it might be a good idea to stay away from them, is not crazy.

Cookies help us deliver our Services. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn More.