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> Why attribute to insanity that which could just as easily be attributed to corruption and lies.

Because his “insanity” is more than just a claimed brain worm:

The trauma from the men in his life being assassinated when he was an impressionable little boy. He now blames the CIA for both.

The heroin addiction.

The whale on the car incident.

The bear cub corpse in NYC.

The swimming in raw sewage.

There is no spy or health conspiracy too large for this guy. Everyone is corrupt/corruptable in his mind except him.

These are not the actions of a stable person. His solution to autism is to dictate that there is no significant genetic component, then give scientists 6 months to “find the cause” (after hijacking all of the medical data the US government can coerce).

Sure, there is corruption in that he is making referral money from some of his companies. I’m not sure he’s lying though — that requires Mens Rea. He might just have crazy ideas about reality. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t believe in _germ theory_ after his statements about HIV /AIDS.



Don't forget, he just spent time at a press conference announcing he's hiring people full time to investigate chemtrails, which "we(?) believe is being done by DARPA".


I encourage the weirdos to spend lots of their time investigating their conspiracy theories. The more often they fail to find evidence of these massive conspiracies, the more they are revealed by their supporters to be the Emperor with No Clothes.

It happened with Governor Perry and the Department of Energy, and with Dan Bongino and the Epstein suicide.

This is the only way I see we break the fever of MAGA in a relatively short period of time.


Re: germ theory:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine...

> It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."


With all due disrespect, RFK Jr. is far from the only person to have stepped into Rock Creek recently. There are places along the creek where one does get the whiff of sewage, and much longer stretches where one doesn't.


"Other people did it too" is something you learn isn't a valid excuse in kindergarten.


RFK Jr. is old enough and in theory intelligent and educated enough to know better. The only reason that his frolic in Rock Creek did not lower him in my estimation is that it was pretty low to begin with.

I posted my remark because "swimming in raw sewage" gives a pretty lurid picture, as of Oliver St. John Gogarty's escape through the Liffey--"not really swimming, just going through the movements."


But it’s not an isolated incident.

He (the head of US HHS) seems to be trying to push a medical social Darwinism (eg. Expose people directly to the deadly pathogens instead of using vaccines/inoculations), without getting anywhere close to a national consensus.

He is surrounding himself with sycophants of his strange pseudo-scientific beliefs. He claims to believe in science and testing, but the choices he has made as a political leader at the head of the HHS have been top-down dictates and fabricated + sock puppets “research” he is too scared to have peer reviewed in public by de-anonymized reviewers.


Oh, and how could I forget the mercury poisoning?!




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