In the recent past, politicians were known for choosing their words carefully, especially around potentially controversial subjects. With the rise of Trump, however, that era is very much in the rearview mirror. Not content to make do with his own nonsensical rants, Trump has surrounded himself with other quasi-politicians and weirdos with the same propensity for verbal diarrhea as himself. Consider the failed third-party candidate, conspiracy theorist, and hot son-haver Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who could be seen enjoying McDonald’s with the other Devil’s rejects in a recent photo of the coming Trump administration.
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After the news broke that RFK Jr. would be Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, everyone with good sense suddenly started to feel distinctly unwell. And who could blame us: we remember RFK Jr’s anti-vaxx talking points, the dead worm living inside his brain, and perhaps most importantly, his controversial claim that people who take Adderall should be put in labor camps.
Wait…what?
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That’s correct…sort of. Back in July, when RFK Jr. was still trying to run on the Libertarian ticket, he made a strange comment on a live podcast recording described as “Latino Town Hall.”
“I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall,” Kennedy Jr. stated, “and to spend time as much time as they need — three or four years if they need it — to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.”
Okay…so a camp where you go to be forcibly detoxed? Interesting…
Folks were quick to point out that “wellness farm” is quite the dubious euphemism, and soon enough the claim that RFK Jr. wants everyone on prescription meds to be corralled off and sent to labor camps began taking the Internet by storm.
Now, that old headline is coming back to remind us just who we’re dealing with when it comes to newly-appointed health czar RFK Jr.
The good news is that judging by what we know about RFK Jr’s competency, the likelihood of everyone on ADHD meds and SSRIs being shipped off to a wellness farm is quite remote. The likelihood of lots of other unhinged sh*t happening under his tenure is, on the other hand, quite high!
Don’t put a man with a worm in his head in charge of anything isn’t a lesson that exactly needed re-learning, but here we are, folks. Here we are.
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