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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: RFKJr’s MO
Date: 08/02/26 4:01 PM
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RFK Jr. appeared on State of the Union ready to perform his favorite public-health trick: start with a legitimate reason to distrust government, stir in a few old conspiracy theories, and announce that the entire medical establishment is hiding something.

Dana Bash asked him about vaccines. Kennedy reacted as though she had personally invented COVID, patented measles, and hidden the cure behind the vending machine at CNN.

“You were scaring people,” he snapped, accusing the network of spreading propaganda.

That is quite a complaint from a man who has spent years suggesting that nearly every syringe contains a corporate plot, a government cover-up, or something mysterious that only he has been brave enough to notice.

Kennedy’s argument is simple. Public-health officials made mistakes, so every medical conclusion is now suspect. Experts sometimes communicated badly, so apparently your cousin’s Facebook page deserves equal time with decades of research.

Yes, the COVID vaccines were imperfect. They did not prevent every infection or stop every transmission. They did reduce severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Calling them failures because they were not magical force fields is like calling seat belts useless because ambulances still exist.

Then there is the vaccine-autism claim, which Kennedy keeps dragging back into public debate like a lawn decoration that should have been thrown away twenty years ago. Scientists have studied it repeatedly. The answer is still no. Kennedy’s response is always to demand another study, preferably one that continues until it finally agrees with him.

Bash mostly held her ground, although Kennedy managed to turn parts of the interview into his preferred format: a heated argument about how unfairly everyone treats RFK Jr.

That may be the most troubling part. This was not some crank holding court at Thanksgiving dinner. This was the secretary of Health and Human Services treating established medicine like an enemy campaign.

Kennedy says he wants to restore trust in public health. His plan appears to be setting fire to the laboratory, blaming CNN for the smoke, and asking why everyone is panicking

open.substack.com - Rfk jr gets a booster shot of grievance
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