Trump picks Kennedy to head Department of Health & Human Services; the Media Melts Down
This is a developing story
I know I said I was done talking about the 2024 election; however, this is technically not election news, although it is certainly political news. As we know, over the past week, President-Elect Donald J Trump has been busy assembling his cabinet. Many of us, including me, have been eagerly awaiting finding out what role he would offer to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Now we know that Trump has tapped Kennedy to lead the Department of Health & Human Services, a position currently occupied by Xavier Becerra, whose name may sound familiar to some. It has been less than a day since Trump’s announcement was made, and all of sudden, the gloves are off in the media regarding Kennedy’s flirtation with AIDS criticism, which, as we know, the media has mostly ignored/avoided until now.
Here is just a sampling of the hysterics that have appeared online within only the last few hours:
What to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary
He made a variety of other claims not backed by science, such as questioning whether HIV causes AIDS and suggesting antidepressants lead to school shootings.
This article also states that “He wants to eliminate liability protections for drug companies” like that’s a bad thing.
Who is RFK Jr and what are his likely top priorities?
He has amplified unfounded claims that vaccines are tied to autism in children, promoted the false idea HIV is not the cause of Aids [sic] and baselessly linked certain antidepressants to a rise in school shootings, and the use of a certain herbicide to a rise in young people coming out as transgender.
This piece also mentions that “He has pushed against processed foods and the use of herbicides like Roundup and has long criticised the large commercial farms and animal feeding operations that dominate the industry”—again, like that’s a bad thing.
Trump picks RFK Jr. to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services
Kennedy's baseless claims have included that Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain"; that school shootings are attributable to antidepressants; that chemicals in water can lead to children becoming transgender; and that AIDS may not be caused by HIV. He's also long said that vaccines cause autism and fail to protect people from diseases.
Where Trump HHS pick RFK Jr. stands on vaccines, abortion and LGBTQ+ issues
Kennedy’s opposition to gender-affirming care for transgender minors, as well as misinformation that he has spread about LGBTQ+ youth and HIV/AIDS, signals a sharp reversal from how the HHS has approached health care for LGBTQ+ people under Biden.
The tide is definitely turning against “gender affirming care” (gag) for minors, and thank heavens for that. The dramatic rise of trans-identifying youth in the last decade, and the relatively new concept that being transgender is a matter of self-identification and not a mental health issue that needs an actual diagnosis is sure to backfire; using self-ID and removing “transgender care” from the medical space will only have the effect of making related treatments “elective;” and therefore not covered by Medicare or insurance in some cases. The transgender activists need to be careful what they wish for.
Kennedy, who ended his independent presidential run in August and endorsed Trump, has a long history of embracing conspiracy theories and has been repudiated by his famous family. Among his bizarre theories are that the environment turns children transgender and that vaccines cause autism. He's also said that HIV does not cause AIDS. It does.
Refer to my paragraph above regarding the transgender issue.
I’d like to conclude with the following, from the NPR piece:
In an interview with NPR before the choice was announced, Kennedy said, "President Trump has given me three instructions: He wants the corruption and the conflicts out of the regulatory agencies. He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for. And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years."
No wonder the public health advocates and activists, many of whom are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry and what’s collectively known as “Big Ag,” are in a stone cold panic. If Kennedy’s role is confirmed by the Senate, and if—and it’s a big if—he manages to accomplish even some of his ambitious plans stated above, our current Big Pharma-driven, “retention in care” health model may well be in serious peril, with potential fallout across the board. It’s an ambitious move by Trump to choose Kennedy for this position, and for Kennedy to take it on. The weeks and months ahead will reveal just how this will play out, so stay tuned to this developing story. Personally, I’m cautiously optimistic, but this is politics, so anything might happen.
Let me know what you think in the comments—in particular, why is Kennedy’s flirtation with AIDS criticism all of a sudden being reported everyplace after being almost entirely ignored since his 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci?
Well, this is more than I expected! I also didn't expect Trump to follow through with Tulsi Gabbard. I'd love to see her in a position to smack down the deep state... This is only the first foot placed on the base of Everest, but it's a start... As you said, Senate confirmation is a huge hurdle. And the entrenched interests involved are absolutely gargantuan in all cases (military industrial complex, surveillance-police state, Pharma-medical cabal...) But this is the first reason I've had for any hope at all in a long time...
And yes, it is absolutely amazing that these various shrieking NPR types think so many bad things are 'good' (vaccines, pesticides, junk food, 'virus science', transgender psychosis and mutilation, wifi poisoning, 'anti-depressant' brain frying, and on and on). They are exactly, perfectly, opposed to reality... It's so pathetic that these people are supposed to be bringing good information to the public, but they do the exact opposite.
The belief that injecting synthetic chemicals made by habitually criminal companies who profit from perpetual disease somehow produces health is not only ridiculous and unproven— it is a foundational teaching of a dangerous religious cult that western medicine has become.
Lost in the fog of history is the fact that one year before the 1986 Vaccine Act was passed Pharma Cos. were pulling out of the vaxx industry (through the 70's-80's) due to costs of litigation/fines. Pharmaceutical companies were being inundated with lawsuits for injuries that would soon bankrupt them.
For every $1 they made off the DTP vaccine, they were losing $20 to injury lawsuits. The 1986 law was enacted because there was only one manufacturer left for each of the only three routine vaccines at that time, and the harms they caused created financial liability exceeding their revenue.
Even as all vaccines are toxic it is no longer the case when you are receiving a single vaccine you are receiving a single vaccine. Multivalent vaccines are the norm so when someone gets 3 injections e.g. they are receiving well beyond 3 antigens. The number varies depending on shots given.
This was done so that Pharma could get all their 90 or so antigens on the schedule from birth to 18 years without having to have the kids marched into the pediatricians for each and every one. This was an intentional tactic done in part to manage the situation where parents did not want to keep bringing their kids in with the increasing number of shots as it is such an unpleasant experience.
Of course there are exactly zero studies ever done that examine the combinative and synergistic impacts of these multivalent witches brew and I'd say that such a study is quite impossible to do.
Of course the Pharma hubris and their wholly owned media subsidiaries label all of this madness as 'safe and effective'.