RFK JR: And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball,

[riversedge]

It is beyond belief that the USA has this stupid, mean man as head of HHS!!

RFK JR: And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted

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[milestogo]

1. Paying taxes is a true measure of human worth to Republicans.

[Meowmee]

11. Actually their dear leader has apparently never paid taxes

[Bluethroughu]

37. He showed a tax return once $750. Paid.

My kids paid that at 16yrs old. They have Autism along with many other disabilities.

Have friends and excellent jobs.

[Meowmee]

63. That is great about your children... 😁

and psycho paying that number considering his income is obscene and suspicious for sure. Overall someone's "worth" as a person though imo should not be based on whether they are employed and or pay taxes as long as it is not illegal like in the case of psycho etc.

[Bluethroughu]

64. The Autism spectrum is infinate, but everyone communicates

differently, it's all about finding the best coping skllls.

Rump's a cheat. Welfare queen. Psycho. Like the rest of his administration.

[Solly Mack]

2. His first worry is taxes? His ignorance aside for the moment - his primary concern is they won't pay taxes?

He's worried about money the government won't get?

Nothing says compassion for people like lamenting the money you'll lose because of them.

Yes, I know he's wrong all the way around about autism.

[WestMichRad]

3. What a miserably ignorant shit of a human.

[stillcool]

4. reminds me of a story

I heard as a kid... that if people had the misfortune of having a baby girl they would leave her by the side of a mountain to die. Survival of the fittest and the strongest as determined by ??

[womanofthehills]

5. To be fair- some autistic kids are brilliant & some can't speak

Or control their actions. Many spin and harm themselves. Here is Gabe - an autistic boy on Facebook who can only communicate with his eyes. Many of these kids were speaking and then regressed. Their parents want answers

https://youtube.com/shorts/ypZiVqYKC3w?si=DW-euoJ2FCaQFYMw

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BP4LYTUqC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. "To be fair"....to whom? Fair in what way?

some autistic kids are brilliant & some can't speak Or control their actions.

Just like any of the wider population.

Here is Gabe - an autistic boy on Facebook who can only communicate with his eyes.

It looks like Gabe has a supportive family and is using adaptive technologies to interact with the world around him.

[obamanut2012]

21. That poster is also antivaxx

Anyone doubting me, go search during covid

[Ms. Toad]

16. Maybe, just maybe, if people stopped pathologizing autism spectrum disorder,

And accepted them as another neurological variant there wouldn't be an association between self-harm/suicidality and ASD.

Many marginalized communities have higher incidents self-harm and suicidality - a pretty natural consequence of being treated as damaged goods.

None of the half-dozen people I know who are on the spectrum, who I know well enough to have had conversations about it, are searching for what happened, and none would change what is an essential part of who they are.

[Skittles]

29. that's why it's called a SPECTRUM

and why RFK Jr's remarks show his SHEER IGNORANCE

[tishaLA]

6. A few days ago, RFK Jr spent the day with Dr Oz and.....Novak Djokovic

It was like a nutbag trifecta. (I'd post the pic, but I'm having troubles with it)

[spooky3]

15. Here's an article about RFK Jr and Djokovic.

https://apnews.com/article/djokovic-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy-vaccines-a6e2489400b3acc7778cca8d2c7f3cc8

[MadLinguist]

7. This muthah fuqqah was SOOO assisted. Golden spoon at birth

Yet he barely pays taxes, cannot write a damn poem, and cannot speak without assistance. If this ass hat is going to start classifying people by what they can and cannot do without assistance, his ass would sink to the bottom of the barrel, sans assistance.

[Initech]

8. RFK Jr will never be allowed to hold power again after this shit is finally over.

Fuck him, what a sick, twisted, deranged psychopath.

[Mountainguy]

9. "They'll never go out on a date."

He says as I'm watching a show about autistic people dating.

[Ms. Toad]

12. This video was shared with me by a friend who is on the autism spectrum.

Who has at least a college degree, maybe more than one and who has always been a fully employed tax-paying citizen. He has a son with autism who is fully functional, with some individualized assistance at school (he's 10-ish?). I expect him to be a scientist or an engineer, based on current interests.

The post was commented on by another friend who is on the autism spectrum. She roller skates. I guess that still isn't playing baseball. But she has at least two degrees and is likely paying taxes in two countries, since she lives overseas at the moment

I went to college (relatively elite liberal arts college) with at least close two friends who are on the autism spectrum and are close to retirement after having lived full lives - married, children, paid taxes, worked jobs paying 6 figures.

And I have a great-nephew with autism. He struggles more than all of the other folks I've mentioned, but I'm sure my niece doesn't view her family as destroyed.

Pretty darn sure all of these folks are potty trained.

More than anything else he's done/said, this pisses me off. He is being directly cruel to people, calling them damaged, calling for research to fix them (or prevent others from their horrible fate). At least with measles, the primary victims are people who have actively sought it out.

[tulipsandroses]

13. He should ask Eloon about all his baby mamas. Eloon probably does not pay his fair share of

taxes. Nothing to do with him having autism. He's just a greedy hateful jerk.

This is such an asinine thing to say.

The 2 kids that just died from measles - will definitely never go on a date, never play baseball, never pay taxes .

[erpowers]

50. Needs to be Pointed Out

More people need to respond to RFK Jr. the way you did, by pointing to those two kids and many others. Reporters also need to ask RFK Jr. questions about that issue.

[spooky3]

14. Jenson Brooksby is a very good pro tennis player. He has autism. Nt

[delisen]

17. Two Texas Children will never pay taxes.

They were unvaccinated and died from measles. RFK Jr was in a position to influence their parents to vaccinate their children. He did the opposite.

Now he is demeaning persons with autism for his own selfish ends.

I shudder when I consider what his second wife endured, and how he eulogized her after her suicide by speaking not about her and her accomplishments but about his lack of guilt.

His own liege was I think horribly negatively affected by the tragedy he experienced in the assassination of his father, his slimy alliance with Trump and the death and destruction party cannot be excused.

Violence begets violence is probably all too true. Amazing that so many victimized people are able to reject retribution and build a better world.

[Figarosmom]

18. Wow, how ignorant.

My daughter in laws sister was autistic. She had a job, paid taxes and most everything else she wanted to do. She was deprived of oxygen during birth and that is what the doctors believed caused her autism . She lived for 78 years and died in her sleep in her own bed in her own apartment.

I know there are those that are so severe they will never live alone, but geez.

This sounds like a rendition of " the users are a liability to the health of a society" argument.

[Johonny]

45. And they jave autistic baseball and soccer teams

Literally you have to know nothing about any subject to work for Trump.

[Figarosmom]

46. Thats for sure

All those positions are for payback. He doesn't care about the departments mission. As far as he's concerned they are just all figurehead jobs. Like on tv they are the image and don't actually do anything of importance. They are only there to do what he tells them to do.

[alarimer]

19. So apparently they should just die then, is what I'm hearing.

I hope you never get old or ill, RFK, Jr. Maybe your family should just put you on an ice floe.

[Pinback]

20. We know where this line of thinking leads

How the Nazis targeted people with disabilities:
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/unworthy-live

[orangecrush]

22. P.O.S.

[Simeon Salus]

23. Is he talking about Drumpf?

Sounds exactly like the present POTUS

Doesn't pay taxes, doesn't hold a "job", never played baseball, never wrote a poem, never went on an (unpaid) date, and I'm certain needs help, given his complete fear of toilets and water pressure.

[dsc]

61. He actually did play baseball

He was apparently mediocre which is vastly better than I was but he did play in high school.

[lonely bird]

24. Well...

His old man should have pulled out.

[PJMcK]

25. Where does Junior get his information?

In my work, I have known many folks who are "on the spectrum." To an individual, they are thoughtful, kind and attempt to be productive and contributing members of society.

Kennedy's comments are an insult to all those folks who are struggling to have meaningful lives, while Kennedy basks in the wealth earned by his great grandfather's illegal liquor smuggling during prohibition,. (another conservative failure).

He is as stupid as his boss.

[markodochartaigh]

26. It's a spectrum.

I have Asperger's and out of every check I ever received from employers over a half century my taxes were taken out before I even received it. I guess that it is much more difficult for trust fund kids who have to have legions of attorneys and accountants to dodge paying taxes.

As for not going to the bathroom by myself, I'm not going to consider any criticism from someone who has crapped all over the legacy of one of the most revered families in the US.

[Skittles]

47. I remember a guy with Asperger's who I worked with in IT

his parents visited him at work and in a break room they told me they feared he would NEVER get a job.....I told them, rest assured, he is one of THE most sought out experts in the building. Their pride was overwhelming. Yes INDEED.

[LSparkle]

52. I'm fairly sure I'm on the spectrum though not diagnosed

My parents openly opined that I needed to be more social, locked me out of the house so I’d go play with others. I have struggled socially but I am functioning and have never been without a job for the past 50 years (even working during college) and have paid my taxes unlike TSF. It hurts me to hear autistic people disparaged because there are SO many worse afflictions ... and brings back memories of feeling like I was damaged goods or “excess population” to quote Scrooge. 🥲

[Bookreadingliberal53]

60. Me too nt

[dchill]

27. RFK JR is a crank and a fuckhead. Prove me wrong.

[Skittles]

28. I have worked with autistic folk and people with Aspergers in the IT field

RFK Jr is completely out of touch and an asshole to boot.

[CitizenZero]

30. Echoes of Nazi Eugenics

This is the same language that laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. The Nazis first went after the Disabled and those with Psychiatric conditions. This included children with Autism. The initial killings were framed as medical mercy killings, as if they were doing the victims a favor. What it really is is murder, straight up. A lot of the mass killing techniques the Nazis later used during the Holocaust were developed by medical doctors practicing euthanasia under a program called Aktion T4. They were secret medical murders of people with disabilities. These fascists must be stopped soon before this escalates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

[Iris]

31. He's a total dumb ass

[Crunchy Frog]

32. He could be talking about Elon.

[progressoid]

33. I know someone who is nearly non-verbal and he has his own business.

Fuck off RFK Jr.

[haele]

34. In at least sixty-four of the sixty five years I've been alive -

I've met or interacted with hundreds of high-functioning Autistics (or rather, people who would now be diagnosed with Autism), who paid taxes, got advanced degrees, were Engineers, plumbers, scientists; were somewhat famous professional musicians who also taught, owned their own homes and businesses, fixed autos, had kids, and yes - even played varsity Baseball.
Or one that advanced in rank and retired as a Full Bird Colonel in the Air Force; later becoming a CTO and VP at USAA. Ya, the last, my FIL, was a bit of a Jerk, but as a Mathematician, Administrative Manager, and Computer Science Engineer, he was exceptional.
JFK. jr. Is full of it. From what I've observed, he himself may very well be Autistic.
Especially since he was apparently a fully functional drug abuser.
Has he ever been evaluated under the more modern criteria?

[Javaman]

35. He's a low class asshole nt

[Bluethroughu]

36. Trump showed he paid $750. One year.

My son with multiple disabilities including Autism, paid that at 16 years old in taxes, from his job.

He graduated head of his class in tech and got his Class A CDL at 19yrs old first try, and the whole DMV came out to watch him, execute a new maneuver they just implemented for testing, he nailed it!

He's had many girlfriends and plenty of friends. EVERYWHERE he works, they love him for his personality and dedication.

I can't stand these people. They are hypocritical grifter psychopaths. The whole administration.

[Demovictory9]

38. Wow

[Blue Jean]

39. Funny. I'm On The Spectrum

I’m on the spectrum and I’ve done all of those things. Some things better than others, but still…😉

There are hundreds of thousands of people on the spectrum who do these things every day, and do them well. And we’re alive to do them, because we got vaccinated and never ran the risk of dying from measles.

[angrychair]

40. I have ADHD and autism

I played baseball, football, soccer and wrestling throughout middle and high school.
Good student in high school.
I have 3 college degrees with plans to finish my MBA in the next couple of years.
I've been a IT professional for over 30 years. Married for over 30 years.
My kids are a scientist and a small business owner.
I have held a job, continuously, since I was 12 years old (never been unemployed or laid off in my life).
I have paid taxes, of some kind, since I was 12 years old.
I have been writing poetry since I was 14 yrs old.

I just took a dump and I did it all by myself.

The drug addict can kiss my ADHD autistic ass.

[littlemissmartypants]

41. I've shared this before. ...

Kennedy is promoting autogenocide.

Autogenocide exposes how states/countries drive populations to destroy themselves through poisoned environments, collapsing healthcare, misinformation & engineered despair.

It's mass death by design & by the outright neglect of society.

He's another evil psychopath and he's been given a position of authority that puts the world in danger. That's not even close to hyperbole. I wish it was.

❤️pants
RESIST!!

[CitizenZero]

43. You are right

Another term for it is Social Murder.

[Karasu]

42. He knows as much about autism as Linda McMahon does about AI, thinking it's the same thing as a brand of hot sauce.

These are our leaders? No one should accept this quality of intelligence from another fucking human being, least of all a "leader."

Incompetence in power is a threat to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. This administration deserves an overthrow or a collapse, whichever comes first.

The sooner, the better.

[Twoflower]

44. I happen to know an Oscar winner who Autistic.

One the smartest people I've ever met.

[Tikki]

48. Our grandson has an intellectual deficit and OCD..he has worked non-stop....

since graduating 3 years ago from a typical High School.
He joined the Union at work and pays dues along with taxes and attends an on-line course 5 days a week, this besides his job.

Hey Loser Kennedy….he does not now or has he ever taken drugs.
Loser, you have no idea what you are talking about..so shut TF up.

The Tikkis

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

49. I'm solidly autistic. I have a masters degree

in Instructional Design & Technology. I've always paid any taxes I owed. I've had many dates and a few serious romantic relationships and have been happily married for many years.

RFK is a quack with no business holding any position of power.

[erpowers]

51. Why Are His Kids Vaccinated

I would like at least one reporter at every event RFK Jr. does to ask him why his kids are vaccinated if he think vaccines are so harmful. He also needs to be asked if any of the things he said apply to any of his kids. It needs to be pointed out often that all of RFK Jr.'s kids are vaccinated.

[Omnipresent]

53. ...Keep on rockin in the free world!

[atreides1]

54. Aktion T4

I believe this is where Worm brain man is headed!

Tell all of those desperate parents that his new program will work to help their child, and then about 6 months later mom and dad will receive a government form letter explaining that their beloved child has succumbed to their affliction.

We've seen this before and we're going to let it happen again...

[Paladin]

55. What a vile, ignorant, filthy little man rfk jr. is.

There is no possible excuse for allowing such an unspeakable man to wield such power over the health of our nation. God help us all.

[Jose Garcia]

56. The most wealthy person in the world is autistic

[Saoirse9]

57. My cousin is autistic

She holds down a job, pays taxes, is married to a pharmacy tech, owns her own house, and has been using the toilet unassisted all her life.

What a fucking moron.

[Raftergirl]

58. Jensen Brooksby Professional tennis player. Severe autism diagnosis as young child.Just won a 250 tourney

a few weeks ago. He was out for a few years with injury and suspension from missing a mandatory drug test, but is ranking was as high as 33. Working his way back up now.

Career prize money Prize money US $2,335,699

He is 24 yrs old.

https://www.nbcsports.com/tennis/news/jenson-brooksby-talks-about-living-with-autism

[LudwigPastorius]

59. "They'll never scrape up roadkill to take home and put in their freezer"

"They'll never dig into some raw pork - resulting in a worm that eats their brain"

"They'll never chainsaw a dead whale"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

62. C'mon, next you'll claim that they'll never dispose of a dead bear in Central Park.

RFK Jr is the perfect example of an advanced mind. Stand in awe.