RFK Jr. Pretty Sure Anything He Didn't Know About As A Kid Is Not Real -- Wonkette [View all]

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An especially curious thing about the MAGA mindset, you may have noticed, is the fervent belief that the only things that are real and true are the things they knew about and understood as children with a child’s somewhat narrow view of the world. Science hasn’t progressed, history isn’t slightly less pleasant than stories about George Washington’s cherry tree, and transgender people don’t exist. Or, if their moms let them watch Dog Day Afternoon, they exist but are all in cahoots with bank robbers.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Barber Surgeon General Robert F. Kennedy Jr. complained about all of the diseases and conditions people have now that definitely did not exist when he was a kid — the point of which was to suggest that somehow, we are being made sick by vaccines, food dyes, and unidentified “toxins.”

“ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, tics, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, autism — all of these are injuries I never heard of when I was a kid, were not part of the nomenclature, they weren’t part of the dialogue. There was zero spent in this country treating chronic disease when my uncle was president, today it’s about 1.8 trillion dollars annually. It’s bankrupting our nation. Seventy-four percent of American kids cannot qualify for military service. How are we going to maintain our global leadership with such a sick population?

“We have all these autoimmune diseases, these exotic diseases again, I never heard of. Juvenile diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Crohn’s disease, and a hundred others that, again, were just unknown when I was a kid.”

So, first of all, people in those days — particularly in circles like the Kennedys’, and particularly in New England — didn’t talk about those kinds of things much because it was considered unseemly. Men, especially, didn’t want it known that their children had any health or neurological issues, because they thought it reflected poorly on the quality of their sperm. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist.

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