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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:16 PM Mar 10

So RFKjr does believe in science based medical care..when he needs it. Undergoing surgery [View all]

He is having surgery rather than rubbing bear blood on his shoulder or howling to the moon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/us/rfk-jr-rotator-cuff-surgery.html


Reporting from Washington

March 10, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is having rotator cuff surgery on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the department, who said he planned to return to work on Monday.

The department did not immediately respond to a query as to whether Mr. Kennedy’s injury was caused by the intense workouts he has promoted since taking the helm of the agency.

Mr. Kennedy, 72, has promoted the workouts as part of a wider campaign to improve Americans’ health. Last year, he and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, launched a fitness initiative in which they challenged people to 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups in under 10 minutes.

Mr. Kennedy has also publicized himself working out with various public figures, including other cabinet secretaries and the musician Kid Rock.

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What a shithead NoRethugFriends Mar 10 #1
Will he emerge with the Mar-A-Lago face? leftstreet Mar 10 #2
Nice Swede Mar 10 #6
Rotary cuff, eh? Too bad it wasn't a brain transplant. nt allegorical oracle Mar 10 #3
I am glad the docs do not have to waste a good brain on rfkJr.!! riversedge Mar 10 #7
Very painful recovery Bobstandard Mar 10 #4
He's going to drink fermented road kill Wicked Blue Mar 10 #5
Sauerkraut perhaps? Ritabert Mar 10 #8
Don't be silly. Sauerkraut is for enemas. Wicked Blue Mar 11 #18
LOL! Ritabert Mar 11 #21
Rub beef tallow on that shoulder BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 11 #16
He'll demand painkillers, and he'll snort them off a toilet seat synni Mar 10 #15
But I heard the condition can be cured by eating full fat yogurt with bacon chunks in it. Vinca Mar 10 #9
Just fill a syringe full of ivermectin and jam it in there. tanyev Mar 10 #10
"Intense workouts" video calls with Olivia Nuzzi LR3 Mar 10 #11
i'll b surprised if he is back that quickly. mopinko Mar 10 #12
I'm sure anesthesia will do THAT brain a world of good! Maru Kitteh Mar 10 #13
Wish they could wake him up in the middle of surgery and all be dressed as Voodoo "witch doctors". eppur_se_muova Mar 10 #14
LOL! Ritabert Mar 11 #22
Doing too many pull ups at the airport? Initech Mar 11 #17
Working out with blue jeans on no doubt. Ritabert Mar 11 #23
Hopefully they give him opioids for pain and he becomes a junkie again. BannonsLiver Mar 11 #19
Hopefully they give him Tylenol and a circumcision mr715 Mar 11 #24
I hear quartz crystals and leeches for rotator cuff mr715 Mar 11 #20
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