RFK Jr on what makes us sick.

[Eric J in MN]

RFK Jr isn't speaking out against the Trump administration for promoting air pollution.

Or for promoting glyphosate-herbicides and pesticides with forever chemicals.

But he wants ordinary people to eat fewer donuts.

Link to tweet

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RFK Jr repeatedly says in interviews that we spent $0 on chronic diseases when JFK was president. That's false. Chronic diseases include cancer and diabetes. Of course, we spent money on those in the early 1960s. And if he just means federal spending that doesn't make sense since we spent federal money on veterans with those diseases in the early 1960s and because he contrasts that with current spending of $4.3T/year which includes public and private spending.

[Bluestocking]

1. He can find the answer by looking in the mirror

[allegorical oracle]

2. He makes me nauseous...does that count? nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Just read about a sewage spill in the Potomac

Is Brainworm headed there for another swim?

[Ping Tung]

4. How's his pet worm doing in the remnants of his brain?

[Eric J in MN]

5. RFK Jr chooses interviewers who don't challenge him...

...when he says we spent $0 on chronic disease "when my uncle was president."

A good interviewer might respond: $0 on cancer? $0 on diabetes? $0 on heart disease?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-Trump executive order on a weed killer chemical didn't do RFK Jr. any favors

The “Make America Healthy Again” agenda is riddled with a series of overlapping contradictions, which are becoming even more common.

When RFK Jr. was on the campaign trail in 2024, he vowed that if he joined Trump’s team, he would “ban the worst agricultural chemicals.”

I have some bad news for the voters who actually believed he'd follow through on this.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-19T18:25:23.000Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-executive-order-on-a-weed-killer-chemical-didnt-do-rfk-jr-any-favors

About a year later, in November 2025, the Republican administration advanced a plan to approve agricultural pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, despite concerns raised by some scientists and environmental activists. Kennedy, in his capacity as Trump’s health and human services secretary, bit his tongue.

This year, the underlying dynamic has reached a new level. The New York Times reported:

President Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at spurring the domestic production of glyphosate, a widely used weedkiller that has figured in health lawsuits.

The move immediately set off alarms among supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, and appeared to put Mr. Kennedy in an awkward position.

As the report explains, glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, which has been the target of tens of thousands of lawsuits that claim it causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma......

This has been an ongoing issue for months. In June, MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell wrote a memorable Washington Post column along these lines, noting that Kennedy’s MAHA agenda is rooted in part in the idea that Americans’ health would greatly improve through better nutrition and exposure to fewer environmental toxins.

Kennedy, Rampell added, is nevertheless playing a leading role in an administration that’s “expanding use of environmental toxins.”

If Kennedy and Team Trump wanted to admit that the MAHA agenda was largely focused on undermining vaccines, it would be impolitic, but it would also be far closer to the truth.

[Iggo]

7. Is it an autobiography?