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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRFK Jr, who doesn't have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children by just looking at them
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted, on Wednesday, that he could tell when a child is dealing with mitochondrial challenges or inflammation by just looking at them.
Lamenting about the health of Americas youth, Kennedy, who does not hold a medical degree, espoused misinformation about juvenile diabetes and autism rates while claiming he can look at a child and determine they are sick.
I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like, Kennedy said during a press briefing with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who signed a Make America Healthy Again bill on Wednesday.
Im looking at kids while I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, and from their lack of social connection, Kennedy continued.
Kennedy joined Abbott for the bill signing, which seeks to implement MAHA policies to improve childhood health, such as requiring extra warning labels for foods containing certain additives, prohibiting SNAP beneficiaries from using funds to purchase sweetened beverages and candy, removing certain additives from free to discounted school lunches, and more.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-children-health-diagnose-no-medical-degree-b2815849.html

pandr32
(13,381 posts)I guess that's all we need.
Efilroft Sul
(4,153 posts)Marthe48
(21,704 posts)with less brain power than pond scum.
yardwork
(67,870 posts)Also, poor impulse control.
Cloudhopper
(131 posts)marble falls
(68,101 posts)
Birds of a feather .....
GreenWave
(11,456 posts)and induces anti-virus hysteria in his mouth.
Torchlight
(5,516 posts)Defending us from oppressive vaccinations, hand washing, and healthy teeth. Another skeevy idiot running a con on idiots.
Ilsa
(63,214 posts)what Putin is thinking, how to create a great economy, always shoot well under par and better than any golf pro, and knows that all women and many men want to fuck him, just not the way he expects.
usonian
(20,131 posts)
allegorical oracle
(5,667 posts)mysterious power. But it's more like an alternative universe constructed by their overwhelming egos.
Day after day headlines report that djt's popularity is falling...that DC is suffering due to the troops' presence. Yet he goes before cameras to announce that people are flocking into DC now that it's "safe". He ignores poor polls.
Similarly, dozens of medical experts are announcing how the CDC's in a crisis due to its brain drain. And Paul Krugman is announcing a "five-alarm fire" if djt guts the Fed.
Same warnings about education, disaster response, FAA, NOAA and DHS. But nothing phases the Congress to act.
Has everyone gone crazy? Are they whistling past the graveyard? Or do they have sinister take-over plans and we're merely watching the stage being built for a full-on dictatorship?
usonian
(20,131 posts)It appears to me that the entire coup, which was decades in setting the table, is the result of ONE PERSON'S blackmail by Putin over videos of the Epstein variety, which may or may not be different from Epstein Studios productions.
They are THAT damning.
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I thought that the summit was to exchange some billions in diplomatic pouches in exchange for videos.
Why his disappointment?
But it appears that Putin raised the price. No amount of money will do. Only the utter destruction of the United States. No less.
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Whether realization of this or other hideous transgressions sinks in, who knows? It will take something that large or a heroic act.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20593122
allegorical oracle
(5,667 posts)Ilsa
(63,214 posts)usonian
(20,131 posts)
tanyev
(47,718 posts)Its absolutely bizarre.
usonian
(20,131 posts)What sick fuks.
Ilsa
(63,214 posts)with makeup, excessive tanning. They have no idea how artificial and superficial they look.
RFK, jr has poor critical thinking skills. I can think of a half dozen reasons a child might look "off" in an airport: Exhausting vacation, attended funeral, argument with cousins, caught a bug, slept poorly on flight, ate poorly during trip.
yardwork
(67,870 posts)When Trump and RFK, Jr. were young, wealthy people liked that "tan glow" look because it indicated that they had time for vacations and outdoor leisure, and weren't chained to a desk. The rest of us emulated it.
Later most of us figured out that lying in the sun to get a tan was unhealthy so we stopped doing it. Trump and his cronies are still stuck in the 80s.
Bayard
(26,860 posts)I keep thinking of what Pres. Kennedy, RFK Sr., and Sen. Kennedy would have made of junior now. I'm betting he wouldn't be this screwed up.
Mysterian
(5,892 posts)We must rein in the power of propaganda. The First Amendment has limits and promoting a seditious coup should not be protected speech.
The Blue Flower
(6,145 posts)He can pronounce 'mitochondrial', so we're supposed to be impressed with his knowledge. Doesn't make him any less a murderous lunatic.
Johonny
(24,495 posts)He added.
Norbert
(7,323 posts)Whoa thought.
Blue Owl
(57,269 posts)
mwmisses4289
(2,094 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:20 PM - Edit history (1)
were terrified of having a competent, knowledgeable woman of color as President.
Is it wrong of me to hope the gods send a version of covid deadly only to these idgits?
yardwork
(67,870 posts)3catwoman3
(27,634 posts)
and horror.
Lack of expertise and willingness to ass-kiss seems to be the main qualifications all Trump appointees have.
leftstreet
(37,085 posts)okay
kacekwl
(8,543 posts)completely insane and irresponsible statement and immediately call for him to step down and seek help. Then demand orange anus fire his ass now. Anything else is incompetent and irresponsible.
TheBlackAdder
(29,666 posts)struggle4progress
(124,348 posts)DBoon
(24,238 posts)it is also cracked
MaineBlueBear
(267 posts)Paladin
(31,541 posts)And you'd figure he'd make such an asinine statement, accompanied by a piece of shit like Greg Abbott.
There's a movement underway to get RFK Jr. to resign, right now. Contact your Democratic Senators and Representatives and demand that they join Patty Murray's efforts to make this happen. If ever there was a life-or-death issue that needs immediate action, this is it.
Attilatheblond
(7,139 posts)RFK Sr should've 'pulled out'.
allegorical oracle
(5,667 posts)the very private Caroline Kennedy warned everyone about her cousin Bobby. MAGAs ignored her.