Invite your friends and earn rewards. We would be grateful if you would share The Warning with your family and friends. You earn rewards when they subscribe. The nihilism and madness of RFK Jr.PLUS: Join my weekly conversation with Ryan Lizza TODAY at 12 pm ETRobert F. Kennedy Jr. is a sinister and amoral man. He is a killer. He is profoundly corrupt. Robert F. Kennedy is an angel of death and spreader of disease. He peddles his conspiracies with premeditation and specific intention. Of course, his goal is to make money, not murder, but in the end, it is all semantics. What makes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. evil is that he is happy to cash his checks on the caskets of dead children. He does so without hesitation or doubt because his sociopathy makes it impossible for him to care about other people, like his tortured wife who killed herself, or the young babysitter of his children, whom he attempted to rape. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a liar, junkie, pusher, predator and epic embarrassment. He disgraces his father’s noble name, and the legacy of deep sacrifice rendered by his estimable family in service of the United States of America. Today, he is in charge of one quarter of all government spending and America’s public health. Why? Why would a man so sick, twisted and corrupt, with no credibility outside the fever swamps of his supporters’ delusions be put in charge of anything — by anyone — who, at the end of the day, would seem interested in the concept of success, like Donald Trump? The simple answer was that he wanted to send a signal and a “f@#k you.” Psychology is a critical aspect of politics in this moment. Chris Christie is from New Jersey. Donald Trump is from Queens, New York. Generally speaking, the Northeast of the United States, particularly the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is filled with people who understand one another. Here is how Chris Christie describes the ‘why’ on yesterday’s edition of ABC News’ This Week:
Spot on. Some of my earliest memories as a child come from visiting the Bayonne, New Jersey, apartment of my grandfather’s brother and my Aunt Carrie. I can still hear the squishy sound of my sneakers pressing into the uneven rubber runner that ran down the middle of the hallway. It led to their door, with the smells of the Italian cooking growing stronger with each step. When the door swung open I would be greeted by an ebullient Italian aunt and Uncle Bill, a powerfully-built man in a wheelchair. Uncle Bill was a Normandy veteran, a D-Day paratrooper, who survived the war. He walked down the gang plank of his troop ship when it returned him to the United States after fascism had been destroyed — at least for a while. Polio put him in the wheelchair. It did not discriminate against rich or poor, black or white, woman or man. This is a picture of a polio ward full of children in iron lungs:
Can you imagine the misery? More importantly, can you comprehend the insanity of this moment when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and a crackpot Florida surgeon general are calling for an end to all vaccine mandates? Here is an exchange between Jake Tapper and Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general: There isn’t a whole lot more to learn about the character or derangements of the people who will be responsible for killing untold numbers of Americans in the years ahead. The only mystery is the progression of the consequences as cured diseases, whose eradication was understood as a miracle by the generations ravaged by them, come back to life so America can be both “great” and “healthy again.” I thought it might be interesting to refresh our collective memory about the man who invented the vaccine that was too late to help my Uncle Bill. He always made sure to point out how lucky we were to live in the time we were living because science to him wasn’t just wondrous; it was miraculous. This is a New York Times’ profile about Dr. Jonas E. Salk from 1955. Consider the words below as you comprehend the nihilism and madness of RFK Jr. and his legion of crackpots, such as the frauds Calley and Casey Means, the latter a medical residency drop-out and Instagram influencer, whom Trump has nominated to be the surgeon general of the United States:
Let’s get back to the This Week panel. Chris Christie zeroed in on the appalling Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, who was the deciding vote in the Kennedy confirmation:
Christie perfectly summed up the situation. Every word was self-evidently true to any right thinking and rationale person. Yet, according to panelist Reince Priebus, a model of capitulation, collaboration and cynicism none of this is so. He sees it differently. Here’s his take on the US Senate hearing that perfectly illustrates the magnitude of the American crisis, referring to RFK Jr.:
When George Stephanopoulos challenged him on RFK Jr. being “humble,” Priebus responded:
Christie jumped in, and said to Priebus:
Priebus:
Christie concluded with the obvious point about RFK Jr.:
In the end, I would have asked a different question than the one Christie asked Priebus, although I think Christie would appreciate mine as both a fellow New Jerseyan and University of Delaware Blue Hen. I would have looked Reince Priebus in the eye and asked:
At any rate, it is always good to see Chris Christie when he lines up in the right batter’s box. I wonder if he’s changed his mind about me from the time he published his book, “Let Me Finish,” which celebrated Trump. He described me as being a singular example of an overwrought Trump hysteric, and an exemplar of the exaggerated rhetoric used by the “Never Trump” movement to describe his close friend of many years, Donald. There’s a word for what I was about Trump, and a word for what he was about Trump: ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ It’s a concept that’s really helpful in understanding the science of vaccines — and everything happening around us. |
