The Real Reason RFK Jr. Is An Anti-Vaxxer Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine

It's so much worse than anything I could have guessed.

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It’s hard to surprise me these days. Piss me off? Yes. Disgust me? Come on. Have you MET a fucking Republican in the last twenty years or so? They’re repulsive. But honestly, truly surprise me? Maybe when a Republican shows an ounce of integrity or a shred of humanity.

That ain’t what today is about, though.

There are two parts to this story. One, just how completely fucking deranged RFK Jr. is. And, two, how the legacy press fucked us all by enabling Kennedy because they thought he would hurt Biden. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die because they looked the other way.

Now, it’s common knowledge that the Republican Party wants to roll back human advancement a century or more. Civil rights - gone. Education - gone. Safe food and water - gone. The fascist right has never stopped relitigating the Civil War and I promise you, if they win, they WILL legalize slavery again. White nationalism is their ideal.

Turns out, though, that turning back the clock on public health was always part of the GOP agenda, too. Not just stripping people of their health care, but killing modern medical science because it’s too “woke.” And that brings us to RFK Jr.

I was never clear on what caused Junior’s swing to the far right. Was he desperate for power? Was it audience capture after recieivng so much attention from Nazis? Was it a natural extension of his anti-vaxxer bullshit?

It might have been a combination of all of that, but the anti-vaxxer stuff is key. You see, Kennedy doesn’t just not believe in vaccines. He doesn’t believe in the foundation of modern medical science. At all.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. rejects the idea that germs and bacteria cause the human body to develop various illnesses. He rejects Germ Theory.

Not only does Captain Brainworm reject a scientific theory that all of modern medical science has been based on for the last 160 years, he’s rejected it in favor of a mishmash of two theories, Miasma and Terrain, that have been definitively debunked since before the slavers and traitors of the Confederacy waved the white flag and started their 150 year campaign of being whiny sore loser bitches. Miasma Theory? Terrain Theory? This is what Kennedy believes in? Here. Now. In the 21st Century. Yes, that’s just as fucking stupid/crazy as it sounds.

Quick refresh of high school biology! Germ Theory was developed back in 1862 by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. If the name “Pasteur” sounds vaguely familiar, he’s the same guy who developed pasteurization. That’s the process that makes milk safe to drink by killing, yes, the same microorganisms RFK Jr. insists do not make us sick.

It’s important to note that this motherfucker, Kennedy, is also demanding we stop pasteurizing milk because “raw milk,” AKA “filthy disgusting milk brimming with creepy crawly bacteria and germs,” is better for us and 100% safe. If by 100% safe, Kennedy means “Frequently makes people violently sick and has a history of killing babies before we started sterilizing it?” Then, yeah, raw milk is fucking awesome!

Just so we’re all on the same page here: It’s called “Germ Theory” and it always will be, even though it’s a fact. This is a thing I’ve run into with Creationists multiple times over the years when it comes to the theory of evolution. “It’s just a theory, so you don’t know if it’s true!”

These people are fucking imbeciles and I love to torture them. But real quick: It’s a “theory” because in science, that’s the word used to describe a series of facts, laws, and observations that all support an explanation of a particular phenomenon. Colloquially, we use “theory” interchangeably with “guess,” but that is not the same thing in science. There’s no guessing about germs and bacteria. It’s a fucking fact.

So if you should ever come across a drooling inbred dumbshit insisting that germs or evolution or climate change is just a “theory,” tell them that gravity is a theory, too, and they should immediately prove it wrong by stepping off the closest roof.

Moving on!

So how do we know that Kennedy rejects Germ Theory? He fucking wrote in a book:

It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."

Naturally, Kennedy couldn’t even get his own theories correct, butchering both Miasma and Terrain and inventing some amalgamation of the two:

In the chapter, Kennedy promotes the "miasma theory" but gets the definition completely wrong. Instead of actual miasma theory, he describes something more like terrain theory. He writes: "'Miasma theory' emphasizes preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and by reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses."

If you want to understand more about the long-discarded theories, read the Ars Technica article. They explain it. I didn’t bother because it’s not really important for the purposes of this piece, other than Kennedy believes nonsense, and he fucked up even that.

Here’s the important bit:

The abandonment of miasma theory, Kennedy bemoans, realigned health and medical institutions to "the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition."

According to Kennedy, germ theory gained popularity, not because of the undisputed evidence supporting it, but by "mimicking the traditional explanation for disease—demon possession—giving it a leg up over miasma."

To this day, Kennedy writes, a "$1 trillion pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons, and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology led by 'Little Napoleon' himself, Anthony Fauci, fortify the century-old predominance of germ theory."

Got that? So it wasn’t the success of Germ Theory and the medicines it produced in curing and preventing diseases and illnesses that made it “popular.” It was the fact that it appealed to people’s belief that we could be possessed by demons. It’s all superstition, yo! We just need to get back to clean air, clean water, and clean food!

Which, of course, makes one wonder why RFK Jr. works in a regime that is working day and night to give us filthy air, filthy water, and dangerously tainted food. Actually, I have an answer for that, which I will get to in a moment.

It’s really REALLY important to understand that Kennedy wrote this book, as Ars Technica points out, back in 2021. Isn’t it curious that the legacy press didn’t notice it for the entire year he was running?

I’m going to make this perfectly clear: RFK Jr. had so many enormous red flags, it’s a miracle he wasn’t gored to death by a rabid bull years ago. It was all out there for any journalist to find if they looked for more than ten seconds.

But they didn’t. The only thing they mentioned was that he was kind of sort of an anti-vaxxer, but was he really? He said he wasn’t, so they took him at his word even though Kennedy had made an awful lot of public statements that clearly said he was, in fact, an anti-vaxxer.

Why did they do this? Because RFK Jr. was running against Joe Biden in the Democratic primary and anyone running against Biden got the kind of fawning coverage from the legacy press you cannot buy. If Vermin Supreme had run as a Democrat, he would have been on the front page of the New York End Times with the headline: “Will Supreme Be The End Of Joe?” It was THAT fucking ridiculous.

It was only when RFK Jr. started to eat into Trump’s numbers that the legacy press “suddenly” started to “discover” all of this bad stuff about him. The abuse of his first wife. The one he drove to suicide. The creepy weird stuff with dead animals. The sexual assaults. The literal brain damage from both a worm and mercury poisoning. The legacy didn’t notice ANY of that until Kennedy threatened Trump.

Oh, and not one of them noticed that he literally rejects the foundation of modern medical science. Whoopsie! Might have mentioned that when Trump was promising to put him in charge of America’s healthcare during the campaign, no? Of course not. That might have hurt Trump, and well, the legacy press wanted their golden goose back.

The Media Got Its Golden Goose Back

We now live in a world where hundreds of thousands of people are going to die because the person controlling America’s health care is a retrograde crazy fuck who does not understand basic science or history and does not want to.

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Like all right-wingers, Kennedy disregards history when it’s inconvenient. We’ve tried all of this before. Raw milk. No vaccines. No psychiatric drugs. No regulations on food companies. We lived it. It was terrible. People were sick all the time. Children died by the thousands. Disease was rampant.

Kennedy wants to bring it all back.

He’ll never say it out loud, but RFK Jr., like so many in the GOP, believes in eugenics. This is why he’s so comfortable in a regime that opposes everything he pretends to stand for. He’s a eugenicist. Have you seen how he talks about the autistic community?! Straight up Nazi shit.

In Kennedy’s sick and twisted world, the strong survive; the weak get sick and die.

But that’s not really true, is it? The WEALTHY survive because they have access to clean food and water and the medicine that RFK Jr. will deny to the rest of us. The poor and the middle class, what’s left of it, are poisoned and left to rot while the rich wag their fingers at us. Why don’t you take better care of yourselves?

Can’t happen? Bullshit. We literally do it now to poor people who live in food deserts. They’re forced to eat junk food loaded with fat and salt because they can’t afford fresh fruits and vegetables that are a 40-minute bus ride away, anyway. We’re more than happy to subsidize the sugar industry with billions in government money but spend a few million to make sure poor kids get a healthy meal? Fuuuuuuck youuuuuuuu! If they eat healthy food, they might not grow up desperate and THEN who will the cops have to shoot?

This is who they are. This is who they’ve always been. The difference is that they no longer think they have to hide behind a mask of compassion or being “pro-life.” The American right is a death cult and they want to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible to “purify” the country.

I will continue to say this because it is critical: When this is over, and we have won, because it WILL end and we WILL win, all of these soulless monsters must pay for what they’ve done. No “moving forward for the good of the country.” They all have to be dragged into a court and put on trial for crimes against humanity. If they don’t end up in front of a firing squad, they have to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

As for the rank and file fascists in this country? They have to live in fear, realizing that we are done tolerating their treason and hate. No more coddling racist white men and their attempts to overthrow democracy. They can leave the country, spend life in prison, or swing from a rope. But they cannot walk among us as a cancer, poisoning everything good and worthwhile about America. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Go back in your closet and fucking stay there. Come out again at your peril.

RFK Jr. is going to kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people. Everyone involved with enabling him has to pay the price for their evil. We can’t heal this country until justice is done and the victims have their day.

This is it. This is Germany in the 1930s, and what you do will be recorded in the history books. Your children and grandchildren will look back and ask what you did. Will you be able to look them in the face?

Fascism thrives on fear. It wilts under scrutiny. Never look away. Never stop fighting. Hold them accountable and make them pay for every cruel thing they do. It’s the only way we get through this. Support this newsletter for just $5 a month or $50 a year and we’ll get through together.

The Blue Wave has begun and the fascist fucks are scared. There are 185 days until it hits Virginia and Pennsylvania. If I were a billionaire fascist loser, I’d think REALLY hard about getting out of the way.