RFK Jr. keeps putting his foot in his mouth after stepping in doodoo.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

RFK Jr. calls autism an epidemic: It ‘dwarfs COVID’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a new interview, said autism was an epidemic with an impact that surpasses the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives, the beginning of their productivity,” Kennedy said during a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable.”

“And it’s absolutely debilitating for them, their families, their communities,” he added.

His statements come after the secretary faced scrutiny earlier this week for claiming “autism destroys families” at a Wednesday press conference.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-calls-autism-epidemic-110000121.html

Speaking as one who has an autistic nephew, please STFU.

[Javaman]

1. Well, I'm okay with that. I have long said

He can go eat shit 😁

[Initech]

9. This is the guy who says drinking raw milk is good for you.

He already does eat shit!

[Nictuku]

2. "It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people."

... because no one cares about Old People. They just drain the system. They are not workers - paying into the tax system. Worthless pieces of shit....

OK, he didn't say that, but he didn't need to. It was implied. Fucking Asshole

(speaking as a retired old person)

[oasis]

8. Kennedy Jr. words throws old folks under the bus.

[moose65]

10. Good lord

RFK Jr is 71 himself. Trump is 78. I guess they are both expendable. 🙄

[ShazzieB]

17. Yeah, who cares about all that we PUT INTO the system during our lifetimes!

God forbid we should get anything back, including all the money that went into SS from decades of our paychecks!

Not to mention all the contributions we made to our society and economy, through our work, raising our kids to be decent humans, or just going to stores and buying stuff! (And most of us are still doing the latter as retirees.)

[milestogo]

3. What's really going to be debilitating is if you allow Medicaid to be cut so families with autistic

adults to care for will be totally screwed.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

4. Covid was a Pandemic

This guy is a total dipshit and fraud. He should be removed just for this debacle alone.

[0rganism]

5. He'll stick his foot in his mouth just to brag about how limber he is

"You really think I could be this flexible without my special dietary supplements,? now only $19.99 at responsible pharmacies everywhere!"

[Solomon]

16. And he walks barefoot on planes. Yuck!

[ShazzieB]

18. LOL! At least he doesn't hawk worthless dietary supplements.

Thats the only semi-good thing I can say about him, and it's a very, very low bar!

Oh, one other thing: his cousins have said they love him even though they hate what he's doing and think he's nuts! Nice going, Bob!

[Initech]

6. Calling autism an epidemic is incredibly fucked up and beyond evil.

It's a genetic disorder with thousands of variations and one magic pill isn't going to magically solve it.

This is straight Nazi level eugenics here. RFK Jr should be rotting in prison. The man is criminally insane.

[Nictuku]

12. You are right

Didnt he (RFK Jr) say recently that autistic kids will never (paraphrasing here...) work, add to the tax system or write poems....

He is vile, totally disgusting. This is simply NOT TRUE.

[Timeflyer]

7. He's made so much money peddling this non-scientific nonsense he can't stop, and now

Trump's put him in a position to spread medical misinformation nationwide. They are killers for money and power.

[Danmel]

11. Lots of not old people died of Covid too

You f'ing asshole. And old people are not disposable you f'ing asshole.
How could this be real? We are so screwed.
Not to mention his reprehensible comments about people with autism.

[yardwork]

14. The NIH was funding autism research.

RFK, Jr. cut all that funding.

I have no words for how stupid and evil this man is.

[Johnny2X2X]

15. Value of people to the GOP

To the GOP, and not coincidentally, to Nazis, the value of a person is only defined on what they can provide to the ruling class.

What RFK Jr. is talking about reeks of eugenics. And it's at the core of the GOP's world view. That a human being only has value if they can work for the oligarchy. It informs their views on virtually every social policy. It's why they want social security to end, because people who are retired are of no use to the billionaire class anymore, the rich no longer benefit from their labor.

It's binary to them, you're either making the rich and powerful more rich and powerful, or you're worthless to them and should be dead.

[ShazzieB]

19. And we know he wasn't raised that way!

Just look at his parents, his uncles, and the rest of the Kennedy clan, including his own siblings. Most of them have grown up to be productive and highly principled members of society, both because and in spite of the wealth and privilege they were born into. Because that's how they were raised.

He doesn't even have Trump's excuse of being born into a family headed by a psychopathic father (per niece Mary L. Trump) who valued nothing except money and did his best to teach his children to do the same. He was born into a family who had money but were taught the value of serving others. I'm sure it was traumatic to lose his father the way he did, but he's not the only one who experienced that.