Kennedy's lies about vaccines got him here. Now he's lying to the Senate - and you.

[Zorro]

Today in “Oh, gimme a break!” news, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguably the most bonkers of all President Donald Trump’s abundantly bonkers Cabinet picks, declared in a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing that he is not anti-vaccine.

I’ll give you a few moments to stop laughing before you continue reading. I’ll also remind you that Kennedy – RFK Jr., of all people – is being considered to head up the sprawling U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. And now I’ll give you a few moments to scream.

Ready? OK.

To be clear, Kennedy’s years of dangerous anti-vaccine rhetoric are the only reason any of us know who he is. If you take away his anti-vax street cred, the man is little more than a sun-worn leather saddle that became a real boy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/29/kennedy-confirmation-hearing-anti-vaccine-public-health/78029556007/

[2naSalit]

1. Hasn't he been...

Making money from publicly dissing vaccines and other conventional medicines?

[Solly Mack]

2. Everyone knows he's lying. What matters is if people act on that knowledge.

No one gets to pretend they didn't know he was lying. Too much evidence to the contrary. No one gets to pretend what he says to get confirmed somehow changes how he will behave once in office - because they know he is lying to get confirmed.

[Bengus81]

3. Watched some of that yesterday. He's lying his ass off to be confirmed. But so did Trump

Supreme Court picks years ago. Yeah...abortion "is a settled matter". Lying over and over under oath.