#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain About The Message, Not The Messanger.
Unifying theme can come from RFK-Trump alliance but scornful mainstream press won't allow it
Last month inside an Arizona convention hall, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump publicized their cautious alliance.
RFK spoke for a few minutes during the rally. He brought up a subject not discussed by conventional politicians: our country’s health.
“Our kids are among the sickest in the world. Don’t you want healthy children?” he asked pejoratively.
A cynic would pass off RFK’s rhetorical question as a typically manipulative tactic by a desperate politician. I mean, who doesn’t want healthy children? We’re conditioned now to expect ‘health and safety’ as the lede in to any debate about kids in America. Yet when was the last time you remember a candidate for office making health and disease prevention a major part of their platform?
And while doing so, condemn our public health infrastructure and its criminal association with Big Pharma?
That’s the headline. But because it’s RFK, long labeled a fruitcake by the legacy press, there’s little dialogue advancement.
We are never going to get a complete requiem on the Covid Hysteria era. Recent House hearings and investigations are important — and ongoing — but most of America isn’t paying attention anymore. And the president at the time of the initial lockdowns, Trump, can’t talk about it now that he’s running for office again. The fact he trusted Fauci and Birx for as long as he did and allowed the teacher’s unions to bully state leaders into school closings is a terrible chapter in Trump 1.0. The Harris campaign won’t bring it up as they were responsible for weaponizing the voodoo science once she and the current Beached-In-Chief took office in January 2021. Because both sides are to blame for the response, I doubt Covid will come up during the debates. Not of interest to average Americans.
Now having throwing his support behind Trump, RFK will tap dance around any Covid conversation, not wanting to directly criticize the former president. But to see him at a podium with Trump, in front of a live television audience, bring up poisonous food chemicals, was striking, and refreshingly candid.
RFK initially announced his independent presidential bid in October 2023. In that speech, he touched on physical health and chronic diseases but mostly declared “independence from the political corruption in Washington” for motivation for abandoning the Democratic party so synonymous with the Kennedy name. It was later in his campaign — even while still seeking the Democratic nomination — speaking on longer form podcasts, when RFK seized the platform to delve deeper into those issues.
On Joe Rogan, RFK explained his time as a corporate attorney suing agricultural giant Monsanto, his firm winning billions in damages for clients who got sick off the company’s herbicide, Round Up. Appearing on popular podcasts hosted by Mark Hyman and Adam Carolla, RFK ties much of the rise of obesity, diabetes and illness to financial incentives by Big Pharma to not disclose health risks.
“There are scientists collecting royalties on every drug they worked on. Some as much as 150,000 per year forever,” RFK said on a Hyman podcast. “When you have those perverse economic incentives and economic interests, it will subsume the regulatory function beneath the mercantile ambitions of those that can make a lot of money.”
Appearing on Carolla, he said, “There’s a lot of pressure…economic and financial incentive to focus on the pharmaceutical paradigm, on pharmaceutical solutions. That’s fortified by the fact almost 60% of ad revenue for network new comes from Big Pharma…they are making their investments to sell their product but dictate content.”
These are massively important issues in our country that simply do not make it into the mainstream. RFK, on these same podcasts, also discussed the linkage of WiFi signals to cancer and the CIA’s involvement in his uncle’s assassination 60 years ago, considered conspiracy theory topics that further kook-ify his reputation. Regardless of how the D.C press corps tries to label RFK, the wacky stuff cannot overshadow his willingness to speak out on the potential dangers of seed oils, processed foods, Covid vaccines, the glorification of obesity and anti-depressant medications and the influence of Big Pharma on healthcare in America, particularly their financial control over the Food and Drug Administration.
Although Trump will likely not speak with the depth of RFK on health and chronic disease, the fact he’s aware and cares about these subjects matters significantly. It signifies a shift in polling and a constituency — suburban woman — that cares deeply about these issues and are OK with RFK’s “weirdness.”
Covid may not be a front-of-the-line topic with these voters, scar tissue remains from the “authoritarianism” displayed by institutional leaders at that time. The bend-the- knee response to public health and intentional ignorance towards scientific data that conflicted with the establishment propaganda kept kids out of school, damaging an entire generation of children while dismissing real concerns about harms from the Covid vaccine. Nearly 40 percent of Americans are obese and about the same percentage have multiple chronic conditions. We all see it at our schools, within our communities, or when we travel. The fact no politician will acknowledge this reality is mind numbingly senseless.
Now with a larger profile, RFK will have more reach to platform the ideas and policies wrapped into “Make America Healthy Again.”
#MAHA is the boldest and most relevant campaign slogan of this political season, yet will predictably get shouted down by the corrupt D.C. press and Ruling Class.
Listen to RFK. He doesn’t attack people. He advances ideas and asks tough questions about the public health establishment in this country.
He forces us to think critically, a welcome development to the 2024 election season.
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