At an anti-vaccine conference in Georgia on Friday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his commitment to the cause and spoke to his base about how he, as president, would serve the movement he built.

“I feel like I’ve come home today,” he said to a standing ovation, crediting the assembled audience with his candidacy.

He then laid out his vision for a Kennedy presidency, which would include telling the National Institutes of Health to take “a break” from studying infectious diseases, like Covid-19 and measles, and pivoting the agency to the study of chronic diseases, like diabetes and obesity. Kennedy has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect such chronic conditions and invest in ineffective and even harmful treatments; he includes vaccines among them.

“I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”

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    1 year ago

    Kennedy is a lifelong democrat.

    EDIT: Folks I’m just providing context. “So? So? So? So? So?

    • @PlantJam
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      181 year ago

      Actions speak louder than words.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      So what? Him being a dem doesnt stop him from being a pro-disease dipshit who if he got the same treatment as his uncle id laugh my ass off. He’s a spoiler candidate for the republicans banking on name recognition alone, good thing he sounds like a turkey in an electric chair and is a complete fucktard.

    • Flying Squid
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      111 year ago

      Apparently not lifelong since he’s not running as one.