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(146,599 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:47 PM Dec 13

Warren on RFK Jr. pick: 'Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio'

Source: The Hill

12/13/24 3:51 PM ET

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sounded the alarm over anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect’s Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio — that’s what’s on the horizon if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes the Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Warren wrote in a post on social platform X Friday, along with a video message. “You know, I would laugh if it weren’t so scary,” the Massachusetts Democrat said in the video.

The post comes as Trump’s choice to elevate Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has sparked concern among Democrats and public health experts that he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.

Kennedy, who suspended his own independent run for the White House and endorsed Trump, has been in the headlines lately after the president-elect signaled in a recent interview that the potential HHS chief would investigate a debunked link between vaccines and autism.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5039502-elizabeth-warren-robert-f-kennedy-jr-donald-trump-hhs-vaccines/

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Warren on RFK Jr. pick: 'Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 13 OP

Well, I agree w/ her, but the punishment should be, should another horrible outbreak of polio happen (and SWBTATTReg Dec 13 #1

Big pharma will object. 33taw Dec 13 #2

"I nevah said thot!". He keeps lying about all his past Klarkashton Dec 13 #3

So are we to understand that Kennedy took his adamant stance Mblaze Dec 13 #4

He is like the officer in Doctor Strangelove, concern about "our precious bodily fluids." spike jones Dec 13 #5

This nomination is case in point why unqualified people shouldn't be allowed to be nominated for such positions in the Karasu Dec 13 #6

Bob, Jr. will reform Big Pharma. LudwigPastorius Dec 13 #7

Ivermectin for everyone Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 14 #8

Kick ck4829 Dec 16 #9

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SWBTATTReg

(24,674 posts)

1. Well, I agree w/ her, but the punishment should be, should another horrible outbreak of polio happen (and

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:14 PM

Dec 13

a lot of us went through the one in the early 60s or so), that he should be punished (RFK jr) by sentencing him to work in a recovery clinic for those recovering from Polio or other infectious diseases. He's old enough to have been exposed to some of these early outbreaks, I was, and I'm a lot of us were too, especially in the early 60s or so.

MFer. I just hope that he seriously gets punished for enabling the non-believers into causing harm to others for their dumb beliefs.

33taw

(3,038 posts)

2. Big pharma will object.

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Fri Dec 13, 2024, 07:45 PM

Dec 13

Klarkashton

(2,783 posts)

3. "I nevah said thot!". He keeps lying about all his past

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Fri Dec 13, 2024, 07:49 PM

Dec 13

Bullshit. The only reason he has been given that nomination is that it was a cheap ass quid pro quo for the his trump endorsement.
This whole thing is a travesty and a farce.