It’s a serious sign of

something

when a whopping 20% ​​of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents tell pollsters they want Robert F. Kennedy Jr. support for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Perhaps it’s a sign that their brains have been supercharged by Wi-Fi radiation beaming at them from their cell phones, something Kennedy says happens all the time.

Or maybe it’s a sign that 5G high-speed cell towers are distorting people’s ability to think clearly, yet another of Kennedy’s favorite conspiracy theories.

In my opinion, it’s more likely a sign that some Democrats are concerned about President Biden’s advanced age, and that a (slightly) younger man from a beloved Democratic political dynasty seems at first glance to offer a reasonable alternative.

Don’t be fooled.

Robert Kennedy Jr

is off his rocker.

It’s not entirely clear at first, which is why there’s a bit of cognitive dissonance involved. After all, with his Kennedy-esque full head of hair, piercing blue eyes and blindingly white smile, Kennedy looks like presidential material. He’s an environmental advocate who has spent decades advocating for a cleaner environment (although detractors say he’s done more harm than good, or takes credit where it’s not deserved). Its liberal bona fide

corpses

in the right order. He has talked about closing the wealth gap, about the recovery of our hollowed-out middle class, about the urgency of tackling global warming, and so on.

And yet, when he opens his mouth, as he recently did for more than three hours on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the silliness that comes out is decidedly Trump-esque.

Wi-Fi radiation opens your blood brain barrier and all these toxins that are in your body can now enter your brain, he said to Rogan.

How does WiFi open your blood-brain barrier? asked Rogan, in perhaps his most probing follow-up question of the whole fawning puffcast.

Now you have gone beyond my expertise, Kennedy replied.

No

Kennedy wants to permanently close our southern border. He believes antidepressants are responsible for mass shootings. (Before the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events,” he told Elon Musk during a Twitter Spaces conversation earlier this month.)

He believes his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, were murdered by the CIA, and

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Rogan told that he

RFK Jr.,

could also be an intelligence target. (I’m aware of that danger, Kennedy said. I’m not afraid of it at all, but I’m not stupid about it and I take precautions.)

He has questioned the scientifically unassailable relationship between HIV and AIDS. He has written a popular book on demonization

Dr

Anthony Fauci, who accuses the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of sabotaging AIDS treatments, dismissing him as “a powerful technocrat who helped orchestrate and execute

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The historic 2020 coup against Western democracy. (Fauci has called Kennedy a very disturbed person. I’m on Team Fauci.)

Most dangerous, of course, is that Kennedy is a source of vaccine misinformation. He has embraced the much-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism. He is evil chairman of Children’s Health Defense

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group that positions itself, according to its website, as the global revolt against medical tyranny to defend human rights.

The group is a mega-spreader of vaccine misinformation on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In a Facebook post, Kennedy claimed without evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine is not safe for pregnant women. Studies have shown that there is no specific vaccine risk for pregnant women.

Kennedy also encouraged black Americans, who have suffered disproportionately from COVID-19, to distrust COVID-19 vaccines, comparing them to the gruesome Tuskegee syphilis study, in which

over a 40-year period, hundreds of black men received no medical treatment for syphilis

without their knowledge

while public health officials studied the disease.

And yet, when he and his third wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Cheryl Hines, threw a Christmas party at their Brentwood home in 2021, guests were instructed to get tested or vaccinated against COVID-19.

I guess I’m not always the boss in my own house, Kennedy told Politico.

Once you get on the anti-vax

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bandwagon, I think it makes sense to blame almost all physical problems on immunization. Kennedy has even suggested that vaccines may have caused the condition affecting his larynx, spasmodic dysphonia, which causes his voice to sound shaky or strained.

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However, in 2007, he didn’t contradict Oprah Winfrey when she asked him about his genetic neurological disorder during an interview and he replied that it started in his early 40s. By 2021, however, he told a podcaster that he thought a flu shot might be the cause.

It is true that vaccination carries negligible risk, and there are some cases of children being injured by vaccines, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that childhood vaccines save at least 4 million lives each year worldwide,

and adult vaccination also saves masses of people every year.

On the campaign trail, Kennedy has largely downplayed his aversion to vaccines. After all, Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to embrace vaccination

.

In a recent NBC News profile of Kennedy, reporter Brandy Zadrozny cited a Facebook group of Kennedy supporters who decided to name their candidate a Vaccine Safety Advocate as a way of promoting his anti-vax

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sentiments more palatable to Democratic voters.

Well, you can call him whatever you want. His views are dangerous and he has no place near the White House or any position of real political power. He’s done enough damage already.

Kennedy dynasty, schmynasty.

@robinkabcarian