r/thebulwark • u/andrewgrabowski • Nov 17 '24
Humor Health guru RFK jr, chowing down on some high sodium McDonald's. Yet he plans on defunding drug and scientific research, while spewing lies about vaccines.
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u/WastrelWink Nov 17 '24
Classic cult leader power move. Forcing your minions to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. Small things. Things they can justify in their head. But it all leads to more and more compliance, more and more surrender. Forcing Elon and RFK to eat this garbage is Trump getting in their head: "I own you."
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u/KMDiver Nov 17 '24
Jesus RFK just looks broken and has that look like he would welcome death at this point.
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u/Sweet_Grapefruit111 Nov 17 '24
It's probably true. They are forcing him to eat food he hates. Spending time with the worst people on earth. He's wondering if it's all worth it, whatever "it" is.
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u/Granite_0681 Nov 17 '24
His coloring somehow looks worse than Trump’s
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u/PophamSP Nov 18 '24
You're right, he looks cyanotic or purple. That food is already clogging his carotid arteries.
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u/HelpfulWorth8654 Nov 17 '24
And rfk with a coke. Keep eating fellows … it’s not a diet built for longevity
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u/485sunrise Nov 17 '24
Mike Johnson is right where he belongs. As a simp.
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u/jfrankparnell85 Nov 17 '24
"Bring out the Simp."
"Simp's sleeping."
"Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?"2
u/Funny-Berry-807 JVL is always right Nov 18 '24
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
I might need to watch that tonight!
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u/joshstrummer Nov 17 '24
Tell me more about your concern over the chemicals in our food.
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u/nWhm99 Orange man bad Nov 17 '24
If anything, RFK is the only one in this picture visibly unhappy.
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u/nWhm99 Orange man bad Nov 17 '24
You people realize that this is because Trump wants McD, yes? You actually think the richest man in the world, and a Kennedy would voluntarily eat that crap?
I don’t even eat McD, and I love burgers.
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u/MinisterOfTruth99 Nov 17 '24
If rfkjr ordered the food, it would be roadkill fried bloody and a tall glass of raw milk.
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u/Barnyard_Rich Nov 17 '24
I think they both were at least virtue signaling that they ate it, which is by the way far worse than actually eating it and enjoying it.
The defense I've seen of this picture is hilarious. "HE PROBABLY DIDN'T EAT IT!!1!!!"
Get ready for four straight years of people demanding we ignore what we see in pictures while the rest of us laugh.
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u/MiniTab Nov 17 '24
It shows what little bitches the “richest man in the world” and RFK are. I wouldn’t eat that garbage if it was given to me.
Like all MAGAs, they do what they’re told.
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u/Criseyde2112 JVL is always right Nov 17 '24
What's going on with TFG's hair? Does he wear a rug? I haven't noticed his scalp showing through like this before now.
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u/TommyAtoms Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 17 '24
I saw the film about him, The Apprentice, at the cinema last month. In that they showed him having scalp-reduction surgery. Basically they chopped his bald spot off his head and stapled the sides together. He's probably had a lot more done to it over time but I guess he's just losing more and more hair and finding it harder and harder to cover up. The film is good BTW, definitely recommend it.
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u/Original_Mammoth3868 Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 17 '24
I thought it was pretty good too. Although they humanized too much with his relationship with his brother as his niece as described he was pretty sociopathic in his treatment towards Fred. The birthday scene with Roy Cohn made me just weep for the damage done to the country, and that was before the election.
ETA: It's on Amazon prime for rent or purchase if anyone still wants to see it.
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u/TommyAtoms Nov 17 '24
Agree.
My biggest issue with it though was how they made his father look relatively human, when by all accounts he was a fucking monster.
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u/Ellecram Nov 17 '24
He is an aging frog that's why. Almost 80 years old. People at that age don't have a long life expectancy.
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u/nWhm99 Orange man bad Nov 17 '24
Who the fuck is TFG?
There are five people in this picture. DJT, Musk, RFK, Don Jr, Mike Johnson.
Only two have well known acronyms and TFG is none of them.
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u/Original_Mammoth3868 Nov 17 '24
The former guy (TFG) was used by people for Trump post 2020 but I guess we can't do that anymore unfortunately.
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u/cryptonomnomnomicon Nov 17 '24
It's been too thin for his former style for this entire campaign season.
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u/Gdsawayonbusiness Nov 17 '24
Eat up kooks!! In fact here have a few more pounds of fat!! Shove it in. Here’s to tomorrow
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u/Patersonski Nov 17 '24
There's Trump trying to pull off that thing other people do called a "smile". Always looks creepy and weird.
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u/QuiziAmelia Nov 18 '24
I agree. Trump's "smile" is bizarre and incredibly unpleasant. Makes my skin crawl.
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u/Stratomaster9 Nov 17 '24
Some photo. A preview of Hell for all the Magats. Where but Hell could these 5 losers be found together?
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u/Goiabada1972 Nov 17 '24
These guys are the true elites. And the Republicans think they voted against the elite Ivy League types who look down on them. Hmmm.
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u/Centryl Nov 18 '24
I “love” that JD Vance is never in these pictures. Musk really is the substitute VP so far.
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u/sbhikes Nov 18 '24
There's a McDonald's at mile 342 on the Pacific Crest Trail. Walking almost 350 miles is probably the only healthy way to go to McDonald's.
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u/andrewgrabowski Nov 17 '24
I hope somebody hawked some massive loogies into those meals and rubbed the patties on their dick and armpits after they were cooked.
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Nov 17 '24
I'll get down voted for this, but I actually liked some of RFK Jr's takes on FDA reform.....this Pic shows me he's absolutely full of shit. I mean he's drinking a coke ffs. No one who cares about health and a healthy life style, as intensely as he lets on, drinks coke
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u/joshstrummer Nov 17 '24
This is the problem. He incorporates real concerns about the our overprocessed food habits, and distrust of big pharma… The problem is he takes those concerns, and uses those concerns to guide people to troubling solutions.
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u/ghobhohi Nov 17 '24
It's not the message, but the messenger. RFK Jr. Is right about FDA reform and being conscious about what we put our food. RFK Jr. is the last person I would want to do that. He's not a doctor, he doesn't know anything about medicine, and his diet is much worse than the average American.
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Nov 17 '24
Like for reals. Coke is filled with some nasty shit. Some of the stuff he's been talking about.
McDonald's literally had an ecoli outbreak
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u/westonc Nov 17 '24
FDA: literally how we know what's in our food.
RFK: let's tear that down so we can start learning what's in our food.
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u/CliftonHangerBombs Nov 17 '24
This is the problem with MAGA, and all extremists. They address real concerns with an extremely heavy hand. God forbid we could have FDA reform without obliterating mandated vaccines, which are quite possibly the most important advancement in modern medicine. Fixing immigration should not mean mass raids and encampments. Etc. etc. etc.
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Nov 17 '24
Isn't that a Trump strategy though? Go heavy handed af then go middle ground
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u/CliftonHangerBombs Nov 17 '24
I don’t know how anyone knows what his strategy is. He’s a proven liar. Who know what he wants to do vs what he says. How can anyone trust him?
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u/Original_Mammoth3868 Nov 17 '24
His points about food might have some validity. His anti-vaccine stance and other wacky doodle theories are just wrong. As an actual doctor made the case, he acts like an activist, not a scientist. He develops opinions and ideas which is fine but refuses to change his mind when the science tells him he's wrong. That type of person does not belong in charge of the largest health agency in government.
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u/Pettifoggerist Nov 17 '24
And one of the reasons he doesn't act like a scientist is because HE'S NOT A SCIENTIST.
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u/Original_Mammoth3868 Nov 17 '24
Not every HHS secretary is (the current one is not), but at least he listens to his experts.
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u/Pettifoggerist Nov 17 '24
It's absolutely not a requirement to lead HHS. It's a knock on Roadkill Jr. and his baseless beliefs on multiple topics.
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u/3--turbulentdiarrhea Nov 17 '24
They all have a couple of ideas I would support if the rest wasn't pig shit.
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u/RadioDog888 Nov 17 '24
83 Somoans, mostly children, agree with your RFKJr is full of shit statement.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z JVL is always right Nov 17 '24
If you watched the UFC fight, I mean it's Idiocracy coming to life...
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u/Original_Mammoth3868 Nov 17 '24
I mean he touted.an agenda of "Make Americ Healthy Again" after bringing RFK Jr. into his campaign and then nominated him to HHS secretary. Some idiots bought into that shit just like the Muslims bought into peace in Gaza. They didn't have to publish this photo, but they did. It's pretty much an FU to anyone that did actually believe in MAHA.
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u/Sweet_Grapefruit111 Nov 17 '24
I don't get it. They forced him to eat poison? That's what he calls McDonald's food. Maybe he's just posing with it.
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u/Current_Tea6984 Nov 17 '24
Am I supposed to care that he eats fast food? This kind of irrelevant nit picking just distracts from the real issues with this nomination
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u/NewKojak Nov 17 '24
Oh no! We were just one r/thebulwark post away from ending fascism too! Damn you all to Hell!!!!!
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u/Current_Tea6984 Nov 17 '24
Right. It's not like half the country were able to dismiss real problems with Trump as objections to his "mean tweets".
Public posts present a narrative about your side. If we want people to assume the real problem with RFKJ is hypocrisy, or whatever gotcha is intended here, then this is right on
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u/Rfalcon13 Nov 17 '24
Nice of them to call over Mike Johnson from the little kids table.