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Lunabell

(7,214 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:54 PM 18 hrs ago

'I have a transcript!' Dem delivers proof as RFK Jr. scrambles to deny shocking comment.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his past controversial remarks about an agency he would oversee as the nation's top health official.

Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services appeared Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee, where the Georgia Democrat asked Kennedy whether he still agreed with his past comparison of the Centers for Disease Control to Nazi death camps.

https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-health-human-services/

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'I have a transcript!' Dem delivers proof as RFK Jr. scrambles to deny shocking comment. (Original Post) Lunabell 18 hrs ago OP
Transcript Cirsium 18 hrs ago #1
He quotes Jesus about harming children. This is the man whose anti-vax stance killed 83 people in Samoa. patphil 16 hrs ago #2
Right Cirsium 15 hrs ago #4
"The guy is nuts." Aussie105 15 hrs ago #3
He was eviscerated, filleted and slowly bbq'd. paleotn 15 hrs ago #5

Cirsium

(1,498 posts)
1. Transcript
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 03:08 PM
18 hrs ago

The guy is nuts. Here are his actual remarks:

“The word ‘fascism’ in Italian means a bundle of sticks, and what it means is the bundle is more important than the sticks. The institution, CDC and the vaccine program, is more important than the children that it’s supposed to protect. It’s the same reason we had a pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church. Because people were able to convince themselves that the institution, the church, was more important than these little boys and girls who were being raped. And everybody kept their mouth shut. The press, the prosecutors, the priests, the bishops, the monsignors, the Vatican, and even the parents of the kids who just didn’t want to believe it was happening, or believed so much in the church they were unwilling to criticize it. And you know, that is the perfect metaphor for what’s happening to us. There have to be parents who stand up and say, ‘We don’t give a s---.’”

“Is it hyperbole when I say these people should be in jail? They should be in jail and the key should be thrown away. What Jesus Christ says is that anybody who harms a hair of these little children that it would be better if a millstone was tied around their neck and they were thrown in the deepest part of the ocean and it would be better yet if they had never been born.”

"To me this is like Nazi death camps, what happened to these kids. I can’t tell you why somebody would do something like that. I can’t tell you why ordinary Germans participated in the Holocaust.”

“Oh, they’ve hidden it, and they won’t let anybody in it, except their own guys who cherry-pick and design these fabricated studies and change the protocols constantly to try to use it to defend vaccines, It’s being used instead to craft these fabricated, fraudulent studies by in-house bought-and-paid-for ‘biostitutes’ to fool the public about vaccine safety.”

patphil

(7,283 posts)
2. He quotes Jesus about harming children. This is the man whose anti-vax stance killed 83 people in Samoa.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 04:40 PM
16 hrs ago

Aussie105

(6,612 posts)
3. "The guy is nuts."
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 05:48 PM
15 hrs ago

Indeed.
The thought processes of a dysfunctional human being.

But keep talking and show the country who and what you are.

Trump picks only the best people . . .

paleotn

(19,816 posts)
5. He was eviscerated, filleted and slowly bbq'd.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 05:54 PM
15 hrs ago

by numerous Dem Senators. With a record like brain worm's, it wasn't hard, but he seemed totally unprepared and he walked into each and every gottcha like a complete fool. It was a pleasure to watch the excerpts

But wait! There's more! He's on tap for more "grilling" tomorrow. What a complete fucking loon!!

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