Maybe Ron DeSantis has a death wish. That’s the only thing that would explain this latest thought of his, which he released into the universe on a right-wing talk show. DeSantis was asked if he would consider RFK, Jr. as a running mate and DeSantis said, no, but there were plenty of other things that he could do and it might be a great idea to “sic him on the FDA.” Whut?
Great idea, a conspiracy theorist heading up the Food and Drug Administration.
I wonder if DeSantis thinks that he can do a political campaign which is the equivalent of the movie The Producers? That if he makes it so completely bad, so totally stupid, that miraculously that will be a hit with people? Because he certainly is making it sound that way.
RFK Jr. told Joe Rogen, falsely, that ivermectin, a de-worming drug, was suppressed by the FDA as part of a plot by the government to push COVID-19 vaccines and get them emergency use authorization.
In June, he tweeted he would “hold the agencies and individuals responsible, and we will compensate the vaccine injured.”
He also linked “vaccine research” to HIV and Spanish Flu.
He’s pledged to gut the FDA entirely if he’s elected as president. The FDA requires regulations and standards for medicines before they’re sold to the broad public.
In an NBC News interview with Brandy Zadrozny, Kennedy claimed that the FDA boards are nothing more than “sockpuppets” for the pharmaceutical agency.
He also wants to seriously gut the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as “and the expert advisory panels of doctors, scientists and professors they rely on,” wrote Zadrozny.
“And when the next pandemic arrives — and it will — would President Kennedy pursue vaccines as Trump did? Kennedy won’t directly say,” she continued. “He says he’d prioritize treatments, like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine — which Kennedy says worked against Covid, despite numerous studies saying they didn’t (and the retraction of flawed or fraudulent studies that claimed they did).”
Wonderful candidates for office: one loon wants to shut down the FDA, the other loon wants to shut down the Department of Education.
Remember…
“The Best People”
from some sort of alternate universe.
RFK Jr. is proof that every family has a loudmouth @$$hole in it. He is singularly unqualified for, well,everything ,but especially to.run CDC or FDA. But then so is DeSaster. I have lost respect for the Ivory because of the incredibly stupid legacies and moronic conservative liars they have allowed to graduate.
And then I remember Larry Summers ran Had atd, the disgusting misogynist, and it explains everything.