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If we wanna take weapons out of crazy folks' hands, let's start with RFK, cuz that mofo has lost it! [1]

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Date: 2025-09-05

Folks always said: “The fish rots from the head.” And baby, right now the stink is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

At this week’s Senate hearing, RFK Jr. strutted in like medicine was his personal punching bag. And some, not all, in the media? Acting like RFK was some modern-day Galileo-style martyr who is really the victim here:

The New York Times Headline Screams: A Defiant Kennedy Defends Vaccine Changes and C.D.C. Shake-Up

Below is a YouTube vid I created on the matter—LINK:

I ain’t fooling’ with it ya’ll!

Heffah, please, this is a man who accosted a dead bear and a whale for god knows what reasons, none of what he said regarding these two mind-numbing incidents even makes sense, but sure, let's wax on about how he is fighting for common-sense medical care.

Nature Magazine also chimed in with:

RFK Jr slings accusations and defends public-health upheaval at fiery hearing

Big heavy sigh.

Even PBS titled their recent article on the matter as “4 major moments from RFK Jr.’s contentious hearing with senators,” , meanwhile, CNN “noted” Kennedy was “far more combative than in previous appearances,” accusing Democrats of “making things up” and speaking “gibberish” (CNN) while ABC News softened the blow with “fiery” —

WTAF?? No. NO!

“Contentious” and “fiery” are what you call a married couple arguing over dishes. This man is trying to delegitimize life-saving vaccines—the same vaccines doctors put their lives on the line to create. That’s not contentious. That’s reckless. And when the media keeps dressing it up like it’s just spicy politics, the poison trickles down.

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From the Senate Floor to the Exam Room

Look at California. When the head of the fish tells you science is optional, folks lower down the ladder start believing dignity is optional, too.

Case in point: healthcare staff at a Sutter Health facility in Northern California. Multiple employees filmed themselves on TikTok, mocking their own patients. The New York Post reported: “The final image shows multiple employees clustered around another exam table with a stain with the caption, ‘Make sure you leave your healthcare workers sweet gifts like these!’” (NY Post)

They were fired, but let’s not kid ourselves; I doubt the folks in charge cared much beyond the potential loss of dollars. BuzzFeed News quoted Sutter Health saying it was “deeply concerned” (Buzzfeed)

Who wrote their press release, Susan Collins?

Concerned?

Honey, patients were humiliated — there had to be a good many of them who knew they were being referenced and mocked. That’s not just a slip-up—that’s cruelty normalized. The culture that lets caregivers treat patients like clowns? That culture comes from the top.

And Then the DOJ Crossed the Line

Now here’s the kicker. The Washington Post revealed that senior DOJ officials actually considered banning all transgender people from owning guns after a Minneapolis school shooting (Washington Post). Instead of asking how the shooter accessed weapons, they asked: “What if we classify all trans folks as mentally defective under federal law?”

Let’s be real: that’s not policy—it’s scapegoating. The American Psychiatric Association makes it plain: being transgender is not a mental illness. Gender dysphoria is about distress, not identity. Yet DOJ officials flirted with pathologizing an entire community just to dodge the real monster: gun proliferation.

Stand up for our sisters and brothers who need us more than ever!

Also, consider this: the Williams Institute at UCLA reports that transgender individuals experience violent victimization at over four times the rate of cisgender people—86.2 incidents per 1,000 compared to 21.7 per 1,000 among cis folks Williams Institute.

Meanwhile, the Everytown Transgender Homicide Tracker shows that homicides of transgender and gender-expansive individuals nearly doubled between 2017 and 2021, with roughly three-quarters involving guns—and Black trans women bearing the overwhelming brunt of this violence Congress.govEve

Given these facts, refusing them opportunities for self-defense—or enacting policies that remove any only real options they have—is not only shortsighted—it’s morally indefensible.

But hey, here’s where it gets in’nerestin’: study after study shows that cisgender white men commit the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in America. According to Statista, from 1982 to 2023, 66% of mass shootings were carried out by white males. But when a rare case involves a trans shooter, suddenly an entire community’s rights are on the chopping block. Make that make sense.

Connect the Dots

See how it lines up?

RFK Jr. rots the head by mocking medicine at the highest level.

Nurses feel emboldened to mock patients on TikTok.

DOJ officials weaponize junk science to strip civil rights from trans people—while ignoring the real face of mass violence.

That’s not coincidence—it’s cultural rot.

So stop calling RFK Jr. “contentious.” Stop calling nurses’ mockery “concerning.” Stop calling DOJ deliberations “debate.” Call it what it is: dangerous. If we don’t, this fish will stink up the entire kitchen, and it may take a long time to get the smell out.

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