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input.translation  ·  2 weeks ago
"To give some idea of what banning #fluoride might look like, Calgary, Canada, banned fluoride in 2011. In the eight years afterward, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy for children to avoid death from #infection skyrocketed 700 percent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital."

Aside: This is because bacteria in untreated, infected #cavities can sometimes spread to other body parts, including the bloodstream, and lead to #sepsis.

https://newrepublic.com/post/188095/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-plan-health-fda
#rfkjr #trump #dental #publichealth

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
Hundreds of fmr #Bush, #McCain & #Romney staffers back #KamalaHarris

The more #Trump attacks #Harris as some kind of radical, the more mainstream #Republicans throw their support behind the #Democrat.

Late last week, the 2 major-party presidential nominees traded notable endorsements. On the one hand, Trump picked up support from independent conspiracy theorist #RFKJr, which didn’t seem to bother #Democrats at all.

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hundreds-former-bush-mccain-romney-staffers-back-harris-rcna168430

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  3 months ago
Around the same time, #KamalaHarris & her team said they would see the #RFKJr endorsement & raise #Trump w/a dozen #Republican WH lawyers who served in the #Reagan & #Bush admins, each of whom are now supporting the #Democrat.

This week, something similar happened. Trump picked up backing from fmr *Democratic* Rep #TulsiGabbard [islamophobe & homophobe], at which point…Team #Harris again said they’d see the fmr congresswoman’s endorsement & raise Trump a whole lot more….

#HarrisWalz2024

David August
David August  ·  4 months ago
I've a sketch in tomorrow's (8-8-2024) #ThisWeekThisWeek unspooling the story of RFK Jr. and the Bear. The show is like the news, but funny.

Come to Open Fist Theatre in Los Angeles and see my sketch and more with this fine (2nd image) people on stage.

Tix at link on Open Fist's profile and: https://openfisttheatre.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0N2I000022tnQ0UAI

#sketch #comedy#SketchComedy #satire #funny #jokes #news#LosAngeles#livetheatre #thisweek #headlines#RFKjr #bear

A promotional poster for "This Week This Week" presents various performers. The text at the top reads "This Week This Week Presents:" followed by pictures and names of the performers: - Michelle Lema - Rosie Byrne - Harry Murphy - Jack Sharpe - Amanda Weier - Kara Young - Michelle Nussey - Kevin Brennan - Kassie Johnston - Schuyler Mastain - Kiley Eberhardt In the center, there is a special guest, Rob Janas, and an anchor, Derek Manson. The event is scheduled for August 8th at 8 PM, located at 3269 Casitas Ave.
A promotional poster for "This Week This Week" presents various performers. The text at the top reads "This Week This Week Presents:" followed by pictures and names of the performers: - Michelle Lema - Rosie Byrne - Harry Murphy - Jack Sharpe - Amanda Weier - Kara Young - Michelle Nussey - Kevin Brennan - Kassie Johnston - Schuyler Mastain - Kiley Eberhardt In the center, there is a special guest, Rob Janas, and an anchor, Derek Manson. The event is scheduled for August 8th at 8 PM, located at 3269 Casitas Ave.
A promotional poster for "This Week This Week" presents various performers. The text at the top reads "This Week This Week Presents:" followed by pictures and names of the performers: - Michelle Lema - Rosie Byrne - Harry Murphy - Jack Sharpe - Amanda Weier - Kara Young - Michelle Nussey - Kevin Brennan - Kassie Johnston - Schuyler Mastain - Kiley Eberhardt In the center, there is a special guest, Rob Janas, and an anchor, Derek Manson. The event is scheduled for August 8th at 8 PM, located at 3269 Casitas Ave.
Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
“So I pulled over & I picked up the bear & put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,” #RFKJr explains matter-of-factly. “It was in very good condition & I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

…The bear never made it back to his Westchester home, however.

Kennedy says he got waylaid by a busy day of falconry, & then had to rush back to NYC for a dinner… which ran late.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
“I had to go to the airport, & the bear was in my car, & I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” #RFKJr continues.

Then, as he put it, “the little bit of the redneck in me” had an idea.

RFKJr just happened to have an old bike in his car, … & decided to stage the #BearCub in #CentralPark as if it had been hit by a bike.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
#Law enforcement took the #BearCub to Albany for analysis & determined that it had been hit by a car, likely outside the park. They also confiscated the bicycle to test for fingerprints.

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike,” #RFKJr says in the video….

But the mystery remained unsolved, & the story eventually faded away. Now, almost 10 yrs later, Kennedy said he was prompted to come clean ahead of an anticipated New Yorker exposé.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
…The @NewYorker piece, published online Monday morning, situates the bear anecdote within a larger look at #RFKJr’s famously checkered past & motivations for running.

It also includes a photo of Kennedy, who was 60 at the time, posing w/his hands inside the bear’s bloody mouth & an exaggerated grimace on his face.

“Maybe that’s where I got my #BrainWorm,” he told the magazine.

#USpol
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking w/me who thought this was a good idea,” #RFKJr said. “So we went & did that & we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.” [the man is completely #insane]

The 6-month-old, 44-pound #BearCub made national news after a dog walker stumbled upon it …in a wide-open part of the park right near the path where thousands of people run & bike each day.
…

#idiocracy#WTAF #weird#CentralPark#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
#Law enforcement took the #BearCub to Albany for analysis & determined that it had been hit by a car, likely outside the park. They also confiscated the bicycle to test for fingerprints.

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike,” #RFKJr says in the video….

But the mystery remained unsolved, & the story eventually faded away. Now, almost 10 yrs later, Kennedy said he was prompted to come clean ahead of an anticipated New Yorker exposé.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
In more #WTAF #weird news:

#RFKJr confesses he left a dead bear cub in #CentralPark 10 yrs ago

A decade after the shocking discovery of a #BearCub carcass in Manhattan’s Central Park, the mystery of who dumped it there has finally been solved.

And the man taking responsibility is none other than presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#insane #idiocracy#USpol
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5063939/rfk-jr-central-park-bear-bicycle

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
The #ConspiracyTheorist-turned-third-party candidate’s campaign has weathered a series of increasingly improbable-sounding scandals in recent months, from Kennedy’s admission that a #worm ate part of his #brain to his denial of reports that he once ate barbecued dog (he said it was a goat).

#RFKJr unleashed this latest one himself, in a 3-min video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#CentralPark#BearCub#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
It shows him sitting at a kitchen table, telling an incredulous-looking Roseanne Barr (yes, the canceled comedian) about how the dead #BearCub ended up in his van upstate &, ultimately, on top of a bicycle beneath a bush in #NYC’s largest urban park.

#RFKJr… says he was driving upstate early one morning to take a group of people falconing… when a driver in front of him fatally hit a bear cub.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
“So I pulled over & I picked up the bear & put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,” #RFKJr explains matter-of-factly. “It was in very good condition & I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

…The bear never made it back to his Westchester home, however.

Kennedy says he got waylaid by a busy day of falconry, & then had to rush back to NYC for a dinner… which ran late.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol