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Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s HHS nominee, expressed belief in the “plandemic” conspiracy, suggesting the COVID pandemic was planned by the government.

He also compared COVID efforts to Nazi experiments and accused the government of using bioterrorism to implement social controls.

Kennedy’s statements raise concerns about his understanding of infectious diseases and his potential impact on pandemic response.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

Keep in mind, every accusation is either a confession or a plan or both.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago

So, Trump's government? Between the brain worm and heroin abuse, I'm not so sure this guy is thinking correctly.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago

No, we had a plan TO DEAL WITH COVID. Your boss threw it in the trash and millions died.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

RFK say what?

The government?

Like the one that your boss was in charge of at the time, that government?

The government that you plan to become a part of?

🤔

🪱🍽🧠

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

No, it was obviously Hillary. Or maybe Obama.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

George Soros with Hunter's laptop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

This is a really shitty version of "Clue"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

Hillary from the parallel universe where she won the electoral college, sent the virus in order to begin an interdimentional space-time war and invade our universe and rewrite our history with a time-traveling delorean!

DEEP STATE LIBS #EXPOSED and #OWNED

-Lol why does every consipiracy theory feel like some amateur fiction writer?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Crazy how the people who believe the government planned the pandemic are also on the side of the guy who ran the government at the time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, it was the Deep State government, not Trump. And that might be controlled by the Deep Deep State. It's deep all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, the Mariana Trench State? That shit is ^deep.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How the fuck did the US government plan to enslave its own citizens by releasing a novel virus in the middle of China?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago

We are about to find out what happens when conspiracy theorists get into the federal government. Will he get arrested for leaking government secrets?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Trump's first administration may not have planned it, but sure as hell wanted to let it ravage large metropolitan population centers for political gain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ironic considering it hurt die-hard red voters more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

But not initially.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Possibly, we should start by investigating the President who was in charge at the time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I agree. Between this and 9/11, Obama has a lot of explaining to do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Do you remember when Obama was asleep at the wheel (as usual) and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? How this guy managed to get reelected always mystifies me.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago

Remember everyone. This guy is going to be Dr. Oz's boss.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Kennedy’s statements also raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services believes that the department may have carried out a “sinister” scheme to “enslave” its own citizens—and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.

I guess the only problem Kennedy had with the claim is that he wasn’t in on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's true about most of the conspiracy crowd. If you look at their ramblings there's a thick streak of envy running through them. They don't want to stop the shadowy individuals they believe run the world, they're angry that they're not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Shit, I'm angry I wasn't chosen for Hogwarts or the Jedi Academy. That doesn't make any of this bullshit real.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Strap in, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Looks like RFK is more of a Nazi expert than a health expert... waiiiit...