RFK Jr. makes clear his job at HHS is to address the chronic disease epidemic!
“President Trump has asked me to end the chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”
“If we don't solve chronic disease, senator, all of the other disputes we have about who's paying, and whether it's insurance companies, whether it's providers, whether it's HMOs, whether it's patients or families, all of those are moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.”
“No other nation in the world has what we have here.”
“We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world.”
“This is an existential threat economically to our military, to our health, to our sense of well-being, and it is a priority for president Trump.”
Secretary Blinken, President Biden — STOP IT! Stop this reckless escalation. I say this not as a political partisan, but simply as a citizen of the world.
Before judging him, take 5 minutes and listen to an emotional RFK Jr. explain that the chance to end the chronic disease epidemic and save children’s lives is the reason he must end his campaign and endorse Trump:
“For 19 years I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president along with ending the censorship in the Ukraine war. It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.
This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and mychildren and my friends. But I have the certainty that this is what I'm meant to do and that certainty gives me internal peace even in storms. If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically.
We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier.
I won't fail in doing this. Ultimately the future, however it happens, is in God's hands and in the hands of the American voters and those of President Trump. If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear.
This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard-nosed logic, and I asked myself what choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America's children and restore national health. I felt that if I refused this opportunity I would not be able to look myself in the mirrorknowing that I could have saved lives of countless children and reversed this country's chronic disease epidemic.
I'm 70 years old. I may have a decade to beeffective. I can't imagine that President Harris, President Harris would allow me or anyone to solve these dire problems.
After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever. President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy. I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through.
His son, his biggest donors, his closest friends, and all support this objective. My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, butworthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids. Ultimately the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.
That's why I launched my campaign to unify America. My dad and uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation, not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals. They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans, inspired affection and love and high hopes and a culture of kindness that continue to radiate amongAmericans from their memory.
That's the spirit on which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us. The goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats.
The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health and the future thatthey deserve. Thank you all very much.”
My deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was tragically killed at yesterday's Trump rally in Pennsylvania. This morning, his daughter Allyson shared a deeply moving tribute to her father on Facebook, describing how he died shielding Allyson and her mother from the bullets that came at them. "We lost a selfless, loving, husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend...the best dad a girl could ever ask for,” she wrote. "He died a real-life superhero."
The impact of the rampant vitriol and divisiveness in today's political and media landscape – and, increasingly, political violence – isn’t isolated to presidential candidates or political parties. As this tragedy shows, it also takes an unimaginable toll on our country's citizens: American families with hearts and hopes, like the Comperatore family.
America has fallen off the precipice, but we can still climb back up. As a nation, we can overcome this. But we need to learn how to better understand and empathize with one another, converse with respectful dialogue, and regard differing viewpoints with dignity and respect.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support Allyson and her family: https://t.co/v9dzrnmLBA
My thoughts and prayers are with the Comperatore family.
@slaterdesign I had a tough time trying to make that transition. Had a few interviews but I felt like they wanted me to have UX/UI experience and to know what it’s like working with engineers. I decided to become an engineer but a UX boot camp could help speed up the process for you.
@elonmusk Twitter could be great at fostering divergent scientific discussions. Maybe scientific tweets have a community notes that shares the other side as it exists in the scientific record.
Twitter Files release is most beneficial to humanity not because of what it revealed, but because it promotes a culture of transparency.
Transparency is good for everyone long-term. It helps fight corruption and influence of ideological and political bias, left or right.