News snippet: A prominent healthcare advocacy group is calling for the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to step down from his post after he downplayed Covid risks by saying: “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
Kennedy, who was appointed secretary of the federal health and human services (HHS) department despite his avowed anti-vaccine activism, made that remark on the 12 February episode of Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
The president of Protect Our Care, Brad Woodhouse, issued a one-word statement on Kennedy’s comments: “Resign.”
The group added that Kennedy’s comment about cocaine – which as recently as 2023 was involved in nearly 30,000 overdose deaths in a year in the US – “continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous … person ever to lead such an important federal agency”.
Kennedy on the podcast mentioned the drug in reference to his continued attendance at in-person recovery meetings during the pandemic. “Like, if I don’t, if I don’t treat it, which means for me going to meetings every day, it’s just bad for my life,” said Kennedy, who has spoken publicly about past struggles with drug addiction.
Stable0o0Mabel on
That’s like me urging the school bully to stop stealing my lunch money. 🙄 Performative. It won’t happen.
RawChickenButt on
What about Don Jr?
ElysiumSprouts on
The entire Trump administration is filled with these quack hacks and they all need to resign or be removed. I can’t believe people voted for this mess a second time.
GuitarCD on
If you go bankrupt or embezzle, you never get hired to be a financial planner, but somehow a former drug addict sniffing coke off of a toilet seat can be Senate approved to be the Health secretary for this administration.
wyvernx02 on
I think the most shocking thing that has come out of this mess is that RFK Jr is implying that he stopped doing cocaine off of toilet seats.
middlechildanonymous on
I say drug test him right now.
windwatcher01 on
In a sane universe, this would be a given and have already happened.
StrangerFew2424 on
In any other administration, this comment would’ve gotten someone instantly removed. Not under Trump. He has made such a mockery of the presidency that nothing qualifies for removal anymore… just sick.
c4upinhisbhole on
Nah, tell him to share more stories. Ask him the dirtiest place he shot up. Ask him about the most intoxicated he has been and drove. I bet he has lots of good stories.
bubbanumber3 on
No better role model for the war on drugs…”Look at me kids! If I can snort coke off a toilet seat and get this job, so can you.”
whatsgoingon350 on
Wait fox news spent weeks talking about a bag of cocaine in Bidens Administration but RFK Jr openly admits to doing cocaine and i haven’t even see a headline.
I don’t think i will ever understand American politics.
JiveChicken00 on
And of course this isn’t even in the top hundred list of craziest things he’s done.
threehundredthousand on
The full comment is worse than that. He said he was such a drug addict that going out to meetings is the only thing keeping him sober and that the COVID lockdown would kill him. He didn’t care about anyone else. Said germs didn’t worry him because he did coke off toilet seats. He’s an addict AND selfish as fuck.
TomatoAdventurous139 on
The same RFK jr that’s in the epstein files?
King_R0A on
If this was YOUR child’s school principal, you’d better believe parents would be storming the school with pitchforks. Why, for everything that’s good and decent, would he remain in charge of our health and wellbeing?
ShiibbyyDota on
I’m convinced the next generation of brain worms is still in there.
No-Cup-8096 on
That’s their last straw? The Tylenol autism conspiracy theory, the firing of the the highly staff, ending cancer research, those and whole list of this moron’s bad decisions were all reasons to move toward getting rid of the bozo.
Jellofoot on
I don’t give a shit about his filthy cocaine habit. It’s his moronic health advice. He’s going to get people killed.
Ok_Use7 on
Listen, I love that shit as much as the next person but rfk is fucking disgusting.
Also speaks to the hypocrisy of this administration “going after drugs.” They have to blow up innocent fisherman in the Atlantic in order to stop coke from entering the country but they’re all doing it. Rfk, don jr, Gaetz all of them.
BruhhBruhhBlackSheep on
He probably did that shit last week
aslan_is_on_the_move on
Again, he told this anecdote in order to say he picked up so many diseases from this practice he gained natural immunity to certain diseases. It was a weird part of his antivax campaign
DanLebaTurdFerguson on
He was a known heroin user who got his brother hooked on it, who then died of an overdose. Why is any of this surprising?
22EnricoPalazzo on
Dude. I don’t like RFK Jr. But come on. Everybody has skeletons and this one is what it is.
LineElegant3832 on
Ever since he bugged out on the fainting guy in the Oval, he *wants* to get fired
AINonsense on
Yeah, kids.
Don’t snort coke off toilet seats.
M’kay?
Icy_Animal7960 on
He swims in cesspools with his grandkids. He’s disgusting.
rdh727 on
I cry for The Onion 😭
Worldeater43 on
Of all the reasons to resign, this isn’t one of them.
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News snippet: A prominent healthcare advocacy group is calling for the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to step down from his post after he downplayed Covid risks by saying: “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
Kennedy, who was appointed secretary of the federal health and human services (HHS) department despite his avowed anti-vaccine activism, made that remark on the 12 February episode of Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
The president of Protect Our Care, Brad Woodhouse, issued a one-word statement on Kennedy’s comments: “Resign.”
The group added that Kennedy’s comment about cocaine – which as recently as 2023 was involved in nearly 30,000 overdose deaths in a year in the US – “continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous … person ever to lead such an important federal agency”.
Kennedy on the podcast mentioned the drug in reference to his continued attendance at in-person recovery meetings during the pandemic. “Like, if I don’t, if I don’t treat it, which means for me going to meetings every day, it’s just bad for my life,” said Kennedy, who has spoken publicly about past struggles with drug addiction.
That’s like me urging the school bully to stop stealing my lunch money. 🙄 Performative. It won’t happen.
What about Don Jr?
The entire Trump administration is filled with these quack hacks and they all need to resign or be removed. I can’t believe people voted for this mess a second time.
If you go bankrupt or embezzle, you never get hired to be a financial planner, but somehow a former drug addict sniffing coke off of a toilet seat can be Senate approved to be the Health secretary for this administration.
I think the most shocking thing that has come out of this mess is that RFK Jr is implying that he stopped doing cocaine off of toilet seats.
I say drug test him right now.
In a sane universe, this would be a given and have already happened.
In any other administration, this comment would’ve gotten someone instantly removed. Not under Trump. He has made such a mockery of the presidency that nothing qualifies for removal anymore… just sick.
Nah, tell him to share more stories. Ask him the dirtiest place he shot up. Ask him about the most intoxicated he has been and drove. I bet he has lots of good stories.
No better role model for the war on drugs…”Look at me kids! If I can snort coke off a toilet seat and get this job, so can you.”
Wait fox news spent weeks talking about a bag of cocaine in Bidens Administration but RFK Jr openly admits to doing cocaine and i haven’t even see a headline.
I don’t think i will ever understand American politics.
And of course this isn’t even in the top hundred list of craziest things he’s done.
The full comment is worse than that. He said he was such a drug addict that going out to meetings is the only thing keeping him sober and that the COVID lockdown would kill him. He didn’t care about anyone else. Said germs didn’t worry him because he did coke off toilet seats. He’s an addict AND selfish as fuck.
The same RFK jr that’s in the epstein files?
If this was YOUR child’s school principal, you’d better believe parents would be storming the school with pitchforks. Why, for everything that’s good and decent, would he remain in charge of our health and wellbeing?
I’m convinced the next generation of brain worms is still in there.
That’s their last straw? The Tylenol autism conspiracy theory, the firing of the the highly staff, ending cancer research, those and whole list of this moron’s bad decisions were all reasons to move toward getting rid of the bozo.
I don’t give a shit about his filthy cocaine habit. It’s his moronic health advice. He’s going to get people killed.
Listen, I love that shit as much as the next person but rfk is fucking disgusting.
Also speaks to the hypocrisy of this administration “going after drugs.” They have to blow up innocent fisherman in the Atlantic in order to stop coke from entering the country but they’re all doing it. Rfk, don jr, Gaetz all of them.
He probably did that shit last week
Again, he told this anecdote in order to say he picked up so many diseases from this practice he gained natural immunity to certain diseases. It was a weird part of his antivax campaign
He was a known heroin user who got his brother hooked on it, who then died of an overdose. Why is any of this surprising?
Dude. I don’t like RFK Jr. But come on. Everybody has skeletons and this one is what it is.
Ever since he bugged out on the fainting guy in the Oval, he *wants* to get fired
Yeah, kids.
Don’t snort coke off toilet seats.
M’kay?
He swims in cesspools with his grandkids. He’s disgusting.
I cry for The Onion 😭
Of all the reasons to resign, this isn’t one of them.