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Let’s Catch Up With RFK Jr.'s Healthy Delusions Before The Next Week of MAHA

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Joshua Powell
Jun 29, 2025
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Bobby Kennedy Jr. the man who once blamed Wi-Fi for causing "leaky brain" continued this week promising to "make America healthy again." And kids, he's delivering—if your idea of health involves a steady diet of asbestos, coal ash, and good old-fashioned bad drinking water.

Our Bobby really is the food critic who only eats at gas stations. His HHS approach to public health reads like a rejected script from "Dr. Strangelove"—too absurd for satire, too dangerous for comedy. Take their leisurely reconsideration of the long-held asbestos ban. You remember asbestos, don't you? That charming substance that turns lungs into Swiss cheese? The EPA announced they'll spend a leisurely 30 months pondering whether cancer-causing materials belong in American products.

But the Donny/Bobby show is just getting warmed up. Why merely delay banning carcinogens when you can actively champion pollution? Our administration is heroically fighting to keep two Michigan coal plants chugging along—architectural m…

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