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Related: About this forumLast Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - RFK Jr. & HHS
John Oliver discusses the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.s new leadership, the many ways those cuts will impact all of us, and how WWII really ended. Trust us, its not how you think. - 04/27/2025.

pfitz59
(11,461 posts)We live in bizarro world
Rhiannon12866
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calimary
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CitizenZero
(860 posts)I will watch later. Thanks for posting it.
Rhiannon12866
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moniss
(7,134 posts)should have raised massive red flags let alone his quackery.
"On April 15, 1994, Kennedy married architect and designer Mary Kathleen Richardson, a close friend of his sister Kerry, aboard a research vessel on the Hudson River.[405][406] Kennedy has six children, two with Black and four with Richardson.[407]
During his marriage to Richardson, Kennedy was known among his friends for sending explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had taken, according to Vanity Fair.[25] He reportedly engaged in multiple affairs during the marriage.[408][25][409] His friends later called him a "lifelong philanderer".[410][411] On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Richardson. On May 16, 2012, Richardson was found dead in a building on the grounds of her home in Bedford, New York. The Westchester County Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide due to asphyxiation from hanging.[412]
Before her death, Richardson had discovered Kennedy's personal journal from 2001, in which he recorded sexual encounters with 37 different women. According to Kennedy, Richardson passed the journal along "to her sisters with instructions that, if anything happened to her, [it should be] published in the press".[413][414] During their divorce, Richardson began exhibiting signs of drug and alcohol abuse and psychiatric distress.[406][415][416]
After her death, Kennedy won a court case against Richardson's siblings to have her buried alongside fellow Kennedy family members in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Massachusetts, instead of closer to her siblings in New York. Shortly after her burial, Kennedy had her body disinterred and moved to an unmarked grave in an empty area of the cemetery. [417] Kennedy's niece Saoirse Kennedy Hill was buried next to Richardson after her death from a drug overdose at age 22.[418] ".
It gets worse:
"In July 2024, Vanity Fair reported that in the late 1990s, when he was in his 40s, Kennedy engaged in sexual misconduct with Eliza Cooney, a 23-year-old part-time babysitter for his children.[433] Cooney alleges that Kennedy groped her and touched her inappropriately on multiple occasions and asked her to rub lotion on his back when the two were alone in a bedroom.[25]
Kennedy called this Vanity Fair piece a "lot of garbage". When asked specifically about Cooney's allegation, he responded, "I am not a church boy. I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world." When pressed further, he said he had no comment.[433]
After the Vanity Fair piece was published, Cooney said that Kennedy texted her: "I have no memory of this incident, but I apologize sincerely for anything I ever did that made you feel uncomfortable or anything I did or said that offended you or hurt your feelings. I never intended you any harm. If I hurt you, it was inadvertent. I feel badly for doing so."[434] Cooney said, "I don't know if it's an apology if you say 'I don't remember' ... In the context of all his public appearances, it seemed a little bitit didn't match. It was like a throwaway."[434] "
We can be sure, by his own admission, that there is much more that we don't know about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Personal_life
Rhiannon12866
(232,928 posts)And you're right, there is likely much more than we'll ever know. And yet he's responsible for protecting the health of the nation?? When I was first on DU, another DUer who lived just north of me, posted about an environmental talk that RFK Jr. had given locally. Since I'm interested in the environment, I was sorry I'd missed it. Little did I know back then what a damaged and dangerous individual we're now dealing with - he's putting all Americans in jeopardy with his deluded ideas.
moniss
(7,134 posts)ex-wifes burial and her family seemed to point to such a tiny, tiny man.