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Krystal Ball and Saager Enjeti interview RFKJr. for 49 minutes on Breaking points. Thanks Christine.  

Krystal exhibits stress at the outset, seeking to distance herself from Kennedy's positions on vaccine harms, makes that point, then holds those questions for late in the interview, when she again exhibits stress and is unable to accept Kennedy's answers to her questions. Being in this position is clearly stressful for her, because she is unable to debate the merits of the medical arguments with him. She says he has no studies, then will not hear his citations of specific studies. (I know his position to be correct, myself, having followed all the information I could find closely from December 2019, and treated many patients with various antiviral combinations, including myself, and paying attention to the treatment-responses.)

She does recurrently return to the question of "how will you deal with people who believe as I do?"   This is Kennedy's everyday life, of course. He seems kind and respectful of her internal struggle. She has committed her own children to vaccinations, which she states as a matter of faith and endorsement. She will not hear evidence of harms, rejecting it in her initial question-formulation.

When asked how he would deal with a pandemic, he answered that seeing what known drugs could help, and what was working for practicing physicians would be the traditional approach and his first choice of approach. It is certainly what I and many other physicians did do.  

Kennedy supports wind and solar installations, but not nuclear energy, due to long term and demonstrable risks of catastrophe, and very high costs per kWhr.

He says "show me a polluter and I will show you a subsidy". He advocates bringing externalized costs back to the profit centers, such as the mercury contamination of fish and sterilization of lakes to the cost of burning coal.

He points out the need to safely store nuclear waste for 30,000 years, Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc.

No insurer will insure a nuclear power plant.

He states that he does believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that Exxon company scientists in the 1970s quietly laid it out to company officials as a benefit, since warming the north pole would make arctic oil accessible to drilling. Climate change has been suborned to totalitarian ends, which ends and means he will always oppose.

He says that he feels "every abortion is a tragedy" and that he continues to "absolutely support bodily autonomy and privacy of all medical decisions", specifically including abortion. 

When asked if he would support the Democratic candidate, he said that he intended to be that candidate, but could not support any candidate who was supporting a war, quoting JFK's statement that "the main job of a president is to keep the country out of war".

When asked if he would run third party, he said he "had no plan-B". When asked if he would support (anti-war) Donald Trump, he said that he thought they "were probably too far apart for that to ever happen", but did not strictly say "no".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqDoPD7AXM

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Thank you for highlighting these articles and leading me to this little item I found in the American Conservative article:

In 1962, RFK Jr.’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, awarded the federal government’s highest civilian medal to Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, an FDA official who practically single-handedly kept thalidomide out of the U.S. market.

And, today, we have Rochelle Walensky lying about the Cochrane review on masks being retracted.

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May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023

Generally I agree with RFKjr and support him, but he is a complete loon when it comes to energy issues. His interview with Krystal & Sagaar about Nuclear was abysmal. The man doesn't know what he's talking about. He should watch Oliver Stone's (who supports RFKjr for President) new documentary on Nuclear energy, he would learn a bit about the subject:

OFFICIAL TRAILER | NUCLEAR NOW | DOCUMENTARY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c5RPk8FlIk

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This is my favorite substack.

Thanks Meryl, you are one mean machine of truth. Bless you

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I agree with you. He's our only hope.

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Yes, Mary Lou, there are around 20 people in this present world that I “admire greatly”, but when I see RFK’s face or hear him speak my heart nearly breaks with LOVE.

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I worship him (almost)

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He's a wonderful human!

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I cried just reading the contents.

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Thank you for pointing us to these links so we can all learn who Bobby Kennedy is and what he stands for. I just wish the Substack writer Russ Baker would see these. He’s been waging an ad hominem war against his subscribers who support Bobby.

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If you haven't seen the Russel Brand interview with RFK Jr, it is an absolute must see. The full version is available on Rumble and is an hour long while YouTube is just a few minutes of it due to censorship.

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I grew up in Massachusetts in the '60's and recall clearly what it felt like to be "Kennedy Democrats". The last few weeks, since he announced his plan to run, I have had moments of euphoria just contemplating what it wojld feel like to have this brilliant caring man at our helm. A dream come true!

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Thank you so much Dr Nass! Very much appreciate you bringing these article to light. Amazing that both liberals and conservatives appreciate his honesty and integrity and are not so far apart on the big issues. I have not felt this hopeful for decades!

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Democratic party wont allow him to be a candidate. Hes not part of the world economic forum or the deep state. He will have to be a 3rd party candidate

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RFKjr is a DEMOCRAT. He believes the “climate change” nonsense. Where does he stand on ABORTION… again, he’s a democrat and they believe in murdering babies in utero is a “right” and “health care.” Just because he’s against c19 shots doesn’t make him “the guy.” He’s pro-vaxx otherwise. There are a whole lot of reasons NOT to vote for him. Just make a logical, throughly INFORMED decision before voting for him. Look at the big picture.

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Yes I agree and hope he will win and not be killed

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