Badly-Needed Mercury Chemistry Lesson for RFK Jr., and His ACIP Picks

By Josh Bloom — Jul 30, 2025 @ American Council on Science and Health

Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine safety, despite the science being crystal clear. At the heart of this confusion is thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative wrongly accused of causing autism. What follows isn’t a rehash of that conspiracy theory, but rather a crash course in chemistry. It's something RFK Jr. and his CDC picks need to know.

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As difficult as it is to believe, we are still having a debate about thimerosal, thanks to vaccine "skeptic" Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is the head of HHS. 

Kennedy and the ACIP [1] "experts" he selected are raising long-discredited concerns about thimerosal, aka "ethylmercury," a preservative that was falsely linked to autism [2].

I won't be delving into this controversial topic; others with far more expertise have discussed this in length. But the underlying confusion about "good" vs. "bad" mercury can be answered with some rather basic chemistry. An understanding of this chemistry should (but probably won't) defuse at least some of the overblown claims of neurotoxicity of the particular "form" of mercury that is used in multi-dose flu vaccines (and nowhere else). Nonetheless, here are some facts. These are not debatable.

All Mercury is not the same.

The word "mercury" is pretty much guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of much of the population. Sometimes this fear is justified; sometimes it is not. Here's a brief summary of 4 relevant forms of mercury. Some are scary, while others are not. 

(For the ACSH video that explains the different types of mercury, click here: https://tinyurl.com/5ewejz3u)

1. Elemental mercury (Hg^o)

Elemental mercury, aka "quicksilver," is one of the two elements that are liquids at room temperature [3], the other being bromine. Although it is chemically unreactive, most mercury found on Earth is in the form of cinnabar, a bright red to brown crystalline mineral composed of mercury and sulfur. The pairing of mercury and sulfur is not a coincidence. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this article, the two elements form a very strong bond. Mercury simply loves sulfur.

Despite its fearsome reputation, elemental mercury (Hg⁰) is less toxic than most people think, at least in liquid form. It was even used in ancient China as an “immortality elixir.” When swallowed, liquid mercury is poorly absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract; however, a small portion is converted into mercury chloride, a far more toxic and readily absorbed compound. The real danger lies in mercury vapor: it is readily inhaled, absorbed through the lungs, and transported to the brain and central nervous system. Chronic exposure—even to small amounts—can result in chronic mercury poisoning, historically known as “mad hatter syndrome.” 

Let's pause for a story.

When I was at the University of Virginia, one research group in the chemistry department worked with air-sensitive compounds that spontaneously combusted when exposed to air. To prevent this, they kept everything under constant high vacuum, using a specialized mercury vacuum pump to achieve better pressure. Unfortunately, this meant the lab air was chronically contaminated with mercury vapor. By the time I left, most of them were bald. Ugly, too. These pumps are long gone. Don't know about the chemists.

        2. Mercury (II) salts (inorganic)

Soluble inorganic mercury⁺² salts are deadly neurotoxins. Examples include mercury (II) chloride and nitrate. There are no medical uses for these chemicals, although they were used in the 17th-19th centuries as a laxative, reportedly by President Lincoln (they made him cranky). Mercury salts should be avoided, which isn't all that difficult since they have no known medical use, approved or otherwise.

         3. Methylmercury (organic mercury)

Methylmercury, an organomercury compound [3], is largely responsible for the confusion surrounding mercury in vaccines. While it sounds similar to ethylmercury, aka thimerosal, the preservative used in some flu vaccines , the two differ significantly, particularly in how they are metabolized and excreted. Methylmercury is poorly eliminated from the body and accumulates in tissues, especially the brain. More on this below.

Figure 1. The chemical structure of methylmercury. Although commonly referred to as “methylmercury,” the compound exists in a partially ionic form, such as methylmercury chloride, with a +1 charge on the mercury atom balanced by a counterion, like chloride, which is functionally similar to a sodium salt.

Its chemical stability, lipid solubility, and ability to cross the blood-brain barrier make methylmercury especially dangerous. It was once used topically to treat skin infections, but this practice was abandoned decades ago due to absorption through the skin, leading to systemic neurotoxicity.

Methylmercury, which is the form of mercury that accumulates in fish, has NEVER been used as a vaccine preservative.

       4. Ethylmercury, aka Thimerosal

The difference between ethylmercury and methylmercury may only be the letter "M," but pharmacologically, it's night and day (Figure 2). 

 

Figure 2. Although thimerosal (left) is commonly called ethylmercury (right), this is a "nickname" for ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S) mercurate(1-) sodium salt, if you prefer. Note that the thimerosal contains (and breaks down to) ethylmercury. The ethyl groups are indicated by the red ovals.

To understand the significant differences in toxicity between methylmercury and ethylmercury, it is necessary to examine the metabolism of each. These guys are so similar looking. How different can they really be? Plenty.

The half-life of methylmercury in humans is about two months. For ethylmercury, it's about one week. The result? Methylmercury accumulates in the body while ethylmercury is cleared. Figure 3 puts this in perspective.

Figure 3. Modeled clearance of methylmercury (blue) versus ethylmercury (orange). Note the rapid elimination of ethylmercury compared to the months-long persistence of methylmercury.

Why? This requires a little chemistry.

When ethylmercury enters the bloodstream ("packaged" as thimerosal), the compound is rapidly dealkylated (ethyl group is removed) by a common metabolic pathway called oxidative dealkylation. That means the ethyl group is stripped away, leaving behind inorganic mercury (Hg²⁺) and a two-carbon fragment that is oxidized to acetaldehyde and then acetic acid, similar to the way that ethanol is metabolized. By contrast, the oxidative metabolism of methylmercury is slower for reasons that are beyond the scope of this article. This is why methylmercury persists in the body for much longer. 

Ignorance isn't bliss. It's just ignorance.

So let’s stop pretending that all forms of mercury are interchangeable—or equally dangerous. The continued fearmongering over thimerosal ignores basic toxicology and serves only to undermine trust in vaccines. Ethylmercury is not methylmercury. One clears in days; the other persists for months. If we’re going to have public debates about medicine, they should at least be grounded in chemistry. Otherwise, we’re just poisoning the conversation.

NOTES:

[1] The ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) is a CDC-affiliated panel of medical and (supposedly) public health experts that provides guidance on vaccine schedules and safety.

[2] When thimerosal was removed from nearly all childhood vaccines starting around 2001, autism rates continued to rise. So much for that theory? So, how did anti-vaxxers respond? They moved the goalposts and started blaming...pretty much everything else in the vaccine.

[3] Organometallic compounds are "normal" organic (carbon-containing) molecules that have a carbon atom bonded to a metal. Many of them are highly reactive. 

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• thimerosal
• Ethylmercury
• methylmercury
• Mercury toxicity
• Vaccine ingredients
• Autism and vaccines
• Mercury metabolism
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Category Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

 

Dr. Josh Bloom, the Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, comes from the world of drug discovery, where he did research for more than 20 years. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry.

Will the Real RFK, Jr. Please Stand Up!

 By Rich Kozlovich

There's been a lot of talk about RFK, Jr. and his nomination for HHS Secretary, and his views on MAHA (how to Make America Healthy Again), which will come up in his hearings, and this isn't a shoo in as the Democrats now hate him, and the conservatives who really don't trust him.   I'm not sure he's getting the nod.  

While he was right about these false covid vaccines, and I almost broke out in hives defending him over that, the fact is he's an anti-vax nut for all vaccinations.   He now claims he's not against vaccinations, he's for safety.  I've followed his claptrap for years, that's a scam answer and he knows it.  This safety angle has been a scam used by environmentalists forever, called the precautionary principle.  You have to prove it's safe or you can't use it.  That's called proving a negative, and it can't be done.  You can't prove something is safe, you can only prove something is unsafe.

My views about RFK, Jr. are well known to regular readers of P&D, and they're not kind, Pay Attention! He's a Kennedy!!!!! and Grading Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Curve.  His radicalism knows no boundaries, he even wants those who disagree with him on the fraud of global warming put in prison charged as war criminals.   But I almost really broke out in hives when I found my views of him and Caroline Kennedy's views are in harmony, only she's really brutal about her cousin. calling him a "predator".  The article goes of to say: 

She described her cousin’s basement, garage and dorm as being an epicenter for drug use, where he would also put baby chickens and mice in blenders to feed to his hawks. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,”..... “preys on the desperation of parents of sick children,” she told senators, noting that he has vaccinated his own children while discouraging others from vaccinating theirs.

She also pointed out that Kennedy plans to still profit off a lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Merck over Gardasil, its human papillomavirus vaccine that prevents cervical cancer. Last year, he made over $850,000 from the arrangement.  “In other words, he is willing to enrich himself by denying access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and which has been safely administered to millions of boys and girls,” ..........“I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction.

Okay, now other members of the family came out against him, with the caveats they still love him but he shouldn't be President.  This is the family that loved Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and it appears they all knew how vile he is, and now all this is just coming out?  

The conclusion?  The Kennedy's are Kennedy's, and will always be Kennedy's, Trump will get a lot of press off this, RFK Jr. will be exposed for the creep he is, and I doubt he will get the nod. 

But...we'll see!

The Scourge -- Or Not -- Of "Ultraprocessed Foods"

January 14, 2025 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian 

 “Ultraprocessed foods.” That sounds really bad. In fact, not just really bad, but really, really bad. Bad on a level with, maybe, “assault rifles” or “cis-heteronormativity.” Definitely, with a condemnatory name like that, “ultraprocessed foods” would be something that no sensible person would ever eat, or at least certainly not in large quantities.

The term “ultraprocessed foods” has been in usage for a while, but the frequency seems to have exploded everywhere in the past few months. Perhaps that has resulted from the naming of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy has made a thing about proclaiming a health crisis in the U.S., which he asserts is substantially brought about by our “broken food system.” On November 15 — just after President-elect Trump tapped Kennedy to lead HHS in the new administration — The New York Times had a piece outlining Kennedy’s critiques of the “food system.” Number one on the list of Kennedy’s critiques identified by the NYT was “ultraprocessed food.”

After reading this, I thought it might be time for me to get on top of what this “ultraprocessed food” stuff might be. Is this something that you need to really be concerned about, or is it just another one of the usual scare tactics of the left to try to take more control of your life? The answer, as will not surprise you, is the latter.

Fortunately, I went into this investigation comfortable in the knowledge that this “ultraprocessed foods” thing had little or nothing to do with me. I only eat the healthiest of the healthy. For example, yesterday for dinner for Mrs. MC and myself, I went to the store and bought a fresh salmon filet, some new potatoes, and a head of broccoli — the freshest of possible “whole” foods. I sautéed the salmon in a pan, and for the potatoes and broccoli, I mixed them in a bowl with just some oil and salt and roasted them in the oven. Delicious! And also, the farthest thing possible from “ultraprocessed food.” Or so you might think.

And then, to begin my research, I followed a link in The New York Times piece cited above, and came to this April 21, 2023 article in Nature Communications, one of the many affiliate publications of the premier British science journal Nature. Or maybe I should put the word “science” there in scare quotes, because Nature has so thoroughly disgraced itself by falling for and propagating the climate scam, let alone who knows what other pseudoscience. But for whatever residual level of credibility they may have left, I was still surprised to learn that the article claimed that some 73% of the U.S. food supply is “ultraprocessed.” How is such a high level even possible? This seemingly very precise figure had supposedly been determined by a new “machine learning algorithm”:

Here we introduce a machine learning algorithm that accurately predicts the degree of processing for any food, indicating that over 73% of the US food supply is ultra-processed.

And how about this to scare you:

We show that the increased reliance of an individual’s diet on ultra-processed food correlates with higher risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, angina, elevated blood pressure and biological age, and reduces the bio-availability of vitamins.

Here is another piece from Harvard Health Publishing, June 17, 2024, with the title “Ultra-processed foods? Just say no.” The thesis, based on “new research,” is that consumption of “ultraprocessed foods” increases the risk of cognitive impairment and strokes:

[I]f you . . . eat some ultra-processed foods, is that bad for your brain health? A new study appears to deliver resounding yes: eating ultra-processed foods is linked to a greater risk of cognitive impairment and strokes.

Both of these pieces give examples of things that are said to fall in the “ultraprocessed” category — things like Twinkies and non-diet cola — but no precise or comprehensive definition. Surely nobody has a diet consisting of 73% Twinkies and non-diet cola, or of anything comparable. They must be sweeping lots of other things into the definition. But what? How are we supposed to avoid these things without a comprehensive definition?

At this point, before I might find myself prematurely in the grave, I decided it was time for some of my own research. For my first subject of inquiry I picked potato chips. “Ultraprocessed” or not? Remarkably, I find some debate in the literature about whether potato chips are “ultraprocessed” versus merely “processed.” But plenty of articles call them “ultraprocessed,” for example this piece from Canada’s Global News, October 12, 2023 (“From pop to potato chips, report finds ultra-processed food can be addictive. . . . Ultra-processed foods like sugary drinks, potato chips and ready meals can cause withdrawal symptoms similar to people trying to quit smoking. . . .”).

There was a reason I looked up potato chips first. On a bag of potato chips, the ingredients are listed as: potatoes, oil, salt. Those are the exact same ingredients as in the potato dish in my super-healthy meal last night. Could I really have been eating “ultraprocessed food”? I’m now starting to understand how 73% of an American diet can be “ultraprocessed.”

Let me try three more common items that have been promoted to me for decades as the quintessential super-healthy foods: whole grain breakfast cereal, Greek yogurt, and whole wheat bread. I find all three of those considered together in this July 6, 2022 piece from a source called Very Well Health. Surprise:

Whole grain breakfast cereal, Greek yogurt, and 100% whole wheat bread have more in common than being part of a “balanced breakfast”—they can all be classified as “ultra-processed” foods. . . . Some estimates have found that up to 73% of the American food supply is ultra-processed foods. However, experts don’t agree on what to do about ultra-processed foods—or even how to classify them.

So, if whole grain breakfast cereal, Greek yogurt, and whole wheat bread are “ultraprocessed foods,” are they part of the cause of “higher risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, angina, elevated blood pressure and biological age” that Nature attributes to “ultraprocessed foods”? Are they part of the cause of “greater risk of cognitive impairment and strokes” that Harvard Medical School attributes to “ultraprocessed foods.” If they are not, then how do we tell which of the “ultraprocessed foods” are the ones that must be avoided and which not?

The Very Well Health piece, in contrast to the pieces from far more “prestigious” sources like Nature and Harvard Medical School, is actually relatively informative on this subject. The piece provides some history, which I will spare you, of how the “ultraprocessed foods” characterization got started and developed. A fair summary is that it is a part of the overall UN effort to smear the West and the productive countries and companies of the world.

I’m certainly not recommending a diet consisting of nothing but Twinkies and non-diet cola. However, I’ve done plenty of research to conclude that the category of “ultraprocessed foods” is completely meaningless as a guide to trying to figure out how to eat a reasonably healthy diet. The pseudo-category of “ultraprocessed foods” includes plenty of things that are very healthy, plenty of things that are fine in moderation, and plenty of things to (mostly) avoid — and no assistance in distinguishing which ones are which. Institutions like Nature and Harvard Medical School that purport to reach epidemiological conclusions based on this pseudo-category only demonstrate their own incompetence.

As to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — if there is one Trump cabinet pick whom I would be happy to see not confirmed, he would be it.

The Nation's Solution to Overpopulation? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

By Rich Kozlovich 

Heads up people, Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a Kennedy:

 "I gotta tell ya, I can't believe all the warm and fuzzy claptrap coming from conservatives over RFK, Jr's "Road to Damascus" conversion by dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump. 

He's not being selfless! Pay attention folks, history is everything, culture is king, and he's not going MAGA. Get over it!  He's always been a left wing nutroll who's angry because he isn't being allowed to play in the left wing nutroll sand box any longer.  So now he wants to punish all these former nutroll collaborators he was so cozy with for all these years.  However, I think there may be more going on here than meets the eye.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that. 

Here was my article, Grading Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Curve, so have no doubt he is in no way a moderate.  He's a far left walking disaster, so, stop gushing over this guy.  Just say thanks, and then move on. 

You would think that would be enough to alert people as to just how bad he is, but nooo,  Kennedy has been chosen by Donald Trump to be Secretary of Health and Human Services where he intends to turn his insane views into government policy. 

Food lobbyists plot to have it their way with RFK Jr. - Although much of the early criticism of Kennedy's nomination has focused on his skepticism regarding some vaccines, the nominee is a longtime critic of the food industry, which he says is a leading contributor to America's obesity epidemic. In recent months, he has called for a crackdown on food additives, limits on certain crop protection chemicals, stronger guidelines regarding what he says are conflicts of interest among regulators and business, and a review of any substance causing, what he argues, Americans to be "mass poisoned by big pharma and big food.".....

There have been numerous articles, on conservative news sites, trying to make RFK, Jr. look sane by comparing him with some who are as insane as he is.  Well, let's try and get this right, once, please.  That's a false comparison because Kennedy is just as as insane as they with his support of ridiculous global warming initiatives. Here are My RFK Jr. Commentaries. Name one far left initiative he's against. You can't, because there isn't one.  I just don't understand this penchant for normally sane conservatives jumping on the Kennedy bandwagon.

Furthermore this, "there's chemicals in our food", hysteria is a never ending story that's also bogus. OUR FOOD "IS" CHEMICALS.  There was a commentary claiming that people who went to Europe came back healthier, but if it is true, so what?   The reasons may be wide ranging, but the fact is that's anecdotal, and that's not science.

When was the last time you drove by a ball diamond and saw dozens of kids playing ball? I've not seen that in years. Kids are sitting at home playing computer games, and you wonder why the level of obesity is higher than in the past.  It's all about calories in and calories out.  And you're wondering why there are so many dealing with diabetes issues.

In days gone by high fat and high carbohydrate diets was the norm, and the depression era children lived longer than any generation before due to much better health care, and the same is true of those after, except with the corruption involving covid shots, that may change.  This our thalidomide era, only much worse and for much longer.

Now, in spite of the fact these shots aren't vaccines, and he was against them and was right, it  just proves even a blind monkey can find a coconut once in a while, and I almost broke out in hives defending him on this. 

But the fact is he's against all vaccines, which since 1796 have saved hundreds of millions of lives.  They need to stop these covid inoculations, and I hope he can accomplish that, especially in young children. If he can get that done by forcing transparency, good for him, but that's not all of what Kennedy is all about. 

He's a far left wing nutroll, and a dangerous nutroll embracing all the irrational, misanthropic, and morally defective themes promoted by the left.  If the world embraced the fraudulent global warming initiatives and energy production initiatives he and his leftist friends support it would kill billions.

Kennedy will make America healthier!   That's nonsense.  He's a far left radical, irrational, misanthropic and morally defective, and all this clabber about vaccines, (other than these false covid vaccines) and pesticides, starting with the lies regarding DDT, along with GMO's is blatant nonsense. 

• Trump Appoints Kennedy to be American's Health Czar
• Pay Attention! He's a Kennedy!!!!!
• Grading Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Curve

Let's stop trying to turn horse manure into a rose, and please don't try and tell me there aren't dozens of qualified conservatives out there who would happily take on the deep state and big pharma, who are not named Kennedy.   If this was the deal Trump made to get Kennedy to endorse him, it's a bad deal.

Here's an article I published on 2009 and 2014 that defends pesticides and outlines what's in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, which seems I need to republish for the initiated, Demagoguery Beats Data, and far more often.  If something is chemical free...it doesn't exist.

One last thing. Who was the greatest human being to have lived in the 20th century? One of my personal heroes, Norman Borlaug. He saved the lives of over a billion people with his "green revolution" using high yield crops, insecticides, fertilizers, and herbicides. And since he lived into the 21st century he may be the greatest person to have lived in both centuries. 

Kennedy and his insane followers are the antithesis to Norman Borlaug.

Demagoguery Beats Data

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

“What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey put it this way; "Demagoguery beats data." Thomas Sowell

My regular readers know I was an exterminator for 40 years, and wrote extensively defending my industry and the tools we use.  Exterminators are the hunters that keep the tribe healthy.  That's history, and that history is incontestable. 

I  originally published this piece in 2009, and then again in 2014, but with all this clabber about how RFK, Jr. is going to make the world a better place to live with his nutroll positions on vaccinations, pesticides, climate change, and his claims about how the world is facing mass poisonings from additives, pesticides, etc., I've decided to run it again, especially since Thanksgiving is on the horizon, and as you read to the end you will see why.  I also intended to run this every year but that got lost in all the stuff going on in the world, but I intend to run it a lot more.

The pest control industry seems to be faced with the same problem. We're constantly told how we have to restrict pesticide use. We are told we must find alternatives to what we're using. We're told we must adopt “least toxic” (whatever that means) pest control programs.

Why?

Because they claim that pesticides may affect our health and the environment adversely.  This isn’t only from the environmental activists outside of government.  It's also the constant refrain from those environmental activists within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

It costs about three hundred million dollars to bring a pesticide to market (That's a 1989 figure), are we to assume that we don’t know what all the potential effects these products may have on people and the environment? Actually - yes! We aren’t allowed to test people, so we don’t really know what any product will do, whether it's pesticides or automobiles, until it is in common use. With pesticides ultimately the final testing ground will be agriculture.

In years gone by the structural pest control industry used far more liquid pesticides than we do now, and we were only using 4% of all the pesticides manufactured, liquids only being a part of that percentage. Four percent doesn’t make much money when the cost of testing is so high. Therefore any pesticide manufactured must be manufactured for use on corn, tobacco, cotton, rice, wheat, soybeans, etc. or it isn’t manufactured. We've changed what we're using in structural pest control dramatically over the last thirty years, we did so because of efficacy. We shifted to a higher reliance to baits for cockroaches and ants because of their effectiveness.  However we must understand - if a pesticide is used in structural pest control it is because it has been used profitably elsewhere and for some time. We get it last.

New technology in structural pest control is usually old technology everywhere else where pesticides are needed and used. So what must we conclude from that? If these products have been used extensively, and for some time, then the effect on people and the environment must absolutely be known to EPA.

So what then must we conclude from that?  Logically we can only conclude they don’t care what the facts are. They've apparently made up their minds to advocate the same view as the environmental activists and are not going to let facts stand in the way.  These "Sue and Settle" lawsuits, which is nothing short of illegal collusion between environmentalists  and government bureaucrats, gives clear evidence of that.   Between regulators, activists, universities, researchers, self serving politicians, and a compliant media,  they have managed to keep the public ignorant and frightened through “filtered facts” which has now given the completely opposite view of what is actually occurring.

Their answer to any criticism is that we must adopt Integrated Pest Management practices (IPM), or "green" pest control, which cannot be truly defined. Name one thing you know for sure about IPM! Everybody has their own perception as to what it means, what products can be used, what techniques should be used, where and when they should be used if ever. This will always be debated because IPM is an “ideology, not a methodology” and "green" is nothing short of neo-pagan mysticism.

If these products are so dangerous and EPA has the authority to remove products that are harmful from the market, and they have traced the results of use of these products over the years - why don’t they do it? They clearly have the power and they certainly have the desire -  why don’t they do it? It is quite simple - the facts must not support such an action.

Why are they promoting IPM to the tune of thousands of dollars a year in the form of grant money? Is it because there are no facts to support the elimination of these products and no matter how many times they change the rules (Food Quality Protection Act is one example along with re-registration requirements) to make it impossible to use pesticides they still can’t find the science to support the ban of pesticides, so they attempt to do it through a back door called IPM, organic, or green pest control.  And why IPM or green pest control?  Because if there's no alternative there's no problem.  IPM and Green Pest Control are their representatives of an alternative.

The public is constantly told by the media that pesticides cause every conceivable malady.  When it is discovered they're wrong or the facts were deliberately perverted - as in the Alar case - it's passed off as journalism. The activists jump up and down swearing it was good journalism. The media jumps up and down defending their right to say what they want no matter what the real truth is and no matter who is hurt, and as in the Alar case, refusing to publicly acknowledge their misconduct.

What are the facts regarding pesticides? There is no evidence that pesticides have adversely effected the general health of the population! In fact, if you compared the world before modern pesticides and today we find that we are better fed and healthier than ever in this nation’s history or any other nation that has adopted extensive pesticide use. Only the countries who are unable or unwilling to adopt modern practices suffer the consequences of dystopia; poverty, misery, disease, squalor, hunger, starvation and early death.

There has been a great deal of talk regarding trace amounts of chemicals in our waters and land, and even trace amounts of over 200 manmade chemicals in our bodies. So what? This must be a good thing since the advent of these products people are living longer and healthier lives. The appearance of chemicals has nothing to do with toxicity. It's the dose makes the poison, not it's presence, and there are toxic chemicals necessary for good health which appear in detectable trace amounts in our bodies.

Still we have educated individuals teaching (and being taught) in our schools and universities that manmade chemicals are the great evil and we need to go "green" or “all-natural” or “organic”. Whatever those terms mean!  I love the claim that things are "chemical free".  Let's get our heads on right about chemicals.   The universe - including you - is made up of chemicals - if it's chemical free it doesn't exist. 

Most people have been misled into thinking that "organic" foods are healthier, and "organic" food is pesticide free.  That's blatantly false!  As far as the claim they taste better - taste is subjective and in point of fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Note the following information by Dr. Bruce Ames.

Dr. Bruce Ames (a biochemistry professor at the University of California) pointed out in 1987 that we ingest in our diet about 1.5 grams per day of {natural} pesticides. Those foods contain 10,000 times more, by weight, of {natural} pesticides than of man-made pesticide residues. More than 90% of the pesticides in plants are produced {naturally} by the plants, which help protect them from insects, mites, nematodes, bacteria, and fungi. 

 

Those natural pesticides may make up 5% to 10% of a plant's dry weight, and nearly half of them that were tested on experimental animals were carcinogenic. Americans should therefore feel unconcerned about the harmless, infinitesimal traces of synthetic chemicals to which they may be exposed. The highly publicized traces of synthetic pesticides on fruits and vegetables worried some people so much that they began to favor ``organically produced'' foods, thinking that they would not contain any pesticides.

 

Most people are not aware that organic gardeners can legally use a great many pesticides, so long as they are not man-made. They can use nicotine sulfate, rotenone, and pyrethrum (derived from plants), or any poisons that occur naturally, such as lime, sulfur, borax, cyanide, arsenic, and fluorine.

This apparently is OK because its “natural”. Chemicals are chemicals and guess what - they all have chemical names. If I presented you the following menu would you eat it? By the way, these foods are known carcinogens.

Cream of Mushroom Soup, Carrots, Cherry Tomatoes, Celery, Mixed Roasted Nuts, Tossed Lettuce and Arugula with Basil-Mustard Vinaigrette, Roast Turkey, Bread Stuffing (with onions, celery, black pepper & mushrooms), Cranberry Sauce, Prime Rib of Beef with Parsley Sauce, Broccoli Spears, Baked Potato, Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Pie, Apple Pie, Fresh Apples, Grapes, Mangos, Pears, Pineapple, Red Wine, White Wine, Coffee, Tea., Jasmine Tea. (Source: American Council on Science and Health)

Here are the chemicals that make up this natural meal.

Hydrazines, aniline, caffeic acid, benzaldehyde, caffeic acid, hydrogen peroxide, quercetin glycosides, caffeic acid, furan derivatives, psoralens, aflatoxin, furfural, allyl isothiocyanate, caffeic acid, estragole, methyl eugenol, heterocyclic amines, acrylamide, ethyl alcohol, benzo(a)pyrene, ethyl carbamate, furan derivatives, furfural, dihydrazines, d-limonene, psoralens, quercetin glycosides, safrole,furan derivatives ,benzene, heterocyclic amines, psoralens,allyl isothiocyanate,ethyl alcohol, caffeic acid,ethyl alcohol, furfural,acetaldehyde, benzene, ethyl alcohol, benzo(a)pyrene, ethyl carbamate, furan derivatives, furfural,benzo(a)pyrene, coumarin, methyl eugenol, safrole,acetaldehyde, caffeic acid, coumarin, estragole, ethyl alcohol, methyl eugenol, quercetin glycosides, safrole,acetaldehyde, benzaldehyde, caffeic acid, d-limonene, estragole, ethyl acrylate, quercetin glycosides,ethyl alcohol, ethyl carbamate,benzo(a)pyrene, benzaldehyde, benzene, benzofuran, caffeic acid, catechol, 1,2,5,6-dibenz(a)anthracene, ethyl benzene, furan, furfural, hydrogen peroxide, hydroquinone, d-limonene, 4-methylcatechol,benzo(a)pyrene, quercetin

For those that read the chemicals listed above you will notice that some of them are repeated a number of times. I deliberately left the list in that way because you are getting a multiple dose in the above Thanksgiving meal.

Does that sound so bad now? It is unfortunate that so many in positions of authority and responsibility continue to allow filtered facts to become the conventional wisdom. More importantly it is impossible for any society to make intelligent long term decisions when preconceived notions are allowed to dictate what “facts” will be allowed to be presented. Then again, facts are confusing and that certainly is the last thing the public needs, after all it is the last thing the environmentalists and their minions want. It might interfere with all those scares they are constantly presenting as eminent disasters. That in turn would foul up contributions and then the greatest disaster of them all would occur. They would have to go out and get real jobs.

All of this is disturbing, but what I find most disturbing is the unwillingness of our industry's information deliverers - the trade journals and trade associations -  to stand up to these people and publish the truth. When we fail to stand up and be counted we're appeasers and enablers.  Eventually that will turn us into traitors to our own industry.

RFK Jr. Heading HHS Shakes Up the Left-Right Divide

Kennedy upsetting the establishment balance.

by Mark Angelides | Nov 15, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Of all the nominations President-elect Donald Trump has made so far, tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services might be the most controversial – but not entirely for the reasons one might think. While RFK Jr. has firmly held beliefs that go against the mainstream orthodoxy – views he apparently intends to make policy – it is his family name and political legacy that may be ushering in a new political divide. Indeed, fault lines are already forming in new and unexpected ways.

RFK Jr. and MAHA

In a long-anticipated reveal, Donald Trump announced on Thursday, November 14, that he would appoint Kennedy to oversee HHS. On the campaign trail, the former president had made clear that he had planned to let him “go wild” on the nation’s fast-deteriorating health. During his now-infamous Madison Square Garden rally, Trump said:

“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines.”

As part of his campaign, Trump touted a new cri de cœur of “MAHA,” or “Make America Healthy Again.” It’s difficult to argue this was not a sentiment motivating voters who had deep concerns regarding the faux food epidemic and the rise in childhood illnesses. What’s more, RFK Jr., as a scion of the Kennedy family, represents the closest thing to DC royalty for many die-hard Democratic supporters.

Democratic Party Denial

When it became clear to the American public that President Joe Biden was suffering cognitive decline, there were growing calls for a more robust primary contest. Despite his outspoken views on vaccines and certain shibboleths of bureaucratized modern medical administration, Kennedy ticked several boxes for left-leaning voters.

After he claimed that the DNC was “rigging” the primary against him, he became an independent candidate for president and amassed a following that – at its height – was registering more than 10% in numerous polls. Then came Biden’s disastrous and politically fatal debate against Donald Trump and the installation of Kamala Harris as the de facto nominee. A sizeable portion of Democratic Party voters were not impressed.

Then came the lawsuits to keep Kennedy off the ballot and the near-constant denigration. Finally, Kennedy endorsed Trump and instructed his supporters: “If you want to see me in Washington, DC. Vote for President Trump.” And based on the election’s results, it seems they did. In fact, Kennedy’s MAHA message looks set to become a dividing line in the new political landscape.

Naturally, Heads Exploded

With the announcement finally made, pundits, politicos, and policy advocates went scorched earth. During an interview with former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “Well, America I hope you like measles.” Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association warned: “We’ve had people nominated for the job we disagreed with on policy and ideology, but I’m unaware of anyone who’s been nominated for this job that we can’t trust what they say.”

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Massachusetts’s Senator Elizabeth Warren was more direct in her condemnation, posting, “RFK Jr. poses a danger to public health, scientific research, medicine, and health care coverage for millions. He wants to stop parents from protecting their babies from measles and his ideas would welcome the return of polio. I have a lot of questions for his Senate hearing.”

The CDC director, Mandy Cohen, was also distressed by the nomination, saying, “I don’t want to go backwards and see children or adults suffer or lose their lives to remind us that vaccines work.” But here’s the rub: Not everyone was against this choice.

Colorado’s Democratic Governor, Jared Polis, was notably enthused by the nomination. “He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” he wrote. Going further, the staunch Trump critic noted that:

“I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health.”

And across social media, several well-known left-leaning voices echoed their enthusiasm for MAHA. Indeed, while Kennedy has critics in both parties, he also has supporters for his mission. And it seems that politicians might be willing to work across enemy lines in what many see as a revolutionary approach to public health.

Kennedy Ready for Action?

In response to the nomination, RFK Jr. posted on X:

“Thank you @realDonaldTrump for your leadership and courage. I’m committed to advancing your vision to Make America Healthy Again. We have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic.”

He continued, writing, “I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to free the agencies from the smothering cloud of corporate capture so they can pursue their mission to make Americans once again the healthiest people on Earth.”

Trump’s other nominations will most likely fall along party lines should they need to be confirmed by the Senate (rather than appointed through the Senate Recess path). But getting RFK Jr. to the top spot of HHS could result in dynamic support (and opposition) from both sides of the aisle.

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Trump Appoints Kennedy to be American's Health Czar

Listen up Donny, that's nuts!

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Trump is making his picks for ambassadors, administrative positions, department heads and agencies heads, and many of them are controversial, but that's the kind of people it will take to purge the deep state, so if they are confirmed, I think they're going to do what Americans who voted for Trump promised would be done.  Yet he's chosen RFK, Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

For decades Kennedy has been one of the most prevalent purveyors of misinformation about the environment and public health in the nation.   Kennedy's views are so outlandish and so disturbing parents need to be seriously worried.   Has Trump lost his mind?  Donny, he's a Kennedy!

Kennedy was very outspoken about these covid shots they've falsely labeled as vaccines, and he was right, they're not true vaccines, they're genetic altering chemical compounds that neither immunize or prevent transmission.  So he was right, but so to is a broken watch, twice a day.  

 While I also challenged the lies about these false vaccines, I've also been a very pro-vaccination guy my whole life, and have written in defense of vaccines for many years because vaccines have saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, that's history, and that history is incontestable, and Kennedy is a total anti-vax nutcase.   

Kennedy, if confirmed, will have control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and, 'Kennedy has claimed Trump “promised” him “control of the public health agencies" and Trump delusionally claims "Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!"  Now that's pure delusion, and should scare the entire nation. Was this a deal Trump made to get Kennedy to support him?  If it was, it was a bad deal. 

Trump Taps Robert F. Kennedy to Lead Health and Human Services Department,  Trump has promised to let Kennedy “go wild” with healthcare policy over food and healthcare policy after the third-party candidate dropped out and endorsed Trump’s bid to become the 47th president.

Kennedy wants to ban fluoride in the drinking water claiming it lowers IQ, that's a lie!  No, Fluoride Doesn't Lower IQ. It Fails to Satisfy Hill's Criteria of Causality.  The claims about fluoride are as bogus as were the claims about DDT, and Kennedy is against pesticides.   While attacking so many things at these agencies that need to be attacked, he's going to promote things that shouldn't be promoted such as the promotion of .   

I grew up on a farm and we not only drank raw milk, my grandmother made her own butter from that milk, and we never once had a medical problem related to that milk.  So what?

Just because we didn't have an issue doesn't change the medical facts and science behind pasteurizing milk.  We need to stop believing all this clabber about the "great" health benefits of raw milk.  It's nonsense.  We need to start - once again - believing the dangers raw milk represents.  

I've concluded this falls into the 40-year belief cycle.  Those who promoted the pasteurizing of milk are now gone and the generation that benefited from it are in charge and have somehow come to believe the good health and longer life we have today didn't come about as a result of good public policy regarding milk, vaccinations, pesticides, GMO's and a host of other beneficial scientific discoveries and public policy decisions.  Since they never saw the disasters all of this prevented they believe good health and long life a right.  Another mystical semi-pagan concept embraced and promoted by watermelons.

As for the argument not many people died of heart disease in 1900 to justify support of raw milk use, that's a correlation is causation fallacy.  Most people didn't live long enough in those days to die of a heart attack.  The average age was around 40 or 45.

We all have to die of something and heart disease and cancer are big killers of the elderly.  In 1900 not that big a percentage became elderly.  There was a reason the federal government made 65 the retirement age.   They didn't expect that many to live that long.   So, if we use the same correlation is causation fallacy these irrational advocates use, then drinking raw milk must have caused shortened average life spans. 

worst measles outbreak in decades in New York, Oregon, Washington.   Washington Measles outbreak shows anti-vaxxers are literally making us sick, and that's who Kennedy is and what he represents, in spite of the fact in that same year it was reported measles vaccine saved over 20 million lives globally since 2ooo.  That's 20 million lives save in just 19 years, and that was just for measles.  How many hundreds of millions of lives have been saved by vaccines since 1796, when Dr Edward Jenner created the world's first successful vaccine for smallpox, one of the most deadly plagues humanity ever faced. 

Along with Kennedy we can thank these leftist Hollywood loons like Jenny McCarthy, Oprah Winfrey and Jim Carrey for a lot of this.  In so many of these cases, it was the decision of parents to not get vaccinations for their children based on these leftist loons and their claims that the vaccinations cause autism.  Now, my questions are these:  

• Who will answer for the poor children who become afflicted with measles?
• Who will answer for the the side effects of that disease?
• Who will answer for those children who die as a result of the decision by their parents thinking they were protecting their health? 

What kind of agony must these parents be going through knowing they could have prevented their children's deaths.   To compound the problem we have immigrants coming across the border who are unvaccinated and spreading previously controlled diseases, exposing unvaccinated children. This is not the time for an antivax halfwit to be in charge of public health.

"I was in Dimock, Pennsylvania, watching fire come out of a faucet from fracking. Every home in that neighborhood, they can light up a cigarette lighter under their faucet, turn their faucet on and it'll flame like a lighter. That's from fracking."   

That's not caused by fracking.  Fracking is done deep in the ground.  Water is flammable in many places in America where no fracking is done. It happens because of naturally occurring gas, already in the ground, and that was going on in Pa. long before fracking, which was later proven to be a scam by the greenies an Kennedy had to know it.

On May 11, Sarah Arnold claims these are his real views reporting:

Supports push to clean energy and zero emissions, supports eliminating fracking, endorsed Bernie’s climate plan, supports divesting from fossil fuels, supports carbon tax, supports Paris Climate Accords, called the NRA a ‘terror group,’ supports affirmative action, supports reparations, supports amnesty for non-violent drug offenders, wants to ‘transform the police,’ called Louis Farrakhan a ‘truly great partner,’ supports raising minimum wage to $15/hour, supports labor unions, supports raising taxes, endorsed Al Gore in 2000, endorsed John Kerry in 2004, claimed 2004 election was stolen, donated to Obama, endorsed Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2000, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2007, repeatedly praised Bernie Sanders, a ‘sin’ for people to not address global warming, blamed America for causing 9/11, supports ESG,” and “called Fidel Castro ‘incredibly charming.’ Via the Daily Wire.

Pay attention! He's a Kennedy!!!! If you're a conservative, he hates you, he says so, and you should believe him. RFK, Jr. as an ally is at best a leaky vessel, and that’s being kind!

Kennedy Family Values

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 The Kennedy family stood together when married womanizer Senator Ted Kennedy was driving drunk from a party and plunged his car into the water. There was just one passenger in the car when this happened. Teddy left the 29-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne to die while he swam to shore.

The Kennedy family had no problem standing with Ted Kennedy who ignored the young woman’s screams as he swam away, worried solely about his political career. Over the years, there have been many other cringeworthy allegations against different Kennedy members and each time the Kennedy clan stuck together.

Over the last 16 months, the Kennedy clan didn’t say a damn word when their party repeatedly undermined RFK, Jr.’s candidacy through multiple dirty tricks including legal maneuvers to keep his name off ballots.  Murder didn’t upset the Kennedys, but RFK, Jr. endorsing Donald J. Trump for president does. The Kennedy clan, like the Democrat party, lacks American values. 

 

Pictured: Kennedy’s submerged car that went off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts on July 18, 1969. Mary Jo Kopechne’s body was found inside the car.

Today's Dose of: "Ya Just Gotta Be Kidden Me!"

The Road to Damascus is really filling up.

By Rich Kozlovich  

 

How often do you see the phrase, "you just can't make this stuff up"?  Well, it's true, and it's seemingly insane, in spite of how insane so much of what we're seeing, the insanity isn't decreasing.  

Open borders have turned Europe into a crime ridden mess.  German women in Berlin are living in fear of public transportation being harassed, groped, and being sexual assaulted by these immigrants....Muslim immigrants.   In Britain a convicted child rapist won't have to face prison time.  Why?  Because the jails are full of those protesting the immigration insanity their government has imposed on the Brits.  National leaders are supposed to be shepherds, protecting the flock.  What they've done instead is turned wolves loose on the flock, and they've protected them while they decimate the flock.  Does the term Civil War come to mind? 

It appears Dr. Cornel West, strange man that he is, doesn't think Kamala can win, and apparently neither does Kamala.   Why? Because he's come forward and informed the public "that Kamala Harris’s campaign offered him a position in her potential administration and financial assistance to cover his campaign debts if he withdrew from the 2024 race."  Two things.  If her team was confident of a win they'd have never made such a foolish offer, and if he thought she could win, he's have never made this public.  

So, now they have to fall back on what they've been very successful at.  Voter fraud!  The party that's so hot to save "our" democracy, has sued to eliminate two election security rules in Georgia.  When they say "our" democracy, they mean "their" democracy, that being eternal single party rule and the end of the Constitution.  See, definition leads to clarity!

Almost 25% of the land mass of the United States is owned by the federal government, a clear violation of the Constitution, and Utah is tired of it, and they want their land back.

 Utah’s lawsuit contends that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) does not have the authority to effectively hold “unappropriated” state lands indefinitely under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), the state announced. The federal government controls about 18.5 million acres of “unappropriated” Utah land under the FLPMA, and Utah’s suit argues that the state ought to control this land because nothing in the Constitution expressly permits the federal government to do so instead.

I gotta tell ya, I really do think the media is full of insane nitwits. The Pravda media truly is the "Enemy of the People."  Trump honors 13 fallen heroes from the Afghanistan, there at the invitation of the Gold Star families, and and the media launches a Arlington Cemetery hoax against Trump campaign.  Is that all they have? Nah, there's much more.  Now they're really upset because they won't admit Ella Emhoff is ‘cute.  Cute, really?

Now we have Zuckerberg doing mea culpas over censorship, even working cooperatively with a Congressional committee, which means what? Zuckerberg admits he was muscled by Democrats:

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued. “I also think we made some choices that. with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”

So, he's really sorry!!! Sorry that it all might come back to haunt him.

That's the same Zuckerberg who shelled out $400 million for an NGO called the Center for Tech and Civic Life which claimed to be a neutral group just concerned about expanding ballot access. In reality, they were a Democrat shock-troop operation, horning in on, for example, swing-state Wisconsin's 2022 election to manipulate the voting results to its liking. In some cases, they took over county clerk operations -- altering ballots, changing rules, and other acts reserved solely for those elected officials. A special counsel in that state literally called the operation "bribery."

Conclusion?  He's convinced Trump will win, and is trying to ameliorate his participation in working to defeat him in the last election.  And now we have far left nitwit former U.S. Senator now Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison saying good ole Zucks was wrong to censor posts______(Actually you can just fill in the blank) but refused to condemn the White House for pressuring them to do it. 

“Did the White House get this wrong, Mr. Attorney General?”  Ellison responded, “Well, Meta got a lot of things wrong. Meta needs to look at how its algorithms –.” Burman then cut in to ask, “What about the White House?”

Never, not the White House, it was all Zucks fault, and he should pay for it.   Remarkable! However, you would think that is a warning to others playing footsie with a criminal organization.  When the heat is on, you're on you're own.

More mea culpas as the DOJ admits they abused their authority on Ivermectin, and RFK Jr's far left ...... far left.... VP running mate, Nicole Shanahan says:  "I’m Shocked. I’m saddened. I’m worried for them – They’ve lost their soul."  Apparently this very wealthy person allowed the media filter to mold her thinking about Trump's claims of persecution, and now.... she too has had a Road to Damascus epiphany and realizes it's all true.  Now, I kinda find that to be a bit amazing.  How can someone so wealthy, and so connected be so ignorant, unless they want to be ignorant?

Finally, we have Nick Offerman who is proud to be a Kamala Man, because Trump is a (unpleasant verbiage here).  Amazing!  Who exactly is Nick anyway?  

I had to look him up, after doing that the conclusion I came to was ....who cares!  Maybe he'll even threaten to move to Canada, or Venezuela, or possibly to his planet of origin, like all the other Hollywood nitwits.

Maggots Mar the Democrat Love Fest, and Kennedy Joins MAGA

Heartlanders embrace RFK Jr. and discuss the DNC coronation of Kamala. 

By Sarah Cowgill | Aug 25, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: | Articles, Columns, Opinion, Politics

Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest running and most popular weekly column.

(Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

It was the Democratic Party’s turn this week to deliver its chosen one – though not necessarily elected – and sing praises for a woman of color to whom no one has paid much attention in three-plus years. But the Democrats delivered with pageantry and fanfare, perhaps in lieu of any policies besides abortion. Oh, yes, the biggest news was that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign to join forces with Donald Trump to Make America Great Again.

Kennedy delivered a scathing speech against his former beloved party, pointing out the flaws and fanatical behavior of the current leadership and throwing his support behind number 45. And wouldn’t you know it, later the same day, he appeared with Trump at a MAGA rally and was welcomed as a hero by Trump and a crowd of over 20,000 people. Heartlanders will tell you: To acknowledge Kennedy’s sacrifice is to “raise the roof.”

We Call Her ‘Mamala’

Kerry Washington, star of the television program Scandal, took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Thursday night, where she taught the crowd how to chant the name Kamala properly. That was yet another red flag that Harris needed a miracle. Washington then invited Kamala’s nieces out, and they instructed the crowd on how to say Kamala’s name: “Comma” followed by a “la.” Tracy L Cann in the Buckeye State quickly handed out some guidance on voting: “New rule. You can only vote for a candidate if you can pronounce their name correctly.”

Democrats even made a point at the big shebang of calling Ms. Harris “Mámala” because it’s “cute and less elitist.” Apparently, her stepchildren gave her the nickname without consulting a Spanish dictionary. Liberty Nation News will not print or promote the definition, but let’s just say it’s “weird.”

The DNC was heavily secured by three different fences to keep the thousands of angry pro-Palestinian protesters where they belonged. But those dissenters got inside anyway to make a point: Give us what we want, or we will give you the heebie-jeebies. Many delegates went to breakfast, hoping for oatmeal, and found maggots crawling everywhere. “Well, they want to save the planet from climate catastrophe,” stated Alexander van Leyen in Louisville.

Other heartlanders gave excellent summaries on the entire convention, and some just couldn’t put themselves through the pain of watching former Speaker Nancy Pelosi have something fall out of her britches, multi-millionaire Michelle Obama railing against wealth, and Harris delivering one of the shortest acceptance speeches in our lifetime. In North Carolina, Fred Leigh reminded us: “Well, when you don’t have any accomplishments, it doesn’t take long to say, “hope and joy.” Well, Namaste.

Aaron Senesac, in Warren County, Indiana, had a thing or two to say as well: “Didn’t watch because I have more important things to do than spend a week watching freedom-hating socialists spend millions on verbally stroking each other’s already hyper-inflated egos. All while they try to out-compete with buzzword salad discussion of how they will further ruin this nation.”

Another Warren County guy, Michael Hughes, did tune in and couldn’t help himself. “Marxism on full display. They’re not even subtle about it anymore. Michelle Obama essentially advised us that we shouldn’t take more than we need,” Hughes railed. “Sounds eerily similar to the Marxist slogan ‘From each according to his ability. To each according to his needs’, right? From a person with a net worth of $70 million.”

Hughes wasn’t finished, and then he was torqued after a minute or two, saying, “And all this talk from the Harris campaign about price controls. Scary stuff.”

RFK Jr. Found His Party

After the Democratic Party, to which he dedicated a lifetime of loyalty, dismissed his name and candidacy as worthless and fought to keep him off the ballot, RFK Jr. may have found a new home: MAGA. On Friday, Kennedy delivered a scathing speech about the Democrats that echoed in the ears of libertarians and conservatives alike – the denunciation of the current Democratic Party seemingly hell-bent on destroying the country. He ticked off several issues that he and Trump agreed upon: Ukraine, freedom of speech, and “war on our children,” as he announced suspending campaign activities and endorsing Trump.

Kennedy’s diehard supporters were at first dismayed by the campaign suspension. However, after RFK Jr. and Donald Trump appeared together on the rally stage in Arizona, most believed Kennedy knew exactly what he was doing and decided to hop on the Trump train. In Evergreen, CO, Benjamin Douthwaite simply posted: “If you trusted Bobby to be president, trust him now.”

In Gilmer, TX, Dan Buettner was on board: “This is exactly the kind of wisdom and intelligence that Trump needs in his cabinet.”

Brad Barton led the cheer from Chattanooga, TN, “Major respect for RFK, Jr., a lifelong Democrat from the most iconic democrat family in the history of our country, endorsed Trump. Because he loves America and desires for his kids and grandkids to have a future, when RFK, Jr., of all people, warns you about the dangers of voting for the Democrat in this election, you might better pay attention. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like Trump.”

RFK Jr. did what he believed to be the right thing at the most critical of times when he stated: “I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.”

He ended his speech by making his followers and a lot of Trump supporters yearn for a lost America. “I will appeal to the values and goals that we could achieve if only we weren’t at each other’s throats,” he said. “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 that they deserve.”

 

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