A second video getting a lot of attention shows Kennedy making wild claims about the beginnings of the AIDS crisis, blaming it on gay men and the use of poppers, an inhalant that relaxes muscles and generates a brief headrush and sensation of euphoria.
“There’s a lot of people that said it is not a virus,” Kennedy said. “The virus is a passenger virus, and these people are dying mainly because of poppers. A hundred percent of the people who died in the first thousand [with] AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers, which are known to cause Kaposi sarcoma in rats. And they were people who were part of a gay lifestyle where they were burning the candle at both ends.”
He claimed that many were injecting drugs.
"There were poppers on sale everywhere at the gay bars,” he said. “And there were a number of people in the [National Institutes of Health] who said, this is not a viral disease, but it’s a disease that is environmental and is being caused to people who are getting autoimmunity from doing these toxins.”
Kennedy claimed, “But for Tony Fauci, it was really important to call it a virus because that made it an infectious disease, and it allowed him to take control of it.”
This whole thing smacks of right wing entryism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-encouraged-rfk-jr-to-run-against-biden-for-months-report
although idk if you can do right wing entryism to a right wing party
is there a sirhan sirhan jr?
Why is he even allowed in Democratic party?
The only real difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats prioritize maintaining empire over bigotry, and Republicans prioritize bigotry over maintaining empire. Both parties are quite happy to engage in both activities simultaneously, so long as the lower priority activity doesn’t interfere with the higher priority activity.
This is like 40 years out of date, wtf. If you wanna be the next Trump you need to come up with something a little fresher.
Chuds are at the point where they get mad about no fault divorce and do a trans version of satanic panic, digging up conspiracy theories from the beginning of the HIV pandemic sounds about on point for these dinguses. They’ll probably get upset about interracial marriage next.
I cannot wait for 6 months from now, when I find out which vague class of things, that have essentially no relationship to poppers, will be called “poppers”.
Maybe a prescription medicine will become “poppers”. Maybe unsupervised children will become “poppers”. Maybe, I dunno, trans men buying cologne will be “poppers” the possibilities are endless when your culture is guided by geriatric reactionaries free associating on live television.
how do you even develop this particular strand of brainworms in the modern era
this is like becoming a conspiracy guy about the fall of rome or something jfc at least pick something from this century to be a dumbass about
also wall but that goes without saying
