"My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

Kennedy said Trump had the most “unhinged” diet of the administration officials.

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      Yep, the “strapped the head of a whale he chainsawed off to the roof of his car to drive it home as a souvenir” guy.

      I still cannot get over Kathleen Kennedy (his daughter) recounting her vivid memories of this from when she was six.

      “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

      Sounds like a very fucked environment for a child to grow up in.

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    "My method is I read an article about something, you know, and I get convinced that, oh, I gotta have this stuff,” he said. “And then I get it and then six months later I’m still taking it. I don’t remember what the article said. So, I end up with a big crate of vitamins that I’m taking, and I don’t even know why.”

    I feel like this is a lot of people’s experience, we all know someone like this. I know that’s not the kind of thing the Lemmy demographic would look very kindly at, but this is a type of person. Some of them are batshit and others just had a lot of bad luck with the field of medicine.

    I really feel like if this guy had a kinder worldview and wasn’t genuinely fucking bonkers he would be a much-needed voice that could speak reason to people who have lost their trust in medical science. Instead he’s this. So he isn’t that.

    That quote could have come from someone who has come to a good realization about their understanding of health. Okay, you got sold a crate of vitamins big boy. Are you fixed yet?

    But I really feel like the only ones who talk nicely to those people are industrial suppliers of snake oil and that just makes the world worse. Especially now that they’re at the wheel.

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      The worst part is that he’s just a few steps away from having a process.

      You’ve started an experiment and set up a test but just zero follow through or data recorded.

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      Rfk is just playing the sheep as always here. This is the guy invested in supplements saying he takes them to juice sales. The guy fearmongering vaccines while vaccinating himself.

      We should count ourselves lucky for his speech impediment, because this cynical prick could take supreme leader in the succession if it was not for his voice. He maybe could anyway but idk strong detraction they will need good strong hitlerspeeches. Vance will not get it.

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        i’m calling it now, (if) we have elections in 3 year…alex jones/tucker carlson ticket beats out uh…establishment probably tries to push hillary clinton on us again

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    Trump has access to some of the best medical care on the planet. He’s being kept alive at great expense in spite of his diet. Just look at the bruises on his hands.

    Remember when he got Covid? That would have killed anyone else of the same age and comorbidities. Especially if they were relying American health insurance.

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      Remember when he got Covid?

      I remember. It was really fucked up how he was downplaying its dangers while he got at that point still experimental, high-end treatment.

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        He gasped for breath at least once while standing on a balcony telling others not to fear the virus. Total asshole.

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    He also explained that Trump eats from fast-food chains while he’s on the road because he “trusts it” not to make him sick.

    World class idiot.

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      There is a tiny shred of logic to it. Trump fears being poisoned, and if he eats food that is specifically prepared for him then that’s a perfect opportunity for someone to target him. Whereas if he gets takeout from a random drive-through there’s no way a poisoner would know ahead of time which hamberder to contaminate.

      That tiny shred of logic is buried under a mountain of idiocy, of course.

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        Or he eats like a child whose parents spoiled him so badly, that they let him eat ANYTHING he wanted, because it was just easier to have the maid get him McDonalds than listen to his endless shrieking tantrums if he didn’t get what he wanted. His childish dietary demands were always indulged, so he never learned to eat like an adult.

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      He might be right. His gut has been so conditioned to horrible food, if he ate a vegetable, it would probably constipate him for a week.

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        In reality it would be the opposite. The fiber in fruits and vegetables would give him the shits.

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      I bet that is more bs than not. That prez eats fancy food and lies about eating fast food to appeal to america’s fat selfish pricks, it’s perhaps biggest demograpgic.

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        No, he’s not food-oriented at all. When he is forced to eat adult food, he likes his steaks cooked like shoe leather, with ketchup. This, for the guy that tried to start a mail-order steak company.

        Probably heard that Warren Buffet lives in Omaha, so he assumed he owned Omaha Steaks, so he started a steak company to be like Warren, just like he wants Venezuela, so he can have as much oil as his friends the Saudis. The guy is always coveting what someone richer has.

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      Not sure if it was fixed, but it currently takes me to a news article, and in that news article there is a link that goes to a video, not a channel.