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Read what a lot of you are saying in this thread about "rare W" and the like and realize this poignant saying...

"You can't only piss in one PART of the pool"

You won't get just the one thing you want from RFK, you'll get it all - Stop taking the bait, dipshits. This is the candy he's trying to give you while sliding down your pants with the other hand and slathering coconut oil on your b-hole.

Ooh, anything else about him worth mentioning?

"Man wants to spend time socializing with children and giving them gifts" is an odd lead in for "unapologetic child molester stalks local park"

He's a weird mix of "cannot be allowed near the job" and great ideas.

Well, two. This and getting the stigma off of psychedelics.

Nothing's worth having an anti-vaxxer in charge, though. Not even close.

I guess the worm didn't eat all of it.

Yes, that would be good, but let's be real here, this is basically a statement that says "hey big pharma, I'm not getting enough campaign contributions!! Get off your ass and give me some cash!" - Trump

This will NEVER get passed in a Trump administration. It's all window dressing on a big pile of streaming shit.

Nearly all countries do this. Even the regressive ones. It's one of the biggest reasons why pharma is a massive cash cow in the US, alongside the fact that we don't negotiate drug prices aside from a handful of drugs and only medicare/medicaid and only the past <4 years or so.

Honestly kind of weird, you would expect him to allow literally anybody to advertise their drugs from his usual deregulatory stance.

Rare RFK W.

Wow, finally something I agree with him on

Fishing for bribes imo.

Ads, yes. Class action legal ads for pharmasutical side effects/injury can stay. Do your testing ya smucks.

Heh, he's crazy as all get-out, but I agree with getting drug ads away from the uneducated public. If an ad has to have "ask your doctor about", it shouldn't exist anywhere, not just TV.

He just wants this one to de-educate people on the existence of drugs in general, but honestly, if you need to see a doctor to talk about them/get them, they don't need advertising in the first place. It does open up a bigger discussion on knowledge about the availability of pharmaceutical treatments, though, since some people probably ask their doctors about symptom treatment based on ads. It's purely reactive and the wrong way to take care of your health, but, I won't ignore the obviously systematic issues with access to affordable healthcare for proactive care, vs. "make this hurting stop" care.

It's fucking weird how this motherfucker is against vaccines, for raw milk, but also wants to do things that actually would be good, as well, like this. That worm really did a number on him...

This is how people end up down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. A conspiracy nut has just enough actually good ideas that people start to think they’re smart and believe the utter nonsense they spew afterwards.

I still don’t like him, but I’d love to see this happen.

Broken clock

Legitimate good ideas wrapping around a few extremely terrible ones is exactly how people get pulled in to the scam.

For as many foolish things Kennedy has talked about wanting to institute, a drug ad ban is not one of them. Kinda awesome, actually.

This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula

Fuck him and his insane and dangerous suggestions about medical stuff.

But "ask your doctor about X" ads where X is a prescription-only drug should definitely be banned. Why the fuck would I ask my doctor about a medication if they haven't already suggested it to me?

Shit so we'd be like Europe? Okay sign me the hell up

This is a good thing. His motivation may be more sinister. It could create a situation where non medical treatments can be advertised without restriction and genuine medicines can’t. It needs to be applied to all treatments, even unregulated ones.