the answer is the same one you have been giving us for years: yes. Please consider holding online/televised fireside chats each week. You, HCR and Jim Acosta could inform and guide the vast majority of Americans to take our country back - without violence!
His rally made me cry. No other politician ever sounds like they care like he does. It really made me lose hope in our system when he was disregarded so many times and now look where we are. He's the hero we need, not the one we deserve.
If he were truly the one we needed, he would have considered working more closely with others instead of disparaging them when he was not interested in running for president. I share most of his positions, but not his egotistical refusal to work with others.
These confirmation hearings are the same as trump swaying to music during his campaign rally. Useless and stupid.
What Americas needs to do is stop working and go to DC in a flood of prolonged sustained indignation and protest. And not leave til this poison is stopped!
He cannot give us a “yes, or no” answer because his yes is a NO.
What is wrong with these people. I bet if the Senator asked them if healthcare was an “Oligarch’s Right”, he give us straight up, Yes.
Out of everything, why is the healthcare question so controversial in the US? Why do people call that of everything, for socialism? It’s just healthcare? Something good for people? I don’t get it.
Looks like he's fixing to fall apart. Why is nobody ripping him to shreds like the did Biden. What a loser, he should have stayed off the pipe last night.
So when are you guys going to fight back? I mean, a literal fascist has taken power and has pushed through literal fascist ideas throughout your country in a week. Maybe it's time to fight fucking back?
Yeah, some people don't 'deserve it', I guess 🙄 Like RFK has ever had to be without healthcare in his life...he just voluntarily chooses to eschew all medical logic in public, while hypocritically vaccinating his own children
Oh Senator Sanders. What could have been if 2016 went a different way. I still feel the ‘Bern’ and I need you to help kick your other senators in the ASS and start doing some real hard work too! This SHIT is serious and we need you more than ever!
From the little I could stomach watching it was mostly “what Trump wants”
Trump already used this fraud for some votes so how about quit f’ing the country with fiefdom picks out of your ass
Yeah, that's what did it. Not Chappaquiddick, not the Michael Skakel incident, not Joe Kennedy's Mob ties, not JFK Jr. getting clearance for takeoff in the fog he wasn't qualified to to fly in because of his name, this. This is what made them look bad
You're not wrong, but despite all the seriously crappy and mostly ignored Kennedy history while people idolize them, they've at least somewhat upheld the "public servant" banner, whatever that really means when one considers the boundless egotism. RFK Jr does disgrace that last bit of goodness.
I mean... his answer is probably is yes but to him "health care" means handing out care packages of raw milk, roadkill, and promo codes for Joe Rogan supplements.
Raw milk, the concept sickens me, especially with the Bird Flu (the flu that caused thousands of birds to have to be killed and has spread to cows now) hitting both milk and eggs. No thank you.
To be fair, Bernie, they have made their stance clear there. They don't consider it a human right. You had to have known the answer would have been this or a straight up "no" lol
Bro as soon as you ask that question I was all over this! .... They will never give universal healthcare in this country, because we are all simply dollar bills to them from the moment that we are conceived. When it comes to health only the ones that can pay and make them richer count.
RFK Jr is a fraud. I hope the GOP votes him down today but I am not holding my breath. They worship Fuhrer Musk and VP Trump like gods and will do whatever they say. They aren't Christians anymore. They have a new religion: Musk and Trump.
Yes, as long as you are white, male, cis, hetero and working (but not on minimum wage), and say yes to trumpism (no matter how daft or illegal the proposals are)
It breaks my heart to think of where we could be today if the DNC had just supported Sanders' run for president and if he had won. I wish I could see that reality.
As someone who doesn't know much on the subject, can someone refer me to a document which details the cost structure and funding plan for universal healthcare in America? Super curious to comb through the nitty gritty.
Perhaps there is residue from worm on brain? He couldn't answer because he wasn't going to give the right answer Senator! Thank you and Democrats in Congress!
Thank you, sir. Everyone is doing a wonderful job outing how incompetent, ignorant, and morally bankrupt these cabinet members frump presented are. But they’re in anyway. The people are screaming to the Democrats to do something, say something, advise us-every day all day denounce!
Rich privileged white guy says what?
18 million people on ACA
6.8 million have VA healthcare
79.4 million on medicaid & chip
65 million on Medicare
3 million federal employees
Over 160 million US citizens use Government sponsored healthcare. Just do freaking Medicare for all, it will save money.
Thanks for the excellent job you do for many years now!
RFK gave much worst honest answers and as usual some dishonest lies.
I watch what is going on over there and it's like a damned nightmare waking up horrible dreams from what happend under the fascist regimes who led to two world wars.
I'm canadian, and this is so appalling to me that someone would say that. They need to stop thinking that human lives are a business model to make money off of. This is embarassing.
Surprised me both this time and the previous - I was perhaps naïve when I thought being openly misogynistic and actively fighting against women's rights would immediately alienate half the population...
Even just from a self-interest pov, I would've expected US women to vote in their own interest.
Right? Instead, they blindly follow their husbands! Women with daughters voted for him too! He’s going for a dictatorship & just may win. Keeps me up at night. 😳
How is it that in any of these confirmations that not one person asking the questions states “ we all know Brett and Amy sat here and lied straight to our faces, so why should we believe you?”
Kennedy has for years questioned vaccines & spread misinformation about them, ignoring broad scientific consensus about their safety & efficacy to argue that they haven't been adequately studied. He's also perpetuated the thoroughly disproven idea that vaccines cause autism. https://time.com/7210943/rfk-confirmation-hearing-vaccines/
My husband is currently battling cancer, and the only reason we are getting by is that I am lucky enough to have decent (not excellent and not without some battles) insurance from my employer. Thank you for asking this simple question.
His point was if someone smokes for 20 years and gets lung cancer they shouldn't be covered. My father smoked 45 years, Pall Mall Non-Filtered. He died of lung cancer from the ravages of Agent Orange on his body. He would have put my dad out in the cold and called him uninsurable. RFK JR is a joke.
That's not a fair question because if he says yes he will get in trouble with papa Trump but if he says no, it will be really obvious that he doesn't care about people
Senator Sanders,
You should have questioned processed foods and what he proposes. This is an anathema to MAGA and gold to liberals. That would have put him in a box as I don’t think he can attack processed foods without mentioning corn and soybeans.
Senator Sanders, let him go after processed foods. Good for Cali bad for Iowa. I’ll take almonds, avocado, fruits, veggies (not lettuce) over corn syrup everyday.
Yeah, you can tell it's all about the American People. When will Americans catch a clue about the wealthy people they keep electing? Billionaires have no business in the Whitehouse in any form or capacity. Their goals are not the goals of the average person.
We don't live in a Socialist government and I don't want to. I don't want my Gov. to decide my quality of Healthcare. I have worked my ass off for what I have and am sick of everyone else thinking they should get EVERYTHIG for free.
Your government already decides the quality of your healthcare, instead of it happening through legislation it happens through handshakes and bands of cash where they are able to profit off of it. I'd bet my life that RFK Jr. and his boss aren't going to change that.
It's not a matter of paying less the Gov would be in the position to decided if you were allowed to get care. If they decided you were too close to death then you just wouldn't get the treatment and would die. If they delay cancer treatment long enough it would then be to late to treat.
So you think that's how it works here??? Are you insane?!?! NO, it doesn't work like that here. If soneone decides to not want any more treatments, THEN it stops. The patient is IN CONTROL here, not the insurance companies. You have been lied to!!!!
Unlike you Senator. He has no balls. He's a limp dicked inbred pussy with no conviction or dedication. He knows if he wants to achieve anything he has to back the trump regime. Notice how trump has forced him to do things he's openly stated he hates. I.e. eating McDonald's. He is testing his goons.
I for one actually loved seeing him capitulate to the humiliation ritual of eating seed oil fueled McDonald's. At least we know just how far he will sell himself out. Imagine the soul crush he felt having to do that. I'm laughing at him.
In about 15 seconds I was able to pull up an interview with Jimmy Dore where RFK JR says guaranteed healthcare for all americans is the ideal, but likely not achievable immediately, due to the power of the healthcare industry. But a public option was his starting proposal.
Senator Sanders. Can we encourage people who care about basic human rights to put down their phones and help the all Americans who will be affected. You keep fighting. I’m putting my phone down and volunteering in marginalized communities. No more scrolling…..
Thank you (and several of your colleagues) for asking RFKjr to answer for his many lies, dodges, conspiracy theories and other utter nonsense. He's a disgrace.
I'm getting there. Or invoke the 25th. Either way we end up with Vance. He's pretty awful, but will not intimidate as Trump does. And if he's not angling to please Trump, his positions might moderate or at least be less adamant. His wife seems more liberal. She might have some influence, too.
Your Democratic policies during Covid is the reason why he's even being considered. You people COMPLETELY screwed up when you forced the vaccine down everyone's throat!
Ffs are you still crying about being asked to take a fucking shot? You do realize your guy Donny Tiny Hands was the one that got the thing fast tracked right?
1 Fuck the useless Dems
2 dude during the hearing was called out for vaccinating his kids, then going on a podcast saying he wishes he never done it just to lie in congress he's pro Vax.
Is cool. I tend to make the occasional typo as well. Bluesky definitely needs an edit button.
The problem is I do agree with him as well on certain things. Such as bread does not need an insane amount of ingredients or additives.
But we're talking about the guy who finds dead animals to take home.
Well honestly what the man does in his own time doesn't really bother me. Weird for sure. But when he mentions how our cereal has 17 more ingredients than other countries with the exact same brand and I watch my kids eat that shit. He's definitely got me thinking that something needs to change.
This is the only highlight video I could find that isn't mainstream news and that covers most of the hearing. So if you got 15 to spare give it a listen.
You kinda should. What people do with their hobbies tend to reflect on who the person is. And I do agree on the cereal thing. However same dude claimed black people have a higher immune system than whites so they don't need the same vaccine schedule as whites.
We know what we're getting with the current pieces of shit we have in this role. Give the man a chance. For example, he said Red dye 40 causes cancer. FDA said it was safe 50 YEARS ago. Once he got involved, they banned it just 2 WEEKS ago. 50 YEARS, and now it's not safe? WTF?
You're right. We should listen to a roided up heroin user who's been aggressively wrong about vaccines for decades rather than anyone with any actual knowledge
They banned it in 1990 in cosmetics because it caused cancer in rats. But it's okay for it to be in our food? I'm not a scientist I'm just telling you what I'm reading.
Oh he's not? FDA said that red dye 40 was safe 50 years ago. This man just started getting involved, saying that red dye 40 causes cancer. FDA bans it just 2 weeks ago. 50 years and now all of a sudden it's not safe? I say he's sharper than what meets the eye.
There is absolutely positive evidence that red dye number 3 can't cause cancer in people. This ban is fallout from the removal of Chevron deference.
It's almost as idiotic as little Bobby himself
Oh so you thought it was okay for them to threaten people's livelihoods? Shut down businesses? Fire people? All because the government was telling us we needed to take the vaccine to stop the spread, when it never even stopped the spread? RFK was the one saying it will not stop the spread!
To correct your statement, it was get the vaccine to be mask free at work or wear a mask. If you won’t do either then your job has the right to either place you on leave or fire you. If your job could be remote, then many jobs did that as well to circumvent the vaccine and masks.
He’s not qualified and no one who holds to conspiracy theories that include against science and 70+ years of science & medical research should be nominated let alone waste taxpayer money with a hearing for appointment to oversee HHS.
That shouldn't be a difficult question to answer. Yes is the answer, healthcare is a human right, but in all fairness, I'm Swedish, so my view "slightly" differs from that of American Republicans.
Of course he didn’t answer. His boss isn’t going to let that happen. His boss doesn’t care about making America healthy again. He’s a junk food addict! Unhealthy people are good for profits. And that’s what matters to the Cheeto. Profits!
No.. the answer is no.
Just spit it out RFK. It's a hard no.
It would be great if this country could do it, but it is not a human right. It's a service provided by countries that can (if they want)
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What Americas needs to do is stop working and go to DC in a flood of prolonged sustained indignation and protest. And not leave til this poison is stopped!
What is wrong with these people. I bet if the Senator asked them if healthcare was an “Oligarch’s Right”, he give us straight up, Yes.
Did you follow up with that?
Trump already used this fraud for some votes so how about quit f’ing the country with fiefdom picks out of your ass
@sanders.senate.gov
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You present a question as binary. An answer you want, which you present as good. And only one alternate as, which presents as bad.
And that sir, doesn't serve public interest.
No, if any of the above does not apply to you.
18 million people on ACA
6.8 million have VA healthcare
79.4 million on medicaid & chip
65 million on Medicare
3 million federal employees
Over 160 million US citizens use Government sponsored healthcare. Just do freaking Medicare for all, it will save money.
I asked you yes or no, Bernie!
RFK gave much worst honest answers and as usual some dishonest lies.
I watch what is going on over there and it's like a damned nightmare waking up horrible dreams from what happend under the fascist regimes who led to two world wars.
Even just from a self-interest pov, I would've expected US women to vote in their own interest.
I call senators every night after office hours and leave messages.
They are counting on us giving us and thinking we don’t have power. There’s more of us. Make them hear you.
Let’s make our voices heard
Let them know we are paying attention and speaking up and we are going to take up their time with all the calls they have to log.
You should have questioned processed foods and what he proposes. This is an anathema to MAGA and gold to liberals. That would have put him in a box as I don’t think he can attack processed foods without mentioning corn and soybeans.
Health Care for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that EVERY WOMAN, CHILD, & MAN
should have Health Care in this land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
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Everyone should write your representative. Congress must impeach.
2 dude during the hearing was called out for vaccinating his kids, then going on a podcast saying he wishes he never done it just to lie in congress he's pro Vax.
The problem is I do agree with him as well on certain things. Such as bread does not need an insane amount of ingredients or additives.
But we're talking about the guy who finds dead animals to take home.
https://youtu.be/ZSTbnrQmi9Y?si=6wY3PvQz5RG9HlMC
Who among us HASN'T lied in a way that led to the deaths of children?
Give him a chance! We can always make more kids
Makes it REAL clear that this is stupid
The hormonal pathway that it uses to cause cancer in rats isn't present in humans.
It doesn't cause cancer in humans
It's almost as idiotic as little Bobby himself
His brain is toast
Just spit it out RFK. It's a hard no.
It would be great if this country could do it, but it is not a human right. It's a service provided by countries that can (if they want)