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DFW

(59,771 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:28 AM Aug 2025

Well, we all knew Bobby, Jr. was off the deep end, but this latest is 1984/Logan's Run stuff

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/756994/rfk-jr-wearables-maha-health-wearables-disordered-eating#comments

It looks like Bobby now wants every American to wear a monitor that keeps real time track of all your health data. When ICE has deported the last Guatemalan whose ancestry cannot be traced to the Mayflower, they can then start to cull citizens who are in less than perfect health, force them into rest-cure camps (at their own expense, of course), and not release them until they can be useful worker ants again.

By the way, this doesn't surprise me, but if it should turn out to be not true, please let me know so I can delete this. It wasn't so incredible that I thought it worthwhile to spend more time than a superficial check for disclaimers.
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LogDog75

(1,121 posts)
1. RFJjr said he's a "wearables exper"
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:45 AM
Aug 2025

Hey Booby, just what are the qualifications needed to become a “wearables expert?”

This should be fodder for the MAGArat to deep dive into the conspiracy theories that the government wants to monitor to monitor you’re movements and bod functions 24/7.

RFK Sr. must be turning over in his grave.

PatSeg

(52,275 posts)
2. So RFK Jr. and MAGATs got all bent out of shape
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:50 AM
Aug 2025

about wearing masks, but now he is advocating every American wear a health monitor? Masks are an evil socialist plot, but health monitors are great.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
7. Like Logan's Run, when that red light comes on, you're sent to Carousel for a final send off.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:23 PM
Aug 2025


One less health burden from a broken person and it frees up whatever money you have for others to use.

PatSeg

(52,275 posts)
11. Ah, I hadn't thought of that
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:11 PM
Aug 2025

Or maybe they could build death camps to send the not so healthy people. Another old movie comes to mind, "Wild in the Streets" where people over a certain age were sent to concentration camps and kept high on drugs until they died.

Iris

(16,851 posts)
8. They wouldn't get the vaccine because of the microchips they believe were embedded in them
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:29 PM
Aug 2025

PatSeg

(52,275 posts)
12. Hard to imagine such people succumbing to
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:14 PM
Aug 2025

wearing health monitors, but MAGATs are easily persuaded.

LogDog75

(1,121 posts)
4. Who is going to pay for everyone's "wearable?"
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 11:12 AM
Aug 2025

Considering most “wearables”seem to be made in China, wouldn’t the “wearables” price keep increasing with all of the Orange Turd’s tariffs?

What good in having a “wearable” if the republic party keeps trying take Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid away?

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,029 posts)
5. RFK, jr.'s "connections to Scientologist law firm Wisner Baum has sparked concern."
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 11:38 AM
Aug 2025

This is from an 2/18/25 Radar On-Line article titled: INVESTIGATIONS: Trump's Health Secretary RFK Jr's Controversial Ties to Scientologist Law Firm Wisner Baum Laid Bare As Fears Rise Over his Impact on 'Black Wellbeing'

https://www.newsbreak.com/radaronline-561399/3818954976053-investigations-trump-s-health-secretary-rfk-jr-s-controversial-ties-to-scientologist-law-firm-wisner-baum-laid-bare-as-fears-rise-over-his-impact-on-black-wellbeing

Interesting article - Here are a few snips:

During his confirmation hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren went hard on RFK Jr., asking him if he would continue to receive consulting fees from Wisner Baum, according to a report by The Underground Bunker.

The 71-year-old acknowledged he would continue to receive fees at the time, but would instead pass it on to one of his sons if he was confirmed.

The law firm is currently suing Merck, the makers of Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.

snip

Both partners have huge ties to Scientology, as Baum was an un-indicted co-conspirator in the “Snow White Program” that infiltrated the United States government in the 1970s – and resulted in the 1977 raid of Scientology by the FBI .

DFW

(59,771 posts)
6. Bobby, Jr. has connections to a lot of questionable characters
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 11:49 AM
Aug 2025

And "concern" is putting it mildly. Outright panic is getting closer to the mark.

Trump has literally put a nut case in almost every cabinet position. When Marco Rubio comes across as the only half-way sane guy in the room, you know that any Trump cabinet meeting is going to be populated with Looney Tunes characters.

DavidDvorkin

(20,501 posts)
9. It would also probably keep track of everyone's location
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:40 PM
Aug 2025

Suddenly rising heart rates of a bunch of people in a single location would signal an insurrection forming!!!!

DFW

(59,771 posts)
13. Conrtrol freak nation
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:40 PM
Aug 2025

Republicanism, pure and unadulterated

"Ustedes vencerán, porque poseen la fuerza bruta, pero no convencerán" -- Basque author/poet Miguel de Unamuno addresses the Spanish Falanage (fascist party), 1936.

mwmisses4289

(3,329 posts)
10. Why the heck does he want people to wear these things?
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:18 PM
Aug 2025

Get two or three of these together, and you discover they all give results that are all over the place. The example I'm thinking of was the ones to measure steps. One gave a number of like 5000, another 12,000 and another 9000.
Can't afford one of these gee whiz gizmos anyway.

DFW

(59,771 posts)
14. Find the bill attached to your 1040 in April.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:47 PM
Aug 2025

They can't win with what they are offering. But with force and power, they don't need to win an election, all they need to do is win an occupation. You don't send military divisions into downtown L.A. to round up a few dozen undocumented Hondurans. You do it as a test case to see how well it works if you plan on taking full control of major urban centers, with an eye toward dismantling dissent and opposition, and then eliminating them.

Initech

(107,594 posts)
16. Aren't these the same idiots who said they won't get the vaccine because it was a tracking device?
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 04:53 PM
Aug 2025
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