Cuckoo Cuckoo Award!

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This week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo Award goes to the 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it is sad that the child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy got the Cuckoo Cuckoo Award. This was brought to light because of the House hearing Thursday.

Poppers Cause AIDS, the Environment Makes Boys Trans, Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A member of the famous Kennedy dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., continues to peddle falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

The Advocate

By Christoper Wiggins

June 20 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist, thinks kids (particularly boys) are being made trans from exposure to chemicals in the environment, equating them to frogs in a lab, and he claims AIDS is an environmental condition for which poppers are responsible. Really.

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In two recently unearthed videos, the activist made bizarre and false claims about the existence of transgender people and the origins of AIDS.

“I see these huge levels of depression and despair, loneliness in kids, and I don’t think that there’s a single cause to it, and I think blaming it on depression about climate is probably oversimplistic,” Kennedy told Canadian far right-wing political pundit and psychologist Jordan Peterson. “A lot of the problems we see in kids, and particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated that how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing.”

Kennedy claimed that kids are “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals,” including atrazine, a common herbicide.

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“If you in a lab put atrazine and a tank full of frogs, it will chemically castrate and force forcibly feminize every frog in there, and 10 percent of the frogs, the male frogs will turn into fully viable females able to produce viable eggs,” Kennedy claimed. “If it’s doing that to frogs, it, there’s a lot of other evidence that it’s doing it to human beings as well.”

But his theories are limited to us, he also knows where AIDS came from (This is another doozy.)…

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 head rush 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.”

And those theories earn him this week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo Award.

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Past winners are:

• Minn. Lawmaker with History of Making False, Anti-LGBTQ+ Claims Is Now Blaming Global Warming on Pride Month, Minnesota state Sen. Eric Lucero
• GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn Floats Conspiracy Theory On Titanic Sub And Hunter Biden, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
• Politician accuses aquarium of ‘making fake gay penguins to brainwash children’, Family First Party, Australia
• Republican Worried Drag Queens Will Launch Missiles, U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MN)

Let me know who your nominees are for the week!