Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr is putting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to shame. What they manage with four guys, he’s nearly doing solo!
His anti-vaccine arguments mean he’s already knocking Pestilence out of the park, his complete destruction of the nation’s disease prevention agencies means Death isn’t far behind, and his bonkers opinions on food can only help Famine. The only Horseman he’s not putting out of a job is War, but the rest of the Trump administration are more than taking up the slack on that.
As proof of how fiercely Kennedy worships at the altar of death, take a peek at yesterday’s tumultuous Senate hearing on the chaos at the CDC. Kennedy, increasingly resembling a lost member of the California Raisins, ranted and raved at senators from both parties who accused him of “reckless disregard for science and the truth” (the words of Oregon senator Ron Wyden).
There was a lot of craziness in this hearing, but the most telling exchange was between Republican Senator Bill Cassidy and Kennedy. Cassidy asked him, “Do you agree that the president deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?” Kennedy quickly replied, “absolutely”. A confused Cassidy replied: “But you just said that the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.”
Cassidy: Do you agree that the president deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 4, 2025
RFK: Absolutely.
Cassidy: But you just said that the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.
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So, is this a debate trap set by Cassidy that Kennedy blundered into, or is he being completely open and honest about his opinions? Terrifyingly, Kennedy may actually believe that mass death is worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Stealth eugenics?
Kennedy’s opinions on people with disabilities – like saying autistic individuals “will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, never go out on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted” – indicate he sees them as a drain on society.
Kennedy’s critics, including autism advocates, medical experts, and former CDC officials, point out that his policies and opinions echo eugenics theories from the early 20th century, even if they’re explicitly labeled as eugenics.
Recent CDC departure Dr Demetre Daskalajis laid it out:
“I think the whole rhetoric behind the movement that Secretary Kennedy thinks that he’s launched is really that only the strong survive. … He clearly has a belief, if he actually does believe in viruses and bacteria, which I don’t know if he actually does. He has this belief that infection is better than vaccine because the people who survive are the people who should continue to propagate the species.”
All of which means that, like some real-life Thanos, Kennedy may believe that mass death must be achieved for the greater good. And if he thinks Trump’s COVID vaccine is killing more people than COVID, no wonder he thinks that’s Nobel-worthy.
