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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer with no scientific or medical training and compulsively deluded by seemingly endless conspiracy theories, is the person Donald Trump, an equally idiotic and deluded man, nominated to be in charge of the nation’s Department of Health and Human Services. Even more than the other toadies, bootlickers, and grifters Trump put into his thieving, petty, and vengeance-obsessed administration, Kennedy represented a clear, dangerous, and lethal threat to the American people. Whether this crank would ascend to such a position of power really came down to one man: Senator William Cassidy, a former physician but loyal GOP foot soldier.

Cassidy, ignoring both his oaths (the one to protect the nation and the other to do no harm), from either naivety or idiocy or plain self-interest, accepted the clear and obvious lies from Kennedy that he would not act on his decades-long crusade against vaccines and voted to give him a power and authority he clearly had no training or temperament for. Other senators, using Cassidy’s former status as a physician as the cover they needed, followed suit, and Kennedy was given the reins he so desperately wanted.

Kennedy’s promises proved as binding as Trump’s, and he launched into his attack on the scientific standards and advancements that have for more than half a century truly saved the lives of countless Americans and people around the world.

mRNA therapies, after literal decades of blood, sweat, and tears of research, came to fruition when we needed them most, during the worst global pandemic in a century, but they hold much more promise than that.

Cancer is not one disease; it is a galaxy of similar diseases that have plagued and stalked humanity since antiquity. One of the most insidious aspects of the disease is its ability to hide from the body’s immune system, escaping detection and destruction until the body itself is consumed and killed. mRNA therapies hold the greatest promise for treating and defeating cancer ever developed, but not anymore. Kennedy killed that research. Maybe China will pick up the ball and run with it. They have the technical know-how and the skilled, college-educated scientists to do so, and then we can rely on the CCP’s good graces and will to share that with dying Americans.

We are diving into flu and COVID season for the winter of 2025/2026 just as Kennedy is destroying the administrative infrastructure that approves and distributes the critical vaccines to save American lives. I myself may have lost the ability to receive the COVID vaccine booster for this year because I have not yet reached 65, so I feel this very personally.

Lives are going to be lost because Cassidy bent the knee, denied the clear and obvious truth about Kennedy, and preferred to safely not “buck the system.” What has he gained from his betrayal of the American people? Are the people who are going to die a reasonable price to have others pay so you can be a Senator for just a bit longer, Cassidy?

I do not believe in a life after death or some divine judgment for our actions while here on Earth, but I wish there were. Kennedy is deluded and stupid; he is like a rabid dog. But you are neither, and you knew the choice you were making and the price others would pay for it.

You, Senator Cassidy, are evil.