The Cancer of America
Why RFK Jr is a tumor in need of removal
Everyone has to start somewhere, right?
It’s been a couple of weeks since I started this SubStack. I’ve been trying to figure out how to run this thing best.
My primary focus has been on utilizing this platform to help others become the best versions of themselves - mind, body, heart, and soul.
I realized that, inevitably, due to the nature of this platform and my own background in not knowing how to stay silent for too long, I would have to start “reporting” on something. After all, that’s what my background (and degree) is in - advertising, public relations, writing… and journalism.
It’s what I do: I write… and I don’t know how the hell to shut up.
In my search for how to incorporate this… proclivity… into my Substack, I declared a couple of weeks ago that I would hone my focus. I decided to laser in on Health News/Health Politics, and when I wasn’t doing that, I’d write on Human Rights.
Makes sense, right? The owner of an LGBTQ-friendly gym (in Alabama, of all places) focusing on health and human rights? I thought so. It seems quite obvious in retrospect, even.
Since then, it’s been a rabbit hole. I’ve got news alerts set up for these topics, and I get daily digests, breaking alerts, and I even started actively paying attention to and bookmarking all these articles and sources I had just been mentally cataloguing before.
It’s honestly very empowering to begin to have this mission and this focus again, but it’s also disheartening.
Do you know why?
Because at the heart of most of all our current health news, tied in centrally to almost every headline well before last week’s events, there is one figure that has dominated the news cycle since his appointment. One figure who seems to be the knot at the middle of the ball of snakes. One man who, ironically, is the cancer eating itself outward into our collective corpse.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Yes, RFK Jr., our Secretary of Health and Human Services, is, quite ironically, the Cancer that America needs to eradicate.
Am I being insensitive? Sure. Cancer is no laughing matter and has caused irrevocable loss and pain to those affected and their loved ones.
Which is why I stand by what I’ve said.
This man may have only been sworn in in February of this year, but he is systematically attempting to gut COVID vaccines and CDC manpower, and is likely to help dismantle critical HHS programs such as Head Start, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Medicaid. He has also set his sights on ending negotiations to lower prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, including the $35 cap on insulin. (SOURCE)
This doesn’t even begin to address his claims that mental illnesses should be treated by removing access to medication and setting up “rehabilitation” camps (read: labor camps) to cure such mental illnesses and neurodivergence.
In just seven short months, the man seems to be actively trying to dismantle our health servies with the vigor Trump showed in just slightly more time.
Even his own family - his sister and nephew - have called for his resignation over his defense of efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and fire high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control. (SOURCE)
The problem is, other than being a personal cronie of Trump’s, the reason he still has support from so many Americans is two-fold.
The first, and silliest, is that many Americans still vote for their favorite action figure in office. When asked about why they support him, many have told me, “I know he’s crazy… but I like him,” and “the man is jacked!” So there you have it: for many, RFK Jr is just an action figure with a smile and six-pack abs. That’s who they want running HHS. As a coach, I cannot tell you how much being “jacked” doesn’t matter. Fitness comes in all forms.
Also, doing illicit drugs helps with vascularity. Just saying.
I personally don’t care whether my HHS leaders can bench as much as I can or step on stage at a bodybuilding show. I care about whether they are going to keep people like me… and others who aren’t nearly as healthy as me… alive.
The second reason, and more importantly, is that RFK Jr. is a product of a very real need in this country: a perceived answer to our Healthcare crisis. When the hospitals, and the system, and insurance fail you, naturally, you turn to other answers. Reform, revolt, or… alternative/holistic methods. Something cheaper and more natural that might fix it.
And hey… I do plan to get into that on this SubStack. Where a holistic answer will do, count me in. Meditation, essential oils, a good tea, acupuncture, massage, crystals… let’s dive in and see where it takes us.
But I like my brain surgery done by modern science and my cramps, pains, and woes handled by whichever divine intervention shows up.
But that is what RFK represents to many of these people: an alternative to the system that’s failed them. That’s dangerous when led by a man who is systematically tearing down COVID and HIV research, while touting psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, and nutraceuticals. (SOURCE)
Again, hey, let’s look into all of that. Let’s really explore what Pharma has been knocking down, and where we can find corruption holding back alternative medicine… let’s go after that, too. And there is a lot of scandal around the proprietary treatment of COVID-19 vaccine information. I spent many hours on the phone these last two weeks with high-ranking medical professionals in my own community who will quickly espouse the dangers there.
But one of those has a track record and a lot more scientific research behind it… and the others are unproven.
You can’t champion unproven treatments while trying to tear down standing treatments as unproven.
Last week, I jokingly said I’d love to be the Anti-RFK. I don’t know how feasible that is, or if I really want that burden. But who knows, if a man with a law degree but no health or medical training can become the Secretary of Health and Human Services… maybe an award-winning coach and gym owner from Alabama can at least point out when he’s wrong.
—Jacob Summers