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Mike Lew's avatar

The health and fitness obsessed Secretary of HHS is telling people to actively seek out saturated fats. Makes as much sense as anything else I've heard this week.

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R Mercer's avatar

It is my impression that RFKJ is not particularly health-conscious/fitness obsessed. What he IS, is oppositionally defiant to established dietary and medical practice and somewhat retrograde--in the sense that the old ways were/are better ways.

A significant distrust in expertise that he doesn't like, for whatever reason. Sometimes apparently rooted in a reaqction to the greed of the pharma industry (which is hilarious, in context, because of who he has aligned himself with), a general distrust, it seems, of science and actual data, and a general sense of nostalgia.

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Linda Oliver's avatar

Maybe, as he works to Make Measles Great Again, RFK Jr. wants to do the same for heart disease (I’ve got mine, have you got yours?). While I did used to adore McDonald’s fries in the old beef tallow days, I don’t think it’s worth it. Are you SURE he’s trying to make America healthy again, or is he secretly on the pay of Big Coffins?

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Mike Lew's avatar

It's like the anti-big-pharma guy wants us all on statins.

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Ann-Marie Gardner's avatar

It’s Opposite Day! Fries are good for you. Vaccines are bad. Gah!

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mollymoe222's avatar

Right? And I find it kind of funny-odd- that people who eat French fries are worried about “unhealthy oils.” Huh?

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Sheri Smith's avatar

French fries, a burger and a shake. These people are not worried about health. It’s all performative.

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max skinner's avatar

Fried, salt, fat, and sugar. I thought the health nuts were against all those things.

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Marie's avatar

It isn't just that the fats are saturated. If I had to guess, the fat being used is the absolute cheapest of its kind, coming from stressed cows raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), their fat containing significant levels of hormones, antibiotics, herbicides and pesticides. Plants have lower concentrations than the animals who consume them. Toxin levels in tissue always rise as one moves up the food chain, because rates of intake by the are higher than rates of elimination.. And levels of most toxins are highest in fat.

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Mike Lew's avatar

I've been to hog CAFO's. Unpleasant is a vast understatement. I never considered the quality of the rendered fat. Excellent point!

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NLTownie's avatar

Once you know how horrific the conditions are for animals raised commercially for food, it’s difficult to eat commercially-raised meat. You can’t get those brutal images out of your head.

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Tracey Henley's avatar

I read that whole section mentally yelling, “BEEF TALLOW!?!?”

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

Maybe they will be served with a side of a statin to pop in your milkshake.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Never forget that this guy had a worm in his brain.

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Alondra's avatar

And ran a drug biz from the basement of his family home, which led to the death of his brother.

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Kevin Robbins's avatar

The MAGAs should know that beef tallow is also a wonderful dessert topping. They really can’t consume too much of it.

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Hilary's avatar

Is it a dessert topping or a floor polish?

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

Beef tallow is also the active ingredient in Melanie's skin reyouthfuljuvenator, "Odessa," which has been lastingly enjoyed as a luxurious eye cream, as well as a borscht ingredient and candles, by Eastern bloc serfs since the 11th century. Hurry! Saved for TRUE PATRIOTS at $666 per 1/8 ounce (unsalted).

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Barb Vedder's avatar

Paper straws = evil left lunatic product

How did we ever drink before plastic straws?

😵‍💫😵‍💫🫨🫨

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J AZ's avatar

Barb - I remember the paper straw dispenser in my elementary school, next to where we picked up our little milk carton. Wasn’t America great back then? We still had measles & polio; no Voting Rights Act, no EPA; so awesome 😉

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max skinner's avatar

Paper straws? In my day we just drank from the carton...Prairie Farms Milk It was pasteurized, not raw.

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J AZ's avatar

I think the nuns were attempting to prepare us for higher stations with those fancy dining accessories 🤣. ..bless their hearts they tried so hard

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Don’t forget gas stoves? There’s nothing like dying from carbon monoxide poisoning; Let freedom Ring!…:)

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Mike Lew's avatar

Gas stove particulates improve flavor (and asthma)!

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Can you send me the peer reviewed studies; and pop-up books don’t count…:)

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Mike Lew's avatar

About the asthma? That's a very real concern with gas stoves?

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

It’s the only way we know Trump gets his briefings!

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

I know, I was just playing along…:)

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Mike Lew's avatar

Sorry, I missed your meaning, but I did like the pop-up book bit. 😀

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Mike Lew's avatar

Safety belts are an infringement on freedom, too!

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max skinner's avatar

And airbags! They can kill people ya know!

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J AZ's avatar

It’s awful, really, how many they’re killing. Horrible. Horrible. Like the windmills.

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OJVV's avatar

"Seat belts!? Who knew you needed them? We never had them and now we have to wear them, but you know, I just don't use them, you can't move about...you know, you need to be able to move when you are in an accident. And if you are famous, because I'm famous you know, like the most famous, you need to be free to move about and have good reach, you need the reach, the reach is important, if you need to make a move, get a good grab in, you need the freedom to do the reach."

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J AZ's avatar

OJVV - yes yes. But maybe some random words in the BIG letters. The big letters get the Attention 😉

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Dave's avatar

Boebert could get behind this I'm sure. Unfettered reach matters.

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R Mercer's avatar

Ok, you are channeling Trump far too well. It's scary in a hilarious fashion.

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MAP's avatar

Don't be surprised if you see the cancer warnings removed from tobacco products with this crew!

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Mac Smith's avatar

And breathing is woke! Just look at those gay O² molecules. And don't even get me started on WATER!

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Mike Lew's avatar

Water is a polar molecule. Polar! Pick one side or the other! We definitely need to get rid of the scourge of dihydrogen monoxide. Read up on it, the stuff is terrifying!

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Douglas Peterson's avatar

Dihydrogen monoxide! It's a threesome! There are clips of it on Porn Hub! Someone had better alert Speaker Johnson or his son might accidentally come into contact with it!

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Mac Smith's avatar

I've heard water is even - gasp - BI-polar. Can you imagine?

Thank god there none of this stuff in Beef, Fries, Coke or beer!

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Mike Lew's avatar

It's pH is 7! Can you imagine how dangerous that is?!?!

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Mike Lew's avatar

It's odorless, colorless, and fatal if inhaled!

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Robin's avatar

Honestly I would not be surprised to see these idiots go after seat belt and carseat laws. They are that dumb.

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Peter H.'s avatar

Make Siblings Calling Shotgun Great Again

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Ben Johnson's avatar

If it didn’t lead to the death of innocent children, I would totally be in favor of bulwarks acting as moles that put even dumber ideas into the MAGAverse.

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