RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water

Let’s bring back leaded gasoline and asbestos too!!

What fucking year is this? And while he's at it, that horses's ass can get tinfoil hats into circulation to protect against <dumb old ass boomer conspiracy theory bullshit>

God damn it, will all these fossils with their lead poisoned brains just die already?

Maybe it's the brain worm talking because the fluorine would kill it?

Ignore that buzzing noise.

It's just the sound of 200,000 dentists rubbing their hands together at the thought of all the extra money they're going to make.

What year is this? This was a scare back in the 1970.

Un-fortify the wheat now!

/s

Is fluoride the new Frog-engayening agent? 🐸

Isn't this a state and municipality decision?

Personally I am in favor of removing floyride from water. I think it's stupid.

But I am fine with replacing that with free fluoride toothpaste for children.

Either way that is not a federal decision to make.

Make Cavities Great Again

In the universe of bad and crazy things that brain worm addled RFK jr. would do, this is one of the least bad and crazy.

How about making sure 100% of US residents have access to clean, safe tap water first? Eliminate lead and forever chemicals. I don't feel strongly about fluoride, I do feel strongly you should be able to drink water from your kitchen sink without having to worry.

Welp, that explains the parasites.

Roe v Wade: "This should be decided by the states!"

Fluoride in water: "This should be decided by the federal government!"

???

Don't we have real problems to solve? Why are Republicans always making up new shit?

Ah yes, RFKJR, the original cavity creep.

We don't have it in Quebec, we have more dental health issues on average than in Ontario (our neighbors)

The crackpots coincidentally turned out to be right. There is a measurable effect on IQ in areas that fluoridate vs those that don't.

where are brain worms when you need them to finish the job

Great way to send a lot of business to dentists.

Wait what? Oh, for a second I thought he was going to remove Florida.

RFK, Antivax shit head moron.

"Immediately" means a tweet or Truth Social post by Trump that is so vague no one under him knows exactly what they're supposed to do to enact his order.

And then right back to Day 1 dictatorial stuff like imprisoning political opponents and the press.

Executive Order #1: No American shall receive more than ONE SCOOP of ice cream at a time, EXCEPT the Chief Executive.

My precious bodily fluids ! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyf3QgRP-c

Seriously? The bit from Dr.Strangelove? I mean, it's not terribly surprising anymore but I still wish we could get these fucks on some stupid theory that kills them more directly and immediately so they take less of the rest of us with them.

You know, I just love how no one is addressing why they think this is a bad idea with facts, they just rush to insult him. If this doesn't prove how toxic of a political climate we're in right now, I don't know what will.

The real issues! /s

I guess I didn't need teeth anyway

The old John Birch society hated fluoride too. So much so, that Barry Goldwater took up the cause when he ran against JFK. Of course, he lost. Now they try to dress it up with junk science and it's RFK and Trump.

Such an ignorant man

Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper:

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

(...)

[through his cigar] Mandrake,

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake:

Yes, Jack?

Ripper:

Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

Mandrake:

Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack.

Ripper:

Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake:

Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.

Ripper:

On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake:

Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper:

Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water.

Mandrake:

Uhhh God...

Ripper:

And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake:

Yes. [chuckles nervously]

Ripper:

You beginning to understand?

Mandrake:

Yes. [chuckles, begins laughing/crying quietly]

Ripper:

Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?

Mandrake:

Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper:

Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake:

Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

Ripper:

Well do you now what it is?

Mandrake:

No. No, I don't know what it is. No.

Ripper:

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

(...)

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridated water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream?

Mandrake:

Good Lord.

Ripper:

You know when fluoridation first began?

Mandrake:

No. No, I don't, Jack. No.

Ripper:

Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie works.

Mandrake:

Jack... Jack, listen, tell me, ah... when did you first become, well, develop this theory.

Ripper:

Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Mandrake:

[sighs fearfully]

Ripper:

Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.

Mandrake:

Yes...

Ripper:

I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/fluoridation-water-epa-risk-assessement

The Obama-appointed US judge Edward Chen found fluoridation could cause developmental damage and lower IQ in children at levels to which the public is generally exposed in drinking water. Though the ruling did not state the level at which fluoridation would damage brains, the levels in US water present an unreasonable risk, the court found.

Honestly there have been studies linking fluoride to lower intelligence and there are many studies stating that it doesn't really make a difference in dental health. If you're brushing your teeth properly you'll be fine.

Most of Europe does the put it in their water and they're fine.

Edit: I say this as someone who absolutely does not want trump or rfk dealing with any of this. Even a broken racist worm ridden clock can be right once in a while

Even a broken clock is right two times a day.

That paper specifically concludes that despite all that, there is no reason to even look into whether fluoridation in drinking water might be a problem because there has clearly been no corollary deleterious effect. So, knowing what it would look like if it was a problem, was enough to know that it isn't even close enough to warrant checking how close it is.