All language subtitles for S12 E21：DC Takeover & MAHA： 8⧸17⧸25： Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [E02gokpa7Ug]

Bye.

Thank you so much for joining us. It has
been a busy week. California Democrats

unveiled their new congressional map.
Air Canada flight attendants went on

strike. And Trump flew to Alaska to talk
to Putin about Ukraine for less than

three hours.

Afterwards, they held a press conference
that went so badly, even this Fox News

reporter couldn't put a positive spin on
it.

The way that it felt in the room was not
good.

It did not seem like things went...

well, and it seemed like Putin came in
and steamrolled, got right into what he

wanted to say, and got his photo next to
the president and then left.

Yeah, not great. And while the White
House later released this black and

photo of Trump looking tough while
talking to Putin, it does seem like the

was more accurately summed up by this AP
photo of Putin looking confident and

Trump looking like that room temperature
shrimp is coming back up.

Meanwhile, back in D .C., this story
dominated the week.

For the first time in American history,
the president seizing control of the

police in the nation's capital and
deploying hundreds of National

Trump says, to fight crime on the
streets of Washington, D .C. I'm

historic action to rescue our nation's
capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam

squalor and worse.

Yeah, and worse.

Trump has taken over DC's police
department and deployed the National

well as pulling in agents from the FBI,
DEA, Homeland Security and others who

flooded the city. At one point, marching
through Georgetown where one guy exited

a bar with a real look of, oh shit, I am
not dressed for a military invasion

right now.

And all the while, Republicans have
tried to justify this move by talking

what a crime -ridden hellhole DC is.

DC is not safe.

People don't just walk the streets in D
.C. and feel safe anywhere around D .C.

I drive around in Washington, D .C. in
my Jeep, and yes, I do drive myself, and

I don't buckle up. And the reason why I
don't buckle up, and people can say

whatever they want to, they can raise
their eyebrows at me again, is because

carjacking. You don't want to go out on
the streets at night in Washington, D

.C. I come from a family of public
educators.

That's one of the reasons I live in my
office at night. But the other reason is

it's too dadgum dangerous, brother.

Okay.

A lot of questions, but my main one is,
why is coming from a family of public

educators a reason to sleep in your
office at night?

You guys think I come from a family of
gastroenterologists, that's why I sleep

in an abandoned ferris wheel.

Is that why?

And I said, look, Burchett also told
reporters in February that he sleeps in

office because it helps him stay
productive and get to meetings early.

All of which feel like excuses for
something else going on in his life.

Just why are you sleeping in your
office, Tim? Is it crime? Is it

Or is it that things aren't great at
home right now, and your wife threw all

your dad -gum stuff onto the curb?

And while it is neither here nor there,
I can't not mention that a few weeks

ago, Bircher announced that he'd broken
his rib after getting kicked by his

horse. An incident that he later
described like this.

Yeah,

would it, though?

Because that feels like a bad choice of
tattoo for many reasons, including that

every morning you go into the bathroom,
look in the mirror, and see a

permanently injured reminder that your
own horse hates you.

And by bathroom, I of course mean the
public restroom in your congressional

office building where you sleep every
night for an involving set of reasons.

And look, violent crime clearly exists
in D .C. like it does... anywhere else.

But you should know, while Trump talks
of bloodshed, bedlam, squalor and worse,

homicides in DC were actually down 32 %
last year and are down another 11 % this

year, on top of which the city's
official violent crime rate in 2024 was

second lowest reported since 1966.

But obviously, crime stats don't matter
to this administration.

This is all about a show of power, just
like it was in June when Trump deployed

the National Guard to LA on similarly
flimsy pretenses. And he's already

he may do the same in New York.
Baltimore, Chicago, and Oakland. And

have been scary images of police
harassing citizens in D .C., there have

been some truly pathetic videos
illustrating how stupid this whole

with maybe the purest expression being
this cringe -inducing encounter where a

group of agents approach a man they
mistakenly think is smoking marijuana on

back porch, which, by the way, is
completely legal in D .C.

Did y 'all get a call or something about
right here? No, so we're doing checks,

keeping everybody safe down here, right?
Have you ever, you heard of the federal

search that Donald Trump's putting out?
No.

Right, you don't follow like number
three or anything like that? No.

All right, so, yeah, Trump's got all
federal agencies kind of coming together

for seven days and going out.
Absolutely.

Trying to stop the violent crime, all
kind of stuff. So, just know, right,

learn, teach, tell your boys, like, yo,
everybody's out.

Look, that is all alarming and annoying,
but I do love that, guys, did you all

get a call or something? Because it
might be the single politest person of

the fuck are you dorks doing on my
property?

I've ever heard. There must be nothing
more deflating for those ages than to

show up somewhere, all puffed up and
ready for action, just to have someone

calmly ask basically, are you little
boys locked?

And look, who knows?

Where things will be by the time you
watch this. DC is currently suing over

Trump's move to take over their police
force, winning a narrow victory on

Friday. And even if Trump wins the
broader case, the takeover would be

by law to just 30 days, unless Congress
votes to extend it, which Democratic

leaders in both chambers have said
they'll refuse to do. Chuck Schumer even

there's no fucking way he'll allow it.
Language I don't think the Baileys would

approve of.

And some Republicans, like Senator John
Kennedy, seem to think that they can

capitalize on that to make Democrats
seem soft on crime.

Mainstream Democrats have now come out
firmly and passionately in favor of

in Washington, D .C. Chuck and Hakeem
need to go to Amazon, buy some

and stand up to the moon's wing of their
party.

I don't know which part is worse there,
telling someone to buy a pair of

testicles or telling them to do so on
Amazon rather than from mom -and -pop

testicle stores that are really
struggling right now.

What I do know is that every time
Kennedy so much as hints at genitalia,

contractually obliged to show you this.

I can't wait to have your cock in my
mouth.

It is perfect.

It is the perfect clip.

We've shown you that clip on this show
six times now, and I promise you will be

seeing it again.

But to Kennedy's larger point, it is a
little hard to grow a set of balls from

party whose members are all too eager to
run in front of cameras and talk about

how they're too scared to wear seatbelts
or go outside.

It is painfully clear that Trump is
doing this to boost his tough guy image

his base, but that is going to be a
challenge.

Because it is a tough sell for the man
who was friends with a child sex

trafficker, brought about this mess, and
on Friday got steamrolled by a

bloodthirsty warlord to convince
Americans that he is keeping them safe.

would argue if anyone is making things
too dadgum dangerous in this country,

it's probably fucking him right now.

Now this.

And now, more of Senator John Kennedy's
keen political analysis.

They wouldn't know transparency if it
jumped up and yodeled and bit them in

butt. I said one time, my car doesn't
run off of fairy dust and unicorn urine.

Wasteful government spending, which I
call spending porn. There's an old

exercise makes you look better naked,
but so does alcohol. Taking

their advice is like...

It's like taking the advice of a nun
about sex.

But why don't we skip the foreplay and
go right to the sex?

I trust Qatar like I trust a rest stop
bathroom.

If they want to be friendly, I want to
be friendly back.

Moving on. Our main story tonight
concerns health. It's something a lot of

people are shocked to learn I have,
along with Peabody Awards, a viola I can

actually play, and Eleanor Roosevelt's
bones.

Specifically, it concerns the Maha
movement, which stands for Make America

Healthy Again. It's most closely
associated with RFK Jr., who opened a

about it last fall like this.

Hey, everyone. I'm here today to tell
you how we can make America healthy

And the first thing you need to do is
get one of these hats.

Yeah, although you also...

Don't actually need to do that at all.
You really don't have to do anything

guy does, up to and including swim in a
sewage -tainted creek, hike in jeans in

100 -degree weather, and single
-handedly make Google searches for bear

skyrocket. The Maha movement is a broad
coalition of people with a wide array of

concerns about health. And for many in
it, RFK's ascent has been seen as a

thing, as has the fact that he's been
using his position to release videos

this. This is a list of ingredients from
food.

caragrinin, riboflavin, monosodium
glutamate, and 20 others that I can't

pronounce. Sodium steroid, I think
you're getting the picture that you

pronounce this stuff.

Sodium gillionate, titanium dioxide,
polysorbate 80BHC,

CBHQ. If you are an American company
poisoning us with ingredients you don't

in other countries, we're coming for
you.

Okay, so first, riboflavin is just
vitamin B2, but sure.

Second, I'd love for the Secretary of
Education to be able to read. It's just

personal preference.

And finally, as long as we're
blacklisting foods based on bad names,

some suggestions starting with kumquats,
a word that starts with cum and gets

worse from there.

Some of the non -administration figures
in that video are Maha moms and

influencers who played a big role in
spreading this movement. Some have even

been invited to the White House, like
this influencer back in May.

So I am in D .C. for the big
announcement of the Maha chronic disease

and I'm in podcasting. I podcast with
Bobby Kennedy.

Everybody's in this room podcasting.
I've got a raw milk smoothie in here

is raw milk, blueberries, honey, and
some raw meat, actually. I got some

cherries, blueberries, apple.

And that is my lunch in the White House.
So I'm eating raw milk, raw meat, grass

-fed beef in the White House.

Yeah, that is what the White House is up
to these days, hosting podcast

symposiums for influencers to eat like
regionally powerful cavemen.

That guy even got RFK to do a raw milk
shot on camera, making raw milk one of

the most disgusting things floating
around in RFK at any given time, right

there with that dead worm in his brain.

But obviously, the Maha movement is
about a lot more than just hat selfies,

slogans, and guzzling raw liquefied
beef.

It is a big tent, and not all its
supporters are necessarily Republicans.

Harping for after -school snack time at
Sarah Cho's house starts long before her

children get home. Every ingredient.

in this is organic the mother of three
is strict about what goes into her

and her kids avoiding artificial and
processed ingredients she's part of the

maha movement cho is a democrat she
lives in new jersey it's not a political

issue it's an issue of do you want your
kids to get the best food or not do you

want your kid to have the best
environment to live in Look, I admire

commitment to serving only organic food,
but I will say, the day her kids get

given a gush -up by a neighbourhood kid,
their lives are going to change

forever. But I do get it. Ultimately,
everyone wants their kids to have the

set of things. Good food, a good
environment, and zero desire to own

You just want them to be safe, nurtured,
and you also want, maybe a little bit

more, a guarantee that at no point will
there be any tarantulas in or around

your house. Those are the things every
parent prays for, both to regular God

whatever ancient spider God pertains to
the second thing. Oh, and happiness. You

want them to be happy as well if there's
time.

The point is...

People have found themselves in Maha for
all sorts of reasons. There are areas

where this movement has legitimate
concerns.

We've done plenty of episodes dealing
with topics that overlap with the Maha

agenda, and experts agree that there are
times when RFK and this movement are

pointing out real problems. For
instance, one of the central claims he's

that American kids are getting sicker,
which is largely correct.

A major study published last month in
JAMA found, among other things, there's

growing mortality gap between the US and
other developed countries, and that an

American child was 15 to 20 % more
likely to have a chronic health

2023 than in 2011.

So for some, especially experts in diet
and nutrition, suddenly seeing the Maha

movement bring attention to issues
they're passionate about has been

if also bittersweet.

Here is Dr. Marion Nessel, one of the
country's foremost experts on nutrition

policy, summing that up.

To hear RFK Jr.

talk about the need to do something
about chronic diseases, you know, it's

first time I've heard anybody at that
level of government talk about these

things. And he sounds just like me.

I can't get over it.

And it's hard to put that together with
some of the other things you say.

Right. It is bizarre to have someone you
virulently disagree with in most

respects echo your opinions in another.
It'd be like if Kim Jong -un came out

and said, Wirecutter has too many
articles now, and if you're looking at

Wirecutter for, like, ketchup, you need
to reassess how you make decisions. It'd

be weird.

I mean, I would agree with him, but that
would be weird.

Unfortunately, some of the other things
RFK is saying could now have massive

consequences given the position that
he's in. Because even when he and his

movement can be right about identifying
a problem, their solutions can range

from the superficial to the outright
dangerous.

So given that, tonight, let's check in
on the Maha movement and do a few

Look at what it has and hasn't
accomplished so far, meet two key people

top of it, and examine where, if we are
not very careful, we could be heading

next. And let's start with the fact that
some of Maha's big wins so far have

been wildly oversold. For instance, Coke
recently announced that it'd start

selling drinks made with cane sugar.

And when Shake and Shake announced it'd
offer Coke with that instead of corn

syrup, RFK retweeted their post with,
Maha is winning, despite Marion Nestle

referring to Coke's news as
nutritionally hilarious.

He's also made a big deal out of getting
rid of synthetic food dyes, something

prominent Maha influencers testified
about at a Senate roundtable.

Many of the things discussed today, I
think there is a nuanced debate.

But with artificial food dyes, they have
shown all over the world that they can

use colorants that come from fruit. This
is the Canadian version.

This is the brightness of the Canadian
version, just for visibility.

And this is the brightness of artificial
food dyes.

So, of course, Kellogg and other food
companies will argue children prefer

over this.

just as they would prefer cocaine over
sugar.

Okay.

First, I don't think kids like cocaine
more than sugar.

I don't even think you could get a kid
to do cocaine unless you told them it

sugar. And honestly, if what you're
concerned about is kids liking cocaine,

food you need to focus your attention on
is picnic dick.

A candidate seems to be explicitly
designed to teach them how to do a line

the bathroom.

I mean, it comes in a straw.

And the theatrical gasp there when the
colourful fruit loops are revealed is a

bit over the top. Guys, they're called
fruit with two O's loops.

And their mascots are rainbow -nosed
toucan. Let's not get too shocked that

colours aren't natural. Now, I should
say, there is literature to support that

synthetic food dyes can impact
neurobehaviour in some children. And

there is no real need to keep them, why
not take them out of foods?

Totally fine.

And when the US dairy industry agreed to
voluntarily remove synthetic dyes from

ice cream, RFK touted it as another maha
win.

Though, you should know, experts have
said small moves like that...

won't actually move the needle when it
comes to Americans' health, which just

makes sense, because removing dyes
doesn't address the fundamental issue

ice cream, which is that it is ice
cream.

A product with generally high sugar and
fat content, not to mention the other

issues it presents, like the awkward
conversation every parent's forced to

the first time their child asks to know
the meaning behind Ben and Jerry's

caramel sutra. Well, you see, son...

When two people truly love but have
grown quite tired of each other, they

rediscover an emotional spark deep in
the raw power of prolonged mutual

It was something I was kind of planning
on never having to explain to you, but

it turns out the ice cream boys couldn't
think of another pun on the word

caramel, so here we are.

But making a big deal... out of narrow
winds is part and parcel of this

movement. Take the woman you saw in that
roundtable, Vani Hari.

She was also in that White House video
accusing companies of poisoning kids

their ingredients. Hari is a food
blogger and author who goes by The Food

and is an influential figure in the Maha
movement. And one of her specialities

is zeroing in on a single scary
-sounding ingredient in common foods and

pressuring companies to remove them.
Here is one of her early hits.

Oh, hi there.

I'm The Food Babe.

Love yoga.

It is so amazing for your body and
stress and well -being But it really

make me really hungry Wake up people
take a look at the

ingredients in Subway's nine grain bread
Did you know that one of them is the

same ingredients found in yoga mat?

Yeah She made a video calling out Subway
for serving shitty food something

again. We also did Albeit over the
course of 21 minutes and culminating in

Korean soap opera about love, betrayal
and meatballs.

But the point is, in the end, Subway
announced it was in the process of

that particular ingredient, which again,
I am not against.

But let's try and keep that win in some
perspective here because Subway is still

Subway. It's a place where all the food
is somehow wet.

It sells cookies by the foot, and it
fully had a pedophile as a spokesman for

years, and yet their food is still so
bad, it's not even the first thing that

people criticise.

But critics have long argued that some
of Hari's alerts about food are

overblown, something she's responded to
by saying, I've never claimed to be a

nutritionist, I'm an investigator. But
those investigations...

have sometimes led to her going to some
deeply unscientific conclusions, like in

a deleted post that she says wasn't her
most impressive work, where she

cautioned against using microwaves by
referencing an experiment in which

microwaved water produced a similar
physical structure to when the words

and Hitler were repeatedly exposed to
the water, which is clearly ridiculous

because it implies, one, that water can
read, two, That it doesn't like being

microwaved, and perhaps most
importantly, that it not only knows who

and what he did, but it did nothing to
stop him.

Now, what is more, like many
influencers, Hari has her own product

that sometimes her warnings about
particular ingredients can take a more

-serving turn, like in this video,
warning about Chick -fil -A's frozen

lemonade.

of this sugar leads to weight gain and
serious health conditions such as heart

disease and type 2 diabetes.

It's thickened up with several nasty
emulsifiers like carrageenan that's

to be contaminated with carcinogens and
monoendoglycerides that contain trans

fats. Save yourself from this madness
and try our new Frosted Lemonade recipe

made with Trubani's Lemon Cookie
Protein. Yeah, that seems a little bit

compromised. And for what it's worth,
she actually shows you how to make her

recipe in that video, and it looks
absolutely disgusting.

It honestly looks like she just showed
it Hitler.

And you might be thinking, well, who
cares if some of Marha's boosters can be

wobbly on the science or are hawking
products, just so long as RFK's putting

reliable people in charge at the top.
But I'd argue he isn't. Which brings us

two key people, the brother and sister
duo of Callie and Katie Means. Callie is

a top advisor to RFK, which makes sense
given, as he will tell you, he's the one

who convinced Kennedy to join the
winning campaign.

I was in a sweat tent with him in Austin
at a campaign event six months before,

and I just had this strong vision of him
standing with Trump.

And how what RFK represents is actually
what Trump represents, and actually what

almost every American's feeling, which
is this frustration and this rigged

and this stuff thing that doesn't quite
feel right, that you can't quite put

your finger on.

Okay, I hope this goes without saying,
but I would rather be anywhere on earth

than in a sweat tent with RFK.

I'd rather be in a dumpster full of
glass and cockroaches. I'd rather be in

flight where half the passengers are
babies and half are Mel Gibsons.

I'd rather be in Scottsdale.

Scottsdale.

Callie Means is constantly claiming the
whole system surrounding health and food

is rigged. And one of his key bona fides
in arguing that is that he used to be

involved in rigging it.

He said that he was a lobbyist and
consultant, and that one of my big

was the American Beverage Association,
which is the front group for Coke. Here

is what he says he did there.

Working for Coke, I helped steer money
to the American... Coca -Cola. Yeah,

working for Coca -Cola, they actually
pay money to the American Diabetes

Association.

They actually pay money to the American
Academy of Pediatrics. If there's one

thing the American Diabetes Association,
which sets the standard of care for

diabetes management, is doing, they
should be saying, we're not going to

money from Coke.

Now, look, I'm not going to sit here and
argue that Coca -Cola is a good

company. They are absolutely terrible,
to the point that if I told you they had

a section on their Wikipedia page titled
Colombian Death Squad Allegations, you

might even believe me, which is good,
because they actually do.

But people who've looked into Cali's
origin story have come away with some,

let's call them, questions.

For starters, when reporters reached out
to the two firms where he worked, each

insisted they didn't represent Coke or
its trade group at the time. Now, Callie

insisted to us that he did do this work,
though not directly for Coke or the

trade group, but for an unspecified
coalition that they funded and that he

didn't name, which, as you'll note, is
already much less specific than what he

confidently blew Tucker's mind with
there. And for what it is worth...

Former colleagues of his have no idea
what he's talking about, with one

maybe there was a six -month window when
we all blacked out, this client came

in, and Callie became the whisperer
behind the scenes, plotting a supposedly

nefarious role with soda executives.

But one thing they definitely do
remember is that Callie Means apparently

to walk around the office saying, Callie
Means Business.

And I probably could have saved us a
whole lot of time if I'd just said that

the start.

I wouldn't have needed to show you the
Tucker appearance or even the RFK sweat

tent detail if I just said, this is Cali
Means.

And he apparently used to walk around
saying, Cali Means business.

You would know all you need to know to
accurately conclude, he is a douche.

Now, as for the justification...

She has an MD and is now RFK's choice to
serve as Surgeon General. And she, too,

is deeply steeped in the Maha world.
Here she is on the Grounded Wellness

podcast enjoying a totally normal snack.

I'm so excited to be here on your
beautiful farm.

Oh, my gosh. I know. And we're drinking
liver smoothies. It's the first time

you've ever tried a liver smoothie.

And you're, like, almost done with it.

I'm so glad.

It's really good.

No, it isn't.

No, it isn't.

Look, I think we, as a society, have
collectively lost our grasp of what

smoothies are supposed to be.

Because there should not be meat in
there, as that is definitionally no

smoothie. It is hospital food for a
terminally ill hyena.

Now, like her brother.

Casey also has an eye -catching
backstory.

In her case, it concerns how she became
disillusioned with the medical

establishment because, in her telling,
while studying to become a doctor, she

got frustrated she wasn't learning more
about the root causes of illness. So,

quote, I walked into the office of the
chair of the department and I put down

the scalpel and I walked away. And not
for nothing, is that how doctors quit?

Because it kind of makes sense for cops
to hand in their badge and gun, but...

I'd always assumed that if a doctor
wanted to quit, they'd just walk into

boss's office, put a still -beating
heart down on the desk and say, I forgot

where this goes.

But obviously, that is a compelling
story, and it's a big part of the book

co -wrote with her brother, Good Energy.

In it, they tell the tragic story of how
their mother died of pancreatic cancer

and say that she was let down by the
siloed medical system, which saw every

health issue she faced as an isolated
incident. And look.

Losing a parent is a terrible thing to
go through, and being let down by the

medical system is something virtually
everybody can identify with.

The thing is, the Meansies book wraps
that story into a much larger narrative

about the importance of maintaining
metabolic health, or as the book calls

good energy capitalised. And I'm not
saying metabolic health isn't a real

or that it isn't important, but the
Meansies take it much further.

Just listen to Callie making a huge
claim about the root cause of diseases.

We are being lied to that cancer is
random, that dementia is random, that

disease is random, that all these issues
that are killing us are random. They're

not. They're all exploding, and they're
all tied essentially to food.

Right, apparently, they're all tied to
food, and according to the Means's book,

food is a massive part of maintaining
good energy. It actually contains a long

list of processed foods, which they say
should be avoided as strongly as if they

were illicit drugs, which includes
instant oatmeal, granola bars, crackers,

packaged bread, canned soup, and
flavoured yoghurt. And look, I am not a

scientist, despite my glasses and the
many hours I spend doing surgical

procedures on mice, but I don't think
it's quite that simple.

Most medical experts will tell you it's
not that health outcomes can't be

impacted by personal behaviours or diet,
but health is complex and its

components are personal, genetic,
environmental and systemic, on top of

sometimes, and this is a technical term,
shit just happens and it's out of your

control. And while the book mentions
other factors, its relentless focus on

metabolic health suggests that if you
can simply maintain good energy, not

can you enjoy the natural state of
fertility that is your birthright, but

can live relieved of the nagging
anxiety, the precipitous physical or

decline awaits you, or you'll develop a
disease that runs in the family.

But it is hard not to read that and feel
like if you're having trouble

conceiving or if you develop a genetic
condition, it's somehow your fault.

And for what it's worth, for all the
means of abundance of caution around

processed foods, there are other areas
where they are worryingly lax. For

instance, Casey doesn't seem to favour
restrictions on selling raw milk,

I want to be free to form a relationship
with a local farmer, understand his

integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his
cow, and then decide if I feel safe to

drink the milk from his farm, which
traditionally is not how you decide if

is safe to drink, it's how you decide if
you want to fuck a dairy farmer.

And it's worth noting.

Raw milk can carry dangerous pathogens
such as salmonella, E. coli, and

Listeria, and it's currently at the
center of an outbreak in Florida that

sickened at least 21 people, including
six children under the age of 10.

And Casey's also shared some pretty
concerning takes on vaccines, like when

appeared with her brother on Joe Rogan's
podcast and said this.

It's like with vaccines. It's like,
yeah, I bet that one vaccine probably

causing autism. But what about the 20
that they're getting before 18 months?

Like, we don't look at it in
synergistic, you know, and that's a big

Yeah, that's not great. In fact, I will
go so far as to say that that is the

most obviously horseshit thing Casey
Means has said since claiming that that

smoothie was really good on the meat
juice farm cast hosted by what appeared

be Pinterest's final boss.

That feels really dangerous.

As does the fact that her brother on
that same podcast said COVID was a

foodborne illness and if you were
metabolically healthy, you did not die

COVID, which I hope you know is just not
true.

So that is worrying. And it's worth
noting that while the means is

identify conflicts of interest in
medicine and public health as a real

It is not like they are without
potential conflicts of their own. Not

Casey's newsletter have sponsors from
supplements and products tied to the

wellness industry, she also co -founded
a company called Levels. This is her

photo, prominently featured on the
website today.

The company promotes glucose monitoring
for non -diabetic healthy individuals.

Despite the fact, researchers found
little evidence such monitoring provides

health benefits for people without
diabetes.

And while it's been reported that she's
left the company, all of this has

understandably raised questions about
whether levels could benefit from this

administration's health guidance and
policies. Because if, say, the

started to push those monitors and means
did not fully divest, she would stand

to benefit.

And you'll never guess what. RFK,
despite spending years warning its

that wearable devices like glucose
monitors were part of a sinister plan to

surveil and control Americans, recently
went before Congress to say this.

We're about to launch one of the biggest
advertising campaigns in HHS history to

encourage Americans to use wearables. My
vision is that every American is

wearing a wearable within four years. I
personally had friends who utterly

changed their lives just from wearing a
glucose meter.

And they've lost weight, they've lost
their diabetes, diagnoses, and you see

this happen again and again.

He's basically doing a product shill to
Congress there. And at that point, he

might as well just go full QVC and offer
to pair each glucose meter with a free

aroma diffuser if you call in the next
ten minutes.

And look, it would be one thing if these
two were just private citizens hawking

books and products to a willing customer
base. But Callie is a top advisor at

HHS. And it bears repeating, Casey is
poised to become the next Surgeon

And they seem ready to place their
understanding of health, which can be

and sometimes...

callously centered on emphasizing
individual responsibility onto our

health system as a whole, which is a
real concern.

Just listen to Callie on C -SPAN earlier
this year. He mentioned how every

American is capable of improving their
health outcomes just by eating less

processed food. And a pretty basic
follow -up question from a caller set

off. You mentioned about whole food,
whole food.

Well... Explain to me, then, how are
people who are in food deserts going to

able to get whole food? How are they
going to be able to get fresh vegetables

some little shop somewhere that's
selling cigarettes, beer, and fast food?

All right, Judy. So just to confirm your
question, how can lower -income

Americans possibly not poison their
kids? Is that your question?

Her question was about food deserts. Her
question is a nihilistic question.

Her question is what the left is saying.

Her question, no. Her question is, how
can lower -income Americans possibly not

poison their children? Well, ma 'am, I
think American mothers don't want to be

poisoning their kids. I think Americans
don't want to be poisoning themselves.

Okay, first, that was the most rancid
delivery of ma 'am, I think.

I've ever heard. And second, she's
asking a legitimate question there about

where people are supposed to get fresh
vegetables. It's not like she did

something truly inflammatory, like, I
don't know, point out that Callie's wife

and his sister look strikingly alike.

That would be worth really freaking out
about.

But the thing is, Callie wasn't done,
and the more he talked...

The clearer it became that there is a
lot about how our food system works that

he doesn't seem to fully understand.

The reason there are food deserts is
because the fourth largest entitlement

program in the country is rigged through
tens of millions of dollars of lobbying

spending by our food companies to be
totally going to addictive, ultra

-processed food like soda and Twinkies.
That is what the $150 billion annually

of our SNAP program does. So I will give
you a little secret.

If President Trump and Bobby Kennedy are
able to take soda and Twinkies off of

food stamps, the food deserts would
disappear because the food deserts are

driven by the incentives of SNAP. Okay,
so look, we could talk about how food

deserts came to be and why for many your
local dollar store may be the only

grocery store in reach. We actually did
talk about that two years ago. We could

also talk about how increasing SNAP
benefits will make it easier for

afford fresh produce.

but that removing processed food from
SNAP isn't likely to cause salad bars to

instantly sprout up around the country.

And while we are doing that, we should
probably talk about how your general

of condescension there makes you a
pretty good candidate to be the next

boy for condescending prick magazine.

But let's leave all of that aside and
assume that Paddy means just wants every

family to have access to fresh,
nutritious foods.

Here's the thing about that.

There's actually a program that's been
trying to do that, and guess what just

happened to it?

Yes, we can receive local shredded
carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, because we

that we need to support people in our
own communities.

Jim Keaton runs the district's nutrition
plan, and so much of this produce comes

from local growers under a USDA program
that's been cut by the Trump

administration. Some of that food is
grown here at Pine Knot Farms, about an

hour's drive from Riverside High.

Linda Leach Hughes keeps the books.

How are you going to make America great
again if you're taking food out of the

mouth of babies, senior citizens,
nursing homes, rehab centers, hospitals,

all of these agencies that are dependent
on federal dollars?

How are you going to make America great
again?

Yeah, good point, Linda.

And I love everything about that from
her precision in calling out this

administration to the fact that she
clearly takes absolutely no shit.

And I'll just say this, in general, if
there is a woman in charge of your

named Linda, I bet it's run like the
fucking Navy.

If you walk in and Linda is at her desk,
ponytail tight and quick books open,

drop to your knees and praise the Lord,
you are in good hands.

But the point is...

This administration cancelled a billion
dollars in funding for schools and food

banks to buy food from local suppliers.

And at the same time, it made cuts to
SNAP eligibility, meaning there are

recipients of free breakfast and lunch
at school, which I guess is one way to

accomplish Maher's goals. Kids can't eat
any food dyes if they're not eating

anything. And that is the thing.

Whatever cosmetic gains Maher has won
since Trump took office have been more

than offset by massive losses elsewhere.

Which brings us to our final point.

What comes next?

Because it could be a lot.

We talked earlier this year about the
massive defunding of scientific research

that's occurred, but that is just the
beginning. Recently, you may have seen

that HHS is winding down its mRNA
vaccine development activities, which

have a grave public health impact.
They've already revoked a contract to

a vaccine against bird flu, and there
are real concerns that this could impact

the promising research into developing
mRNA vaccines for other infectious

diseases like HIV, or even using them to
treat cancer.

One infectious disease researcher has
called this the most dangerous public

health decision I've ever seen made by a
government body.

And that's by no means the only attack
on vaccines. In June, RFK fired everyone

on the Advisory Committee for
Immunisation Practices, which meets

establish vaccination recommendations.

They're a very important body because,
among other things, insurers usually

to cover the vaccines that they
recommend.

Since then, RFK has announced the
appointment of seven new members, only

whom was a widely recognised expert in
vaccines. And some are a real who's uh

-oh of crackpots, including Robert
Malone, who's claimed that millions of

Americans were hypnotised into taking
the COVID -19 shots and has suggested

booster shots cause a form of AIDS.

And if that wasn't bad enough, which it
very much is, there may soon be a

similar attack on an obscure but
critical corner of our health system.

Health Secretary RFK Jr.

is planning to fire every member of an
influential task force that decides what

preventive health services must be
covered by insurance at no cost to

So that includes everything from cancer
screening to HIV prevention.

Now, Kennedy, the source says, plans to
out all 16 members for being, quote, too

woke. Oh, come on! Too woke?

That doesn't even mean anything anymore.

But I guess if that is the reason, we
can look forward to the new members of

that task force being Joe Camel, Kid
Rock, J .K. Rowling, and a glass of

that somehow doesn't mind Hitler.

Suffice to say, this is a bleak time.

to be involved with public health. And I
haven't even mentioned the horrific

shooting at the CDC campus last week,
where nearly 500 bullets were fired at

buildings by a man who apparently
subscribed to conspiracies about the

vaccine. And it is frankly not ideal
that RFK didn't issue an official

on it till this tweet the next day,
which only came after he posted photos

the fishing trip he was on, which is
just shockingly insensitive. You are the

head of the agency.

People need to hear from you in a
crisis. You can't be posting pictures of

yourself holding fish like you're a dude
on Tinder.

Save those for your text to reporters.

And beyond RFK's leadership of his own
agency, it's worth noting that the

administration that he's a part of is
taking a buzzsaw to so many of Maha's

stated priorities.

And to be fair, that is something that
some influencers who've been supportive

of RFK in the past have been trying to
point out.

What are the things about the Make
America Healthy Again movement that

you? Like cleaning up our food in
America is going to require more

And so I'm just not understanding how
we're going to clean up our food through

regulation in an administration that ran
on deregulation.

Right.

Regulation is the exact opposite of
everything Trump stands for. He's about

likely to embrace regulation as he is to
put an In This House sign on the White

House lawn.

Why would you think he would do that?

And sadly, she is right to worry, as
this administration has unleashed some

catastrophes for public health, from the
projected $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts

over the next decade, to Trump's EPA
delaying implementing a new standard to

limit the dangerous chemical PFAS in
drinking water, to its efforts to

the long -standing finding that
greenhouse gas emissions endanger human

removing the legal foundation for all US
greenhouse gas regulations.

And look, it is maddening.

That for the first time in recent
memory, there has been a genuine

of support for a cleaner, healthier,
less corporately controlled America, but

it's taken this fucking form.

Because for the final time, it is
absolutely legitimate to want America to

healthier, and there are clearly
systemic problems when it comes to

health. But these just aren't the
solutions.

Remember that major JAMA report that I
mentioned earlier about increases to

child mortality and illness?

An editorial published alongside it
included a list of policy

including investing in anti -poverty
measures, broadening health insurance

coverage, investing in primary care, and
passing firearm safety laws, which is

clearly pretty fucking far from what
this administration is doing.

Instead, they are shredding the social
safety net while elevating voices that

push the responsibility for health down
to the individual. I guess...

What I'm really saying here is, in its
current form, Maha is not about making

America healthy again. At best, it is
about laundering the reputation of an

administration that is doing the exact
opposite.

And for those in this movement that
truly are concerned about public health,

would argue that they should be going
after these guys with, at the very

the same kind of outrage that they
typically reserve for fucking Froot

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