I don't like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay,
do you understand that?
[SOUND] Serious crap.
>> I'm sure none of you have forgotten that very viral video of Alex Jones from
a few years ago.
Well, apparently that conspiracy theory is coming back and this time it is RFK Jr,
that's running with the narrative, and he did so on Jordan Peterson's podcast.
>> I've seen the climate apocalypse use fear to induce something
approximating the same kind of level of tyranny as far as I'm concerned,
that characterized the vaccine lockdown.
Help me sort that out and understand where you stand.
>> I see these huge levels of depression and despair, loneliness in kids,
and I don't think that there's a single cause to it.
I think blaming it on depression about climate is probably oversimplistic.
And in fact, I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, and particularly boys,
it's probably underappreciated.
And how much of that is coming from chemical exposures,
including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we're seeing.
They're swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today and many of
those are endocrine disruptors, there's atrazine throughout our water supply.
Atrazine, by the way, if you in a lab put atrazine in a tank full of frogs,
it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize every frog in there,
and 10% of the frogs, the male frogs, will turn into fully viable females.
>> If you thought what he just said was insane, so
did the people all over at YouTube who removed that video,
[LAUGH] Of the podcast Sunday, for vaccine misinformation.
Now, obviously, Kennedy's retort to that is that it was
a blatant interference with the electoral process.
Although, YouTube's argument is that it was spreading dangerous
misinformation that could result in people not taking the vaccine and
dying, so, [LAUGH] Two sides to that story.
According to him, chemicals in the water are causing kids to be depressed and
causing them to become transgender.
But yet also, according to Kennedy, if young people decide to get treatment for
their depression, they might become a school shooter,
I'm not joking, he really said that.
Let's pull up this headline from Rolling Stone from earlier this month.
RFK Jr. blames anti-depressants for school shootings.
Quote, prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these
events occur, [LAUGH] In our country, he said, speaking to Elon Musk.
So let's clarify a few things for Kennedy regarding his conspiracy theories.
Kennedy Jr. said atrazine was throughout our water supply,
before claiming that if put in a tank with frogs, it will chemically castrate and
forcibly feminize every frog in there.
And 10 percent of the frogs, male frogs,
will turn into fully viable females able to produce viable eggs.
If it's doing that to frogs, there's a lot of other avenues that it's doing it to
human beings as well, he speculated.
Well, this was confirmed by 2010 study at the University of California,
Berkeley, which said that exposure was highly correlated with low sperm count,
poor semen quality, and impaired fertility in humans.
And noted that the chemical was most potent in amphibians, as frog skin
absorbs atrazine at a much higher rate, [LAUGH] Than the skin of mammals.
So, we actually don't have to look at the freaking frogs that are turning gay.
Or according to Kennedy, trans,
as a good indicator of how that chemical might actually impact humans,
because I'm not an amphibian, and I would assume that neither are you.
But Kennedy also, suppose [LAUGH] Cited no specific evidence for
his claim that the chemical herbicide is turning human males into females,
which would be an amazing [LAUGH] Active nature.
So, if there was a shred of evidence,
I think you'd be able to cite it quite quickly.
But addition to these comments he made over the weekend,
old comments from a resurfaced video from August 2020, have also been released.
>> And I have a right to compel unwanted medical interventions on us,
the Nazis did that in the camps in World War II,
they tested vaccines on Gypsies and Jews.
And the world was so horrified after the war,
that we signed the Nuremberg Charter, and we all pledge when we do that,
we would never again impose unwanted medical
interventions on human beings without informed consent.
And yet, in two years, all of that conviction has suddenly disappeared.
>> Comparing getting vaccinated [LAUGH] To prevent deaths from a [LAUGH]
Pandemic to the Nazis, is a bit of a stretch,
aside from the fact that not a single person forced you to be vaccinated.
Jesus Christ, that's akin to Holocaust revisionism.
But, while we see these comments and conspiracy theories as insanity,
the right is loving them, especially one Steve Bannon.
We already know that Bannon had been trying to convince Kennedy for months
to run against Biden, but he gave Kennedy praise despite knowing he's not gonna win.
>> Robert F Kennedy Jr. is not gonna win the Democratic nomination.
The reason is that [LAUGH] Hardcore Democrats are not gonna vote for him.
If you look at the polling, his voters, that 19 to 20 plus percent,
whatever it is right now in the polling, are people that voted for
Obama twice looking for change, and many of whom voted for Trump in 16.
Cenk, I'll say Steve Bannon is right about one thing, and that's that RFK Jr.
is not gonna become the President of the United States.
[COUGH] But, how are you feeling about all this vaccine misinformation that's being
peddled from his presidential campaign?
>> Yeah, so look, I know RFK Jr. a little bit,
and he's not a bad guy, he means well.
He started down the right road and then took a very wrong turn,
in my opinion and not just my opinion, but
the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the scientific community.
So, when he's talking about chemicals that cause problems yeah,
there's plenty of truth to that, there's forever chemicals.
It's a story that we did about a week ago here on TYT, it's a massive problem and
DuPont and other companies knew it was a massive problem all the way in the 1970s.
You've got things like Johnson & Johnson doing the Talcum Powder when they knew it
was dangerous, and lawyers sue over that, they win over that.
And it actually helps to make our country and our community safer when lawyers
do that and there are some real issues with some of the chemicals.
And by the way, that chemical does lead to lower sperm count,
as you just saw in that Berkeley study, so that beginning is perfectly fine.
Questioning giant pharmaceutical companies, perfectly fine, but
you have to stick to the science.
You can't then go, well, I heard a dude on Facebook, okay, and
I think that dude on Facebook knows better than 99% of the world's scientists.
No, sorry, he doesn't, he doesn't, okay?
And it's not like the scientists just cover up for the pharmaceutical industry.
No, the scientists go, no, wait a minute, OxyContin is super dangerous, right?
The industry bought off some scientists to say, no, it's not the industry, when it
was cigarettes bought off, some scientists to say, no, cancer, what's the big deal?
You're not really going to get it anyway from tobacco.
But the overwhelming scientific community consensus was,
no, it's gonna give you cancer, and it's really dangerous.
So, yes, the industries every once in a while, the oil industry does it, buys off
a very small number of scientists, but the rest of the scientists are not bought off.
99% of them in India and Botswana and Brazil and Russia and
America and China and all these different countries didn't agree cuz
they're part of global conspiracy to turn the frogs gay.
No, they're telling you what's real science.
And so, look, guys, it's comical, you got to know this,
we're mammals, they're amphibians with the frogs,
not only the fact we gave you about their skin, etc.
But guys, yeah, it could lead to lower sperm counts, some of the chemicals can
for men and humans, we've covered that in the story but we're not frogs.
We don't turn into women with ovaries, with functional ovaries,
it's totally a different thing, we don't develop ovaries, that's crazy.
Some other animals do, and not just because of that chemical, but
because of other different reasons but we're not those animals.
We're a completely different species, and that doesn't happen with us.
So it's just no,
sorry, cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs and then he keeps doing it.
He said that people having to wear masks and
take vaccines were worse off than Anne Frank.
No, don't say that, that's an outrageous thing to say.
And it doesn't help him that Steve Bannon is cheering him on and he's calling him,
he apparently thought he was gonna be a chaos agent in Democratic Party.
So if you're seeing people who are supporting RFK Jr.
cuz they hate that they don't have an alternative and they don't really know
what he stands for and there's anybody but Biden, he's got the name Kennedy.
They're not guilty, they're desperately looking for an alternative and
I don't blame them at all.
If you see people supporting RFK Jr. because he's anti vaccine and
anti mask and then probes frogs being gay or not being gay or
whatever it is, no, those aren't Democrats.
They're almost all Republicans pretending to be Democrats.
If you're not on social media, you might not see them at all, but
on social media there's now tons of trolls, pretending to be Democrats.
Going, I think RFK's got a good point about the mask and the frog, yeah, good
point, no, you're all right wingers, it's a trolling operation, it's super obvious.
>> Yeah, and and of course, as we see that's totally baked into his argument as
the anti trans and anti gay panic and and rhetoric there despite the fact that trans
and gay people have existed through all human history.
Long before these chemicals that he's attributing the rise in gay and
trans people to have existed or we would be in frequent contact with-