RFK has never seen an adult with “full blown” autism – David Pakman Show Apr 27, 2025
David Pakman played a clip of RFKJr making inappropriate statements as usual, and noted the word “injury” being used being odd, but didn’t spell out why he used that word, when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention anti-vax misinformation and the online milieu of anti-vax activists. “Vaccine injury” is a buzzword term used in these social media circles.
The Daily Show – Pizzagate: Are Democrats Harvesting Children’s Blood? – Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy Jul 10, 2023 Elise Wang: that’s what really struck me about pizzagate it was the first time that i really saw this where you could see there was already this this theory about a pedophile ring being run by the clintons and it was kind of a theory in need of specifics and so they went out seeking specifics and they decided basically randomly that comet ping pong was going to be the place and then it started this sort of multimedia propaganda campaign where people they got people to call and harass as matt was saying um they got people to flood the the yelp reviews and the google reviews and people to go and harass the proprietor and then this sort of culminated in the guy who drove up from north carolina to self-investigate but that wasn’t really the the story the story was that then people talked about it that then it was in the national media for like 48 hours like a whole week and it was not only in the media their theory was in the media and i went back to the message boards afterwards and they were just beside themselves with joy over this like it was not a it’s not at all about oh our guy was arrested whoops or huh he didn’t really seem to find anything um it was not about that it was about the media exposure and then there were sort of further suggestions well how can we get them to keep denying it so they keep saying it so people keep googling it and when i was seeing that i was like oh this is something else this is this is a kind of savvy media campaign that i think most of us at that point were not totally familiar with now we know if you mention something you have to be very careful what what sort of buzzwords you mentioned because it will sort of feed the conspiracy theory monster
It drives engagement, probably because there’s some money sloshing around anti-vax misinformation. Content creators learn what words to use (and not to use) in order to engage the attention of an audience which sometimes includes the troll farms which are paid to boost certain topics.
Axios – The global business of professional trolling. By Sara Fischer, Apr 13, 2021 Professional political trolling is still a thriving underground industry around the world, despite crackdowns from the biggest tech firms. Why it matters: Coordinated online disinformation efforts offer governments and political actors a fast, cheap way to get under rivals’ skin. They also offer a paycheck to people who are eager for work, typically in developing countries. “It’s a more sophisticated means of disinformation to weaken your advisories,” said Todd Carroll, CISO and VP of Cyber Operations at CybelAngel.
At any rate there’s a reason RFKJr doesn’t remember people with autism from back in his day, and PA state Rep Abigail Salisbury explained that:
Salisbury: Defending Those on the Spectrum – Pa. House Video Apr 23, 2025 Auto-transcript: Rep. Abigail Salisbury: “He spoke recently and he said he’s never met someone his age who has, quote, full-blown autism. I’m not sure what full-blown autism is, never seen that in the DSM-5 as a diagnostic criteria, but presumably he means someone who has more of a life impact than I have. Well, sir, there’s a reason why you didn’t see them when you were growing up. Because you’re closer to the age that my father was, if he were still alive today. than you are to my age. There’s a reason you didn’t see them. It’s because they were placed in institutions and chained to radiators. They were not allowed to go to public school. You wouldn’t have seen them in the schools that Kennedys went to. And we all know how that family resolved someone who had a neurological difference, and they ended up in such a facility for the rest of their lives. You wouldn’t have seen people with quote, full blown autism in public because they were deemed disappointments to their family and they were hidden away. They were taken away at a young age and they were placed in institutions. so that people didn’t have to interact with them. So I’m sorry you didn’t see them in your day-to-day life, but they were there and they were suffering in cold, miserable places because people didn’t think that they were good enough to get services or to be allowed to stay with their families who you say that they destroyed.”