The Morning Rant: Family Dinner Is Now A Bad Thing?

It's easy to despise the media when they willfully, transparently, stupidly misrepresent absolutely everything said and done by their political enemies. And it is abundantly clear that their political enemies are the American people.

An apparently anodyne announcement from RFK Jr., the current HHS Secretary, about the importance of preparing and eating meals with family has been tortured and manipulated and twisted into something bad. Hell, family meals used to be axiomatic in America, and the idea that there is anything remotely wrong with it is frankly insane. It is an objective good, and it is backed up with a fair amount of data that show families that eat together are better in many ways.

Whether that is cause or effect is another question, but the idea that there is anything wrong with advocating for family meals is ridiculous, and those who suggest it are stupid, or evil, and probably both.

Here is the unspeakably awful "Daily Beast," with a short video of RFK Jr's statement. How they got "anti-demons" is beyond me, but then I have not been trained as a serial liar and manipulator. I apologize in advance for the link to that sewer, but I couldn't find another video, except from another sewer rat...Don Lemon.

RFK Jr. Gives Bonkers 'Anti-Demons' Health Advice

And here is some well-done push back.

Apparently, Eating Dinner With Your Family Is Now 'Bonkers'

Secretary Kennedy’s message about the strength of community and the importance of sharing meals together should surprise absolutely no one. Like much of his and President Trump’s platform, it’s rooted in something (seemingly) fairly radical these days: common sense.

But common sense doesn’t generate clicks like outrage does. Because let’s be honest for a moment here…

It’s not bonkers to say we’re in a cultural — even spiritual — battle right now.

It’s not bonkers to say that spending more time with your community is good for your health.

It’s not bonkers to want kids spending less time glued to their phones and more time interacting with actual humans.

But now? He is a tool of TRUMP! And a traitor to boot, so he must be destroyed, even when advocating for an unalloyed good thing. Of course family meals are an integral part of traditional American culture, so the left is attacking two things here. But that is who they are...they dispose America and American Exceptionalism, and President Trump is a Colossus of those two things! They have to drag him and his supporters down into the muck!

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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