Healthcare group urges RFK Jr to resign after remarks on cocaine and toilet seats

[TheRickles]

8. Big difference whether the toilet seat incident happened last week or 40 years ago.

Why not give him credit for working every day to control his addiction? Of course it's easy to make fun of the extreme things he did decades ago, but if he's modeling successful recovery from substance abuse, that is to his credit. You don't need to agree with his stance on vaccines to acknowledge this aspect of him. Life, and people, are more complex than this black vs. white framing. He's not endorsing cocaine use, just admitting past mistakes.

And his statement about germs could be read as belief in his own immune system, though stated in somewhat macho terms. Germs are everywhere, but we don't need to live our lives in constant fear of them. Our natural protections usually work, unless we undermine them with lifestyle factors like poor nutrition, chronic stress, and substance abuse - and a whole range of socio-economic protections that Trump is busy undermining. So I admire some things about RFK Jr., and intensely dislike his boss's policies. Shades of gray....