The Truth About Big Pharma and America's Health Decline | Brigid Rasmussen DSH #1288

One, yes, mental health is at an all-time low, but it's also just increase of diagnosing teenagers when they have depression or anxiety. It's like, that's often a very situational thing.
Why are we putting kids in a box and then prescribing them something that they're then learning to externalize their ability to self-regulate, self-soothe, and be resilient? Okay, guys, got Bridget here, COO of Maha Alliance and Maha Action. A lot going on in your world.
Thanks for coming on. Oh, yeah.
Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I'm sure you're all over the place lately.
Yep, exciting times. DC a lot, Austin, Texas, here in Vegas, LA, all over the place.
Nice. How long you been with Bobby and the movement? So I started working with Bobby in April of 2023 when he announced that he was running for president.
And it was a small group of us figuring out how to set up a campaign website, file paperwork with the FEC, that kind of thing. And then his big announcement speech in Boston, which really is when things really took off.
And then shortly after he announced his independent presidential run in Philadelphia, I believe October, 2023, he asked me to be his chief of staff and sort of take more of a leadership role on his campaign, which was incredible. So yes, April, 2023 started working with Bobby directly.

You guys had an uphill battle from there.

Definitely. It was huge.

And it was more and more uphill the farther we got in terms of things like ballot access.

You know, for independent candidates, you don't just automatically get on the ballot.

You have to collect a certain amount of signatures in each state.

It's a unique requirement in each state from, you know, how big the paper size of the petition has to be to the color ink that's used. Wow, the color of the ink matters.
Yeah, yeah. And they, the DNC sued us, I want to say a dozen or more times for things like the starting collecting signatures before you have a vice president announced or where, you know, districts for collecting signatures, zip codes.
You know, you zip codes. In New York, for example, you have to have a certain amount in each borough.
It's crazy. So it was an uphill battle, but it was also such an incredible one.
Our grassroots support was really the backbone of the movement. By the end of the campaign, we had 100,000 plus active volunteers out in crazy weather conditions, collecting signatures, tabling at parades.
I was driving through the middle of nowhere, Colorado once on a Saturday afternoon. And there was this group of maybe a dozen volunteers holding a banner over a freeway that said RFK for president.
So, you know, while we had those hurdles of being an independent campaign, we had this passion and fiery movement like never seen before. And that same movement is now, you know, getting behind Maha related legislation and helping us on the ground.
Yeah. Continue to get the word out and grow.
So yeah, it was a revolutionary movement. It was the first movement I've seen in politics that incorporated health.
Yeah, definitely. I think it was.
And it's incredibly unifying. You see Bobby supporters, many apolitical, not engaged in politics, people who have felt lied to by our regulatory agencies time and time again, you see them start to pay attention.
And then you see that group of people aligned now with MAGA. And we've been going to these Republican conventions all over the country.
And the MAGA crowd is so excited about Maha. I mean, it's a new arm of MAGA, but it's also a nonpartisan movement that we've seen be incredibly unifying.
And it's what's necessary. It's not one side or the other.
It's just what we need to do. Our health is at an all-time low.
And it's a threat to our national security. 77% of young people aren't eligible to join the military.
So that leaves 23%. Out of that 23%, How many do you think actually want to join the military? It's a huge threat to our national security.
Yeah, I'd be curious how the numbers are, if they're dwindling the number of people in the military. Right.
I mean, I think that they are. And I think that we're seeing rising rates of PTSD in veterans and veteran health is a huge issue too.
So we've been working with a couple of veteran health nonprofit organizations on some big, you know, Maha veteran initiatives, both on the legislative side of things, you know, getting more coverage for veterans. But also things like the food that they're serving in the military.
That's a huge problem. Yeah, I bet it's terrible food.
Yeah, so many preservatives and artificial dyes, chemicals, you know, we've just got to do better. And we've got to help the people that are helping us or serving our country, you know, thrive.
And we're not. Not at all.
I've had a lot of veterans on the show. And they told me they can't even use peptides or TRT.
And as a fighter, you want high testosterone, you want to be healthy. And you can't even supplement with stuff like that.
Right. It's crazy.
Yeah. And forcing people in the military to get the vaccine over COVID and all of that.
It's like, again, why are the people that are serving our country put last and not given choice and things like that? It's just crazy. Yeah.
The vaccine decision was, I feel like a lot of people quit because of that one. Yeah, definitely.
Definitely. I mean, it's like you choose between potentially harming your own body or serving your country.
It's crazy. I mean, so I'm excited to see this now take a national stage.
You know, people are starting to talk about these things. People are starting to talk about this big pharma forever customer model where we're poisoning our kids.
And then big pharma and big corporations are profiting off our kids being sick and our adults being sick and our veterans being sick. Yeah.
Yeah. The prescription model, right? I think the average veteran's on over five prescriptions.

It's yeah, something like that. It's crazy.
You know, kids are being prescribed SSRIs at a crazy rate to adults are on tons and tons of prescription medications. It's like, why is that the norm? You know, why is it that when a kid goes into their pediatrician for a checkup and they say, oh, I'm feeling kind of depressed or, you know, the teacher says that they're, you know, off the walls, they can't focus.
Why is the first thing to put somebody on Adderall or Lexapro or things like that that are just not safe for kids? Then, you know, there you have it, a forever customer. When I was in college at Rutgers, Adderall was so easy to get.
Yeah. Like everyone hall had it it's easier to get than spinach yeah i went to pepperdine university and which is pretty conservative and and a dry campus and and all of that and it was still i mean everywhere it was everywhere it's it's a big problem with college athletes too they're getting adderall prescriptions and then they're allowed to take adderall to increase their performance um it's across the board a huge issue it's the accessibility of these things antidepressants stimulants you name it it's we've got to think about root causes and you know when a kid is having trouble in school why not look at what they're eating or how much exercise they're getting? Why is it, okay, let's put them on an addictive pill that they're going to have to be on forever and has crazy side effects that probably more than we even realize.
Yep. Is Maha working on any legislator to fight against that? Yeah.
I think the biggest thing that we're focused on is transparency. And the biggest thing Bobby is focused on is transparency of our regulatory agencies and increasing regulations to increase informed choice.
It's not taking away pharmaceutical companies. It's not even taking away vaccines or drugs or junk food.
It's just giving people more resources and educating them on what they're putting in their bodies, what they're putting in their kids' bodies. So there's a bill right now that's passing through committees in New York that requires doctors to lay out the potentially harmful side effects of vaccines 48 hours before the vaccine's administered.
Because what we see now is parents go into doctor's offices and it's not even a question of whether or not you get the vaccine or not. They're not even being presented the, you know, mile long packet of side effects of vaccines.
So things like that that are like, you know, the vaccine is still available should you want to get it, but at least you have 48 hours to learn the risks you know um there's also we're actually tomorrow um at the capitol in arizona there's a bill that's being um put through that would ban chemical additives from school lunch programs in arizona you know 30 to 100 percent of sorry 30 million kids are on um are you know have school lunches as 30 to 100% of their calories that they consume. So if we start with school lunches, what kids are eating when they're at school, which like I said, is a lot of what they're eating, especially in communities where that's the only resources they have is public school lunches.
I think we're going to see a huge improvement in childhood health and childhood chronic disease because we can't have a strong nation when our kids are eating crap for lunch every day, when they're having Lunchables and Gatorade and candy and sodas. It's, yeah.
I still have nightmares about my school lunch. Yeah.
Like it was disgusting. What was it? It was like French fries, old pizza, salad that was probably like processed and I don't even know.
It wasn't fresh salad, I can tell you that. Right.
And the lowest quality meat, the lowest quality ingredients. Yeah, it doesn't even look like meat.
No, it doesn't look like meat. And I grew up upper middle class too.
So it's not like we didn't have the resources to afford a decent meal. Right.
But it was still just subsidized by the state, I guess. Right.
And they find the cheapest ingredients. Yeah, it's crazy.
And then they're mass producing, but then you go to and visit schools and the trash can is just filled with food that kids don't want to eat. It's not even appetizing to them.

You know,

it's,

yeah,

it's plastic.

It looks,

and same,

it's,

it's the same thing with hospitals.

People come out of open heart surgery and they're giving Mountain Dew and these like plastic looking Pop-Tart things.

That blows my mind.

Yeah.

Yeah. There's vending machines in hospitals.

Soda vending machines,

candy vending machines.

Right.

Right.

Like how is that allowed?

I know. And it's like, you know, we need need to something that we're focused on with maha is rather than just telling people what not to eat it's like giving them things that they can eat and can cook and are actually accessible i think there's this issue where um people people get overwhelmed they're pretty soon they're like okay well what can i eat you're You're telling me not to have seed oils, vegetable, canola oil, that's like in everything almost.
You're telling me not to have food dyes. You're telling me not to have soda or McDonald's.
But for a lot of people, that's all that they have. And then it kind of just is a huge turnoff for these people and they stop paying attention and it's almost this elitist thing.
So we need to, you know, rather than just taking away process frozen meals, it's like, let's provide alternatives. They might not be perfect, but they're better, you know? Yeah.
You could find the right things for the right price, you know? Yeah. I don't think you have to buy organic if you can't afford it.
Right. Right.
And that's the other, the organic label, you know, the foreign companies are importing

organic produce and they're essentially paying for the sticker and it's not actually organic.

Oh really?

There's no oversight.

Wow.

It's the same thing with supplements that are coming in from overseas.

And what that's doing is one, poisoning us.

And two, it's driving American small businesses, small farms completely out of business because they're not able to mass produce at that rate. Dang, I didn't know that.
So the label doesn't mean what it used to. Yeah, I mean, not always.
I mean, I think there's organic farmers here that are incredible and are struggling because they don't have the subsidies that these massive, massive slaughterhouses, for example, and big farms have. So yeah, I think we need to put America first.
We need to put American businesses first. We need to put American farms first.
That's the only way we can make our economy healthy again, make our kids healthy again. I mean, why are we prioritizing these foreign companies over our own companies and ultimately foreign people over our own people?

Have you seen the farmland, China buying up the farmland?

Yeah. Yes.
It's crazy.

Yeah, that's concerning.

It's so concerning. Yeah.
And then, yeah, again, they're not prioritizing the health of the know, the same way that a small farmer would.

Yeah.

I mean, last thing I heard was

they own the second most farmland in America.

Yeah.

China.

Yeah.

I believe that.

That's crazy.

It's crazy.

And Bill Gates is first.

Right.

And who knows what he's up to.

I know.

That's a whole problem in itself.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I think ultimately we've got to think about

our American kids and adults that are, you know, you hear all the time from Bobby and others, there's nothing more profitable than a sick child. Right.
And we have to look at the source. We have to look at how food is grown.
You know, this pesticide issue is huge right now. Iowa has one of the highest rates of cancer.
And also one of the highest rates of pesticide use on their crops. Every year, six billion pounds or something of glyphosate related.
You know, pesticides, for example, glyphosate are sprayed on our crops that end up being our produce that kids and grownups are eating. So there's a direct correlation.
Yeah. That's concerning.
I believe there is. Yeah.
Yeah. The pesticide stuff is nuts because they haven't found anything to combat that yet, right? Exactly.
And they're in Iowa right now. There's a bill that they're trying to push through that would grant immunity, legal immunity, essentially for pesticide companies.
Wow. Yeah.
And that's going on. They actually just passed this same in georgia so we're fighting that too are they getting those through it's they're essentially saying if they have you know one stamp of approval once that that should be they should have legal protection because they'll go bankrupt if they get sued which is just insane it's like well bankrupt.
Like you should, you know, so people ask all the time. They're like, like reporters will ask me what, you know, what do you have to say to big companies that are really worried about going out of business? And I'm like, they have nothing to worry about as long as they're not knowingly harming the American people.
Yeah, that's the key word, knowingly, right? Yeah, knowingly. And yeah, they shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Bobby is not going to make junk food illegal. You know, he's not going to wipe away pharma.
You know, he hasn't yet. He's not going to.
He's just going to ensure that people know what they're putting in their bodies and big companies aren't profiting off people being sicker and sicker. Yeah.
Yeah. Was the make people healthy again always the main selling point from the start or did that kind of come along later? You know, it's, it's funny because I had never heard make America healthy again.
We, we played around with like make earth great again on the campaign, which people really liked, but it wasn't until August 23rd, 2024, I'll never forget. Bobby joined president Trump on stage in Phoenix and said said don't you want a president that's going to make america healthy again and by the end of the day people were selling merch people set up websites like it really took off um and now i can't imagine maha not being something that we say every day um it's so recognizable you I wear my hats at the airport, things like that.

I love it. I love Maha.
From both sides of the aisle, we've been at Republican conventions, like I mentioned. We were at Expo West in LA with a lot of more liberal-leaning people and companies.
And everybody was coming up to us wanting a hat, wanting to get involved, wanting to attach their brand to Maha in some way,

you know, It's gotten a huge audience and it was one of those things that nobody could have planned. Bobby just caught up and said it, which was incredible.
That's beautiful. You also got Callie Means and Vanny Hari just rocking with you guys.
Totally rocking. I mean, I think that they've been so instrumental in this movement in so many ways for so many years, but they really brought a whole new audience to Maha and to Bobby and to President Trump too.
You know, this people, you know, we call them the granola moms, but it's more than that. They're thinking about food and Cali and Vani and people like that.
They're very knowledgeable on food ingredients and what needs to change legislation, all of that. They bring people in and then people start listening to Bobby or Del Bigtree, our CEO, and pretty soon they're learning more and more about this sort of profit model for pharma and vaccines

and things like that.

So I think it's brought

a whole new wave of people

into this

and ultimately

has made it more mainstream.

I thought it was

a brilliant marketing strategy

partnering with those

food influencers

because they get a ton

of views on social media.

Totally.

Like I see them every day

on my feed.

Yeah, definitely.

They're getting hundreds

of millions of views.

And a great community too. Totally.
A huge community and one that's so passionate. You know, they will put a set aside 40 hours a week to go stand on the side of the road with a sign that's, you know, did you know that X, Y, and Z is in your kids' lunches? It's incredible.
People are really starting to wake up and learn. And I think our next task is reaching people in rural areas and food deserts that aren't being heard and not being educated.
And even if they are being educated, there's this whole like, well, then what do I eat? Like I said, we have to give people alternatives. We have to empower people.
We have to help people restore ownership of their own health. You know, there's some places where you go and it's, everybody just looks unhealthy.
Everybody lives an unhealthy lifestyle. Like there's no emphasis on nutrition or fitness.
So to really move the needle in the time that we have, we have to reach those people too. Yeah.
When I saw Callie and Vanny testifying at Congress, I was like, oh my gosh, times are changing. Like these influencers really have a voice these days.
I've never seen that before. Right, right.
Like when did influencers go and do Senate hearings? Senator Ron Johnson has been a huge ally and has put those together. And yeah, it's, it's there.
And they really represent the people. Like people look up to people like Callie and Vonnie and Bobby and Dell.
And yeah, I think it's huge to have, to have those voices, both on the government side of things and just from an educational standpoint. Yeah.
Yeah. The Kellogg's petition.
Yeah. How many signatures did that thing get? I think it ended up with like 300,000 signatures that they hand delivered to the Kellogg's headquarters, freezing cold middle of nowhere, Michigan.
Yeah. And then, you know what? Six weeks later, the FDA announces it's banning red food, red number six or red number five or something like that.
It's that shows us the power of this kind of grassroots lobbying, grassroots legislative advocacy. I mean, it really is so loud when people, people like that rally together.
Yeah. And demand change.
Yeah. And then the heavy metals inside of the Lunchables, that was a big deal.
I'm not sure if they changed their ingredients yet, but yeah. Lunchables is a big one big one because i mean in lunchables is is similar to others where it's totally marketed toward kids you know they have like toys in there it's like the bright colors it's like food is not supposed to look like play-doh it reminds me of like those little play-doh the kids you know the kids like play-doh toys that are like oh make a stand like it's like a restaurant model that's literally what Lunchables reminds me of just plastic i used to eat it yeah oh same yeah phenomenal it used to taste amazing i probably would hate it now yeah right right it's and it's like once you once you know what's in things like that you're thinking of it and we're seeing people so much more conscious of what they're putting in their bodies now all it takes is a 30 second ad or one minute ad two minute ad whatever um on what's really in these foods and then all of a sudden and that's the first step is just making people aware of it yep um so yeah i probably wouldn't like it anymore but i used to love lunchables i used to love things like that what was your go-to lunchable i think i liked the nacho one the most.
The nacho one. I liked the sandwich one.
Oh, the sandwich one

was fun. That was fire.
I was like

building things. So yeah, I did like the sandwich one.

The cheese was so good. Yeah.

It's crazy. I mean, it's

so attractive

to kids and delicious. And then they don't want

to eat vegetables or anything like that.

Did you see the Lunchly lunch with

Mr. Beast and Logan Paul? No.
Oh, you didn't see that one?

No, I haven't. Oh, they made like a Lunchables competitor.
Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow.
But they're not using the best ingredients, so. Yeah.
It's a little concerning. We'll have to audit that for sure.
Do you guys do that? Do you do like audits? Not yet, but I think eventually that would be a really cool kind of series. We've talked about that.
we're also talking about building a maha certification

directory so you know there's there's several other platforms that have things like okay you know find find the best what's the best water bottle at the gas station you know you scan the yeah that one um and then there's several others that do very specific things but there's not one that's kind of all-encompassing.

Right.

So we're thinking about

a Maha certified program,

which... others that do very specific things but there's not one that's kind of all-encompassing right um

so we're thinking about a maha certified program which would require first defining what counts as maha certified and what doesn't take into account you know where things are grown like just because it's organic doesn't mean it's good that's one example you know it goes so deep so it'll be you know a big long-term project but also maha certified providers so you know you just move to a new city and you want to find a good functional medicine doctor or an integrative health coach or a chiropractor anything like that you just put in your zip code and get tons of referrals yeah um but in the meantime i think a sort of Maha audit series would be really fun in the meantime, I think a sort of

Maha audit series

would be really fun.

I mean,

we've done sort of things

like that here and there,

but,

you know,

and then Vani and Callie

do such a great job of that too.

Alex Clark as well.

Yeah.

She's great.

Yeah,

they're all great.

I like this one app

called Seed Oil Scout.

That's a great one.

Yeah.

Another one.

I use that all the time. And now they're doing like consumer goods.
So they'll have a sticker if it's seed oil free. Oh, wow.
Okay. I didn't know they were doing a sticker now.
Yeah. They just announced that.
Okay. Amazing.
Because there's a learning curve when you're getting into this to like, oh, is this actually healthy or not? Right. There's so many different ingredients.
Yeah. And it's overwhelming and people don't have time.
No. Health, I think, really comes down to scheduling and finding time to learn of these things.
You know, that's why people get so overwhelmed. They're like, OK, well, you're telling me I can't have this.
I can't have that. There's like 10 different stickers.
You know, people don't have time to look over every ingredient list. And that's where that's where we need to hold these these big food companies accountable.
Like they need to, if they're saying that something's healthy and they're marketing it to kids and they're essentially knowingly hiding things, like natural flavors is a great one. People see natural flavors and they're like, oh, natural flavors, that's good.
Okay, moving on. Don't have time to read between the lines.

There's sometimes like a hundred different chemical additives that go into creating a natural flavor.

Like it's not natural, you know?

And so anything that's things like that, it's like, why are we allowed to call it, you know, using these blanket statements?

Yeah.

Healthy, organic or, you know, heart healthy is another big one. Yeah, exactly.
They don't tell you about the glyphosate, but they'll say it's heart healthy. Yeah.
Yeah. So I think it's, it's all about transparency and education and really empowering people to know kind of what to look out for.
I mean, I always say if you can't pronounce it, it's probably not good. Agre.
Yeah, that's a good rule of thumb. Yeah, because these labels are so misleading.
I just found out about grass-fed. It just means they were fed grass once.
Yeah. Like their whole life, they could have been fed corn, GMO corn, but if they got fed grass once, it's considered grass-fed.
Right, and it doesn't mean that they're free-range. They can be totally kept inside a cage their whole life, which is terrible.
There's so many terms for the eggs now i remember when i was a kid there wasn't any terms and now there's like 40 different terms it's crazy yeah and so we have to and i think that's where maha comes in and other organizations like maha like while bobby and and his team in government are cleaning up these regulatory agencies know, creating regulations so that companies are have to be held accountable and have to, you know, increase transparency on their products. It's our job to educate people in the meantime, because we can move a lot quicker in a lot of ways.
Yeah. Just with getting on the ground and talking to people and and also hearing from them.
Like I learned from people every single day what their individual hurdles are. School lunches, I just talked to this woman in Dallas whose kids go to a private school in a really nice area.
And part of their program is the parents volunteer to help the kids use their meal card to check out or whatever whatever and they're after second grade the parents are not allowed to encourage the kids to put back a bag of chips and grab something differently it's like they can fill their tray with mountain dew and starbursts and the parents are not allowed to say anything that's like one tiny example of like know, and that's in a very affluent private school and she's seeing more and more

kids are,

you know,

falling asleep in class in the afternoon,

they're misbehaving.

And then they're putting on,

put on Adderall right away.

No,

like,

okay,

how about let's like,

come on,

it's Captain Obvious.

Look at what the kid's eating for lunch.

Yeah.

So they tried putting me on that in fourth grade.

Yeah.

And looking back at it now is definitely diet issue. Yeah.
Totally. You know, a hundred percent.
Right. Yeah.
I was eating candy. I was eating chips.
I was drinking sodas. You know, as a kid that can just make you go crazy, I guess.
Right. I mean, your blood sugar, I'm not like an expert in this stuff, but your blood sugar is like, and then you crash.
Yeah. There's no sustainable source of energy.
And then your body's growing and you need more and more nutrition and you're just getting less and less. And yeah, it's like the easy way out.
And we're not, and I think teachers and parents aren't thinking about the long-term effects of being on something like Adderall or Ritalin or Vyvanse or any of those drugs that are totally, I mean, huge chemical dependency. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm curious about the censorship stuff.
Are you guys still dealing with that? Because I've had a ton of like health videos get taken down or shadow banned. Yeah.
I mean, it's definitely been better lately, I'd say. There was a period of time during Bobby's campaign where every time somebody reposted this Who is Bobby Kennedy documentary, it got taken down for violating community standards.
This was mostly on meta. Violating community standards, sexual and violent content, misinformation, that was the biggest one.
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. i think now it's gotten a little better i mean our ad account on meta still gets taken down like every other week which is insane you can still with part of the yeah which is funny x was the only platform that has maintained its integrity pretty much.

But yeah, Meta is still,

I mean, I noticed,

like I don't have a huge following,

but I noticed when I post something about Bobby,

it's not seen as much.

And then you see people's posts getting,

it's like false information,

see why, you know, those sort of- Yeah, the fact check.

Yeah, the fact check.

They just removed that though, I think on Meta. They did? Okay.
Yeah, a couple weeks ago. I haven't seen it in a while.
Thankfully, but I used to get hit with that one too. Right.
But with the photo stuff, it's nuts because they definitely have some AI. If they see someone's face, they shadow ban it because when I do anything with Trump or Trump Jr., same thing.
Right. I'm sure if I did one with Bobby, it'd be the same.
That's so interesting. I wonder if you did a picture of like the back of him, if it would still.
The back. Yeah.
That'd be interesting. But yeah, now whenever I post clips about Trump or Bobby, I don't post their face because I know it's going to get way less views.
Wow. Yeah.
Still now. Still.
Wow. Well, I don't know because Zuck's part of the team now.
I don't know if they changed it, but. Right.
I haven't really known. They really should.
They should. Yeah.
I mean, it really affects like, there's still people today that didn't know that bobby was running for president i mean fewer and fewer but because people go to social media for information and when they can't find anything on someone or it's deemed as misinformation taken down like they're not getting the same it's it's just totally it's i mean i would argue like it's it's disruptive to an election you know oh it is media censorship is the same it's disruptive and you were getting hit with the traditional media too they wouldn't let him debate yeah i think if he debated he would have left a really good impression i completely agree against kamala yeah i think so too i mean back in the first Trump-Biden debate, they wouldn't let him on. CNN actually changed their standards, their criteria for allowing somebody in a debate that was, I mean, directly related to Biden.
there was, it was like, okay, you have to be polling at above 15% in the last six weeks,

six weeks or four weeks or something like that.

But the reliable polls do not include Harvard Harris.

And Bobby had 16 or 17%, 18%.

Wow.

So they singled the one out here.

Yeah.

And CNN cites Harvard Harris all of the time.

Wow.

So either they're trying to keep somebody off a debate stage

or they are knowingly lying or using a non-reliable polling method to their viewers. I think all the polls would be us, to be honest.
Yeah. Like if you look at them, they're never accurate.
Totally. Totally.
And I think a big part of that too, and this is a guess, leading up to the election, it looked way closer than it actually was like way closer she was leading in some of them right and so everybody's kind of you know we're feeling good about it but we're also like oh man this is really neck and neck i think a lot of people when they get called like they they didn't want to say that they were voting for trump there was still this sort of like weird feeling with saying it so we actually put out an ad that like, what happens at the voting booth stays in the voting booth. You want to vote for Trump? That's smart.
Yeah, there is some shame. Right.
Totally. Yeah.
Yeah. So I just wonder like, you know, Bobby was pulling like 20% at one point, what that would number, what that number would look like.
One, if he wasn't censored so much. And two um if the polls were somehow more accurate wow 20 that's insane yeah like a lot of the polling companies they call and they wouldn't even list bobby as as okay they're like if the election were held today would you vote for biden or trump like we have recordings people would record when they would get these calls um and and they would list would say, or other, and it would require the person actually saying Bobby's name in some of them.
Or it would say, you know, Trump, Biden, and then it would go, you would have to say other, and then it would give you a whole nother list, like Jill Stein, et cetera. So I think, the, the methodology is also a huge problem.

I'm also not a fan of how much money you need to run for presidency. You need nine figures at least.
It's crazy. I believe it.
Like over a hundred million. Then that's on the low end.
There's been billionaires that have lost like tons of money. Yeah.
And that's just to even run for president. Right.
It's, it's crazy. It's like we should be ampl people that have you know worked in their local and state legislatures for a while like they don't have a ton of money yeah that's why anyone independent never makes a dent even not even one two percent yeah and the ballot access stuff it's like huge huge financial commitment as well just in terms of the legal side of things.
And then, you know, just even figuring out the requirements, reaching out to every single secretary of state, having a team on the ground, actually getting the signatures, you know, running that, organizing the petition papers. It was, it was crazy that the hurdles, but I mean mean, it just speaks to the passion and the commitment of this movement.
People, you would think it was their full-time job. Yeah.
You guys had to have your own debate. That's the point it got to.
Yeah, which was awesome. I mean, that was really cool.
We actually planned that with 48 hours until the debate. Yeah, we had gone back and forth on doing it or not you know we were still really trying to push and get bobby on the on the cnn stage um and we pulled that off it was a logistical i mean production beast just you know start stopping i'm not a producer but our team was i mean they were they were so on it and i think it came out i think we had 11 million views 11 million views on X alone.
Yeah. It looks super legit, high quality.
Thank you. Yeah, it was fun.
Yeah, he crushed it. Yeah, it was amazing.
I mean, watching that, you were like, how could you not let this guy speak or cover him on the news? Or why are you calling everything he's saying misinformation and silencing his supporters? And yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. When you see liberals calling Trump a threat to democracy, what goes through your head? I just think it's hilarious because the DNC sued, tried to sue Bobby so many times for things like, you know, the petition paper being incorrect or starting to collect signatures a day early or one case, the pages of signatures were folded, things like that.
They, you know, allocated so much money to just keeping Bobby off the ballot. They did the same thing with Trump in Colorado.
You know, it's it's totally corrupt. It's totally anti-democracy.
democracy. It's like if your one strategy to win is just keeping everybody else off of the ballot, how is that a democracy? So I just think it's hilarious.
And the whole way Kamala got just straight to the top, that doesn't seem democratic to me. Right, right.
Not a single primary vote. I mean, it's crazy.
And even though Bobby was pulling more votes from Trump than Harris, we never got a single challenge from the right. Not a single one.
Really? Yeah. There was no like adversaries or? Nope.
Yeah, it was all, I mean, it was all coming from the left and, you know, Trump and Bobby coming together. It's like they had so much that they agreed on.

Yeah.

It was a really,

really beautiful alliance.

Be your own people sometimes.

Yeah,

definitely.

Dang.

Was that a big change for you or were you conservative growing up or what's the

background there?

Yeah.

So I grew up in San Francisco with the most liberal classmate dynamic you can

imagine.

San Fran. Yeah.
My parents are conservative. Trump signed on their lawn, everything like that.
So I always just avoided politics. I thought it was just a means to conflict, and I just hated it.
So it's so funny that I ended up here. So for me, Bobby joining Trump just represented the closest thing to a unity ticket that we've ever seen before you know bringing in tulsi gabbard elon and you know the freedom forces we were calling it for a while we had these really cool stickers with them as superheroes um yeah it just it just represented this this unifying movement like we've never seen before it's so transformative you know two people running against each other

coming together and putting aside their differences for the health and well-being of this country. I think that they probably were able to relate to the censorship and, you know, First Amendment infringements a lot and the health issue, of course.

So it wasn't at all weird for me.

I mean, it's going thinking about, you know, we're one day trying to figure out how to beat somebody and how to get more numbers and, you know, up our chances. up our chances and then the next we're trying to help somebody win by getting our you know bobby

supporters over to trump which is what we did for the eight weeks leading up to the election

focusing on battleground states where they wouldn't let Bobby off the ballot, which is another just hilarious thing. Nevada was one of them, right? Nevada, yeah.
Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, I believe. Yeah.
So he wouldn't let him off. So he wouldn't steal votes, right? Yeah, exactly.
And so it just speaks to the just anti-democratic process. It's like, okay, you're not letting somebody on the ballot, but wait, all of a sudden that they joined forces with Trump, now we're not letting you off the ballot.
It's really just, they were just making up the rules on the fly, which is so not right. And it's not fair to voters.
It's not fair to candidates. It's not a fair process at all.
So I think them coming together, it was, I mean, it was, it was beautiful and it was really best case scenario. Bobby's focused on, on, on these health agencies and making America healthy again, making our food healthy again, making our water environment healthy again.
And Trump's in there doing his thing like he's been doing so well. I've never seen so many people on the left transition.
It seemed like record numbers. It must have been a record actually.
Yeah, it's crazy. I think it was like the record number of new counties that went red this cycle.

And the right won the popular vote, which hasn't happened in a while.

Yeah, I think it's just becoming the common sense party.

Really, it's like, you know, the left has become so intolerant and the right has become.

Yeah, it's just common sense.

Like, boys should not be playing sports, for example.

They finally got that one through. Yeah, I know.
They got it. And as a college athlete.
That was a huge one. You were a swimmer, right? I played volleyball.
Oh, volleyball. Yeah, beach volleyball at Pepperdine.
Yeah, and that girl got a concussion from that one guy basically spiking it, right? Yeah, I knew people who were on track to get a huge Pac-12 or other huge scholarship. And then there was a biological man that came in and could obviously hit the ball way harder.
Wow. And pretty soon the coaches would drop them.
That's crazy. So it's, I mean, that's like your whole life when you're playing a sport like that and getting recruited.
It's your whole entire. Yeah, you dedicated your whole 20 years of high school, middle school.
Yeah. And then all of a sudden somebody who's not even a female comes and takes that away from you.
It's crazy. Yeah.
So it's, I mean, it's common sense. The border stuff, common sense.
Like it's all common sense. Putting somebody like Bobby Kennedy in charge of our regulatory agencies who knows the chronic disease epidemic in and out and has dedicated his life to solving it.
It's common sense. Yeah, we got to fix our mental health crisis too.
Yeah, oh, that's huge. I mean, it's crazy.
It's, you know, I think it's one in four women are on an antidepressant medication. 40% of teenagers have a mental health diagnosis, which is crazy i mean it one yes mental health is is at an all-time low but it's also just this increase of diagnosing teenagers when they have depression or anxiety it's like that's a that's often a very situational thing like why are we putting kids in a box, and then prescribing them something that they're then learning to externalize their ability to self-regulate and self-soothe and be resilient, you know? So I think that we need to think about things like nutrition, fitness, community, you know, the opposite of addiction is community.
The opposite of suicide is community. And think about rather than just, you know, somebody saying that they had a bad day and then prescribing them something that they're going to be on forever and has incredibly intense side effects.
Why, why not support them? You know, why not create programs in schools where people can talk about these things? It's, and, and they're not, you know, put on this mind numbing medication. It's, yeah.
I think these labels are dangerous too. Cause once you get told you have depression and anxiety, you're just going to start saying that every day and start believing it.
We're creating victims. We're creating this nature of victimizing people and allowing them to victimize themselves.
And it's the opposite of empowerment. It's the opposite of resilience.
It's teaching people that they cannot be resilient on their own, that they need this product that's making this big company millions and billions and trillions of dollars. Because then they're just going to start saying they have anxiety and they won't do certain tasks.
And then they'll use that as a card. And think about that generation 20 years from now, what that looks like, you know, where people aren't working, people, the American dream, you know, work hard, make money, have a family, like that's just gone.
Like it's, it's really scary. One, the, you know, physical side effects of some of these things.
And, and two, just the sort of culture shift it's creating. I also didn't want to talk about the infant mortality rate.
Oh yeah. 50 times higher than every other industrial nation combined.
Why do you think that's so high? I haven't, I just heard that stat the other day and I've been thinking about it so much. I mean, I think one it's, and this is what I've heard.
I want to do a deep dive into this, but I think it's access to hospitals. A lot of hospitals in rural areas are closing because the, or they're closing their, their maternity unit because it's too expensive to maintain.
And so then, you know, moms are. They don't have access to healthcare, to the healthcare that they need when they're having a baby and think about how that affects the baby.
I think it's also probably what pregnant women are eating. I think it's medications they're on.
I think it's the environment, water, food, you know, everything like that. Yeah, that number is shocking.
And I think that number alone speaks to how dire this issue is. And like, it just doesn't make sense.
There's no reason why America should have babies that are dying at 50 times. Yeah, 50 times higher than every other industrialized nation combined.
That's super concerning. Clearly there's something wrong.
Yeah. I also just found out a lot of nurses are incentivized to do C-sections because it's safer for the hospital.
They don't want to get sued. Wow.
So the first time they see like a red flag when the baby's coming out, they'll just say, oh, C-section. To prevent getting sued.
Oh my gosh. Yeah.
It's insane. Yeah.
And it's, they they're just protecting themselves like these hospitals are just protecting themselves and not protecting the their patients yeah or their providers even you know no it's super concerning i'm at the point now where if i have kids i'm not gonna go to a hospital yeah like i'm at that point right because just the more i learn the more i'm like what the heck they also $20,000. I mean, most families cannot afford that.
Right. That's crazy.
Right. And then these private insurance companies are just totally benefiting.
And, you know, the more you prescribe, the more people are having to pay for medications and pay for health care. And then the complications of health care and all of that gets more and more expensive.
And so we're incentivizing providers essentially to diagnose more, prescribe more, and care less. Like we have a sick care system.
We don't have a healthcare system. It's reactive.
You know, 90% of what we spend in this country on healthcare is attributed to chronic disease. Like once people already have a chronic disease, it's totally, um, it's totally reactive versus proactive.
Oh, a hundred percent. When I go to the doctor now, I'm in there for like seven minutes and there's an hour line to get in.
Yeah. And how can you really know how somebody is doing and, and support them if you're seeing them for seven minutes, um, not even looking them in the eye, you know, they don't even remember you the next time you show up.
It's crazy. Yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah, yeah. And they're just rushing through and there's no individual approach to the patient.
And then, yeah, the over-prescription thing is a huge problem too, because again, like how can you know in seven minutes if somebody needs to be on medication? When I was in college, I got Xanax in like three minutes of meeting the doctor. I never met him before.
My dad brought me and I got it instantly. He probably didn't even know my name.
Right. Yeah.
I mean, it's, yeah, it's crazy. And I think that problem got a lot worse over COVID.
I think, I don't think that the level of ADHD increased that much compared to how much the Adderall usage did. It's just like telehealth and telemedicine made it so much easier for kids to go on and just say, I have trouble focusing.
You know, I think telemedicine is actually a really good thing. I think it's going to help people in rural areas with access to health care tremendously.

But I think for things like prescribing a 16-year-old Adderall for the first time, that needs to be more of a process. There needs to be- So you can get it on the phone now? Yeah, you can totally get it on the phone.
Wow. And there's no assessment or survey or anything like that.
That's nuts. I mean, I've seen my friends do it.
It's like, oh yeah, I'm having trouble focusing and then boom, they have a prescription. Oh my gosh.
Yeah. That's so crazy to me.
And then one thing leads to another. You're put on something like Adderall, which is stimulant, and then you can't wind down.
So then you're given Xanax or Trazodone to go to sleep. Then you're kind of just this zombie and then suicidality increases, things like that.
And then you're put on Lexapro and it's just never ending yeah I think the average elderly is on like what is it seven or eight different things now yeah it's crazy and middle age people like how many people do we know that just are on have to take their medication all day long there's something just seriously wrong no I don't want to live like that yeah exactly Bridget. Well, Bridget, it's been awesome.
Any upcoming events, initiatives for Maha? Yeah. So we're in Phoenix, Arizona tomorrow at the Capitol.
We're working on building out this college program where different colleges will have their Maha chapters and clubs. So we'll be going and speaking at a lot of colleges.
We've also just been getting the word out and speaking at a lot of different events, you know, just really taking every opportunity to expand our Maha army and our Maha audience, you know, both Republican and Democrat events, but also just health conventions, school conventions, things like that. Any opportunity to get the word out, we've been doing.

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