With MAHA, RFK Jr. is basically rerunning Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” playbook—and, in one key way, taking it a step further, Tom Bartlett argues.
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My god this is the worst take on the Trump administration I've seen since January, hands down. False equivalency plus fawning over RFK plus sucking Trump's dick PLUS racism PLUS misogyny? You win 100 percent well done 🫠
sep 2, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Unsubscribed, and unfollowed based on this horseshit. Another once respectable journalistic institution that has failed to meet the moment. Spineless cowards, all of you.
sep 2, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
wtf? Michelle Obama was trying to make kids healthier with exercise and vegetables in school lunches instead of the usual slop served to kids. RFK is an anti-Vax freak who touts raw milk and bathes in sewage. These two people are NOTHING alike.
sep 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 52 2 • view
Oh. Um. No...
sep 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop. Just stop. Don’t even. This is absurd.
sep 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 7 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 3:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Of the dumb takes lately this might be the dumbest
sep 2, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck off with this shit
sep 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
What is wrong with you? Every time I decide to give you another chance (let’s be honest, it’s mainly bc you made the wise decision to hire Alexandra Petri) you go and hurt my soul again with drivel like this.
sep 2, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF, @theatlantic.com. Are you begging me to cancel my subscription?
sep 2, 2025, 3:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Do it. Do it. Do it!
sep 2, 2025, 3:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Is the engagement strategy here that people will share this because it’s so asinine?
sep 2, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
If there was a Louvre of false equivalency, this would be the Mona Lisa
sep 2, 2025, 2:48 pm • 63 0 • view
Yes, there is little difference between encouraging people to exercise and eat vegetables and destroying the achievements of two hundred and fifty years of medical progress.
sep 2, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
She encouraged exercising and eating healthy. The horror!
sep 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 7 0 • view
Fire RFK Jr. The man is insane... brain worms...abused drugs... destroying Americas health..
sep 2, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What are you smoking over there?
sep 2, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
bullshit. her program was based on science, his is based on bullshit #impeachrfkjr
sep 2, 2025, 3:46 pm • 3 0 • view
This kind of trash is why I won’t subscribe.
sep 2, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Just one bad apple
sep 2, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view
And yet they're still employed.... so that's at least a few more apples up the line...
sep 2, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Tom Bartlett can argue all he wants, that doesn't mean he's not a fucking idiot.
sep 2, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Congratulations on your continued promotion of the dumbest liars on Earth. You're just a few stories away from a Trump coupon.
sep 2, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck right off with this shit
sep 2, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Is trump demanding an extortion payment from you? You know this is ridiculous, right?
sep 2, 2025, 2:49 pm • 5 0 • view
This is truly the most embarrassing thing ive ever read. You should all just find other careers at this point. Also, while you’re at it, go fuck yourselves.
sep 2, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you fucking serious? @nytpitchbot.bsky.social is a parody account, not a media platform you should be plagiarizing. The Atlantic is really trying to get that Nazi demo.
sep 2, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve never regretted cancelling my subscription to this piece of trash magazine.
sep 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 0 0 • view
in case any of you are wondering if the writer's resting face is the same as Ruprecht from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels pissing himself at the dinner table, it is
sep 2, 2025, 4:10 pm • 3 0 • view
obscure but excellent reference ♥️
sep 2, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Jesus Christ, you have no journalistic integrity. Fuck out of here with this.
sep 2, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, famously these are the same thing from similar people. Get fucked.
sep 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Robert Frankenstein Kennedy Jr knows nothing about how vaccines work or any medications or devices that are used to help and saves lives. The poor will suffer and those who can afford vaccines will have access to it. Congress do your damn jobs and get this monster out of the CDC.
sep 2, 2025, 3:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Tom Bartlett can be safely ignored…
sep 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 6 1 • view
Michelle Obama never claimed to have medical expertise. She was a First Lady and a mom that wanted children to be healthy and strong. She believed in science. RFK Jr. is Secretary of Health and Human Services and has fired all the scientists. Oh, and Michelle Obama is of sound mind.
sep 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 28 0 • view
This article should be hung at the entrance to the “Both Sides Hall of Fame”
sep 2, 2025, 2:58 pm • 11 0 • view
BSHoF FTW
sep 2, 2025, 3:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Hugely dishonest, click-bait framing.
sep 2, 2025, 3:06 pm • 8 0 • view
You absolute doofs. Jesus Christ.
sep 2, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Ummmm wtf
sep 2, 2025, 2:49 pm • 4 0 • view
What are you even talking about?
sep 2, 2025, 2:46 pm • 15 0 • view
So Michelle tried to make food a bit healthier and brain worm guy wants to do away with vaccines. Yeah exactly the same.
sep 2, 2025, 4:31 pm • 7 0 • view
AYFKM
sep 2, 2025, 9:07 pm • 19 0 • view
counterpoint: Tom Bartlett sounds like a fucking moron for thinking "you should have carrots with your school lunch" and "let's conduct a wholesale destruction of the CDC" are the same thing
sep 2, 2025, 9:15 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s a mistake to want children to be healthy?
sep 2, 2025, 3:00 pm • 3 0 • view
This could well be the most insane thing you've published. Yet. Is there no editor there capable of understanding how ridiculous this attempt to conflate these two people and their programs is? And this is why I will never, ever pay good (or even bad) money for online access.
sep 2, 2025, 4:47 pm • 3 1 • view
sep 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
are y'all actually for real right now
sep 3, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Tom Bartlett? The moron?
sep 2, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't it funny, Atlantic, that RFK Jr is the Secretary responsible for the health and welfare for 340 million people, and Michelle Obama was only First Lady and had no such responsibilities?
sep 2, 2025, 2:53 pm • 21 1 • view
Isn't it funny, Atlantic, that you could not a write a piece that says the exact opposite, that Michelle Obama made the same mistakes as RFK Jr? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
sep 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 11 0 • view
STFU
sep 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Specious.
sep 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Barbara Bush wasn't an expert in reading and yet she knew educating kids was good. Is she the same as RFK Jr? The Atlantic Discusses.
sep 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 2 0 • view
What the fuck.
sep 2, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Michelle should come and punch Mr. Bartlett's lights out...
sep 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 7 0 • view
She's too in control of herself for that. Let me do it.
sep 2, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
You cannot be serious with this shit.
sep 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 9 0 • view
Seriously, fuck you for publishing this garbage. Trying to equate “let’s eat healthy and get some exercise” with the lunatic conspiracy theories spouted by a brain-worm freak is simply unforgivable.
sep 2, 2025, 2:57 pm • 6 0 • view
This is embarrassing. And go f**k yourselves @theatlantic.com
sep 2, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yes, because encouraging healthy eating and activity is *exactly* the same as gutting the CDC, spouting anti-science bullshit, and promoting conspiracy theories. TOTALLY the same playbook. 🙄
sep 2, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you get kicked in the head or something?
sep 2, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Can just anyone get their latest half-baked thoughts published at the Atlantic these days? This man is directly endangering my life as a cancer survivor and the lives of millions of people in as many ways as he possibly can, and you all play word games. Shame on you.
sep 2, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
bet this article is doing numbers over on twitter
sep 2, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
What a load of horseshit. Michelle Obama supports healthy food for kids, and RFK, Jr. is a eugenicist monster, a promoter of passive genocide, an antivax grifter, and a generally terrible person (being a serially philandering, emotionally abusive egomaniac).
sep 2, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
jfc Each month you lose more editorial integrity.
sep 2, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Again...FUCK YOU @theatlantic.com You are legally allowed to criticize the insane white man trying to kill Americans with his pseudo-science WITHOUT taking a shot at the Black woman who tried to get kids to exercise. I checked.
sep 2, 2025, 3:10 pm • 17 0 • view
Tom, the hack author of this shit piece and who loves him some nazis, disagrees~
sep 2, 2025, 5:12 pm • 4 0 • view
What the fuck is wrong with you?
sep 2, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like it's time to post this in your comments again
sep 2, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
The comments have given the article what it deserves. This is what fat does for Americans:
sep 2, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel like private healthcare with its endless hunger for profits and complete disregard for heath has a great impact on that graph than anything else.
sep 2, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
This is so asinine
sep 2, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
What utter nonsense. RFK is a crank whose wilful stupidity will kill thousands of people. Everyone with a platform like yours needs to repeat that continuously, not publish false equivalency nonsense to appease the lunatic anti-science fringe.
sep 2, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
You're a serious magazine. Please act like it.
sep 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 11 0 • view
Shame on @theatlantic.com !!! #pathetic
sep 2, 2025, 2:55 pm • 3 0 • view
This is such a bullshit take and you useful idiots have to know that.
sep 2, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Literally this take is a fucking complete joke….
sep 2, 2025, 3:23 pm • 2 0 • view
A yes the classic single step from "pizza is not a vegetable" to "your humours are misaligned"
sep 2, 2025, 2:54 pm • 11 0 • view
wild that you can't find a person with a brain stem to write your op-eds. what a massive embarrassment.
sep 2, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view
What in the fuck is wrong with you guys
sep 2, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
yes bringing measles back is the same as battling childhood obesity i can't explain why your magazine isn't more popular
sep 2, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
what is this garbage
sep 2, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty amazing that you would bother publishing this. What a stupid premise and article
sep 2, 2025, 3:12 pm • 6 0 • view
The problem (besides this article conflates both movements as identical despite being far different, is that Republicans absolutely went scorched earth on "Let's Move!" Now a lot of those same people are fully behind MAHA, supporting it 100%.
sep 2, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Seriously?!? Dismantling the CDC, attempting to stop the dissemination of vaccines, and completely abandoning medical science is "a step further"?!? Was this written by an AI?
sep 2, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
With all due respect, this is a ludicrous take. Did you get infected with RFK’s brain worm? Are you in the midst of a heroin addiction like RFK was for over a decade? Did he threaten to kill you just like he killed his wife?
sep 2, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF is wrong with The Atlantic?
sep 2, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
No. He is not. ffs
sep 2, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Your racism & misogyny are out of control. Find a new job.
sep 2, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t you dare! I’m canceling my subscription today.
sep 2, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't cancel an otherwise excellent magazine over one dumb article
sep 2, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
One?
sep 2, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly. There have been several, and I’m not going to give them any more 💰.
sep 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Right. It’s mot an “otherwise excellent” magazine. I’ve delighted to have cancelled my subscription a while ago. For me, it was the decade of castigating Black or queer kids for objecting to hate speech, and then silently lauding actual censorship demands from Netanyahu militants. Bigotry exposed.
sep 2, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Tom Bartlett sounds like a guy who gets hard looking at Trump. Fuck you, fascist fappers~ #MAGA must be destroyed
sep 2, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
YGBFKM
sep 2, 2025, 2:45 pm • 16 0 • view
Just as gross as the last time you posted it. Don't worry: I read the article before I unsubscribed.
sep 2, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view