In his speech on Friday, Mr. Kennedy implied that Mr. Trump had offered him a role in his second administration, dealing with health care and food and drug policy. “We’re going to reform the entire food system,” he said.
It’s worth noting that Kennedy’s health care policy is to bring back measles, that he eats roadkill, and had part of his brain eaten by a worm as a result.
“Oh fuck I’m spoiling the wrong voters”
The fact the GOP backed him thinking he’d pull voters from Democrats shows just how out of touch the GOP has gotten
Well, if you go strictly based off his positions on paper, or as posted on his website, he hits all the “progressive” points that would seem very attractive to a progressive independent or some more left democrats. Its a legit honest mistake to think he might be fairly left, based off when I was researching him a bit.
But every time he opens his mouth in front of a camera it’s the most asinine right wing brain worm vomit you’ve ever heard, and I think they figured that out a little too late.
I mean, apparently he was a pretty good dude and an environmentalist for a long time.
Then around the time he got a worm in his brain, he just went bat shit crazy for some weird reason…
I’m imagining Ratatouille, only it’s an anthropomorphized worm steering RFK Jr around by chomping on different parts of his brain. I want to say the worm would be voiced by David Cross. It’s almost making this bizarre timeline a little easier to process.
Ignore the necrotic, segmented, invertebrate behind the curtain…
Maybe, but every time he speaks it’s all conspiracy theory shit: anti-vax, etc.
Uh…no…he was very pro gun. He was liberal on like one or two issues, but most of his policies were straight up Republican.
I wanted to like the guy as a viable alternative to Biden, but he was hard right on too many issues.
He is living proof that the Horseshoe Theory is correct and true
EDIT: I thought we left reddit to get away from the mindless downvoting hivemind BS
I’m a little confused why they wouldn’t have him endorse Kamala instead if he was supposed to be a spoiler.
I’m not sure I follow;
If his goal was to pull voters away from Kamala, why would he endorse her?
Yeah…you’re right it doesn’t really make sense. I guess my thought was that he was supposed to be posing as an alternative liberal, but if he’s out, that’s irrelevant.
They aren’t bright people
With Kennedy out of the race, that frees up more of the oligarch money to bolster the Jill Stein and Cornel West campaigns instead.
So can you straighten this up for me? Because it’s not clear right now.
Is Cornel West actually running? As in, does he think he’s running for office?
It doesn’t seem to matter. Russia is running on behalf of he and Stein.
Yes, Cornel West is campaigning as an independent. Here’s his website if you want to learn more about his platform.
Based on his stated policies, he’ll attract more leftist voters away from the Harris campaign as a spoiler candidate, whereas Kennedy was the “centrist” option who ended up pulling away more non-MAGA Republicans than he did conservative Democrats.
West’s calls to disband NATO and end US involvement in Ukraine also makes him a favorable option for Russia.
West is also not on the ballot in most states:
In point of fact, he’s on the ballot in few enough states that he can’t achieve more than be a spoiler in Georgia.
he can’t achieve more than be a spoiler in Georgia.
Yeah, but that alone is a big fucking problem (I say as a Georgian, and especially one who has been trying to raise the alarm about the MAGA sabotage being perpetrated in my state). Having a spoiler candidate on the ballot only makes it even more likely that the MAGAs find some excuse to refuse to certify.
He was running with People’s Party, then tried to run with Green Party, and is now running as an independent.
What the fuck. I want the road kill eating dude the fuck away from my food.
VOTE! Bring your friends too!
The brain worm has obviously been running the show for quite a while
“Don’t eat roadkill, kids. You could end up like… RFK Jr!!” (shudders) (kids scream and run to hide)
And there you have the proof that all his “alternative to both Biden and Trump” was bullshit. He was only ever a spoiler for Democrats, so he’s dropping out because they realized he was taking more votes from Trump. Those guys just can’t do anything on the level.
last Saturday I was walking through the park and saw a boomer wearing a giant “I’m voting for RFK ask me why” t-shirt.
kinda wish I had now.
In his speech on Friday, Mr. Kennedy implied that Mr. Trump had offered him a role in his second administration, dealing with health care and food and drug policy. “We’re going to reform the entire food system,” he said.
This might just be the single most frightening thing I’ve ever heard from a US politician. RFK Jr. getting that job in a Trump 2.0 administration would be catastrophic.
Minister of health.
…he felt compelled to help Mr. Trump over support for policy positions he holds dear, including diminishing America’s military presence overseas and an overhaul of the country’s public health system.
Read: he wants to withdraw support to Ukraine and strip away the Affordable Care Act so we can go back to your insurance company denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
“I will endorse whichever candidate offers me a job” has to be the least persuasive political “endorsement” ever.
“Independent”
Uh huh. Sure.
Independent as my boomer dad who loves to poke fun at Biden and assures me everything Trump did was fine.
The latest bad decision from a guy who admits he eats roadkill…
RFK, Musk, and Trump all with bigly ties to Epstein.
Kompromat being held over all three with Putin directing their agenda and associated political maneuvers.
Please stop effectively excusing Trump with this “kompromat” nonsense. The notion that he’s being forced to do this shit rather than doing it entirely of his own volition diminishes his culpability, and he does not deserve that credit.
Maybe Putin does have something on him or maybe he doesn’t, but either way it doesn’t fucking matter because Trump is a fascist True Believer and a fanboi of dictators in general and Putin in particular. He betrays America not just willingly but enthusiastically in hopes that senpai Vladdy will notice him!
This is the funniest sad shit I’ve seen all day
RFK voters are an odd bunch, but I don’t know how many of his voters are realistically going to vote for Trump. I feel like he’s still pretty toxic to them.
Just start spreading the rumor that if you write in some sov-cit ass “I hereby blah blah blah RFK Jr!” on their ballot it will some how work and he’ll magically take power.
He was always an endorsement for Trump.
Anti-vaxxers are the absolute shittiest people.
