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Ever since the 69-year-old conspiratorial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last week, a curious new category has appeared among the commentariat—libertarians and/or right-of-center journalists expressing strange new respect for a Hugo Chavez–admiring scion of the Establishment who has serially fantasized about throwing his political opponents in jail.
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A poor alternative, but only for those willfully blinded by their brainwashed hatred of Trump.If the election was actually fair, I would assume RFK jr would wipe the field with biden. biden literally has nothing to offer except being an alternative to Trump.
Agreed, biden is a poor alternative. My deceased grandmother would be a better option than biden.A poor alternative, but only for those willfully blinded by their brainwashed hatred of Trump.
I will probably go to the grave thinking he was installed like a toilet, and not elected. I would hate to think there are that many people in this country who would vote for the grifter.Boy am I ever getting old. Bobby Kennedy's boy is 69. That's borderline getting old for the Presidency. The media will bury him for a myriad of reasons. When they unsuccessfully damage him for some of his political stances they'll start on his voice.
This country is so far down the $hithole now that a 50 year grifter who is clearly demented is actually being considered for a second term. Even if things were good this defies belief. smfh
Lets be honest, your deceased grand mothers pet dog (if she had one) would be a better option than the bidet. LolAgreed, biden is a poor alternative. My deceased grandmother would be a better option than biden.
She actually did have a pet dog. Blind in one eye and could not see out of the other. Deaf and completely incoherent. Random barking for no reason. Pooping and peeing where ever it felt the need. So you are exactly right, that dog would have been a much better option.Lets be honest, your deceased grand mothers pet dog (if she had one) would be a better option than the bidet. Lol
The very strange new respect for authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend; he's a guy who might want to throw you in jail.reason.com
Will he pose a serious challenge to Biden's re-election effort? Will he be the only alternative for the Dem nomination if Biden has to drop out for mental/physical health issues?
The Wall Street Journal reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked Nicole Shanahan, a California-based attorney who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate for his long-shot presidential bid, according to people familiar with the decision.
Shanahan, 38, also runs a foundation focused on reproductive rights, criminal justice and the environment.
Before backing Kennedy’s independent bid, Shanahan had previously been a donor to Democratic campaigns, including supporting Joe Biden’s election in 2020.
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Shanahan, a political novice, was thrust into the spotlight over her public split with Brin amid a brief alleged affair she had with Elon Musk in 2021 that ruptured the billionaires’ long friendship, The Wall Street Journal reported.
After the article published, Musk denied the allegations and Shanahan later followed suit.
It isn’t clear yet whether Shanahan plans to assist by tapping into her own wealth.
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They got another think coming if they think he's one of them.I guess RFK Jr is now vying for the Libertarian Party nomination.
That's what I was hoping would be the case, as he seems a very poor fit for the Party.Libertarian folk I have followed on Twitter/X are not interested in JFK Jr.
After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he's confident he'll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish with Team Trump, Kennedy said Trump associates asked him to consider becoming the former president's running mate.
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As well they shouldn't. He's as much of a Libertarian as Dick Cheney is.I gather he tested the waters with the Libertarian Party and realized they were not likely to embrace him.
The political demarcations are all getting blurred. Who would have thought that "liberal" DemocRats, those Peace-Love-Feed-The-Children activists, would suddenly be in favor of Naziesque Vaccine Mandates, protections for Big Pharma, segregation for Americans based on private choices...as well as, supporting Moar War, open criminality (Ten Percent for the Big Guy, Pedo Pete, Hunter with a non-taxed, no-show, high-six-figure job in an industry he knows nothing of).Libertarian folk I have followed on Twitter/X are not interested in JFK Jr. They want someone more in line with the party ethos than someone who might capture votes.
Not misnamed, as that's what they are. Ie: they are the new (neo) conservatives. As opposed to regular, or what some call paleo conservatives.the current crop of (misnamed) NeoCons,
They're not conservative at all.Not misnamed, as that's what they are. Ie: they are the new (neo) conservatives. As opposed to regular, or what some call paleo conservatives.
It marks the difference betwixt the Cheney Rumsfeld bush type of conservatives (big gov with lots of power) , and conservatives more in line with the nations Founding principles of individual liberty.
United States presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to bring the transparency of blockchain to the U.S. budget, telling a crowd of his supporters at a rally in Michigan on Sunday that doing so would allow every American to look at “every budget item anytime they want, 24 hours a day.”
“We’re gonna have 300 million eyeballs on our budget, and if somebody is spending $16,000 for a toilet seat, everybody’s gonna know about it,” Kennedy said during his campaign speech.
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Don't worry, they won't. Last thing they'll want is a publicly available detailed list of everything they waste money on.Presidential candidate RFK Jr.: ‘I’m gonna put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain’
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Whoa... Talk about radical ideas! I just hope the swamp doesn't run with this as a way to sell the nation on a CBDC...
Been a lot longer than that. The system took the first step towards self destruction with the creation of the federal reserve and then the emergency banking act and pure fiat money. It's just been a matter of time since then.The whole system began self-destructing 32 years ago
Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Kennedy was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke University Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle, he said. While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head. The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.
You know what this sounds like? Like a mediuh hatchet job, to discredit him, cut off his funding, and make him drop out.Esquire
We Are Very Sorry To Hear About RFK Jr.'s Brain Worm And Mercury Poisoning
The New York Times took a deep dive on Tuesday into the medical history of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., whose raison d'etre as a presidential candidate is primarily based on crazy-assed Do Your Own Research vaccine denialism and the fact that the two major candidates are older than he is and, therefore, not up to the job, cognitively. Judging from the Times story, RFKJ needs to find himself some new raisons d'etre tout suite.
Well, that sounds awful.
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Right now I don't put it past them.If he got the D nomination he would win.
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