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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Trump and Suspends His Independent Bid for President
(www.nytimes.com)
"Oh fuck I'm spoiling the wrong voters"
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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.
It doesn't seem to matter. Russia is running on behalf of he and Stein.
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!
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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.
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.
...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.
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He was always an endorsement for Trump.
He run as a spoiler to democrats but it turns out polling indicated he ate more votes from anti-vaxer republicans so he had to be folded in.
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Anti-vaxxers are the absolute shittiest people.
"I will endorse whichever candidate offers me a job" has to be the least persuasive political "endorsement" ever.
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"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.
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This is the funniest sad shit I've seen all day
So heartwarming that these two excessively weird old men managed to find each other ❤️
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.
Makes sense. brainworms was supposed to be a spoiler for Biden but barely was doing well at that. In large part because the only people parroting the "He is actually really smart" are chuds like joe rogan anyway. So all he was doing was hurting trump.
Real question is if the rumors of him replacing vance are true... and if swapping out couchfucker actually WOULD invalidate trump on a lot of state ballots.
Watching from abroad, it's amazing to me that this guy has the slightest relevance or following.
Although, thinking of it, the same could be said about Trump (with the difference tha he's backed by a party).
Thus proving true the recent adage, "A vote for Kennedy is a vote for Trump".
Bear meat for everyone!
isnt tht how you you get brain worms?
Ah yea, all makes sense now...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/25/brain-worms-black-bear-meat/73853429007/
Very common issue with bear. From The Joy Of Cooking
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Never saw ol' worm brain's bid for President as anything other than a thinly-veiled attempt to take centrist votes from Biden.
I am curious to see if the houses I see with Kennedy signs replace those signs with Trump signs tho.
Can we have all these rfks and trumps on the TV, in the ballpit, far from grownup politics, so we can enjoy them rambling batshit insane stuff without any risks?
I'm not too worried about this, tbh. I think the people that RFK attracted post-Kamala really aren't likely to vote for Trump or Harris anyway. They'll likely either stay home, vote libertarian, or write in Vermin Supreme
It's definitely a small difference — something like 0.2% to 0.4% — but that's enough to be important in a close race like this one.
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This should help steer some votes for Kamala me hopes.
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