That sound you hear is both RFK and JFK keening and wailing, as they roll in their graves. Conspiracy theorist and all around disgrace, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., told NPR (then reported by by Fox News) that he is planning to run against Joe Biden for the 2024 “Democrat nomination.”
The Republicants never miss an opportunity to get in their little “Democrat” noun as opposed to adjective slur, har de har har. They sure own us. I think we should start calling them Republicants, although that is sinking to their level.
In any event, here’s where it stands with RFK, Jr.
RFK Jr says he is seriously considering running against Biden in the Democratic primary. pic.twitter.com/hjCnQd1fJK
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 4, 2023
Who’s he going to get for a running mate? Tulsi Gabbard? Wait — I got it: JFK, Jr. That’s the ticket.
What’s that you say? Would the Democrats put a QAnon, anti-vaxxer on the ticket? I guess Kennedy thinks so. Does he think we don’t know his history?
Last weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Berlin to rail against the minimal health and safety restrictions put in place by the German government to curb the spread of COVID-19. The rally, which was organized by the German group Querdenken 711—and which saw hundreds arrested for attempting to storm the parliament building, among other things—represented the ongoing rise of conspiracy theorists in Germany, particularly those affiliated with the QAnon cult. And Querdenken 711 had a very special anti-vaxxer guest at the rally: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of one of America’s most prominent political dynasties.
Querdenken 711, whose name loosely translates to “Thinking Outside the Box 711,” had tried to invite other controversial world leaders to the rally before landing Kennedy. On Aug. 7, the group’s Twitter account tweeted at Donald Trump, calling him “the only American President who has not started a war,” despite his record escalating the U.S.’s foreign conflicts, and cordially invited him “to speak on the subject of ‘peace.’” Three days later, the account tweeted at Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, asking him, too, to speak about “Peace in Europe,” apparently ignoring Russia’s intervention in Eastern Ukraine. (Members of Querdenken’s many Telegram channels noted that Putin might be too busy with the escalating tensions in Belarus to attend.)
In a last-ditch effort to score a major speaker outside of their own ranks, the group finally tweeted at Kennedy, asking him to join them on stage for “freedom and peace” on Aug. 19. Kennedy had already signaled his interest in the growing “anti-COVID” movement in Germany. On Aug. 11, his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, published a letter by an anonymous “Friend in Germany” on the organization’s website. Four days later, Querdenken 711 founder Michael Ballweg offered an official public invitation during a speech in Hamburg.
Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense promotes the notion that COVID-19 health regulations support Bill Gates’s “globalist” agenda for mandatory vaccinations as part of a conspiracy led by Big Pharma. In a strange statement to the podcast of TruePundit, spread on German QAnon channels, Kennedy insisted that Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, seeks to poison “an entire generation of Americans” with a COVID vaccine. TruePundit is described as “a political conspiracy website with a far right-wing bias” by the site Media Bias Fact Check and has also been written up by the fact-checking site PolitiFact for misinformation.
That’s exactly what we need, is yet another president, a Democrat no less, that keeps flunking fact checks, because he’s lying all the time and because he’s got a screw loose.
So who do we have gunning for Biden now? Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.? Saint’s preserve us, as my Irish grandmothers used to say. (I’m sure they’re rolling in their graves as well.) And I guarantee you, they’re groaning back in the old country.
The Irish in Ireland watch American politics like it’s soap opera, because there are so many players of Irish descent in Washington. They’ll love this new plot twist. They’re about the only ones who will.
He and Marianne should run together as a ticket – Nut and Nuttier.
He’s the nut. She’s the jam, squashed and devoid of anything other than enough sugar to send the country into a national.diabetic coma. Put ’em together and you have an unsavory PBJ.
Why? His name alone isn’t enough to get most people to vote for him. (I know people who will vote *against* him, because of that.)
If they flood the pool with crap candidates, they can dilute the vote and maybe knock a serious contender out. It doesn’t have to be million dollar idea, just a one dollar idea that you can sell to a million people.
The guy is a fruitrcake (after all, he did have an uncle who claimed one time “I’m a doughnut”)
This is ‘Ein Berliner’