“I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone would think he should be President.” (Jack Schlossberg)
For the record, this guy is JFK’s only grandson. He’s the son of JFK’s daughter Caroline, and the cousin of one Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – flake, conspiracy nut, hard-core anti-vaxxer before it became a big thing and general P.O.S. that gets nastier as it ages. Jack isn’t just making it clear he’s endorsing Joe Biden, he’s pointedly saying why. And more pointedly why Biden is his pick instead of his cousin. Jack Schlossberg offered up a statement that sliced & diced his cousin RFK Jr. like a sushi chef, and then instead of tossing him onto the griddle and cooking him up let his sit there and burn, while pouring shots of extra high proof Saki on him to really turn him into crispy embers!
Well, so much for the old saying about blood being thicker than water. Turns out values and honor matter more to some people, as in when they see it in others but not someone from their own family they pick the right person. Hey, you can’t pick your family, but you CAN pick your friends. Same applies to who you choose to admire and support.
Especially when it comes to who should be President.
This is more of a big deal than people younger than me realize. (for the record I’m in my mid sixties) The Kennedy family was, for people my age and older (and seniors are the most reliable of voting blocs) both immensely charmed and cursed at the same time. Joe Kennedy’s eldest son Joe Jr. had been groomed to one day be President and might well have been. Or at least gotten the Democratic nomination. But near the end of his tour in Europe he had volunteered for a particularly dangerous project and on a mission flying a large plane packed to the gills with explosives just before the time he and his co-pilot were to bail out and parachute to safety it blew up.
So the second son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pushed into politics. The young dashing war hero was compelling and became a Senator and an earlier than expected Democratic nominee for President & by golly he won. Only to be cut down by an assassin’s bullet. His brother “Bobby”, who’d served as JFK’s Attorney General seemed for a while to be done with politics but found himself running in 1968. Just when it seemed he’d picked up enough steam to win the nomination he too was cut down by an assassin’s bullet. I will carry the look on my mother’s face when she woke me up in the middle of the night to give me the news, and the next day as we waited hoping the doctors could perform a lifesaving miracle with me forever.
Charmed and cursed. Yet the Kennedy family evoked a feeling for us older folks that people who only know them through history books will never “get” any more than I could “get” the Great Depression or WWII the way my elders who lived through it did. The Kennedy family was iconic in a not quite definable way both good and not so good. A large family, they had members who were troubled. And hell, given the public scars the family has borne it’s understandable that some would handle it all well and some wouldn’t.
Bobby Kennedy’s son, his namesake would turn out to be in the latter category. If for a bit at times he showed signs (working for his uncle Ted) of maybe getting straightened out it didn’t last. He went completely off the rails. Long before this year.
However, being a Kennedy people cut him slack, and “people” included his family. Again the whole protect the family name/legacy then. Were they embarrassed by him over and over? Sure, but they worked like hell to keep it from showing. It looks like those days are over. In the first story I saw about this I saw Jack’s mom Caroline sitting there with him doing an interview and the video was silent (I seldom turn on the sound as I prefer reading the story, especially when I’m also listening to the TV news) and she seemed fine with what her son was doing.
For RFK Jr. this is earth shattering. As his cousin plainly said he’s decided to launch a vanity project trading on his father (and uncle’s) name and legacy because his own career is for sh*t. But, and this matters more than I can express he counted on if not full-throated support from his family then at least their silence.
His cousin Jack just blew a hole in the side of the garbage scow SS RJK Jr. and I’m pretty sure it’s just the opening salvo. Caroline hasn’t tsk-tskd her son for being so harsh and blunt and that’s a really bad sign for him. If she joins in, albeit more gently but still makes is clear she and the rest of the family will be working their butts off to re-elect Joe Biden even No Labels won’t want any part of RFK Jr.
I predict the a-hole is about to experience a world of hurt like he’d never imagined in his wildest fears. And GOPers who just featured him thinking they had a “Aha! GOTCHA liberals! WE got a Kennedy! Neener Neener” moment are going to look even more stupid and pathetic than they did last night. That my friends is saying something.
This article contains much of the text of Jack’s brutal takedown of RFK Jr. and his actual Instagram post. Check it out. Trust me. You’ll be glad you did:
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Denis, I am confused. You invited us to check out an article that “contains much of the text of Jack’s brutal takedown of RFK Jr.” You ended your story by saying, “You’ll be glad you did:”.
Was that supposed to be followed by a link? Did I overlook it? I appreciate any help you or a fellow reader can give me. Thank you.
The last paragraph starts with “This article” which is a hyper-link, just click on those words.
The last paragraph starts with the words “This article” which is the link. On my own screen the words are colored light green and perhaps that’s not easily discernible but that’s the link I think you wanted to know about.
Yes, on my screen too it’s sort of gray-green and hard to distinguish from the rest of the text. It would be advisable to change it to a brighter color if that’s possible (I assume all hyperlinks will appear that way from now on unless something is done about it.)
Maybe I’m losing it but I seem to recall blue as the color. When I went back to look I saw what you’ve noted – it’s light green and even when I put my glasses on kinda tough to make out. Not much I can do about it now. And there are enough other tech issues Ursula is having to deal with right now that I’m not sure this would be high on the to-do list. I think in the future I’ll highlight more words (this time it was just two words) when inserting a link which I think will make it more visible/obvious. And/or maybe a direct reference to call reader’s attention to a link. But man, those hits just keep a coming!
That video is brutal, but could have been worse. Jack didn’t mention RFK Jr’s anti-vax, anti-semitic stances nor his association with Steve Bannon, convicted felon. I’ve mentioned several times that he’s running in the wrong primary. He only goes on RW tv, radio and podcasts. I don’t know if RFK Jr is deluding himself or sees this as a grifting opportunity. The rethugs are the ones monetarily supporting him.
He mentioned among JFK’s legacies, “the first man on the moon.” I was puzzled by that, and perhas I was not the only one. The first man landed on the moon on July 16, 1969, during the first term of Richard Nixon. That flight was called Apollo 11. But in fact the Apollo program was first announced by JFK in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961, and the first test flight, Saturn rocket SA-1 (of course unmanned), was launched on Oct.27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral (later named Cape Kennedy, later changed back to Cape Canaveral in 1973). So yeah, it was one of JFK’s legacies.
I’m glad I’m not a Kennedy, Shona Laing 1987. A song you might not have heard.
As a freshman in college, I went with friends to hear Bobby Kennedy speak. Coming from a Republican family, I carried a homemade Rockefeller sign. I left that day a lifelong Democrat. A person incapable of voting for Republican policies. After his speech, we went down onto the field and I was able to shake his hand. He looked at me kindive funny, maybe because I still had that sign. His namesake is a pathetic mess that I could never vote for. The one time I strongly considered voting Republican was in 1980 as all the business people were shouting Reagan’s name. It is the only time that I didn’t know who I was going to vote for until I was in the booth. I stood there, not at a politically aware person and felt like it came down to a choice between people or money. I remain proud that I chose people and voted for Carter. I still think it was the right choice.