I swear, you can’t make this sh*t up. I wrote recently that the Trump campaign had reached the kind of downward death spiral that, down 4-0 in the bottom of the 7th, Trump was willing to bunt in order to get to first base. Well, guess what? Trump just got picked off first base.
I wrote at the time that Traitor Tot’s warm embrace of RFJ Jr, was a fools gold folly. For starters, Kennedy, being a craven opportunist, had already shopped his endorsement to the Harris campaign, which flipped him double barrel birds. So he went sniveling to Trump, who, as dumb as the original box all of those rocks came in, heartily embraced him.
Which was stupid, mainly because RFK Jr. had nothing to sell. For starters, he’s a total flake job, a Q-Anon award winning conspiracy theorist, and an anti-vaxxer who would appeal to nobody Traitor Tot didn’t already have firmly in his camp. Second, he pulled a bait-and-switch on Trump by promising not to appear on the ballot in states where he had already been ruled ineligible to appear on the ballot in the first place. Third, he had no base to bring, all of the double haters who wanted neither Trump nor Biden had already gravitated to the Harris campaign. Last, JFK Jr. promised to remove his name from ballots in battleground states where his name already appeared.
Trump, the ultimate political imbecile, welcomed Kennedy with open arms, offering his a spot on a nebulous Trump transistion team, and floated the doggie treat of a possible cabinet Secretary position in the newly formed Trump administration. Jr. promptly showed his appreciation for this generous largesse by taking a microphone and talking about once using a chain saw to saw the head off of a dead baby whale, and strapping it to the roof of the family car for a five hour trip back home. Man! Talk about a marriage made in Heaven!
But now it’s starting to look like Kennedy conned Traitor Tot even worse than we first thought. The simple fact is that Jr. had no voters to give to Trump that weren’t already leaning towards Trump before Kennedy paddle footed in. But now it appears more likely that Jr. can’t even keep that promise. And it just might mean the death of Trump.
But here’s the McGuffin. Right now, RFK Jr.’s name appears on the ballot in at least three critical swing states. According to reporting, Kennedy wrote to the Secretaries of State in those states, asking that his name be removed from the ballot. And that’s where political imbeciles like Trump and JFK Jr. got taken to school.
It turns out that in most states, once your name qualifies for, and is placed on the ballot, it’s on the goddamn ballot. El Pendejo ex Presidente should already know this fact. It’s why months after Nikki Haley suspended her campaign, she kept clipping him for about 20% of the votes in states that were in reality uncontested states.
Here’s why it matters. Right now Kennedy is on the ballot in at least three critical swing states for Trump. And if there’s one thing Traitor Tot should know, it’s that anybody who signs on with a mental misfit toy like RFK Jr. is highly likely to be a low interest, low information, just like Trump’s unruly MAGA mob.
These mental midgets have already plighted their troth to RFK Jr., and as such, their part is done until election day when they cast their ballots. They’re not very likely to pay enough attention to the news to ever learn that Kennedy had suspended his campaign and was no longer running. When they go into the booth on November 5th, if they bother, they’re going to look at the top line, see the name Robert F Kennedy Jr., Independent and they’re going to pull the lever.
And so, on November 5th, when you’re sitting in front of the television with a bowl of popcorn, or a plate of nachos and a tall frosty one, when the results from the critical swing states start to come in, take a close look at how many votes come in for RFK JR., and what his percentage is. And then look at what Kamala Harris’s lead over Trump in the state is. Compare the two, and we’ll call it The RFK Jr. Effect. It’s quite possible that Trump’s false savior turns the result of the election to Harris.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
Murf, just a suggestion but, if you’re able to do so after already posting this piece, you might want to do a quick edit and switch out the “JFK Jr” mentions to “RFK Jr.” You’ve got two that I see (one in the third paragraph and one in the sixth).
I know it was absolutely unintentional but it was just a bit cringy to read the slip-ups.
(If you’re able to get the edit done, by all means, you’re free, or Ursula’s free, to remove this comment.)
I think RFK Jr. will turn out to be irrelevant. It’s not like he brought a wave of grannies who remember the Camelot years to the MAGA cult. There aren’t many left and every one of them who is mentally intact will know RFK Jr. has been disowned by the family.
And his core CT nutjobs must have had some reason for not going for trump in the first place. They aren’t likely to change their minds because he cashed in his chips with whoever would take him. It’s much more likely they will say WTF and just sit this election out.
Trump probably was influenced by the talking beard, who talked him into Vance, except this time the nefarious reason is Jr. could get a cheaper price on the magic powder RFK Jr. used to deal.
Oh…having gone on whale watches on Cape Cod…don’t invite this maniac ever, that is, unless you plan to push him overboard several miles out to sea.