ISTR him peddling antivax nonsense on the Daily Show 20-some years ago.
No Girl State?
There is, indeed, a Girls State, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary (a separate organization, made up of female relatives of war veterans).
Thanks. Enlightening (sorry if off-topic)
I take comfort thinking that whatever support he has now, if it continues all the way through the primary, will shift to the Dem candidate during the general.
Bannon is a turd and a worthless troll, no matter what he excretes from his face-hole. He’s hoping this move will cause division among Democratic voters, because anything to rile-up the libs he thinks will be good news for the fractured and divided Republicans. Fail.
The Kennedy name…big deal. Right now we have a US senator named John Kennedy who’s the biggest dick shit I’ve ever seen. Check him out:
senator kennedy - Google Search
I think that most people who feel that the Kennedy name carries a cachet are specifically thinking about the Kennedy family (JFK, RFK, their siblings and children, etc.), and not just any person who happens to have that surname.
That said, I would not be at all surprised if some low-information voters think that the Senator from Louisiana is related to the better-known Kennedys (as far as I can tell, if he is related to them at all, it’s only distantly).
I could recognize the Robert Kennedys, Jr. and Sr. But I was babysitting some kids while their parents were at RFK’s rally at the Ambassador the night he was assasinated. Surreally bad evening.
In another thread I joked a bit about the Republicans “buying off” RFK jr to get him to run as an independent. Now I’m thinking that may not be much of a joke. If he’s identified as a “kinda sorta” Democrat that could really screw up Biden’s reelection chances, much like Ralph Nader did to Al Gore.
Do you expect a groundswell of support for RFK Jr.? Does anybody care about this guy one way or the other?
I expect he’s going to make about as big of an impact as Bill Bradley did in 2000.
Yeah, he was an old-school pre-Covid antivaxxer. As far as I can tell he has long been on board the “anything from or related to the ‘corporate establishment’ must be presumed bad” train
It wouldn’t take much vote splitting with a dem spin-off independent to let the Republican candidate “steal” (pun intended) the election. Al gore is likely elected president in 2000 but for Ralph Nader.
What kind of Democrat would welcome, or even acknowledge, Bannon’s support?
But, OTOH, he might take a certain number of Republican QANON/antivax voters away from the Republicans.
RFK Jr.'s “Children’s Health Defense” has produced an antivaccine film targeting black Americans, invoking a 1930s eugenics meme to argue that vaccination is a form of medical racism (other antivaxers have similarly tried to exploit racial divisions).
A number of news organizations reported on RFK Jr. speaking at a far-right rally in Berlin in 2020 attended by neo-Nazis protesting pandemic restrictions. RFK Jr. chose to sue one of them, the Daily Kos to try and out an affilated blogger who described the rally.
“[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] spoke at an August 29 rally convened by the German far right to protest government restrictions aimed at corralling the COVID pandemic. Kennedy was, apparently, the third choice speaker, after appeals from a rightwing group called Querdenken to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin went unheeded. But when this group learned that Kennedy was coming to Germany for other reasons, it issued a public invitation and he responded. The German right waxed rhapsodic about the way in which Kennedy’s presence was lending legitimacy to their activity.”
“The rally and his speech were widely covered in the mainstream media, which reported that his rally was heavily attended by neo-Nazis and that a variety of antisemitic and neo-Nazi factions had been involved in organizing the event.”
Remember that this is a guy who has repeatedly compared vaccination to the Holocaust.
RFK Jr.'s base of support seems to include, in addition to those for whom the Kennedy name still has some gloss, those who think his aging environmental credentials have value, ignore his ludicrously extreme and offensive views on vaccination and 5G and think they’re validly protesting a second Biden run for the Presidency.
Wow. Thanks for that important post.
I don’t know if he believes what he says and is trying to protect people from injury, including those who are black, or, if he intends this as harm to them. So I don’t know how to tell if the intent was racist. But obviously the impact is, so his deal is racist. Intent isn’t the only criterion.
More on RFK Jr.'s propaganda film:
I’m not sure even the Kremlin claims that 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.