# RFK Jr Files to Run for President (Dropped Out on August 23, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260 "2023-04-06T16:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/641 "2024-08-06T00:48:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Amazing that this still ranks _third_ in the “dead things in cars with a Kennedy, with ‘worst’ being #1” list Change “cars” to “vehicles” or “modes of transportation”, and it’s at least #4. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/642 "2024-08-06T01:00:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > … then drives directly to the airport to catch a flight. At which point, he must have smelled absolutely disgusting. There is the part where he is a Kennedy. Of the Hyannisport Kennedies. He probably has bear handlers to do most of the icky part for him. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/643 "2024-08-06T01:18:58Z")
It’s a joke, Son. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/644 "2024-08-06T01:35:20Z")
What’s a joke? I was factually deecribing Kennedy’s account of how he found and dumped the carcass. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/645 "2024-08-06T02:28:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The staging aspect makes the least sense. Not only was the scene he was trying to stage completely implausible (A bear cub in Central Park, killed by being hit by a bicyclist who then abandoned the bike at the scene) That’s what makes it funny. (For some small values of the word “funny”). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/646 "2024-08-06T02:36:17Z")
As in “Thet boy’s a titch funny in the haid.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/647 "2024-08-06T03:06:32Z")
I suppose it has a bit of a “steamed hams” vibe to it. “A BLACK BEAR CUB?! IN THE MIDDLE OF CENTRAL PARK?! STABBED TO DEATH BY A HIT-AND-RUN BICYCLIST?!” “Yes!” “May I see it?” “…No.” ETA: Just to make sure I’m not whooshing myself, there are no bears in Central Park, right? Please say I’m right. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/648 "2024-08-06T03:16:51Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > The fact that he works in wildlife rehabilitation is one of his few redeeming qualities. Now, I’m no expert, but I’m gonna say that particular bear cub was beyond rehabilitating. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/649 "2024-08-06T03:17:31Z")
Yes, Central Park is remarkably uncontaminated by bears. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/650 "2024-08-06T03:22:45Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Ya know? Sometimes I turn on the news, and see something _soooo_ fucking strange, that I question if I’m really awake, or on some kind of Nyquil-induced fever-dream bad trip. Seriously. I saw the picture of RFK and the bear on Threads this morning and I didn’t want to share it here because I didn’t think there was any chance it could be real. I thought it was AI. How is this shit real life? If this was a TV show, I’d be turning it off for being too ridiculous. _FFS, his zipper was down!_ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/651 "2024-08-06T03:23:41Z")
Depends on which kind of bear you’re talking about, I guess. (As a woman, I appear to be one of few who would NOT choose the bear.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/652 "2024-08-06T03:28:25Z")
It’s simply amazing that this guy _and many other people_ think he is fit for office of The President of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/653 "2024-08-06T03:31:22Z")
This is one of those times when I wish we had a “like” button. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/654 "2024-08-06T04:06:45Z")
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/655 "2024-08-06T10:42:35Z")
Has it been discussed that he wants to send people with drug problems to “wellness farms” to recover? > **[RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps](https://futurism.com/neoscope/rfk-jr-adderall-labor-camps)** > > Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/656 "2024-08-06T10:51:55Z")
Somebody with the last name of trump is not going to like that. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/657 "2024-08-06T13:36:05Z")
Have we made the Beary Jo Koepechne joke yet? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/658 "2024-08-06T13:36:48Z")
Vance: “You can’t get weirder than me.” RFK Jr: “Hold my bear.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/659 "2024-08-06T13:42:55Z")
That sounds like something out of Phillip K. Dick. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/660 "2024-08-06T13:44:40Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Vance: “You can’t get weirder than me.” > RFK Jr: “Hold my bear.” Beat ya’ to it: > [@RFK Jr Files to Run for President](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president/982260/582): > > Kristi Noem: You’re not going to believe what happened to my dog… RFK Jr: Hold my Bear… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=34)