# 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:** 41
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/801 "2024-08-23T19:38:05Z")
RFK Jr. is a narcissistic quack. Fuck that guy. May he swiftly follow his ludicrous campaign into the bunghole of history. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/802 "2024-08-23T20:09:24Z")
So the former environmental lawyer and champion of the environment endorses the biggest threat to the environment in my lifetime. I didn’t think my opinion of RFK, Jr. could go any lower, but he has managed to surpass my expectations. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/803 "2024-08-23T20:18:00Z")
That’s a deep cut from a submariner. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/804 "2024-08-23T20:25:08Z")
> [@robby](#): > > So the former environmental lawyer and champion of the environment endorses the biggest threat to the environment in my lifetime. I suspect these days he considers the biggest environmental threats to be chemtrails and fluoride in drinking water. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/805 "2024-08-23T21:29:59Z")
Since I’m the OP, I guess it’s time to close this thread, or at least ask the mods to add (Dropped out 8/23/2024) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/806 "2024-08-23T22:21:28Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I thought the consensus was he was hurting Trump more than Harris, I did not think so- as polls with him in, or out, in the out polls Biden did better. ---
**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 23, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/807 "2024-08-23T22:30:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > and fluoride in drinking water Hey, my mother was just about as far left as you could get – she kept a sharpie handy while reading the paper so she could redact any mention or photo of Individual-ONE – and she objected to fluoridation, calling fluoride “medicine”. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/808 "2024-08-23T23:32:24Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Hey, my mother was just about as far left as you could get – she kept a sharpie handy while reading the paper so she could redact any mention or photo of Individual-ONE – and she objected to fluoridation, calling fluoride “medicine”. How did she feel about iodized salt? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/809 "2024-08-23T23:36:03Z")
Is he done talking yet? ---
**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 23, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/810 "2024-08-23T23:59:07Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > How did she feel about iodized salt? Iodine is not like a medicine, it is an actual nutrient that is needed in trace amounts. I suspect she understood that. Fluorine is not known to have any substantive role biological role in humans. ---
**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 24, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/811 "2024-08-24T03:12:00Z")
And in brain worms? Or bear cubs? ---
**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 25, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/812 "2024-08-25T03:05:30Z")
Mitt Romney: I strapped our family dog to the roof of the car once RFK jr.: Hold my bear > [@](#): > > Kick’s taste for the extreme was fed by her dad’s eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.” > **[Camelot Continued: Kick Kennedy's Private Tour of the Family Compound](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a924/kick-kennedy-interview/)** > > America's greatest family saga may have just found a fresh new start. ---
**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 25, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/813 "2024-08-25T09:31:14Z")
If Trump keeps using music without permission, maybe he’ll just end up funding Kamala’s whole campaign if more artists send money to her. See, RFK JR. is helping already! > **[Foo Fighters say they did not OK Trump using "My Hero" at Arizona rally, will...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/foo-fighters-my-hero-trump-campaign/)** > > Former President Donald Trump played the band's song "My Hero" when he welcomed former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the stage at a rally in Arizona on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/814 "2024-08-25T19:27:27Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > If Trump keeps using music without permission, maybe he’ll just end up funding Kamala’s whole campaign if more artists send money to her. See, RFK JR. is helping already! > > [Foo Fighters say they did not OK Trump using "My Hero" at Arizona rally, will donate royalties to Harris-Walz campaign - CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/foo-fighters-my-hero-trump-campaign/) I’ve never understood fair use and songs used for political campaigns. I don’t know why they don’t just stick to country and Kid Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/815 "2024-08-25T19:48:18Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I don’t know why they don’t just stick to country and Kid Rock. At some point they figure using _popular_ music might be useful. And I bet someone with the campaign liked it so just put it out there. It’s not like doing that has ever hurt Trump in the past or anything. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/816 "2024-08-25T19:52:25Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s not like doing that has ever hurt Trump in the past or anything. Has it ever, though? I have heard complaints from the artists, but has it ever really cost him anything? It gets his name in the news one more time. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/817 "2024-08-25T19:52:38Z")
I think their campaign people don’t understand fair use either. Or they do understand it, but don’t give a shit. They aren’t afraid of lawsuits and they don’t pay their bills. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/818 "2024-08-25T19:57:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Has it ever, though? I have heard complaints from the artists, but has it ever really cost him anything? From what I can tell it really hasn’t. At most it adds negative publicity but he shrugs that off. When Democrats get complaints like that, and it happens, they usually address it, as Obama did years ago: > **[Isaac Hayes Estate Demands $3 Million for Trump's Unauthorized Use of 'Hold...](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/isaac-hayes-donald-trump-cease-desist-hold-on-coming-1235076432/)** > > The soul legend's estate is insisting that Trump stop playing the classic Sam & Dave song without permission > Politicians have tried to use the song before and gotten in hot water — there was even [a brief tiff in 2008](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-lists/stop-using-my-song-35-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-75611/sam-moore-vs-barack-obama-29825/) between the duo’s Sam Moore and then-candidate Barack Obama over its use. (They worked it out later.) But Trump just ignores them and nothing happens. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/819 "2024-08-25T20:51:20Z")
They could always use the collected musical output of Scott Baio. I’m sure he’d be fine with that. Will we ever hear from RFK Jr again? Will his followers come out to hear him support Trump? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/820 "2024-08-25T20:58:48Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > But Trump just ignores them and nothing happens. He ignores many legal debts and orders. Here is a listed of notable GOP musicians- > **[Musicians You May Not Know Are Republican](https://www.ranker.com/list/republican-musicians-and-singers-conservative-bands-/famous-conservatives)** > > You may not think there are many Republican musicians, but it's quite the contrary. Hollywood may be known for it's liberal leanings, but plenty of conservative bands, conservative singers, and conservative musicians have found success.This list of... But Elvis, Sinatra, etc were old school republican, so not the same. Kelly Clarkson was a surprise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=40) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=42)