# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/121 "2023-07-27T16:21:00Z")
today’s reporting is that desantis would want go appoint rfk to fda or cdc. interesting that he would want to get him out of the way. do they think rfk would hurt republicans more than democrats? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/122 "2023-07-27T16:27:35Z")
Non-partisanship. Reaching across the aisle - to gather more crazy. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/123 "2023-07-29T05:32:18Z")
Did I hear a dog whistle? > ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/124 "2023-07-29T14:22:07Z")
Would not have noticed it if not alerted to look for something but even then had to look twice to be sure. What, dude, you’re just trying to get a bunch of comment replies saying “Based”? But beside that, Jesus Christ on a Rollerskate, Junior, not EVERY presidential aspirant pretender gets Secret Service protection for the asking as a matter of entitlement this far out from the election. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/125 "2023-07-29T14:30:05Z")
I had to look up his twitter just to make sure that tweet wasn’t fake. It’s real. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/126 "2023-07-29T14:32:03Z")
> > > Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr > **[Frequently Asked Questions About Us](https://www.secretservice.gov/about/faq/general)** > > The United States Secret Service, one of the nation's oldest federal investigative law enforcement agencies, was founded in 1865 as a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/127 "2023-07-29T14:44:04Z")
The Secret Service’s policy is to provide protection for major presidential and vice-presidential candidates and their spouses _within 120 days of a general presidential election_. Apparently RFK Jr. can’t count. [RFK Jr. kicks off at Biden administration on Secret Service protection - POLITICO](http://politico.com/news/2023/07/28/rfk-jr-claims-he-was-denied-secret-service-protection-00108827#:~:text=The%20Secret%20Service%20states%20on,After%20Democratic%20nominee%20Robert%20F). Beyond the money that RFK Jr.'s campaign is funneling to sleazy antivaxers like Del Bigtree\*, it’s a cinch he’s gotten $$$ _from_ antivaxers. The virulently antivax Age of Autism, while piously assuring readers it’s non-partisan, has been facilitating donations to RFK Jr. and his “superPAC”. \*Bigtree is the activist and “film” producer known for saying “Now’s the time” for antivaxers to use their guns to defy vaccine mandates. By his own report, he nearly died from blood loss from internal hemorrhoids while refusing transfusions that might’ve been “contaminated” by the blood of vaccinated people. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/128 "2023-07-29T16:28:55Z")
I like the idea of enemies of the People dying of hemorrhoids. Seems fitting somehow. He’ll have to try harder next time. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/129 "2023-07-29T18:27:40Z")
TIL there are such things as internal hemorrhoids. I wonder if he tried eating Preparation H? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/130 "2023-07-29T20:55:59Z")
RFK Jr is just lying on purpose to generate outrage so he can get more donations. I don’t think it has to be more complicated than that. It’ll probably work, too. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/131 "2023-07-29T21:22:57Z")
Headlines = donations. The more outrageous the headlines, the better. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/132 "2023-07-30T12:48:11Z")
I’m confused: he espouses mostly RW if not total wingnut views. Why isn’t he running against Trump instead? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/133 "2023-07-30T13:13:24Z")
He’s running for the attention and grift opportunities. As a Republican candidate he’d be distrusted by much of the party faithful due to his background and name, and besides, the competition is tougher on the G.O.P. side. MAGA does it a lot better than MAGA Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/134 "2023-07-30T13:37:32Z")
And regardless of what positions he espouses, it would be hard for a Kennedy to garner much support from a Republican voter base. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/135 "2023-07-30T16:02:41Z")
There is precedent after all for someone like this to run as a Dem – Lyndon LaRouche kept trying to run as a Democrat for decades. The Democrats have historically been more open to such “colorful” pretenders but that did make them generally more effective in preventing them from getting far. And as mentioned by others, among the MAGAs (a) there is a ton of bad blood against all the great Democrat names of the past century and (b) it’s a TRUMP cult, the platform is irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/136 "2023-07-30T16:15:04Z")
MAGA Jr.'s protest over not being given early Secret Service protection includes what may be [a dog whistle to white supremacist/skinhead groups](https://twitter.com/phealthsean/status/1684969024977838080/photo/1) (the numbers 14 and 88 have [special significance](http://adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488) to these folks). Or it’s just an unfortunate coincidence, coming from a guy who suggested that Covid-19 might have been engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/137 "2023-07-30T21:10:22Z")
As mentioned in the tweet I shared above; on the internet, in 2023, nobody uses the numbers 14 and 88 in that order by accident. He knew what he was doing. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/138 "2023-07-30T22:02:55Z")
Either he views that crowd as an important demographic, or he sympathizes with their views. [Or both](https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-his-group-are-fans-fringe-streamer-who-claimed). “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his group are fans of a fringe streamer who claimed that “Hitler was a Rothschild” and that he was “utterly set up””. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/139 "2023-07-30T22:24:39Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “Hitler was a Rothschild” _There’s_ one I never heard before now. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/140 "2023-07-30T22:29:09Z")
I have read it; one of Icke’s books. What? Hes a good writer! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=8)