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Robert F. Kennedy Jr, isn't a spoiler, he's just plain spoiled

August 31, 2024
/ by Ron Holdraker

Forget about the dead bear cub he transported, killed in a motor vehicle accident, to New York City’s Central Park, thinking it would be a good joke. 

Forget about his children’s recalling  him chain sawing off the head of a dead whale and transporting home, with slobbery guts and fluids flowing off the roof of his vehicle.

Forget about his claims of picking up ‘road kill’ and filling his freezers with meat. 

Forget abut his baseless claims and promoting anti-vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracy theories, including the scientifically disproven claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism since 2005.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has emerged as a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in the United States. Many of his often false public health claims have targeted such prominent figures as Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, and Joe Biden. He has written books including The Real Anthony Fauci (2021) and A Letter to Liberals (2022).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., age 70, has had all the perks in life, and is described as an American politician (?), independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election, a member of the Kennedy family, son of the U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and a nephew of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator Ted Kennedy.

Besides having all the elite education and lineage, he is also a total embarrassment to almost his whole family.

He admittedly struggled with drug abuse, suffered by his admission a worm in his brain. He also detailed his experience with mercury poisoning, but now claims he has fully recovered.

Yes folks, RFK Jr. has a long history of attacking former President Trump. For years, Kennedy has repeatedly condemned Trump, referring to him as a “bully,” who appealed to “bigotry,” “hatred,” “xenophobia” and “prejudice.” Among the chief attacks Kennedy has leveled at Trump through the 2024 campaign is to accuse him of corruption for turning his administration over to corporate lobbyists and special interests and failing to “drain the swamp” as he’d promised.

But Wait!

After attempts at becoming a working member of both the Biden and Trump camps, with a promise to drop out of the number three low, low slot for his presidential 2024 campaign, Kennedy has made a decision to quasi-support Trump. 

Of course, the Democrats wanted nothing to do with RFK Jr., but the stalling Trump folks agreed that maybe, down the line, he could perhaps, maybe, be a part of their winning transition team. 

For his part, Trump has a history of disparaging Kennedy, calling him “the dumbest member of the Kennedy clan” and “Democratic plant” and “radical left liberal,” in posts on Truth Social.

Actually, Kennedy was aiming higher on the totem pole, perhaps a cabinet position in health, but beggars  can’t be choosers.

On Friday (8/23) following a log and rambling speech, Kennedy was full of praise for Trump, saying that while he and the former president “don’t agree on everything,” they do share similar isolationist views on US foreign policy, government censorship, and the need to address chronic disease in America.

“Don’t you want a president who’s gonna protect America’s freedom? And is gonna protect us from totalitarianism?” Kennedy said at a Trump campaign event in Glendale, Arizona, as part of his endorsement.

On the following Sunday, Kennedy tweeted that Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” recalled “a nation brimming with vitality, with a can-do spirit, with hope and a belief in itself.”

My guess is that if Trump wins, but hopefully loses, in November, Kennedy, a ‘environmentalist lawyer’ will be heaped on the pile of rotting animals he has violated.

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