Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain," Kennedy told podcaster Joe Rogan last month. Antidepressants are to blame for school shootings, he mused during an appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender, he told right-wing Canadian psychologist and podcaster Jordan Peterson, echoing a false assertion made by serial fabulist Alex Jones. AIDS may not be caused by HIV, he has suggested multiple times.
He has made baseless claims about a connection between gender dysphoria and chemical exposure
He has falsely linked vaccines to various medical conditions.
He has falsely linked antidepressants to school shootings.
“He’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame,” Jack Schlossberg, President Kennedy’s grandson, said of his cousin in an Instagram video in July. “I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president. What I do know is, his candidacy is an embarrassment.”
"Kennedy’s recent comments that COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people — which he denies were antisemitic but concedes he should have worded more carefully — also drew a condemnation from his sister Kerry Kennedy."
(A lot of this stuff is so kooky that it has to be from a Republican)
“I think that is a threat to democracy, (Trump) overthrowing — trying to overthrow the election clearly is threat to democracy,” Kennedy said. “But the question was, who is a worse threat to democracy? And what I would say is … I’m not going to answer that question. But I can argue that President Biden is because the First Amendment, Erin, is the most important.”
“I’m not going to defend President Trump on that, and it was appalling. And there’s many things that President Trump has done that that are appalling,” he added.
(If he really believes this maybe he should consider being Trump's running mate.)
"Still, Kennedy's message has found fertile ground among an odd-bedfellows coalition of supporters, from vaccine opponents to far-right conspiracy theorists such as Jones, Stone and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, to deep-pocketed Silicon Valley magnates including Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and venture capitalist David Sacks, who hold Kennedy up as a contrarian free-thinker."
(Look at who he pals around with, these guys are not my friends.)
Let see who is bankrolling the RFK Jr. Campaign?
"A super PAC supporting the presidential ambitions of longshot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported receiving more than half its nearly $10 million in funds from a single GOP donor."
"The group, American Values 2024, launched the same month Kennedy set out on his own longshot bid against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. It officially reported raising $9.8 million through the end of June and said on Monday that it had also raised $6 million in the month of July, bringing its total fundraising to roughly $16 million."
"Its first financial report, which covers contributions through the end of June, includes donations from both GOP and Democratic donors. But the donors who have previously backed Republicans accounted for a much greater share of the money raised."
So,why are these well heeled Rightwingers putting so much into Kennedy's war chest?
(They believed that true Democratic voters are going to wooed by the Kennedy name. This one is a DINOsore that soils the record that his father and uncles have built to define the Democratic Party. He is not even a poor imitation. It is another dumb move by Republicans much like their use of "token" candidates and we must not be deceived. My Mom was engaged with Bobby Kennedy's Denver campaign back in 1968. She was smitten like a school girl over his tanned good looks and his progressive politics. No other Anglo politician at the time had the implicit trust and confidence of the Black community. She is quite aged now and in poor health, but she would vomit to imagine what it was that Bobby's offspring had become.)
But, you know, I really don't know how much of a spoiler or which side he is likely to spoil the most. I don't believe he has the umf of a Ross Perot, whose 1992 third party run gave the presidency to Bill Clinton. Perhaps Republicans weary of Trump's misadventures might find Kennedy an attractive alternativea candidate as he is more Republican than Democrat. We will have to see.
Regardless, it is imperative that the Biden campaign, flush with cash, go on the offensive and attack Kennedy and his campaign, saying that a vote for Kennedy might as well be a vote for Trump.
Mr. President, it is time to take the kid gloves off.
Just my opinion......
