It seems to me another bullet needs to seek out a Kennedy. (Too soon?) I have never understood the fascination with the Kennedys, the so-called Camelot administration, or the Kennedy name. To be sure, the family has been a powerful force for advancing progressive ideals, especially Ted Kennedy — The Lion of the Senate — but to mythologize or, worse still, coronate the family dynasty because of their tragedies is a bridge too far for me. Needless to say, I never got into them. And now we have the black sheep of the family, RFK Jr., who is the Manchurian candidate for the RepubliKKKlan Party.
Reporting from USA Today, “Organizations advocating for Jewish and Asian people immediately criticized presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he spread a conspiracy theory at an event last week about the groups and COVID-19. Kennedy during a dinner in New York last week said there is an ‘argument’ that COVID-19 is ‘ethnically targeted,’ falsely saying COVID-19 is ‘targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people’ while sparing Ashkenazi Jewish people and Chinese people.”
And then from NPR, “Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, he has given hours of interviews to podcasts, magazines and TV networks. He paints a dark, conspiratorial picture of the world, bristling with debunked theories, misleading claims and outright falsehoods. 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. … Among Democrats, Kennedy’s poll numbers range from 8% to 20%. To what degree that represents actual support versus affection for the Kennedy family name, appetite for a candidate who is not Biden and the very early stages of the presidential contest is up in the air [emphasis added].”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a f***ing wack-job! How and why the Democratic Party allows this f***tard to put a “D” next to his name is incomprehensible, especially given RFK is a closet RepubliKKKlan. But I expected nothing less from Democrats; it’s just more f***ing weakness on their part. Just to remind f***tards out there — and members of the Democratic Party in particular — political parties are private organizations; they are not extensions of the federal, state, or local governments. “Representative democracy in any populous unit of governance is unimaginable without the ability of citizens to band together in promoting among the electorate candidates who espouse their political views. … Consistent with this tradition, the Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects ‘the freedom to join together in furtherance of common political beliefs,’ Tashjian, supra, at 214-215, which ‘necessarily presupposes the freedom to identify the people who constitute the association, and to limit the association to those people only,’ La Follette, 450 U. S., at 122. That is to say, a corollary of the right to associate is the right not to associate.” (See California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U.S. 567 [2000].)
In short, the Democratic Party must kick RFK Jr. out of the party! This is one part of the big tent that Democrats can do without; they don’t need moronic conspiracy theorist candidates in the party, making the rest of the membership look like f***tards. Yet, I have no doubt that the Democratic Party is too stupid, too fearful, too weak, and too feckless to police its ranks by purging the party of not-so-secret MAGA moron RepubliKKKlans. But whatever. I live in stupid hell. Welcome to stupid America!