Robert Kennedy Jr. goes to the highest bidder
Here’s Reason magazine:
Still, Kennedy’s endorsement of the Republican candidate wasn’t inevitable.
Just last week, Kennedy was reportedly angling for a position in the Harris administration in return for an endorsement. A few months before that, Kennedy was (somewhat half-heartedly) seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president.
At his Phoenix rally today, Kennedy said he had several meetings with Trump, in which the former president committed to giving him a role in his administration. Kennedy said he’d use that role to clear out the influence of big food and pharmaceutical companies in government.
Harris, he said, had refused to speak with him.
You can certainly count on Trump to honor that promise.
PS. Kennedy hates Trump even more than do Tucker Carlson and JD Vance:
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23. August 2024 at 17:03
Your heart is filled with immense hatred for others.
RFK jr. is a wonderful person. He’s been concerned, like most Americans, about the chemicals in our food, and the process by which vaccines are approved for decades. He’s anti-war, pro-environment, pro-free-speech and pro-capitalist.
I don’t know if he’s right about vaccines, but I know he is right about people like you. Instead of talking about policy, you spend all your time talking about how much you hate Donald Trump.
We should be debating important issues like whether Kamala’s 25% unrealized capital gains tax, and a 42% capital gains tax will destroy this country. Equally bad, are her continuous policy threats on patents, which she threatens to revoke if a company doesn’t ‘play ball.’ She will not end the war in Ukraine. She will not bring peace to the middleeast.
Is this what we want for our children?
Empty shelves, and endless wars?
23. August 2024 at 18:54
Yeah that bummed me out, not sure who to vote for now as my state doesn’t allow write ins. I don’t think West or Terry made it onto the ballot in my state. Might be the first election I’ve ever left it blank.
23. August 2024 at 20:29
Scott,
RFK, jr’s logic seems like sophism. Trump hired some people RFK doesn’t like. Trump fired those people. Those people hate trump. They appear to have hated them before they took the job. In as much as Trump seemed like Captain Queeg complaining about disloyal officers, the reality is that he was surrounded by lots of folks who believed he was probably a Russian plant. Meanwhile, the people who seemed to want to risk their reputations in his administrations were second-stringers or generals who had a well rooted and secure retirement.
For well as things worked out anyways, Trump was a alchemist, taking a bunch of has-beens and back-benchers willing to work for him and actually operating a government that more or less worked.
Amazing.
The only coherent take on Trump is the one from Casey Mulligan. It actually suggests what should have been obvious — Trump is an actor not just a businessman. Just like Gordon Ramsey is an Actor not just a chef. Gordon cultivates his asshole persona to make good television. Trump has his crass brute dumb-guy shtick too.
24. August 2024 at 03:43
Somehow that guy’s writing is so annoying, it makes me dislike Trump just ever so slightly less after reading his complaints.
24. August 2024 at 07:16
This is just another example of a mentally ill celebrity trying to cash in on fame he largely inherited, much like Trump, or say, Charlie Sheen.
While Trump wasn’t born famous, he was born quite wealthy and built his business and celebrity images on the basis of lies and media manipulation. The one genius Trump may have had is in generating free PR. He now has some form of dementia which, coupled with his extreme narcissism and being somewhere on the antisocial spectrum, means he’s quite mentally ill. This is obvious to anyone with a normal functioning brain, but unfortunately narcissism and other forms of mental illness are quite prevalent among non-celebrities today as well.
Remember that every one of the several public companies Trump has founded or run has gone bankrupt, except for his current one, which has always had huge losses, with seemingly no prospects for profit. He’s had very few successful private ventures, with Trump Tower being perhaps the lone exception, among many, many money losers. His only consistent success has been in licensing his name for real estate development projects which he otherwise has nothing else to do with.
24. August 2024 at 07:49
Jon, Nice try, but the people that work for him insist that he’s the same dumb jerk in private that you see in public. That’s why so few of his top officials are willing to endorse him for a second term. They know . . .
Matthias, What does it say about America that these are the politicians that rise to the top?
24. August 2024 at 10:18
To be fair, it’s hard not to hate someone who hates you too:
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1827076385363653088
https://x.com/RealPotatus/status/1827349894446645638
25. August 2024 at 03:52
Sandifer I picture you as the kid that always took his ball home if you didn’t like the way the other kids were playing. Always resorting to name calling.
25. August 2024 at 05:29
Kennedy’s false beliefs extend beyond vaccines. There are videos of him as recently as 2 or 3 years ago lecturing people and telling them that the cause of AIDS is over consumption of poppers. This was actually an old joke from the 80s-90s but he uses it to promote the belief that pharma created drugs like AZT to combat a virus that is not the cause of AIDS just so they could make money. The crackpots who believed this stuff were successful in preventing the use of AZT and similar drugs in some countries costing many lives.
Steve
25. August 2024 at 08:23
anon/portly. Two peas in a pod.
Dumb Steve, If I said Hitler was evil, you’d accuse me of “name calling”.
Smart Steve, Good point.
25. August 2024 at 18:38
Hannity versus Hannity, Hannity & Hannity about RFK Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-2Pr2DCS-8&t=113s
My first impulse was to shout out ‘Whore! Political whore! Does Fox broadcast from Nevada?’ But that only contributes to the politics of divisiveness. Hmmmm … How to put that nicely?
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still function”. — F. Scott Fitzgerald.
He still functions to collect his pay from Rupert.
🙂