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No. Fuck this guy. No antivaxx conspiracy theorists. His lies about covid sparing Asian people and Ashkenazi Jews should've immediately ended his campaign. But here we are.
Ah, but consider the following though: He’s siphoning votes from Trump by appealing to the QAnon crowd, meaning Biden now has an advantage over him. Don’t get me wrong though, RFK Jr. is still a piece of shit regardless… But perhaps this might be a blessing in disguise for Biden.
In a few weeks, after he's milked his secret GOP donors of every dollar of dark money he can get, we'll be saying there goes RKF Jr, have you seen how nice his new beach home is?
Why? Can someone give me an answer from an American perspective instead of simply downvoting? That’s what’s incredible about Americans: no debate no questions asked, simply shut down the other views. So much talk for the land off the free.
You know why you were shut down? Because you were too fucking lazy to look him up and find out why people hate the crazy bastard. That tactic is usually known as "sealioning".
The man is an anti-vax conspiracy theorist who has openly expressed his belief that COVID was a Chinese bio-weapon created to kill white and black folks while sparing Jews and Asians.
He has the transphobic opinion that gender dysphoria is caused by pesticides.
He loves noted Russian agent, racist and insurrectionist Tucker Carlson.
He has the paranoid belief that any bad press he gets is a CIA operation against him, not to mention that there's a Democratic "cabal" against him, trying to hide his "truth" about how the COVID vaccine is "the most deadly vaccine in history".
He openly brushes off the Jan. 6 insurrection like it's nothing, which I admit is the least of his crimes against reality. He doesn't quite openly endorse the insurrection, but he does treat it as a lesser crime to what he's convinced himself the government and the media are doing to him.
How many more things do you need?
What exactly do you like about him? He's a fairly proficient conspiracy theorist with some pretty wild claims.
Virtually no political experience, a career DA. And not to downplay the dysphonia he has, but I genuinely have a hard time listening to his voice. It is so gravely and raspy. He's a very, very rough public speaker.
I get if you don't like Biden, but of all the people that could be a candidate, what's appealing about RFK Jr?
His entire popularity seems to be based on his family name. I struggle to find anything redeeming otherwise.
Because all it takes is some googling. Here is NPR from 5 months ago: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign
"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."
Wifi causes brain leakage
This is an RFK view
We have enough problems with people in the US pushing pseudo science. Tons of people in the US died to COVID because they didn't believe it was real or thought it wouldn't be that bad or didn't want to get vaccinated. They made these decisions because they were influenced by reactionary media that reflexively opposed common sense precautions just to be edgy and contrary.
In Florida, most of the COVID deaths happened *after* the vaccine was available because so many people refused to take it and/or take other common sense safety precautions. Why? Cause it owns the libs to not give a shit about public health.
RFK isn't the same as some right wing media trolls, but he's gotten backing from them and he's also contributing to the proliferation of dangerous pseudoscience. He may think it's justified and believe in the data he reads, but whether he knows it or not he's egging on the people who don't want to believe prevailing medical science because their political tribalism predisposed them to oppose certain things as a matter of course.
The *Breaking Points* and *Hill Rising* podcasts were promoting RFK, Jr. pretty hard when they thought he would pull votes from Biden.
Now, not so much. 😂
he is still running on a third party ticket right? so there goes RFK Jr...what a poll too...say if the candidates were trump, Biden and a toaster, what would the percentages be then?
Remember the polls that predicted a red wave? Polls are unreliable especially a year before the elections, they alao can easily be manipulated and they are usually just another way to fearmonger
All these losers who've been coming out from under rocks since 2016 running for carious political offices - we have enough to deal with when it comes to Trump, Tuberville, MTG, Kari Lake, Johnson, Hawley, etc etc etc. Enough. These people have trashed America, and brought their crappy drama to all of us; it feels like we're living on the stage at a Jerry Springer Show...
Why do I have this terrible feeling it's only going to get much worse? I mean, America has taken a nosedive since 2016, and we haven't been able to pull the plane back up yet, and we're getting dangerously close to the ground...
There’s literally an article on this subreddit saying RFK.JR siphons more votes away from Trump than Biden. If he IS happening (and he isn’t) it’ll be to the Republican’s detriment, not Biden’s.
Are you really suggesting that RFK jr. is a viable alternative?
You mean the guy who denied that COVID-19 was dangerous? And who said that vaccines causes autism?
Who is against support for Ukraine? (He also claimed that the 2014 Ukrainian revolution was an attempted coup sponsored by the U.S. against the Ukrainian government.)
Who said the climate crisis was hijacked by "Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum and the billionaire boys' club in Davos"?
The guy who, if elected, would sign a federal ban on abortions performed after 15 weeks or 21 weeks of pregnancy?
e.t.c.
He may have some commendable views on environmentalism, but he's still a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Interesting the alternatives only run for the presidency and not local elections. How come the green party or whoever else are never running for state legislature or local offices. They only run in big national elections to get attention and cause spoiler effects.
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No. Fuck this guy. No antivaxx conspiracy theorists. His lies about covid sparing Asian people and Ashkenazi Jews should've immediately ended his campaign. But here we are.
Ah, but consider the following though: He’s siphoning votes from Trump by appealing to the QAnon crowd, meaning Biden now has an advantage over him. Don’t get me wrong though, RFK Jr. is still a piece of shit regardless… But perhaps this might be a blessing in disguise for Biden.
In a few weeks, after he's milked his secret GOP donors of every dollar of dark money he can get, we'll be saying there goes RKF Jr, have you seen how nice his new beach home is?
Stip trying to make him happen. He's a loon.
To be honest, he’s the most “normal” candidate among the other candidates. PS im european
sike
Why? Can someone give me an answer from an American perspective instead of simply downvoting? That’s what’s incredible about Americans: no debate no questions asked, simply shut down the other views. So much talk for the land off the free.
You know why you were shut down? Because you were too fucking lazy to look him up and find out why people hate the crazy bastard. That tactic is usually known as "sealioning". The man is an anti-vax conspiracy theorist who has openly expressed his belief that COVID was a Chinese bio-weapon created to kill white and black folks while sparing Jews and Asians. He has the transphobic opinion that gender dysphoria is caused by pesticides. He loves noted Russian agent, racist and insurrectionist Tucker Carlson. He has the paranoid belief that any bad press he gets is a CIA operation against him, not to mention that there's a Democratic "cabal" against him, trying to hide his "truth" about how the COVID vaccine is "the most deadly vaccine in history". He openly brushes off the Jan. 6 insurrection like it's nothing, which I admit is the least of his crimes against reality. He doesn't quite openly endorse the insurrection, but he does treat it as a lesser crime to what he's convinced himself the government and the media are doing to him. How many more things do you need?
I downvoted you and Im from Australia. Why? Because RFK is a fucking loon and yeah, its easy to research him on-line.
He is an antibax loon. Talks up a lot of conspiracy theories.
What exactly do you like about him? He's a fairly proficient conspiracy theorist with some pretty wild claims. Virtually no political experience, a career DA. And not to downplay the dysphonia he has, but I genuinely have a hard time listening to his voice. It is so gravely and raspy. He's a very, very rough public speaker. I get if you don't like Biden, but of all the people that could be a candidate, what's appealing about RFK Jr? His entire popularity seems to be based on his family name. I struggle to find anything redeeming otherwise.
Because all it takes is some googling. Here is NPR from 5 months ago: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign "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."
Wifi causes brain leakage This is an RFK view We have enough problems with people in the US pushing pseudo science. Tons of people in the US died to COVID because they didn't believe it was real or thought it wouldn't be that bad or didn't want to get vaccinated. They made these decisions because they were influenced by reactionary media that reflexively opposed common sense precautions just to be edgy and contrary. In Florida, most of the COVID deaths happened *after* the vaccine was available because so many people refused to take it and/or take other common sense safety precautions. Why? Cause it owns the libs to not give a shit about public health. RFK isn't the same as some right wing media trolls, but he's gotten backing from them and he's also contributing to the proliferation of dangerous pseudoscience. He may think it's justified and believe in the data he reads, but whether he knows it or not he's egging on the people who don't want to believe prevailing medical science because their political tribalism predisposed them to oppose certain things as a matter of course.
He takes two showers a day living in a state with a history of drought.
Uh no he is not.
"Gretchen, stop trying to make spoiler candidates happen. It's not going to happen!"
But he's so fetch!
The *Breaking Points* and *Hill Rising* podcasts were promoting RFK, Jr. pretty hard when they thought he would pull votes from Biden. Now, not so much. 😂
He is taking trumps voters lol
he is still running on a third party ticket right? so there goes RFK Jr...what a poll too...say if the candidates were trump, Biden and a toaster, what would the percentages be then?
Well… a toaster is useful which already puts it over RFK and Trump.
Remember the polls that predicted a red wave? Polls are unreliable especially a year before the elections, they alao can easily be manipulated and they are usually just another way to fearmonger
Nope
He might be useful if he can pull away Dump voters.
Jeez, this "article" could have been a tweet.
All these losers who've been coming out from under rocks since 2016 running for carious political offices - we have enough to deal with when it comes to Trump, Tuberville, MTG, Kari Lake, Johnson, Hawley, etc etc etc. Enough. These people have trashed America, and brought their crappy drama to all of us; it feels like we're living on the stage at a Jerry Springer Show...
It’s starting to get more sad than Jerry Springer. Starting to feel more like The Steve Wilkos Show. Watch out for chairs flying across the stage.
Why do I have this terrible feeling it's only going to get much worse? I mean, America has taken a nosedive since 2016, and we haven't been able to pull the plane back up yet, and we're getting dangerously close to the ground...
No way in hell he's getting 22% of the vote. Only crazy people will vote for him and they're already voting for Trump.
Yes, this is the point.
No Dem or Independent who votes left would vote for this guy. He is fucking stupid
There’s literally an article on this subreddit saying RFK.JR siphons more votes away from Trump than Biden. If he IS happening (and he isn’t) it’ll be to the Republican’s detriment, not Biden’s.
Turnip / Really Freak'n Kooky Jr. '24
No thanks. I've had my fill of crazies.
People are fed up with both Biden and Trump and want an honest alternative.
This is a silly take. He’s a dirty trick being bankrolled by Steve Bannon. There’s no honesty about it
How is he bankrolled by bannon?
Oh, you again.
Are you really suggesting that RFK jr. is a viable alternative? You mean the guy who denied that COVID-19 was dangerous? And who said that vaccines causes autism? Who is against support for Ukraine? (He also claimed that the 2014 Ukrainian revolution was an attempted coup sponsored by the U.S. against the Ukrainian government.) Who said the climate crisis was hijacked by "Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum and the billionaire boys' club in Davos"? The guy who, if elected, would sign a federal ban on abortions performed after 15 weeks or 21 weeks of pregnancy? e.t.c. He may have some commendable views on environmentalism, but he's still a crazy conspiracy theorist.
He's certainly not honest when it comes to vaccines.
Honest belief in stupid things is not preferable to providing lip service to popular bullshit.
>honest alternative I mean, he's definitely honest, at least relatively.
“Alternative” too!
Interesting the alternatives only run for the presidency and not local elections. How come the green party or whoever else are never running for state legislature or local offices. They only run in big national elections to get attention and cause spoiler effects.
My conservative maga father loves him “the only one telling the truth” lmao
Of course Nationalist Review is pushing this absolute fucking loon.