i never paid much attention to him outside of a few appearances he made on bill mahers show years ago on his anti-vax crusade.

iont even feel like copy/pasting recent clips of his nutty ass rants or campaign stories (yall gotta go look up the fart story tho lol).

dude is supposed to be running in the dem primary. but the more his crazy ass talks the more his support goes up among *republicans*.

Rememebr this:Steve Banon encouraged him to run as a DEM.

Here are the remarks:

Jewish groups denounce RFK Jr.’s false remarks that Covid-19 was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews and Chinese people

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/politics/rfk-jr-covid-jewish-groups/index.html

A number of high-profile Jewish groups are denouncing Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false remarks that “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19.

Speaking at a dinner in New York City earlier this week, Kennedy said “there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” according to video shared by the New York Post on Saturday.

“Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Kennedy said, adding that “we don’t know whether it’s deliberately targeted that or not.”

Ashkenazi Jews trace their roots to Central and Eastern Europe and represent a majority of the US Jewish population.

The American Jewish Committee told CNN in a statement Saturday that Kennedy’s “assertion that Covid was genetically engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people is deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous.”

“Every aspect of his comments reflects some of the most abhorrent antisemitic conspiracy theories throughout history and contributes to today’s dangerous rise of antisemitism,” the organization said.

The Anti-Defamation League also criticized Kennedy’s remarks, telling CNN that his claim “feeds into sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories about Covid-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years.”

In a tweet Saturday, Kennedy said that the dinner conversation was supposed to be off the record and that he “never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Rather, he said, he was referring to a study that “serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”

According to the New York Post, the event’s organizer, Doug Dechert, said the event had been on the record.

While there are disproportionate rates of Covid-19 illness and death across different demographics, this has been attributed to racial disparities, not genetics.

Since the start of the pandemic, the risk of dying from Covid-19 has been nearly twice as high for Black and Hispanic people in the United States than for White people, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Black and Hispanic people also faced a higher risk of coronavirus infection and were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized.

“Given generations of systemic disinvestment in the health of Black communities in the United States, the starkly disproportionate rates of Covid-19 illness and death are not surprising,” Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a chair of the Presidential Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force, wrote in a report last year.

Kennedy, who is polling between 15% and 20% nationally in the Democratic primary, is a longtime vaccine skeptic who has promoted several health-related conspiracy theories. He was a strident critic of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci. He also railed against the coronavirus vaccine and vaccine mandates.

CNN’s KFile reported earlier this week that Kennedy has repeatedly shared unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or transgender and causing the feminization of boys and masculinization of girls.

That's got to have conservatives included in the polling...if not that number is crazy...

>Kennedy, who is polling between 15% and 20% nationally in the Democratic primary

Biden beat Trump by around 4.5% of the popular vote.

But he won with only around 45,000 more votes than Trump in states where the electoral college was decided.

Make no mistake - ALL of the "dem" challengers who've announced *now* are CHUMPS who are being CLOWNED and USED by Republicans.

if hes getting beat like that among white dems...its hard to believe rfk is getting more than that among nonwhite dems in more diverse states (especially southern black dems) to drag his numbers up.

either way...even if he *was* polling at 20%...he wont be after more and more information leaks out about him lol.

He is a Jimmy Dore type, I don't think anybody takes this guy seriously

But Buddy G had a post on here about how leftists end up in the right-wing pipeline, I think this is a good example that is counter to that (Sinema being another)

And there’s a lot of them

and truthfully his voice is probably the only thing keeping him from being even more popular.

there's so much "yeah, he's said some crazy things, but he does make a good point about X" in the air.

and as trust in our established institutions erode, it creates more space for kooks like rfk to thrive.

I had no idea she was married to him. How does that even work? How does she go back to filming with Larry David after the shit her husband has said? And i dont prescribe to this "feel sorry for her" thing i see online. You dont marry someone this crazy unless you secretly agree.

I've know a ton of women who suffer from it.

She *may not* agree, but the not agreeing level isn't overcoming how much she's attracted to him.

He introduced her to RFK on some milly/billy boy ski trip. He and RFK met when RFK was heavily involved in several lawsuits intended to clean up/gentrify Manhattan and the water surrounding it.


It FEELS random, but only because Curb is so good.


Still, her role in his campaign is hilariously curious in its own weird way. I've read two profiles of her since his campaign launched and in both of them their current relationship status seems to boil down to "he's a really clever, funny guy most of the time...but I can't condone anything he says on the record, and I keep telling him that."


That Kennedy pipe must be eternal.


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they all look like video game characters the game makes for you when you don't do it yourself, or AI with a nondescript prompt

The comments underneath the clip are Olympic-level embarrassing. Somehow they take having this kook on as legitimizing the channel.

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if they know how to challenge them.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

(his most famous moment as a battle rapper was socking someone on stage)

Anywho, his podcast sometimes has some interesting episodes. But then he also has an episode with DJ Vlad. and now this shit.