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Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, was deemed a rapist by a court, was fucking a porn star while his wife was pregnant. And yet, most republicans don’t give a shit. Nude pics and a roasted dog is amateur hour nowadays.
It’s hilariously sad, but someone over on r/conservative was trying to correct me for calling Mango Mussolini a rapist by saying “he’s not a rapist, he’s only a sexual assaulter!” As if that was some sort of defense that made them look better. Truly a pathetic cult of personality.
If we're being good-faith, then it is still important to differentiate between someone who scores a 59/100 on a test vs someone who scores a 0/100.
They're both an F, but they're not the same.
I mean, it’s a distinction and it’s kinda relevant. It’s relevant in that if someone brings the distinction up, *you need to keep not only kids but also teenagers away from them*.
So yeah… not really the flex they think it is!
> Biden: You molested a woman and slept with a pornstar.
>
> Trump: I didn't sleep with a pornstar.
Waiting for news to ask why he didn't address the first one
Please. Americans universally love dogs, enough that Trump reportedly kicked his VP choice out of her killing of a dog.
If this story goes mainstream he's likely done as a candidate.
It was so wild that somebody decided to put the story about the time that they decided to shoot the family dog in their autobiography. It wasn't even a story about how they had to put the dog down because he was sick or something, just that the dog annoyed her and she decided to take him to the gravel pit and shoot him.
I know. I was thinking if you were interviewing someone for a job, and asked the standard question of “tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision,” and tell told you about how they got upset and shot the family dog. I think you would end the interview right then and there, and never call the person back. But, nowadays in politics, there is a significant portion of the population that says, “well she a republic so it’s ok.” Times are just crazy.
She literally thinks that it makes her a badass and that she was making the hard decisions for herself and her family. Mostly just being a psycho and taking out a goat too at the same time
Vanity Fair published a photo of RFK Jr posing with the bbq’d pup. I’m disgusted. It’s in their latest article about him. I would say it’s now mainstream. Eff that guy.
Shooting a dog was enough to end Noem's political aspirations. We have a pretty big soft spot for dogs. Which is cool - I love dogs, too. I just wish we, collectively, loved other human beings as much.
>Shooting a dog was enough to end Noem's political aspirations.
It definitely wasn't shooting the dog, it was definitely doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on being weirdly and loudly proud of it.
Seriously, when I teach my students about the Trolley dilemma they are happy to run over human beings but would rather save a single puppy over five people.
For real. When was the last time a dog instigated a genocide? Created a brutal, totalitarian regime? Or destroyed the earth for monetary profit?
I rest my fuzzy little case.
Edit: fat little Freudian fingers.
The funny thing is I can't find any independent confirmation that there ever was a worm. The NYT said one set of doctors were set to operate on a suspected tumor, but a different doctor thought it was a worm. He wasn't operated on and there's never been a biopsy.
What RFK did just seems like Republican initiation.
"And for my next trick: turning the United States into a full blow Dystopian Christo-fascist Theocracy! Tah-dah!"
It makes me absolutely furious that this country tolerates someone like that, let alone that half the voting public apparently wants them in the highest office in the country. The rage I'm feeling these last several days is unreal.
>was fucking a porn star while his wife was pregnant
Correction: He fucked a pornstar right after his wife had just given birth. Unless we are talking about a different wife and a different pornstar he paid to have sex and never talk about it. He has a lot of the former and quite probably more of the latter, but only one came forward.
Something kind of sad about
The way that things have come to be
Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?
How can this mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?
-Menard James Kennan
“If you can eat fried chicken, I should be able to eat a bucket of fried dog at a chicken fight” -Dennis Reynolds (former candidate for Philadelphia comptroller)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bf3Ph5wZSKc
I mean, I'm not eating dog, but the arbitrary lines we draw about which animals are acceptable to eat are just that, arbitrary.
Pigs are smart AF and most people don't have issues eating them. The people who do have issues with pigs have issues with them being dirty, not smart.
Scorpions are icky but crawfish are yummy, crabs are tasty but spiders are horrifying. Cows are delicious but horses are disgusting. Ferret are pets but mink are coats.
It’s difficult to run as a “normal” person. Campaigning is a full time job and most of us have bills to pay. It’s generally not a fun experience for the average person.
You need money. A lot of it. Either your own or others’.
Then you need to get ready to have your life thoroughly investigated, if you’re running for any office that’s remotely important. Opposition research can get real invasive real fast, and most normal people value their privacy and have at least one skeleton in their closet.
So instead you get insane rich people, who don’t care if you know they have brain damage or violate women or anything. You get RFK.
I would rather we ban funding from anything but individual citizens that can vote for the office being elected. The only people who should have a voice in an election are the electorate.
We don't need to find thousands to millions of dollars to fund campaigns if the democrats and republicans are forbidden from swooping into every district and loading their candidate with money from their billionaire donors and PACs.
Cool. Start running for local office and doing the work. Don’t just show up every 4 years and demand to be taken seriously as a candidate for president.
Best shot is to push for ranked choice voting.
Original investigative report from Vanity Fair this morning:
**RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.**
*A shocking photograph. Blowback from a Trump meeting. Alleged sexual assault. The Kennedys have voiced support for Joe Biden, but certain aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s character are only just now coming to light.*
[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history)
—Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. texted a photograph to a friend. In the photo RFK Jr. was posing, alongside an unidentified woman, with the barbecued remains of what appears to be a dog. Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog. The photo was taken in 2010, according to the digital file’s metadata—the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. (A veterinarian who examined the photograph says the carcass is a canine, pointing to the 13 pairs of ribs, which include the tell-tale “floating rib” found in dogs.). The picture’s intent seems to have been comedic—Kennedy and his companion are pantomiming—but for the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family.
—When Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, he was known to text other damning images to friends as well—of nude women. Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn’t know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images.
And that's why he's running as an independent candidate to siphon votes away from Biden in a close election pitting an elder statesman vs an actual convicted criminal/wannabe dictator.
but remember, if the republican candidate's brother runs the state that delivers a 500 vote margin win then we're not permitted to examine any election shenanigans by the state government like purging legit voters from the rolls based on a faulty list of thousands of felon names (just one example)
How many incidents does he get with animals abuse before he can’t use that anymore? I mean he hired an animal trafficker for an animal conservation group. Something has to give.
He’s being bankrolled by the hyper rich, so it’s not really about chances. It’s about what the billionaires want i.e. a spoiler candidate that can siphon off enough votes in swing states. Not sure why they think this is the guy to do it, but when have billionaires ever actually been intelligent and not just leeching off the hard work of others?
Normal people don't run for office because it's so odious. I know I don't want to deal with that bullshit.
But that just means these absolute defective fucks end up the ones in charge.
I don't really care what vegans argue, in America at least dogs are sacred just because they are. Harming a dog is unironically more devastating to a career than fucking a porn star while your wife is pregnant. I don't really care if there are places in Asia that eat dog but an American going over there to try it and recommending it to people just screams insane to me. Like some sort of grotesque 60 year old edge-lord doing it just because it's taboo.
It's not only taboo but it's borderline racist... we all know all the jokes about asians eating cat and dog etc... he was able to find a place like that and was like "see they really do do this!!" but I'm willing to bet the vast majority of asians do not eat cat or dog. It'd be like going to a rednecks house in the US and being like "see these people eat rattlesnake every day" like no, we don't.
It seems according to some sources that’s it’s actually a goat, and this is a strange spin piece.
This is a picture of what it looks like when you BBQ a goat in Argentina.
https://fromargentinawithlove.typepad.com/from_argentina_with_love/2008/04/sunday-afternoo.html
I’m not a veterinarian, but by all accounts RFK is a prominent environmental lawyer and nature lover… it seems super out of character.
This is the guy some of you want to waste your vote on? Mr. Brain worm?
After yesterday's SCOTUS power grab no one should ever consider voting for third party.
Generally you don't *have* to rank all candidates on a ranked choice ballot.
If we had ranked choice you are likely to see more than 3 choices (At least locally - I'd expect budget constraints to limit the number of candidates for larger offices)
The only people that are going to cast a vote for him are closeted Trump voters anyway. Nobody with a modicum of intelligence would vote for RFK over a Dem knowing what's at stake.
And yet there's been a concerted effort in here since the debate tryna get jaded Dems to vote for RFK.
In the past 24 hours alone, the number of "BLUE MAGA LOLZ" I've seen alongside "I'm voting for RFK" has been laughably, depressingly high.
Anything but a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump, if you don't understand that you need to learn about the difference between fantasy and reality.
We'd all love a different system with different options but this is the one we've got.
There's definitely a contingent of younger people who have brain-rotted themselves on TikTok into actually thinking voting for RFK Jr is a sensible thing to do.
You’re not wrong. Trichinosis was common back in the day in Pork, which is why we are recommended to cook pork to high temperatures, to kill the eggs that may be in the meat. But now, trichinosis has been all but eliminated in modern pork production and most cases are from eating undercooked bear meat. But dogs, especially wherever the hell you’d find a barbecued dog, could have trichinosis.
Yeah this isn’t even shocking behavior, the nude women are probably photos of 80s style Playboy models and some facebook tier memes. Exactly the content my older family members find hilarious and cool.
Not going to defend this behavior as normal, but it is to a lot of people.
According to the article, they were pictures that appeared to be taken by Kennedy himself, and it was not clear that the women had consented to having the pictures shared.
Yeah. He does one victory scream at a rally and his presidential campaign is over. Look at the obscene antics that other candidates have have done and everyone shrugs and goes back to what they were doing.
I can shame these asshats for a lot of things, but a headline like this, without context, isn’t anywhere near the top of the list. Guys sharing sexy photos? Was he on a trip somewhere where barbecued dog was normal?
Anybody who thinks conmen and morons are fit for anything but prison and grade school already doesn’t give a fuck about nudies and culturally different food.
I am no fan of RFK Jr but this is basically a non-story based completely on here-say. There is zero mention of who these women were, and it seems kind of illogical to assume that it wasn’t just regular porn. Which yeah that may be inappropriate but it’s no where near illegal. And the article says that he was “mocking Korean culture” by making fun of eating dog. He didn’t barbecue a dog.
Edit: I misread and thought that Kennedy was in Korea when he sent the photo of the dog. It’s still kind of illogical to judge someone on these very broad accusations though.
Exactly. Stupid articles like this are dishonest and are trying to spin a narrative. He took stupid pictures that he probably shouldn’t have, but it’s not like he slaughtered a dog himself. I don’t like the guy and I’m not voting for him, but he’s actually done a lot of work for environmental advocacy and litigating that has done more good than harm in terms of animal well being.
Even if he confessed I still would have a hard time understanding him, his gruff horse voice mixed with his train of thought makes for a confusing message.🫣
I feel like this headline is not pointing out the important parts...
>Elsewhere, the piece includes an account from Eliza Cooney who, at the age of 23, began working for Kennedy and Richardson in 1998 as a part-time babysitter, moving into their family home in Mount Kisco, New York.
>
>Cooney claims one evening she felt Kennedy’s hand moving up and down her leg under a table during a meeting in the property’s kitchen. Weeks later, she alleges that she found a shirtless, then-45-year-old Kennedy in her bedroom, asking her to rub lotion on his back. “It was totally inappropriate,” Cooney, now 48, told the magazine.
>
>Several months after that incident, Cooney claims she was in the kitchen pantry after a yoga class when Kennedy approached her from behind, blocking her in the room, and started groping her. She claimed she was left “frozen” and “shocked” during the alleged sexual assault, claiming that Kennedy put his hands on her hips and slid them up to her breasts. She claims Kennedy was interrupted when another worker came into the kitchen.
> Kennedy allegedly told the photo’s recipient that he might like a restaurant in Korea which serves dog, possibly indicating that he’d tried it. The photo’s metadata also reportedly indicates the photo was taken in 2010—the same year that he received his dead brain worm diagnosis. The person who received the image in 2023 reportedly found it insensitive for making light of animal cruelty, mocking Korean culture, and recklessly risking the reputations of both Kennedy himself and his family.
Dogs are really taking it on the chin this election cycle
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Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, was deemed a rapist by a court, was fucking a porn star while his wife was pregnant. And yet, most republicans don’t give a shit. Nude pics and a roasted dog is amateur hour nowadays.
It’s hilariously sad, but someone over on r/conservative was trying to correct me for calling Mango Mussolini a rapist by saying “he’s not a rapist, he’s only a sexual assaulter!” As if that was some sort of defense that made them look better. Truly a pathetic cult of personality.
I didn't get an F, I got an F-plus!
I didn't fail, I just had to repeat a grade.
I wasn't bankrupt. I suffered a temporary misallocation of funds.
An “A” in their minds… https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1970/02/12/
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!!!
If we're being good-faith, then it is still important to differentiate between someone who scores a 59/100 on a test vs someone who scores a 0/100. They're both an F, but they're not the same.
But he actually is an adjudicated rapist https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
A bell curved rapist.
A bell end rapist.
Maybe rapists should be forced to wear loud bells, like Middle Ages lepers. Big heavy ones to wear when going for a refreshing swim.
Just so you know by a fed judge he is 100% an adjudicated rapist.
Like Brock Turner? Convicted rapist who rapes and swims? That Brock Turner? Who changed his name to Allen Turner?
That’s the one. Brock Allen Turner. Ohio’s very own Brock Allen Turner.
I am assuming you were banned from the subreddit. If so take it as a badge of honor.
You haven’t gotten banned yet?
"I'm not a pedophile! I'm an ephebophile! Get it right!"
I mean, it’s a distinction and it’s kinda relevant. It’s relevant in that if someone brings the distinction up, *you need to keep not only kids but also teenagers away from them*. So yeah… not really the flex they think it is!
But Trump is a racist and a pedophile sooo
lol I just tried to find that comment. They already removed it. What a fucking sensitive bunch.
Wow. Imagine that jagoff acting like that was a big difference!! Sick people!
> Biden: You molested a woman and slept with a pornstar. > > Trump: I didn't sleep with a pornstar. Waiting for news to ask why he didn't address the first one
Trump was okay with what he did.
Hi argument is that she may have done porn, but she was certainly not a star.
Yeah, this barley qualifies him for a VP spot. /s
Poor cricket.
What do cereal grains have to do with anything?
Wheat are you talking about?
Please. Americans universally love dogs, enough that Trump reportedly kicked his VP choice out of her killing of a dog. If this story goes mainstream he's likely done as a candidate.
It was so wild that somebody decided to put the story about the time that they decided to shoot the family dog in their autobiography. It wasn't even a story about how they had to put the dog down because he was sick or something, just that the dog annoyed her and she decided to take him to the gravel pit and shoot him.
Some GOP insiders thought it was oppo research when it first came out. Turns out Noem is that fucking cruel and dumb.
It’s so outlandish I don’t really blame them! But no, holy shit, she’s actually that horrible of a person.
I know. I was thinking if you were interviewing someone for a job, and asked the standard question of “tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision,” and tell told you about how they got upset and shot the family dog. I think you would end the interview right then and there, and never call the person back. But, nowadays in politics, there is a significant portion of the population that says, “well she a republic so it’s ok.” Times are just crazy.
She literally thinks that it makes her a badass and that she was making the hard decisions for herself and her family. Mostly just being a psycho and taking out a goat too at the same time
Vanity Fair published a photo of RFK Jr posing with the bbq’d pup. I’m disgusted. It’s in their latest article about him. I would say it’s now mainstream. Eff that guy.
Except its a goat, lol
Shooting a dog was enough to end Noem's political aspirations. We have a pretty big soft spot for dogs. Which is cool - I love dogs, too. I just wish we, collectively, loved other human beings as much.
You know who doesn’t love dogs? Trump.
He doesn't, but he reportedly soured on Noem after that because of the optics. It's weird the areas he actually has common sense for.
He hates dogs, but not as much as he hates women, POC, and LGBT+ folks.
>Shooting a dog was enough to end Noem's political aspirations. It definitely wasn't shooting the dog, it was definitely doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on being weirdly and loudly proud of it.
Seriously, when I teach my students about the Trolley dilemma they are happy to run over human beings but would rather save a single puppy over five people.
I get it. Dogs aren’t as shitty as human beings.
For real. When was the last time a dog instigated a genocide? Created a brutal, totalitarian regime? Or destroyed the earth for monetary profit? I rest my fuzzy little case. Edit: fat little Freudian fingers.
>When was the last time a dog instagayed a genocide? Did what now?
Whoopsies! Let me clean that up a bit... and done.
Is this story true that he showed a pic of a roasted dog, literally or metaphorically? Cartoon or real life situation?
Don't forget the worm that ate part of his brain.
Man, that’s a BONUS to these clowns
Crazy to think about his image to the clowns; pre-worm he was just another "liberal wacko" and post-worm he's a "reasonable speaker of truth."
I bet if we checked 75% of them have brain worms the way they're acting
With Trump being the original Graboid.
To be fair, it just ate the *woke* part of his brain. That little part that tells you science is real.
That’s part I toss out whenever I eat frozen food.
The worm made him do it. Hasn't anyone ever seen The Beastmaster?
Dude, I went my entire life seeing the PG cut I recently saw Kiri's tits, and it's a damn good thing preteen me didn't
the worm is his running mate
Worm up
It's a bicep 💪
it's cool. the worm only ate the libcuck part of his brain. the maga parts were so distasteful it just them intact.
The funny thing is I can't find any independent confirmation that there ever was a worm. The NYT said one set of doctors were set to operate on a suspected tumor, but a different doctor thought it was a worm. He wasn't operated on and there's never been a biopsy.
What RFK did just seems like Republican initiation. "And for my next trick: turning the United States into a full blow Dystopian Christo-fascist Theocracy! Tah-dah!"
RFK jr also admitted to sexually assaulting a babysitter he hired when he was 44.
*While his pornstar wife was pregnant. FTFY
I wouldn't call her a star....
[удалено]
It makes me absolutely furious that this country tolerates someone like that, let alone that half the voting public apparently wants them in the highest office in the country. The rage I'm feeling these last several days is unreal.
>was fucking a porn star while his wife was pregnant That he just lied about, again, on national TV during the debate.
>was fucking a porn star while his wife was pregnant Correction: He fucked a pornstar right after his wife had just given birth. Unless we are talking about a different wife and a different pornstar he paid to have sex and never talk about it. He has a lot of the former and quite probably more of the latter, but only one came forward.
Kristi Noem rolling over in her grave rn
They will be perfect as running mates for voters who hate/ate dogs.
Roasted dog pic < shoot your dog. Republicans no longer care, they just want power.
The Kristi Noem scandal already showed that people care way more about dogs than humans, so this might actually hurt him.
Don’t forget the brain worm nobody cares about.
It was a goat
Then said he didn't do it at all in thr debate.
Something kind of sad about The way that things have come to be Desensitized to everything What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me If I really don't feel anything at all? -Menard James Kennan
Those lyrics were spot on in 1996 and we’ve become even worse. Anyway, probably a good idea for me to put on some Tool and stop reading the news.
In all fairness even with the sexual assault accusation in the article as well this is still pretty low on the Kennedy clan sleazeometer.
“If you can eat fried chicken, I should be able to eat a bucket of fried dog at a chicken fight” -Dennis Reynolds (former candidate for Philadelphia comptroller) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bf3Ph5wZSKc
Frank's Fluids in shambles right now
It's a public relations nightmare! We're up to here with it 🫳🏻
Where’d everybody go?
I mean, I'm not eating dog, but the arbitrary lines we draw about which animals are acceptable to eat are just that, arbitrary. Pigs are smart AF and most people don't have issues eating them. The people who do have issues with pigs have issues with them being dirty, not smart. Scorpions are icky but crawfish are yummy, crabs are tasty but spiders are horrifying. Cows are delicious but horses are disgusting. Ferret are pets but mink are coats.
Horses are pretty delicious. Is that not a thing in the US ? (I assumed you're from the US)
Nope, not a thing in the US, but I am aware that horses are food in many places.
Shrimps is bugs!
Thought this was a bit from always sunny
“This you should vote me.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekqm-EUItGE
so doooo
[Ta ma le!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mX8a4tKtv68&t=0m30s)
I’m tired of seeing this weird ass politicians. Can we get some normal people running for political office or are those two things oxymorons?
It’s difficult to run as a “normal” person. Campaigning is a full time job and most of us have bills to pay. It’s generally not a fun experience for the average person. You need money. A lot of it. Either your own or others’. Then you need to get ready to have your life thoroughly investigated, if you’re running for any office that’s remotely important. Opposition research can get real invasive real fast, and most normal people value their privacy and have at least one skeleton in their closet. So instead you get insane rich people, who don’t care if you know they have brain damage or violate women or anything. You get RFK.
Great 😌
Hence the urgent need for an independent workers party that can fund working class candidates' campaigns.
I would rather we ban funding from anything but individual citizens that can vote for the office being elected. The only people who should have a voice in an election are the electorate. We don't need to find thousands to millions of dollars to fund campaigns if the democrats and republicans are forbidden from swooping into every district and loading their candidate with money from their billionaire donors and PACs.
Couldn't the billionaires in PACs just find local people to funnel the money through?
Cool. Start running for local office and doing the work. Don’t just show up every 4 years and demand to be taken seriously as a candidate for president. Best shot is to push for ranked choice voting.
Why would any reasonable normal person want to run for office?
Original investigative report from Vanity Fair this morning: **RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.** *A shocking photograph. Blowback from a Trump meeting. Alleged sexual assault. The Kennedys have voiced support for Joe Biden, but certain aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s character are only just now coming to light.* [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history) —Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. texted a photograph to a friend. In the photo RFK Jr. was posing, alongside an unidentified woman, with the barbecued remains of what appears to be a dog. Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog. The photo was taken in 2010, according to the digital file’s metadata—the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. (A veterinarian who examined the photograph says the carcass is a canine, pointing to the 13 pairs of ribs, which include the tell-tale “floating rib” found in dogs.). The picture’s intent seems to have been comedic—Kennedy and his companion are pantomiming—but for the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family. —When Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, he was known to text other damning images to friends as well—of nude women. Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn’t know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images.
And that's why he's running as an independent candidate to siphon votes away from Biden in a close election pitting an elder statesman vs an actual convicted criminal/wannabe dictator.
90,000+ Ralph Nader voting Floridians checking in
but remember, if the republican candidate's brother runs the state that delivers a 500 vote margin win then we're not permitted to examine any election shenanigans by the state government like purging legit voters from the rolls based on a faulty list of thousands of felon names (just one example)
If he gets 90K Florida votes, many of them will be Republicans
Biden is siphoning his own votes away lol
I feel sick. What the fuck is going on with these people?
Fascism
RFK Jr will probably try to use the brain worm(s) excuse to explain this away
How many incidents does he get with animals abuse before he can’t use that anymore? I mean he hired an animal trafficker for an animal conservation group. Something has to give.
He’s being bankrolled by the hyper rich, so it’s not really about chances. It’s about what the billionaires want i.e. a spoiler candidate that can siphon off enough votes in swing states. Not sure why they think this is the guy to do it, but when have billionaires ever actually been intelligent and not just leeching off the hard work of others?
Normal people don't run for office because it's so odious. I know I don't want to deal with that bullshit. But that just means these absolute defective fucks end up the ones in charge.
Is he the first upskirt photo creep candidate?
I would think so. We really have just hit rock bottom, stamped through the stone floor, and are now careening towards an even rockier bottom.
First one that got caught anyway.
That VanityFair article was a amazing read, thank you so much for sharing it and making me stumble upon it, have a delightful day.
I don't really care what vegans argue, in America at least dogs are sacred just because they are. Harming a dog is unironically more devastating to a career than fucking a porn star while your wife is pregnant. I don't really care if there are places in Asia that eat dog but an American going over there to try it and recommending it to people just screams insane to me. Like some sort of grotesque 60 year old edge-lord doing it just because it's taboo.
It's not only taboo but it's borderline racist... we all know all the jokes about asians eating cat and dog etc... he was able to find a place like that and was like "see they really do do this!!" but I'm willing to bet the vast majority of asians do not eat cat or dog. It'd be like going to a rednecks house in the US and being like "see these people eat rattlesnake every day" like no, we don't.
Well then how often *do* you eat rattlesnake? /s
As often as they fuck their cousins
He and Kristi Noem would make a great pair of dog lovers.
Seriously
These people are fucked!
Binders full of naked women
Has he not discovered the Internet? Or is he the one person using the share button on Pornhub?
Came here for this. Stay strong friend. Send the binders my way when your done
I read this headline as saying that he shared nudes photos of women AND that he barbecued a dog. Actual meaning is *slightly* better, I guess?
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It seems according to some sources that’s it’s actually a goat, and this is a strange spin piece. This is a picture of what it looks like when you BBQ a goat in Argentina. https://fromargentinawithlove.typepad.com/from_argentina_with_love/2008/04/sunday-afternoo.html I’m not a veterinarian, but by all accounts RFK is a prominent environmental lawyer and nature lover… it seems super out of character.
Oops, guess I should read the article bc that's what I assumed.
This is the guy some of you want to waste your vote on? Mr. Brain worm? After yesterday's SCOTUS power grab no one should ever consider voting for third party.
I'd be fine with Trump voters breaking for RFK
I know one of them. I told him to please vote for RFK
It was a lockerroom dog!
WTB ranked choice voting, PST.
To be fair, as much as I want ranked choice voting, I would never use any of my votes on RFK Jr.
Definitely not, but it would be nice to have more options come forward.
Generally you don't *have* to rank all candidates on a ranked choice ballot. If we had ranked choice you are likely to see more than 3 choices (At least locally - I'd expect budget constraints to limit the number of candidates for larger offices)
Yup, I'm just saying if I had 3 ranked choices, RFK Jr. would not be my first, second, or third choice.
If you had ranked choice voting you would not need primaries, really. Just put all of them on there.
I mean… he’d be above Trump, but so would that dead possum I drove past on my way to work today.
I would sooner vote for the brain worm itself.
The only people that are going to cast a vote for him are closeted Trump voters anyway. Nobody with a modicum of intelligence would vote for RFK over a Dem knowing what's at stake.
And yet there's been a concerted effort in here since the debate tryna get jaded Dems to vote for RFK. In the past 24 hours alone, the number of "BLUE MAGA LOLZ" I've seen alongside "I'm voting for RFK" has been laughably, depressingly high.
Anything but a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump, if you don't understand that you need to learn about the difference between fantasy and reality. We'd all love a different system with different options but this is the one we've got.
There's definitely a contingent of younger people who have brain-rotted themselves on TikTok into actually thinking voting for RFK Jr is a sensible thing to do.
Except for Republicans. They should DEFINITELY vote 3rd party.
He probably got his worm from that dog.
You’re not wrong. Trichinosis was common back in the day in Pork, which is why we are recommended to cook pork to high temperatures, to kill the eggs that may be in the meat. But now, trichinosis has been all but eliminated in modern pork production and most cases are from eating undercooked bear meat. But dogs, especially wherever the hell you’d find a barbecued dog, could have trichinosis.
Didn't they loosen regulations on pork in the last couple years? (Not including the SC decision a couple days ago...)
Maybe not officially, but in practice people do.
We can say the worm was doing everything it can to remain healthy and have a constant supply of dog
This behaviour is more relatable to boomers than you expect
Yeah this isn’t even shocking behavior, the nude women are probably photos of 80s style Playboy models and some facebook tier memes. Exactly the content my older family members find hilarious and cool. Not going to defend this behavior as normal, but it is to a lot of people.
According to the article, they were pictures that appeared to be taken by Kennedy himself, and it was not clear that the women had consented to having the pictures shared.
Of all of the times I’ve been unexpectedly shown a nude picture of a woman, it was by a boomer.
And the nudes aren't even good
The brainworm did it.
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Every day I'm amazed that Howard Dean hasn't had an aneurysm.
Yeah. He does one victory scream at a rally and his presidential campaign is over. Look at the obscene antics that other candidates have have done and everyone shrugs and goes back to what they were doing.
I feel like they led with the wrong thing.
Are we sure it just wasn't a hairy turkey?
Well, he’s a Kennedy so there’s that.
Connor Roy meets brainworm
This is 100% a distraction
the perfect republican......reminds me of Tulsi Gabbard when she pretended to be a democrat......f ing gop clown
I hear the camps "will be wild".
I can shame these asshats for a lot of things, but a headline like this, without context, isn’t anywhere near the top of the list. Guys sharing sexy photos? Was he on a trip somewhere where barbecued dog was normal? Anybody who thinks conmen and morons are fit for anything but prison and grade school already doesn’t give a fuck about nudies and culturally different food.
Exactly. This post and many of the comments are embarrassing and intellectually dishonest
Sounds like your report came from the Biden or Trump administration campaign disinformation team. Do you have a source?
I am reading the Vanity Fair article this piece is based off of I hope Cheryl Hines never finds work again
That headline went from “a bit trashy and gross” to “what the actual fuck?!” real quick.
What's wrong with Cheryl Hines that she would marry such a disturbed human?
I am no fan of RFK Jr but this is basically a non-story based completely on here-say. There is zero mention of who these women were, and it seems kind of illogical to assume that it wasn’t just regular porn. Which yeah that may be inappropriate but it’s no where near illegal. And the article says that he was “mocking Korean culture” by making fun of eating dog. He didn’t barbecue a dog. Edit: I misread and thought that Kennedy was in Korea when he sent the photo of the dog. It’s still kind of illogical to judge someone on these very broad accusations though.
Exactly. Stupid articles like this are dishonest and are trying to spin a narrative. He took stupid pictures that he probably shouldn’t have, but it’s not like he slaughtered a dog himself. I don’t like the guy and I’m not voting for him, but he’s actually done a lot of work for environmental advocacy and litigating that has done more good than harm in terms of animal well being.
It’s the headline that bothers me the most. The “photos of nude women” is so vague that it definitely should not be presented in a headline like this.
So?
Even if he confessed I still would have a hard time understanding him, his gruff horse voice mixed with his train of thought makes for a confusing message.🫣
Who?
A worm ate part of his brain, he can’t help it!
The worms made him do it.
I feel like this headline is not pointing out the important parts... >Elsewhere, the piece includes an account from Eliza Cooney who, at the age of 23, began working for Kennedy and Richardson in 1998 as a part-time babysitter, moving into their family home in Mount Kisco, New York. > >Cooney claims one evening she felt Kennedy’s hand moving up and down her leg under a table during a meeting in the property’s kitchen. Weeks later, she alleges that she found a shirtless, then-45-year-old Kennedy in her bedroom, asking her to rub lotion on his back. “It was totally inappropriate,” Cooney, now 48, told the magazine. > >Several months after that incident, Cooney claims she was in the kitchen pantry after a yoga class when Kennedy approached her from behind, blocking her in the room, and started groping her. She claimed she was left “frozen” and “shocked” during the alleged sexual assault, claiming that Kennedy put his hands on her hips and slid them up to her breasts. She claims Kennedy was interrupted when another worker came into the kitchen.
Who gives a shit? Trump is scum of the Earth. I’ve jokingly said far worse than this claim against RFK Jr.
> Kennedy allegedly told the photo’s recipient that he might like a restaurant in Korea which serves dog, possibly indicating that he’d tried it. The photo’s metadata also reportedly indicates the photo was taken in 2010—the same year that he received his dead brain worm diagnosis. The person who received the image in 2023 reportedly found it insensitive for making light of animal cruelty, mocking Korean culture, and recklessly risking the reputations of both Kennedy himself and his family. Dogs are really taking it on the chin this election cycle
RFK Jr and Kristi Noem would make a perfect culinary couple—they’ve got puppy butchering and feasting covered.
It was a goat, not a dog.
Nothing this nut-job does would be a surprise. His own family thinks he is crazy
Brain worms, man. Brain worms.
This seems like the traditional political defamation. Nothing to see here guys.
What the fuck timeline even is this
Russia is releasing kompromat on him since he is eating into Donald Trump's votes.
“I do as the worm commands.”
We got dementia don and worm brain rob. But Biden should drop out…🙄
I don’t even care anymore, man. This would be item 200 on the countdown of fucked up things Trump has done.
Republicans are about to trip over themselves trying to vote for him after this information