Campaigning For Biden, The Kennedys Go To War Against RFK Jr.
They refuse to let one of their own stain the reputation of their family by handing the country over to a fucking fascist.
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Well, now that’s interesting. It appears the entire Kennedy clan, and there are a LOT of Kennedys, is mobilizing to go to war with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the piece of shit whose sole job is to ratfuck the election and hand the country over to Donald Trump, the mutant love child of rotten tangerine peels and indescribable bitterness.
Here’s what the warning shot across the bow looked like:
That’s all the Kennedys gathering at the White House for a photo op with President Joe Biden on St. Patrick’s Day. Conspicuously absent? RFK Jr.
No one invited him because fuck that asshole.
This was not just a fun photo shoot with a bunch of Irish-types, either. It was a clear message: We’re with Biden and we’re just getting started.
“There was a point of having everybody there,” a senior member of the Kennedy family said of their gathering at the White House on St. Patrick's Day. The visit, which was captured in a photograph with Biden on the steps of the Rose Garden, included three generations and four branches of RFK Jr.'s relatives.
When it comes to potential future interactions with Biden, the senior member of the Kennedy family added: “I think timing is everything.”
People close to the family say the Kennedys' stepped-up engagement in the 2024 race could take on different forms. Some family members who have been involved in politics themselves expect to spend time on the campaign trail this fall, especially in states where RFK Jr. qualifies for the ballot. For others, it could be stepping up media appearances or lending their revered family name to initiatives that aim to counter their relative’s campaign, potentially even legal challenges to his ballot access campaign.
Other than Joe Kennedy III’s surprisingly good SOTU response in 2018, when was the last time you heard of a Kennedy seriously poking their nose into politics? Ted Kennedy? He died in 2009. The Kennedys do a lot of philanthropic work and I’m sure they donate a crapload of money to the Democratic Party but getting directly involved? Like, out in public, “Hey, I’m a Kennedy and I want you to vote for such and such candidate?” That’s not really a thing they do these days.
But RFK Jr. is a fucking embarrassment and, worse, potentially a toxic stain on the legacy of the family. The Kennedys have been staunch liberals for longer than I’ve been alive. The idea that one of their own could usher in the death of America by throwing an election to a literal white nationalist fascist who surrounds himself with actual Nazis? Fuuuuuck that.
So the Kennedys will be out there using their name the same way RFK Jr. is abusing his. Because let’s be honest, Jr. knows what he’s trying to do. He doesn’t give a shit about anything or anyone but himself. No liberal can ever be recruited by Steve Bannon to ratfuck an election for Donald Trump. No liberal thinks, for even a second, about offering a VP slot to the likes of Rand Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, or Aaron fucking Rodgers.
The thing that gives me the most hope is that Jr. continues to veer to the right. Right now, Democratic voters still hear his name and show interest. But once Kennedy really hits the campaign trail and spews his increasingly alt-right gibberish, he’s going to pull votes from Trump and Democrats are going to walk away at high speed.
And if his name is that much of a draw, what will the impact be of the entire Kennedy clan swarming the country, hollering at the top of their lungs to vote for Joe Biden instead of their ratfucking scumbag of a relative?
We’re about to find out and I don’t think Jr. is going to enjoy it very much.
There are 227 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
RFK, Jr. - a life and career with pedigree and significant promise, wasted by a complete asshole. Think of how our lives may have been different had his father been elected prez.
Thank you for this vignette and that great pic. Nice touch.
The first time I heard of RFKminor, I thought “a Kennedy, and RFK’s offspring, Good!”*.
I thought that if he was anything like his father and uncles, he had promise. Minutes, seconds even, into reading his bullshit nonsense I was convinced he must have been kicked in head by a mule. And, being the charitable sort, I’m sticking with that rather than thinking that he’s just an idiot by nature.
*I was a BIG fan of RFK in the day. I wasn’t old enough to vote, that was a long way off but he seemed to have integrity and a lot of JFK. His murder was so shocking, especially falling on the heels of JFK’s murder.