Evidence That RFK Jr. Is Hillariously Ratfucking Trump Instead Of Biden
You had ONE job, Kennedy. ONE JOB!!!
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It’s been a not-fun couple of days down here in North Carolina visiting my soon-to-not-be-with-us Aunt Ana. I wasn’t planning on writing anything but writing is how I cope with stress. Knowing that, I brought my laptop with me just in case, and whoof, it’s a good thing I did. But I’m not going to write about Aunt Ana today. That will be for another time and be wholly depressing. Today, I needed something to cheer myself up so let’s explore how Trump ratfucked himself! Ha ha ha.
In case you missed it, this popped up a few days ago and part of my brain has been giggling nonstop ever since:
For months, Democrats have been on the defensive over the renegade Kennedy, with Biden surrogates warning openly about the effect Kennedy could have on the election and the Democratic National Committee going so far as to set up an operation solely to counter the threat of third-party and independent candidates.
But recent polling broadly shows Kennedy drawing evenly from both of the major party candidates’ 2020 supporters. And Kennedy’s significantly higher favorable ratings among Republican voters suggests he has more room to eat into Trump’s vote share than Biden’s.
In addition, a POLITICO analysis of campaign finance data shows far more interest in Kennedy from former Trump donors than people who previously contributed to Biden.
Man, who could have predicted that a kooky conspiracy nut who spews racism and right-wing talking points would appeal to Republican voters and not Democrats? Oh, right. Me. I predicted that.
Back in October, when the press was still quite positive that RFK Jr. was going to be a Biden-slayer, I noted that, yeah, maybe not. It had started off as such a simple idea: Recruit an unstable “progressive” and point him at Joe Biden like a missile. And it would have worked, too, if Kennedy had not been so easily swayed by, no really, public opinion:
Ben Cohen introduced me to a phrase which explains what happened here very nicely: Audience Capture. This is not when you capture your audience but when your audience captures you. As Kennedy spent more time in the right wing media bubble, he did what Trump does, he became a mirror, reflecting the ugliness of the right back at them. The more clear the reflection, the more they loved it and the more Kennedy worked to be that reflection.
It’s one thing to move on an issue that has broad public support, like gun control or reproductive rights, so you align with the public. But that’s not what Kennedy is doing. He’s doing the exact opposite. He’s shifting, quite rapidly, to embrace the fringe beliefs of a small but loud far-right minority because they’re the ones feeding his ego the most.
Kennedy was already an anti-vaxxer and he’s only gotten worse as he’s begun to cater to the tinfoil hat/rabidly racist MAGA crowd. He’s “no longer” a Democrat because…reasons. His VP pick is a billionaire clown with…questionable medical advice about IVF and sunlight. RFK Jr. is so deranged his own family, pretty much all of the Kennedys (of which there are many) are taking up the cause to campaign against one of their own.
So how sharp has Kennedy’s swing to the right been? Extremely. He went from a lifetime of being an environmentalist, the thing he is most known for, to being whatever the fuck this is:
One might assume that Kennedy would eagerly leverage this record to woo Democrats and liberals who care about climate change. One would be wrong.
While Kennedy does mention his experience as an environmental lawyer on his campaign website, he and his campaign have instead tacked far to the right of the Democrats on climate policy, including a blatant flip-flop on the issue of fracking. Kennedy has also couched his opposition to Biden’s climate policy in language that echoes his opposition to Biden’s record on Covid policy, assuming a posture that sounds hyper-libertarian and phobic toward the idea of the government managing any crisis.
That is what audience capture looks like. Kennedy has literally forsaken his life’s work to garner more applause. You’re my audience and I love you guys but not that much. If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly demanded I embrace Donald Trump or you’d abandon me? Have a nice life. I’ll write this newsletter to an audience of zero.
But Kennedy is clearly unstable and easy to manipulate. How else would a “progressive” allow himself to be convinced by Steve fucking Bannon to ratfuck an election on behalf of Donald Trump?
It’s important to note that despite his anti-vaxxer bullshit, the racism, and now the right-wing pro-fracking flip-flop, the alt-left is trying to embrace Kennedy as a progressive champion:
Ostensibly, this is about Joe Biden’s pro-Israel position and how progressives cannot, in good conscience, support a bloodthirsty warmonger blablabla. So they’re going to turn to Kennedy.
Did I also mention RFK Jr. is significantly to the right of Biden when it comes to Israel?
How curious. So perhaps Cenk “I’m not a Republican!” Uygur doesn’t actually give a flying fuck about the poor innocent Palestinians he’s always crying about and just wants Trump to win again because it’s good for business and TYT has been swinging hard right for the last couple of years. Nah. That couldn’t be it. Cenk is so honest and morally pristine!
Moving on.
So how serious is Trump’s self-inflicted ratfucking problem? Very:
Whoops.
Here’s the funniest part. Kennedy was being mostly funded by Republicans. It was all out in the open that the GOP was using Kennedy to ratfuck Biden. One, of course, wonders why the press continued to report on Kennedy as if he were a plucky outsider instead of a Republican operative but whatever.
The point is that with Kennedy being funded by the GOP, they controlled his leash. If, as I had long predicted, he became a problem for Trump, they could just pull the plug (aka, his funding). But then RFK Jr. went ahead and picked a billionaire running mate who is notably not a Republican and, presumably, does not give a flying fuck about what the Republican donor class has to say about anything.
Campaign finance laws allow a candidate to spend as much of their own money as they want. With a billionaire as a running mate, Kennedy now has unlimited funds and there’s nothing Republicans can do to stop him. There are a little over 6 months left to the election and RFK Jr. will continue his sprint to the right. The more he campaigns, the more the public will get to know what he stands for.1 Republicans will gobble it up. Democrats will be repulsed.
Trump is already trying to convince his cult that Kennedy is the leftiest lefty that ever left but RFK Jr. keeps whispering the sweet sweet hate they want to hear and he’s got that famous Kennedy name. Add to that Trump’s trial(s), the fact that he’s a loser who can’t stay awake, and the general feeling of “Jesus fucking Christ, we’re tired of Trump?”, Kennedy could very easily doom Trump.
I cannot say this enough: If Kennedy costs Trump the election, it will be the greatest political blunder in American history and I will be there for every second of it. No rewrites. No pretending this was the plan all along. No rehabilitation for Kennedy and his supporters. The worst people imaginable tried to fuck us all, fucked themselves instead, and they’ll deserve every second of public humiliation they have coming.
There are 193 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it.
Or, in this case, what the far right wants him to stand for on any given day.
“Man, who could have predicted that a kooky conspiracy nut who spews racism and right-wing talking points would appeal to Republican voters and not Democrats? Oh, right. Me. I predicted that.”
EXACTLY! Who would have ever thought that someone could be more off their rocker than Trump? If any “Biden voter” would consider voting for Junior, they were never a Biden voter to start with.
“…Kennedy is clearly unstable and easy to manipulate. How else would a ‘progressive’ allow himself to be convinced by Steve fucking Bannon to ratfuck an election on behalf of Donald Trump?”
I still hope reporters will explore the Jeffrey Epstein connection between RFKjr & tfg, since revelation that both show up on Epstein’s logs.