The More RFK Jr. Threatens Trump, The More Dirt The Press "Discovers"
A pattern appears to be emerging...
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Lost in the media’s mad stampede to destroy Biden over the last week and change was some truly dark shit about wayward ratfucker RFK Jr.
You remember, RFK Jr., right? He was the former Democrat who was touted by the press as late as this spring as the Biden-Killer who was going to tip the election to Donald Trump? Oh, whatever was Biden going to do about this threat from his left?!
That was, of course, before Kennedy came out of the “I hate Jews” closet. And reminded everyone of how fucking crazy his anti-vaxxer bullshit was. And before he discovered that the far-right loved him so he took a sharp rhetorical and ideological turn to bathe in their praise, a phenomenon known as “audience capture.”
Why do you think Kennedy is turning into a 9/11 truther? Because he’s still a secret liberal? Nah. He’s pandering to his new base: Far-right assholes.
In short order, polling found that Kennedy was much more popular with Republican voters than with Democratic voters. His name said “Democrat!” but everything else about him screamed “MAGA!!!” Even worse, Kennedy picked an equally nutty VP who was wealthy enough to fund his entire campaign.
Just like that, Kennedy no longer needed money from the Republicans who had been funding him. There was no way to pull the plug on the GOP’s ratfucking operation.
They had lost control of their Frankenstein monster.
Fortunately, the Republican Party’s most reliable accomplice is on the job. The press has, like magic, suddenly started to discover all kinds of really ugly stuff about RFK Jr.
There’s the stuff about a worm eating part of his brain.
There’s the stuff about how he drove his wife to commit suicide.
There’s the stuff about his rampant drug abuse.
There’s the new thing about how he personally helped murder a bunch of kids in Samoa.
There’s the thing about how he ate a dog and there are pictures of it.
There’s the thing about how he sexually assaulted his kid’s nanny.
Here’s the problem with all of this “new” information, though, almost none of it is actually new. This information has been out there for years, certainly as long as Kennedy has been running. But the press wasn’t interested in finding it or talking about it.
As long as Kennedy was a threat to Joe Biden.
It was only when Kennedy became a problem for Trump that the press started to talk about the really ugly stuff. The stuff they hope is most likely to sink his campaign. Isn’t that peculiar?
I know I sound super tinfoil hatty right now but Kennedy has been running for over a year and the press didn’t fucking vet him in the slightest. They did, however, push him as a “real” candidate. A viable candidate. They were quite excited about the possibility of him acting as a spoiler. But they never fucking vetted him until he became a problem for the Trump campaign.
Now the press is very eager to dig into RFK Jr.’s very ugly past and expose as much of it as possible. One can’t help but wonder at the timing.
Of course, one cannot also help but notice that the things the press is digging up will alienate the left. The right? Not so much.
How many MAGAts will look away in horror that RFK Jr. drove his wife to suicide? And how many will find it hilarious? These are people who live and breathe misogyny.
How many MAGAts will look at his anti-vaxxer work in Samoa and nod in approval even as dozens of children died? Have you MET the right wing? They want to replicate that “success” across the entire United States.
Sexually assaulting a nanny and getting away with it? That’s a badge of fucking honor on the right! Republicans are not mad that Donald Trump is a rapist. They’re mad he was held accountable for it.
Eating a dog? Meh. Most Republicans were just fine with Kristi Noem shooting a puppy. They’re not going to care about this.
There’s a very real chance the press’ sudden concern over Kennedy’s stability and fitness for office will only boost his popularity with Republican voters while further distancing him from Democratic voters.
It should further be noted that the amount of effort the press has put into sabotaging Kennedy is a fraction of the effort it has put into sabotaging Biden. And yet, the effort spent on Kennedy dwarfs any effort into holding Trump accountable for his actions, past or present.
The press can, when it wants to, expose the ugly deeds of people unfit for office. They’re doing it with Kennedy right now. But the press is very selective about who they target. We’re going on almost a full decade of Trump getting the kid’s glove treatment because Trump is the goose that lays the golden eggs.
When this is over and both Kennedy and Trump are in the dustbin of history, and Trump has fled to Russia to declare himself a president-in-exile, there needs to be a reckoning with legacy media. If they can only do their job in service of promoting fascism, then do we really need them? They’re supposed to be the guardians of democracy, not the Renfields of dictators.
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I never worried about RFK Jr taking votes away from Biden. I always thought he’d pull some of the republicans who have been to trump rallies and hear what a nut-case he is. Let RFK JR run! He’s completely in line with MAGA. I don’t know of ANYONE on the left who found him appealing for the presidency. He bashed the Covid vaccine and that ended any chance for gaining any votes from the left. We are really simply battling the media that puts out lie after lie and is SOLELY focused on Biden as the psychopathic, 34-count FELON Rapist is left untouched by this same media.
The amazing thing is that while all these horrible stories have come out his “poll numbers” have been flat. Because nobody ever actually liked him in the first place. Pollsters have just used his famous name as a stand-in for “other” and as a result we have to keep pretending this sad, weird, immoral man is a presidential candidate.