Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to arrange a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a place in her administration or a cabinet post in exchange for an endorsement, according to multiple reports.
The Washington Post first reported that Kennedy made the overture through intermediaries, just weeks after he proposed as similar arrangement to former President Donald Trump after the Republican National Convention last month. The pair spoke about the plan, but did not reach an agreement on the matter.
Harris has not responded with an offer to meet and her campaign has expressed no interest to do so, the Post added.
… and why should they talk with RFK? He’s a spoiler candidate. He’s literally holding them hostage to the votes he thinks he’s going to pull from their campaign to get a seat at the table, and he’s so freaking incompetent, he doesn’t even realiz e that he’s pulling votes from the republican weirdos rather than Democrats.
He’s trying this with both campaigns though. He is just a slimy, opportunistic douche.
Yeah but is it working on any Democrats? I just don’t see him pulling votes from anyone but Trump.
When Biden was still running RFK appealed to some voters as a more youthful alternative. The Kennedy name recognition also goes a really long way.
Generally the more people learn about him the less they like him, and Harris becoming the nominee pulled back a lot of the “he’s too old” voters. So RFK’s voter base draws more from Republicans than Democrats now. But it used to be more evenly split.
Additionally, there are still some Democrats (or Dem leaning independents) who like RFK’s antivax nonsense. Before Republicans elevated antivax theories to the party’s platform in 2016, that used to be something most commonly associated with the fringes of liberal communities.
It was while biden was still the candidate. When kamala swapped in, rfk went from 15% to 7%.
I mean… The guy knows he isn’t gonna be president. Can’t blame him for trying to line up a job after its all over. And he’s a slimy opportunistic douche.
Fun fact he actually lost more than half of his support when kamala became the candidate. He was potentially spoiling for biden, but now he’s almost exclusively a hindrance to trump.
I agree 100%. However, think about what would happen in the political arena if he were given a position in exchange for endorsing kamala. We all know that many right wingers who don’t like trump are RFKs primary supporters. Him supporting kamala would throw this group into a tailspin.
It ain’t gonna happen, just sayin’ it would be very interesting to watch. A big worry would be his supporters getting pissed and then swinging towards trump.
Still, I’d love to see it for the lulz.
It would seem the response he received was not definitively obvious to him prior to asking. I feel this is the most shocking part. It’s like he’s out of touch with reality.
But if I may shitpost:
Maybe it’s high time he cleaned out all those animal carcasses from his freezer.
Please no, Central Park doesn’t need a pile of rotting animal corpses.
But Gaza women & children need more bombs? Seriously, why are Democrats so hypocritical these days? Like… RFK Jr. may have done some looney shit but Democrats have literally enabled killing tens of thousand women & children and that is acceptable to them.
Democrats? Why on Earth would you blame the Dems when it’s more than clear that it’s the GOP that is latched onto the AIPAC teat like a barnacle. Remember when Republicans in the House and Senate were demanding aid for Ukraine go to Israel instead?
Whose name appears here?
You’re out of your mind if you think the issue is only with Republicans.
Look who’s objecting.
Earlier this year, multiple lawmakers, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D] of Maryland, planned to object to the sale.
Ah, and Biden is slow walking the sale…
The items are intended to maintain and build Israel’s overall long-term defensive capability, and most of the items will be delivered in installments over the course of several years, a State Department official told CBS News. The F-15s, for example, will be manufactured by Boeing and take at least a decade to deliver in full, the official said.
Oh, this is interesting too.
The Biden administration has had to balance its continued support for Israel with a growing number of calls from lawmakers and the U.S. public to curb military support there due to the high number of civilian deaths in Gaza. It has curbed one delivery of 2,000-pound weapons amid continued airstrikes by Israel in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza.
…the U.S. had been withholding weapons deliveries for Israel’s war effort in Gaza…
On June 23, Netanyahu told his Cabinet that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons about four months prior, without specifying which weapons. Those comments came just days after he released a video in English claiming there had been weeks of unsuccessful pleas with American officials to speed up deliveries.
Curse Biden for not magically making Netanyahu stop being a murderous asshole. You know that there are limits to what the American President can do on his own, without the full support of his legislature, about the homicidal activities of a foreign ruler? But by all means, keep attacking the Democrats as if a 2nd Trump administration would be an improvement. What did Trump say about Israel/Gaza? Oh that’s right, Israel should “finish what they started” and “get it over with fast”.
RFK Jr. wants to send more bombs to Gaza and he has also contributed to plenty of preventable deaths with his years of spreading antivaccination disinformation.
His remarks on leveling Gaza are in the first result I found when I looked up his stance on Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/2024-dark-horse-rfk-jr-questions-gaza-ceasefire-defends-israeli-offensive/
What on earth… I was making a playful joke about him leaving a bear corpse in Central Park…
A little hard for me to be a Democrat when I’m not even American you manic buffoon.
Despite his earlier proclaimed “anti-war” position RFK is a Zionist and fully supports the Genocide in Gaza.
He might have had a real shot at winning the election if he provided an anti-Genocide alternative. But the so called “anti-war” guy just had to kneel for israel.
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It’s almost like parasitic worms ate a part of his brain.
Remember when he supported and backed Obama, or when he threw support behind Hillary? Or that he was a registered Democrat? Or when Obama considered him for administrator of the EPA?
No, because he’s always been a human disease vector with nepo-brain (now with worms!).
So your plan is to ignore reality in hopes that it will somehow help win an election?
Wow, I never thought of it that way.
Because it’s absurd.
It’s like he’s out of touch with reality.
He’s an aging second generation Kennedy who had a brain worm…
They don’t remove those btw, they’re usually killed via medications but the worm is in an organ, you can’t remove it. Like if a dog has heart worms and gets treated, their health will get worse because their body has to deal with dead worms, and then even after the remains decay, there’s holes.
Like, dude probably already put his brain thru enough without a decaying worm, but it shouldn’t be surprising he acts illogical like he has a serious mental problem, because he has a serious mental problem. Absolute best case scenario is by now the worm is gone and he “just” has a big hole in his brain that will never heal.
I don’t think it’s shitposting when that’s literally how politics works these days. You’ve just become a spokesman.
They could make him a worm ambassador
Robert Evans just did a 4 part series on RFK Jr. and it is fascinating. Links below (on spotify because that’s what I’ve got, sorry)
I highly recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast overall. It’s a great way to get your heart rate and blood pressure up to really enhance your cardio workouts or stay awake on long road trips. You will be intensely angry at everything, but it helps. :)
The podcast that radicalized me
I found the first series of It Could Happen Here first, then I realized I’d been reading him since Cracked and then I was radicalized by Robert
Exactly why I have to take it in bursts. Even Knowledge Fight makes me (usually) less depressed/angry in general (though Alex can really piss me off, but he’s also fucking stupid and I can at least laugh at him more often), so BtB is the hardest to consistently listen to for me. Not because it isn’t good, but because well, the eponymous bastards earn that title.
The RFK episodes aren’t depressing for the most part. They are just really funny besides some of the shitty things RFK does that gets people killed…
The excitement is always tempered with anxiety whenever a new btb series pops up in my feed…
Even Robert was taken aback by some of that shit, Cody sounded broken at the end, I need to check the Showdy and see if he pulled himself Back out of it
He wants to get in the white house bad. Maybe he knows the secret location of scroll that contains the knowledge of whom had his his dad and uncle killed, national treasure style.
“I’m willing to meet with leaders of both parties to discuss the possibility of a unity government," Kennedy told the Post.
What…? A unity government…? Unity with who? RFK’s literal brainworm?
Try to have some empathy. That poor brain eating worm starved to death.
My apologies - I did not mean to offend or denigrate the suffering of his brainworm.
Was searching specifically for this comment
Was it his doing or worm’s?
They’re one and the same.
Lmao.
“So uhhh thanks for coming in, don’t call us - we’ll call you.”
After he secretly recorded and published his call with Trump on Twitter I doubt politicians are eager to engage with him.
Offering RFK Jr a cabinet post is literally the only thing that would make me not vote Den this November.
Head of Mental Health?
Dept of Falconry and Animal Disposal
Some people type “lol”. I really mean it. I laughed so loud I woke the cat up.
