RFK Jr Megathread

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I see an opinion of the dropouts thread in his future.

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I don't think anybody gets Secret Service protection this early. Moreover they have to assess he might win, which I don't think anybody does except maybe him.

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I don't think anybody gets Secret Service protection this early. Moreover they have to assess he might win, which I don't think anybody does except maybe him.

Ben Carson received secret service protection in the fall of 2015

The idea that you should get SS protection only if you have a chance to win would lead to absurd results. By that logic, a person like Mondale 1984 or Goldwater 1968 would not be eligible for SS protection

I guess I forgot that, yeah. Apologies.

I don't agree on the 2nd part.

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^ RFK stooge

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I see an opinion of the dropouts thread in his future.

Since he's running independent, this is probably wrong.

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RFK Jr. argues that Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued Monday that President Joe Biden is a greater threat to democracy than former President Donald Trump.

His argument made on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” centered around being blocked on social media platforms during the Biden administration, which he labeled as an effort to “censor political speech” and undermine the First Amendment.

“I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy, and the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history – the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent,” he said.

Kennedy pointed to his removal from social media platforms, which he attributes to pressure from the Biden administration, as evidence of the president’s efforts to censor political speech.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/politics/rfk-jr-cnntv-interview/index.html

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RFK Jr says a worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr said he also suffered mercury poisoning from eating too much fish: ‘I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time’

Anti-vaccine activist turned independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has revealed that a worm ate part of his brain and then died inside his head.

According to The New York Times, Mr Kennedy made the bizarre admission during a deposition held as part of his 2012 divorce proceeding.

He reportedly said he’d begun to experience “cognitive problems” and both short and long-term memory loss in 2010, not long after his uncle, the late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, died from the effects of brain cancer.

The Times said the record of his 2012 deposition showed Mr Kennedy had initially feared he, too, had a brain tumour.

But he received a second opinion from a doctor in New York who told him the cause of his problems — and a dark spot on his brain scans — was a dead parasite.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-dead-worm-brain-b2541521.html

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Well he did say this: “I have cognitive problems, clearly." Under oath.

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https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1788311426039160897

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Is this finally his "Aleppo" moment?

Dunno. On the one hand it's a real condition and it sounds like this really happened so I don't think he's saying it because he's crazy or something. On the other hand, he wouldn't show all his medical records to the reporters so that we can know he's ok.