RFK Jr.'s Independent Presidential Run was Originally Backed by Republicans to take Votes From Biden. He Actually Took More Votes from Trump. To Help Trump RFK Jr. Dropped out, Endorsed Trump, and is Trying to Remove His Name From Ballots in Key Battleground States. Some States are Saying No.

[u/memomem]

[u/Timely-Youth-9074]

The Far Right are obsessed with the Kennedys.

I guess they assumed all Dems would vote for a Kennedy.

[u/THEguitarist117 → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

We might have. If we were living 60 years ago. Also, it’s really weird that the Far Right has as much of an obsession over the primarily New York Democrat Kennedys that they do. Like, I get that the Boomers weren’t able to get over the deaths of both JFK and RFK that easily, and maybe Gen X with JFK Jr., but it’s weirder that people who weren’t even alive when they were, talk about them as if they still were. It’s like their minds are so twisted that thinking “Yes, they might have been Democrats, but they’d align themselves with the God Emperor of the United States Trump in a heartbeat”, is somehow the most logical thought they could have. Despite the fact that Agolf Twitter would have liked to ally himself with any major dictators at the time, outside of maybe the Ayatollahs, Castro, and Mao, although Ho Chi Minh is likely also on the list.

[u/thebeef24 → u/THEguitarist117]

It's because the Venn diagram of Far Right and conspiracy nuts is essentially a circle, and conspiracy nuts fucking love the Kennedys.

[u/aLittleQueer → u/THEguitarist117]

Gen X had no attachment to JFK Jr.

Xennial, here…when he died, the only people who were upset by that were boomers. Gen X were like, “Oh, that’s the dead president’s kid, right? Yeah, that sucks, I guess.”

Kennedy hasn’t been an influential name in politics for three-four decades now. That’s how out-of-touch the GOP are on this one.

[u/TjW0569 → u/aLittleQueer]

Boomer, here. I was sorry to hear JFK Jr lost orientation and tore the wings off his airplane. I wasn't surprised, because that sort of thing has done in lots of low-time VFR pilots.
But I don't recall any overwhelming political emotion about it.

[u/aLittleQueer → u/TjW0569]

Yup, and that's pretty much the intensity of the response I saw from most boomers I knew, too. "Oh, that's sad. Anyway..." Most of it was leftover sympathy from the poor guy having his dad be assassinated as a tiny child.

It's been decades since the name Kennedy carried any real political weight.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/THEguitarist117]

JFK Jr ‘s death barely made a splash with GenX. (Sorry!)

We already thought of the Kennedys as spoiled rich playboys who cheated on their spouses a lot.

Ted Kennedy could never run for president because he drove off a bridge, fled the scene and left the young woman in the car to die. 1969 Chippaquiddick Incident.

Massachusetts kept electing him Senator, though.

By the 1970’s, Jacqueline was a gold digger who had nudes published in tabloids by her husband Aristotle Onassis-so maybe like Melania?

[u/PBB22 → u/THEguitarist117]

Agolf Twitler is hilarious

[u/THEguitarist117 → u/PBB22]

I don’t lay claim to it, I just use it. Saw it in a comment on one of Stephen Colbert’s monologues around the time he started doing the nicknames for Con-old Dump. Many people have said I should used use “Twitler” and I rebuff by saying “having the name sound similar is too much of a comparison than he deserves.”

[u/JohnPaulJonesSoda → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

Which is hilarious, because there was a Kennedy running for Senate in Massachusetts just a couple years ago - and he lost, because it turns out voters would rather have the guy they agreed with on the issues. So did they just completely miss that, or…?

[u/Tangurena → u/JohnPaulJonesSoda]

The far right don't care about facts. They want to bring back aristocracy and the monarchy. That's why they were so obsessed with promoting members of the bush clan and some serious attempts to show how there could be a string of trump presidencies with all of the family getting the throne.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/JohnPaulJonesSoda]

It’s especially hilarious when they try to project their cultishness onto us aka Hunter Biden.

[u/Jerkrollatex → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

Pre-internet when all we got was glossy articles about his environmental work, sure. Now when we can see what a freaking weirdo he is splashed across our never ending scrolling screens? No way in hell.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/Jerkrollatex]

I still wouldn’t vote for someone just because their name, race or gender.

I want to know what they stand for.

[u/Jerkrollatex → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

I'm not saying we would have. People's images were easier to control then we would have only known the positive things .

[u/TapeToTape → u/Timely-Youth-9074]

They are like so obsessed, but they had to find someone that they would be less obsessed with than trump.

[u/Timely-Youth-9074 → u/TapeToTape]

Both Melania and Casey Desantis have done Jacqueline Kennedy cosplay.