Did RFK Jr.’s Presidential Campaign Just Flame Out?
Did RFK Jr.’s Presidential Campaign Just Flame Out?
He failed to qualify for next week’s presidential debate, is bleeding cash, and is on a mere nine state ballots, reducing his chances to, “essentially nil.”
It seems the editors weren’t able to reach his worm for comment
I'm no RFK supporter, but that shit was muckraking by NYT. Granted, I question his choice in using the excuse of having a worm in his brain to avoid paying alimony to his ex-wife, but it wasn't being reported honestly and they acted like this was some new revelation that happened in the last few years rather than well over a decade ago.
RFK is not electable, but I will concede that I like three of his positions quite a bit:
- Money out of politics
- Housing and barring corporate ownership of single-occupancy homes
- Cutting defense spending
He's got so many issues that keep him from being a serious contender, but those three subjects are important and he stands on the right side in that regard.
He’s a whacko but I agree with you on those 3 items, nice.
No, it flamed out when he announced it.
RFK Jr.'s Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan has contributed significant funds to his campaign. She is an attorney and an entrepreneur, founding the Bia-Echo Foundation, which focuses on reproductive longevity, criminal justice reform, and environmental sustainability.
Here's some more info on Shanahan: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8N1ophP5WB/?img_index=1
Who? 🙃
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Barely even sparked
Wait "essentially nil"? Is it actually possible to become president if your name is only on ballots in 9 states?
Gods I hope so. The amount of damage he did convincing people that vaccines cause autism is incalculable. Especially to people on the spectrum.
His chances were essentially nil to begin with. The only reason he's even being discussed at all instead of being lumped in like the other no-hopers is because he has juuuuuust enough support to be able to make either Trump or Biden's math slightly more difficult.
Was announcing that he (literally) had the brain worms supposed to be good for his campaign? This seems like the sanest trend in politics for at least a decade.
Are you claiming he announced this as part of his campaign? The misinformation around this brain worm stuff is pretty astounding, as are people’s glee in dogpiling over it.
Because facts do matter:
- RFK Jr found and removed the brain worm 15 years ago.
- It’s an incredibly common parasite which most often is contracted in large scale livestock farms, the kind of which he was litigating in the 2000s.
- Almost 2 Billion people have or have had this same parasite in their lifetimes.
- The story was resurfaced earlier this year in May once it became apparent he was a threat to the Trump campaign, by the New York Post (owned by Fox News Corp).
He wasn't ever going to get elected; the big question was whether he could serve as a spoiler and help elect Trump.
I don't get how it would help trump, RFK Jr is such a right-wing nutjob, I don't think anyone who would vote for Biden would vote for him instead. Its much more likely to pull votes from Trump instead since he's just the right kind of nutjob to appeal to the extreme Q-Anon supporting far right who would otherwise vote for Trump.
Right wing nut jobs think Trump is a superhero out to stop an evil organization of worldwide pedophiles. They were always voting for Trump. Nothing he did was going to change that. On the other hand leftists are easy to trick.
It's psychology.
The most common reason people keep giving for voting Biden is "not trump". And lots of people don't like trump, but will never vote for any Dem.
If there's literally any other options, it's easier for someone to pick one rather than leave it blank or write in a name.
2020 was insanely close and decided by a handful of states.
It's a weird situation where for most people their state is decided before the first vote is cast, where other states it could come down to 4 digit votes.
So things that seem like they'd have no effect, can actually be huge.
Like, RFK can cost Biden 10% in Cali, and it doesn't matter at all. But if he costs 0.1% in Michigan it could change the election.
We need to switch to popular vote for president, but it'll probably never happen. Until then random stupid shit like rfk can decide elections
Funny thing is, he was so closely aligned with Trump's ideas, the only people I ever heard say they planned on voting for him were my MAGA relatives.
My wife is lefter than democrat and she was contemplating voting for him.
When did it ever really flame in?
Always looks like he od,'d on niacin...pink ass pig looking mf
I was about to say! Why tf he look so red all the time? Niacin, hahahaha!
"Just"? Pretty sure it's as dead as his brain worm.