The Very Strange New Respect for Authoritarian
Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Reason,
by
Matt Welch
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
4/30/2023 2:41:06 AM
Ever since the 69-year-old conspiratorial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last week, a curious new category has appeared among the commentariat—libertarians and/or right-of-center journalists expressing strange new respect for a Hugo Chavez–admiring scion of the Establishment who has serially fantasized about throwing his political opponents in jail. (snip) Recasting RFK Jr. as a foe of censorship and potential tamer of government requires ignoring what he has been and imagining things he'll never be. (snip)
So is the enemy of your enemy your friend? Depends on your tolerance for unlikely conspiracy theories, and your comfort level in Kennedy's proposed punishments for alleged perpetrators.
We have been warned!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mombogogo 4/30/2023 5:59:29 AM (No. 1459507)
I think the value of someone like RFKJr is similar to that of Bill Maher: they have some credibility on the left because they’re progressives. And those progressives might then consider some truth in some of what they say about the vaccine, masks, lockdowns, transgenderism, etc… The value RFKJr holds to the right is that he might draw large enough numbers away from Biden and disrupt the election.
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So many times I’ve watched people on the right wet their pants in ecstasy whenever a lefty says something even mildly in line with the thoughts and stands of the right. (ie, Maher). I can understand their point of view just a little, in the land of media condemnation we live in, even a little public vindication is a thing much to be treasured. But Kennedy? But Robert Kennedy? That man has been a flaming dumpster fire his entire life and age hasn’t lessened the idiocy of his pronouncements or social stances one whit.
Plus, he’s a Kennedy. I swear there’s a genetic blip in that entire tribe of flaming limousine liberal, overly influential East-coast mental mutants that keeps me suspicious and wary of them my entire life. Robert Kennedy is no one’s savior. Certainly not for our country or constitution. Keep looking folks, our Lone Ranger isn’t him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 4/30/2023 7:24:56 AM (No. 1459540)
The kingmakers realize Zhoa/Cackles is not a viable ticket.
We will see much ink spilled between now and November 2024.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mobyclik 4/30/2023 7:31:05 AM (No. 1459544)
Like ALL liberals, he LIES. That's the only thing you have to remember about him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/30/2023 8:23:05 AM (No. 1459566)
We always seem to hop on anyone who sounds a teensy teensy bit like one of us. I look at every democrat as suspect until they've had ample time to prove themselves, they tell the truth about the party, and they leave the party and all it stands for.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/30/2023 8:30:06 AM (No. 1459570)
To hear a lefty who is not 100% in lock step with every aspect of the Totalitarian Wave is exciting. I did see some footage of him wanting to arrest "deniers." He is of course mad and unacceptable and should be confined to some place where people who imagine themselves to be Napoleon perch together.
I'm sure the Dims will handle him so he doesn't bother Big Bidet. After all, he advocates arresting the opposition.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 4/30/2023 8:34:22 AM (No. 1459574)
RFK Jr. is spot on with the COVID crimes. I want him to siphon off "votes" for Mr. Potato Head.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
msjena 4/30/2023 8:45:13 AM (No. 1459587)
Kennedy is a former heroin addict. He apparently drove his first wife to suicide. He is not just an anti-vaxxer when it comes to COVID vaccines. He opposes other, tested and effective vaccines as well. He is basically kind of a nut case. I don't think the Kennedy name carries any weight with anyone under 40. If he can scare Brandon a bit, fine. But we would be a different kind of disaster if he actually won anything.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/30/2023 8:55:55 AM (No. 1459597)
He’s a Kennedy. That’s all I need to know.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/30/2023 9:03:29 AM (No. 1459602)
Like the article's last paragraph says, a lot of us just want to see Crazy Joe being given some competition. Dems would never nominate RFK Jr. But if RFK wins a few primaries, Old Joe may have to leave his Delaware lair a few times.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/30/2023 9:03:50 AM (No. 1459603)
Seriously doubt this nation needs a Massachusetts Kennedy for President. He has some entertainment value because he is a thorn in the side of those that installed Biden and that's all he is. The people that installed Biden could probably buy RFK Jr just as easily. Green policies under RFK Jr would likely even be worse.
Definitely don't want RFK Jr. He might actually be a disaster on a larger scale than Biden. Be careful what you wish for.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/30/2023 9:44:18 AM (No. 1459630)
I would not vote for him, but he's definitely got Big Pharma's, Fauci's and Big Government's numbers. I'm hoping he gets enough support to force Biteme into a debate.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/30/2023 10:07:57 AM (No. 1459645)
I heard this guy on the radio a few days ago.
Regardless of what he said..... the sound of his voice just grated on my ears.
Regarding that "19% support" in a poll for the Democ'RAT nomination for 2024....
I wonder how the question was worded. If it was a choice of JFK Jr OR The HairSniffer, with no other options, I can easily see 19% support...'ANYONE except The HairSniffer!'
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 4/30/2023 10:42:39 AM (No. 1459672)
They're not showing "respect" for Kennedy. He and Ramaswamy (on the republican side) just give journalists and editors alternative prospects to root for in place of Biden and Trump.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/30/2023 10:44:33 AM (No. 1459677)
I have had more Kennedys than I need, more than a lifetime's full. There is nothing that would make me support another Kennedy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/30/2023 10:50:17 AM (No. 1459693)
Kennedy is better than Biden, and is running as a Democrat. And who wouldn't like to see Biden gone?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NYBruin 4/30/2023 10:54:09 AM (No. 1459702)
A complete nutbag.
His famous tirades against "Big Pharma" seem particularly misplaced, given how many readers of this blog are on lifesaving drugs (statins, etc.) that - had they not been invented - would have them in the graves a decade ago.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
FormerDem 4/30/2023 11:13:41 AM (No. 1459734)
well, RFK was wrong about climate imo. The change is mostly natural and people are able to change the climate only locally. The climate appears to be already swinging into a cool phase, for which we will be unprepared thanks to everybody who treated climate like a metaphoric framework for other stuff they wanted to say.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/30/2023 11:22:58 AM (No. 1459744)
I am a proud and steadfast Reagan Republican who finds a great deal of agreement in what Mr. Kennedy says in his speeches an 'everyone is oppressed by the corruption of government" sort of way.
PDJT spoke in similar themes. Many literally worshiped NoBama like he was the 2nd Coming of our Lord and strangely, likewise, many 'conservatives' had similar political fervor for President Trump-- their words were seductively inspiring, but there has been a seismic shift in the amount of deception in the form of 'gas lighting' for U.S. NOT to use our own common sense and knowledge of history to avoid being taken in by rhetoric and lofty words. Our "good nature" is being used against us like Charlie Brown being convinced by Lucy yet again that THIS TIME we can believe and finally kick that darn football.
President Carter ran his 1976 campaign in a similar way promising to curtail the excesses and standard practices of doing government budgets by offering accountability in what he called "zero-based budgeting" where agencies had to justify their budget allotments to replace the notion of the still-in-use "baseline budgeting" where every agency gets a greater budget each year based on a percentage which inflates things gradually and then EXPONENTIALLY. It made sense and he was earnest about doing it.
Once elected, House Speaker 'Boss Tweed' Tip O'Neill and the others in the Dem leadership would have NONE OF IT. His good intentions were crushed before they even got started by his own party. THEY wereentrenched and IN CHARGE, and not some Governor from a small SOUTHERN state!
Kennedy comes across in much the same way, except the demonrat socialist marxists will fight him tooth and toenail with everything they have to defeat his candidacy and hold fast to the Vegetable and his word salad side-kick Kamala ladee-da so they can pump him full of chemicals and continue the Dictatorial government by FIAT and use of "agency regulations" which do not have the benefit of being voted upon by our "Represntatives" in the House and Senate of the U.S. Congress.
Perhaps his entry into the fray will result in bringing a sense of conscience to the debate
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Penney 4/30/2023 12:20:54 PM (No. 1459789)
The dem party is desperate to find candidates acceptable to enough naive voters who might still not see through their scam.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/30/2023 12:50:04 PM (No. 1459817)
The Uniparty fascist see a new threat. All hands on deck! Reason magazine is the neocon Pravda.
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Um, #18, there's a little more to it:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/americas-broken-health-care-diagnosis-and-prescription/
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#20, it's hard for me. as a Reagan Republican, to envision any scenario where I would ever vote for any Kennedy. But I'm with Kennedy on the Covid vax, and hey, if he causes turmoil in the Dem party, I'm all for it.
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There is no surprise in the "authoritarian Democrat" part. All I need to see is "Kennedy."
No more Kennedys! No more Clintons, 0bamas and Bushes, too.
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