Statement on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s announcement today (Kennedy family members):

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[RandySF]

1. Worm!

[Mr. Evil]

26. Yeah...

Wormbrain.

[NewHendoLib]

2. It's a weird ending to a weird story!

[Klarkashton]

3. Kennedy's rant has nothing to do with any trump

Policy. They are trying to confuse the public by introducing this libertarian conspiracy joker into the situation.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Love that statement... RFK Jr. is one weird POS !!

[UTUSN]

5. k&r

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. So when is Cheryl Hines announcing she's leaving him? NT

[moniss]

19. Prettay, prettay, prettay soon.nt

[AZSkiffyGeek]

23. BOBBY, WHY DID YOU ENDORSE TRUMP?

[kimbutgar]

46. Ha ! ha ! I see what you did there!

Been watch curb reruns for the first time now up to season 5

[GB_RN]

29. I Bet The Divorce Lawyers...

Are jockeying for the first spot outside her door tomorrow morning. 😂

[calimary]

55. What could she possibly see in him, in the first place?

[lame54]

7. A bear in every park

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. A worm in every brain

[bahboo]

8. Goddamn fucking disgrace...

[Cha]

9. COVID WORM

[Oopsie Daisy]

10. Since he no longer a serious candidate... can we recall his Secret Service detail now?

[LiberalFighter]

15. I figure it will happen soon.

I don't believe he qualified for it when it was granted. Biden made the order and he should rescind it.

[COL Mustard]

28. Think of the optics. I don't blame Joe for doing it.

Nobody wants another Dead Kennedy on the campaign trail.

[GB_RN]

30. Hey, Now...

Don’t go disrespecting the Dead Kennedys.😁

[COL Mustard]

35. I know, right?

Never was into their music but I knew a lot of people who were.

[LiberalFighter]

62. Except he won't be on the campaign trail much

[Boomerproud]

11. How many family relationships have been destroyed by T?

I've seen plenty of posts on DU about that very subject. HE'S NOT WORTH IT.

[Warpy]

13. Brother Bobby's just looking for a megaphone for his antivax stupidity

Harris and Walz wouldn't give him one. TFG's team realized he'd be taking votes away from TFG, not Harris, so they were only too happy to promise him everything to get rid of that threat to Fearless Leader.

Bobby Jr will end up with nothing--shunned by most of his family, no megphone, reduced to just an ordinary crank boring everybody else at a corner bar when he's telling them what a big shot he is.

[mucifer]

51. I suspect it's foreign money that got him to endorse

[Warpy]

58. The kid was born to wealth

so I doubt that was the motivation.

I think they dangled a megaphone in front of him. One thing a crusading crank can't resist is the opportunity to widen his audience and gain converts.

[mucifer]

59. He has had substance use problems so

I don’t know how much money he still has.

[Warpy]

61. Probably a lot more than you or I will ever see

He's substituted a wrong headed cause for his drugs.

Now he's attached himself to a man who kills everything he touches.

Poor bastard.

[ToxMarz]

17. I agree T is notorious for this

But I think Bobby also deserves a lot of credit in this instance. He's not a beginner in this arena.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. I imagine there's a Whit House position in the offing.

I'm normally not one to chide someone with a condition, but I hope Trump doesn't make him press secretary.

[ShazzieB]

42. If TSF actually managed to get elected, RFK Jr working in his administration would be the least of our worries.

A Trump victory would be catastrophic for a million reasons. It's hard to imagine how RFK Jr's involvement could make things noticeably worse.

[JohnnyRingo]

50. I get your point....

But hearing Bobby Jr give long winded talks would be adding nails on a chalkboard to sheer horror.

[ShazzieB]

57. That's certainly true!

[SpankMe]

14. RFK Jr. had everything

The smarts, the historic family legacy, environmental cred, the name, the connections.

He threw it all out with this latest action. He's a pariah. Marginalized for the rest of his life.

What a way to go. It's sad, really.

[ShazzieB]

41. Yes, it's pretty pathetic.

He just took all of that and flushed it right down the toilet. What a waste.

[TommieMommy]

16. what happened to RFK Jr

He's not like the rest of the family. He's very strange.

[johnnyfins]

20. Trump has dirt on him.

No doubt.

[TommieMommy]

22. Probably

And a bunch of other stupid people too

[uponit7771]

38. +1, when we see someone make huge value switches like RFK I'm thinking TFG has an Epstein file on them

[Zoomie1986]

43. But it's not a huge value switch for this nutbag

He's been peddling lies and stupidity for many years now.

[uponit7771]

60. WOW !!! True, so some montages of him ... he's off the rocker and he's not denying he sexually assaulted someone... damn

[lapfog_1]

52. he has hinted around that there were "incidents" with women / girls in his past

that would likely come out during his campaign.

My guess is either underage and/or forcible rape accusations

[DFW]

33. He never used to be THIS strange.

I haven't talked to him in over 15 years, but he NEVER used to be this nuts.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

37. Weird. So very weird. ..nt

[Self Esteem]

39. He's always been troubled...

But he got into conspiratorial thought on vaccines and that opened the door to a whole lot of crazy.

[allegorical oracle]

53. Agree, but he wasn't always a nutbag. He was deeply involved in environmental

issues -- river clean-ups, notably. Something organic (dementia?) has affected his brain, not necessarily the brain worm. Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta says that such worms are rare, but he's seen them during brain surgeries he performed. They present as nodules on the brain, but seldom affect the brain's normal function.

[True Blue American]

18. The brain worm

Made him do it! For a former drug addict to be against vaccines?

[Joinfortmill]

21. JFK and RFK just rolled over in their graves.

The Brits have a word for him. It begins with C.

[GB_RN]

31. My Late Friend From New Zealand...

Would call him a wanker.

I would use the term verbally myself, but I think it’s illegal* to do so if you don’t have an Aussie or NZ accent. If it’s not illegal, it almost should be, because it doesn’t have quite the same…heft…otherwise.

Yes, I’m joking…to an extent. Wanker does NOT sound right in another English-speaking accent.

[Zoomie1986]

44. It's originally from the UK

Australia and NZ picked it up from the Brits.

So, no, one doesn't need an Antipodean accent to say it.

[NBachers]

24. Reading all those Kennedy family names - It still draws a heavy response within me- And now I see Bobby on the floor of

the Ambassador Hotel

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Totally there with you. What a betrayal or just plain "weird." What has happened? I guess a multiple of "issues."

[Mr. Evil]

27. Yo... Bobby, Jr.

Why is it that you never contracted Polio?

Asking for a friend... you flaming asshole!

[NNadir]

32. Who cares if another weird loon joins the Trump campaign? I certainly don't. He was always, in my opinion, a nut.

[Thunderbeast]

34. I was a sophomore in high school when I knocked on doors for his father.

Oregon Primary, 1968. Dragged my parents to a rally for him.

I shook the man's hand.

Two weeks later, he was lying in a pool of blood on the floor of a Los Angeles hotel kitchen.

RFK Junior has sullied the name of his father and his entire family. His ambitions have intersected his mis-guided conspiracy leanings. His anti-vax rhetoric has killed many children.

[kimbutgar]

49. I was in 6th grade in SF and he was driven in a convertible through a crowd of people shaking hands

And my Dad hoisted me up ( I was small for my age ) and I also shook his hand and it was a week before he was shot. I was sleeping and I heard my Dad in the next room scream oh no and then my Mother saying something similar and I got out of bed and saw RFK was lying on the ground shot. It was a snap shot memory in my life and my Dad was crying because only a week before we saw him in person.

[Wolf Frankula]

36. He couldn't help it.

The worms ate the rest of his brain.

Wolf

[amb123]

40. I hope his mother Ethel disinherits him.

[kimbutgar]

47. Between the convicted felons voice and bob jrs voice it would irritating to hear them both together on stage

But I wouldn’t be surprised if the orange menace uses him as a surrogate at his rallies.

See I got a Kennedy endorsing me !

[GoCubsGo]

48. "It's a sad ending to a sad story."

It almost sounds like they're about to disown him. I hope he and his brain worm come to their senses before it gets to that.

[markbark]

54. Maybe he's taking after Grandpa Joe?

Drawn in to the TFG universe of insatiable greed and a laissez faire toward and maybe a wholehearted embrace of fascism?
Bobby must be doing around 36,000 rpm these days

[GoreWon2000]

56. Bravo to the Kennedy family for doing what's right to defend their storied family legacy!