“RFK Jr. is a Democrat plant,” Trump said on Thursday in a video
posted on Truth Social.
“So, Republicans, get it out of your mind that you’re going to vote for this guy because he’s conservative,” the former president said. “He’s not. And by the way, he said the other night that vaccines are fine. He said it on a show, a television show, that vaccines are fine. He’s all for them. And that’s what he said. And for those of you that want to vote because you think he’s an anti-vaxxer, he’s not really an anti-vaxxer.”
What an odd web this has turned into lol.
It would seem as if both major US parties have some concerns about RFK Jr taking some of their votes away. I've noticed that both conservative and liberal media outlets have been putting a disproportionate amount of of focus on him over this past month (for a guy they both dismissed a year ago and said "nah, it's fine, he'll take more votes from the other side").
Trumps doing this silly self-contradicting stuff (where he used to brag about "inventing the covid vaccines" -- as if he was in the lab working on them himself), and now trying to use "not anti-vaxxer enough" as pejorative...weird flex bro.
CNN is running pieces asking Sanjay Gupta about a parasitic infection RFK had 15 years ago and what potential cognitive impairment it can cause. (irony alert)
"He doesn't hold enough real conservative values, he's a democrat plant" - says the team that's currently backing a guy who's on trial for paying hush money to an adult film star, ran casinos into ground, and has cheated on multiple wives.
"That parasitic infection could've messed up his brain, we're concerned he's not playing with a full deck" -says that the team that's backing a guy who says "hermagerlobergroger...malarkey!" and then has to be pointed in the direction he's supposed to walk in to exit the stage.
I realize that people don't like RFK for his vaccine stances (I don't like his vaccine stances either) and covid turned that into a "red line issue" for some people...
But are we at a point where we can at least acknowledge the fact that the only reason why either party is worried about him is because they've both hitched their wagons to two particularly poor candidates?
Do you think anyone in 2012 would be talking about RFK Jr. at all when the two main choices were Obama and Romney? (two respectable candidates)
Say what you want about Romney, you didn't have to worry about an affair and payoffs to an adult film star
Say what you want about Obama, but he could string a sentence together and not look like a deer in the headlights