Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he believes Russia acted in “good faith” amid the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, adding the U.S., in fact, bore heavy responsibility for the ongoing war.
As if it wasn’t obvious from the beginning he’s basically Russia’s pawn…
Don’t let this betrayal be forgotten when you vote in the primaries next year. Or his anti-vax conspiracy promotion.
wow, what a bastard he is
Dude’s an antivaxxer and now clearly a Russian pawn. I don’t want to vote for Biden again but its beginning look like I don’t have a choice… again. Love this two party system. /s
As much as I’d love another choice, Biden has at least done good this presidency and navigated the Russian crisis masterfully. Do I want someone younger, yes (dear god yes). Has he surprised me with how stable his presidency has been and the recovery of our standing in the international community? Yes.
I’m going to vote for him again because we don’t have a choice. A vote for a 3rd party will be as destructive as it was in 2016. I bought into the narrative from Russia that Hillary was awful and that I should vote for anyone else. Look what they brought us? I, like many I know, voted for Bernie to send a message to the DNC. I threw away my vote for Hilary and then Trump won.
Someone you just need a stable, sane candidate. We will get an exciting candidate again in the future. Let’s just keep steering the ship in the right direction for now.
You could vote third party, but at that point you might as well not show up at all. /s
This is why I hate the 2-party system. If you’re not voting for one of those 2, it really doesn’t matter.
Hopefully there’s more movement on our electoral system like the ranked choice voting in a few states. It doesn’t fix the problem, but it’s a large step in the right direction.\
Seriously, which part of this is sarcasm?
worse than that, you might as well vote for the other party at that point. yay two party system.
Exactly. Imagine what this guy will do with a little power.
Reduce war and not try to force mass vaccinations? (Scary)
Russian stooge stooges for Russia. What a thrilling development.
It’s important to keep brining his terrible record up, as it seems likely he’s trying to position himself as a “moderate” challenger to Biden in the Democratic Primaries.
I can’t say I want another 4 years of Biden, but I would take that over this clown any day.
No one really wants Biden. He was the least worst option in 2020, the milquetoast-iest politician the Dems could offer.
But for some reason Republicans seem to think the rest of the country wants Worse Than Last Time. “Trump lost because he wasn’t unhinged enough,” they seem to be saying. I mean, Chris Christie is running as the moderate Republican option. Chris Christie!
I don’t want another 4 years of Biden either, but sigh I guess.
I really don’t disagree with you, but if we want democrats to show up and vote, this is not the attitude that will make it happen. People largely believe their votes don’t matter. If the candidate is bad anyway, why even bother? I’m not saying this negativity is the only (or biggest) problem, but it is very discouraging.
Let’s get better candidates where we can, but we need to go full speed with the best we have. If democrat voter turnout was better, there would be no contest, and maybe we could start having a real dialogue about improvements instead of just fighting to avoid more far right extremism.
note: I’m not a Democrat. I’m more ‘Democrat’ than ‘Republican’, but it’s the same way I’m more in favor of consuming brussels sprouts than dirty sink water. I don’t like brussels sprouts, and would rather have something better, but the only other option is somehow light-years worse. And it will stay this way until we get rid of first-past-the-post voting. Of course, Dems and Repubs both know that the biggest thing keeping them in power is the fact that we have first-past-the-post voting, so there’s no chance of it going away nationally.
But anyway, I disagree with your premise that the big thing keeping us from having to deal with far right extremism is quality candidates / better turnout. We had some pretty damn decent candidates in 2020, but the media (especially NPR and the like) are too busy going to small-town diners in order to hear local yokels repeat Fox News talking points to talk about why Fox News is so scared of the candidate. The right-wing media machine is going to target whichever Dem candidate will actually make progress, and the mainstream media just goes along with it. Mainstream media goes along with whatever ridiculous thing the right says about a Dem candidate because mainstream media wants right-wing viewers. Challenging right-wing viewpoints doesn’t increase the right-wing audience share for CNN and NPR, going along with their talking points does (well, not really, but CNN and NPR seem to think it does, despite years of evidence to the contrary).
Also, Biden got the most votes out of any candidate ever in 2020, and we still have a rise in right-wing extremism. Just over 2/3rds of the voting-eligible public turned out to vote in 2020. And I think I can safely say that right-wing extremism is worse now than it was in 2019. My local library is getting flack because they had the audacity to acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people this month. Like, protests and loud angry attendance at monthly board meetings. This has never happened before to my library.
Right-wing extremism is enabled and promoted despite how much the majority of this nation disagrees with it.
Any of them would be better than someone who is openly bought and paid for by the next biggest world power.
What the cinnamon toast fuck.
He wants people to distrust the mainstream media and listen to his own words. That almost sounds reasonable, but I wonder how clearly he’ll be able to enunciate with Putin’s dick in his mouth.
The guy’s a fucking nutter, and the fact that he’s polling at ~14% is absolutely appalling.
I’ve read a couple of things about this guy since joining lemmy, and none of it is quite news worthy. Beside his pedigree he’s just an idiot with a lot of misguided ideas who shouldn’t be given a platform.
This witless cunt is a literal traitor to our country, and so is anybody who lends him even a modicum of support. The FBI really needs to start doing their fucking job and pry into him and the weasels funding his traitorous ass.
As he finished saying this and exited the room did some shady guy hand him a burlap sack filled with money?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is also a buffoon
@sczlbutt there is literally nothing about him I like. How is he even a democrat? He doesn’t represent democratic views in the slightest.
Anyone can sign up to the party. He’s never been elected a Democrat though. And probably never will be.
Cripes this guy is next dumpster fire.
This guy has to be funded by the GOP and hoping everyone looks at his name and not anything he says.
