Tag: Robert F. Kennedy Jr

Just so you don’t think the elections all about Harris vs Dampnut, RFK the younger just had to remind of us of his existence with… THIS.

The decade-old question about how a dead six-month-old female black bear cub ended up in New York City’s iconic Central Park beneath an old bicycle has been answered. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. on Sunday confessed that he was behind the incident after a fact checker from the New Yorker called him to verify the story.
In a video he posted on X, Kennedy said he had come across the bear in the morning when he was going falconing; a woman in a van in front of him hit and killed the bear.
“So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” Kennedy said. “And you can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.”
But the falconing day went longer than expected, and he had to go straight to a dinner in the city at Peter Luger Steakhouse, he recounted. That, too, ran late, and Kennedy said he realized he had to go to the airport and would not be able to go home to Westchester first.
“And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” he said. “So, then I thought you know at that time this was the little bit of the redneck me. There’d been a series of bicycle accidents in New York they had just put in the bike lanes and so a couple of people were getting killed and it was every day and people badly injured every day it was in the press.”
He said, “I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea.”
Kennedy mentioned that in addition to the dead bear cub, he had “an old bike in my car that somebody asked me to get rid of.”
“I said let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll make it look like it got hit by a bike,” Kennedy recalled. What he did not expect was the media attention the stunt would attract.

To be honest I don’t recall this story from back in the day, but, well, it caused a fair bit of consternation at the time cos apparently bears aren’t something you normally find in Central Park NYC. Somehow he got away with this ludicrous plot—I mean, could a bicycle actually do fatal damage to a bear cub—until now, and I can’t imagine why he’s waited until now to admit it, nor what reaction he thought he would get. American presidential candidates, everyone: wouldn’t eat a human, but would’ve eaten a bear had he not been too busy playing with birds… Also, this was a couple of years after he was found with a brain worm that ate part of his brain and died (which tells you how good his brain evidently was), so I don’t know if he wasn’t drinking but I’m fairly sure he wasn’t thinking either…

Astonishingly, this is not actually a joke. The younger Bobby K. was responding on Fox’s News Nation to a Vanity Fair profile of him including a… charming photo of him chowing down on a whole barbecued animal which the article speculated was a dog; Junior harrumphed that it was actually a goat, and for some reason felt the need to clarify that he would eat anything except dog, monkey, or human. And the above picture is how another Fox show, The Five, reported the conversation… the above way. I mean, I suppose it’s nice to know RFK Jr wouldn’t eat another human being, it’s just that no one was accusing him of cannibalism in the first place… still, now I feel the need to know where Biden and Trump stand on eating humans, and whether or not the phrase “I wouldn’t eat a human” actually means Kennedy would eat more than one…

Yeah, the Kennedys are not happy about Bobby Jr splitting off from the Democrats, but I couldn’t see him doing much else; he’s become so removed from them that they couldn’t have let him run for them. The question now is how much damage could he do to the Democrats by splitting the vote, and because he comes from THAT family which he’s kind of also abandoning, but he could be be equally harmful to the Republicans cos he’s probably drawn off a bunch of the far-right antivax dickheads they’re relying on. I don’t know. Maybe he won’t have much if any effect in the long term.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting

Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign descended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting Tuesday night.
The White House hopeful attended the affair at Tony’s on the Upper East Side, no doubt hoping to impress on the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate his worthiness to sit at the very same Oval Office desk once occupied by his late uncle.
But a shouting match over climate change broke out between two boisterous old men, sending the evening down an extremely unfortunate path.
The gaseous exchange — to which Page Six bore reluctant witness — began after a guest asked Kennedy, founder of the ecological organization Waterkeeper Alliance, about the environment.
And it seems that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert, the host of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the top of his lungs: “The climate hoax!”
Meanwhile, octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was roused by the abrupt rumpus.
Haden-Guest suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his longtime pal Dechert, calling him a “miserable blob.” […]
Here, it seems, Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”
The room, which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy’s campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Dechert was farting at Haden-Guest personally or at the very notion of global warming.

I normally wouldn’t read Page Six, let alone post anything from it, but this just fills me with joy. If RFK2 weren’t the person he is, I’d almost feel sorry for him, and I’d be wondering why Doug Dechert was even invited; he’s a right-winger who’s apparently helped get book deals for a bunch of other right-wingers (including professional racist Laura Loomer) who apparently couldn’t even get the people at Regnery to look at them. But RFK2 is who he is, so, you know, fuck him. Not like his own publisher doesn’t have some kind of dubious books on its list, too…