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- Neoliberal@kbin.social
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- Neoliberal@kbin.social
Robert F Kennedy Jr is reported to be ending his challenge to Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and run instead as an independent candidate, in a move that could upset the 2024 race for the White House.
Kennedy, 69 and a scion of a famous political dynasty – a son of the former US attorney general and New York senator Robert F Kennedy, and a nephew of the former president John F Kennedy – will announce his run in Pennsylvania on 9 October, according to Mediaite.
“Bobby feels that the Democratic National Committee is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” the website quoted a “Kennedy campaign insider” as saying.
Vanity Fair has a long but pretty good recent interview with him. As with most people, he’s a complex dude, but he has an unfortunate lack of understanding of the scientific method and seems to think random internet news articles constitute evidence: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/rfk-kennedy-interview
Reminds me of my 70 year old aunts who get their news from Facebook and think sharing links to clickbait articles will convince me to change my worldview
He’s a nut job
He is a god damn loon, don’t give him so much credit lol
I attribute several avoidable deaths to him for vaccine skepticism.