Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The revolution will be supervised.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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If you scratch any conspiracy theorist, you’ll find an anti-Semite underneath:

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

I think I have had my fill of this asshole.

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  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    Now they’ll have to move on to No Labels.

    In fact, the FTF NY Times has an article up about the “centrist” group right now.  With no reader comments allowed.

  3. 3.

    Jertian

    I wonder if I can get my alma mater to rescind the honorary doctorate they awarded him years ago.

  6. 6.

    Ken

    At the very least I’m hoping from an announcement by the DNC starting, “Any lunatic can say they are a Democratic candidate — and has — but…”

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    Always new reasons for people to hate us.

    People who claim Jews control everything don’t seem to realize they wouldn’t be breathing enough oxygen to spew their bullshit if we did.

  9. 9.

    pacem appellant

    I’m sure the families of deceased Chinese and Jewish victims of COVID-19 are super excited about this “targeted” bio weapon. /s Can we yeet this guy into outerspace finally?

  10. 10.

    Baud

    The good news is it’ll be that much easier to dismiss the howling for Biden to debate RFK Jr. out of hand.

  11. 11.

    MisterForkbeard

    His response to this is really bad, too. Basically, “I did nothing wrong and it’s JUST THE SCIENCE that I’m completely accurate about reporting. Also, this was off the record and it shows just how much the MSM wants to shut me up”

    Meanwhile, the blue checks are eating it up. The blue check really is the best indicator of having one’s head up one’s ass.

    EDIT: Jason, David Sacks and the rest of the pro-russia idiots have all come out. “Of COURSE the United States is developing ethnically targeted bioweapons. Are we just not allowed to talk about this ever? Also, the MSM is really showing how much they’re afraid of RFK here, so he should be president. I am not a crackpot/anti-semite.”

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    Per RFK Jr’s bat-shit crazy theory, why spare only Ashkenazi Jews? Do the Chinese have some kind of problem with, say, Sephardic Jews?

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    thank you all so much for the donations!

    I’m running a little late John. I have to figure out the Zelle and Venmo shit. Might be the middle of next week before I do.

    tom

  16. 16.

    JPL

    @Amir Khalid: Although it is not a funny topic, that comment did make me laugh.

    It’s like the Arizone rep who is now saying he didn’t mean colored people.   Then what did you mean?

  17. 17.

    Martin

    @Baud: But without a debate how will we know if Biden wasn’t the one who unleashed this pro-Jew bioweapon? What is he hiding?

  20. 20.

    JPL

    @Martin: RFK jr stated that trump was the best debater since Lincoln.   That could be his most way out there comment, or at least a close second.   When the orange clown was stalking Hillary on stage, who among us didn’t think of Lincoln.

  22. 22.

    MattF

    I’m somewhat irked with myself that this came as a surprise to me. That said, I’m willing to put serious money on the proposition that it was not a surprise to the media scrum surrounding RFKJ. They knew and stayed quiet.

  23. 23.

    Jinchi

    A crypto enthusiast who thinks vaccines are poison, wants to put Dr. Fauci on trial, believes the Ukrainians are only fighting because the West tricked them into it, and is an anti-Semite to boot.

    How is it that these guys check literally all the boxes, every single time?

    Why not just sample a couple of prime conspiracies from the Qanon collection? You don’t have to buy the whole thing.

  25. 25.

    Alison Rose

    @Amir Khalid: We’re the powerful ones. When people talk about Jews controlling the government, running Hollywood, space lasers, etc, the Jews they’re picturing are Ashkenazi because that’s what most people are familiar with. I’d bet if you asked most of the goyim in this country to name the different diaspora and ethnic groups within Judaism, they wouldn’t even know what the hell you meant.

  26. 26.

    Kent

    @Denali5:How on earth can this person claim to be a Democrat?

    Because he can’t ratfuck the Democrats if he runs as a Republican.

  29. 29.

    Jinchi

    Speaking of Qanon, have they tried to arrange a meetup between RFK Jr. and the resurrected JFK Jr., or have they decided he is JFK Jr.

  30. 30.

    steppy

    But it won’t, although he was always done. I’m afraid we’re going to have to hear his, and Williamson’s, shit until the summer of 2024. Please be prepared to sprain your eyes rolling them. I see no alternative.

  31. 31.

    Comrade Misfit

    Quibble:  Scratch a COVID conspiracy theorist and you’ll find a Nazi.

    RFK,Jr.’s been a few bricks shy of a full hod for a very long time.  He’s a nepo-baby who has been cruising off his family name for his entire life.  Sort of like His Orange God.

  33. 33.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    What’s old is new, again:

    The persecution of Jews during the Black Death consisted of a series of violent mass attacks and massacres. Jewish communities were falsely blamed for outbreaks of the Black Death in Europe.

    ***
    Jews were frequently used as scapegoats and false accusations which stated that they had caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells were circulated.[4][5][6] That is likely because they were less affected than the other people[7] since many Jews chose not to use the common wells which were located in towns and cities.[3]

    And even if Jews died at a lesser rate, it can be attributed to the sanitary practices Jewish law.

    For instance, Jewish law compels one to wash his or her hands many times throughout the day. In the general medieval world a person could go half his or her life without ever washing his hands. According to Jewish law, one could not eat food without washing one’s hands, leaving the bathroom and after any sort of intimate human contact. At least once a week, a Jew bathed for the Sabbath. The sanitary conditions in the Jewish neighborhood, primitive as it may be by today’s standards, was always far superior to the general sanitary conditions.

    Jewish law also prescribes certain sanitary conditions related to burial of the dead. Leaving corpses unburied not only abetted the conditions that spread the bubonic plague but typhus and other diseases as well. The Jews, on the other hand, had a unique sense of community that not only led them to feel a responsibility to attend to the sick and dying, but caused them to always maintain a formal burial society.

  35. 35.

    JPL

    @Alison Rose: What color are the Jewish people?  I just heard that was a topic among the assholes.  Now I get to use my favorite term when I’m stumped.   WTF

  36. 36.

    CaseyL

    Calling yourself a Democrat when you very clearly are not one should be sufficient to bar you from the debates.  But things didn’t work that way in 2016 or 2020, so who knows.

    I definitely do not want to see this asshole on stage for a debate.  I want to backhand him hard every time I see his face.  What a disgrace to his name.

  37. 37.

    Ken

    @Amir Khalid: Maybe his campaign manager told him, “Remember we don’t say ‘the Jews’ any more, say ‘cosmopolitan financiers’,” and he got mixed up.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    Today’s horrifying yet completely unsurprising read:

    A coach accused, again and again

    In 2019, Conal Groom, a former Olympic rower and U.S. national team coach, dropped seismic news on his Seattle-area junior athletes and their parents: He was leaving town.

    “I will give you a moment to breathe and collect your thoughts,” Groom wrote in an email. “The mark we have left on rowing in this region will not be erased anytime soon.”
    […]

    An investigation by The Post revealed a years-long trail of records documenting allegations against Groom, including hundreds of pages of police reports, emails, text messages and diary entries. In those records, and in interviews, male and female athletes claimed Groom verbally and physically abused them. Two rowers he trained as underage girls, including his alleged victim in Santa Ynez, said they now believe he sexually groomed them. The results of those alleged abuses, athletes and their parents say, were devastating: suicidal ideation, persistent panic attacks and rowers abandoning a sport once central to their lives.

    But the allegations against Groom were routinely ignored or downplayed, The Post found, including by regulators. When USRowing, the sport’s governing body, was confronted years ago with accusations against Groom, its lawyers produced a 198-page report that confirmed some of those claims. Yet the report was not released publicly, and the organization continued to hire Groom to lead junior athletes. And for months after Groom was accused of attempted sexual assault in 2021, regulators did not bar him from training minors.

    Yes, his last name really is ‘Groom’.

  39. 39.

    Alison Rose

    @Frank Wilhoit: In some circles, yes. Because while it is true that criticism of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, it is also true that it’s not necessarily NOT antisemitic. But Israeli Jews comprise members of many diasporas.

  40. 40.

    Ken

    @Jinchi: Why not just sample a couple of prime conspiracies from the QAnon collection? You don’t have to buy the whole thing.

    But it all holds together. Without the vaccine microchips, how would the traffickers locate the teens for adrenochrome extraction and take them to the secret Chinese biolab in the basement if the Ukrainian pizza restaurant?

  41. 41.

    Jackie

    @JPL: That’s RFK Jr signaling to TIFG he’s open to being his VP.

    Stoking the ego is requirement #1.

  42. 42.

    Alison Rose

    @JPL: Because they do not want us to be white. Which I’ve always found amusing considering I’m about two shades away from Casper the Friendly Ghost.

  45. 45.

    Jerzy Russian

    @dmsilev:    We need to settle the writer’s strike.  The replacement writers for this timeline are just phoning it in.

  49. 49.

    Noskilz

    I suspect conspiracy theorists tend to go the full crazy buffet option because if they are puddingheaded enough to buy into one, it’s not as if they are  going to suddenly bring to bear amazing critical thinking skills against adding new conspiracies to the list.

  51. 51.

    Kay

    @Jinchi:

    Ukrainians are only fighting because the West tricked them into it

    He believes they’re making the targeted infectious agents in labs in Ukraine. He says it after he describes the targeting.
    Have they identified the idiots at the table with him yet? The people nodding along? What basement did they crawl out of?

  52. 52.

    Honus

    @Jackie: Manchin is dead meat. Justice will take his senate seat (it is impossible for a democrat to win in West Virginia now) and it’s not like democrats will flock to him in a presidential election.  He may pull a few republican never trumper votes but he’s not going to get any significant democratic support. He needs to get a Fox pundit slot but he’s really not articulate or interesting enough for that.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    @Denali5:

    How on earth can this person claim to be a Democrat?

    There have always been progressives and unaffiliated lefties who see Big Pharma as evil. It only takes a slight nudge to push them over into loony town.

  54. 54.

    JCJ

    @Alison Rose: Former frequent commenter Mnemosyne (sp?) would often cite a Chris Rock routine with a YouTube clip “That train is never late!”

    Seems applicable here.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    We should have a pool on when RFK Jr shows up in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

  56. 56.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @dmsilev: “Groom” oh for fucks sake…really? I’d say ‘fire the writers if the writers weren’t out on a legitimate strike.

  57. 57.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @dmsilev: ​
     These types seek out positions of authority over young people to find their victims. Those who seek out people to be in positions of authority over young people need to be alert to this singular fact.

  59. 59.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Brachiator: Big Pharma is evil, but not in the ways these people think they are.  They’re evil in the same way AMTPT is evil.

  60. 60.

    Brachiator

    Maybe there has been a post about this already, but I just saw this at the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. The claim is that the No Labels group is going to field a third party candidate.

    No Labels, which pitches itself as a centrist movement to appeal to disaffected voters, has secured a considerable amount of funding and is working behind the scenes to get on Presidential ballots across the country. The group has yet to announce a candidate, but “most likely we’ll have both a Republican and Democrat on the ticket,” Pat McCrory, the former governor of North Carolina and one of the leaders of No Labels, tells David Remnick. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are reportedly under consideration, but McCrory will not name names, nor offer any specifics on the group’s platform, including regarding critical issues such as abortion and gun rights.

    That opacity is by design, Sue Halpern, who has covered the group, says. “The one reason why I think they haven’t put forward a candidate is once they do that, then they are required to do all the things that political parties do,” she says. “At the moment, they’re operating like a PAC, essentially. They don’t have to say who their donors are.” Third-party campaigns have had significant consequences in American elections, and, with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden historically unpopular, a third-party candidate could peel a decisive number of moderate voters away from the Democratic Party.

    Explains Manchin, I guess.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    There is an argument

    Yeah, right. There is an argument it was created by denizens of Pluto as payback for us demoting their homeworld.

  67. 67.

    Tim Curtin

    @Jinchi:

    There are no brakes on this roller coaster they’ve built themselves.  Once you’re on, you can’t stop.

  68. 68.

    Ben Cisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    The stoopid, it BURNS!!!

    Fact is, if the media wasn’t fluffing this shriveled nutsack of a humanoid, no one would know he’s running.

    I don’t actually advocate lining the MSM against a wall, but I am beginning to understand the sentiment.

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    For those wondering, here’s where this stuff is coming from to hook people like RFK Jr:

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Amir Khalid: He most likely doesn’t actually know that there are Sephardic Jews, let alone what Ashkenazi and Sephardi really mean. Not that it would matter ethnically as there’s no real differences. Sephardic Jews are Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent. Ashkenazi and Sephardi is really about differences in rabbinic interpretation of Judaic Law to inform the practice of Judaism between the senior rabbis in different parts of Europe. If you look at the Israeli Jews in the orthodox Sephardic political parties and movements, they’re ethnically indistinct from the Israeli Jews in the orthodox Ashkenazi political parties and movements. Where you see a major ethnic division is with the Mizrahi Jews, which are Jews of Arab and Persian descent  – Middle Eastern Jews. Also, the Ethiopian Jews. And, of course, the Jews of Asian descent, which includes the descendants of the Indian Jews (the white and black Jews of Cochin/Kerala), as well the Central Asian Jews, the Jews of the Steppes (on both sides), the Jews of China, and in my family’s case, whichever family members went from the Mongolian Steppes into Korea for a bit, then back into and across the Steppes into Imperial Russia, before my maternal great grandmother walked Deity knows how many hundreds of miles till she reached a port, got on a boat, and then came to the US.

    Additionally, the only major genetic markers that show up distinctly as Jewish is a couple for the genetic disease Tay-Sachs and one combination for Jews who descend from the Cohanim, the priestly caste (usually people with last names like Cohen, Cohan, Keohane, Kahn). The other group that has this latter unique marker are the Palestinians, which provides something of a genetic confirmation for what we know: the Palestinians were originally Judeans who did not go into exile and first embraced Christianity and then Islam. Which only makes the dispute that much more tragic.

  73. 73.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: That was my 3rd cousin. My 3rd cousin invented the laser as part of his doctoral research. Let me know if you want the friends and family discount to book time on it.

  74. 74.

    Jackie

    @Honus: “ He may pull a few republican never trumper votes…”

    Dems need as many never trumper votes as possible as we are divided almost 50-50 by partisan voters. So, yes, Manchin is taking votes away from Biden. That’s important in purple states. And for voters who are ageist – altho Manchin isn’t exactly a spring chicken himself.

  75. 75.

    Ruckus

    @Scamp Dog:

    With RFK Jr you start at the bottom and work your way down.

    You will likely still be too high but at least your odds of hitting it reasonably close are better.

  76. 76.

    Alison Rose

    @Adam L Silverman: Yeah, most people know very little about us, yet in general, wherever they fall on the prejudice spectrum, they tend to think they know a lot because they watched a Woody Allen movie once or something. As far as what they “understand” about our ethnic and geographical variety, my own background is basically what they view all of us as: Eastern European (Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, mostly) Ashkenazi with pale skin and dark hair that turns into a nest of frizz and curls with half an ounce of water.

  79. 79.

    bbleh

    @Jackie: @Honus: @Brachiator: concur re Justice.  Manchin is just doing this for the brand enhancement.  Rumor a while back was that he would bail on the Senate and run for Gov, which he’s been before, and I can see that MAYBE working in WV.

    The greater danger is the protest-vote effect.  Totally unclear to me whether that would hurt Dems or Reps more: there’s a LOT of Reps who would welcome a sensible moderate centrist [insert other Beltway-pundit buzzwords] as an alternative to TFG or a [shudder] Democrat.  But there’s a long way to go yet, and if Manchin actually does sign on, it will only cement his status as a clueless tool.

  80. 80.

    Jackie

    For Floridian jackals:

    “Some people” are starting to call Pudd’n Boots DePast😂

    “Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has fired roughly a dozen staffers — and more are expected in the coming weeks as he shakes up his big-money political operations after less than two months on the campaign trail.
    Those who were let go were described to NBC News by a source familiar as mid-level staffers across several departments whose departures were related to cutting costs. The exits come after the departures of David Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, veterans of DeSantis’ political orbit, which were first reported by Politico.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-fires-roughly-dozen-staffers-campaign-shake-rcna94470

  82. 82.

    Ken

    @Jackie: I think the source must also be outside the campaign, or at least skeptical of its chances. Otherwise we’d hear the usual nonsense about creating a lean machine laser-focused on priorities, 100% dedicated to reaching the White House, blah blah blah.

  83. 83.

    Tony G

    @Alison Rose: Good lord, what a piece of shit this guy is.  The fact that he chose to make these remarks in New York City — home to about 1.6 million Jews and more than a half-million Chinese-Americans — is just extra special.

  86. 86.

    Brachiator

    @bbleh:

    The greater danger is the protest-vote effect.  Totally unclear to me whether that would hurt Dems or Reps more: there’s a LOT of Reps who would welcome a sensible moderate centrist [insert other Beltway-pundit buzzwords] as an alternative to TFG or a [shudder] Democrat.

    Of course , Biden is a sensible moderate centrist, so where is a more moderate Democratic Party challenger coming from?

    Turnout in 2020 was high. Where are all the supposed GOP moderates hiding?

  87. 87.

    Cliosfanboy

    @Jinchi:

      it’s called “crank magnetism ” (seriously).

    I keep thinking there’s a Chinese food at Christmas joke in this somewhere.

  88. 88.

    Dan B

    @Adam L Silverman:  We visited Cochin in 2001.  We went to Jew Town, none left, sadly.  Cochin is 8° North, very hot.  It was a major trading port for millenia which I believe explains the Jewish presence.  Kerala is a communist state – democratic.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @Denali5:

    How on earth can this person claim to be a Democrat?

    If it wasn’t for history it would be easy to ask how can this person claim to be human.

  90. 90.

    tobie

    @JCJ: Funny you should mention Mnemosyne. I was wondering what happened to her. I liked her comments, her irreverence and her impatience with bullshit.

  91. 91.

    Yutsano

    Oh Cole. You know this won’t be the end of him. If anything, he’ll probably pick up steam because now the MSM have a new shiny exciting toy to write about and rack up their expense accounts. So fresh! So new! So little work they need to put in now!

  92. 92.

    Soprano2

    @Honus: They don’t care if he’s articulate; he’s willing to criticize Democrats, so that’s good enough for Fox.

  93. 93.

    BR

    @Baud: ​

    This is my takeaway as well. Team Biden can ignore him now (not that they weren’t already, but even more).

  94. 94.

    Ohio Mom

    @tobie: Mnemosyne gave up commenting to have time to write romance novels, which she is doing successfully. She dropped back in for a thread when Roe was overturned, and it was lovely to see her again, I also miss her.

  96. 96.

    Bill Arnold

    If RFK Jr actually even skimmed the papers that he pontificates about, he would not have made this particular mistake (or many others). E.g. a gene of interest is present in 1.2 percent of the Askenazi Jewish population. Not significant.
    ACE2 coding variants in different populations and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 binding affinity (Fedaa Ali, Menattallah Elserafy, Mohamed H. Alkordi, Muhamed Amin, December 2020)

    CE2-K26R; which is most frequent in Ashkenazi Jewish population decreased the SARS-CoV-2/ACE2 electrostatic attraction.
    …
    The K26R variant which decreases the ACE2-virus binding was found to be most frequent in the Ashkenazi Jewish population (1.2%).

    Curiously, I found the paper linked above in the long list of references for a anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist’s long rant about COVID-19 and vaccines against it as a Jewish plot. Flavor, not gonna link because it the url is a personal one that probably has a watched access log.

    The Author believes that Mossad intends to kill billions of people.

    I would not be surprised if it were revealed that JFK Jr or people who he closely associates with have read it.

  97. 97.

    mrmoshpotato

    If you scratch any conspiracy theorist, you’ll find an anti-Semite underneath:

    Not going to read.  Not even the comments.

    Ain’t that the fucking truth! Godfuckingdamnthem!

  98. 98.

    yellowdog

    @Tony G: I am of Sicilian descent. The part of Sicily closest to Tunisia. I some times refer to my self as Off-White.

  100. 100.

    Chris T.

    @bbleh:

    personally, I NEVER bought into that early-20th-century notion that the Irish were White. I mean, if standards don’t last, then they don’t mean anything!

    What, you’re gonna deny me my whiteness for being half Irish? I guess I’ll have to fall back on the other (Slavic) half… oh, wait, oops.

  102. 102.

    jlowe

    That should be the end of him? Nah. There’s still too much squeaky ad revenue left in that media chew toy.

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