Vaxxed ??? https://t.co/fcQTtwDZcG
— J (@OkayHeyJay) June 18, 2024
Per Politico, “RFK Jr. keeps burning through cash”:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot presidential campaign spent two and a half times more than it raised in May, the latest sign of the independent candidate’s cash crunch at a pivotal moment in the race.
His campaign reported just $6.4 million cash on hand at the end of the month, down from $10 million the previous month. That total — and the likelihood that he will not qualify for the first presidential debate next week — represents a major challenge for Kennedy as he continues to work to gain ballot access across the country.
The latest numbers highlight how Kennedy has failed to expand his fundraising base as the general election looms. His running mate, lawyer Nicole Shanahan, could be the campaign’s biggest financial lifeline. But while she has heavily supported the campaign previously, she didn’t put more money in last month.
The $2.5 million Kennedy’s campaign reported raising in May was down from what Kennedy received from donors the previous month, even excluding the $8 million Shanahan put in then. And it was the campaign’s second consecutive month with less than $900,000 in contributions from donors giving less than $200 — a sign that grassroots fundraising, which once seemed like somewhat of a strength of Kennedy’s — has not taken off.
The campaign also reported spending $6.3 million, while netting $1.4 million in new debt — all owed to Gavin de Becker and Associates, a security firm whose principal, De Becker, also has a financial relationship with a Kennedy-backing super PAC…
Shanahan (if you believe the nastier stories about how she acquired her billions) may be a grifter, but she’s not an idiot. She gave RatF*cker Jr a nice (desperately needed) chunk of change to get the VP slot, but I guess he or his fans aren’t doing enough to draw attention to her very serious CAUSES, so… she, at least, understands the ‘sunk cost fallacy’.
RFK Jr. has developed a pretty devout fan base, making these details about his struggles to auction off time with him all the more eye-popping @brittanyagibson https://t.co/KFM6LZ1Nft pic.twitter.com/WS9isidZjG
— Meryl Kornfield (@MerylKornfield) June 17, 2024
Another Politico joint, from earlier in the week:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign is on financial life support…
Kennedy has tried myriad gimmicks to bring in donations: Months of hawking $10 raffle tickets — Whale watching! The thrill of Falconry! Luxury sunset sailing adventure! — have only resulted in anemic small-dollar donation totals. The campaign has tried to attract larger donations by running online auctions for Kennedy paraphernalia and exclusive perks, but those efforts have never once hit their monthly fundraising goals. The campaign just launched a new play: Paying supporters 15 percent of any funds they help raise.
Without the $10 million cash infusion from his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, the campaign would be in debt.
Even the super PAC supporting Kennedy’s independent presidential bid is straining to expand its Rolodex of potential donors.
“There have been a lot of people who have told me at a very high level — donors, who can really make donations that are meaningful,” Tony Lyons, co-founder of American Values 2024, said in an interview, who “have been very clear that they want to see that Bobby is going to be on the ballot in most or all states, and they want to see polling numbers that are higher.”…
The campaign started with the raffle program in December, offering a whale watching trip in Hawaii with Kennedy and his wife, Cheryl Hines. Its later offerings included a “Rocky Mountain adventure” and a “VIP sailing experience” at sunset with the couple in California. Those raffle tickets were $10 each and aimed at growing grassroots donations — but the campaign’s small-dollar hauls haven’t grown.
In February, it also spun up auctions aimed at bringing in larger-dollar donors with new items every month. In the latest edition, a “personal phone call with Bobby” and a virtual meeting with Shanahan garnered two bids and a single offer, respectively. Several signed posters of Kennedy got zero bids. Three of the four “zip line with Kennedy” prizes went unsold. And an unopened issue of George magazine, published by Kennedy’s late cousin John F. Kennedy Jr., sold for just $550. The “buy now” price was $2,500…
Meanwhile, American Values 2024, the super PAC, could provide outside support to Kennedy’s bid, but instead it is being kept afloat by a single contributor: GOP megadonor Tim Mellon, who has given $25 million — about half of its total.
And the PAC’s second-largest donor, Gavin de Becker, has been using a curious “bridge funding” arrangement that cuts his eye-popping $14 million donation down to just $2.35 million after refunds. Super PAC donors who back Trump and Biden are pledging tens of millions to super PACs without taking big refunds…
There’s a certain lack of sympathy among the people who’ve been exposed to previous RFK Jr ‘campaigns…
Vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit says RFK Jr. is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 people in Samoa, most of whom were young children, due to his role in depressing vaccination rates on the island. @DecodingFoxNewspic.twitter.com/QICzTnBYIS
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) June 16, 2024
Baud
His backers got scared he was hurting Trump more.
eversor
I’m curious as to the “nastier” stories as to how she got her money because it’s pretty well known what happened.
She was a little known lawyer who was married and hung out at the places to get seen hanging out at. She met Brin, the Google founder, because she was at one of these places. Her husband at the time found the texts on her phone and wanted a divorce but backed out of the fraud charges when she threatened self harm. After that she married Brin and set off on a world of jet setting and yatching and said she was going to be a philanthropist on the level of Bezo’s current wife. She then cheated on Brin with Musk at a Ketamine fueled party and Bring divorced her and she got a billion dollars.
She was well known for taking lots of drugs and drinking a lot while married to Brin.
All that is out there and it didn’t come from non reputable sources.
Was it nasty that people called her a gold digger. I mean guess. But she was a gold digger and a serial cheater while married. Which made it kinda ironic when she met fellow crank Kennedy and he was gold digger her.
Neither Shanahan, Brin, Musk, or Kennedy come out looking good in this sorry series of events. Or anything else they’ve done. These people deserve each other and only matter because they have mountains of money. They’re all serial cheaters and obsessed with money and dangerous cranks (well Brin is not a crank) spreading dangerous ideas.
Feel sorry for the first husband though.
matt
He’ll have to get his fix doing something else.
RedDirtGirl
Good morning Jackals. These reports of RJK Jrs fundraising woes are the perfect birthday present to wake up to. Thank you AL. I am winding down a week’s vacation in Maine at the family home. Small potluck tonight with rhubarb cake and homemade ice cream. And I missed the heat dome in New York, so no complaints from this little island off the coast of Maine.
Jay
@RedDirtGirl:
Happy Birthday to you.
Baud
@RedDirtGirl:
🎁🧁🎂🎈🎊🎉
Baud
Via reddit
satby
@RedDirtGirl: Happy Birthday! Safe travels back home.
OzarkHillbilly
@RedDirtGirl: You have my sympathies.
hueyplong
@Baud: Only from a certain angle is that in the spirit of providing good news to RedDirtGirl on her birthday.
satby
Well yesterday I linked to a Krugthulu column from 2009 where he introduced the “spite voter” concept. Tuesday, he talked about the tariffs tcfg says he wants to impose if elected:
Ramalama
I looked up the spelling for execrable after reading about RatFK Jr because his essence teems with it. With (virus propping) execretions.
satby
On topic, I’m delighted the crazy antivax guy is running out of money for his sham campaign. He’s trading on his family name based on fond memories from 60 years ago and his environmental credentials, which haven’t been all that established in young voters either. He’s a distraction, and one less crazy threat to track is nothing but good.
TBone
Is it wrong that I don’t even have two fucks to rub together to start a fuck fire about this fucking guy?
narya
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday!
And happy solstice to the rest of you jackals.
matt
@satby: a literal tax on goods for sale isn’t a tax on consumers. war is peace.
TBone
Another little known accomplishment that deserves a wider celebration. I don’t know how Digby missed this, I knew about it, but I guess you really have to be on your toes to get good news about this admin. This is the new Civilian Conservation Corps for 2024 and I’m loving it!
https://digbysblog.net/2024/06/19/the-climate-conservation-corps/
comrade scotts agenda of rage
There are currently more signs up in the neighborhood for this crank than there are for Biden/Harris.
Mind you, that isn’t reflective of anything, we’ll trot out 80% of the vote for Biden/Harris like we did in 2020. It’s just funny that the not-taking-electoral-responsibility types are in enough to put up a yard sign. Probably around Labor Day is when the Biden/Harris signs will start popping up in numbers.
Heh heh, there’s even a Jill Stein 2024 sign up in the next block. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one, anywhere, before.
MomSense
@RedDirtGirl:
Happy birthday! Waving to you!
I can’t believe there are any sentient beings who actually like this RFKlown. He is so obviously unfit for elected office.
Same for TFG. How did so many people become so incredibly stupid?
Jay
@TBone:
You used 3 fucks there,……..
I stocked up in 2015 and had a bumper harvest in 2016, the 2020 crop was amazing.
I have fucks left to give for years
I can send you some, USPS, Fedex or Amazon,…..
MomSense
Oh there is some interesting gossip about Lindsey Graham and his alleged nickname for his butt moles. Ladybugs. Yup. I repeat this is gossip but I may start calling him Senator ladybugs.
Baud
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
At least you know which houses to TP.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Hey GOP, whatever happened to the sacred free market?
Oh… That’s right… The Chosen One said “Who needs them?” And good little lickspittles that you are, you echo it.
smith
But not in enough to buy a $10 raffle ticket, apparently. Performative contrarianism on the cheap.
Jay
@Baud:
Now that you have TP.
“Were you better off 4 years ago,…..?”
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: I clicked. It’s real. I thought it was going to be an Onion article but he’s really announcing that.
No nudes though. Just… not clear what it is actually.
OzarkHillbilly
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Safe to say, we don’t have that problem around here.
Ken
But is the corporate income tax still vile, because it’s really paid by the people who buy things the corporation sells? Or has TCFG changed that GQP “principle” also?
Jay
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
A cry for help?
Ken
He may be hoping for traffic from the people who show up and gawk at bad car accidents.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: There was one RFK sign and one Nikki Haley sign in our neighborhood. I think they’re both still there but I’d have to check.
The guy with the giant Tr**p flag hasn’t flown it all year. He’s flying a legit US flag, right side up and all the right colors.
MomSense
@Baud:
Oh god. The only onlyfans account I might be tempted to view is this French pastry chef who makes incredible pastries. I’ve heard his only fans is him baking and that sounds amazing. Otherwise no to onlyfans.
Anne Laurie
A half-thought-out attempt at setting up a drop for money laundering and / or blackmail payoffs?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@smith:
Another one for the clip file.
Normally when I see that, it’s of the Embarrassed Republican type whose voting glibertarian because they’re above it all or some nonsensical shit. In this case, I’ve met them and I think they’re doing this from the left side of the Horseshoe.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday! Sounds like a good stay in Maine
TBone
@Jay: send some to the NYC Library system, please!
(This is so NYC, using a favorite meme, I needed any excuse to share it):
https://x.com/nypl/status/1803444671261065606
I ❤️ NY
TBone
@MomSense: oh dear, I can’t unsee that information. 👀
WereBear
What a pesky dilemma for the voters of America. One candidate claims to have had a brain worm, while another demonstrates brain devolution daily, while yet a third occasionally stutters and performed a kick a$$ State of the Union.
Gosh darn, thinking’s hard.
Tony G
I offer my thoughts and prayers to this asshole. But, seriously, the obvious solution to Junior’s dilemma is to find another wealthy, divorced gold-digger (I’m too refined to say “hooker”) to throw some money at his campaign.
MagdaInBlack
@MomSense: Well..I sure am sorry I googled that….😐😉
Baud
@WereBear:
It is what it is. Just need to accept that most people don’t share our values.
TBone
@MagdaInBlack: 😂😆😖
Ramalama
@Jay: So… you haven’t converted your analog fcks for digital ones (the better to gift). Not a huge loss in the conversion, just something like 0.01% and no fees.
TBone
In case anyone wants to steal this meme like I just did:
https://susiemadrak.com/2024/06/19/uh-huh-34/
It’s a good ‘un
Baud
@TBone:
Nice.
OzarkHillbilly
Besides, hooker doesn’t fit. In my experience prostitutes generally favor having money thrown at them. So do I for that matter, I’m just not pretty enough for that to happen.
Ramalama
@RedDirtGirl: When I was a Masshole, I didn’t venture that much to neighboring states for vacay. My uncle had a beach house on the south shore. And I had friends with places to crash in P-town on the Cape. But boy did I love Searsport and Portland Maine when I reluctantly went beyond. Happy happy.
satby
They extended the heat advisory another day to 8pm Saturday. Heat and humidity will keep the heat index from 95° to low triple digits.
I have to go water while it’s only 76° out. And while I still have some will to live….(/)
TBone
Dotard has stumbled upon a new branding mechanism. In the process of vomiting up his word salad, he has come up with another doozy. Clean Fakes! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/trump-sure-seems-ok-cheap-fake-videos
Ramalama
@TBone: Biden could start talking about Fat Fakes.
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: just invent another useless supplement with a catchy name and you’ll soon be rolling in dough. I mean, if they can sell Fruits and Veggies pills like hotcakes, the sky’s the limit!
Ken
Great, now I’m imagining RFK Jr. singing “Along Came Bialy” as he fundraises his way through the Florida Villages.
TBone
@Ramalama: 😂👍
Jeffro
Exactly right. Why waste the dough if it’s just going to be a wash – at best – when it comes trying to kneecap Biden?
I do wish there was more coverage of trump’s anti-vax nuttiness. The whole “no vaccine mandates of any kind for schools” should be a real killer (pun almost intended) with parents of school-age kids. Fingers crossed!
Liminal Owl
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday!
Liminal Owl
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: One of the two houses in the neighborhood with visible Trump signs still has several up. (We haven’t driven past the other lately; he might too. Had a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner stretched across the whole front yard last I looked—it’s actually a reason we avoid that street.)
Visiting family in NH earlier in the year, we saw mostly Nikki Haley signs, and I think a few Jill Stein ones. We’ll be driving up to Maine for a few days and will see what’s showing there.
narya
@MomSense: I’ve been enjoying Next Baking Master on the Food Network. A bunch of contestants go to various masters of one ingredient or another (sugar, butter, chocolate) to learn techniques then make their own creations. The skill level is pretty high, IMHO, and the masters are amazing; higher-level than the various seasonal baking championships they do (though I like those, too, especially when Carla Hall is one of the judges).
Kristine
I don’t know anything about Gavin de Becker other than the fact that he wrote that book about paying attention to your spidey sense when it came to danger. Surprised to see his involvement here.
Though being a chucklehead about matters outside one’s area of expertise isn’t unusual.
Kristine
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday 🎈!
OzarkHillbilly
@TBone: No can do. I still have morals. I tried to have them surgically removed but the quack just took my money and ran. I couldn’t believe it, he sounded so sincere.
Tony G
@Tony G: It’s too bad there’s no vaccine available to prevent the onset of narcissistic grifting. Junior could have benefited from such a vaccine. Maybe he mooch a container of Gary Null’s “Green Stuff”.
Baud
@Tony G:
Fixed.
OzarkHillbilly
I’d drive by everyday in hopes they’d be outside just so I could point and laugh.
Shalimar
@Tony G: She’s also a lawyer, so the hooker part is inferred.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Liminal Owl:
Occasionally one will see some dude in a ginourmous pickemuptruck drive around certain parts of the City, not in the residential sections but south of Downtown typically, flying a massive Orange Fart Cloud flag. There’s probably half a dozen of that type who clearly need to relocate to the Western Slopes, or the godforsakeneasternplains where that behavior will be greeted with cheers and not snickers and eye rolls.
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@eversor: That’s platinum digging, I am lowkey impressed.
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@TBone: I’m in an especially cranky mood this morning because I have to go to the dentist and probably have a tooth pulled. Tbh I have six teeth altogether that probably need to go. So come sit by me.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone 😊 😊 😊
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: 😆
Now there’s an idea for a new supplement:
Do you have a problem with people? Take this pill and you won’t care! Fukitol!
That’s already in existence but you need a prescription. So, let’s skirt the FDA and sell it on TV no prescription necessary!
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@Ken: Florida was having trouble, what a sad, sad storyNeeded a new leader to restore its former glory
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@rikyrah: Good morning!
artem1s
So he’s got no fundraising staff. This is a sure tell that all the money is going into his or someone else’s pocket. And when the start whinging about not being able to get on ballots or into debates. You have to actually hire and pay experienced people to do those things. He had plenty of money to do that. Shanahan is VP because of the money but more important it provided match money for the federal dollars. Where did it all go? It’s always a grift with these third party wannabes.
TBone
@rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun): ouch. You are in good company though. I’m taking hubby to dentist today also (hence my mood disorder). Hubby had to have all of his teeth yanked because they were too far gone. Now his jaw has somehow “settled” and his dentures don’t fit, causing inner ear problems that lead to dizziness. I need dental work too but hubby is first in line. Gah! I hope your experience is painless in all senses of that word, especially the wallet. I’m gonna get fleeced today. They’re unscrupulous but I couldn’t talk hubby into choosing somewhere else. I volunteered to pay because he’s on SS and has no dental coverage (hence, all his teeth yanked).
Soprano2
This, 100%. How they could not understand that an anti-vaxx hero wouldn’t hurt TCFG more than Biden I have no idea. I guess they thought the Kennedy name was magic “liberal bait”.
WereBear
Early morning…
The American Western movie is about local, corrupt, control. Big Bad: “I make my own laws!” (Give Robin Hood a gun.)
Theme is always a cry for justice, answered or not. England, 1235. “No one is above the law.” We inherited.
The Western is our national myth, good and bad. But this baseline, of banding together to fight lawless and uncheckable power, has universal appeal.
Of course I’m going to “cry for justice.” MY heritage.
artem1s
@TBone:
I’m pretty sure it was in one of the feel good posts last month but you may not have recognized it because it was part of an announcement of expanding AmeriCorps.
Baud
@artem1s:
It’s in the morning thread AL just put up.
Harrison Wesley
@Jay: I thought the future was in crypto.
TBone
@artem1s: I’ve been aware of it since it was announced a few years ago, but I don’t know how Digby missed it (she said it was news to her and that surprised me).
Baud
@TBone: Maybe she reads the NYT.
TBone
@Baud: 😆😆😆
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@TBone: Thank God for New Jersey Medicaid- they’re paying for everything. Godspeed and good wishes for Mr. TBone! (And for you, too, I hope he is a good patient.)
Dental “insurance” is another facet of scAmerican life that we aren’t ready to talk about. I never understood why we treat it as an “option” along with vision insurance, as if teeth and eyes are aftermarket purchases and not things that can kill you if they go wrong.
Soprano2
@WereBear: What’s crazy about that is that there’s a conspiracy theory on the right that somehow Biden got some kind of drugs to help his cognition so he could give the state of the union and appear normal. There are no drugs that do that. Ask me how I know – everyone in my FB support group for spouses of people with dementia knows there are no drugs that improve cognition temporarily like that! They’re theorizing Biden got something that doesn’t exist.
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@Baud: Save some of that shade for this afternoon, gonna be 96 degrees here.
rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun)
@Soprano2: Which begs the question: why aren’t they giving TFCG these alleged drugs?
WereBear
@eversor: “The very thing that makes her rich, will make you poor.”🎸
TBone
@rebelsdad (aka texasboyshaun): 💙 that is such an apt description! Bernie has been advocating for these to be covered by regular Medicare but faces such strong headwinds…
All we can do is VOTE.
ETA you’ll be in my thoughts all day and thank you for yours!
WereBear
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday!
WereBear
@TBone: No. It listens.
WereBear
@Kristine: Likewise.
Don’t know if he’s still harsh on women who don’t leave. That was my sole criticism. Also, he comes by his own PTSD honestly.
Kay
There’s an RFK Jr “headquarters” in south Toledo I have now been by 4 or 5 times and it’s just a sign on a storefront. The storefront has two street facing windows and there is all kinds of stuff stacked in there, like it’s been vacant a long time. I’m convinced it’s a Potemkin headquarters.
These people are completely full of shit. I’m embarrassed that political media repeat what any of them say without checking all of it.
Kay
Kennedy lied abut his NY residency and his campaign lied about how many state ballots they have qualified for – he’s a liar and so are the (low quality) people he hires.
If you see a “headquarters” try to find it open or someone or something in there – you won’t.
MazeDancer
@RedDirtGirl:
Happy Birthday!
Heat depends on where you are in NY. Upstate- 92, but not humid. Long Island South Shore was 74. May be warming up.
MomSense
@narya:
I’ll have to check that out. The chef I’ve heard has an only fans is Cedric Grolet. I also love Amaury Guichon who makes spectacular things out of chocolate.
SiubhanDuinne
@MagdaInBlack:
OMG me too. Ugggggghhhh.
O. Felix Culpa
@Jeffro:
My dear man, if there were more coverage of all the Felon’s “ideas” you so quaintly call nuttiness that
deservesrequire coverage, there would be no room left for bootlicking. Is that what you really want?Soprano2
@Soprano2: Should be “would hurt”, I need more coffee this morning
Soprano2
@WereBear: You’d think he would understand that women are in the most danger after they leave a situation like that. He should talk to some of them to try to understand their thinking.
eversor
@WereBear:
Well in the end Brin is still rich. And she’s washed up. She’s one of those old people desperately trying to look young that really screwed it up at some point. And then she got grifted by a fellow anti-vax hack who ghosted her as she tried to latch onto the Kennedy brand.
Again. These assholes all deserve each other.
O. Felix Culpa
@Soprano2: Oh pshaw, you’re talking as if women were real people with reasoning skills and worth paying attention to.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
Since we’re talking about annoying rich people—Does anyone need a t-shirt withthe Virgin Mary being loudly class-conscious? (Do conservative American Roman Catholics, with their dabbling in the Prosperity Gospel, just not hear the Magnificat, or have they mislaid that part of Luke?)
Omnes Omnibus
@RedDirtGirl: HBD, RDG!
SiubhanDuinne
@RedDirtGirl:
Happy birthday, RDG!
Tony Jay
What next? Youth Hostelling with
Chris EubankFloyd Mayweather? “Knowing M.E., Knowing You” where RFK3 tours hospitals telling doctors how they’re doing it wrong with a soundtrack of ABBA hits? “Arm Wrestling with Simon & Garfunkel”?Monkey Tennis?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: @MagdaInBlack:
Have you two been getting enough sleep? :-) Because I am amazed that you would not be afraid to google that!
SD, have you been working on that secret thing we talked about?
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
No
Yes :-)
Omnes Omnibus
@Tony Jay: I am intrigued by the monkey tennis option.
JAFD
@RedDirtGirl: Happy birthday,, and many many more !
RedDirtGirl
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! Went for a long walk around the island and then spent an hour scraping and sanding a picnic table. This doesn’t sound like me at all.
RedDirtGirl
@MomSense: thanks! Waving back! So excited to hear about your new house!
RedDirtGirl
@Kristine: The Gift of Fear is the book and yes, I’ve heard good things about it. I stopped short when I saw his name mentioned. Thought it couldn’t be the same guy.
NotMax
Late to arrive.
RedDirtGirl
Have a happy!
Treat yourself to a birthday bagel.
;)
Tony Jay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Everyone is. It would be a definite hit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1le_8ZhOU
Ella in New Mexico
How much money would RFK jr take for a 10 minute sit down so I could tell him what a frigging egocentric jackass failson and looney tune he is? I recently got a bonus at work, so it’s that or some lottery tickets…..
Ruckus
@MomSense:
It’s very likely name recognition. His uncle was a rather decent president, he’s a loose cannon with only his family history to sell to voters. His uncle was decent and a good president, his father was not a bad politician, he seemed to inherit some money and not much else. He is anti vaccination during a time when vaccinations saved a lot of millions from covid, not to mention things like polio. I’ve personally known 4 people with polio, 2 my age, and 2 friend’s moms. So I may not be the best person to reflect upon some anti vax nut job, especially as his uncle was a good president and his dad, not a bad politician either.
MaryRC
@Kristine: I actually felt a bit sad when I found that Gavin de Becker was an RFK Jr supporter. His book “The Gift of Fear” was a big help to me and I guess I assumed that he was a smart guy in other areas too. If he were a Trumper, at least he might think that he’d be getting something for his money. Instead he’s throwing it away on this jackass. What a chump.
Manyakitty
@RedDirtGirl: sounds like a good start! May it be the first of many. Happy birthday!
MaryRC
@smith: He over-estimated the appeal of the “live like a Kennedy for a day” experience. Zip-lining, hiking, sailing? Memaw isn’t going to hand over her $10 for that.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@TBone: mayor cop is SO bad at his job
eta- it’s like he’s wrecking things deliberately.
which is what the gop wants.
like, the snooze criminal’s new tariff plan, if implemented, will crack the us economy, cause a global depression and destroy the western world…
which is exactly what putin wants.
@MaryRC: … tours of dealey plaza in a convertible cadillac?
strange visitor (from another planet)
@RedDirtGirl: happy birthday! hope you have a great year ahead.
brantl
He’s burning through his brain cells, too, but he won’t miss them as much.
brantl
@TBone: It probably says bad things about me, that I feel I instinctively know what “fuckfire” means….
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@Baud:George Santos announces OnlyFans account.
I wasn’t looking for an excuse to drink heavily, but thank you for supplying me with a great reason to.