In his speech on Friday, Mr. Kennedy implied that Mr. Trump had offered him a role in his second administration, dealing with health care and food and drug policy. “We’re going to reform the entire food system,” he said.

It’s worth noting that Kennedy’s health care policy is to bring back measles, that he eats roadkill, and had part of his brain eaten by a worm as a result.

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      The fact the GOP backed him thinking he’d pull voters from Democrats shows just how out of touch the GOP has gotten

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        Well, if you go strictly based off his positions on paper, or as posted on his website, he hits all the “progressive” points that would seem very attractive to a progressive independent or some more left democrats. Its a legit honest mistake to think he might be fairly left, based off when I was researching him a bit.

        But every time he opens his mouth in front of a camera it’s the most asinine right wing brain worm vomit you’ve ever heard, and I think they figured that out a little too late.

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          I mean, apparently he was a pretty good dude and an environmentalist for a long time.

          Then around the time he got a worm in his brain, he just went bat shit crazy for some weird reason…

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            I’m imagining Ratatouille, only it’s an anthropomorphized worm steering RFK Jr around by chomping on different parts of his brain. I want to say the worm would be voiced by David Cross. It’s almost making this bizarre timeline a little easier to process.

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          He is living proof that the Horseshoe Theory is correct and true

          EDIT: I thought we left reddit to get away from the mindless downvoting hivemind BS

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            Yeah…you’re right it doesn’t really make sense. I guess my thought was that he was supposed to be posing as an alternative liberal, but if he’s out, that’s irrelevant.

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          He may or may not know he was a spoiler, right now his most important task is to try and grab a hold of a cabinet position in whoever wins. He knows Kamala isn’t stupid enough to give his brain worm any power, but Trump is absolutely corrupt and stupid enough to do so.

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        I have a feeling that it was Trump’s idea, as he grew up in the decades when the Kennedy name meant something in politics, especially Democratic politics, so he figured the name would draw Democrat voters, not realizing that the Kennedy name hasn’t had any sway in Democrat politics for the last three decades or so, as the party moved on from the Kennedys long ago. Just showing again that Dastardly Don is old and out of touch.

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      With Kennedy out of the race, that frees up more of the oligarch money to bolster the Jill Stein and Cornel West campaigns instead.

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        So can you straighten this up for me? Because it’s not clear right now.

        Is Cornel West actually running? As in, does he think he’s running for office?

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          Yes, Cornel West is campaigning as an independent. Here’s his website if you want to learn more about his platform.

          Based on his stated policies, he’ll attract more leftist voters away from the Harris campaign as a spoiler candidate, whereas Kennedy was the “centrist” option who ended up pulling away more non-MAGA Republicans than he did conservative Democrats.

          West’s calls to disband NATO and end US involvement in Ukraine also makes him a favorable option for Russia.

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              he can’t achieve more than be a spoiler in Georgia.

              Yeah, but that alone is a big fucking problem (I say as a Georgian, and especially one who has been trying to raise the alarm about the MAGA sabotage being perpetrated in my state). Having a spoiler candidate on the ballot only makes it even more likely that the MAGAs find some excuse to refuse to certify.

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          He was running with People’s Party, then tried to run with Green Party, and is now running as an independent.