Wow. Elections really bring out the nation's most disgusting, deplorable, degenerates.
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Wait until you see the candidates!
Lol
I really wanna go back to when if a candidate went 'yeeeeah' in too weird a voice we all just dropped them out of the running.
They're like national-level county fairs that way.
"I didn't eat that dog and assault that nanny, but if I did the brain worms made me do it - I'm not a church boy!"
This was the full quote for those of you who didn't read the article.
Actual quote:
The Vanity Fair article also features Eliza Cooney, a former part-time babysitter who worked for Kennedy between 1998 and 1999, alleging that he groped her in his kitchen. Kennedy declined to directly acknowledge the sexual assault accusation at first, instead dismissing “the other allegations” as part of a “very, very rambunctious youth.”
“I’ve said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said … I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have … so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,” Kennedy said, adding, “Vanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories, and I, you know, am not gonna comment on the details of any of them.”
When asked directly whether he denied sexually assaulting Cooney, Kennedy repeated, “I’m not going to comment on it.”
This comes right after he directly and at length denied the allegations that he ate part of a dog.
Also, this part of his very, very rambunctious youth happened (allegedly) when he was 45 and had several children.
Saying "I had a rambunctious childhood" and "I've got so many skeletons in my closet" like it absolves him from anything...
"Yeah, I strangled that hooker while high on coke and while getting blown by that other hooker. So what? Why are you surprised? I told you I had a rambunctious childhood!"
That's par for the course. Trump's "locker room talk" about the joys of sexual assault happened when he was in his 60's, but they still hand waved it away as if it was a minor transgression by a teenager.
Did you sexually assualt that poor woman?
"I'm no church boy"
That's a REALLY bad answer.
When a brain wormed, dog eating, sexual assaulter isn't even the worst candidate in the election your know you're in America baby.
its like the aliens have spliced together every shitty story plot we have ever broadcast on television and are now playing it back for us in our heads.
what. the. actual. fuck.
Cries in Venezuelan.
“He ate out a dog. It's a big difference.”
c/[email protected] is leaking
(Edit: did I link that correctly?)
The supposed dog eating would have been the same year as the supposed brain worm.
I wonder if you can get that brain worm from eating dog…
I know it's RFK and he's a bit of a wacko. But, you gotta wonder how far are magazines going to go to bait people into reading their articles to get clicks and advertisement money. RFK seems a bit of an easy target for that.
The sexual assault allegations don't surprise me, but the dog eating part?
I think some of these statements have to be taken with a grain of salt.
For context, there’s a picture of him miming biting into a roasted dog that he sent someone with a note that he could recommend a good restaurant for dog meat. It’s not just a random speculation.
He could've been joking. Doesn't mean anything.
That’s what he’s saying about it now, but it’s a reasonable question to ask at least.
This is a story about a story, but I've got to admit that's one hell of a headline
It seems like there is a maximum level of failsons an empire can accumulate before it collapses.
RFK Jr is a third wave failson. Trump is a second wave failson.
So it was a goat carcass then?
I know this sounds really weird to say but ....2 different events?
Umm... what
Yep…. This is where we are now. Presidential candidates that have to clear themselves of having been accused of eating dogs.
I mean, why not put all that good meat to waste after you shoot them?
I miss the goofy man with big ears and graphs
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault levied by a former nanny in the magazine, saying, “I’m not a church boy.”
In an interview with the “Breaking Points” political podcast released Tuesday, Kennedy called the Vanity Fair article “a lot of garbage” but acknowledged that his past included “many skeletons in my closet.”
The article alleges that Kennedy texted a message to a friend last year that included a photograph that showed him pantomiming eating a cooked animal carcass.
I said in my announcement speech that I have … so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,” Kennedy said, adding, “Vanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories, and I, you know, am not gonna comment on the details of any of them.”
I’ll keep talking about the fact that working families can’t afford houses or groceries because our last two presidents went on a $14 trillion debt joyride, paid for by hard-working Americans.”
The accusations made in the Vanity Fair article come at a trying time for Kennedy’s campaign as he seeks to expand his support across the country for his independent presidential bid.
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