I was on a video call with my brother when that add aired... as my jaw slowly dropped and my eyes slowly widened over the course of that cringe-inducing 30 seconds, I couldn't even articulate the disgust I was feeling... my brother actually thought I was having some kind of stroke.
This ad was sooo bad, it didn’t make the NYT write up of SB ads. It was sooo bad it cost Sirgy Brins ex-wife $4million dollars she could have spent on something actually progressive, like prison reform. It was sooo bad it probably cost RFuckingKJr his entire family and anyone over 60.
It may've been /may still be strong with my elders, but there's no nostalgia for the era among my circle of 40-something age mates. (We're CT yankees) Kind of got lumped in my head with the other political murders about that time. I don't know what my Irish immigrant FIL thinks about it, though I suspect that being a kid in County Tyrone at the time would give him a somewhat different pov.
My grandmother gave my mother a mirror (like a purse mirror) with a picture of his grave, I remember seeing that, and not understanding it. But grammie made the pilgrimmage to his grave, to see "her" president off. He was very important to her generation of Irish-americans.
I see they had to trim quite a bit of it to get rid of the stuff that didn't apply, although they did keep the "young enough to do" line, which in RFKJR's case comes across more as defiance of his age than a recognition of youthfulness as it was with the original.
Note that the magenta discoloration of the original is due to film deterioration — it did NOT look like that originally. It looked, uh, black and white, since it was made to air on TV. Love that they didn't think that through...
He is a disgusting, possibly dangerous, idiot. I was friends (briefly) with a member of the Buckley fam (also awful) and they spilled allllllllllll the tea on RFKJR. Not like it wasn't already public record (blegh)
I think it's a given that RFK Jr is a piece of shit. His father and his uncles at least tried to not be pieces of shit. Everyone's mileage varies on how much any of them accomplished that goal, but no doubt Bobby junior has attained 100% asshole piece of shit. I don't like the Kennedys on principal, but at least some of the family is disavowing this shit, entitled, douche.
I would take him much more seriously about not knowing if instead of apologizing, he tore the PAC. a new one. Unlike Pendejo, Kennedy's can hire really good lawyers. That he is not talking lawsuit says all that needs to be said.
I do wonder who owns the copyright on the song because I bet they didn't get permission to use it.
What a fucking piece of shit. While I probably agree with most of Jack, Bobby (& even moreso Ted's) policy positions, what a fucking shit family to create this fucking turd. Fuck off and die from the political landscape of America. Forever.
I am not sure how much I would agree with Jack on everything (Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, etc), but ripping off your dead uncle's campaign is a shit move. And if he was not involved as he claims (I don't believe him) then not issuing a cease and decease to the PAC that is ripping off your dead uncle is a shit move.
Jack and Bobby were lucky that some of the most hare-brained schemes their lackeys came up with just fizzled. Google Castro and exploding cigars if you doubt me. I get it - they weren't in complete control of the newly-created CIA, but they were dumb enough to go along with frat-boy pranks that had national security repercussions.
Seems obvious to me that the only one who benefits from Trump's plan for America is the wealthiest man in the world, Vladimir Putin. How much has he promised to the Trump crime family to bring down the USA, and are they so naive that they actually believe he will pay up?
Everybody -- including the Trump billionaire "lawyer" funding this -- knows that that's not the way this is going to go, though
"A conservative Super PAC "American Values 2024" spent $7 million dollars on a 30 second Super Bowl ad supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential bid."
from Laurie Garrett (you know - the one with the Pulitzer who was right about so much ahead of the pandemic ... but not enough people wanted to take her advice)
The only healing that needs to be done is to develop a cure for the 30% of Americans who have become infected by the vicious pathogen known as Donald Trump
My favorite maternal uncle remains convinced their spiritual ancestors should've been deported the first time
But the U.S. didn't want to do that -- so we've been stuck with them ever since
My thought is as much as they keep threatening to leave ... they should not only be *permitted*, they should be *encouraged*
But their weeping wailing moaning enabling family members -- often "centrists" who claim to believe in democracy but aren't willing to make the Confederates leave (or even go to prison for all the Black churches & mosques they set on fire and murder people in) in order to attain it -- keep getting in the way
And also, there's never anything 'healing' in anything he says about anything. He believes in malign forces everywhere and can jeer at his last wife for being unable to bear more than two days after he left her without just --- just hanging herself! That's him. Gives you a sense of how he must have made her feel beforehand.
When I hear about it I think, what can the children of that woman think when he says these things? It's true his mother absolutely dumped him when his father died for some reason. But the result-- probably-- is he's a merciless person-- a really damaging person. I hope soon we can forget him. And Trump.
He was a major abuser of drugs when younger.This guy isn't smart enough to be merciless, just an addict redirecting. He shagged half the Eastern Seaboard and kept records/ratings of their performance. The family are horrified by him and his antics
He's not stupid at all. If what I've read is true, we're all benefiting and will go on benefiting from his environmental lawyering. He was an energetic genius then. A genius who was so placed that other countries and corporations were willing to speak to him and he took advantage of that. For the planet's good. And found a way to enable very young new lawyers to work effectively by giving them a pattern to follow. This is exactly the method of a smart, non-egotistical activist. Now he's just bitterness though and-- who can say why he says and does these wretched things?
As of last July, Timothy Mellon was the largest donor ($5 million) to the American Values Super PAC, which exists to support RFK Jr’s campaign.
Timothy is an heir to the Mellon banking fortune amassed by his grandfather Andrew Mellon, who also was Secretary of the Treasury under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Andrew advocated lowering taxes and reducing the federal debt. The Wall Street crash of '29 occurred during his tenure.
Timothy Mellon has given $20 million to PACs supporting Trump. In 2021, Mellon donated $53.1 million in stock to the State of Texas to pay for construction of walls along the southern border.
In his autobiography, Timothy called social safety net programs “Slavery Redux,” and complained bitterly about how the takers are sucking from the makers:
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
Because greedy little shits like Timmy Mellon refuse to pay their share of taxes. So it's left to those "hardworking folks" to take care of the people that he and his worthless peers refuse to help.
A man who has never had to work a second in his life for an existence of appalling luxury, to the point he he can drop life-changing amounts on money on a fashy hobby, has no call to be commenting on "hard working folks".
Shit, if he ever even noticed them, it'd be because he'd decided to fire someone in person to get himself a rare boner.
Mellon’s statement is shockingly ignorant, even after all the ignorance we’ve been exposed to. No one is living large with food stamps, WIC payments and government cellphones. Rising employment rates higher minimum wages are lifting more people out of the morass than anything Mellon, RFK Jr. or Trump ever did. And Obamacare benefits lots of hardworking folks.
I was on a video call with my brother when that add aired... as my jaw slowly dropped and my eyes slowly widened over the course of that cringe-inducing 30 seconds, I couldn't even articulate the disgust I was feeling... my brother actually thought I was having some kind of stroke.
Fuck off, asshole
(RFK,Jr. is the asshole, not his family members)
This ad was sooo bad, it didn’t make the NYT write up of SB ads. It was sooo bad it cost Sirgy Brins ex-wife $4million dollars she could have spent on something actually progressive, like prison reform. It was sooo bad it probably cost RFuckingKJr his entire family and anyone over 60.
I sure hope so. The family despises him already
and who under 60 would be *that* nostalgic for JFK that the name & old ad strongly moves us?
Yes, I'm 62, but his legacy was very stong in New England, where I grew up. He was a demi-god to my Irish grandmother.
It may've been /may still be strong with my elders, but there's no nostalgia for the era among my circle of 40-something age mates. (We're CT yankees) Kind of got lumped in my head with the other political murders about that time. I don't know what my Irish immigrant FIL thinks about it, though I suspect that being a kid in County Tyrone at the time would give him a somewhat different pov.
My grandmother gave my mother a mirror (like a purse mirror) with a picture of his grave, I remember seeing that, and not understanding it. But grammie made the pilgrimmage to his grave, to see "her" president off. He was very important to her generation of Irish-americans.
Did I just double post? dang computer. :(
fuck that guy . . . Bobby would slap him into next Tuesday!
Maybe he did and that’s the problem.
I think it was all the heroin he did.
I see they had to trim quite a bit of it to get rid of the stuff that didn't apply, although they did keep the "young enough to do" line, which in RFKJR's case comes across more as defiance of his age than a recognition of youthfulness as it was with the original.
Note that the magenta discoloration of the original is due to film deterioration — it did NOT look like that originally. It looked, uh, black and white, since it was made to air on TV. Love that they didn't think that through...
Ignorance is the trademark of all Republicans, including Junior.
He is a disgusting, possibly dangerous, idiot. I was friends (briefly) with a member of the Buckley fam (also awful) and they spilled allllllllllll the tea on RFKJR. Not like it wasn't already public record (blegh)
I think it's a given that RFK Jr is a piece of shit. His father and his uncles at least tried to not be pieces of shit. Everyone's mileage varies on how much any of them accomplished that goal, but no doubt Bobby junior has attained 100% asshole piece of shit. I don't like the Kennedys on principal, but at least some of the family is disavowing this shit, entitled, douche.
Apologies that I respect do not include the word "if".
If you look at his face you can see that he's the world's Most Miserable Cuss.
I would take him much more seriously about not knowing if instead of apologizing, he tore the PAC. a new one. Unlike Pendejo, Kennedy's can hire really good lawyers. That he is not talking lawsuit says all that needs to be said.
I do wonder who owns the copyright on the song because I bet they didn't get permission to use it.
What a fucking piece of shit. While I probably agree with most of Jack, Bobby (& even moreso Ted's) policy positions, what a fucking shit family to create this fucking turd. Fuck off and die from the political landscape of America. Forever.
I am not sure how much I would agree with Jack on everything (Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, etc), but ripping off your dead uncle's campaign is a shit move. And if he was not involved as he claims (I don't believe him) then not issuing a cease and decease to the PAC that is ripping off your dead uncle is a shit move.
Jack and Bobby were lucky that some of the most hare-brained schemes their lackeys came up with just fizzled. Google Castro and exploding cigars if you doubt me. I get it - they weren't in complete control of the newly-created CIA, but they were dumb enough to go along with frat-boy pranks that had national security repercussions.
Google the Cuban Missile Crisis. Google RFK telling that huge audience that MLK had been shot and was dead.
17 percent???
JFC, this country is full of morons.
17% of those who answer their landline or their cellphone for a number they don't recognize; or, you know, the morons.
Solid clarification.
Seems obvious to me that the only one who benefits from Trump's plan for America is the wealthiest man in the world, Vladimir Putin. How much has he promised to the Trump crime family to bring down the USA, and are they so naive that they actually believe he will pay up?
My avid Trump supporting in-law has been promoting this guy's campaign. He speaks to her inner anti-vaxxer better than Trump does.
Another hapless soul sucked in by Trump's lies Our only hope is some sort of massive cultist deprogramming effort. Most likely impossible
as long as he only siphons from trump i'm all about it
Everybody -- including the Trump billionaire "lawyer" funding this -- knows that that's not the way this is going to go, though
"A conservative Super PAC "American Values 2024" spent $7 million dollars on a 30 second Super Bowl ad supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential bid."
from Laurie Garrett (you know - the one with the Pulitzer who was right about so much ahead of the pandemic ... but not enough people wanted to take her advice)
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1757095119839191314
The only healing that needs to be done is to develop a cure for the 30% of Americans who have become infected by the vicious pathogen known as Donald Trump
Confederate poisoning?
My favorite maternal uncle remains convinced their spiritual ancestors should've been deported the first time
But the U.S. didn't want to do that -- so we've been stuck with them ever since
My thought is as much as they keep threatening to leave ... they should not only be *permitted*, they should be *encouraged*
But their weeping wailing moaning enabling family members -- often "centrists" who claim to believe in democracy but aren't willing to make the Confederates leave (or even go to prison for all the Black churches & mosques they set on fire and murder people in) in order to attain it -- keep getting in the way
So maybe they're the ones who need the cure
https://planamag.com/white-supremacy-is-systemic-narcissism/
And also, there's never anything 'healing' in anything he says about anything. He believes in malign forces everywhere and can jeer at his last wife for being unable to bear more than two days after he left her without just --- just hanging herself! That's him. Gives you a sense of how he must have made her feel beforehand.
He refused to pay child/spousal support, leaving her in crisis financially. Also, he was openly cheating on her with my former co-worker, blecccch
When I hear about it I think, what can the children of that woman think when he says these things? It's true his mother absolutely dumped him when his father died for some reason. But the result-- probably-- is he's a merciless person-- a really damaging person. I hope soon we can forget him. And Trump.
He was a major abuser of drugs when younger.This guy isn't smart enough to be merciless, just an addict redirecting. He shagged half the Eastern Seaboard and kept records/ratings of their performance. The family are horrified by him and his antics
He's not stupid at all. If what I've read is true, we're all benefiting and will go on benefiting from his environmental lawyering. He was an energetic genius then. A genius who was so placed that other countries and corporations were willing to speak to him and he took advantage of that. For the planet's good. And found a way to enable very young new lawyers to work effectively by giving them a pattern to follow. This is exactly the method of a smart, non-egotistical activist. Now he's just bitterness though and-- who can say why he says and does these wretched things?
As of last July, Timothy Mellon was the largest donor ($5 million) to the American Values Super PAC, which exists to support RFK Jr’s campaign.
Timothy is an heir to the Mellon banking fortune amassed by his grandfather Andrew Mellon, who also was Secretary of the Treasury under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Andrew advocated lowering taxes and reducing the federal debt. The Wall Street crash of '29 occurred during his tenure.
Timothy Mellon has given $20 million to PACs supporting Trump. In 2021, Mellon donated $53.1 million in stock to the State of Texas to pay for construction of walls along the southern border.
In his autobiography, Timothy called social safety net programs “Slavery Redux,” and complained bitterly about how the takers are sucking from the makers:
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘴, 𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴.”
Because greedy little shits like Timmy Mellon refuse to pay their share of taxes. So it's left to those "hardworking folks" to take care of the people that he and his worthless peers refuse to help.
🎯
A man who has never had to work a second in his life for an existence of appalling luxury, to the point he he can drop life-changing amounts on money on a fashy hobby, has no call to be commenting on "hard working folks".
Shit, if he ever even noticed them, it'd be because he'd decided to fire someone in person to get himself a rare boner.
jesus in a 'what if' universe my superpower would be kicking that mellon dude in the balls.
repeatedly.
Mellon’s statement is shockingly ignorant, even after all the ignorance we’ve been exposed to. No one is living large with food stamps, WIC payments and government cellphones. Rising employment rates higher minimum wages are lifting more people out of the morass than anything Mellon, RFK Jr. or Trump ever did. And Obamacare benefits lots of hardworking folks.
*Raises hand* I get my insurance through the ACA exchange, without it I would have none. It has saved my husband at least three times.
He's a white supremacist nepo baby
They all sound the same
https://planamag.com/white-supremacy-is-systemic-narcissism/
🎯A far too common species.