Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Needs to Drop Out Now

From a brain worm to siding with Putin on the war in Ukraine to picking up a dead bear cub, RFK Jr. is too much of a hot mess for the White House

A few months ago I took the above photograph of this “Vote Kennedy For President 2024” car trailer that was parked in a parking lot in Greenbelt, Maryland. In a way, I’m not surprised to see such a marked car trailer because Greenbelt is a pretty liberal area that has plenty of retired folks who still remember when Robert F. Kennedy ran for president in 1968. But just because there is another Robert F. Kennedy who is running for president this year doesn’t mean that it will be 1968 all over again.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has led a life that has frequently flipped between a charmed privileged life to tragedy to WTF weirdness. He is a member of the prestigious Kennedy family whose members have long engaged in philanthropy, social causes, and Democratic politics. His grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the director of the US Maritime Commission, and the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom around the time that World War II broke out. His father, Robert F. Kennedy, was a US Attorney General and a senator. One uncle, Edward “Ted” Kennedy, served as a US senator for many years. Another uncle, John F. Kennedy, was a senator before becoming the 35th president of the United States.

He has also experienced his share of tragedies at an early age. His Uncle John was assassinated when he was nine years old. At the age of 14 his father decided to run for president only to get assassinated at a campaign stop.

Soon after his father’s death RFK Jr. started using drugs, which included marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. He would be expelled from two boarding schools yet he managed to graduate from Harvard University, attend the London School of Economics, graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, and become a lawyer.

He became involved in environmental issues, especially taking on those who were responsible for polluting the Hudson River. He also focused on environmental racism as he fought on behalf of African Americans and Native Americans who were impacted by the creation of toxic waste dumps and extractive projects in their communities.

He had even done a stint as a broadcaster when he co-hosted the show Ring of Fire on the now-defunct Air America radio network. He continued with Ring of Fire when it became a syndicated program after Air America’s demise.

Despite his professional success, his personal life continued to be a hot mess. Not only did he struggle with drugs but he had other problems as well. He married his first wife, Emily Ruth Black, and had two children with her. Soon after their divorce in 1994 he married his second wife, Mary Kathleen Richardson, and had four children together. RFK Jr. was in the process of divorcing her when she committed suicide in 2012. It was said that she killed herself after she found his personal journal from 2001, where he wrote about having had extramarital affairs with 37 different women. That revelation has come back to haunt him, such as this tweet where he said, “I'm the only candidate who can beat President Trump.” It resulted in this response: “At what? Most extramarital affairs?”

He’s currently married to actress Cheryl Hines, who’s best known for her role in the TV comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Then RFK Jr.’s professional career made a 180-degree turn. He became an anti-vaxxer where he blamed vaccines for things like autism and peanut allergies. He lost his gig on the Ring of Fire show but he continued to speak about how he felt that vaccines aren’t safe. He also promoted other bizarre theories, such as his belief that gender dysphoria is caused by contaminated water.

The more he spouted bizarre conspiracy theories, the more he seemed to attract some strange company, starting with pro-Russian propagandist Alina Lipp.

He was photographed with MAGA Trump supporters Michael Flynn and Roger Stone.

He was even photographed with former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

He also began to repeat Russian propaganda about how Russia had only invaded Ukraine because it wanted to de-Nazify that country. He said that he does not support more military aid for Ukraine while saying that he stands by Israel. He blames Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for issuing a decree making it illegal to negotiate with Putin.

At one point he reached out to former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters on Twitter/X because they seemed to share the same opinions.

Roger Waters retweeted Kennedy's post thanking him for that post while admitting that he was blown away.

The Waters-Kennedy mutual admiration society turned out to be short-lived when RFK Jr. decided to backpedal by deleting his initial tweet to Waters. He made a new tweet where he explained that when he reached out to Waters, he only did so because they shared similar opinions regarding COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. It was only when Kennedy learned about Waters’ stand on the Israel-Palestine conflict that he deleted that first tweet while saying that he supports Israel's right to exist with secure borders and he supports the legitimate aspirations on the Palestinian people.

That interaction was pretty amusing but it looks like those two won't become close friends anytime soon.

His recent posts and the people he chose to be photographed with all seemed to indicate that RFK Jr. was straying from his family’s traditional Democratic leanings. Last year he decided to run in the Democratic primary against Joe Biden, which provoked all kinds of outrage due to fears that it could divide the Democratic Party so bad that Donald Trump would have an easier time winning the election. A few months later he decided to run as an independent so that is the current status of his campaign.

There were initially fears that Kennedy will be a spoiler in that he will siphon votes that would otherwise go to Joe Biden. There are polls indicating that RFK Jr. is more likely to siphon votes away from Donald Trump than Joe Biden. (There haven’t been any new polling on this since Biden dropped out of the race and Kamala Harris took his place.)

The more RFK Jr. forges on with his campaign, the more unpleasant skeletons from his closet has emerged to the point where one has to ask whether he is even too much of a train wreck for the White House. He admitted that he once had a parasitic brain worm that ate a portion of his brain then died. There were the allegations that he sexually assaulted his 23-year-old babysitter in the 1990s. There was also the revelation that he once ate a dog, although he later claimed that he actually ate a goat.

But the most bizarre thing about RFK Jr. that has come to light this week is his confession in a video that he did with Roseanne Barr where he admitted that on a trip outside of New York City in 2014 he found a dead bear cub lying on the side of the road. Okay, that’s not unusual. I’ve seen my share of dead wild animals on the side of the road but I usually ignore them and continue driving past them. But not him. He decided to pick up that dead cub because he said that he could skin the bear and put the meat in the refrigerator. Yes, he admitted that he intended to eat roadkill even though it was unknown how safe it really was to eat that meat.

After he put the dead cub in his car he went on to a falconry event and he was there for several hours. Then he rushed back to New York City so he could attend a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House. That dinner ran very late, which was an issue because he had a plane to catch at LaGuardia Airport but he didn’t want to leave a dead bear cub in his car for the next several days.

He happened to also have an old bike in his car so he came up with the idea to go to Central Park, dump the bear cub’s body there, then place the bicycle on top of it to make it look like a bicyclist had ran over the cub. So he did all that and caught his plane. Meanwhile someone stumbled upon a dead bear cub and the abandoned bike, which caused big news in the New York City area because no one had ever seen a bear in Central Park before. The news eventually faded and the authorities wrote it off as a mystery—until this week. As Mark Sundstrom tweeted this week, “Well, it took nearly 10 years but I got my answer………”, while retweeting his 2014 tweet where he wrote “WHO THE FUCK hits a bear cub with their car (prob by accident) and then brings it to drop it in Central Park?”

There’s clearly something wrong with RFK Jr.’s thought processes since new strange revelations about him are coming to light. Whether it’s from his past drug use or the worm in his brain or some combination of the two, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that he really isn’t mentally fit for the presidency. The fact that he’s sympathetic with Russia isn’t helping his case. Or the fact that he did that bizarre thing with a dead bear cub’s body.

As of this writing most of the members of the extended Kennedy family have not expressed any support or endorsement of RFK Jr. He literally has no family members who are siding with him. That fact alone says it all about his campaign. If RFK Jr. had any common sense, he would drop out now because it seems like the chances of winning this year’s election are extremely slim. I just can’t see anyone taking a look at RFK Jr. talking about his misadventure with a dead bear cub and then say “Now that’s the man I want to vote for in November!”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to drop out of the campaign before he humiliates himself any further. I can only imagine what his late father would’ve said about his son’s campaign. (LOL!)

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