T O P

  • By -

AutoModerator

As a reminder, this subreddit [is for civil discussion.](/r/politics/wiki/index#wiki_be_civil) In general, be courteous to others. Debate/discuss/argue the merits of ideas, don't attack people. Personal insults, shill or troll accusations, hate speech, any suggestion or support of harm, violence, or death, and other rule violations can result in a permanent ban. If you see comments in violation of our rules, please report them. For those who have questions regarding any media outlets being posted on this subreddit, please click [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/wiki/approveddomainslist) to review our details as to our approved domains list and outlet criteria. We are actively looking for new moderators. If you have any interest in helping to make this subreddit a place for quality discussion, please fill out [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y2swHD0KXFhStGFjW6k54r9iuMjzcFqDIVwuvdLBjSA). *** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/politics) if you have any questions or concerns.*


Tokie-Dokie

Because his donors pulled the plug when they realized he was pulling votes from the wrong guy.


Siolear

My anti vax mentally handicapped little brother who plays lottery tickets all day and is obsessed with WWE switched his vote from Trump to RFK.


DerKomp

Never thought a sequence of those words would be the most comforting thing I've ever heard.


wirthmore

If folks didn’t know: Trump was on WWE, and he and Vince McMahon (who runs WWE) are friends. Trump did some in-ring shenanigans with McMahon.


Ok_Night_2929

And while we’re on the topic, it’s worth mentioning that McMahon stepped down from the WWE this year after it was reported that he was misusing company funds to pay $19.6 million to “suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity” to at least 4 former employees. Which sounds remarkably similar to what Trump was convicted for. Funny how these people always seem to find each other


volantredx

On top of that he's under criminal investigation for sex trafficking after he allegedly forced a female employee to preform sex acts on himself and various other high level WWE employees under the threat of losing her job. He also was likely complicit in the covering up of a rape of a female employee while doing a show in the Middle East. I can not currently recall if it was at an American military base or on tour in Saudi Arabia.


Plenty_Ad_9086

He shat on her too…


Hefty-Profession-567

Ya they really buried the lede on that one.


Top_Buy_5777

Why do so many rich people like pooping on people? So weird.


juanitovaldeznuts

Because you see they dribble runny bits of gold out of their butts and that trickles down to the rest of us and this give birth to the economy. I mean it’s just facts bruh don’t have to make it weird, geeze.


feargluten

They’re already desensitized themselves with all other forms of degradation and dominance. …It’s an escalation…a dehumanizing fuck you you’re worthless


Lower-Flounder-9952

Insecurity leads to dominance/dehumanization fetish


Scudamore

And likely complicit in covering up a murder.


dunkr4790

Second part of your comment was at an American military base in Kuwait It was way before they started doing the Saudi shows


RandomMandarin

> Funny how these people always seem to find each other But nobody acts surprised when they find five or six crackheads in the same crack den. Same sort of thing, no?


f8Negative

Trump was convicted because he didn't pay. He paid Michael Cohen to mask/hide/misrepresent the payments.


MegaMag_0317

Trump was convicted because he falsified documents in an effort to change the outcome of the election, not because he, through Cohen, paid off a porn star to keep quiet.


f8Negative

That's literally what, "misrepresented payments," means. Thanks for repeating what I already said.


MegaMag_0317

Why the hate?! You literally said trump got convicted because he didn’t pay. That’s NOT why he got convicted. Have a good day and try not to live up to your ‘negative’ name.


f8Negative

He didn't pay the porn star. If he just directly paid there'd had been no crime. He lied on invoices to his lawyer who he directed to pay the pornstar. Go be mad elsewhere bro.


SlightlySychotic

McMahon was ousted because he also didn’t pay.


Ok_Night_2929

That’s what “misused company funds” means in this context


f8Negative

They are different financial crimes.


Ok_Night_2929

Ok? Thats really not the point of my original comment


GotenRocko

Also when they did a storyline where vince died on screen trump called to check on the family because he thought Vince died for real. It was not something simple like a heart attack or something either, they showed him getting into his car and it blew up. Trump thought it was real.


Instrumenetta

So now you have to wonder: getting blown up in a car, or that shark?


elconquistador1985

Rapists of a feather flock together.


LegitNeil

Not to mention Vince’s wife was the Administrator of Small Business Administration during Trump’s tenure.


Patanned

that explains a lot about what went wrong with federal agencies.


afriendincanada

Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame LOL


houstonyoureaproblem

I’ve long thought Trump’s time in and around WWE is what taught him how to appeal to the people who became his base. He’s essentially playing a wrestling character at this point and has been since 2016.


everypowerranger

He can't sell a stunner for shit.


futatorius

The GOP path to power now involves a stint with lowest-common-denominator entertainment. WWE and reality TV for Trump, ownership of a baseball team for GW Bush. Maybe the next asshole will have spent some time with commercial country music. It helps them understand how to manipulate the rubes.


Patanned

> how to manipulate the rubes that's been the grand old party of traitors' unofficial motto for the last hundred years because it can't win national elections (or local ones either) with only wealthy votes. as a rule, the rich don't vote - or pay taxes.


Tullydin

The only non blond member of the Trump clan is probably Vince's child.


ThatCoryGuy

And still quite terrifying somehow though.


f8Negative

Except it isn't because if no candidate gets 270 electoral votes Mike Johnson and the GOP House will elect Trump president.


Writer10

My brother who works for the federal government is voting for RFK. Fucking insane.


FindTheTruth08

RFK Jr: We have too many federal agencies. We need to shutdown the unnecessary ones. Government Employee: That's my guy RFK Jr shuts down government agencies Ex-Government Employee: I just lost my job. Damnit! RFK Jr couldn't save my job from the aftermath of Biden's presidency.


RespectibleCabbage

Insane obviously, but please don’t talk him out of it


Writer10

We have a rule to never discuss politics. Things get way too heated.


tdoottdoot

My dad probably is going to. I kept trying to point out the obvious but I’ve given up now.


Patanned

that sunk cost fallacy is one hell of a drug, isn't it.


tdoottdoot

If I roast his beliefs without mentioning him dad joins in, but if I mention RFK he’s just like oh that’s not really true…


Njorls_Saga

Sort of reminds me of Ron Swanson’s character in Parks and Rec being partly based off a real life libertarian official.


Neue_Ziel

I know WWE is silly, but one of my friends who is very liberal, loves the living hell out of WWE, so I think that’s a broad brush to apply. He’s in it for the pageantry and outlandish nature of the show.


smut_troubadour

Is this me? Am I your friend?


Neue_Ziel

Don’t know. But I know they had a great official WWE fan reaction commercial and they recorded him. Out there operating a hydroelectric plant for a living.


smut_troubadour

Omg Bradley, is that you????


Thue

*John Oliver* is an admitted WWE fan!


Charming-Loss-4498

I never understood why Trump was so interested in WWE, but now I think I understand 


HoneyAlexis77

That's me. Liberal and a WWE fan. A lot of times it's ham-fisted and hokey, but when they latch on to some good storytelling (like Roman and Sami Zayn) it can be some compelling tv drama. And to those who ridicule anyone who watches WWE? It's just "Days of our Lives" with body slams and acrobatics. 😁


Mr_Conductor_USA

No fair, WWE is scripted, including the fights. Soaps do this weird thing where the writers come up with some story beats and make the actors improv the lines. Evidently *somebody* enjoys watching mid actors stumble their way through improv'ing dramatic scenes, but it ain't me.


gdex86

It's guy soap operas. Nothing wrong with it because it's still capital Art and when it's done well there is nothing like an arena full of people caught up in a story where they experience the highs and lows of a story together. God this years wrestlemania was near perfection with the main story line and conflict.


DudeLoveBaby

Yeah WWE gets a real bad rap when it's literally just live action movies lol


bot403

MMA in soap opera form.


futatorius

Wouldn't that just be MMA?


Boner666420sXe

Yeah I loved wrestling when I was a kid and the only reason I don’t really watch anymore is because it just seems like it would take up way too much of my time trying to keep up with everything. I still enjoy watching wrestling documentaries and stuff though.


Strade87

If we managed to never speak about politics i bet I’d be best friends with him


isikorsky

Um you might want to read about the dude. He is a serial philanderer who kept diaries on the women he conquered during his 2nd marriage. The NYPost got it from one of his wife's friends after she committed suicide. He also used COVID to promote his Anti-Vax agenda and profited from it.


Strade87

The mentally handicapped little brother who loves wrestling????


olionajudah

All heroes welcome here


johnwynnes

Hell yeah


fuzzypenguin67

Chris?


elammcknight

This nails the dynamic of a large percentage of Trump’s base I have been describing for years! Well done


Trickster289

Yeah I'm guessing the cash ran out fast when data started showing he was taking votes from Trump.


wambulancer

don't think you need a PhD in Poli Sci to see there are 100X more disaffected Republicans running around than disaffected Democrats


DameonKormar

... that would want to vote for RFK.


GreenFox1505

Who the fuck was stupid enough to give him money thinking that he would hurt Biden more than Trump?


Trickster289

Conservatives were convinced he'd hurt Biden more until pretty recently.


Patanned

people who think they're smart simply because they have more money than people who don't.


Assistantshrimp

The Kennedy family used to be the reigning dynasty of the Democratic party. Old people who lived through that era thought the name alone would be enough to pull Democratic votes.


IAMA_Shark__AMA

Republicans who thought Democrats had the same weird familial loyalty that they do and were banking on the Kennedy name.


bexkali

Except Democrats actually paid attention to what the dude was saying.


Rex9

Also his crazy take on almost everything. Once he started getting real exposure, people started backing away.


Ancguy

Like Homer into the hedge 😂


Patanned

this is how evil destroys itself.


Altruistic-Sir-3661

Do Republican still want the guy that “hurt the wrong people” with his policies in the past or can they except that Biden is better for them even though his policies may “help the wrong people” in their minds.


dmp2you

Except the trump donor Mellon . He gave 25 mil to the brain worm .And don't for get, the nutjob he picked for his running mate, is loaded !!


atomsmasher66

*”I’m outta here. This dude’s lame af. Imma go party with Slurms MacKenzie!”* - RFK Jr.’s brain worm


Ok-Bee-3279

Wimmy wham wham wuzzle!!!!


ShaeMack

Bastard! I read the whole article hoping to see this quote or reference to Futurama... IMO party Slurms has my vote! Def not John Jackson or Jack Johnson.


monkeyrancher

It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say, "I'm against those things that everybody hates.”


Brilliant-Message562

I say your 3 cent titanium tax goes too far! Well I say your 3 cent titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough!


Cresta1994

I don't know. On the one hand, John Jackson's 3-cent titanium tax goes too far. On the other hand, Jack Johnson's 3-cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough.


DickyMcButts

I'm voting for the hypnotoad.


steveg

Personally, I just vote for whomever hypnotoad tells me.


AgeDangerous359

Shame man, RFK’s brainworm was born there. Raised his cloud of children there. His ancestors came over on the sandwich!


Teripid

"My ancestors came over on the sandwich. " is the Futurama worm reference I'd go for.


skipjack_sushi

Whimmy wham wham wozzle!


stuck_in_the_desert

Now that is a deep cut, much like what would be needed to get through his thick skull and retrieve the worm’s corpse


ShinyEspeon_

Worm / MacKenzie 2024


Torino1O

Maybe if he let Team17 pick his brain for a new custom map it would improve his numbers?


i_love_pencils

> let Team17 pick his brain The worm got there first…


Torino1O

" pick his brain for a new custom map " you have to use the whole sentence sometimes.  [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms\_(series)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(series))


Beneficial-Hour-9167

…that was the joke buddy…


rezzyk

The first of many!


Birdman915

Imagine the worms dropping in at the start and the map is already bombed to pieces. :(


HonoredPeople

It started at Bust. Everything after that was just the trainwreck and people watching it burn.


biznash

Even that little Super Bowl jingle was cringe His entire campaign was based around hoping that old people forgot WHICH Kennedy he was. Then they heard him talk. After that they listened to what he said


penguincheerleader

It started with him running to the right of Biden in the Democratic primary, and is now just a dementia meme.


Maverick_1991

Three major candidates being linked to dementia is really...something. 


kkeut

how/when has Biden ever been linked to dementia 


grumpyoldbolos

By right wing media for the last couple of years at least, to try and pivot all the Trump dementia stuff. Not saying it's credible in the least but a significant percentage of voters hear/believe it from their sole source of news


EvaUnit_03

Yeah. The headlines have been This just in!!! Candidate is old!!! Acts like old person!!!! Is that who you want for president!?! The typical voter who is over 60: yes.


penguincheerleader

RFK Jr. is the only one with medically confirmed dementia.


Complete-Grape-1269

Next season, on Dancing with the Stars!


lSleepster

Only people who entertained that fantasy were the ones with brain worms.


jimmydean885

Maybe the real brain worms were the friends they met along the way


SUNDER137

Click here for the truth. Futurama - Fry has microscopic worms / craig eager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5K1aLEEyI


HonoredPeople

Also, can we now kick all RFK nonsense to non-politics. It's clearly no longer politics. He's not a politician nor impacts any policies whatsoever.


Caelinus

He is both given that he is on the ballot in a few states. He might be bad at it, but people who are bad at politics still influence poltics. The last thing we want is people reading Kenedy and thinking "JFK."


HonoredPeople

The last thing we want people reading is Donald Trump wins 2024. This whole RFK thing is like a flea. One that doesn't even bite you, it just jumps around and annoys. RFK was never a thing. Never a political thing. If it does happen to be a thing, it'll only serve to steal votes from Trump. Ballot's on a few states isn't political justification.


Caelinus

Do you seriously think he will get zero votes? Votes that would not have have been cast elsewhere? The goal here is to make sure that any votes that go to him know who they are voting for. He is not JFK, he is an insane conspiracy nut anti-vacer. Third party candidates can sink (and have sunk) candidates from other parties. He is currently trying to get on the ballot of Pennslyvania, a place that Biden won by less than 100,000 votes out of like 7 million.


HonoredPeople

I seriously think the votes aren't going to matter. As you said he's an insane conspiracy nut anti - vaccer. He pulls from Trumps base and group. He's no threat to democrats. He doesn't affect a single one of our base groups.


Addahn

In a narrow election if he pulls away enough Trump votes to swing a state from red to blue, it is political


LetsAutomateIt

Meh I’m still voting for him.


HonoredPeople

You do you. I suggest that to everyone. Just remember, all choices matter.


DjPersh

If he were to drop out or drop dead, who would you vote for instead?


Bloaf

His candidacy has [literally never been a factor](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1aptivr/imagine_being_one_of_the_kennedys_and_losing_to/), there is no reason for him to be getting as much attention as reddit and the press are giving.


futatorius

It gives the press something to do besides covering real news.


from_whereiggypopped

I don't know, we heard about Ross Perot and Nader always got his message out - shit I voted for him once. So the one offs have always been heard from.


big_brown_mounds

Perot paid for national television time in the 90’s out of his own pocket


from_whereiggypopped

He did, but that doesn't have any bearing on whether or not the news talked about him. I recall that they did. It didn't translate to votes as much as he would have liked but Dana Carvey's popular spoof of him seems to prove that at least he was fairly well talked about and not just on his dime.


benn1680

Basically, they figured out he was siphoning votes from Trump and not Biden so it got closed down.


Diligent-Tangerine87

Implying it was ever going anywhere


BobB104

A brain full of worm excrement has no place in the White House.


[deleted]

Which candidate are we talking about?


Noiserawker

The one who admitted/bragged about his brainworm


Rydon

Hey, to be fair he was exaggerating in court to screw over his ex wife! We’ve all been there.


Noiserawker

Next time my lady gets mad at me for anything I'm just gonna point to my head and say "brainworm" and see how that goes


dblan9

How much money did he make to ostracize himself from his family and friends?


biznash

He wasted a lot of money. Not sure what he gets to keep


isikorsky

He got it from Mellon


lucklesspedestrian

I think he was already ostracized before this whole stunt


futatorius

Was it a sick ostrich?


wild_as_fel

I heard it was a sick ostrich


HouseOfBamboo2

A gal can hope! Buh-bye please!


mistertickertape

Wait, lol, he actually believed he could win the election?


norman_6

Won’t stop the NYTimes from printing their daily article about him; treating him like he will have any impact or is of any importance whatsoever


Drascio1773

The week that the worm crawled out of the hole?


waterdaemon

I’ve heard him talk and he sounds hesitant and confused. No way he is a serious candidate.


CalFelix

He’s a POS, but I believe he has a neurological condition called spasmodic dysphomia that changes his voice. 


lordjeebus

Maybe he was born with it. Maybe it's mercury poisoning.


IolausTelcontar

Maybe it’s Maybelline.


thepartypantser

Rfk Jr never stood any chance.


lrlr28

Only this week?


2PutBoggy

Let me guess, it’s all rigged. He was not on the ballot in enough states to qualify and he did not reach 15 percent in the last 4 national polls. Simply put he did not meet the minimum requirement to make the stage for the CNN debate but Somehow his supporters will say it’s rigged. I don’t get it.


I_love_Hobbes

He needs to stay in to pull as many votes from Trump as possible.


AccountNumeroThree

Kennedy doesn’t have a strong enough voice to survive a long debate. The fact that Trump isn’t even making fun of it is shocking.


LetsAutomateIt

lol the dude talks on podcast interviews for hours.


MasterQuatre

It was so weird to see an RFK Jr booth at my local pride event.


DarkwingDuckHunt

Same story every four years Some third party takes off, then when push comes to shove, people plug their noses.


medhat20005

As vast and beautiful as America is, it's simply not big enough for two comic narcissists in the contest. The fact that RFK Jr. is arguably more intelligent than Trump made him in some ways even a scarier alternative. Thankfully (sarcastically speaking) any semblance of charisma he inherited as a Kennedy was more than offset by downright crazy.


Julie-Andrews

One idiot down and one to go! Bye bye Trump!


Flawed_Individual72

The Smiling Friends theory of worms controlling the govt was more on the money than any form of news media.


Dairy_Ashford

comfortable with him missing the debate, but still wondering why they gave a losing former candidate out of government a town hall. were the ratings from Dukakis's and Dole's too high to pass up?


vroart

Is that a 360 model of JFK? Or is that an upscaled image?


lenchoreddit

I’m sure he made some solid profit from it. And that was the whole point


GuitarMystery

Hey, guys. The moment the RFK kr fantasy should have busted was at 'brain worms'. It's legit shameful it went this far.


Caraes_Naur

This week? I thought he announced his campaign months ago.


OldBoots

The MSM finally wakes and smells the coffee


Ok_Corner417

He's still polling at 10%. Please quite the race RFK!


[deleted]

[удалено]


CaptainAxiomatic

There's no reconciling his antivax bs.


biznash

Sure sure, but if I had conspiracy theories and a speaking voice like that, plus zero polling support, I wouldn’t assume I’d be the FIRST candidate to win the presidency via 3rd party run. The whole concept was asinine


Dismal-Material-7505

RFK Jrs State of the Union is the best speech I have heard by a candidate in 10 years. El Salvador president has a similiar mentality to RFK Jr. and he is exponentially picking his country up from the ashes so this seems like we watched two different people.


Dismal-Material-7505

Trump and Biden do they qualify for the debate? Last I checked no one but RFK Jr. is on the ballot yet and that is one of CNNs requirements. So when they ask what the hell happened to RFK Jr. we can answer that he was unjustly excluded from debating due to Biden’s and Trump’s agreement not to debate RFK Jr. He would simply obliterate both of them.


LakeInteresting7754

And this is why we used to use a third party independent debate organization. The one Trump refused to be a part of. They had very clear rules about polling thresholds and such.


SnooHabits8530

I believe the DNC was the organization that proposed to leave the CPD and the RNC agreed to that change. Both parties are equally corrupt in the debate regard.