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RFK Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss a cabinet post: reports (www.huffpost.com)

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to arrange a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a place in her administration or a cabinet post in exchange for an endorsement, according to multiple reports.

The Washington Post first reported that Kennedy made the overture through intermediaries, just weeks after he proposed as similar arrangement to former President Donald Trump after the Republican National Convention last month. The pair spoke about the plan, but did not reach an agreement on the matter.

Harris has not responded with an offer to meet and her campaign has expressed no interest to do so, the Post added.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 129 points 3 months ago

... and why should they talk with RFK? He's a spoiler candidate. He's literally holding them hostage to the votes he thinks he's going to pull from their campaign to get a seat at the table, and he's so freaking incompetent, he doesn't even realiz e that he's pulling votes from the republican weirdos rather than Democrats.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 93 points 3 months ago

He’s trying this with both campaigns though. He is just a slimy, opportunistic douche.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Yeah but is it working on any Democrats? I just don't see him pulling votes from anyone but Trump.

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

When Biden was still running RFK appealed to some voters as a more youthful alternative. The Kennedy name recognition also goes a really long way.

Generally the more people learn about him the less they like him, and Harris becoming the nominee pulled back a lot of the “he’s too old” voters. So RFK’s voter base draws more from Republicans than Democrats now. But it used to be more evenly split.

Additionally, there are still some Democrats (or Dem leaning independents) who like RFK’s antivax nonsense. Before Republicans elevated antivax theories to the party’s platform in 2016, that used to be something most commonly associated with the fringes of liberal communities.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It was while biden was still the candidate. When kamala swapped in, rfk went from 15% to 7%.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

I mean... The guy knows he isn't gonna be president. Can't blame him for trying to line up a job after its all over. And he's a slimy opportunistic douche.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Fun fact he actually lost more than half of his support when kamala became the candidate. He was potentially spoiling for biden, but now he's almost exclusively a hindrance to trump.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I agree 100%. However, think about what would happen in the political arena if he were given a position in exchange for endorsing kamala. We all know that many right wingers who don't like trump are RFKs primary supporters. Him supporting kamala would throw this group into a tailspin.

It ain't gonna happen, just sayin' it would be very interesting to watch. A big worry would be his supporters getting pissed and then swinging towards trump.

Still, I'd love to see it for the lulz.

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 months ago

It would seem the response he received was not definitively obvious to him prior to asking. I feel this is the most shocking part. It's like he's out of touch with reality.

But if I may shitpost:

Maybe it's high time he cleaned out all those animal carcasses from his freezer.

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 months ago

Please no, Central Park doesn't need a pile of rotting animal corpses.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

It's almost like parasitic worms ate a part of his brain.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s like he’s out of touch with reality.

He's an aging second generation Kennedy who had a brain worm...

They don't remove those btw, they're usually killed via medications but the worm is in an organ, you can't remove it. Like if a dog has heart worms and gets treated, their health will get worse because their body has to deal with dead worms, and then even after the remains decay, there's holes.

Like, dude probably already put his brain thru enough without a decaying worm, but it shouldn't be surprising he acts illogical like he has a serious mental problem, because he has a serious mental problem. Absolute best case scenario is by now the worm is gone and he "just" has a big hole in his brain that will never heal.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I don't think it's shitposting when that's literally how politics works these days. You've just become a spokesman.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

They could make him a worm ambassador

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 22 points 3 months ago

Robert Evans just did a 4 part series on RFK Jr. and it is fascinating. Links below (on spotify because that's what I've got, sorry)

I highly recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast overall. It's a great way to get your heart rate and blood pressure up to really enhance your cardio workouts or stay awake on long road trips. You will be intensely angry at everything, but it helps. :)

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Exactly why I have to take it in bursts. Even Knowledge Fight makes me (usually) less depressed/angry in general (though Alex can really piss me off, but he's also fucking stupid and I can at least laugh at him more often), so BtB is the hardest to consistently listen to for me. Not because it isn't good, but because well, the eponymous bastards earn that title.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The RFK episodes aren’t depressing for the most part. They are just really funny besides some of the shitty things RFK does that gets people killed…

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

The excitement is always tempered with anxiety whenever a new btb series pops up in my feed...

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

The podcast that radicalized me

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I found the first series of It Could Happen Here first, then I realized I’d been reading him since Cracked and then I was radicalized by Robert

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Even Robert was taken aback by some of that shit, Cody sounded broken at the end, I need to check the Showdy and see if he pulled himself Back out of it

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He wants to get in the white house bad. Maybe he knows the secret location of scroll that contains the knowledge of whom had his his dad and uncle killed, national treasure style.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

“I’m willing to meet with leaders of both parties to discuss the possibility of a unity government," Kennedy told the Post.

What…? A unity government…? Unity with who? RFK’s literal brainworm?

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

Try to have some empathy. That poor brain eating worm starved to death.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My apologies - I did not mean to offend or denigrate the suffering of his brainworm.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

They go low, we go high.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

That was a stupid tactic when it was suggested, and it’s a stupid tactic now.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was joking.

[-] AlbinoPython@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

[-] MagicChicken@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Was searching specifically for this comment

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Lmao.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Was it his doing or worm’s?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They're one and the same.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

After he secretly recorded and published his call with Trump on Twitter I doubt politicians are eager to engage with him.

[-] _chris@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

“So uhhh thanks for coming in, don’t call us - we’ll call you.”

[-] fadhl3y@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Offering RFK Jr a cabinet post is literally the only thing that would make me not vote Den this November.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Head of Mental Health?

[-] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Dept of Falconry and Animal Disposal

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Some people type "lol". I really mean it. I laughed so loud I woke the cat up.

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