With Trump Endorsement, RFK Jr. Is Officially a Loser and Completely Full of Sh*t

Well, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s governmental run is efficaciously over. Though he claims it’s not, exactly. And, successful what has to beryllium 1 of the astir explicit displays of a idiosyncratic openly betraying their ain purported values to suck up to governmental power, Kennedy has bizarrely decided to endorse Donald Trump successful the statesmanlike race.

During a concession code of sorts connected Friday, Kennedy claimed that helium felt called to endorse Trump due to the fact that they shared immoderate communal interests. “These are the principled causes that persuaded maine to permission the Democratic Party and tally arsenic an independent, and present to propulsion my enactment to President Trump. The causes were: Free speech, the warfare successful Ukraine, and the warfare connected our children,” helium said. Yes, sure, some RFK and Trump person yammered a batch astir these issues. Yet during his speech, Kennedy besides ruminated connected different issues that helium claimed helium inactive cared profoundly about: healthcare, protecting the environment, abating America’s firm regulatory capture, and providing Americans with steadfast food. In his remarks, Kennedy seemed to connote that Trump would bash thing to beforehand these goals. Here, helium utterly mislaid me.

Onlookers are near with lone 2 ways to construe Kennedy’s behavior. The archetypal is to presume that Kennedy is very, precise stupid. Only idiosyncratic with the intelligence faculties of a tadpole would judge that Donald Trump is going to execute the things that Kennedy seemingly thinks Trump volition accomplish. The different interpretive strategy is to presume that Kennedy is wholly afloat of it. In different words, Kennedy whitethorn cognize that Trump isn’t going to bash immoderate of the things helium says helium will, and has ulterior motives for supporting him.

To bolster some of these arguments, present is simply a database of the things that Kennedy claims Trump volition (hopefully) bash versus what Trump has done successful the past and/or is apt to bash successful the future. The contrasts are stark.

Kennedy is afloat of crap (or an idiot) connected protecting the environment

The kindest happening you tin accidental astir Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump is that it is simply a betrayal of everything helium worked for during his vocation arsenic an biology lawyer. Even if everything Kennedy says astir the Democrats is true, endorsing Trump is unforgivable from the position of idiosyncratic who authentically cares astir the environment. Trump notably rolled backmost more than 100 biology rules and regulations and nominated a feline with dense ties to the Koch brothers and the lipid lobby to caput the EPA. Project 2025, the argumentation blueprint authored by the Heritage Foundation and a tiny service of erstwhile Trump officials, has plans to gut the EPA, defund aggregate upwind agencies, prohibition authoritative usage of the word “climate change,” and bash a full assortment of different unspeakable things erstwhile it comes to protecting the environment. Trump has adjacent projected privatizing protected national lands truthful that they tin beryllium utilized to physique “futuristic cities.”

Kennedy is afloat of crap (or an idiot) connected healthcare

Kennedy besides mentions healthcare a batch and says helium feels that America’s healthcare strategy needs to beryllium fixed. Not lone did Trump try to termination Obamacare (the lone authorities programme making healthcare affordable for tens of millions of Americans) aggregate times, but Project 2025 would question to rotation backmost user wellness benefits that the Biden medication instituted, similar negotiated cause prices. That aforesaid task has been supported by lobbying groups that correspond the pharmaceutical industry, Rolling Stone has reported. Project 2025 would besides question to bolster Medicare Advantage, the privatized mentation of Medicare—a determination that, arsenic American Progress has enactment it, would correspond a “multibillion-dollar giveaway to corporations” that would besides “limit older Americans’ wellness attraction choices portion putting Medicare’s aboriginal astatine risk.”

Kennedy is afloat of crap (or an idiot) connected steadfast food

During his horribly agelong concession code Friday, Kennedy spent an on-godly magnitude of clip rambling astir “chronic disease” and obesity. In a determination that should person made astir onlookers upchuck their luncheon from laughter, helium went connected to assertion that Donald Trump, a feline who is obese and looks chronically diseased, is going to hole some of these problems. In 2018, it was reported that snack nutrient and maize syrup lobbyists had been enactment successful complaint of nutrient argumentation astatine the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Again, wherefore Kennedy thinks the feline who filled the White House with Big Macs is going to assistance low-income Americans interruption their addiction to accelerated nutrient is beyond me.

Kennedy is afloat of crap (or an idiot) connected “regulatory capture”

Probably the astir mystifying happening that Kennedy said connected Friday is that helium supports the extremity of firm “regulatory capture” and that helium expects Donald Trump to bash thing astir this. This is perchance the dumbest happening that Kennedy has ever said. During Trump’s archetypal administration, helium efficaciously tried to crook the national authorities into a firm whorehouse, allowing an assortment of industries to efficaciously constitute the rules by which they are regulated. A 2019 probe by ProPublica found a “staggering” level of Trump governmental appointees were erstwhile firm lobbyists, immoderate 281 appointees—or 1 retired of each 14. Appropriately, Project 2025 offers a imaginativeness of a aboriginal presidency that is similar Trump’s archetypal medication connected steroids.