RFK jr. continues to be the most inept ratfucker ever
The DeSantis-voiced failson is — I know this is hard to believe — nominally running for the nomination of the Democratic Party, to make the incumbent president look bad by eroding his margins of victory:
RFK Jr.'s campaign is hosting a Roundtable on Censorship w/ Glenn Greenwald, Sharyl Attkisson, Michael Shellenberger (author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities) Jenin Younes (lawyer for libertarian-leaning org) and ex-NJ Asmb. Jamel Holley (vaccine skeptic). pic.twitter.com/g3ULXZjD3D— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) July 24, 2023
What a crew! For the uninitiated, these are the people I have heard of before now:
- Glenn Greenwald: I don’t think we’ve discussed him on this site before? Anyway, he’s a libertarian blogger and low-production-value YouTuber and Fox News analyst who adores Trump, although his fanatical opposition to any public health response to COVID made him a massive fanboy of Ron DeSantis. His sudden turn into a lickspittle for RFK Jr. is presumably a combination of his anti-vaxxism, his strong support for Vladimir Putin, and the DeSantis campaign circling the drain.
- Sheryl Attkisson: Frivolous lawsuit-filer who thinks the TWITTER FILES were an actual thing.
- Michael Shellenberger — the auteur of San Fransicko has gone from anti-climate change mitigation to anti-homeless people to Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories to the TWITTER FILES to spreading dishonest misinformation about the lab leak theory. Used to have “MD” at the end of his Twitter handle although he’s not a doctor.
In sum, RFK is running in the Democratic primary with an appeal solely to reactionary cranks similar to himself. I’m not entirely sure this will work.
…I see Lee “Sprezzatura” Siegel is also an RFK fanboy. The ultimate failson has no ability to appeal to typical Democratic primary voters but he’s like a siren to washed-up or never-was contrarians under the delusion that opposing vaccination is “populist.”