US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

holy shit

Assume Bear Dead

Bear-y Jo Kopechne

RFK said you want weird, set phasers for roadkill.

Further proof the world is far more strange than fiction.

One has to wonder now how many acts of falcontry could explain other New York City weird unknown tales?

I guess it was inevitable that RFK would end up providing the weirdest moment of the election season, but including Roseanne made this closer to knowing self parody.

No way

Never leaving this site pic.twitter.com/D1QJDBlAZT

— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) August 5, 2024

Teddy (Kennedy) Bears Picnic

Has Trump called for the death penalty yet on the five teenagers who killed the bear?

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-IY784_herzog_DV_20150617112702.jpg

New Yorker story has dropped:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign


Relevant bear content:

One day, in the fall of 2014, Kennedy was driving to a falconry outing in upstate New York when he passed a furry brown mound on the side of the road. He pulled over and discovered that it was the carcass of a black-bear cub. Kennedy was tickled by the find. He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of his car and later showed it off to his friends. In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear’s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face. (When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, “Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm.”)

After the outing, Kennedy, who was then sixty and recently married to Hines, got an idea. He drove to Manhattan and, as darkness fell, entered Central Park with the bear and a bicycle. A person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist. The next day, the bear was discovered by two women walking their dogs, setting off an investigation by the N.Y.P.D. “This is a highly unusual situation,” a spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy told the Times. “It’s awful.” In a follow-up piece for the Times, which was coincidentally written by Tatiana Schlossberg, one of J.F.K.’s granddaughters, a retired Bronx homicide commander commented, “People are crazy.”

check the zipper

oh no

i wish a bear would maul him to death.

is that so wrong?

This was going to be the series finale of the bear. Back to the drawing board

presidential

interesting in his telling to roseanne he says a woman driver in front of him hit the bear but the nyer has him just seeing it by the side of the road

Huh

Caption: "Back, and to the left."

Kennedy was tickled by the find.

The psychopaths always give themselves away

RFK Jr's slide from "crank" to "possibly dangerous crank" to "potential electoral threat" to "humiliating electoral joke" to "complete piece of human garbage" has been intermittently diverting, but I think I'm done now. Can we fast-forward to "was found by a neighbor who smelled something"?

uh oh preachersnsneakers went after kamala's necklace and set off a firestorm on instagram! i do enjoy their posts but she's no preacher and who cares if she wears a $60,000 necklace? who doesn't?

worthy of going after imo

i will never understand fancy jewelry. you can make your own for almost nothing. you just need some old hair and some foil chewing gum wrappers and some chewing gum.

im sure the neckless is very nice to behold but wearing jewelry that costs as much as the average salary of the people youre running to represent seems little in poor taste, just wait until youre out of office and have raked in the wall st payoffs then you can wear whatever you want

should she move into a house that costs the same as the median us bungalow does too? how far does this performative hairshirt routine need to go?

feels like an attack only used against women

if you're making your own necklace, consider putting cool rocks on it.

yeah it always seems to be particular sorts of people who come in for this style of policing

was FDR a bad president because he wore an expensive pocketwatch?? gtfo with this

stanning for a politician has to be one of the most pitiful things a person can do

was FDR a bad president because he wore an expensive pocketwatch??

No, this is OK because FDR *is* brat

fdr franklin delano roosevelt brat summer spring breakers charli xcx edit pic.twitter.com/3KEHMpVhIS

— girlfailure mayor (@nothingsacreds) August 2, 2024

well okay that is kinda pitiful

stanning for a politician has to be one of the most pitiful things a person can do

It's definitely right up there with performative class warrior bullshit.

He'd pronounce it in that mid-Atlantic accent. "Braht."

feel like ive made this point on here before but accusing people of being performative generally says more about how the people making the claims move in the world than it does about the object of it, granted it could be some lazy dumb bs too

Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm.

let’s not do 2016 again please lol

the only male equivalent I can think of is John Edwards' four-figure haircut twenty years ago.

obvs gender and racial bias will amp this up *a lot* but John Kerry's $$ haircuts & general rich guy style was a theme in '04, and I can think of other D men who have been dinged for this (if we're talking houses, Bernie's houses were a thing, unsurprisingly imo). per lagoon's point I think the problem is you should be smart enough to know that this is a bad look for a Dem candidate, even if it's obvs "unfair"

im pretty sure trumps whole ostentatious presentation has been brought up by people who dont like him at least a few times

I’m puzzled about the purpose of the video now. doesn’t he basically just tell the story the NYer reporter, but with roseanne barr? what was he trying to dispel exactly

the man has a brain worm kevin

(if we're talking houses, Bernie's houses were a thing, unsurprisingly imo)

something that only seems to happen to men tbh

only the worm knows for sure xxp

you should be smart enough to know that this is a bad look for a Dem candidate

the only people who ever seem to pipe up about these things are pundits who say they are concerned that others might think it's a bad look

but maybe somebody can do a poll asking likely voters if they think it's okay for the vice-president of the united states to wear an expensive necklace sometimes and then we can put these grave concerns to bed

reminded of this post

https://bsky.app/profile/mobute.bsky.social/post/3kujmhtb6472z

"
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the only people who ever seem to pipe up about these things are pundits who say they are concerned that others might think it's a bad look

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, August 5, 2024 11:50 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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