RFK Jr. Lashes Out at Rolling Stone After Article Shows GOP Link to Presidential Run: 'Establishment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Propaganda’

Following Rolling Stone’s publication of an article linking a super PAC backing Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos, the anti-vaccine activist lashed out at the publication on Twitter, calling it a “channel for Establishment propaganda.”

“Expect Rolling Stone to lead the corporate media’s frantic crusade to vilify me to stop my White House bid,” Kennedy Jr. wrote. “Rolling Stone was once the premier standard-bearer of the counterculture. Now it’s a channel for Establishment propaganda. #TrollingStone #RollingSmear”

The article, released Friday, pointed to filings viewed by Rolling Stone that tied the creators of the pro-Kennedy Jr. Super PAC “Heal the Divide” to pro-Donald Trump officials like Greene, Santos and Hershel Walker. Rolling Stone deemed it “abnormal” that Kennedy Jr. is running as a Democrat despite being backed by Republican-affiliated donors.

The article also cites unnamed Fox News employees who told Rolling Stone that higher-ups at the right-wing news network have considered featuring Kennedy Jr.’s candidacy more prominently in an attempt to make President Joe Biden look weak.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-f-kennedy-jr-lashes-233625859.html

[ananda]

1. Hit a nerve, eh.

This all just so fucked up.

[grantcart]

19. Guessing you meant that for the OP lol

[Scrivener7]

2. What a loon.

[TheBlackAdder]

44. I guess he'll need to meet with Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn to get more guidance.

[hlthe2b]

3. Truth always* (almost) catches up to you, RFK, JR. Can't ride on your name. You have not earned it.

If this deceitful run doesn't do irreparable harm to his future, I don't know what will.

[rsdsharp]

4. Rolling Stone is "establishment," now?

God, I’m old.

[EarnestPutz]

21. Jeez, that's what I thought too. Give us a break.

[calimary]

27. My first thought, too.

[soldierant]

55. But wouldn't you love to live in a world in which

Rolling Stone actually was "establishment"?

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Must have hit a nerve, eh? Everybody and their grandma are wrong about anything and everything

that you say, eh? You got caught w/ the goodies and you also got caught lying too. Hypocrite. You're no kennedy, or at least, you don't have the same aura that John F. or his brother Bobbi Kennedy have. What a pathetic comparison.

[paleotn]

49. Funny how he's beginning to sound like Trump.

[SWBTATTReg]

63. You're right, I guess that they all now follow tRUMP's script, to garner the voters like tRUMP did.

What I'm waiting for, is that the last series of shoes drop, that tRUMP got his voters by lying endlessly and shamelessly, day in/day out. People are getting tired of his ties, his corrupt nature, his incompetence, etc. Christie I hope, as a former prosecutor, will continue to hammer away at tRUMP and his dismay record when in office the last time, and I hope more add to the voices claiming that tRUMP is a disgrace, that he's a traitor, that he (IMHO this will be revealed) that tried to sell some of the secrets that he stole.

[EarthFirst]

6. Shall we rather stick to the merits of your campaign platform...

Wrong on guns…
Wrong on pharmaceuticals…
Wrong on election fraud…
Wrong on bitcoin…
Wrong on conspiracy theories…

This is the truest revelation of his campaign yet!

[JohnSJ]

9. Or his latest wrong, "Russia is acting in good faith, and the US is responsible for Russia invading

Ukraine

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4063124-rfj-jr-says-russia-acting-in-good-faith-in-ukraine-invasion-us-in-part-to-blame-for-war/amp/

[EarthFirst]

10. +1

It’s a rather long list…

[JohnSJ]

12. It is. +++

[calimary]

28. "Russia is acting in good faith..."?????

Whatever you say, Robertski.

[peppertree]

33. Unbelievable

The fool is even starting to look like a Russian - the way he gets plastered and all.

[paleotn]

48. A number of folks on the extreme left fall into that category.

Jill Stein certainly comes to mind. Seriously, why would Russia give two shits about a veritable nobody in US politics?

[calimary]

61. Yeah. Jill "American Traitor" Stein.

WTF was SHE doing, seated at Putin’s table???

W. T. F. ???

How’d she get there? Who invited her? And what on earth was she thinking??? Fraternizing with the enemy, Jill? Flynn AND Vlad at the same table? Whose little girl were YOU that night, Jill??? And what did they offer you?

[Qutzupalotl]

62. And now Jill Stein is managing Cornel West's campaign

for the Democratic nomination. You can't make this stuff up.

Of course, neither will win. This is all just to cause chaos for our side. But we seem to be pretty savvy now, and don't fall for such transparent stunts like we did in 2016.

[peppertree]

30. And wrong on Russia

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218032886

[yardwork]

31. Wrong on the cause of HIV...

[mucifer]

7. Embarrassed to admit I liked his radio

Show “ring of fire” about 10 years ago.

I do think he either mentally snapped and/or greed took over

[grantcart]

20. Aiming at the DUer or RFK Jr?

Either case welcome to DU

[ificandream]

8. The fact that Republicans are backing him says all you need to know about their motives.

And his, as well -- to hurt Biden. Either that or he's blindingly stupid.

[Sky Jewels]

11. No, no, see they just want unity ... so the country can heal!

Also, FYI, turns out the world is actually flat and the moon landing was faked.

[Traildogbob]

39. Not just any Republican

Steve Bannon is drooling over him. Think of how fucked up that is. Steve Bannon drool!🤢🤮🤮🤮

[ificandream]

43. Thanks for the picture. Ugh ....

[emulatorloo]

13. The more exposure Bannon's Trojan Horse gets, the better. K&R

[Mike Nelson]

14. Yikes!

... can he really be that delusional? He should realize Republicans are supporting his run, and why... he should have answers ready. It's best to say, "I welcome all support," and switch to a policy which the sneaky donders don't like. Lashing out and denying is Trump-like.

[groundloop]

38. My guess is that he knows EXACTLY who his backers are.....

and that this is just another in a long line of GQP dirty tricks.

[Cha]

15. "ESTABLISMENT"!!! Pres Joe Biden

is an Established Experience Qualified President who has Progressed our Democratic Agenda in a sea of Fascist Magats.

What are you, rfk jr who Bannon is promoting?

[littlemissmartypants]

16. I thought he is a convicted felon for possession of narcotics with intent to distribute?

Anyone else read that?

❤️

[GoCubsGo]

32. He was arrested for posession of heroin and pleaded guilty.

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He got off with only public service. Such are the benefits of being famous, rich, white guy. He was a drug addict for a large part of his adult life, and was known for some pretty notorious behavior at the time. I strongly suspect all those drugs he took fucked up his brain. It would certainly explain a lot of the shit we're seeing from him now.

[littlemissmartypants]

59. You're not wrong. Substance abuse can lead to permanent psychosis in some people. In particular

Abuse of opioids, stimulants like methamphetamine, Adderall, cocaine and chronic ethyl alcohol abuse. Many people don't know this unfortunately. If they are chronic users and addicted they may not be capable of understanding it once the damage is done.

There are legions of psychotics in society that have no idea that they are mentally ill. The usual explanation for this is anosognosia. These patients are especially difficult to treat and most have limited prospects of recovery.

They walk amongst us, drive, have kids, work in high places, teach our children, preach hell fire and damnation and own firearms. Among other things. They gravitate to like minded individuals who are also in psychosis which just reinforces their lack of insight and cements their delusions.

Their are groups online warning of so-called gang's of what are called "gang stalkers" who use mind control by microwaves according to self proclaimed experts. They offer treatments which of course don't help and these vulnerable people spend lots of money on these charlatans with no positive results.

I've seen it repeatedly, first hand. It's very sad and it's an American epidemic.

❤️

[womanofthehills]

64. Actually, he was a heroin user till his late 20 's -

He recently said he started using drugs at 15 after his father’s death. He says, since age 29, he has attended AAA almost every day and is still very active in AAA.

[twodogsbarking]

22. I am betting his family won't vote for him.

[TNNurse]

37. I cry for his mother every time I read about him.

She must be devastated.

[paleotn]

46. And dad continues to spin in his grave.

[SeattleVet]

23. Turn on the lights and watch the roaches scatter. nt

[bringthePaine]

24. the crazies all sing variants of the same pathetic song

[Deuxcents]

25. He's suing Daily Kos

Demanding to know one of their community members who wrote about his friendliness with Nazis at a Berlin rally.

Daily Kos article January 7, 2022
DailyKos.com

[SunSeeker]

58. What are his damages? His reputation is already ruined. nt

[erronis]

26. RFK Jr. ain't no Barabara Streisand but he's going to get the same effect.

[Warpy]

29. HAHAHAHAHAHA! A Kenney running as an ousider?

The man really is a perambulating ball of massive delusion.

[Snackshack]

34. What happened

To this one.

[GoCubsGo]

35. Talk about lack of self-awareness.

It doesn't get more "establishment" than the Kennedy family--of which he is one.

[Hortensis]

36. His use of "establishment" as a bad word reveals a lot.

With democracy and our liberal progressive government under the most dangerous attacks since their establishment, the Democratic Party IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE ESTABLISHMENT WE INHERITED.

There is no one else. Those who've taken over the GOP are trying to overthrow the establishment that secures our rights, freedoms and wellbeing.

Populist leaders invariably seek power by promising people antagonistic to "the establishment" a chance to strike out at it. That's defining. Ideology of those appealed to of secondary importance compared to anger and negativism, if at all.

Today, grievance populism is ascendant among the resentful on both right and left. Everything's gone wrong, and the establishment" is to blame for everything. Whether leaders claim to be reformers, revolutionaries, or good, Christian servants of god, they all call for destroying the government Democrats are protecting from them in order to to conjure mobs to fuel their power-seeking.

I can't wait for Democratic voters to kick this slimy bastard to the curb again.

[relayerbob]

40. Rolling Stone is corporate establishment media??????????

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That guy is truly nuts. Even his own family disavows relations with him.

[LudwigPastorius]

41. I guess, in Junior's case, RFK stands for Really Fuckin' Kooky.

[bronxiteforever]

42. So speaks Bannon's and Putin's stooge.

The so called environment lawyer doesn’t say a freakin word when Russia committed a massive and catastrophic environmental disaster when Putin blew up the Nova Kakhovka Dam. Guess RFK Jr. was paid to keep his mouth shut by Putin and the GOP Putin fan club.

[paleotn]

45. Was RFK Jr. dropped on his head as a child? Seems that way.

He's a complete moron who feel very far from the family tree.

The Rolling Stone...a source of establishment propaganda? Someone better tell Dr. Hook.

[keithbvadu2]

47. "Heal the Divide"... sounds like unity but he doesn't want his GOP backers known?

[Ford_Prefect]

50. RFK Jr is a RW nut bar no matter what his political packaging pretends him to be...

Flat Earther of the 1st order.

[Vinca]

51. Guess there's one flake in every family. What a shame - JFK and RFK Sr. were so great.

I always worry about crackpots like this having a Jill Stein/Ralph Nader influence at the polls. It always helps the GQP.

[womanofthehills]

65. Actually, Jill Stein is now assisting Cornel West

CNN
—
Two-time Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein told CNN on Thursday that she is now assisting Cornel West, the former Harvard professor and longtime progressive activist, as he builds up his recently announced campaign for the White House.

“I’m a transition coordinator helping his campaign move from its previous People’s Party context into the Green Party and developing his team and the infrastructure that he needs to run a full-powered, people-powered campaign,” Stein said.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/jill-stein-cornel-west-president-2024/index.html

[Vinca]

67. Oh, wonderful. I forgot all about West.

[betsuni]

52. "Establishment": silly populist insult meaning anybody/thing they don't like, can whine about

how everybody on their long Enemies List is out to get them. How Rolling Stone and Planned Parenthood suddenly become Teh Establishment.

[PlutosHeart]

53. He seems very ill.

Sad to see such a thing but his statements and lack of perception indicates tumbling into an unfortunate place. Golly, I recall many decades ago when he seemed nothing like this.

[orleans]

54. here's a link to rolling stone (no paywall)

https://archive.is/M7m7N

[SunSeeker]

56. Thank you, Rolling Stone, for exposing RFK Jr's run as a Trump World financed sham.

RFK Jr appears to have severe mental health issues, and Trump World is taking full advantage of that.

[Hekate]

57. He trades on his father's name -- and he is dangerous to Democrats and the country

[Initech]

60. Oh fuck off, he's a plant and he knows it.

This whole thing is an intel gathering job. It's producing advertising bait to flip swing voters. Glad no one is taking it. Fuck Steve Bannon.

[Takket]

66. If it is all propaganda

Then he will have no issue returning the $ to the PAC and refusing to take anymore.

:crickets: