I’m not a big fan of Nick Gillespe, but he wiped the floor with RFK Jr. here.

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    I don’t get the hype around RFK. For all of the virtue signaling democrats do about Trump and MAGA types, they sure seem eat that shit up with a quickness when their own special brand of unhinged geriatric starts telling them what they want to hear. It’s a bit embarrassing he’s even getting this much publicity

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      You think Democrats are eating that shit up? All the hype I see around him seems to be coming from right wing types trying to use him to damage Biden.

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        There was like one poll that showed him with 20% of Democrats saying they’d vote for him in 2024-- back when the only thing people knew about him was a his name, before it became well known how insane (and how obviously a far-right plant) he was. Oh, and even then that poll was an outlier, most polls before the hype began showed him with less than 10% support-- well below the crazification factor.

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          Yep. The only people I see insisting that Democrats love him… are desperate-sounding Republicans.

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      All of the RFK hype is manufactured. I’ve met a grand total of 0 democrats or leftists that understand how he has any popularity at all, and those are groups I frequent (considering I am one of those things).

      He’s just a spoiler candidate being run to help Trump win.

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        Agreed, totally manufactured. Not only do I not see or hear genuine support, but in its place is always this same question about why the hype. And it’s a good question because there isn’t any that isn’t silicone.

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      People click on things that are at least vaguely familiar to them. RFK Jr. is propped up by the “K” part of his name. He’d get 1/20 as much coverage and attention if his name was Robert Francis Smith.

      That’s 95% of it right there. His last name. For the rest, there’s an inherent desire in the media to create a horse race even if it makes no sense: competitive-ish elections get eyeballs, eyeballs get advertisers, advertisers give money. Pretending that he’s anything other than a pointless loudmouth lets them get more money.

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      Show me one democrat that supports this conservative plant. Dude isn’t a democrat and democrats are very aware of it.

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      He’s getting attention just so we see how much worse we could get than Biden. The worst thing the democratic party wants is a progressive that will take away from their financial interests. RFK is simply getting attention so we don’t give a good politician attention.

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        I think we already realized that we hit rock bottom when we chose Biden as the nominee in 2020.

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          Ugh. What an appropriate username. Choosing Biden in 2020 was a giant climb from rock bottom at the time.

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      I honestly never even questioned which party he was running for. I’ve only seen him being criticized and compared to other conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones. I don’t think he’s being hyped as a presidential candidate. I think he’s getting a spotlight because his name is recognizable and he’s on some crazy shit. I doubt there are many, if any, democrats who support him.