Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is really out here playing around in Kamala Harris’ face. Actually, he’s playing around in all of our faces.
On Tuesday, the former independent presidential candidate made an appearance on NewsNation, and he sat there with a straight face and said Harris is not “worthy” of the presidency, and that she is unable to “put together an English sentence.” Now, the first part of RFK’s remark is to be expected — because nothing has brought out white-and-fragile men who hide their insecurity behind condensation and misogynoir like the prospect of a Black woman ascending to the highest office in the nation — but that second part is comically absurd considering he has endorsed the word salad king, Donald Trump.
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo asked Kennedy, “Why wasn’t it a better move to stay neutral and command the attention of both sides as long as you could for the duration of this campaign?”
“Well, it became clear to me, Chris, that I was not gonna be allowed on the debating stage, which was really my only path to victory,” he replied. “I was already being boycotted by all of the mainstream media, the liberal media.”
First of all, the “mainstream media” has nothing to do why why RFK was never going to make it to a nationally televised debate stage. At the time he suspended his campaign, he was on the ballot in only 22 states, CBS News reported on Aug. 30. The most generous national polling data had him coming in the mid-single digits.
Bro, there are more who people read the full software “terms and agreements” before clicking “I agree” than there are who were going to vote for you in the 2024 presidential race. Chill.
Despite his subterranean polling numbers, the former candidate claimed the polls indicated that staying in the race would only hurt Trump, especially in swing states. But this writing, because of their state election rules, he’ll remain on the ballot in critical places like Michigan and North Carolina. So his actions and statements are pretty confusing.
In RFK’s own words from the Cuomo interview:
“…Our polling was showing that if I stayed in the race, Vice President Harris would win, and I did not want that outcome,” Kennedy continued. “I don’t think that Vice President Harris is a worthy president of this country. I think we need to have a president who can give an interview, who can articulate a vision, who can put together an English sentence, who can articulate and defend her policies and her record, and who can engage in a debate.”
Setting aside the fact that Harris has a debate scheduled against Trump in just a few days — and the fact that it’s Trump who has been transparently trying to squirm his way out of it — RFK really needs to STFU.
First, he’s not a good enough speaker to be this critical of Harris’ ability to “put together an English sentence.” The man who tried to appeal to Black voters by whitesplaining to them that they would be “immune” to racism “like the Avengers” if they would just get a better “education” should probably not have much to say about how Harris will or does conduct herself in the political arena. RFK Jr. once warned “Caucasians and Black people” that Covid-19 might have been engineered to target everyone except Jewish and Chinese people, but no — he would have definitely been taken seriously on the debate stage if not for the fact that more people care about Miley Cyrus’ opinion on rap music than they care about voting RFK into the White House.
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And again, why is RFK even commenting on how articulate Harris is when he gave his virtually worthless-ass endorsement to the guy who literally answers interview questions about the economy like this:
In Trump’s own words:
“We’re going to drill, baby, drill. We’re gonna bring down the cost of energy. Energy’s what caused the worst inflation, I think, in the history of our country. Food prices are up 50%, sometimes more. You look at bacon. Bacon has quadrupled. You can’t order bacon. You can’t order anything. We’re living horribly. We have the worst inflation we’ve probably ever had in our country, and it started because of energy. We’re gonna drill, baby, drill. And then we’re gonna have China, and all of these countries that were treating us good when I was there … it took me a long time to get them to behave properly, all of these countries are gonna again.”
(For the record, bacon prices have not even doubled, let alone quadrupled, and inflation is nowhere near its highest rate in U.S. history. But this isn’t about Trump lying, it’s about him lying while sounding like his dog ate half of each of his cue cards.)
Hell, Trump wasn’t even able to speak well while praising himself for being a “genius speaker,” citing his own glaring inability to stick to one topic.
From Raw Story:
“You know, I do the weave,” Trump recently said at a political event. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”
But one English professor has gone on the record to explain what Trump’s “weave” really is.
According to a New York Times report Sunday, “James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University and a renowned Shakespeare scholar, ruminated about Mr. Trump’s use of the word: ‘I read Trump’s comment bragging that ‘I do the weave.’ I take him at his word, as one of the Oxford English Dictionary definitions of ‘weave’ is ‘to pursue a devious course.’”
Even Trump’s biographer called out the former president and his claim to have had English professors tell him his style is brilliant.
“I highly doubt that Donald Trump has any English professor friends,” Timothy O’Brien, a Trump biographer, said, according to the New York Times weekend report. “What this really reflects is that he is aware of the criticism that he is publicly saying nonlinear, nonsensical word salad, and he is trying to pretend there is a strategy or logic behind it when there isn’t.”
Exactly.
The bottom line: they are who they were…
At the end of day, RFK’s attack on Harris’ speaking ability–while endorsing the man who could barely sputter out, “I know words, I have the best words” without getting tongue-tied — only indicates that white male mediocrity and all the sub-basement white guys below them, still looks like gold in the eyes of all mediocre and sub-basement-level white men, while even the most accomplished and articulate Black women in the nation still have an uphill battle in proving to those same white men that they’re “worthy” of any position. Sad.
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