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Kathleen Leary's avatar

To me, it seems both men, Trump and RFK Jr, have serious personality disorders. That could be a bonding factor. One of my husband’s nephews, mid-20’s, sort of incel-y, Libertarian, thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is (actually a pretty nice kid, just very dumb) was planning to vote for RFK Jr. He was one of those people who refused to get the Covid vaccine. A while back we had a family gathering and found out he’d gotten a new puppy and everyone wanted him to come and bring the puppy, but he couldn’t come because the puppy was too young to get its shots yet. I had to laugh. Lucky puppy gets to get his shots!

I want to assure RFK Jr that people had Tourette’s when we were kids because one of our friends had it. My mother, born in 1919, had severe asthma (she was once pronounced dead and brought back to life by an epinephrine shot to the heart a la Pulp Fiction, on the insistence of my father—luckily because I wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t). And let’s not forget small pox and polio!

BTW, last summer the NYT had a good article about the rhetorical misinformation technique used by RFK Jr—including elements of truth and then a lot credible-sounding research that is actually unproven and flawed. It’s on purpose and insidious. He is a self-serving liar.

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