2024 will go down as the year of political weirdos. The Trumpified GOP are the main event but the Kennedy campaign is a deeply weird sideshow. Hence the featured image. I love sideshow banners, especially when they depict baby bears drinking beer. Bobby Junior’s bear died in 2014.
I’ve never harvested roadkill, but I’m not the entitled scion of a famous family:
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago.
Kennedy described the 2014 incident in a video that was posted to social media Sunday, adding it would be included in a New Yorker article that he expected to be damaging.
The article was published Monday and included a photo of Kennedy with his fingers in the bear’s bloodied mouth, a mock grimace on his face. His left pant leg appears to have a bloodstain on it.”
What is it with this creep and roadkill? Who does he think he is? Carl Hiassen’s character Skink? Skink was a former governor of Florida turned swamp dude and roadkill aficionado.
For some weird reason, this weirdo shared his side of the story with fellow weirdo Roseanne Barr:
RFK Jr, in an attempt to get ahead of a forthcoming New Yorker story, says in a new video that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it seem like a bicyclist did it.
The video is filmed with Roseanne Barr. pic.twitter.com/ajzbGzkuvg
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 4, 2024
Is that roadkill on the table? Nothing would surprise me with this freak.
Before dumping the carcass, did he dance with the bear like the dude in this Randy Newman song?
Gird yourself for the aforementioned picture:
Oh man. The New Yorker obtained a photo of RFK Jr. with the dead bear cub — which he later dropped off in Central Park alongside a bike to make it appear it was killed by a cyclist.
He places his hand in the dead bear's bloody mouth and acts like it's biting him. pic.twitter.com/qjy34EHEK8
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 5, 2024
Brain worm or cocaine based brain damage? You decide.
The post title is a take on one of Jack Kennedy’s most famous lines. I stole it from this guy:
If I were still in the newspaper headline game, I’d propose something like “Ich bin ein bear-leaver”
— James Karst (@jameskarst) August 6, 2024
I only steal from the best. Thanks, pally.
I have a new nickname for the weirdo Independent candidate: Roadkill Robert.
The last word goes to The Who with a song that begins thusly, “Did you ever sleep in a bear pit?”
RFK Jr’s weirdness quotient is off the charts, making the likes of Trump and Vance seem almost normal by comparison.
And that’s why I think RFK Jr’s candidacy will steal more votes from the felon than from Harris-Walz: Voters for whom the Con and the Pawn aren’t weird enough.
I hope you’re right.