• LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Sure man, dilute the already failing secret service some more.

    They literally just whiffed a fuckin assassination attempt. You should definitely spread the goons out further.

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      Yeah this whole “give RFK secret service detail” made me wonder, are there just like cadres of reserve/on-call secret service protection details chillin in office cubicles ready to go out and take bullets for weirdos? I mean they must have some depth, but like wouldn’t it definitely mean some mild deduction to back for the existing details?

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    If the Dems were smart, they’d make a big show of doing this. RFK is way more popular with conservative independents than liberal ones.

    Raise RFKs visibility and signal that he’s “important” enough to warrant this level of protection and maybe he gets more coverage and splits the vote. Only like 4% or something support RFK, but that’s still a significant voting block in a close election

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      RFK is way more popular with conservative independents than liberal ones.

      The only RFK supporters I’ve met are crunchy wine mom types who heard he’s against “chemicals” or some shit and don’t seem to be that worried about the antivax stuff, or low key believe it themselves

      And the polling doesn’t seem to bear it out either, its a slight lean if anything:

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        Oh no - that’s different than the polling I’d seen. I think the stuff I saw was before the whole brain worms thing, so maybe it’s more of a mixed bag now.

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    6 months ago

    Given the history of the Kennedy family

    Fucking lmao

    Also, people who predicted Trump would lean more stable and civil after the fact against expectations to further embarass Biden are winning so far.

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      Once they’ve gorged on grey matter the brain worms known as Taenia solium kennediae bore their way out of the body to begin their cocooning phase. This has to happen through the skull, so the worms have an ingenious solution to a hard problem; they emit a subsonic hum that drives nearby susceptible persons to fire any firearm in their possession at the hosts head, creating openings for the grown worms. These unwilling midwives are commonly known as Paratsies. While this is a risky strategy, it also has the advantage of concealing the parasites from detection.

      very-smart