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Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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This guy's a nutter, but he has a point. His polling numbers make him a contender. Not providing protection is ridiculous.

What makes you say he's a nutter?

Presumably the vaccine stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...

Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you say he's a nutter?

Presumably the vaccine stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...

Alt account? What about the vaccine stuff presumably?

He has a few books on the subject. Seems scholarly and scientific in conversation with Joe Rogan and others.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/robert-f-kennedy-jr/3558232/

Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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This guy's a nutter, but he has a point. His polling numbers make him a contender. Not providing protection is ridiculous.

He can hire a bodyguard. He does not need the secret service specifically.

Edit: I take it back. His request seems pretty reasonable given the context

His pandering to his family legacy is annoying here but whatever

Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably the vaccine stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...

Alt account? What about the vaccine stuff presumably? He has a few books on the subject. Seems scholarly and scientific in conversation with Joe Rogan and others. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/robert-f-kennedy-jr/3558232/

> Seems scholarly and scientific in conversation with Joe Rogan

I doubt that's a hard thing to achieve for someone used to speaking in public. Joe Rogan is not known for challenging his guests intellectually.

Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably the vaccine stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...

Alt account? What about the vaccine stuff presumably? He has a few books on the subject. Seems scholarly and scientific in conversation with Joe Rogan and others. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/robert-f-kennedy-jr/3558232/

He has continued pushing long disproven stuff like the MMR autism link.

That alone is sufficient to consider him a nutter. And given the size of his platform he is a wildly dangerous one causing immense harm.

Re: You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably the vaccine stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...

Alt account? What about the vaccine stuff presumably? He has a few books on the subject. Seems scholarly and scientific in conversation with Joe Rogan and others. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/robert-f-kennedy-jr/3558232/

"in conversation with Joe Rogan"

Yikes.

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