His independent White House campaign has fizzled, but the flow of bizarre stories of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unorthodox handling of the carcasses of wild mammals has experienced no similar suspension.
An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof.
The episode has parallels with another extraordinary tale reported earlier in August in which Kennedy confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park and attempted to make it look like the animal was killed by a bicyclist.
The latest grisly revelation, about the whale head, is not particularly new – it stems from a 2012 interview Kennedy’s daughter Kick gave to Town & Country magazine, in which she talks about a visit to other family members of the political dynasty in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, more than two decades prior.
RFK Jr: “This is a cool story, right? People will think I’m cool?”
Brain Worm: “Yes! Yes! And tell them about the bear!”
Beautiful. If Kirsty Noem taught us anything, it’s that charming stories about animals are all the rage.
Mf’er really named his kid Kick Kennedy?
Her actual name is Kathleen.
She’s named after her great aunt Kathleen Kennedy, who died in a plane crash at 28 years old. Aunt Kathleen was nicknamed “Kick” because of her “irrepressible nature” and it seems she inherited the nickname as well.
These irrepressible Kennedy women are lucky they didn’t end up with lobotomies.
Ugh, I hate that story so much. If anything cursed that family, it’d be this.
This can’t be fucking real.
how much would a whale head weigh? how would he have raised it onto his car roof without an engine lift and crazy chains? maybe it was a really small whale? why would the windows be open?
I say we make him americas next prime minister
He’s a weirdo, but an investigation sounds like a waste of resources. The whale was already dead. He didn’t kill it.
transport of the marine mammal skull from Massachusetts to New York, and therefore across state lines, also represented a felony violation of the Lacey Act
Pretty thin sauce.
Trump: “People are calling us weird! Quick, bring on someone that is weirder than me and Vance!”
Staffers: “Turn on the RFK signal!”
This goes way beyond weird. No wonder the weird OLD orange felon welcomed him aboard.
Dang, we missed out on a whale beheading, bear practical joking, brain worming president! It’s just too bad.
Bear corpse practical joking. Don’t forget that it was already a corpse.
A baby bear corpse. That makes the joke funnier.
So the unspoken bit about RFK Jr. is that he’s a tweaker, right?
I mean, the details are all in the context of politically entitled progeny, but the underlying vibe I get from the stories about him is very reminiscent of the tweakers I’ve known over the years.
Watch the Behind the Bastards on him, he at least used to be really into drugs even got one of his brothers addicted.
Edit: Pretty sure it was the brother that died from a drug overdose.
Can someone explain his voice? I don’t want to be the bad guy, so rather than pilling on the obvious…
Why does he sound like he smoked a dick 5 min before his interviews?
That information is very widely and readily available with a basic web search. His voice was fine until (I forget) years ago when a weird illness damaged his vocal cords.
Cool it’s all out there… but you forgot it… but it’s all good and we all get a downvote. Cool cool cool.
Anyone else want to mention what’s going on with his craggy bullshit? Why it’s so GD abrasive but we’re all supposed to just accept it?
He caught permanent whale laryngitis from the dead whale head juice that sloshed through his open car windows.
He has spasmodic dysphonia. It’s the same condition that former NPR interviewer Diane Rehm
hadhas (she’s still with us at 87, good for you Diane). His is a lot more severe than hers to my ears.
What the fuck are even these headlines? What the fuck RFK Jr?!?!
The worst part IMO is using a chainsaw on a necrotizing, possibly rotten whale carcass. Chainsaws do not cut soft objects - like tissues - so much as they shred the hell out of them. That means a lot of splattered, fish-stench horror and fluids. And he probably didn’t wear so much as a smock for protection.
TLDR; he ate a racoon.
Lots of people eat racoons, that’s far from the being this guys problem.
In his defence, he thought it was human meat.
The hunger
This is a Kaufman-esque performance art piece, right? Jk rich people get a free pass on insanity.
