Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to drop his Democratic bid for president and announce he'll run as an independent or third-party candidate.

Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce Monday that he will drop his Democratic bid for president and run as an independent or third-party candidate, adding a new wrinkle to a 2024 race currently heading toward a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Kennedy’s campaign has teased the announcement in the days leading up to a Monday afternoon speech in Philadelphia. In a recent video, Kennedy said there is corruption “in the leadership of both political parties” and said he wants to “rewrite the assumptions and change the habits of American politics.”

The video came shortly after Mediaite reported he planned to launch an independent bid.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    92·
    9 months ago

    Covid-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.

    -RFK Jr.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews

      This is some medieval, “How come the Jews are surviving the plague better?!”, boolshit.

      Perhaps because they have a history of practicing good hygiene?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        “Who survived Covid most?”

        “The ethno-religious group required to practice medically sound infectious disease practices and an ethnic group predisposed to wearing masks while sick. Both are disproportionately medical professionals.”

        “Conspiracy!!!”

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          Yeah! You’re so smart! How did they become “disproportionately medical professionals” ?!

          ethno-religious group required to practice medically sound infectious disease practices

          Not gonna hear it. Conspiracy. I stand pat.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      71·
      9 months ago

      Well of course. The Jewish space laser blasts anti-covid beams over synagogues and the Chinese invented the virus as well as the REAL™ cure, and everyone else has CCP activation codes inside the vaccine and will activate during the FEMA broadcast test on Oct 4th rescheduled since too many people knew about it and turned off their phones.

      He also forgot the lizard people who cured themselves with 5G waves.

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      The scientific evidence and statistics say half the opposite. Ashkenazi Jews actually had poorer outcomes overall as compared to other ethnic groups. It’s just that they were more likely to follow masking and social distancing rules and got their vaccinations, so had less infections overall. But if they did contract Covid, it was way worse for them.

      Same with the black population, (though there were issues of not getting vaccines in those communities due to past genocidal testing by the US government on said populations) so I guess he’s half right there.