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.
Everyone around Trump seems to either end up in prison, a convicted felon, or in rare cases, dead. Funny how assholes and weirdos seem to gravitate to him.
I think it’s a strategy to remove the focus on both trump himself and what hes campaign is missing (clear stances on lot of things).
Just get crazy headline-guys in the spotlight!
And it seems it’s working.
Weirdo
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.
I wanna know how he wasn’t arrested? I mean if any average person had done that their ass would be in jail ffs.
I’m sure the DA will get right on it as soon as he and RFK Jr. get back from their falconry trip in the Hamptons.
What are the charges? When I find skulls laying around our camp I nail them beside the shed door. So far I have a rabbit, tortoise shell and an unidentified herbivore. Lost the deer skull. :(
Call me weird if you like, but criminal? Excepting scale, what’s the difference? Not like he rowed out in the bay and harpooned it himself. I can’t shoot a black bear, but I can do what I please with any remains I find.
What are the charges?
You can just, like, read the article. It’s right there. Hyperlinked nicely for you for maximum convenience.
average person
Found the reason.
Not weird at all.
Wild day for people who believe in consequences as we beg appeals courts to not let Trump off scot free for misuse of classified documents and hope theres a way to prosecute a Kennedy for decapitating a whale.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the brain worms make this guy chainsaw his own head off.
Man, Kennedys end up with a shocking number of dead things in their cars.
A truly mind blowing amount.
They’re drowning in it.
Just ask Chapaquitic Teddy.
Ever read a comment that’s so damned clever you bail out the internet, knowing you won’t find another lightning in a bottle post any time soon?
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.
Every headline I read about this man is pure insanity.
And this is only like, the fifth weirdest headline I’ve read about the guy.
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.
He caught permanent whale laryngitis from the dead whale head juice that sloshed through his open car windows.
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 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.
His daughter:
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us.”
whale juice would pour into the windows of the car
Why…
Why wouldn’t you roll up the windows?
Straps go through the windows?
Lol how would you open the doors
There’s not always the little strip of metal across the top of the door. Some cars just let the glass press against a foam rubber seal when the door is shut. Infiniti G35 windows were like that.
You can still close the windows on the straps, assuming they’re flat straps.
I’ve personally seen too many people try strapping things to their car through open windows because they didn’t plan on how they would get into their cars. It’s far to likely that mr. brain worms simply strapped the doors shut and crawled in through the windows.
You remove the straps then open the doors.
And then the load shifts on the roof, and you get in. How will you tighten the straps?
Why not just run the straps around with the doors open
Generally there are more than two windows…
But I never said any of this was a good idea, just answering how you can do it. Some car doors won’t close with a strap in there (my old Chrysler Lebaron for example, $800 of “Its technically driveable”), so me and a friend went in through the windows.
I had town car, all four doors would close just fine, but the station wagon only the front doors would close (so backseat meant crawling through the trunk, aka the fifth seat).
You do what you gotta do
You climb in and out through the window. Hardships have to be endured for a whale skull.
Jesus Christ, this guy is legitimately fucking unwell. Like, what the fuck?
I must have ambergris
Based on what I’m hearing about the guy, I wouldn’t be surprised if the windows and/or AC were broken and they just left it like that.
Normal Kennedy day. They only roll the windows up when things get weird.
people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us.
Right, so when they’re not driving around with whale heads, he’s just a reckless driver. Must run in the family.
what the fuck
That… sounds real.
Remember folks, there are delusional centrists who love this guy and think he speaks for the working man.
Just a not weird family drive through the country. Seriously though, I’m betting the Harris campaign is sitting on several more of these stories that will roll out over the next couple months.
I’m also wondering where his collection is right now. If he’s being investigated for a federal crime, there may be a search warrant in the works.
Look, guys… he already admitted that he’s not a choir boy. So just drop it, already. Sheesh. /s
Note that he intentionally took his kids to watch him saw the head off and put it on the car and take it home. Because he apparently liked to “study” such things. Weird as fuck.
All his life he has spent an unusual amount of time around animal corpses. Dead animals are kind of his thing.
I learned this from the Behind the Bastards podcast’s recent RFL Jr. series. It came up so much it was an ongoing callback joke lol.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself…
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.
