Know your hate symbols. A Democratic candidate for president used one today.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

Link to tweet

The above link is a tweet from RFK Junior that reads:

Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.

Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time."
Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.

This is not true. There is no "pro forma" protection or "turnaround time." Secret Service protection is granted only a few months before election day to candidates. He's lying and using hate symbols as a dogwhistle.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search

1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs. As such, they are ubiquitous within the white supremacist movement - as graffiti, in graphics and tattoos, even in screen names and e-mail addresses, such as [e-mail]. Some white supremacists will even price racist merchandise, such as t-shirts or compact discs, for $14.88.

The symbol is most commonly written as 1488 or 14/88, but variations such as 14-88 or 8814 are also common.

Fuck this guy.

[orthoclad]

1. What's in the X?

Like many here, links to X just yield white space.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. added

[Celerity]

6. snapshot

[2naSalit]

18. Thank you!

[orthoclad]

35. Ah, he had to sneak that 14HH reference in.

I'm slightly surprised Musk didn't change the name to H, or HH.

[COL Mustard]

32. It's a symbol

Only used by crackpots.

[Bluethroughu]

50. X marks the spot of white space.

BTW
88 Heil Hitler
14 Aryan Dominance 1=A 4=D

[orthoclad]

51. I think the 14 refers to

the "14 words" sentence, some gibberish about the white race.
Aryan Dominance works, too.

After taking over twitler, Mux had some tweet exchanges that involved 1488. He's a NaXi.

[Bluethroughu]

55. Oh most definately, he's a white supremacist too.

These people are to rich and bored. They need to wash some dishes with the common folk, and see if they could get to where they are without family money and name recognition. I bet they can not, and they know it.

They are deluded into their narcissistic self indulgence, and even they are bored with themselves.

[orthoclad]

58. Many years ago I was working a day job in a Florida swamp.

I said something to a non-white co-worker like "I don't feel good".
He replied "No one cares how you feel, white boy".

That day was an education.

[Bluethroughu]

86. Nope, if anyone cared we'd have single payer system like the rest

Of the industrialized countries.

Everyones to busy trying to survive this unregulated nightmare, we call capitalism but socialize big business outcomes. Proof is a pandemic where PPP made the rich richer and the poor...get to work.

The Supreme freaks justified it by telling our future to bad for you, by voting against the student loan forgiveness.

Pigs slopping at the trough.

[orthoclad]

88. I agree with your points, but

I was thinking that this experience helped cure me of my Cauco-centric thinking.

[EnergizedLib]

3. I hope Bobby Sr. would be ashamed

It’s hard to believe they’re father/son.

[FSogol]

4. Also, Readers added context they thought people might want to know

Secret Service protection is only afforded to "major candidates" within a period of 120 days from the general election.

secretservice.gov/about/faq/gene….

It is, at time of writing, it is 465 days until the general election, putting this request far out of range of the law.

[WarGamer]

11. Actually that's incomplete. I can help.

The choice is at the discretion of the Secret Service/White House...

Future President Obama was given an SS detail in May of 2007 and McCain was offered the same protection at the same time but declined it. 18 months before the election.

HTH

[MorbidButterflyTat]

15. So

any schmuck can say, "I'm running for president, give me secret service protection or I'm gonna go cry on twitter,"?

[WarGamer]

16. At the discretion means... they look at the situation.

RFK Jr depending on the poll is between 10-20%... does his last name make him a target for the mentally deranged?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

17. Okay...

You said Prez Obama and John McCain were offered protection; this asshole is demanding it, and whining about it.

And, he IS the mentally deranged! The mentally deranged love him! We need protection from them.

[iemanja]

41. Kennedy is the mentally deranged.

[Sky Jewels]

91. Beat me to it.

The American people need protection from this whack job Putin-loving white supremacist.

[okaawhatever]

52. re:being a target. RFK Sr. was assassinated bc he was a liberal. Jr. won't have that problem. nt

[bronxiteforever]

30. Congressional leaders not the President make

the call on candidates.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

61. Uh oh

According to the ADL, 18 is a hate symbol.

ALTERNATE NAMES: Combat 18, C18
18 is a white supremacist alphanumeric code for Adolf Hitler (1=A and 8=H). It is most commonly associated with the British white supremacist group Combat 18 or C18. Occasionally, Combat 18 cells appear in the United States, but they tend to be small and short-lived.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Was hoping people would focus more on the white supremacist dogwhistle here

[iemanja]

43. Is it the 88?

Can you explain?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

48. It's in the OP.

[bronxiteforever]

29. Here is the complete law from the Secret Service

Which candidates for President does the Secret Service protect?

In regard to presidential campaign, the Secret Service is authorized by law (18 United States Code § 3056) to protect:
Major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election. As defined in statute, the term "major presidential and vice presidential candidates" means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee.
The Secret Service provides protection for major candidates, unless declined.
The Secret Service has no role in determining who is to be considered a major candidate. The Secretary of the Homeland Security determines who qualifies as a major candidate and when such protection should commence under the authority of Title 18, United States Code, Section 3056. This determination is made in consultation with an advisory committee comprised of the following individuals:
Speaker of the House
House Minority Whip
Senate Majority Leader
Senate Minority Leader
One additional member chosen by the committee


So the decision on who the major candidates are comes from the Congress and Secretary of Homeland Security.

[Celerity]

5. I saw that earlier as well

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218127909#post12

[BOSSHOG]

22. Ya gotta be a white trash ignorant freedom hating racist

To be PROUD?? I’m white and I’m proud I hate those motherfuckers..

[Celerity]

27. seeing as the ass who made that used a swazi, I am surprised they did not use POWER instead of PRIDE

often the White Pride bellends (aka white power lite) use the celtic cross as they lack the jacobs to openly fly the swastika



to which I second this bloke's response:

[orthoclad]

36. plus they like a variety rune symbols

which they can slip into logos, videos, and signs, so they can recognize each other.

[Celerity]

100. the othala (ᛟ), also known the odal rune, is very common

[msfiddlestix]

90. White Pride has been used interchangeably with White Power deliberately in recent years

Actually, to be more specific, White Pride had become a "thing" or rational as the motivational meme to attain white power.

about 15 or so years ago, one of my "housemates" revealed his white supremacists attitudes
in an argument we had inexplicably gotten into with regards to the issue of "illegal immigrants".

After a long heated exchange, he asked me : Don't you have any White Pride?

I've never been asked that question, nor have I ever heard anyone claim they were "proud" to be white before then

It was really shocking and weird to me, because before that moment there was no clue whatsoever that he held these views.

Since then, I developed a sort of radar for white pride attitudes in my midst.

Sometimes I get it wrong, because I tend to associate appearance and demeanor with white supremacists, but it's fraught with stereotyping leading to unintended consequences.

[EarthFirst]

7. It's all spelled out here; fu*kstick...

The metrics are far from met.

https://www.secretservice.gov/protection/leaders/campaign-2024

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. The issue is not the Secret Service protection. The issue is him using a neonazi symbol in his

tweet.

[WarGamer]

14. Obama and McCain offered Secret Service details in May 2007. Obama accepted, McCain declined.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

68. Congress has latitude

To appoint SS protection to candidates in extraordinary circumstances, like the first black man polling above a certain amount to become POTUS.

RFK has neither mitigating circumstance in his favor. Plus, he comes from a rich family. He can afford his own protection.

Thanks for playing the false equivalence game.

[BOSSHOG]

23. Way back when

I was a baby faced Sailor, new to the Navy two Sailors four paygrades above me were having a heated discussion about how to “repair a widget” (for lack of a better explanation). Our crusty old Senior Chief let them go for awhile, then stood up and asked in a low but incredibly growly tone - “What’s the fucking book say?” I remember it to this day 50 years later. Good Advice.

[reACTIONary]

56. RTFM...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM#:~:text=RTFM%20is%20an%20initialism%20and,forum%2C%20software%20documentation%20or%20FAQ.

[COL Mustard]

79. Gotta love crusty Senior Chiefs

And crusty First Sergeants, Master Gunnys, and even Warrant Officers. They're the ones who've been around for a while and they know all the ins and outs of the system. I was too dumb as a shavetail to learn from the first ones...I paid the price for a while.

[obamanut2012]

8. I noticed that as soon as I saw the tweet earlier today

Fuck him.

And Cheryl Hines, too. She isn't denouncing this.

[yardwork]

24. Yep. Definitely not a coincidence to use those numbers.

I wonder what he thinks he's playing at.

[orthoclad]

37. Mux used some 1488 references in tweets after takeover time

[keep_left]

64. Yep. Around the same time, he also used another dogwhistle: the "Frenworld" Nazi frog meme.

The "Fren" terminology comes from /r/Frenworld, a banned group on Reddit that featured the Apu Apustaja frog using "Nazi babytalk", e.g. speaking alt-right lingo while sounding like a small child or a developmentally disabled adult. Sometimes the frogs wore SS uniforms or other Nazi identification. No, I'm not kidding.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Fren
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217911853
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217911853#post16

[orthoclad]

65. We need to do everything we can to help sink that cesspool

I guess it was a useful thing once, but it's now just cover for Nazis.

We need a global town hall that is not vulnerable to investors or private puchasers who just want a rubber duckie to play li'l hitler with. Mastodon looks likely, it seems to be a co-op, not a corp.

[keep_left]

66. Well, at least /r/Frenworld was banned, but X (aka Twitter) is a lost cause.

Last I checked, you could only view individual tweets (no replies) unless you were a member and logged in. That really limits the usefulness of Twitter and turns it into an echo chamber, since you can't see the pushback from the public. And then Elon reinstated all the Nazi accounts which had been previously deplatformed, turning it into (as you say) a cesspool.

I think things like Mastodon are going to be the future of social media, simply because they are not set up as a business that can be monopolized. Ironically, I expect at least a few commercial enterprises to eventually decamp Twitter as it becomes more toxic. Some businesses will not tolerate the constant racism, anti-Semitism, and conspiratorial tone that increasingly defines Twitter. After all, you are known by the company that you keep.

[orthoclad]

78. I did some lurking there on X

to follow a developing local event, and to read a couple folks like altNOAA, who gave solid, factual info on covid. I liked it because you could read without joining, unlike a lot of places. I haven't lurked since li'l twitler bought it; I won't give clicks to Nazis. I'm glad people ae posting Masto links here.

[obamanut2012]

10. I noticed that as soon as I saw the tweet earlier today

Fuck him.

And Cheryl Hines, too. She isn't denouncing this. She is a public figure to an extent

[MorbidButterflyTat]

12. He's been spouting

hate openly for weeks, and is an obvious Bannon plant, why bother with secret numerical messages, ala Jack Posobiec?

I doubt many Democrats are fooled by this grifting idiot.

[yardwork]

25. The numbers get the neo-Nazis all excited, apparently.

[EYESORE 9001]

13. The adversary steps out of the shadows

Good that the nazi tips his hand right away.

[617Blue]

19. Unfortunately for him he's running in the wrong party.

[dalton99a]

20. Kick

[Kali]

26. OMG

[TheRickles]

28. RFK Jr. is many things, but he's not a neo-Nazi or a white supremacist. This is numerology BS.

You could just as easily say that the 67 pages in his report was obviously a rounded up version of 666, the devil's number, but divided by 10 to hide the Satanic messaging from all but his most loyal cultists. Please, be real!

[AZLD4Candidate]

33. Covid is was designed to spare Jews and the Chinese. His words. He is a neo-Nazi.

[TheRickles]

45. Sorry, not his words. He said it was a possibility, but implied that China was behind it, not us.

And after the story exploded in the media, he expressly and specifically denied this allegation, which I think is an intentional misinterpretation of what he said at that informal dinner gathering. He was referring to a well-established fact that enzyme expression differs among various ethnic groups (polymorphism), with the ACE-2 Covid factor being differentially expressed in Chinese and Ashkenazi subgroups. That's an uncontroversial finding, similar to how many Asians don't metabolize alcohol well due to a deficiency of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme. That's not being racist or anti-Asian, it's an objectively verified fact.

Can you point to anything else that he has said or done that is neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic? Surely he must have left a long trail of statements and behaviors to justify using such a strong descriptor.

[AZLD4Candidate]

57. Nazis aren't nazis until they say something nazi-ish. Being Jewish, I'll take his words, not your

interpretation. Thank you.

[TheRickles]

71. As it happens, I'm Jewish too, not that that matters. It's ironic because one of my main critiques

of RFK is that he's been too supportive of Israel w/r/t their I/P policies.

So I find it hard to believe that he'd all of a sudden reveal himself to be an anti-Semitic Nazi. Again, listen to his actual words, not the second-hand commentaries. Two sentences, with all the qualifiers removed by "..." in the articles and commentaries, does not make anyone a Nazi.

[AZLD4Candidate]

72. Being supportive of Israel does not mean you can make nazi overtones. Most people know what 1488

mean. Even the ADL does.

And I listened to his words, but thanks for that. You can support RFK the lesser as much as you want.

I'll support REAL Democrats, like Joe Biden.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

73. Jumping to more conclusions I see

Refusing to make assumptions about the Nazi tendencies of someone based on some numbers they posted does not equate to supporting their candidacy.

I can’t imagine how exhausting it must be to constantly be on the lookout for something to be offended about, real or not.

[AZLD4Candidate]

74. Yeah, you're right. Nazi speaking that COVID was designed to hurt everyone except Jews and Chinese

really isn't something I should care about, considering I'm Jewish and my wife is a Chinese national.

Fuck RFK the lesser.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

75. That isn't what he said

But it seems that you choose to inhabit a fact-free zone when it comes to RFK Jr., so by all means, you do you.

[AZLD4Candidate]

76. You want to support someone trying to primary Joe Biden, go ahead. Anti-vax nazi fuck that he is.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

77. Again

You make incorrect assumptions. I support Joe Biden for President and no one else.

I also support not assuming people are Nazis bust because of numbers in a social media post.

But as I said, you do you.

[druidity33]

106. What did he say then?

Because my impression was that he IMPLIED it strongly. RFK Jr is running as a spoiler. Period. That makes him anti-Democratic as far as I'm concerned. He is not a legitimate contender for anything. Unless it's misguided asshole of the year award.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

107. He is

A spoiler, he is anti-Democratic party, and he may well be a misguided asshole.

None of which makes him a Nazi.

And what he said was that the virus targeted different ethnic groups. Never said it was designed or engineered to do anything.

[druidity33]

108. No, but the 14-88 whistle does.

If you don't think he was aware of that association.... then i can only say you're terribly naive.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

109. Believe what you like n/t

[TheRickles]

114. Well, thanks for trying. Pretty depressing to see what is showing up on DU.

I thought it was just Republicans/MAGAts who were easily triggered, but I guess "both sides do it". Onward to the blue wave of 2024 (I hope).

[SickOfTheOnePct]

116. Triggered?

No idea what you’re talking about.

[TheRickles]

117. I meant that people are willing to jump to all sorts of conclusions based on the tiniest of clues.

I think that's the point you've been making in your comments.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

118. Ah, got it!

And I agree with you!

Sorry for the misunderstanding!

[TheRickles]

119. No worries! Well, I was worried for a minute there.... :-)

[SMC22307]

38. Per the Anti-Defamation League...

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgeyrz-SygAMVi7rICh11qwbxEAAYASAAEgIcivD_BwE

RFK Jr has aligned with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone. Diminish it all you want, but he's bad fucking news.

[orthoclad]

44. No, this is straight-up Hitler worship

1488
14 words (some white supremacy gibberish sentence with 14 words)
88 is code for HH (eighth letter) which is code for Heil Hitler.
1488 is STANDARD Nazi pigwhistle. Schweinpfeifen.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

[SickOfTheOnePct]

47. Yeah

The stuff I read here sometimes amazes me.

[SMC22307]

53. You need to pay better attention.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

[SickOfTheOnePct]

54. No thanks

I’m not interested in searching every social media post for something that I can twist into something to be offended about.

There’s an ass ton of reasons to not like RFK Jr., but this kind of conspiracy crap is Not one of them IMO.

YMMV

[SMC22307]

59. You didn't need to search at all. RFK Jr put it out there for all to see - plain as day.

He's aligned with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone - he and his social media staff know exactly what they're doing. Tiny D just fired one on his staff (IMO not because of the Nazi imagery, but because he was found out). GOP politicians are hiring more and more of these little shits as staffers.

Crypto-Fascists and Dead Bounce Ron’s Speed Bumps on the Way to Oblivion
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/crypto-fascists-and-dead-bounce-rons-speed-bumps-on-the-way-to-oblivion

[SickOfTheOnePct]

60. You're free to believe whatever you like

As am I, and I think the idea that RFK Jr posted this as a racist dog whistle is laughable.

[SMC22307]

62. He's not his father's son.

People *really* need to wake up.

[ForgedCrank]

67. I have

to agree.
I was getting a good chuckle out of this thread.
I mean, the guy is definitely out there, but secret Nazi codes and white supremacy?

hehehe

[Midwestern Democrat]

97. I quit taking this stuff seriously when people were trying to ban the use of the "OK" hand symbol

because it had apparently been appropriated by some white supremacist group - and I'm like, so if a white supremacist does any of the following: puts salt on his steak, wears a necktie, drives a blue car, parts his hair on the left - that stuff's supposed to be banned too?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

99. Same

It's ludicrous, IMO.

[Raine]

101. Totally agree. nt

[womanofthehills]

70. Agree

Wow! Am I really on DU?

[Brenda]

81. Agree, people are really reaching. nt

[Sky Jewels]

112. No it's not reaching.

He’s aligned with white supremacists Bannon and Stone. He put in the very specific numbers—with hyphens—that are well known Nazi symbols. They do not correspond to the actual number of days that passed. If you think that’s a coincidence, well, all I can say is you’re being very willfully naive.

[Sky Jewels]

92. You're wrong. He is aligning himself with the neo-Nazis.

It’s very apparent.

[Zeitghost]

115. It's embarrassing

To see so many here fall for complete BS. Plenty of reasons to go after RFK Jr. without devolving to conspiratorial bull shit.

[republianmushroom]

31. Well the first and most obvious is a big red elephant. That is number one.

[UTUSN]

34. What "Democrat"?

[Wednesdays]

46. A "Democrat,"

as much as Lyndon LaRouche and Tulsi Gabbard were Democrats.

[lefthandedskyhook]

39. He somewhat gradually turned into a kook

It broke all our hearts when his dad was killed. Probably his more than most. Still, crazy ideas are still crazy coming from anyone

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

69. Gradually?

Maybe 20 years ago the change was gradual, but he's been cuckoo cocoa puffs since at least 2005.

The science blogosphere was warning about how much of a delusion wanker he was, all the way back in the 00s.

But people were too concerned with what was on the telly back then or what celebrity nonsense was going on to heed what the smart people had to say.

[iluvtennis]

40. Thanks for educating me on 14/88 - never knew this. Now I'm informed on

what to be on the lookout for.

[DFW]

42. Sorry, Bobby, but if you become a "major candidate" of the Democratic Party for President in 2024

That will be the day that I, 52 years after casting my first vote, will start to look for another party.

[vlyons]

49. He's wealthy. Why doesm't he just hire his own security?

nt

[Brainfodder]

63. Denied because he is not a serious candidate and running against the sitting President?

I not spending tax payer funds on BS, speaking of which, I hope TFG is billed for everything, and still awaiting the digging / discovery of that creepy grave?

[Brenda]

80. This post is absurd crap. RFK jr. is not a white supremacist. nt

[Initech]

94. I wouldn't call him a democrat either.

He hangs out on Newsmax and whines on Steve Bannon's show that no one is listening to him.

[DickKessler]

105. Nothing says "definitely not a Nazi" like hanging out with Steve Bannon.

[Marius25]

98. Yes he is. He hangs around white supremacists. That makes him one.

If 11 people are at a table with a Nazi, there are 12 Nazis at the table.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

82. For those insisting RFK Jr. is not a white supremacist or neonazi or racist or anrisemite, what do

YOU call someone who uses white supremacists codes to wink at white supremacists? Or who doesn’t provide an explanation and apology when an account with his name on it does?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

83. Someone on this thread

Posted a number that the ADL says is a hate symbol.

Is that person, a DUer, a neo-Nazi as well?

Or is the more reasonable explanation that just because the ADL lists a number or combo of numbers as a hate symbol, that doesn’t mean that every single use of that number or combo of numbers always means that person is a neo-Nazi?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

84. Is this Bizzaro World??

*I* posted an OP explaining why the numbers used in RFK Jr.’s tweet are symbols of neonazis and white supremacists, because it was apparent that people aren’t familiar with this use of code. Are you saying that educating people on these hare symbols are equal in intent and effect to those using them as intended — as dogwhistles to indicate affinity to others who understand the code?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

85. Nope

It’s good to educate people on hate symbols; I have no issue with that whatsoever.

I do take issue with the assumption that every time some uses a number that has been identified as a hate symbol that is somehow proof that the person is a neo-Nazi.

If I post that I agree with another post 100%, does that identify me as a neo-Nazi, since the ADL says 100% is a hate symbol?

Does the fact that a poster in this thread used the number 18 mean that poster is a neo-Nazi, since the ADL says that 18 is a hate symbol?

Of course not, but based on your OP, any use of such numbers screams “neo-Nazi!!!!”

***edited for misspelling

[MorbidButterflyTat]

87. Well

it might also have something to do with the company he keeps, such as tertiary syphilitic whiskey soaked Bannon and Conehead Roger Stone; that he's demanding the incumbent Democratic president he's pretending to challenge provide him with something he doesn't deserve, can afford himself, and is publicly whining about it; and the reality that the domestic terrorists who are twisted enough to kill political rivals love his Nazi ass.

"Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response.."

Yes, I'm sure that word vomit is a total coincidence. After all, he has denounced the Nazis and apologized for the confusion, right?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

96. I obviously can't speak for RFK Jr.

But if it were me, I wouldn't apologize, simply because it wouldn't be my fault that some people choose to see Nazis in every shadow.

But as I said to another poster, you do you.

[DickKessler]

103. RFK Jr. is an extreme conspiracy theorist. Him being anti-Semitic wouldn't be a shock.

So many conspiracy theories—and conspiracy theorists—are anti-Semitic or at the very least promote classic anti-Semitic tropes. And anti-Semitism is itself arguably the original conspiracy theory.

And RFK Jr, like many/most conspiracy theorists, is a proven liar and bullshitter. I’m not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, sorry.

[muriel_volestrangler]

89. It also looks odd that the tweet writer added hyphens after the "14" and "88"

It's not normal to write "14-days" or "88-days", rather than "14 days" and "88 days". It's as if the writer (who I'd expect is an RFK Jr. staffer) was trying to draw the attention of certain people (the neo-Nazi anti-vax type) to the numbers.

[dalton99a]

95. +1. Nobody writes "1-week has 7-days" - incidentally he knows how to use hyphens:

Examples:















etc.

[Initech]

93. RFK Jr isn't a democrat. He's a tool of Steve Bannon and Alex Jones.

His campaign is nothing more than an intel gathering operation. He'll bow out when he gets his pay day.

[BannonsLiver]

102. He doesn't need or deserve secret service protection.

White supremacy theory seems like a reach though.

[DickKessler]

104. Professional conspiracy theorist aligned with the far Right is anti-Semitic? Shocking!

[demmiblue]

110. P.S. 57 days. Not 88 days. 🤨

It was 57 days from the date on RFK Jr’s letter requesting Secret Service protection to the date on this formal response from DHS.

57 days. Not 88 days. 🤨

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

113. +1. Clearly intentional - "Look at me, I am a Nazi"

[Captain Stern]

111. I might have given him the benefit of the doubt.

He could have actually believed there was a typical turnaround time of 14 days, even though there wasn't. And if the response had actually taken exactly 88 days, I might have chalked it up to coincidence.

But it's patently obvious he intentionally chose those two exact numbers.

If he's not careful he's going to start drawing votes away from trump.