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Doodley

(11,912 posts)
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 01:53 PM Sep 2024

RFK Jr. says he's being investigated for taking whale on car roof. "It's all about the weaponization of our government."



"I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago," Kennedy said during a campaign event for former President Donald Trump in Glendale, Arizona, noting that he received the letter "this week."

Kennedy said that he responded in a letter, baselessly linking the National Marine Fisheries Service with whale deaths and calling for the agency to investigate.

"This is all about the weaponization of our government against political opponents," he said.

Kennedy did not go into details about the whale incident, but his daughter had previously described a situation involving a whale that took place 30 years ago.

His daughter Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, 36, described in a 2012 article for Town & Country magazine how, when she was 6, her father used a chainsaw to cut the head off a dead whale that had washed ashore and bungee-corded it to the family's car during their drive home.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-says-investigated-collecting-whale-specimen-rcna171178
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PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
3. Junior likes dead animals
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 01:59 PM
Sep 2024

The bear he left in Central Park.

His freezer full of roadkill meats.

Now, a whale’s head on his car?!

Junior is weird.

Coexist

(26,202 posts)
4. then maybe don't traumatize your children with your fetishization of roadkill
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 02:00 PM
Sep 2024

and they'll have no stories to tell people when they grow up

RockRaven

(19,369 posts)
7. Privileged dipshit has been a scofflaw his entire life,
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 02:31 PM
Sep 2024

and if it wasn't for his family name and money he would have been held to account for all sorts of things (drugs, theft, vandalism) long ago.

SupportSanity

(1,582 posts)
8. Hunter Biden agrees" Yes, it's "all about the weaponization of our government against political opponents"
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 03:34 PM
Sep 2024

NotASurfer

(2,369 posts)
9. How did a car with a whale head bungeed to the roof NOT get pulled over?
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 03:58 PM
Sep 2024

That had to look like things were a little off, tooling down the road

I do not want to read the book about what became of the remains.

Wiz Imp

(9,995 posts)
13. This is all about the weaponization of our government against political opponents," he said.
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 04:39 PM
Sep 2024

So RFK Jr. considers himself a political opponent of the Biden administration? He needs locked up before he harms himself or others.

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