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Passages

(4,502 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:11 AM Sep 2025

CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots,"

“outright Nazis,” “cowards,” and “bootlickers,” while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler.
@KFILE (2024)





The irony.
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CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," (Original Post) Passages Sep 2025 OP
Wow. I'd love to see this go viral. ms liberty Sep 2025 #1
I'd like to see JD Sofaseducer's comments on TACO go viral. marble falls Sep 2025 #4
Sofaseducer! 🤣 AllyCat Sep 2025 #9
I don't think the sofa was capable of consenting.... lastlib Sep 2025 #14
As the Romans said, "Qui tacet consentire videtur" marble falls Sep 2025 #35
Well, I guess you could look at it that way....... lastlib Sep 2025 #36
JD is a twisted PoS, but how many times in my life have I gotten to use four years of Latin? marble falls Sep 2025 #37
Good point! lastlib Sep 2025 #38
As you can see they are both crass and crazy opportunists. ananda Sep 2025 #23
He's right. Too bad he's so wrong about so many other things. Haggard Celine Sep 2025 #2
Which proves 'it takes one to know one', and 'birds of a feather flock together'. marble falls Sep 2025 #3
See, he's not so stupid after all. Too bad we could not have "uncovered" this audio BEFORE his nomination. Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #5
He's a psychopath just like his boss. Hence the compulsive lying. ... littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 #10
Charles Manson comes to mind Hekate Sep 2025 #13
Caroline Kennedy referred to him as a predator for good reason. Passages Sep 2025 #17
Yes! Yes! Exactly! Birds of a feather. littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 #34
It was widely reported months before his nomination. sl8 Sep 2025 #18
CNN article: sl8 Sep 2025 #6
.....looking at one! Nt Hope22 Sep 2025 #7
Its a cult MaineBlueBear Sep 2025 #8
An obvious case of the pot calling the kettle black. Gimpyknee Sep 2025 #11
RFK Jr comes to mind for coward, bootlicker, belligerent idiot, and even Nazi for his plans for mass death IronLionZion Sep 2025 #12
Show this to Laura Loomer since it fits her definition of being disloyal to Cankles Submariner Sep 2025 #15
He was smart once. Wish I knew what happened to him SpankMe Sep 2025 #16
"Wish I knew what happened to him." Lust. Lust for power. speak easy Sep 2025 #20
Money and power IronLionZion Sep 2025 #21
When was that? maxsolomon Sep 2025 #33
It's amazing what a little blackmail will accomplish relayerbob Sep 2025 #19
Time to "blow him up" paleotn Sep 2025 #24
But hey! If Hitler gives me a job, he ain't so bad paleotn Sep 2025 #22
Exactly right. He sees the opportunity and is going for it. Passages Sep 2025 #26
Given his statements we can now say no bigger bootlicker than R effin K jr. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #25
Now, that's audio swong19104 Sep 2025 #27
Belligerent idiots could be the new deplorables BeyondGeography Sep 2025 #28
I'm sure this happened a lot while Bob Kennedy thought he could win the nomination FakeNoose Sep 2025 #29
It just goes to show how little character they truly possess True Dough Sep 2025 #30
So what. progressoid Sep 2025 #31
Which explains why they're feeding him to the dogs. live love laugh Sep 2025 #32

lastlib

(28,624 posts)
14. I don't think the sofa was capable of consenting....
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:00 AM
Sep 2025

...so it has to be changed to "Sofarapist." My 2cts.

lastlib

(28,624 posts)
36. Well, I guess you could look at it that way.......
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:50 PM
Sep 2025


but I prefer to think of VD Dunce as a sex offender....

marble falls

(72,543 posts)
37. JD is a twisted PoS, but how many times in my life have I gotten to use four years of Latin?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:55 PM
Sep 2025

lastlib

(28,624 posts)
38. Good point!
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 02:34 PM
Sep 2025

Glad you got to use it! I barely remembered the Latin for that--I admire your knowledge, my friend!

ananda

(35,518 posts)
23. As you can see they are both crass and crazy opportunists.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sep 2025

JD is just cruisin' to be VP,

and RFKJr gets to force his crazy
health ideas on others.

So forget what they said earlier,
they're total Trumpers now.

Midnight Writer

(25,752 posts)
5. See, he's not so stupid after all. Too bad we could not have "uncovered" this audio BEFORE his nomination.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:51 AM
Sep 2025

Oddly, he has adopted Trump's technique of surrounding himself with sycophants and weak people.

littlemissmartypants

(34,380 posts)
10. He's a psychopath just like his boss. Hence the compulsive lying. ...
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:43 AM
Sep 2025

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

sl8

(17,147 posts)
6. CNN article:
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:56 AM
Sep 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/kfile-rfk-jr-trump-critique

RFK Jr. compared Trump to Hitler and praised descriptions of his supporters as ‘Nazis’

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
6 min read
Updated 9:14 AM EST, Thu November 21, 2024

(CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, has a long history of scathing critiques against Trump, labeling him a “threat to democracy,” a “bully,” and, as recently as July, a “terrible president.”

But Kennedy’s harshest attacks date back to Trump’s rise in 2016, when on his radio show “Ring of Fire,” Kennedy applauded descriptions of Trump’s base as “belligerent idiots” and suggestions that some were “outright Nazis” and “spineless fellow travelers.” Kennedy also likened Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, accusing Trump of exploiting societal insecurities and xenophobia to amass power.

After Trump won in 2016, Kennedy concluded in one episode from December of that year that Trump was at least in one way not like Hitler, because, “Hitler was interested in policy.”

A CNN KFile review of Kennedy’s past comments shows they fit a pattern of consistent, broad-based criticism that Kennedy has leveled at Trump over the years.

[...]



 

Gimpyknee

(1,025 posts)
11. An obvious case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:50 AM
Sep 2025

Bootlickers? RFK Jr knows what Trumps boots (and dare I say, ass?) tastes like.

IronLionZion

(51,554 posts)
12. RFK Jr comes to mind for coward, bootlicker, belligerent idiot, and even Nazi for his plans for mass death
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:51 AM
Sep 2025

so he knows better but has chosen to support and enable it for money and power. People have already died because of his antivaxx policies.

MAGA Mass American Graves Again

Submariner

(13,437 posts)
15. Show this to Laura Loomer since it fits her definition of being disloyal to Cankles
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:05 AM
Sep 2025

he should be fired by next week.

SpankMe

(3,762 posts)
16. He was smart once. Wish I knew what happened to him
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:13 AM
Sep 2025

He has since become the very bootlicker and opportunist he was (rightly) belittling.

maxsolomon

(39,138 posts)
33. When was that?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:15 AM
Sep 2025

1st time I heard him he was on Public Radio croaking about Thimerosal. Probably 20 years ago.

relayerbob

(7,449 posts)
19. It's amazing what a little blackmail will accomplish
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:32 AM
Sep 2025

Given what is publicly known about Jr., I can only imagine the dirt they have on him.

paleotn

(22,747 posts)
22. But hey! If Hitler gives me a job, he ain't so bad
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sep 2025

Particularly one I’m no where near qualified for.

FakeNoose

(42,426 posts)
29. I'm sure this happened a lot while Bob Kennedy thought he could win the nomination
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:52 AM
Sep 2025

Of course he could never have won, so he finally realized that "praising Chump" was the easiest way to get in.
He said some downright rude things about Chump before that point.

True Dough

(27,311 posts)
30. It just goes to show how little character they truly possess
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:58 AM
Sep 2025

When they clearly knew right from wrong but then they put self-interest first when the opportunity arises, turning their back on everything and everyone else.

Scumbags!

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