Former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr decries ‘weaponization of our government’ over 1994 incident

Former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr decries ‘weaponization of our government’ over 1994 incident

Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that he is being investigated by federal authorities for collecting the head from a decapitated whale carcass.

During a campaign event on Saturday for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in Glendale, Arizona, the former independent presidential candidate said: “I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago.”

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Reports of the decapitation caught the attention of the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, which called on federal authorities to investigate Kennedy. In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the environmental group said Kennedy “violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and possibly the Endangered Species Act, by illegally cutting the head off of a dead whale in or around 1994 in Hyannis Point, Massachusetts, and bringing it to his New York house”.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    681·
    2 months ago

    Good. I’m tired of “when you’re rich, they let you do it.”

    Weird as fuck asshole not only drove over to an island to cut off a dead whale’s head because he supposedly likes to study animal skulls (he’s a lawyer, not a scientist, so what is he studying?), he brought his kids along for the ride for no apparent reason.

    • ravhall@discuss.online
      15·
      2 months ago

      Obviously the worm ate too much. His kids were probably just anxiously playing along not to piss him off. Who knows what kind of mental and physical abuse that fucker is capable of

      • loutr@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 months ago

        His daughter was unfazed by her account, this kind of unhinged shit was a common occurrence for them. I bet there is a lot of other weird stories like that.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    33·
    2 months ago

    I love that the party of “We’re not weird”, have the weirdest spokespeople representing them, trying to convince voter they are not weird.

    First, the brain worm issue, then the bear wanted to eat incident, then the story of eating a dog/goat (he isn’t sure which it was), and now cutting the head of a dead whale he found, if patterns show anything probably to eat it.

    Also, why are people worried about immigrants eating animals? Litterally, a Kennedy bragged about it. I’m sure there are other weird ones he would have shared had he not seen the horrified looks on people faces.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      How the heck is one “city guy” getting this crazy with animals. If he hadn’t come forward with them, I’m not sure I would have believed it. What kind of drugs was he on, or how long was that worm munching away?

    • masterofn001
      4·
      2 months ago

      Right. The whole Ohio thing is deflecting/projection to make noise because RFK actually did eat your pets.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    I’ve never put much stock in the “we are living in a simulation” but stories like this make me wonder if one of the sim developer’s kids is in here doing stuff.

    • ravhall@discuss.online
      9·
      2 months ago

      They just opened it up for user created content so they could make as much money as possible before the world ends.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      2 months ago

      What’s crazier is I’m pretty sure he just started talking about it…

      Like, it wasn’t a scandal that came out.

      RFK jr just casually told someone in an interview one time he found a dead whale on a beach. So he did the common sense thing: got a chainsaw out of his minivan, cut the head off, strapped it to the minivan, then drove home so he could “study” it.

      Pretty sure it’s because he just brought up dumping the dead bear in Central Park, and when people said that was weird, RFK told the whale story to make the bear story seem normal?

      I don’t know, you’d have to ask the worm why RFK thought any of this was interview material.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        I believe it was his daughter recounting the story in an interview. She talked about how grossed out she was sitting in the back seat while decomposition juices trickled into the car.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          191·
          2 months ago

          She and the rest of the family he took with him for no good reason had to wear tarps with breathing holes to stop the, as she called it, “whale juice” from getting all over them.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              9·
              2 months ago

              Right? I went on some bad family trips, but I never had to deal with whale juice because my lawyer dad wants to study a whale skull.

          • Badabinski@kbin.earth
            12·
            2 months ago

            what the fuck

            What is it with this fucking man and disgusting dead animals‽ Like, this was before the brain worm started driving ffs! I really thought the brain worm was the reason this dude was so fucking crazy, but apparently not! It must be Rosemary Kennedy’s ghost, tormenting the family for what they did.

            EDIT: Jesus I just can’t get over this. They’re dead man you don’t have to fuck with them just leave them alone and enjoy your time on the beach with your family or in Central Park throwing dirt clods at the drifters like you want to

            just don’t fucking touch the dead animals anymore

            EDIT: I’ve done some more research and have learned a few things

            1. the US education system sucks at telling recent history because i just learned about RFK’s assassination
            2. maybe he’s all crazy and fucked up because his uncle and dad were assassinated when he was 9 and 14
            3. maybe he’s all crazy and fucked up because he was doing fucking heroin from the age of 15 (jesus what does that do to a developing brain)
            4. maybe he’s all crazy and fucked up because his family was probably neglectful (and possibly abusive) as hell because he certainly acted like a neglected and spoiled teenager (he was suspected of committing a bunch of crimes and shit with other kids)

            like, I just want to understand what his fucking problem is. It was easy when it was the brain worm. I view him as a bit dangerous which is probably why I’m latching onto this and trying to understand his motivations. Dangerous people are easier to handle emotionally if you know why they’re dangerous and what they want.

            • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Yeah when you consider who he’s related to and what he’s been through he seems almost well-adjusted. Coulda turned out a lot crazier for sure. I mean they pretty much tried to create an American royal family, look at the results from history in that kind of aggressive human experimentation, could have been a lot worse. Better luck next time, Bene Gesserits.

  • Skuldug@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    We need someone to make a RFK’s Van Adventures cartoon. Why does he always have such random shit in the back of his van all the time?