What do you do while you’re indignant as a result of your opponent retains calling you “weird” and also you’re additionally behind in a race you have been anticipating to simply win? For Donald Trump, the reply appeared apparent: Flatter impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into dropping out and endorsing you, then gather his 4-5 proportion factors in nationwide polls. And Trump did that simply final week.
Solely there’s no assure that Kennedy’s exit will shift these supporters to Trump. We’ll have a greater concept about that as new polls come out within the subsequent few days.
Within the meantime, what is sure is that, by placing Kennedy on his crew, Trump will get … Kennedy and all his enjoyable points. So open up the door, Johnny! Let’s present him what he purchased!
No, we’re not speaking in regards to the mind worm. Open the opposite door. No, not the useless child bear. Subsequent. Not the sexist emu. And never the time he chainsawed the top off a useless whale and took it residence as a hideous memento—although there’s somebody who would like to speak to him about that.
No, it’s that different factor. The one that could be sillier than Kennedy’s different exploits mixed.
Ahh, there it’s.
In this tweet, posted Monday, the “crime” Kenendy is promising to cease is one thing referred to as “chemtrails.”
The chemtrails conspiracy concept emerged within the Nineties and advanced alongside the web. Although by now it has collected a lot cruft and lore that proponents can rant about it endlessly, at its core is nothing greater than this: Somebody noticed the traces within the sky that adopted a jet and thought it wasn’t simply moisture stirred up into fog by a passing wing, however as an alternative a chemical being sprayed on everybody by somebody.
What sort of chemical? Secret. For what objective? Thoughts management. Or making us all sterile. Or combating local weather change. Or inflicting local weather change. Or one thing. Who’s behind it? The federal government, or perhaps aliens. Probably, it’s a team-up.
What the proponents of this conspiracy concept name a chemtrail is understood again in the actual world as a contrail, quick for “condensation trail.” And it’s doable that no different conspiracy concept has been so completely debunked by so many sources on so many events. Of all of the conspiracy theories Kennedy would possibly consider in, that is probably the most profoundly silly. And in contrast to what he as soon as did to a bear or a whale (or that poor worm), this can be a nuttiness with which Kennedy remains to be actively engaged.
Extra importantly, discover that Kennedy doesn’t simply step in to specific his help for the speculation, he says, “We are going to stop this crime.”
We.
That sounds very very similar to Kennedy is talking as a member of the potential 2025 Trump administration. He’s promising the federal government will get proper on this downside of chasing literal clouds.
And that’s apparently the case. A few hours after that publish, Kennedy was on with Tucker Carlson’s net present, claiming that Trump has made him a member of his transition crew.
“I’ve been asked to go onto the transition team to help pick the people who will be running the government and I’m looking forward to that,” Kennedy mentioned. (On Tuesday, a Trump marketing campaign adviser corroborated this to The New York Instances.)
Now we are able to solely wait till he appoints a Secretary of Chemtrails and Chainsaw Dissection.
In bringing Kennedy on board, Trump will get all of Kennedy. Trump has now made himself the candidate of planted cub carcasses, highways awash in whale juice, and chemtrails. That’s certain to cease folks from calling Trump bizarre.
They’ll simply name him what he’s: ridiculous.
