Rally and (maybe) why RFK Jr. wants to kill us all

I went to an anti-ICE rally in a small, very Latino Michigan town close to where I am now living. Sadly, I got the time wrong so was two hours early for the rally and also suffered a really spectacular (and embarrassing) fall crossing an icy street, so that was a disaster.

However, there was another rally in the small town on the shores of Lake Michigan where I am residing, so I was able to attend that. A small group- maybe 20 people. It was bitterly cold, maybe 10 degrees, so that might account for the low numbers. However, it is kind of humiliating how few Americans are opposing ICE murdering people and violating both the 1st Amendment and the 4th Amendment with complete impunity. We need to do better.

I DID hear an interesting theory about RFK Jr. at this rally, so I’ll share that so you-all can spread it around. Don’t worry if it’s accurate, we’re in the post-truth America.

So. Apparently RFK Jr. has a giant chip on his shoulder about this:

Skakel is a Kennedy cousin who really was (probably) wrongfully convicted for the murder of a 15-year-old girl in tony Greenwich CT. The Skakels are the Right wing division of the Kennedy family.

Kennedy’s theory of the case is that two students attending a fancy Connecticut boarding school on athletic scholarships encountered the young girl one night in Greenwich and murdered her. The two scholarships students were African American and Asian.

So, our theory is that this event suffered by a wealthy member of the Kennedy clan, where a Kennedy cousin (supposedly) took the fall for a black kid and an Asian kid turned RFK Jr. fascist, in the same way we saw so many male comics turn hard Right after women started objecting to them assaulting their female colleagues, or how we saw so many of our wildly over-rated “public intellectuals” whine that they were being silenced when the NYTimes allowed several black people on the editorial page.