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Regarding Kennedy’s womanizing and diary, see https://newrepublic.com/article/174667/rfk-jr-compulsive-womanizer

Regarding Ukraine, it’s convenient to ignore Russia’s aggression, isn’t it? Never mind that we, along with Russia and the UK, guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty when they gave up nuclear weapons. Our word needs to mean something.

Regarding dangerous nonsense about the link between autism and vaccination, that has been thoroughly debunked and it is indeed dangerous to pretend that it hasn’t in order to advance some strange political agenda.

Regarding abortion, Kennedy *may* have said that abortion should remain between a woman and a doctor, but he *also* said that he supports as 15 week ban. Hence my characterization of his stance as ambiguous.

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I will take a look at that cheating stuff, sure hope it’s not true.Nicole Shanahan has an autistic child Why do you think she is concerned about a possible link?I’mglad you are concerned about the election and believe in democracy and equality. I am glad we can discuss it, I was hoping that tornado didn’t damage your stuff or horses a few weeks back. And happy Easter.

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Sadly, it did, our barn took a direct hit. Luckily no horses or humans were injured, but we suffered a lot of damage. Thank you for asking.

I imagine she’s looking for reasons why her child is autistic. That’s natural. Did you know that the doctor who originally wrote about the link lost his medical license because of the lies he told about the link? Like I said, thoroughly debunked. As someone said above, peer reviewed science matters, not what some unfortunate parent thinks as they look for answers that might not even be there.

Of course I’m concerned about democracy and equality. That’s one of the reasons I find Kennedy’s candidacy so troubling. It’s likely to harm any progress we might make, and for longer than my lifetime. I fear for my children. You might think Kennedy has a chance; the rest of us know that’s a delusion. And his candidacy makes another Trump term more likely, and that would be catastrophic for democracy and equality, as well as issues like climate and reproductive rights. You seem like a nice guy, but supporting Kennedy is just inexplicable to me.

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Democracy is of the utmost importance to me too.That’s why I was so captivated by HCR. That’s why I was so upset when she changed her views on it when Biden got the nomination. She first said we need at least two parties to maintain a strong democracy and that more parties is helpful for democracy. Then, when She could see a third party candidate might hurt her candidate’s chances she pivoted against third parties.To me that is a huge contradiction. It completely changed my opinion about her. Hypocritical.She has no answer other than it might get Trump elected again.That is using fear and intimidation. I might have to vote for the Green Party again, if Bobby has unforgivable flaws.We have no godlike candidates to choose from, you realize this right?

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