Highest Bidder

Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced that his running mate for his Independent presidential campaign is Nicole Shanahan. Who?

If you Google her, the first thing that came up before today is that she’s someone’s ex-wife. I’m not trying to be sexist, but who she was married to was her greatest accomplishment.

She was married to Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google. Maybe that explains how she’s listed on the search engine. The Wall Street Journal published that her divorce was caused by her having an affair with Elon Musk, which she and Musk have both denied.

Shanahan is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, which is focused on “reproductive longevity & equality, criminal justice reform, and a healthy and livable planet,” according to the organization’s website. She says the group is also focused on finding a cure for autism.

She’s also a vaccine “skeptic” like RFK Jr. I doubt her foundation can find a cure for autism when she’s blaming vaccines for them. She also suggests that receiving vaccinations for COVID-19 has contributed to her health problems.

So what are her qualifications? She’s young (38) and has money. She gave $4 million to a Super PAC that ran a pro-RFK Jr commercial during the Super Bowl. She married rich, then she divorced rich, and now her money has her on a presidential ticket.

She checks a lot of boxes for a presidential ticket. She’s female, young, smart, pretty, Asian-American, and has money. What are her qualifications in regard to politics and legislation? None. But the president (sic) before our current one didn’t have any of that either. In fact, she’s only qualified for the presidency by three years. If she didn’t have money, she would not be on the ticket.

Selling the spot to the highest bidder has to drive the Grifter in Chief nuts because he didn’t think about it. He was too busy grifting with sneakers and Bibles to think about his campaign. And Trump has been doing it all wrong. He’s been trying to make a selection for his veep spot based on looks, rating, and racism. Who’s the biggest sycophant? Who can spread the election lie while being passable to the public in the general election? It never occurred to him that he could sell the spot to the highest bidder.

Maybe Trump could sell the spot to Elon Musk. Sure, he’s not qualified because he wasn’t born in this country, but that didn’t stop Ted Cruz. It didn’t stop John McCain. And, despite the Constitution saying an insurrectionist can’t hold any government office, that didn’t stop the Supreme Court from banning Trump from ballots. I have zero doubts that Trump can put Elon Musk on his ticket and get away with it. He gets away with everything.

But, what RFK Jr’s pick proves, along with Donald Trump and whoever he chooses, is that we have to make sure President Biden wins reelection. We can’t allow conspiracy theorists to win the White House…again.

Nicole Shanahan has joined a campaign that can’t win the election and at best, can only play spoiler.

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