Since he dropped out of the presidential race, RFK Jr., has become even more of a cipher than he was before and I had planned to ignore him but I couldn’t help share this story that was recounted by his daughter Kick Kennedy.
When she was 6, her dad chopped off the head of a whale that washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Due to RFK Jr.’s love of studying animal skulls and skeletons, they then strapped the dead whale’s head to the car and spent five hours driving it to their home.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kennedy said. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
RFK Jr’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, recounts the time her dad cut off a dead whale’s head with a chainsaw. When he said he had skeletons in his closet, he was not kidding. pic.twitter.com/wqO474woG4
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It was “just normal day-to-day stuff” for them.
I can understand having a hobby of studying animal skulls. What amazes me is that he would subject his six-year old daughter to the experience of watching him cut up a whale with a chain saw and then have her wear a plastic bag with holes cut out for the mouth (which is still very dangerous) and deal with whale juice pouring over her through the car windows.
I doubt that he won any parent of the year awards.
No wonder RFK Jr. endorsed creepy Donald Trump and weird JD Vance. They are a natural fit for him.
“Whale juice” was not on my things-I’ll-learn-today Bingo card.
Okay, this is even grosser, stupider and more utterly pointless than Mutt Romney’s dog-carrier-on-car-roof stunt. RFKook has a lame, sick sense of humor, and ZERO common sense. And he never stopped to question the wisdom of his actions, even as he went through all that trouble to find a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, lug it to a car, AND tie it to the roof. This makes me think there really is something to those brain-damage stories.
And he didn’t change his act even when his own family complained of all the disgusting crap ozzing into the cabin? That’s not just stupidly stubborn, it’s abusive.
The worst thing I learned about him from this story is that he named his child fucking Kick.
#3 Pretty sure her given name is Kathleen. There was another Kathleen, sister of Jack, Bobby Sr. and Teddy, also nicknamed “Kick,” who died in a plane crash in 1948.
I used to collect animal skulls up into my teens (moved around too much as an adult to maintain much of a collection of anything), and sometimes I would relocate notable specimens that weren’t yet naturally “clean”
But, there are less dumb ways to do it. If he had time to get supplies, he also had time to get some thrift store blankets and a drop cloth or a tarp.
Also, I’m under the impression that the Marine Mammal Act bans the possession of parts of marine mammals, regardless of how they were obtained…
As the whale gunk seeped into the upholstry of the car, it must have become difficult to clean it. You might even have to replace the parts that absorbed the foul liquid.
lochaber @ 5
Considering his handling of the bear carcass I doubt he respects silly “rules” that much.
Related question: can RFK Jr. get any less weird?
birgerjohansson@6,
He probably just bought a new car out of pocket change.
Birger @6: Someone with Kennedy money could certainly pay to have that done — but it would still be more time and trouble than any sane person, however rich, would choose to spend on it.
Also, a sane person who’s bought his car with Kennedy money would surely not want anything even one-tenth as gross to get on the upholstery in the first place. Or even on the roof for that matter.
Is that weirder than harvesting a road-kill bear and all that ensued? Or is the whale story weirder? I’m getting confused.
What is it with creepy republicans and abusing animals ?
Abusing animals is a classic example of narcissistic personality disorder. Also children, spouses, anything smaller or weaker, and the defenseless.
The same mindset is why global warming is a huge danger, yet the tech bros need to profit from AI, and cryptocurrency, so let’s ignore the energy costs because…?
ardipithecus: The whale story is “weirder,” at least insofar as harvesting road-kill is something that is done for sane purposes, while tying a whale’s head to a car and driving FIVE HOURS with it does not.
Actually, in Realityland, a place RFK Jr. hasn’t been since forever, there are a lot of ways to clean a whale skeleton.
In Oregon, they just put a Blue whate carcass in Yaquina bay, Newport and let the marine scavengers clean it up. You can also bury them in the sand near the beach and the same thing will happen.
It goes faster if you deflesh them first.
Use that chain saw, a meat cleaver, electric carving knife, machete or whatever and then bury it.
The Kennedy’s own a lot of Hyannis Port so a few yards of space shouldn’t be a problem.
Then he could transport an almost clean skull rather than a spoiling whale head.
I think I see why he and Dumptruck get along so well:
https://people.com/ask-not-maureen-callahan-mary-richardson-kennedy-rfk-jr-exclusive-8667460
It’s nice to see that Betteridge’s Law of Headlines does have the occasional exception.
Yes, yes he can.