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Happens to the best of us. And the worst, evidently.

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That would probably be a waste of taxpayer money, if the fed investigation is even a true claim. The whale was already dead, and it happened years ago.

(Edited for clarity)

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if it’s even a true claim. The whale was already dead, and it happened years ago.

I love how you claim it’s not true after him and his family verified, and then immediately pivot to how even if it did happen it wasn’t a big deal

Just speed running the narcissist’s prayer two steps at a time…

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The whale was dead though.

RFK wanted the whale’s head to use the skull as a trophy or something like that.

I don’t think OP was trying to defend RFK. Just stating the facts.

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And what’s to stop people who want whale head trophies from killing a whale by whatever means, claiming it was washed up, and saying their prize?

Sure, out of reach for most people, but not impossible.

These laws aren’t arbitrary, even if you can’t play the mental chess it takes to arrive at the potential outcome.

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I’m pretty sure the mutilation of an animal, whether dead or alive, that isn’t a game animal or livestock is illegal.

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Maybe it was the worms making him do it

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In an alternate reality, not too different from ours, this guy is gonna be the next president.

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To be fair, I’m not convinced beheading a whale is lots worse than what our ex president is guilty of.

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That is fair lol.

That said if we’re talking less about how awful he is, and more about how absurd his awfulness is, then nothing screams “divorced from the reality of normal people” quite like this quote from his own daughter:

He ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York.

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. 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.

If even a little of this were true….<insert the words I don’t have to describe my feelings here>

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Well the dude did used to just hang out in a rotting cattle graveyard and do shit tons of acid by himself all the time. This doesn’t sound that far fetched to me.

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The Overton Window is closed.

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It’s many times better.

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