• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    But Kennedy, the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, came under fire for the plane rides again last year when he bizarrely defended his association with Epstein by listing other sex predators he knew.

    “I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew… O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house,” Kennedy told comedian Andrew Schulz during a podcast.

    Wow, that’s quite a social circle he has there. He doesn’t just swim in human excrement, he socializes with it.

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      “I can assure you that I’m not a pedophile. All of my friends are pedophiles, murderers, and rapists, so I think I’d know if I was a pedophile!”

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      This makes me think that the Guinness Book of World Records should have a category for the stupidest thing ever said by a public figure.

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      “We’ve just totally normalized being godawful parasites who kill the people they rely on when they become inconvenient. What, aren’t you friends with people under multiple ethical investigations??”

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        I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the communist party writer on The Daily Show. I wonder if they pay well.

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          Unfortunately no. Speaking truth to power pays just shy of what you’d get as an art gallery attendant. There’s fringe benefits: you get to keep your soul when you go