Demise Of The Kennedy Family Legacy

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The demise of the Kennedy family. I mean, let's talk about that just a minute. It's absolutely, we've seen the last significant, do you know, if you ask your kids, what was the significance of John F. Kennedy? They don't know. They don't even understand all the stories that are about. So now we've got, what's this Jake Schlossberg, the guy is out front in the social media right now, and I don't know if you follow the stories, but I have, he sounds like a nutcase. He screams, he yells about this and how wrong this is. Okay. If you really take a look at where they are right now, they're at a pivotal moment. You know, oddly enough, it may be Bobby that keeps the Kennedy name alive if he gets the HHS appointment, which I think is gonna happen. But what is your take on it? It's almost like it's this smoldering slow demise that they used to, the whole thing with Ethel and everybody involved there, their whole thing is celebrity. You know, I want to be at the White House Christmas dinner. I want to be among all the celebrities that the White House attracts. Those days, I think are passing. What do you think?

Yeah, look, Bobby married a celebrity.

Yes, he did.

So, he'd been living in Hollywood for years. But it's a really weird thing. The individual you mentioned, I've been off social media. I don't even know who that is.

Okay.

Which by the way, getting off social media has been so great.

It's liberating.

It really is not having to deal with that. But I do think in general, a lot of what has happened is obviously you had the three brothers who all did great things for this country, at one point or another.

The stories were never told you.

There were lots of internal scandals, external scandals, things of that nature. But there was a time when that was revered. And I think what happened is not necessarily having to do with the Kennedys specifically, I think it has to do with the public, as the younger generations came up, got tired of the dynasties. And I think the family that officially did kill that and ruined it for everybody else was the Bushs.

You think so? That's interesting.

I think once that, and the Clintons, I mean, let's not downplay the Clintons because Bill Clinton, eight years in office was then on his way, didn't have to deal with them. And Hillary says, I want to be a senator. By God, we're moving to New York, Bill. Okay, well now she's back. And then she runs for president in 08, runs again in 2012. Then she becomes Secretary of State. Then she runs again in 2016. She didn't run in 2012, excuse me. But America saw.

She's always running.

America saw, okay, my God, we went through 12 years of the bushes. We've gone through God knows how many decades now of the Clintons, the Kennedys. That's from the sixties. I don't care about this. I don't care about any of this. Now, who knows how long we're gonna be dealing with the Trumps.

But you see this happening, don't you? The Kennedy name just doesn't carry what it used to carry. And I know it's killing all these people that are saying in the Kennedy family, well, my God, we came out against Bobby as hard as we could. We called him everything we could. We called him like he's not even a member of the Kennedy family thinking what that's gonna do is resurrect their name and maybe they're gonna be able to spend the next Christmas at the White House Christmas party. It's not happening. I think their day's over, I really think we're seeing the evolution of them just spinning out. That's the way I see this story.