Rob Schneider Is Backing Anti-Vaxxer Presidential Hopeful RFK Jr.
I don’t know why America’s going to bother with an election next year. All the important celebrities (and, thereby, the rest of the country) are going to vote for anti-vax candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.: his wife, Cheryl Hines, Alicia Silverstone, Aaron Rodgers, and now… drumroll, please… Rob Schneider. That’s right, RFK Jr. managed to snag the Schneider seal of approval. Pack your bags, Biden! You’re outta here.
Yesterday, 59-year-old Rob tweeted his support for Robert, writing that the Democratic candidate is inspiring, hopeful, courageous, and compassionate:
Inspiring, hopeful, courageous and most importantly (like his father) compassionate. It’s my honor to support @RobertKennedyJr #Kennedy2024 pic.twitter.com/LfvC7iOYJ0
— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) June 25, 2023
Since RFK Jr.’s whole thing is “fuck vaccines,” Rob’s endorsement isn’t surprising. Back in 2021, he made headlines for calling the COVID-19 vaccine “unapproved experimental gene therapy,” quoting, “My body, my choice!” and then bringing up the Second Amendment. Critical thinking: it isn’t for everyone. Since then, Rob’s whole thing has been speaking out against “woke culture” and anti-free speech “totalitarians.” He even took a page out of Roseanne Barr’s book and has a new FOX Nation “comedy” special called Woke Up in America:
Rob Schneider discusses the importance of speaking out against woke culture. #WokeUpInAmerica | @RobSchneider @kilmeade @ainsleyearhardt @willcain @foxandfriends https://t.co/zqjypsYprK pic.twitter.com/SijtjOP9ly
— Fox Nation (@foxnation) June 20, 2023
The Hill reports that Rob was once a “lifelong Democrat,” but in 2013, he became a Republican. Then, in 2017, he revealed that he identified as an Independent who was “definitely more conservative.” In his special, Rob says, “If Joe Biden was a dog, you’d put him down.” His views 0n Trump are all over the place. He says he voted for Trump in 2016, but it’s unclear if this admission was just a joke. via New York Post:
“It was in California, and I was writing on my kitchen counter – I had the ballot because, you know, in California, they mail you like 100 of them,” he joked. “I was just filling them out. Not all of them. I’m not an a–hole, but you know three or four… five at the most.”
Last night, RFK Jr. replied to Rob’s tweet, thanking him for MC-ing his fundraiser in Brentwood on Saturday evening and for his “years of courage” (heh?!):
Thanks @RobSchneider for your years of courage + MCing a successful #Kennedy24 fundraiser last night in Brentwood. pic.twitter.com/sr7AJXqLXG
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 26, 2023
Hey, in both Rob(ert)s’ defense, it does take a whole lot of courage for a “comedian” to be as criminally unfunny as Rob has been for nearly four decades. I can’t even think of Rob and his bizarre amount of success without recalling this legendary quote from Tina Fey, RE: the passing of comedic genius Jan Hooks:
“It made me sad when she passed, and it made me mad at the time how available she was. Jan should have had a bigger career. Jan deserved a big movie career. Certainly as big as Rob Schneider’s fucking career. She was a bigger star on S.N.L.”
Insert that gif of Lucille Bluth saying, “Good for her.”
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