omg what if all those Kennedy deaths were time travelers trying to get RFK jr

@ElleGray

Time travelers can go back, and try again.

@Ultraverified @ElleGray And they have. Chappaquiddick was another failed attempt. The brain worm didn't get him, either.

@ElleGray "ANOTHER one? That's it, Emmett. Hand over your keys. You're fired."

"Fired? Great Scott!"

@ElleGray Goddammnit!! we got the wrong Kennedy AGAIN!
@ElleGray "Dammit, Oswald, what made you think a seven-year-old would be in that limousine?"
"Well at least he didn't just swim away again like at Chappaquiddick."
*pinches bridge of nose* "Again, you're not grasping the concept of chronological aging..."
@ElleGray
Nothing has ever been truer.
@ElleGray Even the worm? No one got closer.
@pretergeek he's still working. Playing the long game
@ElleGray
What if time travelers already came back to fix things and this is the better timeline?
@ElleGray
Hyper-intelligent bears who still have problems with the number pad because of their claws.
@ElleGray And if so, they really, really messed it up, because without the tragedy of the assassinations, who would care about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.? Who would take the slightest interest in the nephew of a former president and the son of an attorney general, let alone consider him a candidate for the most powerful office in the world? There would be no dramatic Kennedy family mystique. He’d be just another wealthy crank with a drug problem.
@Julie @ElleGray Time travel is like prophecies. The more you try to change things, the worse they get.
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to the Kennedys

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@ElleGray “To prevent the rise of fascism you MUST kill the Kennedy scion *static*FK*static*”
“Okeydokey! I mean, they were driving him in an open-top vehicle through *Texas, USA* of all places! Setting up a plausible assassin and then covering it up with a plausible assassin of assassins was *way* easier than that whole ‘bang these two sub-critical chunks of plutonium together in the middle of the New Mexico desert, it’ll keep you warm when it’s chilly, what could possibly go wrong Mr Oppenheimer amirite???’ debacle! Anyway, Mission Accomplished!”
“Wait, what?? Omg you killed *JFK*??? Do you know how shitty this is going to make domestic commercial air travel routed through New York??? Ok, as screwed up as everything is now, in spite of everything we’ve lost, we can still preserve a tiny fraction of the glorious future we were meant to have if only you can still take out RFK*static*”
“Gotcha! I’m on it, and I will NOT let you down this time. RFK *will* die!!”
@crowbriarhexe exactly how I imagined it lol
@ElleGray that scene in The Terminator with the phone book
@rmi @ElleGray
"Do you know how many Sarah Connors there are in LA?!"
"Three, now."

@ElleGray @inthehands "OK, I'm back — did it work?"

"YOU GOT THE WRONG ONE, ASSHOLE! *AGAIN!*"

@jima @ElleGray @inthehands
"How many Kennedys can there be?!"
"Not counting the Snows and Sands?"

@coyoty @ElleGray @inthehands In fact-checking the open letter to RFK Jr. in response to his endorsement, I came to realize that five of his TEN SIBLINGS signed the letter.

And that's just RFK Sr.'s kids!

(I did immediately remember, "oh yeah, Irish Catholic, that DOES make sense.")

@jima @ElleGray @inthehands I think Elle has spawned a shared novel franchise about a Kennedy assassination time war. She can title it "Dead Kennedys".