“The Kennedys are synonymous with the Democratic Party in a way that I don't know if younger voters necessarily appreciate fully,” said cartoonist Ted Rall, who appeared on Sputnik’s The Backstory program. “It's absolutely shocking to Americans, I would say, over the age of, say, 45, to think that any Kennedy would endorse any Republican ever.”

“The Democratic Party spent over a hundred million dollars kicking him off the ballot so that he was forced to spend all of his time in court – not to mention a lot of his money paying lawyers in court – just to stay on the ballot while Democrats were trying to get him tossed from state after state on a technicality,” Rall noted.

“If a guy as rich as Bobby Kennedy Jr. and with a running mate as rich as Nicole Shanahan – she's supposedly worth a billion dollars… don't have access to the ballot in this country, that's a major issue that we need to talk about,” he claimed. “This is why we have a duopoly. This is the nature of the duopoly.”

“I thought that speech was ridiculous and if I were a betting man I would say that it lost the election for the Democrats in November,” said Jeter. “I don't know who she thinks her audience was when she attacks Vladimir Putin. If I may paraphrase Muhammad Ali, Vladimir Putin ain’t never called me the N-word.”

“Most people, particularly in the states and particularly the people who she's depending on to win this election, Blacks and particularly Black men, particularly in Philadelphia and Detroit and Milwaukee – I don't think they care so much about Kim Jong Un, about Vladimir Putin, about the threat from China,” he continued. “I think they care a lot about jobs, wages, debt reduction, things like that. So I thought that speech was almost odd and that it seemed to lack self-awareness about exactly who the Democrats are and who they need.”

“It's almost like we've wandered into a Tower of Babble and come out on the other side babbling. We don't even speak the same language anymore. This is just a bewildering turn of affairs which I can only attribute to the end of empire.”