‘Chappaquiddick’ Is A Brutally Honest Movie Laying Bare The Kennedys For Who

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Maybe when Donald Trump is gone there will be a “brutally honest” movie for ya’ll to watch.
 
MonteRCMS said:
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Oh, given the family’s history there have likely been Kennedy haters as long as there have been Kennedys.
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Joe Kennedy the elder started out smuggling liquor to evade taxation.
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From what I’ve legitimately read about him there’s more fantasy in that than truth - but yes, I’ve always heard he made a small fortune in bootlegging. A lot of folks did, though, if the stories from that era are indicative of anything. Can’t be much worse than the robber barons of the time prior.

They are the quintessential rags to riches story and a fascinating read for certain.
 
He testified that he had concussion, medically-diagnosed. His behaviour during the whole night was very odd, and if we wish to be charitable, we could say he wasn’t in his right mind. The problem with that is that he also managed to do quite normal things during that time, like talking to people the next morning about the results of a sailing race and (as I mentioned above) asking that the noise be kept down at a party in the hotel. All the time he knew that poor girl was under the water, and he had no idea if she was dead or alive.

I’m old enough to remember the incident happening, and over the years it’s always seemed to me that he acted in a cowardly way because he didn’t want people to find out he was in the car with Ms Kopechne - he panicked, basically.
 
There’s good material out there to get answers as opposed to speculation. Bringing up the other Kennedys is not relevant to this story.
 
They’ll just dismiss it as fake news… no matter how well researched it is.
 
I’m not sure people will be shocked by it. Most people know what his general character is.

Seriously. The guy has no filter as it is.
 
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Isca said:
I don’t think the two incidents were comparable. Laura Bush was 17, driving in the dark, didn’t see a stop sign, hit another car and the driver was killed. She wasn’t charged with any criminal offence. She’s spoken a lot about her remorse about the incident and how she didn’t handle the aftermath well at all.
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Wait…are they really trying to draw a moral equivalency here??? 😂🤣

I should’ve known.
 
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Mary Jo Kopechne

click here google youtube kopechne

 
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I’m sure it won’t be historically accurate. It will be a dramatization because no one except the people there know what really happened. I’m not interested enough in a dramatization and speculation to see this at a movie theater, but I’ll watch the DVD.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Maybe when Donald Trump is gone there will be a “brutally honest” movie for ya’ll to watch.
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Think anyone would be interested by then? All they have to do is look at his Twitter feed. 🤣
 
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What puzzles me is how he got out of the car, but she didn’t. We will never know the true events of what happened that night, but it was due opening how he expected others to get him out of trouble.
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She was probably unconscious. He was probably panicked, but opened a window and swam out. I don’t care what the movie shows, it’s speculation, just as this is. Had she been conscious, she probably would have rolled down a window, too. I think they all rolled down back then.
 
marybobo said:
There is a slight difference. Ted Kennedy was a married man, at a gathering of his campaign mates, drinking with a group of young women who had also worked in the campaign. His drinking caused a tragic accident and then he left the scene to let a young woman die.
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I put some blame on Mary Jo herself for seemingly being willing to engage in a tryst with a married man. If that was, indeed, the case, she wasn’t an “innocent” victim.

Sorry, I cannot figure out how to reply to more than one person in the same post. I realize multiple posts are awkward.
 
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Isca said:
I think you’re overlooking the power dynamic in this situation.
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No, I’m not. Women still have the power to say “no.” Some of the Kennedys were reportedly philanderers, not rapists like some or self-proclaimed “grabbers” like Trump.
 
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JFK was an idiot. I can’t think of a more charming and pretty first lady than Jackie.

But Teddy sounds like a criminal.

edit: I apologize if that was uncharitable… if anyone has a better word, I’m all ears 🙂
 
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Some people say “sexcapades” do not matter when speaking of Trump. I think Chappaquiddick, which I believe was a consensual “sexcapade” shows us that they do matter, no matter who the instigator is - rich, poor, privileged or not, Republican, Democrat, etc. They matter.
 
ConstantLearner said:
Sorry, I cannot figure out how to reply to more than one person in the same post. I realize multiple posts are awkward.
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Highlight the text you want to quote once you open your response. You’ll see this (this is a screen snip):

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Click on the “Quote” icon. Rinse, repeat. 🙂
 
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It’s weird… I’m just learning it myself. I usually see “quote” buttons on forums.
 
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