Robert F. Kennedy, Junior is a man of many facets. They’re all super weird, too. I mean, it should be expected that the offspring of one of the most famous politicians of all time — a man who was assassinated — should be unlike other people.

But RFK Jr. takes it to a whole other level. There was a time when Kennedy followed in the footsteps you might have expected from his family name. His uncle was President John F. Kennedy, and his father was JFK’s Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy. Like the patriarchs of the Kennedy clan, Junior started out a firebrand liberal.

In fact, at one point he was the co-host of a progressive radio program called Ring of Fire with Mike Papantonio. I used to listen to it every day on my way home from work, for as long as the area I lived in had a progressive radio station.

Then we found out that he was an anti-vaxxer. In fact, that led directly to him leaving Ring of Fire — he just couldn’t get along with his co-hosts anymore after COVID happened. They had no idea his views were so strong.

And now that he’s run for president, dropped out, and endorsed Trump, we’ve found out a lot more. Once Trump nominated him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, I’m pretty sure we found out the rest. And it seems like it may be enough to derail him in a life of politics forever.

Kennedy has been on Capitol Hill this week courting Republican Senators, which is already odd, since he was nominated by the Republican president-elect, who generally has the support of the entire party for his nominees. But Trump has been on a roll with failed nominations so far. He lost Matt Gaetz almost immediately, for good reason — Gaetz was accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.

Trump’s other big-name nominations that haven’t withdrawn are also facing a tough confirmation. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, stands accused of numerous sex-related offenses and of drinking on the job. Tulsi Gabbard, another former Democrat, is looking at a tough battle for the spot as Director of National Intelligence, as she holds dubious ties with both Russia and Syria.

But Kennedy’s path is rough for entirely different reasons. Yes, he’s been accused of extramarital scandals. But they seem meaningless next to the other problematic things about him.

Kennedy is a conspiracy theorist. He’s made his position on vaccines, which he believes (despite opposing proof) cause autism, well known. He actually had to convince Republicans this week that he’s anti-polio. Not that his protestations are likely to work: His agenda includes opposing vaccine mandates (not just COVID, but any vaccines) for schoolchildren.

The Washington Post is reporting that Kennedy only has solid, confirmed support from 18 Senators who will control his fate. Guess how many solid, confirmed Senators he has opposing him: 18. That means the 64 Senators are up in the air over whether they want to confirm a guy who was described thusly by The New Republic:

Kennedy’s confirmation is likely to be an uphill battle given his raucous lifestyle that included dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park, unscientific beliefs that include theories that AIDS is not caused by HIV, a vaccine misinformation campaign sparked by his nonprofit that sent Samoa’s vaccination rate plummeting amid a measles outbreak, and claims that he allegedly groped his children’s babysitter in the late 1990s.

That’s just the stuff that they included in their report. Let’s see, what did they leave out… Oh yeah, when he was on vacation with his kids one time, he found a beached whale on the coast. He cut the whale’s head off with a chainsaw and strapped it to the family car, which, believe it or not, may have been a felony (transporting a marine mammal skull; the felony is unclear because it wasn’t just a skull, but its entire contents).

Can we agree that’s weird? What’s more, we got that story first-hand from his daughter, who said:

• He bungee-corded it to the roof of the family’s minivan and drove it to Mount Kisco, N.Y.
• “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet”
• “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

I’m going to go ahead and agree this is pretty “raucous” for a guy nominated to Make America Healthy Again.