Well this site started as a life raft when the largest left wing sub on Reddit was getting banned, and while it was being developed we were all hanging out in a discord server. There were a ton of people in the server compared to here, so when the actual site launched some people got upset about who the mods or admins were and how they were running the site, so they basically got obsessed with ruining the site by spamming it with dumb posts. Idk why they chose John Kerry I think it was just a random thing. Basic subreddit drama type stuff