Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

One Dem who is not a Demented Puppet, a Brazen Liar, A Cackling Clown, etc.

The RFK [Jr.] Potential for Political Disruption

His main target was the corrupt relationship between large corporations and captured administrative bureaucracies. He has spent his career battling such corruption in the realm of environmental regulation and wants to use his knowledge and experience to expand that battle to the whole of the administrative state. In what might have been the biggest applause line of the night, he said as president he would never be muscled or manipulated by any bureaucrat or lobbyist.

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To be sure, he has been on record in being among the climate-change alarmists in even recent history. Have his views on this topic shifted in light of the fake COVID science of the last three years and the lockdown experience? Perhaps so. Many people on the left have begun to rethink this topic and perhaps RFK is among them. He certainly seems to have zero interest in anything like a “great reset” and he is not a member of the World Economic Forum.

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His next area was the most satisfying to me personally. He broke the public silence on the critical issue of COVID lockdowns. He chronicled the astonishing expense for which we gained nothing, and blasted companies like Amazon that censored contrary views while driving the competition out of business. He spoke with fire about the shutting down of small business and the violation of people’s property rights and religious liberties and illustrated a profound command of the facts, being how the lockdowns created an even worst public-health crisis.

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Finally, he called for a national conversation about this proxy war that is developing with Russia. The first excuse for U.S. involvement was purely humanitarian but it is mutating into yet another disaster along lines of the Iraq war. He demanded an immediate end to U.S. funding and a push for a diplomatic solution before it is too late. He further called for closing military bases around the world and bringing the troops home, plus a revival of U.S. economic strength. In the course of this discussion, he explained with great competence the threat to the U.S. dollar from the recent moves by BRICS to abandon trade in the dollar.

UPDATE (4/24) RFK, Jr. on why Tucker got the boot.

 


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6 responses to “One Dem who is not a Demented Puppet, a Brazen Liar, A Cackling Clown, etc.”

  1. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Well I hope RFK jr. is the democratic candidate. But the Satan-possessed people who run the Democratic Party will try to prevent that, big time. And I would love to see a Trump / RFK jr. ticket. That would beat all the bad guys, RINOs included.

  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    Yes, RFK Jr will be crushed the way Bernie Sanders was. But there is no way there could be a Trump-Kennedy ticket. Trump-DeSantis is possible but unlikely. Trump should pick a female ‘person of color’ such as Tulsi Gabbard.

  3. BV Avatar
    BV

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/04/james-howard-kunstler/bobby-steps-up/
    >>Everybody I know is justifiably worried that the Intel spooks might have no qualms about whacking Bobby Jr. He is at least as dangerous to the establishment today as his father and uncle were back in their day. Thus, his bravery in stepping up now, knowing what he knows. At the least, he will drag a set of issues into the political arena that his rivals would prefer to keep out in the cold and dark. He’ll get some assistance from events themselves, which are spooling out fast now.<<

  4. BV Avatar
    BV

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVLd3g82ZNw
    Bobby’s speech. Audio clears up @ 4:02. Go directly there.

  5. BV Avatar
    BV

    BioSketch
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born Jan. 17, 1954): Robert Kennedy’s namesake, Robert Jr., was 14 when his father died. He was at boarding school when his father was shot, and he, his sister, Kathleen, and brother, Joseph, were flown via Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s plane to Los Angeles to be with their father as he died. He graduated from Harvard and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. In 1983, he was arrested for heroin possession. He pleaded guilty, and as part of his sentence, he worked with the Hudson Riverkeeper organization, a nonprofit formed to clean up New York’s Hudson River. After his probation was over, he was hired as the organization’s lawyer. From 1986 until 2017, Kennedy worked as an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He continues to work for environmental causes and formed a law firm that represented clients against big business on pollution issues. He is an environmental-law professor at New York’s Pace University and co-host of the radio show “Ring of Fire.” He has written or edited 10 books. Kennedy has spoken out strongly about the use of a mercury-based preservative in vaccinations and has said he believes they are a contributing factor in the development of autism in some children. He has been a vocal supporter of his cousin, Michael Skakel. Skakel was convicted of the 1975 murder of his Greenwich, Connecticut, next-door-neighbor, Martha Moxley. Skakel spent a decade in prison before his conviction was overturned. He was granted a new trial earlier this month. He has said he believes that neither the murder of his father nor the murder of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, were the work of lone gunmen. He has called for the reopening of the investigation into his father’s murder. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been married three times – first to Emily Black, then to Mary Richardson and then to actress Cheryl Hines. Kennedy has six children. Kennedy’s second wife, Richardson, committed suicide in 2012.
    https://www.ajc.com/news/national/robert-kennedy-assassination-what-happened-rfk-children-after-was-killed/Nu7ndfLSIy7FHbE5tCCgTN/

  6. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Boy that bio is a mixed bag. Better than Biden, though.

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