RFK, Jr., Climbs Aboard The Trump Train
The Corruption That Is Kamala Harris Left Kennedy No Alternative
This afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., all but ended his quixotic campaign to become the next President of The United States, throwing his support fully and unequivocally behind the campaign of Donald Trump.
In typical RFKJr fashion, his speech was something of a stemwinder, lasting some 49 minutes. However, throughout the speech, one message came through again and again: Kamala Harris and the corrupt Democrats surrounding her candidacy must not be given another four years in the Oval Office.
The condemnation of the Democrats came early, and it was unequivocal. The Democratic Party of today was not the Democratic Party of his father and uncle—and when you’re last name is “Kennedy”, that is about as harsh a criticism as can be imagined.
The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy. As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.
It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money. When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.
Kennedy even took the opportunity to say the quiet bit out loud: that Joe Biden has senile dementia. This has been one of many truths the Democratic Party has tried to avoid since that disastrous June debate. Today Kennedy reminded them that is not going to happen.
Kennedy went on to point out the extent to which the Democratic Party has deployed lawfare against both himself and Donald Trump especially, but also to other candidates.
In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.
Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, The DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
In this, Kennedy is, if anything, understating the case. As I have written many times, and as the House Judiciary Committee has condemned, Democratic operatives such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have contorted the law and debased the Constitution in their zeal to convict Donald Trump on any pretext, no matter how contrived.
Nor have the Democrats been shy about employing lawfare against Robert Kenney as well as other candidates.
In March they bragged about forming a special legal team specifically to get candidates off the ballots in multiple states.
The legal offensive, led by Dana Remus, who until 2022 served as President Biden’s White House counsel, and Robert Lenhard, an outside lawyer for the party, will be aided by a communications team dedicated to countering candidates who Democrats fear could play spoiler to Mr. Biden. It amounts to a kind of legal Whac-a-Mole, a state-by-state counterinsurgency plan ahead of an election that could hinge on just a few thousand votes in swing states.
Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein suggested renaming the Democrats to the “anti-Democratic Party” given their hostility to her appearning on any ballot.
“I think we need to rename the Democratic Party. It’s actually the ‘Anti-Democratic Party,’ and I have had trouble with both of the organized parties — I wouldn’t leave Republicans out of this either — but focusing on the Democrats here, they are pulling out all the stops to basically — to shut out political competition,” Stein told Breitbart News’s Matthew Perdie.
“Isn’t that what democracy is supposed to be about?” she asked.
At the same time, Kennedy reiterated the sad case of Joe Biden’s dementia as he reminded everyone of the lengths the Democrats went to keep opponents to Joe Biden out of the prmary races.
It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.
They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate. My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
As readers of this Substack are already aware, I have also described the Democrats swap of Biden with Harris as a “coup”.
That sort of political calculus is not how the democratic process is supposed to function. “Power at all costs” is not ever a guiding precept for democratic governance.
It is, as we are seeing now, the sole guiding precept for Democrats.
Obviously, I am not going to argue with RFKJr on this one!
Kennedy also took a swipe at Kamala Harris’ reticence at being interviewed by the media.
My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing.
This is one clear contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump: Despite the hostility that often erupts between Trump and corporate media, Donald Trump has held several press conferences.
It is sure to confound the media as it did in 2016 how Trump can give the corporate media the access that he has, but there is no denying that Trump’s accessibility gives him significant influence on how media narratives evolve.
Throughout his address, Kennedy dismantled the corruptocracy that has been the Biden-Harris Administration. One of the most notable passages, however, was Kennedy’s critique of Biden-Harris policy towards Ukraine.
Kennedy makes his position clear: he does not like the war in Ukraine nor how the Biden-Harris Adminstration has advanced its strategy in Ukraine.
The military industrial complex has provided us with a familiar comic book justification like they do on every war. At this one is a noble effort to stop a super villain, Vladimir Putin, of invading the Ukraine and then to thwart his Hitler-like march across Europe. In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the US neocons or American global hegemony.
What can be said—and should be said—is that almost from the start even Russia has viewed the conflict as fundamentally one between NATO and the EU on the one side and Russia on the other.
Nor is Kennedy wrong when he excoriates the Biden-Harris Administration for actively seeking to prolong the war.
And then in April of 2022, we wanted the war. In April of 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace agreement that he and the Russians had already signed and the Russians were withdrawing troops from Kiev and Donbas and Lugansk.
And that peace agreement would have brought peace to the region and would have allowed Donbas and Lugansk to remain part of Ukraine. President Biden stated that month that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia. His Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, simultaneously explained that America's purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army,to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world.
Kennedy, of course, is quite correct, as Joe Biden made an explicit call for regime change in a speech in Poland on March 26, 2022.
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden announced at the conclusion of a capstone address delivered in the cold outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
He is equally on target about Lloyd Austin’s statement that the goal was to wear down Russia militarily.
That message was delivered most clearly on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters after a trip to Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv that “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
A National Security Council spokesperson said that Austin’s comments were consistent with what the US’ goals have been for months – namely, “to make this invasion a strategic failure for Russia.”
As I have commented in Substack Notes many times, NATO’s objective to “attrit” Russia’s military vis-a-vis Ukraine amounts to NATO supplying the cannons, while Ukraine supplies the cannon fodder.
It should also be noted that Donald Trump’s platform has from the start included ending the war in Ukraine:
Prevent world war three, restore peace in europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in america
For the record, wanting peace in Ukraine and a cessation of all hostilities has been the outcome I have wanted to see as well. This bit of common ground between Trump and Kennedy will, I expect, be a unifying theme for the supporters of both men.
The last part of Kennedy’s address was devoted to the cause which is clearly his animating passion: confronting chronic disease. Space constraints preclude giving a full breakdown of the statistics Kennedy cited. Suffice it say, the incidence of diabetes and obesity in this country are not good, and have been betting worse and not better.
There is, however, one statistic he cites that does bear further mention: the number of comorbidities suffered by those who are recorded as having died from COVID.
And CDC says that's because we are the sickest people on earth. We have the highest chronic disease rate on earth. And the average American who died COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases, so these were people who had immune system collapse, who had mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like this.
This was a statistic I had noted in 2020 at the height of the Pandemic Panic hysteria, arguing that the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself was not all that lethal.
Former head of the CDC Rochelle Walensky even conceded this point in January 2022.
I raised this point again last fall when the corporate media tried to resurrect the Pandemic Panic Narrative.
While Kennedy is advancing that statistic to underscore the severity of the chronic disease crisis in this country, it also stands as an indictment of the corruption within Big Pharma, within the nation’s public health agencies, and within the corporate media. This statistic has been floating around since the start of the COVID Pandemic Panic and corporate media has never called out either Big Pharam or the CDC on its significance, nor has Big Pharma sought to do address the problem in any meaningful fashion.
That statistic alone makes a damning case against Big Pharma and the nation’s public health agencies.
Kennedy’s commitment is clear and categorical: he wants to end chronic disease in this country. He believes this can be done by cleaning house at the public health agencies such as the FDA and the CDC, and by ending America’s overconsumption of what he calls “ultraprocessed foods”.
Kennedy’s thesis is that many of these foods are directly harmful to the human body, that “Big Agriculture” and the major food companies are aware the additives they place in food are harmful and even addictive, and that these companies either don’t care or want Americans sickened in this fashion.
I have not covered nutrition in this Substack, other than to note the relevance of vitamin D in warding off COVID, but just from comments made by readers within my Substack it is clear that Kennedy’s thesis has more than a little support out there, and more than a little evidence to back it up. I will leave it to those who have devoted time and effort to this topic to expound on it further.
As Kennedy wound down his speech, his pledges on ending the chronic disease crisis sounded almost like campaign pledges. Kennedy may have formally ended his campaign for the White House, but his head is still very much in that race!
In his closing, there are two remarks that stand out not just for their rhetorical eloquence but for the history Kennedy invoked. The first one was a subtle homage to former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other.
This is an almost direct restatement of Meir’s assessment of what peace in the Middle East requires:
Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
It fits in well with a plea for peace that Kennedy made earlier in the day.
Perhaps most fittingly, however, was his closing line.
The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve.
This echoes a similar plea for global unity and peace that his uncle John F. Kennedy made in his 1963 commencement address at American University:
So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
As readers are already aware, last month I made my support for Donald Trump explicit.
My conclusion then and now is that Donald Trump is this nation’s best hope for remaining a Constitutional Republic.
In my estimation, freedom has a better chance under Donald Trump than under Kamala Harris. Our Constitution has a better chance under Donald Trump than under Kamala Harris.
I will say that I also agree with RFKJr that this country needs to unify. As with any nation, we need to be—we can only survive—if we are willing to think of ourselves as one people, one nation, one body politic. We need to be—we can only survive—if we are united not by force of government but by common cause and common belief.
It is far too soon to say if the “team of rivals” that now appears to be emerging with Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will be successful. However, it is not too soon to hope that it is successful, not just as a means of winning this fall’s election, but of igniting within this country that sense of common cause and common belief that will bind a free people together once more into a single nation.
We are not that way now. I would like to see this country be that way. I want to believe that it is possible.
If nothing else, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., today made me hope that it is possible. And that’s not a bad thing.
It IS possible for us Americans to be united again! For the most part, we want the same things. But we are misinformed and misguided by the MSM, along with corporate and political interests.
My own sense is that a great many people find merit in what Kennedy has been saying. We agree with him that food has become toxic, government corrupt, and Americans unhealthy. Not many people would give their vote to Kennedy, but that’s because people are realistic enough to know that here in American it IS a two-party contest, so a vote for Kennedy is ‘throwing away’ your vote. But people have been listening to Kennedy and resonating with his message.
In emails that his team has sent, Kennedy has shown polling results that show he has quite a bit of support. When polls asked who would you vote for if the choice was Kennedy or Trump, or if it was Kennedy or Biden, Kennedy received around 40-45 %! This means, I believe, that Kennedy throwing his support to Trump is going to significantly increase Trump’s chances of victory. The equation has shifted in his favor.
Also, Kennedy has just taken all the momentum away from the DNC! That event is just yesterday’s stale nothingness now. (As opposed to the FRESH nothingness it was yesterday.) Trump’s hand has just been strengthened, and Harris has nothing but low cards. Go, Trump and Kennedy!
I pray this will be beneficial to America!!