Some things I think about RFK:
First, nothing here is about whether he's a libertarian or whether libertarians should or should not support or vote for him. The guy's a Democrat. It's just interesting to me is all I'm really saying here.
And the way his Zionism has already creeped from disregarding the rights of the Palestinians to now also being bad on Iran as his great woke anti-racist signaling device is as the kids say completely cringe and for me a deal killer.
He's also said all kinds of left-wing stupid stuff on guns and corporate charters and other things dating back to before his campaign and also recently about signing an AR ban, etc.
So he ain't no Ron Paul. But he's pretty close to a Kucinich, Paul's old friend and antiwar colleague from the House who I think is a decent guy, and is his campaign manager.
As I always say, for example about Tucker Carlson, I don't need him to become a libertarian. I accept that most Americans will not. But I do need good antiwar conservatives out there to lead other good conservatives. Switch a few words out and the same things applies to Kennedy and liberals here.
And so I guess I'm just saying I'm preparing to be quite entertained by his run for the next year or so because:
He is absolutely great on Ukraine and the Cold War with Russia. As good as you could hope for. And that is by far the most important thing in the world. As a factual, quantitative matter, presuming human life matters at all: nothing is more important than America's relationship with Russia. Right now it's completely wreaked.
But between us we have about 14,000 H-bombs, with at least a couple thousand currently deployed. One US submarine could destroy all of Russia. But they have the dead hand so their computers would take revenge and kill us all too. Not that this is likely to happen, but it is far more likely now than it was just two years ago and this danger must be reverse immediately.
To have a chance to have a major party presidential candidate who understands this and whose dad made the deal with Khrushchev to end the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is a big deal.
Especially when the rest of his party is so bad on it I could puke blood and they are going to want to find a way to barbecue him for that too, which should be a great opportunity for him to tell the truth about it more.
(I know he doesn't want conflict with China, though I don't know what he has to say about Taiwan. But the spirit of detente would be a good start.)
I think that the legacy of the anti-Vietnam and anti-Iraq war movement still lives among American liberals, progressives and leftists, if they have good leadership reminding them that peace is what's important. I consider it RFK's mandate to revive the voters and 2005 Democratic Party's at least professed views on war. Instead of being Pelosis, they should mean it this time.
But let's face it. Joe Biden is very old and getting very older. It's unanimous that Harris cannot be the candidate. The establishment's best shots are Whitmer and Newsome. They both have major baggage, especially their records on the lockdowns – so many fled California they lost a Congressman! First net loss in population since the Spanish arrived 500 years ago.
And this is Kennedy's strongest issue.
And what's funny and ironic is that the establishment media thinks it's his weakest. He did step in $#@! speculating the other day, but otherwise I think he can mostly run circles around his critics on it.
And I don't know how long it will take, but at some point the TV media and their sponsors are going to realize that they are giving his so-called "anti-vax" views much greater prominence than they ever had, and that their attacks on him about it will very quickly have very diminished returns.
They can keep insisting he's a kook, but he doesn't really sound like one. He wrote a 600 page book about it and can cite all kinds of studies off the top of his head.
Remember a few weeks ago, ABC just completely cut a major part out of his interview, obviously because he had completely bodied the anchor lady they sent out there to get him.
I saw his speech at Porcfest and heard his case that the US intelligence agencies knew the germ had escaped the lab by September 2019 and that they spent months preparing the censorship regime for it and all. I did not have all his footnotes, but his accusations were specific enough that it sounded alot more like journalism than trutherism. If he can tighten that argument up to a couple of minutes and really convince people to at least go see his site where he demonstrates it or something like that, I think it could be a major political earthquake. This is an issue that effected every person and family in the country. I found it compelling.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7KBhVwXOkSI
He's also really good on censorship, #Bitcoin, electronic spying and some other things. He has a great rap about the dangers shown by the closing of the bank accounts of people involved in the great trucker protest in Canada and how such things can never be allowed.
You can tell he knows about and cares about things in a much more regular-human kind of way, as opposed to the normal lizard-person psychopath who usually runs for office.
It's true too that the Republican Party has an interest in promoting him, like inviting him to the hearing today. Which is fine and will mostly help him.
Again, the guy clearly does not align with us 100%, maybe not even 50%.
But he is a truth-teller, at least best he can tell, making him much more Kucinich than an Obama – the best I can tell. And that counts for a hell of a lot.
And unlike our great hero Dr. Paul, who was relatively unknown when he started his 2008 run, Kennedy is a Kennedy. And not some side-issue Schriver type. He's Bobby Kennedy Jr. Charismatic, ladies like him, surely soon on the grocery store National Enquirer and People magazine-type level. They won't be able to undo that.
Also, that judge in Missouri just put an injunction on the government's role in the internet censorship regime, which will really hurt the war party's attempt to crush him.
TV is already insisting that "oh he's just cynically exploiting the fact that we all know his name!" but that's just because they can already see that it does indeed provide him a huge advantage. Their crying about it doesn't undo it. Tough.
Just the fact that he's a throwback to a time before the evil murderers Bill and Hillary Clinton took over the Democratic Party, when they thought it mattered to pretend to give a $#@! about the American people at all, is kinda nice.
The thought of him and Trump running a campaign through the summer of 2024 fighting over whose going to end the war first and better while all the TV news ladies cry about it is even better.
Have to wonder whether the FBI counterintelligence division and CIA are working together to frame him for treason with the Kremlin already or if they're going to wait another few months to get started.
What do yall think about him?
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Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
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