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Dain Bramaged [1]
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Date: 2023-07-16
By David Glenn Cox
There was a time when I considered Robert Kennedy Jr. the new Tulsi Gabbard. A Trojan Horse designed to cleave off votes from the far left. If you can buy a Supreme Court Justice, what’s a fringe candidacy going to cost you? Robert Kennedy Jr. has name recognition, and that’s about it. Never held political office a single day in his life. Not even as a dog catcher, sure let’s elect him! Airline piloting for beginners, Brain surgery for dummies.
Robert Kennedy Senior was known for his intelligence, his use of language and his logic. On hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy gave an impassioned off the cuff speech, calling for calm explaining that his brother was also murdered by a White man. At the height of the Vietnam War Kennedy during a speech on a college campus. Decried the unfairness of the American draft policy to the students directly benefiting from it.
(See: Bone Spurs)
You would think during those turbulent times Kennedy would have been booed right off the stage. Instead, he brought the room to silence. Because he explained that someone else was going to go to Vietnam in their place. That they hadn’t escaped the draft they had only condemned someone else to go fight and die in their place. Someone who was probably disadvantaged, and poor would carry a rifle into jungles and rice paddies for them risking their life, while they lived in comfort and privilege.
If you’ve never heard Robert Kennedy Senior speak check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cin6YCNRlho
Then you will wonder like myself, if Junior wasn’t dropped on his head at some point as an infant. But as a shill goes, Junior is a dismal failure. The idea was to stay in the Democratic ballpark and offer an alternative to the mainstream Democratic ticket. But Junior is already out in right field near the bullpens. Offering an alternative to extremist Republicans.
The campaign started off as would be expected. Kennedy condemns Socialism for the rich and merciless capitalism for the poor. Picking up the Tulsi Gabbard talking points. Personally, I’d love to see someone with genuine positions on the left. Unfortunately, I’m a pragmatist and have learned that you can’t always get what you want, and lip service won’t get you there. The stakes are far too high to fool around with fringe positions.
(See: Donald Trump as President)
But Junior is just doing his job by attempting drive to a wedge in the Party. Junior has no plans for how to correct these things but only to say them. “Do you know what I hate? Them! They aren’t like us!” Junior is popular on Joe Rogan’s Slime a palozza program and Newsmax. Yeah, that’s real left wing.
Junior told Joe Rogan that he believes the CIA had his uncle and father assassinated. That’s not such an outlandish belief, but then Junior went on to explain that he needed to be careful, or the CIA might try to assassinate him. “He’s so brave!” But honestly, the only way he might become a target for assassination is if he were to become a credible candidate about to win an election. So, he’s as safe as a babe in his mother’s arms.
Kennedy is for student loan forgiveness and for breaking up “too big to fail” banks and Industries.
Then the campaign began to go off the rails. Kennedy blames Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine. Joe Biden became the President in 2020 and the war in Ukraine began in 2013. He goes after the tired old canard that the US gave assurances to Russia, we would not expand NATO. But who did we give those assurances too? We gave those assurances to a country that no longer exists. The Russians also promised assurances of peaceful and friendly relations with Ukraine. Ukraine gave up her nuclear weapons on that basis. So, any assurances that might have been given back in the day went out the window in 2013.
Poor Vladimir Putin was just so frightened by the mean old US scheming and plotting against poor Russia. The Russians were acting in good faith in Chechnya and Syria and central Africa, weren’t they? That President Zelensky provoked poor peace-loving Vladimir Putin to war. Guess who agrees with Junior? That well known intellectual, Marge Traitor Greene.
On healthcare Kennedy wants a single payer with the option of keeping private insurance. The old two policies, one country scenario. It is an unworkable solution, like saying I believe in civil rights for all, but you can still discriminate if you want too. It’s mealy-mouthed nonsense as the two systems can’t co-exist together. “I’m on your side, regardless of which side that is.”
But ole Charlie stole the handle and the train it won’t stop going no way to slow down. Junior espouses the theory that vaccines cause Autism. “Be afraid, be very afraid! Everyone is out to get you! Everyone is conspiring against you in dark places. Again, no alternatives, just fear mongering.” Let’s bring back Polio and the measles; it’ll be fun.
Frolicking down the paranoid path that always leads to the same destination. As Kennedy loosely espoused the Reich wing conspiracy theory that Covid-19 was actually a bioweapon. I’ve said this before, that if Covid-19 were a bioweapon those scientists should all be fired. They have real bioweapons on the shelf-right now with a 100% kill rate in 20 minutes. So, a bioweapon with a kill rate of 10 or 20% in a month or six weeks is a dismal failure. The 1918 Spanish Flu killed more people than all the soldiers who died in WW1 in a single year.
But the expected destination is always reached right on schedule. As Kennedy maintains it was a racially engineered bioweapon designed to kill Blacks and Anglos, while exempting the Chinese and the Jews. Surprise! The old Jewish conspiracy angle with their secret allies the Chinese. It is sad to the point of pathetic. Everyone knows the Jews like Chinese food and wouldn’t want to survive a bio-war without it.
It was just the other day when Donald McTrump warned in a fundraising email about the evil George Soros. The veneer is so thin that if you scratch any conspiracy theory, you’ll find the paranoid racist “great replacement” theme just beneath the surface. The same as it ever was. Ugly, disgraceful, and un-American.
“All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.”
― Harry Truman
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