I’ll do another deep dive in the dissertation later today (I’ve read it before).
Permaculture in my area is very strong ( in fact the guy David who invented it with Bill helped me with my solar system). I still hold it is an important contribution to health in community agency.
For any of us that followed RFJ Jr from Day One - it's really sad to see him now speak so incoherently. He is all over the place with his train of thought whereas when he was doing interview during Covid he could not have been more articulate and well spoken. For those of us who also followed him during the campaign listening to him speak to Tucker is an unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases. What set him apart from Day One was his sincerity and now he comes off as anything but sincere. This is exactly what cost him the campaign. Trying to be AND say to many things to too many people. He's also a ball of nerves because he knows having gone against so many people and friends is not without consequences. If he were a man of integrity he would've cast all of that aside and forged ahead with his convictions. It's sad to see his fall - it almost appears as though he no longer even remembers who he was and what he stands for. One also has to wonder about his staunch stance on Israel and how that too may be affecting him - there is no way in hell given his antiwar stance he could ever support Israel's genocide. We all know and sensed he had no other alternative knowing the Israel Lobby destroys any politicians who does not support them. Tulsi Gabbad backed Trump today as well. I wonder if they can now BOTH force Trump to do the right thing? The time has come to throw Israel under the bus.
MCL I must respectfully disagree - go watch the Tucker Carlson interview. Tucker asks him ONE question (the first one) and ten minutes later - he is still rambling - incoherently. All the prominent political pundits have been having a field day with him - MoDo of the NYT eviscerated him. And sadly you cannot defend him because it's all true.
Look I've ben following him since day one and there was greater supporter than I was. No one knew his platform better than I did. But he couldn't remain grounded. I believe his wife played a large part in his downfall telling him what to do - he shirtless work-out video was an abomination - just who were they pandering to? The message on the outside of the campaign bus was even worse - HEAL THE DIVIDE!
The only thing this Country cares about is the corruption and he was the only person with the proven record to really do something about it. He had named names of those he would terminate on day one.
Something massive happened for Kucinich to have quit months after his announcement I am quite sure it has something to do with the direction of the campaign and who was telling him what to do instead. Hence his garbled and completely incoherent message. He just needed to stay on point!
Watch the Carlson interview - it was so bad I couldn't get beyond the first question!
BJ, If you couldn’t get beyond the first question then how can you have an opinion? He talked about the food systems being corrupted, and there is no clearer more obvious place of corruption that the average person can discover themselves than the food. People with supposedly incurable autoimmune diseases are curing themselves every day. We know hundreds of them including some of our main writers.
There wasn't anything he did not say in that interview that we've all not heard him say for the past year. As I stated earlier, I had been watching him from Day One way before he ever decided to run for office.
I did go back and watch it in it's entirety. He lost all his candor - he became so rehearsed that at times when he started spouting off the figures he couldn't remember them properly and he came off as being anything but sincere. That's what set him up for the press to destroy him - as I say watch the very first question and count the number of topics he talks about answering it. He is all over the place and doesn't actually completely finish any specific thought. He just rambles. As someone who had been a staunch supporter of his it's embarrassing as he himself would probably agree.
Towards the end of the interview when he finally calms down he makes more sense. He needed someone to guide and coach him during all these interviews, I believe he once stated he has ADD or ADHD whatever the hell these new terms are. He stated having trouble in school.
The man is great - he has a great message, it was just a lousy campaign. How it it a year after announcing his run people are still calling him and anti-vaxer? How has the message about being an advocate of SAFE and TESTED vaccines not become omnipresent where the person attempting to defraud him doesn't come off as a loon instead for being so ignorant and totally ILL-INFORMED?
We have all heard him say I have answered those allegations repeatedly - clearly not well enough for the pejorative to have continually stuck. How is that NOT getting his message out? Why, because he rambles and is not succinct and clear. It should have been a tag line in addition to "It's the Corruption Stupid" just like James Carville termed the phrase "It's the Economy Stupid" that should have been his message NOT HEAL THE DIVIDE! We are on the precipitance of WWIII - the Country is being torn apart by the seams because of all the problems we face and he expects us to sit around a campfire holding hands while singing Kumbaya? Once you fix and correct all that is wrong perhaps, but HOPE and CHANGE (Obama's tag line) is a message for lottery players!
Few candidates have ever been as knowledgeable as he is but go back and watch some of the Nixon interviews to see how you can be both - intelligent, clear, concise and succinct.
His problem is his very integrity and his conscious when he is asked certain questions - he knows his answers can be misconstrued or simply perceived - he should have been well prepared for all of this. Watch a Glenn Greenwald interview. NOT his show but him being interviewed. I forget who he debated but it was scary brilliant. He made his points and had full and complete demand of the entire episode. Perhaps Glenn would've been a great speaking coach since they are also both successful lawyers. Don't get me wrong no one can bleed, harp and dilute a point worse than Glenn on his show but when it comes to debates and interviews there are few better than he is. He's a master.
I watched the Tucker interview and had the opposite reaction. Rather than shed emotionally charged judgements share some reality grounded solid insights. The NYT is nothing but a conduit for an ideology I disagree with. Wont waste my time there.
BJ sees things differently, maybe biased, or he possibly could be a Democrat agent working to knock down RFK.
As for myself, I've also admired his stances for a decade or more, but was stunned to see/hear him defending the Israeli genocide.
I can't believe that he would be ok with what is being done in Gaza, so have to assume that his acceptance of those Israeli actions is a result of a political numbers calculation, and I'm hoping he will eventually back-pedal on that.
Apart from that, I heard no problems with his Tucker interview.
Richard I am neither Republican nor Democrat and do not vote - never did nor ever will - refuse to support and enable the massive corruption and malfeasance. This Country is a joke and a proven utter disgrace - had it not been for our unrelenting support of Israel - thousands of innocent lives (children and woman) would have been spared in Gaza. WE provided the ammunition - the resources - the planes the bombs etc. - Israel just deployed it.
Notice how RFK continues to not to utter a word about Israel but has no qualms vituperating the Ukrainian war. This is precisely what I mean regarding my comment above - he never had the fortitude it requires to be a true and realistic commander in Chief. Sadly, none of them do.
A man of integrity would have never whored himself to the Israel Lobby and therefore should have never run and compromised his honor. Instead he simply should've joined forces using his prominence - STANDING WITH and supporting those who are vehemently against it (Alastair Crooke, Ilan Pappé, John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Colonel Magregor, Chaz (Charles) Freeman, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, John Ritter, Rashid Khalidi, Norman Finkelstein, Mohammad Marandi etc. etc. etc.) and then run instead.
As I type I am 90% through watching the Tucker Carlson interview. I am dismayed to say the utmost least by the number of times he goes right back into his campaign speeches. The statistics and figures. The one thing that set him apart which is how he amassed the massive following he established were the two words used to describe him most. Sincere and his integrity. Running for any political office is no easy feat. Being an incredible orator even more arduous. I was blown away by Tuckers speech at the convention and wish he had a greater input when it comes to RFK Jr.
Lastly I have also said since he began running his wife played a detrimental role in his campaign and it's demise. Bobby Kennedy Jr. is so uxorious he didn't have the fortitude for what it requires to be a leader. During the interview with Tucker he speaks about not being "interested" in speaking with Trump because of his wife. But after he calls her and gives him the ok he then texts the man back to say he is now interested! GOD HELP US ALL! It's one thing to confer with ones spouse and respect them - a whole other to obey them! He has some of the best campaign advisors.
Bobby Kennedy is intelligent, sincere and honest but his downfall is that he is also a milquetoast. It was showcased constantly in the beginning when interviewers always interrupted him. You wanted to scream at him to STOP allowing them to constantly cut him off.
Actually I agree with him far more than that. In the very beginning he spoke about ALL the alphabet agencies and said although they are not ALL corrupt and have excellent people working for them, it is those at the top that have to be removed. He even named names which I thought for sure would get him assassinated.
He was excellent which is why his message resonated with everyone. Listening to Trump voters say how much they NOW only love him is bizarre. He just didn't know how to run a successful campaign. There was no better time than now to elect a third party candidate. No one knows more about politics then the Kennedys. No one knew more how the game is played better than the Kennedy. He should've foresaw all of this and been prepared. He jumped the gun - I doubt he ever planned to run and it was only when he catapulted into stardom he decided to capitalize on it.
I'll bet good money he is able to look back on this and realize all his mistakes. I think he is fooling himself regarding Trump truly believing he is a man of his word and anything will change. Trump is and always has been all about fame and fortune and goes whether the money is. You saw how he blamed Pompeo for not releasing the JFK files. I do not foresee that relationship lasting even IF Trumps wins.
> Europe, Canada, and Australia have already fallen
The U.S. is still standing? You must be joking!! Yes, there is the 1st Amendment that is kept alive on life support, but censorship has been outsourced to Google, Mircrosoft and the rest of Big Tech.
> It is up to America to stand up for the world and remind everyone of the values that a good society should be built on.
🤣 Yeah, sure.
> when your own party betrayed you as much as the Democrats have betrayed RFK Jr, it is no surprise he has made the choices he has.
And become a turncoat, joining a creep who has had a chance already and blew it?
We don't need the Internet to express our views about the tyranny of government. And if we have no views, we have become one of them and you might as well be DEAD.
Good post. 100%
Here in Australia some of us still open our mouths.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thumbnailgreen/p/i-wont-shut-up?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios
And we love and respect you and want to help. Could you use collective intelligence systems like this there?
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-corrupt-government-in
I’ll do another deep dive in the dissertation later today (I’ve read it before).
Permaculture in my area is very strong ( in fact the guy David who invented it with Bill helped me with my solar system). I still hold it is an important contribution to health in community agency.
Thanks for listening
For any of us that followed RFJ Jr from Day One - it's really sad to see him now speak so incoherently. He is all over the place with his train of thought whereas when he was doing interview during Covid he could not have been more articulate and well spoken. For those of us who also followed him during the campaign listening to him speak to Tucker is an unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases. What set him apart from Day One was his sincerity and now he comes off as anything but sincere. This is exactly what cost him the campaign. Trying to be AND say to many things to too many people. He's also a ball of nerves because he knows having gone against so many people and friends is not without consequences. If he were a man of integrity he would've cast all of that aside and forged ahead with his convictions. It's sad to see his fall - it almost appears as though he no longer even remembers who he was and what he stands for. One also has to wonder about his staunch stance on Israel and how that too may be affecting him - there is no way in hell given his antiwar stance he could ever support Israel's genocide. We all know and sensed he had no other alternative knowing the Israel Lobby destroys any politicians who does not support them. Tulsi Gabbad backed Trump today as well. I wonder if they can now BOTH force Trump to do the right thing? The time has come to throw Israel under the bus.
RFKJ was clear
- End the forever wars, specifically Ukraine, provoked by the Neocons
- End the Censorship Industrial Complex provoked by Democrats
- End the Chronic Disease epidemic provoked by the regulatory capture of the FDA by Big Ag and the processed food industry.
Yet he staunchly supports ZioNaziland.
MCL I must respectfully disagree - go watch the Tucker Carlson interview. Tucker asks him ONE question (the first one) and ten minutes later - he is still rambling - incoherently. All the prominent political pundits have been having a field day with him - MoDo of the NYT eviscerated him. And sadly you cannot defend him because it's all true.
Look I've ben following him since day one and there was greater supporter than I was. No one knew his platform better than I did. But he couldn't remain grounded. I believe his wife played a large part in his downfall telling him what to do - he shirtless work-out video was an abomination - just who were they pandering to? The message on the outside of the campaign bus was even worse - HEAL THE DIVIDE!
The only thing this Country cares about is the corruption and he was the only person with the proven record to really do something about it. He had named names of those he would terminate on day one.
Something massive happened for Kucinich to have quit months after his announcement I am quite sure it has something to do with the direction of the campaign and who was telling him what to do instead. Hence his garbled and completely incoherent message. He just needed to stay on point!
Watch the Carlson interview - it was so bad I couldn't get beyond the first question!
BJ, If you couldn’t get beyond the first question then how can you have an opinion? He talked about the food systems being corrupted, and there is no clearer more obvious place of corruption that the average person can discover themselves than the food. People with supposedly incurable autoimmune diseases are curing themselves every day. We know hundreds of them including some of our main writers.
There wasn't anything he did not say in that interview that we've all not heard him say for the past year. As I stated earlier, I had been watching him from Day One way before he ever decided to run for office.
I did go back and watch it in it's entirety. He lost all his candor - he became so rehearsed that at times when he started spouting off the figures he couldn't remember them properly and he came off as being anything but sincere. That's what set him up for the press to destroy him - as I say watch the very first question and count the number of topics he talks about answering it. He is all over the place and doesn't actually completely finish any specific thought. He just rambles. As someone who had been a staunch supporter of his it's embarrassing as he himself would probably agree.
Towards the end of the interview when he finally calms down he makes more sense. He needed someone to guide and coach him during all these interviews, I believe he once stated he has ADD or ADHD whatever the hell these new terms are. He stated having trouble in school.
The man is great - he has a great message, it was just a lousy campaign. How it it a year after announcing his run people are still calling him and anti-vaxer? How has the message about being an advocate of SAFE and TESTED vaccines not become omnipresent where the person attempting to defraud him doesn't come off as a loon instead for being so ignorant and totally ILL-INFORMED?
We have all heard him say I have answered those allegations repeatedly - clearly not well enough for the pejorative to have continually stuck. How is that NOT getting his message out? Why, because he rambles and is not succinct and clear. It should have been a tag line in addition to "It's the Corruption Stupid" just like James Carville termed the phrase "It's the Economy Stupid" that should have been his message NOT HEAL THE DIVIDE! We are on the precipitance of WWIII - the Country is being torn apart by the seams because of all the problems we face and he expects us to sit around a campfire holding hands while singing Kumbaya? Once you fix and correct all that is wrong perhaps, but HOPE and CHANGE (Obama's tag line) is a message for lottery players!
Few candidates have ever been as knowledgeable as he is but go back and watch some of the Nixon interviews to see how you can be both - intelligent, clear, concise and succinct.
His problem is his very integrity and his conscious when he is asked certain questions - he knows his answers can be misconstrued or simply perceived - he should have been well prepared for all of this. Watch a Glenn Greenwald interview. NOT his show but him being interviewed. I forget who he debated but it was scary brilliant. He made his points and had full and complete demand of the entire episode. Perhaps Glenn would've been a great speaking coach since they are also both successful lawyers. Don't get me wrong no one can bleed, harp and dilute a point worse than Glenn on his show but when it comes to debates and interviews there are few better than he is. He's a master.
I watched the Tucker interview and had the opposite reaction. Rather than shed emotionally charged judgements share some reality grounded solid insights. The NYT is nothing but a conduit for an ideology I disagree with. Wont waste my time there.
BJ sees things differently, maybe biased, or he possibly could be a Democrat agent working to knock down RFK.
As for myself, I've also admired his stances for a decade or more, but was stunned to see/hear him defending the Israeli genocide.
I can't believe that he would be ok with what is being done in Gaza, so have to assume that his acceptance of those Israeli actions is a result of a political numbers calculation, and I'm hoping he will eventually back-pedal on that.
Apart from that, I heard no problems with his Tucker interview.
Richard I am neither Republican nor Democrat and do not vote - never did nor ever will - refuse to support and enable the massive corruption and malfeasance. This Country is a joke and a proven utter disgrace - had it not been for our unrelenting support of Israel - thousands of innocent lives (children and woman) would have been spared in Gaza. WE provided the ammunition - the resources - the planes the bombs etc. - Israel just deployed it.
Notice how RFK continues to not to utter a word about Israel but has no qualms vituperating the Ukrainian war. This is precisely what I mean regarding my comment above - he never had the fortitude it requires to be a true and realistic commander in Chief. Sadly, none of them do.
A man of integrity would have never whored himself to the Israel Lobby and therefore should have never run and compromised his honor. Instead he simply should've joined forces using his prominence - STANDING WITH and supporting those who are vehemently against it (Alastair Crooke, Ilan Pappé, John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Colonel Magregor, Chaz (Charles) Freeman, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, John Ritter, Rashid Khalidi, Norman Finkelstein, Mohammad Marandi etc. etc. etc.) and then run instead.
As I type I am 90% through watching the Tucker Carlson interview. I am dismayed to say the utmost least by the number of times he goes right back into his campaign speeches. The statistics and figures. The one thing that set him apart which is how he amassed the massive following he established were the two words used to describe him most. Sincere and his integrity. Running for any political office is no easy feat. Being an incredible orator even more arduous. I was blown away by Tuckers speech at the convention and wish he had a greater input when it comes to RFK Jr.
Lastly I have also said since he began running his wife played a detrimental role in his campaign and it's demise. Bobby Kennedy Jr. is so uxorious he didn't have the fortitude for what it requires to be a leader. During the interview with Tucker he speaks about not being "interested" in speaking with Trump because of his wife. But after he calls her and gives him the ok he then texts the man back to say he is now interested! GOD HELP US ALL! It's one thing to confer with ones spouse and respect them - a whole other to obey them! He has some of the best campaign advisors.
Bobby Kennedy is intelligent, sincere and honest but his downfall is that he is also a milquetoast. It was showcased constantly in the beginning when interviewers always interrupted him. You wanted to scream at him to STOP allowing them to constantly cut him off.
We agree to disagree . . . .
Your problems with him seem personality related.
Do you agree with him that the Censorship Industrial Complex needs to be shutdown?
Actually I agree with him far more than that. In the very beginning he spoke about ALL the alphabet agencies and said although they are not ALL corrupt and have excellent people working for them, it is those at the top that have to be removed. He even named names which I thought for sure would get him assassinated.
He was excellent which is why his message resonated with everyone. Listening to Trump voters say how much they NOW only love him is bizarre. He just didn't know how to run a successful campaign. There was no better time than now to elect a third party candidate. No one knows more about politics then the Kennedys. No one knew more how the game is played better than the Kennedy. He should've foresaw all of this and been prepared. He jumped the gun - I doubt he ever planned to run and it was only when he catapulted into stardom he decided to capitalize on it.
I'll bet good money he is able to look back on this and realize all his mistakes. I think he is fooling himself regarding Trump truly believing he is a man of his word and anything will change. Trump is and always has been all about fame and fortune and goes whether the money is. You saw how he blamed Pompeo for not releasing the JFK files. I do not foresee that relationship lasting even IF Trumps wins.
> Europe, Canada, and Australia have already fallen
The U.S. is still standing? You must be joking!! Yes, there is the 1st Amendment that is kept alive on life support, but censorship has been outsourced to Google, Mircrosoft and the rest of Big Tech.
> It is up to America to stand up for the world and remind everyone of the values that a good society should be built on.
🤣 Yeah, sure.
> when your own party betrayed you as much as the Democrats have betrayed RFK Jr, it is no surprise he has made the choices he has.
And become a turncoat, joining a creep who has had a chance already and blew it?
We don't need the Internet to express our views about the tyranny of government. And if we have no views, we have become one of them and you might as well be DEAD.
Crix, don’t always be the grumpy curmudgeon: there is hope.
How do you want to express your views without the internte and let them be know in the world?