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tomder55
Aug 24, 2024, 05:14 AM
Great read . Too long to quote all This is just a small segment in his opening moments . (nobody in the compliant press did this . I found it on X



I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960, and back then the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution of Civil Rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labor of the working class. 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 abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent,


Full text of Kennedy speech endorsing Trump | Sharyl Attkisson (https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/08/full-text-of-kennedy-speech-endorsing-trump/)

on voter suppression and Kam dodging debate


At the voting booth, the DNC wage, 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, 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 relish 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.


Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon on nothing, no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in highly produced Chicago circus.


on the role of the Censorship Industrial Complex


What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a US president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right, a free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest President Biden Mock, Vladimir Putin’s 88% landslide in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot. But in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot and our television networks exposed themselves as democratic party organs over the course of more than a year.


Representatives of those networks are in this room right now, and I’ll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this really sacred responsibility, the duty of a free press to safeguard democracy and to challenge always the party in power. Instead of maintaining that posture of fear skepticism toward authority, your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power. You didn’t alone cause the devolution of American democracy, but you could have prevented it. The Democratic party censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power.


on Ukraine


I’m not excusing Putin for invading Ukraine. He had other options, but the Russia, the war is Russia’s predictable response to the reckless NeoCon project of extending NATO twin Circle Russia, a hostile act.

He explains that time after time we walked away from negotiations that would've avoided the war. That is because our goal is to exhaust the Russian army to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world. These objectives, of course have nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty. Ukraine is a victim in this war and it’s a victim of the West.

He spoke of the destruction of Ukraine and how it is destroying the west as well. ;including the US

He spoke of his negotiations with Trump before he endorsed him. There are many things they disagree about .This is the classic example of reaching across the aisle and finding common grounds that the Dems play lip service to.

The rest you can read . He goes into details on a number of different issues.

He is leaving his name on the ballot in deep blue and red states while withdrawing from battleground states. I am seriously considering casting my vote for him.

jlisenbe
Aug 24, 2024, 08:35 PM
Judge gave him a green light to sue Biden/Harris over alleged censorship. Will be interesting.

Wondergirl
Aug 25, 2024, 01:19 PM
He hated tRump not that long ago. Money talks?

tomder55
Aug 25, 2024, 03:11 PM
It is not about money His running mate Nichole Shanahan is a billionaire philanthropist . Kennedy himself is worth $millions

His reason for supporting Trump is clearly in his statement if you bothered to read it
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It looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end of the Ukraine war to tackle chronic disease epidemic to protect free speech, our constitutional freedoms to clean corporate influence out of our government, or to defy the neocons in their agenda of endless military adventurism. But now, one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as is own to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration.
I’m speaking of course of Donald Trump. Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, (?) called me on my cell phone. I was then in Las Vegas. Ali is arguably the leading advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration, and for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying America’s health and ruining our economy. Ali has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA, the NIH, the HHS and the USDA that has caused the epidemic. Allie had been working on and off for my campaign advising me on those subjects since the beginning, and those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years. I was delighted when Kelly told me that day that he had also been advising President Trump. He told me President Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects and to explore avenues of cooperation.
He asked if I would take a call from the president. President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later and I met with him the following day. A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and close advisors in Florida and a series of long intense discussions. I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues in those meetings. He suggested that we join forces as a unity party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s team of rivals. That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and fiercely if need be on issues over which we differ while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance. I was a ferocious critic of many of the policies during his first administration, and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences, but we are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections.


Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris, vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me.

jlisenbe
Aug 25, 2024, 07:52 PM
we are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections.Pretty substantial group of issues to be in agreement on. As to VP Harris, she can't bring herself to face reporters either, so it's no surprise she won't meet with Kennedy.

tomder55
Aug 26, 2024, 03:10 AM
Just imagine how radical left the Dems have become that a Kennedy is endorsing Trump .

tomder55
Aug 26, 2024, 03:22 AM
can anyone dispute this comment ?

( RFK and JFK )... would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or 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, and how must this look to the rest of the world?”
“Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based on, well, nothing—no policies, no interviews, no debates—only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly-produced Chicago circus,”

tomder55
Aug 26, 2024, 03:35 AM
Judge gave him a green light to sue Biden/Harris over alleged censorship. Will be interesting.








Did you see what he judge wrote ?
cited “substantial evidence” of a far-reaching censorship campaign. He wrote that the “evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’ ”

Judge limits Biden administration in working with social media companies | AP News (https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727)

jlisenbe
Aug 26, 2024, 05:23 AM
So there are some honest judges out there? That's good to hear.

I reposted your RFK/JFK post on FB.

tomder55
Aug 26, 2024, 05:27 AM
So there are some honest judges out there? That's good to hear. The reporting is

Trump appointed judge ........(fill in the blank)

tomder55
Aug 31, 2024, 04:07 AM
RFK Jr's running mate Nicole Shanahan has a 2 minute ad that hits it out of the park

Nicole Shanahan Trump Derangement Syndrome TDS Commercial Ask your doctor about INDEPENDENCE - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDKYJXYemn4)

tomder55
Aug 31, 2024, 05:14 AM
The back story of the ad is that Shanahan was a life long Dem and believed all she was indoctrinated to believe. But since she signed up with RFK Jr and has been exposed to views outside her comfort zone ;she is beginning to realize the truth .


I don't know if you've taken any deep dives into MAGA-world, but I was just under the impression that they were gun-toting radicals who wanted to come to my doorstep and rip my liberal family out of my house, and, I don't know, do horrible things to liberals. And that's how that's how MAGA has been sold to a huge portion of America by the mainstream media.
And I have to say that what I have learned about MAGA is that they're actually their own party. They're their own grassroots organization that chose Donald Trump. They have so much power in deciding where to point their energy and support.
And they are really, really smart, thoughtful, intellectual people within MAGA. I’ve received beautifully written notes from MAGA supporters, and they were...
You know, our base didn't know how to engage with MAGA. Our base was not, you know, MAGA-oriented in the sense of even knowing who and what MAGA was and what their infrastructure was. In many ways, it's an online, viral movement.
And so the coming together of...
And they gave us the name MAHA—Make America Healthy Again. Have you seen? [“Yes, I’ve seen,” says the interviewer.]
Oh, my gosh, I mean we didn't come up with that. We're getting hats made.
But the coming together of these two groups over the last week—hasn't even been a full week yet—but watching that happen has been really glorious because that was always the vision of this unity movement, this desire to heal the divide.
And even though these are just two pockets within a much larger group of the American demographic, they're two very powerful pockets. And to find common ground has been one of the most motivating, optimistic things I've seen in recent political times.
Video | Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=503408578958276)

tomder55
Sep 2, 2024, 04:59 AM
Dems are trying to keep RFK Jr on the ballots in states he said he would remove his name from (swing states ) . And states where they have that power have already decreed he must stay on the ballot

RFK Jr. won't be able to remove himself from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin (nbcnews.com) (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-remain-on-ballot-michigan-wisconsin-rcna168506)


You see ;the Dems are defenders of democracy .
But those same Dems are trying to remove other minor candidates from the ballots that could dilute their support in other states .

Jill Stein and Cornell West meet the undemocratic party .

Green Party candidate Jill Stein to remain on Wisconsin ballot after court decision - CBS Minnesota (cbsnews.com) (https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/green-partys-jill-stein-to-remain-on-wisconsin-ballot/)

Democrats get a third-party hopeful knocked off Pennsylvania ballot, as Cornel West tries to get on - ABC News (go.com) (https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/democrats-party-hopeful-knocked-off-pennsylvania-ballot-cornel-113030068)

They also tried to get Trump off the ballot in a number of states ;an effort SCOTUS had to squash .
A 9-0 Supreme Court ruling on Trump shows that democracy isn't partisan (nypost.com) (https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/a-9-0-supreme-court-ruling-on-trump-shows-that-democracy-isnt-partisan/)


Remember "democracy is on the ballot"

President Biden Says Democracy is on the Ballot in 2024 Election | C-SPAN.org (https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5100386/president-biden-democracy-ballot-2024-election)