Meanwhile; RFK Jr made another awesome speech in Nashville - he pledged to stop Blackrock and other corporations from gobbling up the real estate market and pledged to make housing affordable like under the post WW II GI Bill - watch it:
Yeah, he did. All while swallowing huge quantities of cash to be the Israeli Government whitewasher. How does anyone trust any of his rhetoric after that? Hard for him to meaningfully argue that he will continually refuse the sacks of cash that will be coming his way as he gets more traction. And it’s one of the arguments he really doesn’t make very well, it’s actually paper thin, his stance.
I am not an electoral politics person, but can you tell me any other candidate that is even talking about affordable housing, criticizing corporations and greed, and proposing solutions that are adverse to the politically powerful FIRE sector? How many "progressive" and "left" groups are doing homeless and affordable housing work? Holding politicians and media accountable for the crisis?
Like dozens of other issues Jr. is putting on the table, almost all from a left perspective, he gets zero recognition, but is slammed for the Israel issue (one I've criticized him for).
Hey Bill, what the fuck? You put up an opinion, i responded to it, you asked a question, i answered. So i mistyped his name. I’m nearly 50, on a phone and my eyes are not great. So i typo a lot. And i’ve been reading him a long time too. But this isn’t a bookshelf measuring contest mate.
Way to be balanced with someone. Particularly a subscriber who reads your work. So yeah, nice Job Bill. I would have thought someone, like me, born before the internet became common place, would have maintained some old school graces and not descend immediately into name calling. Apparently not... but it’s not a good look, particularly when you know absolutely zero about me, and i have done nothing to offend you personally.
Vivek Ramaswamy he was on Glenn Greenwald's Rumble after the RNC debates. He outright states he is going after the "Deep State" and return to the 1776 definition of the constitution. He doesn't take war dollars and has even used his own funds for his campaign. I personally am going to watch how far down the rabbit hole he is willing to go. I got a laugh when he told one of the warmongers to enjoy her job with Boeing.
I took a good look at his "X" Twitter page and I'm glad you said that. While I can't get his "10 Truths" image to enlarge enough for me to read it clearly I do see some of it and what I see = what you said "garbage"!
I "had been" a huge supporter and advocate of RFK Jr. For the first time in my life I felt he was the only person capable of saving what little is even left of this Country!
No one knows more about politics - how the game is played and where all the skeletons are buried (corruption) better than the Kennedys. He came out of the starting gate with all the right answers and solutions and then something changed, drastically! I suspect it's his wife - just a gut feeling! The work-out video was an atrocity straight out of Hollywood!
He went from being the least bit rehearsed to now, the very most! It's like listening to a broken record - every single interview is the exact same as the last! The same stories, verbatim! With all that's wrong with this Country why is he talking about the same things over and over and over?
Words that had been synonymous with his name (honesty and integrity) no longer exist! He's made to many mistakes and contradictions!
The entire focus of his campaign should be and have remained the corruption - how and why he is the only candidate who possesses the overwhelming experience (he's been suing the government for decades) and knowledge to at least staunch it! That's what had set him apart from the rest! His ability to actually accomplish it!
NOTHING ELSE matters (nor can you fulfill any promises) until you address and abolish it! I truly beleive he's vying for attorney general rather than the presidency - amassing a constituency that he will then use to barter - whoever the nominee is.
He had a great message and blew it entirely! Kucinich is the wrong person to be advising him - Obama succeeded because his campaign was completely different!
I agree with you on the way RFK has changed, and I only become aware of his campaign activity on a random basis, I don't "follow" his work.
His rhetoric and positions have been carefully calibrated to appeal to right wing populist views - I saw a recent tweet where he said there was too much focus on carbon and climate. He does similar things on border and immigration and other issues. At the end of the Tucker interview, he talked about a dinner with Pompeo and his friends. I was reminded of the Liberty League's dinner with Smedley Butler where they sought to recruit him to lead a military insurrection to coup FDR.
BUT he was never like this which is why he immediately started at 20%! He was never ever rehearsed and now? That's ALL he is. His two greatest and most prominent assets were his honesty and integrity which now comes into serious question! His rhetoric is such BS! All he does is talk about his uncle and father which NOW does come off as exploitation! He starts telling these rambling stories - that he has told relentlessly - so much so that he stumbles remembering the lines which is what has destroyed his credibility!
I have watched him from Day One and said to all he's running for POTUS and no one believed me, until he did! Why? Because I saw the change! And now I see it again - but sadly this time it's for the worse.
He had what no one else did and now, he's nothing more than a total blur amongst all the others! His claim to fame was that he had what no one else did!!!!
If “Bobby” is another Obama, he’s my adversary, not my advocate.
Any friend of Isra-hell is no friend of mine.
If gawd wanted me to vote, he’d a give me worthy candidates. Either there is no gawd, or he’s/she’s a feckless fake. Kinda like “fake news”. Kinda like that other shameless self promoter, the big orange cheat-toe.
NO NO NO NO you missed my point! Obama's succeeded with his campaign because it was new fresh and different!
Bobby started out great - what he had no one else could compete with - honesty and integrity, intelligence, experience, knowledge and he wasn't a politician although his family was - he was never ever rehearsed - never employed platitudes.
All of that has now been eviscerated and his campaign has become like every other we've witnessed! It's has to be Kucinich that he's following the same ole same ole playbook!
He had it all and blew it! I always felt by next year at this time there would be so many deaths and injuries from these lethal injection everyone would become anti-vax which would catapult him into the WH which is why I also felt he ran but now he seems to be backing away from that as well!
Oh well . . . it was a nice dream but now I agree with everyone that he doesn't stand a chance and following him is a total waste (of my time). If he had just stuck to abolishing the corruption and educating people!!!
Ok, BJ. These office seeking conmen get me all turned around, sometimes.
I’ve kinda given up on that whole ballot thingy anyway.
Only Nader and Stein have been worth my time.
BJ, don’t be precipitous.
I think that the mask, and the vax, are gonna be back, with a vengeance, before you know it. Event 201.1. Schwab and friends aren’t satisfied with the results of the initial round of this scam.
As for them tracking devices, I’ve got one. But, I know what it is, and try to treat it accordingly.
No truer words were spoken then when Bill Clinton said he's the greatest fairy tale ever told! His entire existence is a total farce! And of course his chef was murdered! Whether he saw heard or knew something or perhaps even having an affair with Obama as the
love letters to his ex-girlfriend solidified his sexual feelings for men!
Yes but that was the beauty of his campaign - not only did he bring it to light - he educated everyone how rampant it is! He was such an insider from all his years of suing the government and knowing everyone in politics because of his heritage. You had to ask yourself who else but him can talk like this? Named names of those responsible in every single agency and who he would immediately terminate! And then it just stopped and he moved on to things that can and will never change until you abolish the corruption or at least staunch it!!!
RFK has attacked the core Neocon issue: the military industrial complex and US Empire. Only Cornel West has even mentioned that. But yeah, he's wrong on Israel - Palestine. You sound exactly like the anti-abortion zealots.
Being "wrong on Palestine", is not a trivial matter. Bill. He is thereby complicit in apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Just because you like the sound of his domestic agenda, may I remind you that the post war British Labour government of Attlee which gave us the Welfare State, also legitimised Israel, plotted a monarchist coup in Iran, and practiced apartheid in southern Af. But hey, great domestic policies.
It is possible that he does not want to become Corbyn (but he will be Sanders in he has a real shot at winning).
I never said Palestine was trivial - it is important and major. But it is one issue and it totally contradicts his positions on military and US empire and US role in the world, so I suspect he could be doing it because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the electoral arena (but not necessarily in governing).
Well, the lesson of Corbyn is very apposite here. Corbyn and those around him, tried to mollify the zionist lobby with apologies, and vacillation.
It didn't work.
You can't appease such people. They take compromise for weakness.
Maybe I am being harsh, I am old enough to mistrust anyone named Kennedy. But I think that to fail to act principally on such a major issue reveals a weakness and lack of true commitment.
Respectfully, can’t see how I could ever sound like an anti-abortion zealot.
I am not. The opposite in fact. But my claim to fame, if any claim is needed today, is 40 years of serious / continuous advocacy for Palestine where we have an occupation which is the crime of the century with a US-sponsored criminal Israeli occupier, then a corrupted toothless United Nations and finally, a carefully manipulated hearts and flowers campaign with the old worn out themes of the holocaust and anti-semitisim being driven by the Neocon Israelis who live in America and are allowed to call themselves Americans.
Biden’s cabinet and all close associates are full of them. Where are you, Joe McCarthy, version 2023.
Until that changes, nothing else does and helpless Palestinians will keep dying every day, with grovelling US support for the 'chosen people', of course.
I do hope you can live long enough for you and the rest of the world to see the next step on the path to "Eretz israel”, Israel’s grand plan for ownership of all the land from the Euphrates River to the Nile. They have the 400 nuclear weapons to back their plan. US technology, once again.
So far, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, neutered effectively, with Syria on the go, (US forces assisting and stealing the oil,) parts of Iraq, Saudi, a small piece of Kuwait, Egypt andTurkey.
It’s on the way, Bill. So no to anti-abortion zealot and yes, to justice for Palestine.
I meant that zealotry only in the context of single issue electoral thinking. For example, many religious fundamentalists with extremely conservative social values voted for Trump based exclusively on abortion, while they ignored the entire character and position of Trump that directly conflicted with their values.
Bill, I suggest that you spend the year leading up to the 2024 election in Gaza, and the West Bank, before you accuse anyone of zealotry. Or, alternatively, a vacation from the internet. I see you as going on the attack against anyone who points out the defects in your candidate Kennedy.
Booby is not the messiah sent from Camelot to save us all.
Mike I've criticized RFK multiple times - I don't see him as any messiah. I blasted his pro-capitalist environmental politics over a decade ago (which at the time was his only focus), see:
It is a very big issue. But if it all comes down to it if he is the "Last Man Standing" at the end of the day I would rather it was him just to rain in the MIC! It would be a good starting point and who really knows maybe he is saying all the right things because they would really trash him if he didn't? His speech on the "Censorship Committee" showed just how corrupt those people are and what they accused him of.
Meanwhile; RFK Jr made another awesome speech in Nashville - he pledged to stop Blackrock and other corporations from gobbling up the real estate market and pledged to make housing affordable like under the post WW II GI Bill - watch it:
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1695488873655148791
Ah, never mind, there are a lot of cat and fight videos trending on Twitter (X).
Yeah, he did. All while swallowing huge quantities of cash to be the Israeli Government whitewasher. How does anyone trust any of his rhetoric after that? Hard for him to meaningfully argue that he will continually refuse the sacks of cash that will be coming his way as he gets more traction. And it’s one of the arguments he really doesn’t make very well, it’s actually paper thin, his stance.
I am not an electoral politics person, but can you tell me any other candidate that is even talking about affordable housing, criticizing corporations and greed, and proposing solutions that are adverse to the politically powerful FIRE sector? How many "progressive" and "left" groups are doing homeless and affordable housing work? Holding politicians and media accountable for the crisis?
Like dozens of other issues Jr. is putting on the table, almost all from a left perspective, he gets zero recognition, but is slammed for the Israel issue (one I've criticized him for).
Cornell?
Typo - asshole. I've been reading him since you probably were inn grammar school
Hey Bill, what the fuck? You put up an opinion, i responded to it, you asked a question, i answered. So i mistyped his name. I’m nearly 50, on a phone and my eyes are not great. So i typo a lot. And i’ve been reading him a long time too. But this isn’t a bookshelf measuring contest mate.
Way to be balanced with someone. Particularly a subscriber who reads your work. So yeah, nice Job Bill. I would have thought someone, like me, born before the internet became common place, would have maintained some old school graces and not descend immediately into name calling. Apparently not... but it’s not a good look, particularly when you know absolutely zero about me, and i have done nothing to offend you personally.
Sorry, I thought you were criticizing MY typo! I thought you were an asshole for that. But it looks like I am! hahahaha!
Vivek Ramaswamy he was on Glenn Greenwald's Rumble after the RNC debates. He outright states he is going after the "Deep State" and return to the 1776 definition of the constitution. He doesn't take war dollars and has even used his own funds for his campaign. I personally am going to watch how far down the rabbit hole he is willing to go. I got a laugh when he told one of the warmongers to enjoy her job with Boeing.
have you seen his 10 truths? disqualifying garbage.
I took a good look at his "X" Twitter page and I'm glad you said that. While I can't get his "10 Truths" image to enlarge enough for me to read it clearly I do see some of it and what I see = what you said "garbage"!
I am starting to think he is just another trojan in a different suit.
I "had been" a huge supporter and advocate of RFK Jr. For the first time in my life I felt he was the only person capable of saving what little is even left of this Country!
No one knows more about politics - how the game is played and where all the skeletons are buried (corruption) better than the Kennedys. He came out of the starting gate with all the right answers and solutions and then something changed, drastically! I suspect it's his wife - just a gut feeling! The work-out video was an atrocity straight out of Hollywood!
He went from being the least bit rehearsed to now, the very most! It's like listening to a broken record - every single interview is the exact same as the last! The same stories, verbatim! With all that's wrong with this Country why is he talking about the same things over and over and over?
Words that had been synonymous with his name (honesty and integrity) no longer exist! He's made to many mistakes and contradictions!
The entire focus of his campaign should be and have remained the corruption - how and why he is the only candidate who possesses the overwhelming experience (he's been suing the government for decades) and knowledge to at least staunch it! That's what had set him apart from the rest! His ability to actually accomplish it!
NOTHING ELSE matters (nor can you fulfill any promises) until you address and abolish it! I truly beleive he's vying for attorney general rather than the presidency - amassing a constituency that he will then use to barter - whoever the nominee is.
He had a great message and blew it entirely! Kucinich is the wrong person to be advising him - Obama succeeded because his campaign was completely different!
I agree with you on the way RFK has changed, and I only become aware of his campaign activity on a random basis, I don't "follow" his work.
His rhetoric and positions have been carefully calibrated to appeal to right wing populist views - I saw a recent tweet where he said there was too much focus on carbon and climate. He does similar things on border and immigration and other issues. At the end of the Tucker interview, he talked about a dinner with Pompeo and his friends. I was reminded of the Liberty League's dinner with Smedley Butler where they sought to recruit him to lead a military insurrection to coup FDR.
BUT he was never like this which is why he immediately started at 20%! He was never ever rehearsed and now? That's ALL he is. His two greatest and most prominent assets were his honesty and integrity which now comes into serious question! His rhetoric is such BS! All he does is talk about his uncle and father which NOW does come off as exploitation! He starts telling these rambling stories - that he has told relentlessly - so much so that he stumbles remembering the lines which is what has destroyed his credibility!
I have watched him from Day One and said to all he's running for POTUS and no one believed me, until he did! Why? Because I saw the change! And now I see it again - but sadly this time it's for the worse.
He had what no one else did and now, he's nothing more than a total blur amongst all the others! His claim to fame was that he had what no one else did!!!!
Obama succeeded?
He was a f*cking nightmare.
Killer, liar, corporate stooge.
If “Bobby” is another Obama, he’s my adversary, not my advocate.
Any friend of Isra-hell is no friend of mine.
If gawd wanted me to vote, he’d a give me worthy candidates. Either there is no gawd, or he’s/she’s a feckless fake. Kinda like “fake news”. Kinda like that other shameless self promoter, the big orange cheat-toe.
NO NO NO NO you missed my point! Obama's succeeded with his campaign because it was new fresh and different!
Bobby started out great - what he had no one else could compete with - honesty and integrity, intelligence, experience, knowledge and he wasn't a politician although his family was - he was never ever rehearsed - never employed platitudes.
All of that has now been eviscerated and his campaign has become like every other we've witnessed! It's has to be Kucinich that he's following the same ole same ole playbook!
He had it all and blew it! I always felt by next year at this time there would be so many deaths and injuries from these lethal injection everyone would become anti-vax which would catapult him into the WH which is why I also felt he ran but now he seems to be backing away from that as well!
Oh well . . . it was a nice dream but now I agree with everyone that he doesn't stand a chance and following him is a total waste (of my time). If he had just stuck to abolishing the corruption and educating people!!!
Ok, BJ. These office seeking conmen get me all turned around, sometimes.
I’ve kinda given up on that whole ballot thingy anyway.
Only Nader and Stein have been worth my time.
BJ, don’t be precipitous.
I think that the mask, and the vax, are gonna be back, with a vengeance, before you know it. Event 201.1. Schwab and friends aren’t satisfied with the results of the initial round of this scam.
As for them tracking devices, I’ve got one. But, I know what it is, and try to treat it accordingly.
Good to hear from you BJ.
Re: Obama
No truer words were spoken then when Bill Clinton said he's the greatest fairy tale ever told! His entire existence is a total farce! And of course his chef was murdered! Whether he saw heard or knew something or perhaps even having an affair with Obama as the
love letters to his ex-girlfriend solidified his sexual feelings for men!
The original emphasis on corporate power and regulatory capture had waned. Or has it disappeared?
Yes but that was the beauty of his campaign - not only did he bring it to light - he educated everyone how rampant it is! He was such an insider from all his years of suing the government and knowing everyone in politics because of his heritage. You had to ask yourself who else but him can talk like this? Named names of those responsible in every single agency and who he would immediately terminate! And then it just stopped and he moved on to things that can and will never change until you abolish the corruption or at least staunch it!!!
Shit happens! Minus tone and body language, it’s a fucking miracle we can communicate about anything like this. :)
I am a total asshole, btw! ;)
Unfortunately, it seems he has also sold out to the Neocon brigade.
Another single issue attack.
RFK has attacked the core Neocon issue: the military industrial complex and US Empire. Only Cornel West has even mentioned that. But yeah, he's wrong on Israel - Palestine. You sound exactly like the anti-abortion zealots.
Being "wrong on Palestine", is not a trivial matter. Bill. He is thereby complicit in apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Just because you like the sound of his domestic agenda, may I remind you that the post war British Labour government of Attlee which gave us the Welfare State, also legitimised Israel, plotted a monarchist coup in Iran, and practiced apartheid in southern Af. But hey, great domestic policies.
It is possible that he does not want to become Corbyn (but he will be Sanders in he has a real shot at winning).
I never said Palestine was trivial - it is important and major. But it is one issue and it totally contradicts his positions on military and US empire and US role in the world, so I suspect he could be doing it because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the electoral arena (but not necessarily in governing).
Well, the lesson of Corbyn is very apposite here. Corbyn and those around him, tried to mollify the zionist lobby with apologies, and vacillation.
It didn't work.
You can't appease such people. They take compromise for weakness.
Maybe I am being harsh, I am old enough to mistrust anyone named Kennedy. But I think that to fail to act principally on such a major issue reveals a weakness and lack of true commitment.
Respectfully, can’t see how I could ever sound like an anti-abortion zealot.
I am not. The opposite in fact. But my claim to fame, if any claim is needed today, is 40 years of serious / continuous advocacy for Palestine where we have an occupation which is the crime of the century with a US-sponsored criminal Israeli occupier, then a corrupted toothless United Nations and finally, a carefully manipulated hearts and flowers campaign with the old worn out themes of the holocaust and anti-semitisim being driven by the Neocon Israelis who live in America and are allowed to call themselves Americans.
Biden’s cabinet and all close associates are full of them. Where are you, Joe McCarthy, version 2023.
Until that changes, nothing else does and helpless Palestinians will keep dying every day, with grovelling US support for the 'chosen people', of course.
I do hope you can live long enough for you and the rest of the world to see the next step on the path to "Eretz israel”, Israel’s grand plan for ownership of all the land from the Euphrates River to the Nile. They have the 400 nuclear weapons to back their plan. US technology, once again.
So far, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, neutered effectively, with Syria on the go, (US forces assisting and stealing the oil,) parts of Iraq, Saudi, a small piece of Kuwait, Egypt andTurkey.
It’s on the way, Bill. So no to anti-abortion zealot and yes, to justice for Palestine.
OK?
The truth in the puddin!
I meant that zealotry only in the context of single issue electoral thinking. For example, many religious fundamentalists with extremely conservative social values voted for Trump based exclusively on abortion, while they ignored the entire character and position of Trump that directly conflicted with their values.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Justice and liberty for Palestinians. Justice, and consequences for Isra-hell.
You, my friend, have 20/20 vision.
Bill, I suggest that you spend the year leading up to the 2024 election in Gaza, and the West Bank, before you accuse anyone of zealotry. Or, alternatively, a vacation from the internet. I see you as going on the attack against anyone who points out the defects in your candidate Kennedy.
Booby is not the messiah sent from Camelot to save us all.
Mike I've criticized RFK multiple times - I don't see him as any messiah. I blasted his pro-capitalist environmental politics over a decade ago (which at the time was his only focus), see:
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2011/02/kennedy-obama-epa-and-mountaintop-mining-the-nj-way/
It seems the Israel issue blinds people.
It is a very big issue. But if it all comes down to it if he is the "Last Man Standing" at the end of the day I would rather it was him just to rain in the MIC! It would be a good starting point and who really knows maybe he is saying all the right things because they would really trash him if he didn't? His speech on the "Censorship Committee" showed just how corrupt those people are and what they accused him of.