I'm so happy to read your comments about last night and RFK, Jr's credibility and forthcoming with FACTS. I have listened to many of his podcast visits and he really will (does) appeal to a large majority of folks. I believe, with his family's history, that he sincerely would try to unite people and not divide. This movement will get interesting for sure!
Your review of RFK's speech is appreciated, but I didn't come away with the same sentiments.
I had watched Jordan Peterson's interview with him earlier and found the same disconnects in his positions. The sponsors of this event tried to bill it as "educational", not political. Yeah, right. Any public appearance by a declared candidate, especially for POTUS, is by default political.
While RFK Jr.'s past efforts to clean up the waterways and his claim to support for free market solutions were extremely important and welcome, for him to ignore about 40 years now of climate related subsidies, environmental degradation and human rights violations created by solar and wind manufacturing, leaching and disposal is hypocritical or criminally negligent. In the first half of his talk, he argued that corporations were not held accountable for the cost of cleaning up their pollution, yet in the second half, he frequently declared that green energy is free forever. Anyone that believes that is in for a rude awaking when it comes time to clean up the toxic mess caused by solar panels and wind turbines. He called out the global elites, but fails to connect and name the corporations and politicians controlled by them, and that they are the same entities pushing the vaccines.
It seems to me that, besides the historical mob connections that the Kennedy's were known for and for which RFK Sr. turned against and was killed, and throughout the industrial age that RFK Jr. highlighted, all the Kennedy's have been playing both sides of the economic chess board. Make corporate profits and taxpayer subsidies on the front end, and reap legal fees and corporate fines on the back end when it comes time to clean up the mess they created.
You write: "....he frequently declared that green energy is free forever. Anyone that believes that is in for a rude awaking when it comes time to clean up the toxic mess caused by solar panels and wind turbines." I agree -- some of his energy claims were concerning, including also that he ignores the massive (prohibitive) economic and environmental costs of implementing his proposal of a solar panel on every home, itself a highly inefficient means of energy production. However, I see him as a major spoiler for Team Biden, and a far better Dem candidate. I certainly don't agree with him on all issues.... And the efforts by the MSM to ignore or discredit him are fascinating....
True that another spoiler forces the MSM to continue outing themselves as democrat-rino/uniparty operatives, but at this point it would seem that if people haven't figured out how much they're being lied to by media, whether by spin or by omission, they are tuned out, true believers, or part of the special interests profiting off the cozy govt-corp crony capitalism, at taxpayer expense.
Instead of candidates, the polls ought to be about policies and what people think about them at this stage. Maybe we can attract the right candidates that way. It's a long way to Nov. 2024. We can decide later for ourselves who we can trust to deliver.
I'm so happy to read your comments about last night and RFK, Jr's credibility and forthcoming with FACTS. I have listened to many of his podcast visits and he really will (does) appeal to a large majority of folks. I believe, with his family's history, that he sincerely would try to unite people and not divide. This movement will get interesting for sure!
Thanks for writing this.
Your review of RFK's speech is appreciated, but I didn't come away with the same sentiments.
I had watched Jordan Peterson's interview with him earlier and found the same disconnects in his positions. The sponsors of this event tried to bill it as "educational", not political. Yeah, right. Any public appearance by a declared candidate, especially for POTUS, is by default political.
While RFK Jr.'s past efforts to clean up the waterways and his claim to support for free market solutions were extremely important and welcome, for him to ignore about 40 years now of climate related subsidies, environmental degradation and human rights violations created by solar and wind manufacturing, leaching and disposal is hypocritical or criminally negligent. In the first half of his talk, he argued that corporations were not held accountable for the cost of cleaning up their pollution, yet in the second half, he frequently declared that green energy is free forever. Anyone that believes that is in for a rude awaking when it comes time to clean up the toxic mess caused by solar panels and wind turbines. He called out the global elites, but fails to connect and name the corporations and politicians controlled by them, and that they are the same entities pushing the vaccines.
It seems to me that, besides the historical mob connections that the Kennedy's were known for and for which RFK Sr. turned against and was killed, and throughout the industrial age that RFK Jr. highlighted, all the Kennedy's have been playing both sides of the economic chess board. Make corporate profits and taxpayer subsidies on the front end, and reap legal fees and corporate fines on the back end when it comes time to clean up the mess they created.
Thanks for commenting....
You write: "....he frequently declared that green energy is free forever. Anyone that believes that is in for a rude awaking when it comes time to clean up the toxic mess caused by solar panels and wind turbines." I agree -- some of his energy claims were concerning, including also that he ignores the massive (prohibitive) economic and environmental costs of implementing his proposal of a solar panel on every home, itself a highly inefficient means of energy production. However, I see him as a major spoiler for Team Biden, and a far better Dem candidate. I certainly don't agree with him on all issues.... And the efforts by the MSM to ignore or discredit him are fascinating....
True that another spoiler forces the MSM to continue outing themselves as democrat-rino/uniparty operatives, but at this point it would seem that if people haven't figured out how much they're being lied to by media, whether by spin or by omission, they are tuned out, true believers, or part of the special interests profiting off the cozy govt-corp crony capitalism, at taxpayer expense.
Instead of candidates, the polls ought to be about policies and what people think about them at this stage. Maybe we can attract the right candidates that way. It's a long way to Nov. 2024. We can decide later for ourselves who we can trust to deliver.
Excellent summary John.