A Speech to Remember
RFK Jr.'s Trump Endorsement Speech at least should be remembered.
Friday was a good day for America.
The Democrat Regime Establishment Borg may try to memoryhole it. They may try to insert RFK Jr. into their daily Two Minutes of Hate. But I think (and hope and pray) they will fail. RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump may indeed prove to be consequential and historic.
First, the political calculus. Millions respect RFK Jr. They may think some of his views odd and mistaken, as I do. They may be supporting other candidates, as I am. But millions respect him, as I do (and did before the endorsement if you are wondering). His endorsement of Trump will not change the minds of those committed to Harris or Trump, of course. But it will help swing voters in making up their minds for Trump. Polls already indicate it may make the difference in Pennsylvania and other crucial swing states. National Polls, even before the endorsement, also indicate RFK’s partial withdraw assists Trump. (See the August 22nd polls here.)
The timing of this also helps. Kamala Harris managed to lie and vibe her way to making a relatively passible Democrat nomination acceptance speech on Thursday night. After Friday, that is forgotten old news. The usual party convention bounce is likely negated and perhaps more.
But there is more than just the endorsement. RFK Jr.’s speech was a dispassionate dismantling of what the Democrat Party has become. And that a Kennedy delivered it emphasizes the point that the Democrat Party is not the honorable American party of decades ago. Sasha Stone has helpfully posted both the video of the speech and a transcription.
After recalling the Democrat Party he grew up in, he stated that what it has become drove him away:
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 it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.
He recalled how the Democrat National Committee waged lawfare to keep him off the ballot and to put Trump in jail:
In the Name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate that his candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged 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…
They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters. What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates.
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.
Then he tore into how the “mainstream” “news” media collaborated with the Democrat attacks on American constitutional democracy:
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 fierce skepticism toward authority, your institutions have made your 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's censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power…
The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles, and has joined this systemic attack on democracy. The media justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation, but governments and and oppressors don't censor lies. They don't fear lies. They fear the truth, and that's what they censor.
Read or listen to it all. But that succinct takedown of what the Democrat Party and the “news” media have become stands out and at least deserves to be long remembered. Yet his recollection of Trump and he coming together is also interesting. It seems the assassination attempt on Trump may have been a factor:
Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination. Calley Means called me on my cell phone I was then in Las Vegas. Calley 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. Calley has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA and the NIH, the HHS and the USDA that has caused the epidemic.
Calley 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 Calley 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 closest advisers in Florida in 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 furiously, 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. There are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences. Still, 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.
Harris and her campaign, on the other hand completely dropped the ball:
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.
More could be said. And this story is far from over with RFK Jr. to actively campaign for Trump, with more Democrat defections to Trump hinted, and with false, irrelevant and downright bizarro Democrat smears and accusations to come…
I, for one, think it is getting ahead of matters to say, as a few have, that this has won the election for Trump. But it likely help him. How much we shall see.
In any case, RFK’s endorsement and speech is worthy to be remembered no matter how much Democrats would rather we forget.