Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Knocks It Out Of The Park In Town Hall: Power Of The Spoken Word, Return Of American Intelligence

Imagine Being Represented Internationally By A President Capable Of Statecraft, Deep Knowledge, And Adult Conduct: Kennedy 2024

“Here’s what I’m not going to do in this race. I’m not going to attack other people, personally. I don’t think it’s good for our country.”

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”We have neglected many many opportunities to settle this war.”

“I’m going to heal this country. The way I’m going to do that is to tell the truth to the American people about everything.”

—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Town Hall performance last night was jaw-dropping.

I've never seen anything like it.

Here it is, for those who weren’t able to listen last night:

Also quite stunning and revealing, by the way— the Zoom hour that preceded it, in which RFK Jr. spoke about his heroin addiction, how he got clean, and how he brokered a peace with the faith he was raised with. How said faith pulled him out of addiction. All these things are so unusual as to feel almost surreal.

A few YT comments from the Town Hall, where I suggest you go read the comments:

@imanor420

3 hours ago

RFK 2024. This is the only candidate in years that I’ve actually felt excited about. How long has it been since we had anyone running who had integrity and was honest and seemed like they actually cared about the American people?

@guybrush3000

I love this guy. The more attack him, the more I like him. And the fact that no one will directly address any of his vaccine claims is making me take those a lot more seriously. Like he explains the whole chickenpox thing, and there's just no response. We're just not going to acknowledge the fair and verifiable point? And he's just great to listen to. He's clearly the smartest guy in the room.

@neilefc877

2 hours ago

God bless this man. Dear American friends, please please vote this man into the White House. Love from Europe <3

@mesolithicman164

38 minutes ago

This is what a real President looks and sounds like. Forget the voice, listen to the words.

Who was on RFK Jr.’s wall, growing up, when he was a child?

St. Francis and St. Augustine.

The Kennedy kids read the Bible with their father daily, went to mass twice a day, and prayed at least one Rosary a day. I find that very significant.

At the Roundtable two nights ago, RFK Jr. said he hates abortion but wants to keep it legal in the first trimester only.

Is that moving the abortion dial in the right direction (it stands now at the right to kill a baby many days after birth, possibly up to 27) or is that “supporting” abortion?

In other words, abolition of the abortion and organ harvesting industries is a fantasy. So: Is it better to support reasonable reform of Abortion Inc, or Abolition, which will never happen?

Trigger warning:

”Yesterday was the first time she said people wanted lungs.”

Here is the crushing reality of the lucrative market for children’s organs: This child was about to get sold for his organs by a Ukrainian trafficker.

I’m digressing.

Back to last night: In his replies to each question, RFK Jr. was exceptionally disarming, detailed, knowledgable, connected, and real.

The central and deadly lie that childhood vaccines have undergone safety testing was shattered in a pinnacle segment that felt genuinely like an out of body audio experience.

Each answer revealed a head-spinning grasp of deep background, data, and counter-propaganda, on subjects that ranged from the war in Ukraine, inflation, the economy, the American Empire, the Fentanyl crisis, the BORDER, guns, SSRIs, vaccines and finally LGBTQ rights. (Are there any “rights” that have eluded them, at this point?)

I support RFK Jr. for President without reservation, despite my deep antipathy of the Democrat party. I liked how he explained that he is running as Democrat because it’s who he is, it’s part of his identity. I accept that answer.

It’s very disorienting to be presented with a political figure who speaks from a voice that holds both facts, history, context, candor and humility. And without being ugly to others—ever.

I want to feel “hope” but it’s also a strange kind of devastation, because we live in the violent land of orphans who know “they” take have an unbroken pattern since 1963 of taking everything from us, as Chuck Schumer famously put it “six ways to Sunday.”

So is it, then, just a tormented taunt to our collective psyche to chart how much “sense” he makes, or how shocking it feels to hear reality as we experience it, instead of the usual canned lies?

A virtuoso appearance.

And the way he places his fingertips on his chest when they go for his family, the way he changes his body language to insist there is such a thing as a human being. Elizabeth Vargas, even, was disarmed.

I brace myself again for everything to be taken from us, whatever form the cheat and swindle will take this time. Is that defeatism or realism? He says he will be President and has no plan B. The least we can do is donate what we can and keep our cynicism at bay.

But he arrives at a time when little or nothing is left of the American soul. We’re on life support. We’re so shot, so drained, so sad.

How is he possible?

Today I fell asleep in he late morning and dreamed of exhaustion, in a house with open windows, with cats coming in and out. I tried to speak to explain I was too tired to speak.

I was processing the thousands of voices, worrying and clashing and critiquing, dismantling or seeking to protect RFK Jr.

And to all of them I say: Just let him speak.

That’s the whole campaign strategy. That’s his “protection.”

Surely the Holy Spirit broke his voice so we could finally hear a voice that transmits something other than the dead freight of global corporations.

“You don’t have a chance. Take it.”

—Peter Olsen