— The Unlikeliest New Sheriff in Town?

04.00: coffee sipped, nicotine buzzed… I was all set to write and laugh about lab-grown “meat” and its unsurprising troubles.

I’ll save it for later, because I think it’s time to devote more than a paragraph to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. while keeping in mind the unlikeliest of things you can think of.

He’s running for President of the United States of America as a well-known political figure—though as a lawyer and activist, not as a politician.

He’s also a unique figure on the face of this planet.

Both his uncle, the President of the United States, and his father, a US senator, were assassinated; and the latter, while himself running for the office of president. Those facts all alone smell fishy. Don’t you think? United States of America? Land of the Free?

Or maybe those facts, in-themselves, smell a bit fishier now, in retrospect, given what’s been and is being exposed daily as to the nature of the United Crime Syndicate of America.

Yet both of those political-assassination cases were solved all neat-&-tidy like, same-day and on-the-spot, and the fox has stood tireless guard over those respective hen houses for six decades…

Here goes. A take you won’t read anywhere else…a customary synthesis of dot-connecting integrations that, above all, are the ones that can’t be made—since they’re the most truthful and likely “extreme.”

Always keep in mind rules #1 and #2.

1. If everyone is saying the same thing, it’s wrong.
2. If half are saying one thing and the other half, the opposite thing, they’re both wrong.
3. [There are no exceptions.]

One day I’ll do a whole long one on why this is necessarily the case and always holds true in matters of the crowd-take on various and sundry ideas.

For now, let’s break this down a little bit.

I didn’t grow up much aware of the Kennedy legacy, or amidst particular fans. My family went Republican (from Democrat) when I was about 10, and that’s around the time I took an interest in politics. The only one left even by that time was Teddy; and let’s face it, he was never of the same cloth his brothers were. Even to a kid—one learning politics with a bias like we all do—Ted just seemed off to me. Mere knee-jerk pandering. Even at that young age, I could tell a couple of things.

1. He’s just saying what people want to hear
2. They’re dumb enough to believe it
3. He plays to the worst in people, not the best

Of course, it was always easier to see the Democrats believing stupid shit than the Republicans. But part of that too is that I never wanted to see Democrat political promises come to pass, while I certainly did want to see a lot of Republican ones succeed. I grew up wanting smaller government.

Unfortunately, if the Republicans ever deliver on anything at all, it’s “slightly smaller” government (than Democrats), but any perspective higher than about 12 feet off the ground, it’s all big government and now, massive.

… When I heard the announcement that RFK, Jr. was running, I tweeted:

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president, and I’m glad.”

That’s it. I searched my timeline, that’s all I’ve said about it.

My visceral feels were positive, and I’ve only recently began to consider the what-if of it.

To get one thing out of the way, I sense that RFK will have a tougher time getting the nomination than winning the presidency should he get past that hurdle. Yet, there is no comparison to make between Biden and RFK, Jr.

None. It’s a ridiculous comparison to even entertain.

Here’s the mind-worm integration on that: Kennedy is to the Democrat entrenched establishment what Trump is to the Republican entrenched establishment. Kennedy and Trump are far more similar than different. They both see the swamp within their own parties and the DC establishment at large.

Put it this way: Either one of them could spend 4 years working 24/7/365, being 100% effective, and neither would put much of a dent in the thing. It’s beyond that. At this point, where folks can’t even tell the difference between boys and girls anymore, and you have shit like this, coming from the White House’s own spokesman…

… well, it’s stick a fork in it time for me.

“The [pride] and joy of HIV and monkeypox. It’s all there for the embracing.”

It’s no longer rational to talk about change from voting booths. Rather, it’s time to wonder what it’s gonna be that sparks the great reconning and rest assured there will be one; for, in all of human history, it’s a sweep for reality over political wishes and aspirations that run counter to it. Sometimes, the timeframes involved for reality asserting itself run several lifetimes, but because of information flow and greater individual autonomy and mobility, the frames are getting shorter. Far shorter.

Look at all that has transpired in the last decade. In 2013, life was pretty much comparable to 2003. Shit was brewing, though, and I count the Brexit vote as the big wake up call for the left. Then, of course, Trump happened, and that election was stolen from Hillary, by which I mean that her own party apparatus stole it from her and gave it away. Speculative, but I see it as the Democrats not getting sufficient fix in, underestimating Trump and believing they didn’t need it so much, so why risk it?

Things have never been the same since.

This hurts Trump, who’s damaged more ways than the six already from Sunday. His guilt or innocence, the selective prosecution, the unprecedented relentless shitstorm by 1000%+, comb-over, or color of his hair aren’t the issue(s). The issue is that, apparently, they can, they have, they continue, they will, and there’s nothing, seemingly, anyone can do about it; and even if they could, time is never on the side of right. Look how long it took to overturn dumb-on-its-face Roe v. Wade. Like 40 fucken years?

I keep using the analogy of the dorky, harmless, sweet-boy geek in high school with a super-crush on one of the “mean girls,” who’s well aware of it and for sport, her and her friends get endless amusement baiting, switching, disappointing, and emotionally torturing the poor guy who just perseveres (’cause it’s a virtue) and keeps coming back for more…always with the same result and no, he never gets the girl in the end.

This is your Republican Party. The fact of the matter is simply that the system set up by the framers is lousy. It’s just plain lousy. It clearly does not work. The same conservatism that makes it difficult to make rapid and radical changes works against it by allowing entrenched evil to persist forever and ever, amen.

So, yes, the left uses the conservatism inherent in the system to their own advantage. They get bad shit locked in, tighter and tighter, and nothing short of a cataclysmic act of God can change anything.

I’m not doing a bunch of political analysis. This is gut feel stuff. I feel that Kennedy’s candidacy is perfect in many ways. I feel that he’s the absolute best on the Democrat side. Of course, I feel that way because of his tireless and heroic advocacy of everything right during Covid, running completely counter to his party.

Is he perfect?

Is Trump? And that’s a sufficient answer to the question because that’s where we’re at.

The chief heartburn with Kennedy, depending upon who you ask, is:

1. Environmentalism
2. Anti-Vax

Not knowing much about him before Covid, I just checked on #1. About 99% of all his cases are legit waterway stuff. It’s almost all he does. He goes after polluters. So, because of our lousy system, lots of companies can get fed, state, and municipalities to look the other way in terms of regulatory enforcement or criminal liability. So what Kennedy does is go in and sue them for damages based on them fucking up water supplies for other property owners, or the commons.

In general, that’s a good thing. It’s the libertarian way, in fact.

Are all his cases perfect? Probably not. Are all of Trump’s big business projects and deals perfect? Probably not.

In terms of anti-vax, damn if I’m not having to rethink that, too. Previously, my position was that I supported the basic handful or so we got as kids in the ’60s. My position was: if it kills kids. Well, it turns out there’s a hell of a lot of assumptions there and in a lot of cases, it seems as though these pathogens that gov/pharma vaccinated against were already naturally on the wane. On the way out, and vaccinations are coming along to take credit after-the-fact for what was naturally well underway. Communicable diseases tend to do this. They get more benign over time (antigenic drift) and humans build up natural immunities (along with cross and close immunities).

I haven’t even talked about DeSantis, but it’s good he’s in the race, in case they actually get Trump this time; or, as I said…good or bad, the people just grow weary of Trump because it’s just never, ever going to stop—as irrational as it is and how impotent the American civics system is to put a quick halt to banana-republic behavior.

And, if they don’t get Trump, then a Trump-DeSantis ticket is surely competitive.

Yet I still feel the time is ripe for Kennedy.

Given what happened to his dad and his uncle and what’s very likely at the root of that, nobody knows the underbelly of the American beast better than he. Will that be the clincher? I doubt it. Old news. It doesn’t hurt, either, and he has Kennedy cachet, and he’s not Ted…who let a date drown, trapped in a sinking car.

For what it’s worth, there’s polling. Articles in both The Hill and Forbes. With polls, I always try to look at the whole thing and then think, “what’s the single most important thing here; what are the peeps feelin?” And, does it make sense?

It does. The gist is that about half the country likes the guy. Significantly less than half the country likes Biden or Trump. Also, a lot of folks aren’t sure one or the other way about Kennedy, yet, but far more are sure about the other two.

That’s why nice-guy videos like these two short ones are great for Kennedy, and he sounds totally genuine in them.

This next one is quite funny and witty.

I contend that good folks will vote for a guy like that because they know in their hearts those weren’t bullshit, lying politics.

Could any of the others, Biden, Trump, or DeSantis, pull those off?

I don’t think so.

Prediction? Not yet. We first need to see if that DOJ documents case has legs. Second, we need to see how hard the Democrat establishment are going to go against Kennedy.

We’ll see.