Kennedy's Other Seven Even More Formidable Opponents in 2024 (and How We Defeat Them)
If he were only running against Biden, Williamson and the Republican nominee, he'd be a shoe-in, but Kennedy has no less than seven other more formidable opponents in the 2024 election.
A Plain Old Campaign… Not!
This article is about none of the usual things an ordinary U.S. Presidential campaign needs to do to win in what is supposed to be an ordinary American political ecosystem. ChatGPT can tell you that (see the last section of this article for a ChatGPT-generated list of all the things this article is not about).
Such ordinary tasks and strategies are, of course, vitally important and require a great deal of energy, hard-work and keen strategic thinking. They are not to be ignored or minimized. But, they are also not the subject of this article.
This article is about the obstacles to Kennedy’s election that are generally taboo and not discussed in “polite” society.
The difference between what the campaign is supposed to be and what it really is might be compared to the difference between the before- and after-attack perceptions of the killer bunny in Monty Python’s Holy Grail1 in the eyes of the characters of King Arthur and his knights. The Kennedy campaign will inevitably be tied to Camelot and the story of King Arthur anyway, so we might as well have some fun with that while we’re giving our candidate a sword (which he should be pulling out of a stone, by the way, but never mind)
Indeed, it might be so compared. But that is also not what this article is about.
Suffice it to say— those other seven opponents? They’ve got teeth… and they can jump…
Other More Formidable Opponent (OMFO) #1 — The DNC
“The ‘bins’ of many a brave Bernie-crat lie strewn about its lair” — Tim the Enchanter
I honestly don’t know if anyone has gathered the histories of how Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 campaigns were scuttled with a thousand tiny cuts by the DNC but if we are to win this campaign, we need to gather those histories, study them intensely and probably even hire some of the wounded veterans from the Sanders campaigns to help guide us through all the traps and pitfalls of a 50-state DNC-rigged primary— the filing rules, the voter registration hurdles, the differences between caucus and ballot states, how reliable delegates are selected and delivered to the convention, who gets to preside over the state caucus assemblies, the bylaws of the national DNC and state Democratic Committees. We’ll probably need a team of lawyers just to keep a step or two ahead of the operatives who will be assigned to scuttle, sideline, minimize and cheat our campaign out of delegates at every turn.
And, even though superdelegates aren’t supposed to be counted in the first ballot at the convention (so it should be possible to win with pledged delegates on the first round), we have to find a way to guarantee that no loopholes to a second round of balloting are left open because the superdelegates will almost certainly vote for the DNC-favored candidate and there are even more of them now than there were in 2020 and, therefore, even a lower chance of a dark horse outsider candidate getting past them in a second round of balloting.
If possible, we need to freeze the rules before the primaries begin and do our best to guarantee that the rules won’t be changed until 2025.
OMFO #2 — Independent and Republican Inertia
Let’s face it. Even if we could get half of today’s Biden-leaning voters to support Kennedy instead, the primary election would still be “close enough to steal” for establishment agents. Getting the kinds of majorities needed for a clear, decisive victory in the primaries is going to require a massive voter re-registration drive to bring many millions of independents and even some Republicans back into the Democratic party so they can vote for Kennedy in the primary elections. State-by-state strategies will be necessary to plan around states with primaries that are open, closed or some kind of hybrid in between.
Such a re-registration drive has to begin immediately before state Democratic parties can implement rule changes and new deadlines that would obstruct or prevent re-entry of #DemExiteers into the Democratic party.
Because of the size of this effort and the necessity to contact individual voters directly to get them to take action, it will take an army of volunteers to overcome inertia and reach this goal. The good news is that today, in 2023, there are almost twice as many registered independent voters in America as there are registered Democrats. The other good news is there are millions of Republicans who are liking what they see in Robert Kennedy.
This mass re-registration is possible, but it will take a LOT of work. This effort will also coincide with NEW voter registration efforts.
OMFO #3 — The Corporate, Legacy, Painstream Media
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.” — Gandhi
If you’ve been following the lack of attention and the negative attention being offered by the MSM regarding Kennedy’s candidacy, you’re probably “aware” that Robert Kennedy Jr. is a loony, right-wing nutjob, Putin-loving, conspiracy theorist, disinformation-dozen, anti-vaxxer whose family even thinks he’s wrong about everything, who is not even a Democrat but a Bannon plant, who is nothing like his father or uncle, and that everyone who likes him has a garage full of sharpies, post-it notes, push-pins and red yarn, more or less.
If you’ve been following the MSM regarding Kennedy’s candidacy, you’re probably not aware that he’s a successful environmental attorney who has won lawsuits against hundreds of corporations for water pollution and spawned a network of over 300 “waterkeeper” organizations world-wide. You’re probably not aware that Robert has authored several books, many articles and given hundreds of interviews related to his environmental work, vaccine safety advocacy and even some work related to election reform to gain verifiable election results. You might not even be aware of the most basic fact of Robert F. Kennedy’s candidacy which is, of course, that he is the best candidate for President this country has seen in sixty years.
Even a cursory review of the available… I can’t bring myself to call it journalism… “hit pieces” seems charitable, but I’ll go with that, reveals that there is some over-arching force that is driving all of the press coverage to the negative side as surely as the presence of a hungry cat next to an aquarium drives the fish against the opposite wall.
A primary strategy is to aggressively pursue legal actions against coverage that is libelous, slanderous or fraudulent and attempt to set expectations so writers of hit-pieces know there’s only so far they can go before they and their employers face serious consequences.
Secondarily, we need to encourage and promote independent and international media to fill the void for fair and accurate reporting left by the corporate media’s refusal to fulfill the function of the 4th estate. Only about 20% of the American public generally trusts corporate media anyway, so the industry is teetering on the edge of irrelevance and may be close enough to Grover Norquist’s criterion of being “small enough to drown in a bathtub” that some kind of coup de grâce may be possible in the near term.
Such a service to the world might be nudged along by “breaking the 4th wall” of journalism by deploying an army of volunteer journalists to call out the erstwhile invisible reporters who write the hit pieces and make those reporters the subject of additional reportage, exposing their unethical practices. The medium is the message and the meta-message is that the media are as corrupt as hell.
Finally, we need to help train the last 20% of media consumers to look to sources other than the accustomed corporate media for news, analysis, commentary and priority-setting so that enough voters of all ages are finally weaned away from a corporate media industry that is virtually all propaganda. The public has nothing to lose but the chains that limit their behavior to what’s in the best interests of the corporate sponsors and mega-donors.
OMFO #4 — The Military Industrial (yada-yada-yada) Complex
All of the institutions and mechanisms described in John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” are still in place, stronger than ever and 100% dedicated to the task of making sure the United States military remains committed to the objectives dictated to it by the financial interests that most benefit from U.S. military operations— namely, the IMF, the World Bank and other related American and international interests. Their dedication since at least the Pentagon’s post-mortem analysis of how they lost the Vietnam War, almost certainly include domestic propaganda and covert operations programs to ensure that politicians in positions to impact military priorities and objectives, military funding and/or public perceptions of international conflicts are either already sympathetic to the MIC’s agenda, malleable enough to be so persuaded or are replaced in the next election.
The MIC is committed to a complete victory of Ukraine over Russia over the four provinces of the Donbass as well as Crimea. Such victory may not be possible because just as the U.S. is using Ukraine to drain Russia, it is possible that another interest such as China, perhaps, is using Russia to drain the United States.
Be that as it may, our candidate Robert Kennedy Jr is committed to a negotiated peace between Ukraine and Russia, recognizing NATO-related provocations on the West’s part and conceivably/potentially allowing national boundaries to shift to include Donbass in the Russian Federation if the citizens of the Donbass, in fair elections, so choose.
To the extent that the MIC controls or influences, directly or indirectly, the corporate media, they will require said media to push both the absolute necessity of total victory in Ukraine as well as the absolute necessity of Kennedy’s defeat using whatever skeletons, lies and disinformation they need to and/or feel they can get away with.
The primary strategy for defeating the MIC during the campaign cycle will be to lean into international press, independent media (both foreign and domestic) to tell the public the truth about the nature of the conflict in Ukraine and the necessity of seeking a negotiated peace instead of absolute victory.
A secondary strategy is to lobby, petition and, in some cases, discredit journalists who succumb to MIC influence and become tools of war propaganda using independent media, social media, legal proceedings (slander, libel, fraud) where possible and appropriate.
A third strategy is to encourage whistleblowers within the MIC and corporate media to go public with their stories or leak critical information, allow the public, international and independent media to demonstrate and or prove corruption within the MIC to the American public, voters, journalists and decision-makers.
OMFO #5 — Big Pharma (COVID, Vaccine)
Because of Kennedy’s courageous truth-telling about vaccines and COVID, the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex, big as it is, is understandably if disproportionately, terrified of the implications of a Robert Kennedy Jr. Presidency regarding their profitability, future liability and maybe even their ongoing viability as for-profit corporations. Kennedy in the oval office is, as far as they’re concerned, an existential threat.
Thus, the PIC can be expected to fight as if under mortal threat. The have incredible resources they can bring to bear on any challenge that could potentially impact their profitability. Many of these corporations also have histories that stretch back to German origins and even ties to Third Reich businesses.
If our research re: the negative impacts of COVID and other vaccines and the lives lost as a result is correct, it is obvious that these companies have little to no regard for human life and, even if lives lost to unsafe medicines are considered accidental in one case, the ongoing pattern of repeated and repeating mass-deaths argues that safety consistently takes a back seat to profitability and the resulting mass deaths might as well be considered intentional murders from an ethical point of view.
It would be unwise, therefore, to consider any crime as being beyond the PIC.
It is probably a good strategy to encourage a third-party to undertake exposing and prosecuting criminal acts of the PIC so that the industry is put on the defensive generally and has fewer resources to devote to offensive efforts. Journalists and attorneys would have the best skills to handle this OMFO.
As with OMFO #7 (below) the contributions of whistleblower insiders could help create the necessary disincentives that could avert PIC violence.
OMFO #6 —Rigged Elections
Many of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s current followers may be surprised that his past advocacy has not only included fighting against water pollution and unsafe ingredients in vaccines, but also for election reform in the wake of the very dubious and likely stolen 2004 Presidental election in which John Kerry lost to George W. Bush (Bush 43). In a Rolling Stone article entitled “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?”2, Kennedy analyzed vote-counting irregularities in Ohio (which state’s electoral college votes turned out to be decisive in the 2004 election, much as Florida’s electoral college votes were decisive in the 2000 election).
This OMFO is more that another obstacle to be overcome to achieve victory in this campaign, however. The article, which is now only available on archive.org because it, like RFK Jr’s earlier Rolling Stone article “Deadly Immunity”, has largely been scrubbed from the internet, is, in my opinion, our best litmus test as to whether there is any truth to the supposition many make as to Kennedy’s candidacy being just another “sheep-dog” campaign instead of a sincere and authentic campaign to win the Presidency.
The article is an artifact that shows Kennedy has deep awareness of the mechanisms by which elections have been stolen and probably still are, owing to the fact that no significant reforms were made or consequences meted out to the parties responsible for the voting irregularities exposed in the 2004 election.
The existence of mechanisms that can be used to steal elections— e-voting, hackable vote counting systems, etc. can impact both primary and general elections. In the past, according to exit polls, the official counts have tended, overwhelmingly, to favor establishment candidates. In the primary elections, establishment Democrats seemed to have a wind at their backs. In the general elections, the Republican seems to almost always be favored.
If Kennedy acknowledges the existence of these mechanism, at least to campaign staff, but preferably to volunteers and supporters as well, and is willing to commit campaign resources to detecting and documenting election irregularies, if they occur, in both the 2024 primary and general elections, then I would personally feel that his candidacy is a sincere effort to run for and attain the office of President. If such acknowledgement and commitment of resources are not forthcoming then not so much.
In any case, it is probably already too late to re-vamp e-voting systems in the worst states, but it should be possible to conduct rigorous polling, state-by-state, in the lead-up to the 2024 primary elections. Independent exit polls could be organized. Teams of lawyers to demand re-counts where appropriate could be fielded. International press could write articles about America’s insanely unverifiable elections. International election observers could attend and observe U.S. elections. At the very least, we can put the election-riggers on notice and let them know that “The whole world is watching”
OMFO #7 — The CIA and Related Elements of the Deep State
This is the big one, isn’t it? Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who believe the official revisions of history are doubly doomed. Thanks to the work of many independent researchers and authors we now have books like James Douglass’s “JFK and the Unspeakable” and Lisa Pease’s “A Lie Too Big to Fail” and we can know, if we’re willing to take the time to read them, beyond a reasonable doubt that the CIA and/or other elements of the deep state orchestrated the murders of both JFK and RFK Sr.
Moreover, we can be reasonably sure that the reason JFK was killed had a lot to do with his diplomatic and peace-centered approach to U.S. relations with Russia and Cuba as well as his plans for a complete withdrawal of all U.S. advisors and troops from Vietnam in 1965, after his re-election which was pre-empted by the assassination in Dallas.
No one was ever held accountable for the murder of JFK and the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about and which John Perkins further documented in his book “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” appears to still be fully in control of coups, regime changes and economic neocolonialism all over the world.
In short, the MIC system is still what it was only more sophisticated now and today, in 2023, we have another Kennedy preaching peaceful coexistence and cessation of hostilities in Ukraine in a political ecosystem where peace is anathema and peace’s emissaries are routinely branded as Putin-loving appeasers worse than Neville Chamberlain.
It’s clear from Kennedy’s numerous intellectual achievements that he’s no fool. The only remaining possibility is that he’s the bravest man in the world, in my opinion. It’s generally unspoken, but it’s hard for anyone who was alive in the 60’s not to hear that a Kennedy is running for President and almost immediately wonder how they’ll get him this time.
Suffice it to say that it would be imprudent not to take the most stringent security precautions, things being as they are.
Aside from the kinds of precautions ChatGPT could probably rattle off in five minutes, the campaign should consider extensive use of celebrity campaign surrogates with the proviso that any campaign rally may or may not feature the actual candidate himself depending on up-to-the-minute chatter-monitoring and randomized selections of venues.
Nonetheless, the MIC is sophisticated and if they want to get to somebody they probably will. In the 60’s it was snipers and pistols. In the 1999-2002 era, it was plane crashes. Now, it could be anything from fentanyl to microwave canons to miniature drone strikes. Under such circumstances the best defense would be a good offense— namely an information-based insurance policy. Independent information brokers might set up a Wikileaks-inspired cyber-dropbox for whistleblowers to deposit crypto-files into escrow— information that, if released, would burn the careers of high-level deep-state officials so badly that, if they were informed that would be the cost of another Kennedy dying under suspicious circumstances, it would tip the scales of their cost-benefit calculus into a more live-and-let-live frame of mind.
What to do with the escrowed information after the election would be open to discussion.
Conclusion
The #Kennedy24 campaign is not merely another presidential campaign. It is a constellation of movements.
It is an independent media movement.
It is a medical truth and reform movement.
It is a peace movement.
It’s an election systems and practices reform movement.
It’s a movement to wipe the stain of large donor influence away from the DNC.
It is a movement to expose the dirty tricks of America’s covert foreign policies and to hold our intelligence agencies to much, much higher ethical standards.
It is a mega-scale social work systems intervention.
It’s not a project that fits within the scope of one presidential candidate’s campaign plan. It’s not even a project that can be managed in any centralized way because centralization would create inherent vulnerability and offer targets too easily compromised or destroyed by the “usual suspects”. This constellation of movements must needs be decentralized with grass-roots leaders rotating in and out of prominence quickly, with thousands of small leaders with more or less the same internalized vision of how the constellation of movements must proceed in a concerted but unpredictable way.
Above all, however, It’s not impossible. It is inevitable. Remember Nemik’s words:
This campaign, this constellation of reform movements, this revolution is the best chance we’ve had to truly change the system in decades. Don’t miss out. You’ll want to be able to tell your children and grandchildren what your role was in this revolution.
See you on the barricades.
ChatGPT’s Concept of a U.S. Presidential Campaign: Blah, blah, blah
Winning a U.S. presidential election is a complex and challenging task that requires careful planning, a solid campaign strategy, and broad support from the electorate. While I can provide you with a general outline of the process, it's important to note that winning an election is never guaranteed, as it depends on numerous factors such as political climate, candidate popularity, and specific campaign circumstances. Here are some key steps that candidates typically follow:
Building a Strong Team: Assemble a competent and experienced campaign team that includes strategists, communications experts, policy advisors, and grassroots organizers. A strong team will help you develop a comprehensive campaign plan.
Define Your Platform: Clearly articulate your vision, policy positions, and goals for the country. Develop a platform that resonates with a wide range of voters, addressing their concerns and aspirations.
Fundraising: Establish a robust fundraising operation to finance your campaign. Reach out to potential donors, organize fundraising events, and leverage digital platforms for online donations.
Primary Elections: If you are running as a member of a political party, participate in the primary elections to secure your party's nomination. Focus on winning support from party delegates, engaging in debates, and organizing campaign events in key primary states.
General Election Campaign: Once you secure your party's nomination, shift your focus to the general election. Craft a compelling message that appeals to a broad spectrum of voters and resonates with their needs and values.
Voter Targeting and Outreach: Identify key demographics, swing states, and battleground regions that are crucial for winning the electoral college. Devote resources to targeted advertising, door-to-door canvassing, and grassroots organizing efforts.
Debates and Media Engagement: Participate in debates with your opponents to showcase your policy expertise and articulate your vision effectively. Maximize media exposure through interviews, press conferences, and social media engagement.
Ground Game: Mobilize volunteers and supporters to engage in voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and door-to-door canvassing. A strong ground game can significantly influence election outcomes.
Digital Campaigning: Leverage the power of social media, online advertising, and digital platforms to reach a broader audience, engage with voters, and disseminate your message effectively.
Coalition Building: Seek endorsements and support from influential individuals, organizations, and interest groups to expand your reach and appeal to a diverse range of voters.
Stay Resilient and Adapt: Politics can be unpredictable, so be prepared to adapt your campaign strategy based on changing circumstances. Stay resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks.
Remember, winning an election requires not only a strong campaign but also the ability to connect with voters, build trust, and effectively communicate your ideas. It's crucial to remain informed about current political issues, stay engaged with constituents, and be responsive to their concerns throughout the campaign.
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Youtube: Monty Python and the Holy Grail — Killer Bunny accessed 3 June 2023.
Rolling Stone, June 15, 2006, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Excellent analysis, Mr Bishop! As usual, I might add. Keep it coming.
great article. what do you think of the idea that he withdraw from the Democratic party? https://sffreeman.medium.com/to-rfk-jr-do-not-yet-withdraw-from-the-democratic-party-nominating-process-25754c6431f7