Posted on 08/24/2024 6:24:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump on Friday during a speech in Arizona.
"In an honest system, I believe I would have won the election," Kennedy said. "I am sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots level, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, our media, and our government -- and most of all, for the Democratic Party."
"In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it."
"The DNC deployed 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," Kennedy continued.
"My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing, and how must this look to the rest of the world?"
"Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based on, well, nothing—no policies, no interviews, no debates—only smoke and mirrors and balloons
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Smoke and mirrors and balloons. Should be the Harris - Walz campaign slogan.
Kennedy: “My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.”
“They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.”
“This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when they don’t know whom they are choosing, and how must this look to the rest of the world?”
RFK, Jr. Welcome! There may be a few areas we need to debate but you Sir are a real American who wants the Best for our country. So welcome to the party.
Smoke, mirrors and balloons.
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That has been around for several election processes over the
last 1/2 century or more, imo. Take it further back to when
Columbus sailed in 1492 and look at all the processes, wars,
rules/regs that have occurred and it isn’t imo that hard to see
lots of things that most would like to see changed, jmo. Will
it happen, probably not but life goes on. Make the best of it.
Then seeing what the democrats are doing, he would think, "My God, Nikita was right, the communists have won."
Both parties would ostracize him as a far-right conservative.
He and Trump would get along fine.
The People are to chose whom The Party wants, without knowing them - The New Democrat Party.
It looks a lot like China and Russia.
Yes, I agree.
yup
If the system was honest, we would have honest elections. We would have to time travel to the past to have even approximately honest elections. Right now, government agencies are trying to jail or even assassinate political candidates.
No question.
I hope RFKJ can debate and educate how far the Democrat party has drifted away from perceived original ideas.
Sadly, it looks very familiar.
People hate who they're told to hate, and the media (around the world) tells them hate Donald Trump.
Dems are likely annoyed that this, at least temporarily, sweeps away the “Kamala momentum” headlines.
Yes!
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