RFK just announced that he is doubling down on his best route to the Presidency, saying, “I am simply suspending it and not ending it.” He is not out of the race. He is betting on two possibilities. First, a contingent election in which he can deprive the Democrats of the 270 votes they need to win. This can be easily done by winning just 37 Electoral College votes (as I have long argued here on Substack). He almost made the ballots in every state till challenges to his residency arose in New York. But, it was worth the effort because now he does not need to be on all 50. He just needs 37 Electoral College votes to block VP Harris and VP nominee Waltz. He is taking his name off the key battleground state ballots – Pennsylvania, Arizona, Iowa, and more - so that no one can accuse him of being a spoiler. Now, he plays only for the contingent race, not the main race. If he gets 5% national support in the popular vote, it will guarantee him matching funds for the 2028 Presidential race. This strategy also ensures that the “We the People Party” he founded comes to life, thus breaking the two-party system. He is playing to shift America from the 6th Party System to the 7th (if you need background on that, read this and this). By dropping his opposition to Trump, Kennedy allowed Trump to show that he, too, was creating a “Unity Government.” Trump gets Kennedy to do the dirty work of battling big business. Kennedy becomes the Elliott Ness of this era, the prosecutor hunting down corruption.
Both he and Trump believe these strategies will launch Kennedy into the Presidency in 2028. Remember that Trump can’t run again and won’t want to. Therefore, Trump won’t need the money from big business. So, this strategy provides for a hand-off of power from Trump to Kennedy (unless you think JD Vance is in the running, which few do). The bet is simple. Kennedy founds and finances his new party, potentially wins the 37 Electoral College votes needed to block Harris, joins the Trump White House, thus proving he is capable of creating a new party and a unity government that the Democrats refused to join, fights big business, corruption and the “deep state” and then steps into the 2028 race. Talk about a third way.
But there is more. Kennedy got Trump to agree to establish a Presidential Commission that will declassify and release ALL the JFK and RFK senior murder materials. This alone is an extraordinary victory and vindication for Bobby Kennedy, who lost his father and uncle to assassinations. This alone is a win for the American public. Everyone assumes this Presidential Commission will only investigate the JFK, RFK, assassinations and the July 13th attempt on Trump’s life. But, most probably, the mandate will be, or become, much larger and include the ability to track and prosecute ALL assassination attempts by US Government officials of US citizens.
Trump tried to release all the JFK files back in 2017 but claims he was hindered by the bureaucracy, which claimed they “needed more time.” With this announcement Trump is saying more than “you are out of time”. One can easily imagine this means the Presidential Commission will not only ask, “Who shot JFK, RFK, and Trump?” but also “Who else got hit?” and “How many people have been assassinated or character assassinated by US government officials over the years?” Whose stories - old or new - will be opened or re-opened by this announcement?
The announcement shifts the whole debate from Left versus Right to Transparency versus Secrecy. I am betting that most Americans will unlikely say, “I am for more secrecy!”
Let’s, for a moment, consider the possibility that the JFK files are somehow intertwined with the tricky and topical subject of anomalous phenomena (newbies start here). After all, we can’t then ignore the fact that there is new bipartisan legislation on this tricky subject, which Senator Schumer and Senator Rounds are sponsoring. The amendment to this year’s National Defence Appropriations Act (NDAA) is making its way through Congress this autumn and specifically aims to “mandate government records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) carry the presumption of disclosure.” More recently, Judge Napolitano said he asked Trump why he hadn’t released the files before, when he was President. Napolitano says Trump mysteriously said, “Judge, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn’t have released them either.” Trump is hinting at something. Also, Trump’s probable Defence Secretary or informal advisor, Congressman Mike Gallagher, has already expressed a keen interest in this subject. So, it is not impossible to imagine that these two exercises – the Presidential Assassination Commission and the UAP legislation – are intertwined not only in the past but will become intertwined as new revelations are being made today. Many senior whistleblowers seem ready to come forward in the run-up to the election and to vote on the legislation. Thus the Trump/Kennedy announcement opens up several taboo subjects simultaneously. It is an extraordinary example of deeply popular populism. If Harris and Waltz try to object or oppose this revelatory approach, it will merely make them look like the Democrats have something to hide. They can’t un-pique the nation’s curiosity. Even if they win, this issue will not go away. It’s a simple choice: secrecy or transparency.
Mainstream media will not explain any of this. Instead, they are focusing on the Electoral College math. Aaron Blake at The Washington Post called Kennedy’s Electoral College reasoning “bizarre” and said, “It is not a realistic proposal.” But, “What Kennedy is describing is indeed theoretically possible, but I can’t emphasize “theoretically” enough. OK, so theoretically possible is a concession. He cites “Professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law School” who “noted that the third-place finisher must actually win an electoral vote — not just finish in third place in the popular vote.” Muller says, “If there is a 269-269 tie, only Trump and Harris could be considered under the 12th Amendment,” Muller said. “…for Kennedy to be considered, he’d need to win at least one electoral vote. Can Kennedy win a single Electoral College vote? Or, can he win a single “faithless elector?” Muller asks. He says no. I’d put money that the answer is yes to both. Can Kennedy win 37 Electoral College votes? I’d even put a little money on that. Can he demonstrate national relevance through a higher score on the popular vote than people currently expect? Yes. All this stands him in good stead for 2028. Notice that Blake says, “Here was Kennedy pitching a scenario in which he would somehow be elected President apparently without winning a single electoral vote — or even running a campaign.” Does that sounds kind of familiar? Harris just won the Democratic nomination without a campaign, without participating in a single debate, and without a single official party vote for herself. Notice that mainstream media cut RFK’s speech off when he said this out loud. They only broadcast the speech at all because they thought it was a “throwing in the towel” speech.
Instead, RFK gave a “turn the tables on the government and the media and put them under prosecution” speech. Kennedy has been bringing lawsuits against Federal Government Agencies for systematically censoring his content and for directing media to amplify approved messages and suppress dissent. But, now, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who relishes “random case assignments,” granted Kennedy and His Children’s Defense Fund standing to go to The Supreme Court in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. et al. v. Joseph R. Biden Jr. et al., He wrote, “There is not much dispute that both Kennedy and CHD were specifically targeted by the White House, the Office of Surgeon General, and CISA, and the content of Kennedy and CHD were suppressed. Therefore, Kennedy must now show a substantial risk that in the near future, at least one platform will restrict the speech of Kennedy in response to the actions of one Government Defendant.” Remember that Doughty tried this before, and the Supreme Court struck down this issue in June. NPR wrote this then, “The U.S. Supreme Court handed a major victory for the Biden administration Wednesday, throwing out a lower court ruling that had placed major restrictions on the ability of government officials to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies.” But, that decision was procedural. The Supreme Court said “unfortunately” the plaintiff did not have standing. Well, this time, they do.
Make no mistake. The White House and the media will now be on public trial and on the defense against Trump/Kennedy offense. Remember that the Supreme Court refused to hear the last case Kennedy brought on this subject even though, as The Hill wrote at the time, “a three-person panel determined that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by urging social media companies to take down specific content. They ruled that federal agencies cannot “coerce” social media platforms to remove posts countering the government’s stance. Originally, the White House, FBI, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were found by the panel to have crossed the line into coercion, while the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and State Department did not.” This time, the judge granting standing is a Trump-appointed judge, and the Supreme Court is considered likely to rule in Trump’s favor on almost everything, as long as there is standing, which there now is. If the Supreme Court rules in Kennedy’s favor, then efforts to suppress other subjects will inevitably come under scrutiny as well.
A massive battle over the discovery of key legal documents and communications between the government and the media firms is coming. Most will bet that Kennedy cannot win this fight. But, he won another seemingly unwinnable battle against a corporate behemoth – against Monsanto. He won by revealing the emails between a regulator at the Environmental Protection Agency and Monsanto. It quickly became obvious that Monsanto was telling the regulator what to do, and he was following instructions. This will be repeated in this media case. All those emails and calls will now be in public view. We have a David versus Goliath mythology building in an ever more visible way, just as many Americans declare their independence from the traditional parties.
The fulcrum issue will clearly be healthcare. Kennedy and Trump have positioned this as a fight for children’s lives. The fight will not be hypothetical. It will occur against the backdrop of real events, such as new pandemics, new healthcare requirements, and the strange sudden deaths of those involved in the healthcare story. I am in Australia at the moment where there are serious egg shortages thanks to the Bird Flu. That disease seems to be rolling out worldwide just in time for the election. I’m not saying the bird flu isn’t real. I am saying that we cannot be surprised to see that a possible new pandemic becomes enmeshed in the election. The headlines are already gathering momentum. Rare diseases are leaping into public view. I notice that Anthony Fauci himself is suddenly suffering from a relatively rare communicable disease himself – West Nile Disease thus proving that anybody can get a rare communicable disease.
The headlines warn us that such rare diseases are a fast-growing problem. See: Scientists brace for highly destructive, seemingly ceaseless disease spread by birds: 'Not if, but when'’ The Guardian writes, "a highly pathogenic and contagious strain" of bird flu is likely to reach Australia through its Antarctic territory and Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. The virulent H5N1 Avian flu strain has already killed