RFK Jr. the Libertarian – The MAGA Democrat / 'No Labels' for the Incurious / Not a Leftist
RFK Jr. is an opponent of Palestine, supports Israel unconditionally and loves Netanyahu. Mort Stein of the Zionist Organization of America is his advisor.
He claims that U.S. money given to the Palestinian Authority is used as bounties for any dead Israeli citizen.
Chris Hedges calls RFK Jr. "the Israel lobby's useful idiot."
He has described himself as a “radical free-marketer.”
He wants to make Bitcoin a backer of U.S. currency. (He owns $100K of Bitcoin.)
He’s against vaccines & masks to deal with CoVid re debunked claims about autism. He opposes a broad array of vaccines, including measles.
He’s being supported by rightist commentators like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones.
He’s backed by Silicon Valley types like Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk.
He’s being funded by Republican mega-donors like Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Timothy Mellon & others.
He now cannot confirm the thesis of global warming. His pose on environmentalism used to be like Al Gore's - the market will take care of it. He’s a former environmentalist no matter how much romanticism he indulges in about animals.
He thinks the climate crisis is being pushed so as to increase totalitarianism.
He supports increased U.S. military pressure on Iran.
He claims Biden gave Iran $2 billion dollars for 'genocide.' Of what people you might guess.
He opposes a wealth tax even though he calls himself a ‘populist.’
He opposes single payer / Medicare For All as ‘impractical.’
He called Elon Musk an ‘American hero.’
He's joined in the propaganda against migrants, calling them 'invaders.'
He endorsed a national ban on abortion, then reversed himself.
He thinks mass school shootings are caused by Prozac and video games.
He frequently compares vaccines to ‘the Holocaust.’
He thinks CoVid sufferers had it worse than 'the Holocaust.'
He thinks initial AIDs deaths were caused by 'poppers' sold in gay bars.
He thinks man-made chemicals can make children gay or transgender.
He believes WiFi causes cancer.
He thinks CoVid was engineered not to infect Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish people and only target African Americans and European-Americans. This is another anti-Chinese 'lab leak' line.
He thinks industrial agriculture is a Chinese plot.
His own family members can’t stand him. They’ve call him an embarrassment, sickening and destructive. But he still trades on his last name.
Republicans like Roger Stone are floating a ‘Trump-Kennedy’ ticket.
40% of his donors are Republicans.
A Republican MAGA super PAC, “Heal the Divide,” is donating to RFK Jr. It is connected to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos and Herschel Walker.
He’s the famous, 'wellness'-version of No-Labels bourgeois centrist Joe Manchin.
Ron DeSantis just floated appointing RFK Jr. to head the FDA or CDC if he's elected. He took it back a day later, but you can see where this is headed.
His 'anti-war' and 'peace' credibility is based on opposition to the Ukrainian war like a number of isolationist and authoritarian MAGA Republicans. He supports war-making against China, Iran and the Palestinians. He's a peace fraud like so many 'peaceniks' who actually support war.
Popular libertarian Joe Rogan and left-libertarian Jimmy Dore are promoters.
RFK Jr. “I’ve always been aligned with libertarians on most issues.”
He announces he's running as an independent, something commentators like Greg Gutfield of Fox News suggested would be a good idea.
He claims Trump asked him to be his V.P. but he declined. (4/15/2024)
Information collected from various news sites – Counterpunch, The Guardian, Alternet, AP, NYT, Jimmy Dore, etc.
Prior blog reviews on this subject, use blog search box, upper left, to investigate our 16 year archive, using these terms: “red-brown,” “libertarian,” “MAGA,” “Trump.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin
He is (was) Putin's crony, an oligarch, a capitalist and a vicious military leader who sells (sold) soldiers to the Russian state for profit. However, he also has (had) an inside view on the Russian military and political system. This is relevant because of a number of small 'peace' groups in the U.S. that do not oppose the Russian invasion. By silence they support it. Some even openly support it.
Prigozhin, from interviews and Telegram:
“The invasion was nothing more than a massive land grab by the Russian oligarchy designed to enrich the country’s powerful elites while poor Russians served as cannon fodder. Russian claims that a Nazi regime in Ukraine, backed by NATO, was about to attack Russia were lies.” “The war was started by the Russian oligarchy to benefit themselves and gain power.”
“The Ministry of Defense is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there were insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole NATO bloc,” Prigozhin said on his Telegram channel on June 23. “There was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24.” “Ukraine was not planning any kind of attack against Russia.”
Russia’s invasion “was started for a completely different reason.” “What was the war for? The war was needed for Shoigu to receive a hero star. … The oligarchic clan that rules Russia needed the war.” “The mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘It’s OK, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as cannon fodder. They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want.’”
“Shoigu killed thousands of the most combat-ready Russian soldiers in the first days of the war,” Prigozhin said, adding that the invasion began even as Zelensky and Ukraine were eager for peace. The Ukrainian leader “was ready for agreements. All that needed to be done was to get off Mount Olympus and negotiate with him.”*
Fake News? Or ... true.
*Source: Text / translation from James Risen, The Intercept
For supporters of the Russian invasion, has the Russian General staff been competent - as the podcast pack of U.S. geo-political hacks and post-left /alt-left talking heads like Scott Ritter claim - or is it incompetent? Which one of the sacked generals was better? You be the judge. Prigozhin's Wagner Group is working in Africa to gain access to gold, oil, rare metals, uranium, hoping to benefit Russian capitalists, just as the French or U.S. have been doing. It is inter-capitalist competition in Africa under different political guises, more profitable for Wagner and less deadly than Ukraine. Like Smedley Butler, he's a cats' paw for another group of capitalists, but realizes his men were cannon fodder in Ukraine. Each mercenary is a commodity for the Wagner Group, so when your commodities die, you lose money. No wonder Prigozhin was pissed about slaughters like Bakmut!
P.S. - Prigozhin listed as being on plane that crashed with no survivors August 23, 2023. His body was identified by one witness at the morgue. We wondered how long that would take. Prigozhin joins a long line of dead reporters, businessmen and military types who say anything against Putin.
PPS: RFK Jr. met with the head of the Libertarian Party in July 2023, per The Guardian.
Prior blog reviews on this subject, use blog search box, upper left, to investigate our 16 year archive, using these terms: “Ukraine” and “Russia.”
Red Frog
August 1, 2023
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