I am not sure it is really possible to overstate how important and powerful this content is. James O’Keefe interviews Robert Kennedy Jr. about things that matter.
No preamble, no wrapup, all content. (Please pardon the embed here…this is Rumble, not YouTube, and I haven’t figured out how to embed effectively without all the empty space. Consider just viewing natively on Rumble.)
And for those of us who try to pay close attention to how all the State’s shenanigans originate, manifest, and metastasize into the misanthropic horrors they become, there is so much in here that tracks perfectly with all those moments in which we may inductively sense an obvious and logical conclusion to draw, from readily-available information, but don’t necessarily have the specifics immediately at hand from our own personal experience. RFK Jr., here, reliably “brings the receipts”, in the form of names, stats, history, context–hell, it sounds like he has actually been there for a great number of these watershed events. Which in its way is pretty depressing, since any natural gratification that comes from having our own logic and thinking confirmed, is easily overwhelmed by the reality of just how bad so much of this is.
There are a few clarion-level signs that, history has shown us before, truly indicate that things have moved out of the normal cycle of everyday shenanigans and partisan wrangling, and into a more dangerous space where larger and more disruptive changes are afoot for the whole of society. One of those signs is seeing the “politics makes strange bedfellows” phenomenon running rife among the arguably incorruptible. (The “strange bedfellows” thing of course happens all the time, among people who really aren’t strange bedfellows at all, except to the overly credulous.) And so here we have two characters that have a pretty demonstrable public record of resisting corruption, each driven at a personal level with a distinct moral conviction, who most of us wouldn’t naturally have expected to come together–except that we are living in increasingly “interesting times”. And just listen to what comes out here!
I’ve gotta hand it to RFK Jr., too, with whom I disagree at the most fundamental level about the ideal relationship between the individual and government: this is a respectable dude. If one accepts the inevitability of the state (I don’t, but that’s for another time), then I would say that his is the only sort of personality, of morality, that we should ever accept in any position of power. (A tiny government full of RFK Jr. and Ron Paul personalities, and we–as a society–just might make it.) On the evidence of what I’ve seen and heard from him, he does not get distracted from what is important, he speaks directly and candidly (there are a couple of moments in the above clip where he initially appears to divert and evade, but to his credit–and O’Keefe’s–he does quickly come back and answer the question directly), he understands implicitly that the root problem is usually systemic, and he also understands that it will never change until it is stopped. This is someone who understands what “strike the root” actually means.
And I have to admire his brass ones, too. Given his personal family history, for him to be in this position now, speaking truth to power as plainly as he is, going directly and publicly against a machine which increasingly resembles the second chapter of The GULAG Archipelago, … well, frankly I wish him well. The thought of having to deal with him on matters of mere policy disagreement, would be an almost incomprehensible improvement over the zombie horror-reel we have now (and are promised far more of in the coming years)…
As for O’Keefe, at least arguably the greatest muckraker operating today, he actually does pretty well in the interviewer’s chair, not exactly his usual wheelhouse. His great value here, really, is simply bringing RFK Jr. to an audience that may not know him in the depth this session reveals. This can only be to the good; I had to smile when I saw these two sitting down together to talk things that matter, and I hope that the millions of people who really need to see this, do.
Kevin Wilmeth 