Kennedy Ignored

“If America falters in greatness and purpose, then Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.” ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ April 5, 2024 Kennedy Ignored “If America falters in greatness and purpose, then Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.” ― Theodore H. White [Reminder: In case you missed [our announcement]( The Essential Investor has merged with legacy contributors to Agora Financial. The new, larger, more inclusive project is called The Grey Swan Investment Fraternity. If you’re interested in the scope and benefits of our new endeavor, please see what prompted us to merge [here](. If you’ve been a member of The Essential Investor, keep an eye out for your new benefits.] Dear [Reader], April 5, 2024 – “Indeed, Mr. W,” writes our Basil G., “JFK had a target on his back after that AU speech as Dr. Paul pointed out. “Irony of ironies that you would bring this up on April 4th as another person had a target on his back with a speech he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on Apr. 4th, 1967.” Basil refers, of course, to two of three high-profile assassinations in the ’60s. Robert F. Kennedy being the third. Yesterday, we wrote about the spike in gold, monstrous government debt eating up the federal balance sheet… and military spending. Gold has been trending higher all morning and is now at $2,326 and change. It’s one good trading day away from matching 2011’s high of $2,500. What seems to have caught reader’s attention, however, was Ron Paul’s off-hand comments about the assisination of JFK and what he told Tucker Carlson he believed was the coup of November 22, 1963. The preponderance of responses in our inbox were either related to JFK or his nephew Robert F Kennedy, Jr. “What makes anyone believe that Kennedy,” writes Richard R. referring to the Kennedy currently running for president, “could actually reduce the spending or the debt” should he get elected?  “The purse strings are handled by the House of Representatives. Has anyone heard any discussion about balancing the budget or reducing spending? “How exactly can Kennedy go about overcoming the deep state, the big system, the blob, whatever you want to call it and make significant changes to the current cabal in DC? Please let us know his details on exactly how he will make that happen.” If we had the details we would surely share them. If we were to scribble a quick wishlist on the back of a napkin, it would include these items in no particular order: 1. End support for periphery wars. 2. Cut military spending back to, umm, defense. 3. Eliminate Congressional horse trading: pork projects and pet social programs. 4. Open up domestic energy production and research. 5. Limit executive agency mandates and authority.    5a. Add a hiring freeze to the federal administrative state. 6. Limit the number of executive orders the president can issue to one. 7. Remit federal powers to the state, according to, umm, what’s in the Constitution. 8. Institute a flat tax and eliminate all legal loopholes. 9. Enact term limits for all seats in the legislative branch. 10. Restrict lobbying to open sessions. 11. Sequester the Supreme Court and make them read the Constitution out loud every morning. Hmm. Yes. That would be a good start. That’s the crux, though, isn’t it? If Kennedy even spoke about a fraction of these items as a “to do” list, he would sound a lot like the chainsaw wielding Javier Milei in Argentina, indeed. Not that he’d get the chance. In a piece published this morning entitled “The Nine Billion RFK Answers Ignored,” Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn reviewed an interview Kennedy gave to CNN’s Erin Burnett this week. They opened with this: “If CNN spends an hour interviewing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and doesn’t hear his answers, did it happen?” Of course, that’s as much a criticism of the mainstream coverage of the election as it is on the electoral process itself. Below, Bill Bonner delves into the “war chest” compiled and the collusion actively arrayed against Kennedy from the get-go. Of course, if that doesn’t work there’s this: “If RFK jr. starts to sound like Millei,” Richard adds, “‘they’ might resort to a smaller coup like the way they handled his Father and Uncle.” (Our book[Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed]( is now available for pre-order at[Amazon]( and[Barnes & Noble]( CONTINUED BELOW... >>ADVERTISEMENT<< 2024 – The Real Election Year Surprise In 2016, the October Election Surprise was Hillary Clinton’s email scandal… In 2020, the October Election Surprise was the suppression of all the dirty material on Hunter Biden’s “forgotten” laptop… Now, in 2024, we’re forecasting an October Election Surprise that almost no one sees coming — and this time it’ll be way more devastating than anything you’ve seen before. [Click here to learn about 2024’s real October Election Surprise »]( It’s not at all what you think. CONTINUED... Kennedy vs. The Deep State Bill Bonner, Bonner Private Research Were Kennedy to succeed in reducing the reach of the federal government, balancing the budget and bringing the troops home... it would be a remarkable — almost superhuman — achievement. We begin with a few questions: How do you prevent change? How do you squeeze out reformers and block disruptors? The Democrats have created a $100 million war chest to stop Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. They’ve also refused Secret Service protection, perhaps hoping that the problem will take care of itself. But just in case it doesn’t...  Politico: A billboard truck paid for by the DNC has been circling Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign events. Protesters picketed his Vice Presidential announcement rally. The website’s grassroots organizing forum was flooded with fake, provocative event pages. And a job ad from the progressive group MoveOn showed in real-time how progressive organizations are staffing up to confront the independent campaign. The bombardment against Kennedy has grown so intense that the campaign is crying foul.  New York Magazine: Simultaneously, former Biden deputy campaign manager Pete Kavanaugh launched Clear Choice, a super-PAC whose goal is to help liberals coordinate their efforts to minimize third-party candidates’ political influence by the fall. And now, The Daily Beast leads the smackdown: RFK, Jr. Isn’t Just an Anti-Vaxxer, He’s a Gaslighting Fraud This week, CNN’s Erin Burnett pressed Kennedy on Americans’ concerns that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, to which he replied, “I could make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy.” He went on to claim Biden is using the federal government to censor political speech and his opponents...that argument is absurd and patently false. It also appears to be personal. Kennedy apparently still holds a grudge over his Instagram being suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading public health information, after Biden administration officials flagged the material to Meta. Were Kennedy to succeed in reducing the reach of the federal government, balancing the budget and bringing the troops home... it would be a remarkable — almost superhuman — achievement.  The whole country would change... and we would have to change with it. We’d have to abandon our cynicism. We’d have to put on a happy face, from dour to delighted... and change our outlook, from negative to positive. For better or for worse, we doubt we’ll be called upon to make those changes. America’s drift — towards a decrepit, dysfunctional and corrupt empire — is not likely to be stopped by RFK, Jr. or Donald J. Trump. Why? There are too many powerful groups that don’t want it to be stopped. Peace Doesn’t Pay There are two major challenges facing the US, the usual ones — war and inflation. War is what empires do. Military power makes them alpha countries... hegemons... empires. Their garrisons abroad protect their frontiers from ‘terrorists’ and rivals. Back at home, meanwhile, the political system is suborned by the military/industrial/spook complex. Nobody wants to ‘give peace a chance,’ because it doesn’t pay. Gradually, the foreigners may become more resourceful, more innovative, more productive and dynamic, but U.S. firepower can still bomb the Hell out of them. Inflation is the other side of the imperial coin. This was RFK’s insight: excess spending is the root of all fiscal evil. It is what finances the firepower industry and forces government to lower interest rates and ‘print’ more money. The extra money causes inflation, which is a ‘pernicious and insidious’ tax falling most heavily on the poorest among us. Then, to try to ‘fight inflation,’ the Fed raises interest rates, putting small companies out of business and making it almost impossible for young families to buy a house. Far Side of the Moon We never know what will happen. The future is as unknown to us as the far side of the moon...  All we can do is skim through history and look for patterns. And in the pattern book for declining empires, the leading role of war and inflation appears on almost every page.  RFK, Jr. pledges to bring them under control. Tall order. Even if he is sincere... and even if he were elected... it seems very unlikely that he could do it. The entire Establishment is against him — both political parties, Congress, the beltway bureaucracy, the lobbyists, Wall Street, the mainstream media... and the firepower/empire/spook complex. Even if elected, RFK, Jr. would be sidelined. Congress would not balance the budget. The Deep State bureaucracy would quietly stifle his initiatives. The press would rant and rave about his mistakes. The military and spook establishment would stab him in the back, with false flag operations... phony ‘intel’... and fake alarms. Still, it would be interesting to watch. ~~ Bill Bonner So it goes, Addison Wiggin, The Wiggin Sessions P.S. We attended a small invitation-only dinner party last summer in RFK, Jr.’s honor at Elvis’ Graceland museum during Freedom Fest in Memphis last year. During the evening, something unusual and unexpected happened: Kennedy actually made sense. "And, I come back to find the stars misplaced and the smell of a world that has burned,” reader Basil poetically concludes, citing Jimi Hendriz. “As always, thank you!” “After going downhill for sixty years,” Richard R. adds, “it will definitely be most difficult to return our Republic to where it needs to be. Keep up the great articles. 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