{"id":166683,"date":"2023-05-08T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=166683"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:48:10","slug":"rfk-jr-bashes-u-s-government-for-its-lying-leaders-and-institutional-mendacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=166683","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>RFK, Jr. Bashes U.S. Government for Its Lying Leaders and Institutional Mendacity<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#x2615;&#xfe0f; TRANSPORTATION \u2619 Monday, May 8, 2023<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->Jeff Childers<br \/>\nCoffee &amp; Covid<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f525; Robert Kennedy, Jr.\u2019s presidential run sure has some interesting features. Kennedy \u2014 a long-time, reliable liberal on nearly every issue except vaccines \u2014 is still getting plenty of eyeballs despite being told he will never debate Joe Biden in the democrat primaries. And he\u2019s saying some pretty remarkable anti-big-government stuff that I\u2019m guessing most democrats have not heard too often before:<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"1194\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/2f4dda90-e125-4081-9936-1b9f73424da4?j=eyJ1IjoieXo5c2gifQ.0wBBnz9K7CQ7Gf1XTnIMMJBcQtTDmY-R2Np8UPUk_qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_2388,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F357eeb90-f5cf-4c9c-80e6-cf114b6f3cfc_1194x648.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"298.4924623115578\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kennedy is on some kind of a roll. Yesterday, the New York Post ran a startling story headlined, \u201cRobert Kennedy Jr. Blames CIA for JFK Assassination, Fueling Controversial Claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"1456\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/2ff937d7-38b6-46e4-b60a-8fefa142fa55?j=eyJ1IjoieXo5c2gifQ.0wBBnz9K7CQ7Gf1XTnIMMJBcQtTDmY-R2Np8UPUk_qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_2912,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5944c123-2d58-497a-887f-a6edf4d60392_1678x928.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"304.08653846153845\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>During an interview yesterday with John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM\u2019s \u201cCats Roundtable,\u201d Kennedy explained, \u201cThere is overwhelming evidence that the CIA was involved in his murder. I think it\u2019s beyond a reasonable doubt at this point.\u201d He repeated, \u201cThe evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder, and in the cover-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Kennedy isn\u2019t the only one who believes that the CIA was involved in the JFK assassination. Nor has the democrat party been a stranger to big-government skepticism; after all, democrats came up with all the slogans like \u201cquestion authority,\u201d \u201cloyal opposition,\u201d and \u201cdissent is patriotism.\u201d But since the Obama administration, when the federal government exploded with new permanent employee hires at a breakneck pace, democrats have seemed just fine with trusting the deep state to support their policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>RFK\u2019s suggestion that the government can\u2019t, in fact, be trusted to tell the truth is a radical, narrative-smashing notion to ordinary democrats. And his head-on assault against the deep state is either deeply heroic or insanely reckless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x2615;&#xfe0f; TRANSPORTATION \u2619 Monday, May 8, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}