Ben Bartee
\nArmageddon Prose<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t want to have to write this article.<\/p>\n
The older I get, the truer the adage \u201cif you live long enough, your heroes always disappoint you\u201d becomes.<\/p>\n
RFK Jr., to be clear, was never a hero of mine \u2014 I don\u2019t have many of those and very few are politicians \u2014 but he was a rare one whom I respected.<\/p>\n
Talking to a friend of mine a few months back, when RFK Jr. was still running as a Democrat, about the value of his dissident candidacy, he broached the topic of RFK Jr.\u2019s peculiar statements of unconditional political support for Israel, as if he were running for Prime Minister of a Middle Eastern ethnostate rather than the United States of America. What was always most peculiar about his sycophantic position on Israel was its stark juxtaposition against his otherwise non-interventionist foreign policy.<\/p>\n
My answer at the time was to shrug my shoulders: \u201cIt\u2019s not a dealbreaker to me.\u201d To me, his stance on draining the administrative state of its pernicious influences was much more important. We had bigger fish to fry, in my view, so I was willing to overlook his bizarre devotion to Israel.<\/p>\n
But recent events have shone a brighter light on the unsettling extent to which RFK Jr. is willing to compromise his professed core values for the sake of the Israeli political project.<\/p>\n
Some un-American censorious hack billionaire hedge fund manager called Bill Ackman recently wrote an open letter to the president of Harvard<\/a> demanding censorship of speech on campus because it hurt his fee-fees and his little menopausal pussy was all itchy for some speech suppression relief:<\/p>\n \u201cI am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions and inactions on the health and safety of its student body in order to help catalyze necessary change. For the past four weeks since the horrors of October 7th, I have been in dialogue with members of the corporation board, other alumni, as well as students and faculty sharing and comparing our concerns about the growing number of antisemitic incidents on campus, as we wait for you and the University to act. Four weeks after the barbaric terrorist acts of October 7th, I have lost confidence that you and the University will do what is required\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Slack message boards are replete with antisemitic statements, memes, and images<\/strong>. On-campus protesters on the Widener Library steps and elsewhere shout \u201cIntifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!\u201d as they knowingly call for violent insurrection and use eliminationist language seeking the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, let\u2019s be very clear: this petty tyrant is not complaining merely about physical assaults or threats of violence against Jewish students, which is already clearly illegal. Rather, his demand \u2014 with the threat being that no more of his filthy banker money will be funneled to Harvard if it\u2019s not met \u2014 is that speech on applications like Slack policed by Harvard administrators under the guise of fighting \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n You can read the whole screed if you like. It\u2019s full of vague references to \u201cantisemitic\u201d \u201chate speech\u201d and similar bullshit, amorphous terms like that with the widest possible interpretation so as to maximize the justification for silencing speech.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s time to hold college administrations responsible for the epidemic of campus antisemitism by insisting on zero-tolerance policies.,\u201d RFK Jr. wrote in reply, endorsing the banker\u2019s call to censorship.<\/p>\n \u201cZero tolerance policies\u201d for unapproved speech \u2014 the RFK position on speech.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1721363419406770533?t=i7OBnW3_TRNHX-WDDj9DxA&s=03<\/a><\/p>\n Related<\/strong>: The U.S. Government Censorship Regime Accelerates Under Guise of Rising \u2018Islamophobia,\u2019 \u2018Antisemitism\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n This is really sick stuff \u2014 rank un-American trash of intolerable scale.<\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s ironic that RFK Jr. is so willing to go to bat against free speech on behalf of the state of Israel to quash \u201cantisemitism\u201d given that he himself has been the target of cynical weaponized accusations of the same<\/a> by Social Justice™ retards based on the concurrent appearance of the numbers 14 and 88 in a Tweet.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve tolerated a lot of questionable stances from RFK Jr., and have until now been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But this is a bridge too far.<\/p>\n In a painful internal about-face as I grapple with human cognitive dissonance, I am forced to concede that the criticism of RFK Jr. as a trojan horse appears to have been right all along. He has outed himself as nothing less than a total enemy of the sacred right to free expression and, as a result, my political enemy. I wish him nothing but failure and, moving forward, I will do nothing to promote his candidacy, no matter how satisfying the consternation that he causes the duopoly might be.<\/p>\n He simply cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n Fucking Judas, this guy.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.\u201d The disappointment is almost beyond explication.<\/p>\n In what is surely totally unrelated news, via Newsweek<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has clarified the nature of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, after it was revealed that the presidential hopeful had flown on the convicted sex offender’s private jet.<\/em><\/p>\n The independent 2024 presidential candidate was among a number of high-profile people who in 2021 were named as passengers on Epstein’s jet, which was often used to transport guests to the financier’s private Caribbean island, Little Saint James.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Given that Jeffrey Epstein is credibly suspected of having been a CIA and\/or Mossad agent running an industrial-level blackmail operation, the question has to be asked: what do they have on RFK Jr.?<\/p>\n ___ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All of a Sudden RFK Jr. Is Totally on Board With Censorship \u2014 And Admits He Flew on Epstein\u2019s \u2018Lolita Express\u2019 Ben Bartee Armageddon Prose I didn\u2019t want to have to write this article. The older I get, the truer … Continue reading
\n-H.L. Mencken<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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