BMD Daily: RFK Jr.'s Speech

Hear it in his own words before the media clips, crops, edits, and spins it for you.

The big news yesterday across both corporate and independent media was that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and issued an endorsement of Donald Trump.

When the corporate media is in spin mode—which is most of the time—I find it essential to go to the primary source to develop my own sense of things. Doing so is helpful in honing our bullshit detectors and developing media consciousness. (A balanced media diet is also very helpful).

Kennedy explains here why the choice that he faced was so excruciatingly difficult and how he came to his conclusion. I found it a compelling speech, particularly the last 20 minutes. I humbly suggest it’s worth hearing in his own words, unedited:

If you watched hours of the Democratic or the Republican National Convention, consider for the sake of your media diet’s balance watching the full forty-five minutes of this one RFK Jr. speech as he bows out of the race.

This moment comes right on the heels of a historic Democratic National Convention that upended the race, and this news has spun the race around rapidly once again.

It’s a fascinating time politically, a time that is witnessing a great reorientation of the political parties. As Kennedy mentions in his speech, our modern American political system is rigidly rigged to prevent independent or third parties from viability, and this keeps our system eternally a two-party dance. This in turn forces the parties to constantly evolve and change. It also forces independent movements, like RFK’s, to find expression somehow in one of the two giant parties.

Kennedy actually appeared at a Trump rally later on yesterday evening, where he appeared (a bit incongruously) beside Trump and gave another shorter but also powerful speech.