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NEW POST - RFK Jr. Is Replicating Bernie Sanders’ Sheepdog Play for MAGA I have come to suspect that RFK Jr. is playing a role similar to that of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election. Bernie served as a “sheepdog,” using working class populism and “dissident” credentials to herd voters largely disillusioned with the establishment party candidates to vote for one, with the belief being that his endorsement of Clinton would somehow “push her left.” Now, RFK Jr. is using working class populist rhetoric and his Covid dissident credentials to herd voters disillusioned by Trump and Biden-era Covid policies into the Trump fold. UH is now releasing short blog posts on a separate part of the site, in addition to our traditional focus - long form investigative articles. https://newsletter.unlimitedhangout.com/rfk-jr-is-replicating-bernie-sanders-sheepdog-play-for-maga/ UH members will get early access before the shorter posts become publicly available. Please consider supporting UH, you will not only be supporting my work but those of other UH contributors like Iain Davis, Mark Goodwin, Max Jones and Stavroula Pabst. https://unlimitedhangout.com/join

Or he is just trying to start with the biggest problem in the world first-perpetual war. Conceding in a losing battle is not an express indication of cowardice or corruption. In this case it is clearly pragmatic, in my view. And trying to beat down every political motion as a strong hand of a political play for profit demeans the objectivity I thought I'd been hearing from you, Mrs. Webb. Trying to implicate RFK in this post seems more profit and attention motivated than RFK's concession with Trump. I'm sure you know more on the subject than I do but I very much doubt RFK's intent is profit as much as I doubt that Trump knew the implications of his company while in office.

I'm not convinced. Sanders is pure politician. He offered nothing but more politics. RFK is primarily an activist in the environmental and pharmaceutical spheres, and what better way to raise one's profile and to be heard than to run for the presidency. It became clear that RFK wasn't going to be "selected", so he found the next best way to retain his profile and possibly even some influence in the matters that concern him most - pharma, agrochemical and regulatory corruption. To be sure, the corruption is on both sides of the unaparty, but who can make anything positive of a group so deeply mired as the Dems?

That’s indeed the outcome but I’m not convinced that it was pre-planned (if that’s what you’re suggesting) either for Bernie or #RFKjr . Bernie got robbed with the primaries and RFKjr got cancelled by the mockingbird media and the lawsuits. I’m not excusing RFKjr to have dropped out. He could and should have stayed in the race. My take is that #Trump staged assassination attempt was aimed to be used to talk RFKjr into dropping out hence I think RFKjr got played out. He think they will let him clean up the federal agencies if Trump is elected but I bet that very quickly a scandal will put on his back and he will have to step aside of any position of power. #USPolitics #2024Elections nostr:note1pea52re7zacgej4fx64l7r828wv48c936r8tc9jy9pkxduwv7lwsaywvmz

I would love to see more dirt on RFK Jr, I just haven’t seen much to compare him to Bernie sanders, I wonder if RFK Jr is just trying to squeeze himself in a powerful position with the hope he can maybe persuade trump to focus on fixing the corrupt policies that allow the pharmaceutical industries and food industries to poison us, but you’re right it seems like RFK jr is making trumps campaign effortless and trumps words haven’t really aligned with his actions so much, either way these guys are fighting for puppeteer positions in the grand scheme of things and it is likely trump won’t ever admit he f’d up with operation warp speed.