Some Background. Kennedy.
As his website Make America Healthy Again states:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s career of public service began in 1985 as an attorney for the environmental nonprofit RiverKeeper. He eventually became one of the most influential environmentalists in the United States, receiving TIME Magazine's "Hero of the Planet” and the Sartisky Peace Award.
Son of assassinated former Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy as well as nephew of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, he broke with the Democratic Party in the 2010s as it left its historic working-class roots and increasingly supported Establishment values of war as well as American political and military coercion of other countries.
Moreover, he “has spent nearly 40 years fighting corrupt corporations and government agencies.” Success in suing dozens of municipalities to force compliance with the Clean Water Act, he went on to win cases against corporate giants, including General Electric for toxic runoff and obtaining a court order against ExxonMobil mandating it clean up tens of millions of gallons of spilled oil in Brooklyn, NY.
This did not endear him to the Democrats and the Establishment media.
Worse, he wrote and published The Real Anthony Fauci [Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2021). The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. Skyhorse.] Despite censorship, boycotts from bookstores and libraries, and hit pieces against the author, the book sold over one million copies.
The Barnes & Noble overview states, in part, This is not just another political book. The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets—both conservative and liberal leaning, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
Now. Legacy Establishment media, such as the Washington Post, witless politicians, particularly in the United States Senate, charged with deciding his appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Big Pharma, and Big Med are all out to get him.
Why? Change! Change in Washington is not good. It is tied to throwing out the rascals and replacing them with competent, knowledgeable and effective people. And Kennedy is obviously one of them.
On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, the Washington Post printed that Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) was wrestling with his conscience as a politician and as a medical doctor to vote for or against Kennedy’s appointment. Devoting nearly a full page to a mindless hatchet job on the candidate, the paper noted that Cassidy spent much time interrogating Kennedy and chastising him for “his years of undermining confidence in vaccines.” (Something which Phony Tony Fauci did all by himself.) The Senator claimed that Kennedy’s position could result in another person’s dying from “vaccine-preventable disease.”
Not only do Republicans question Kennedy’s bona fides, but Democrats do also. “[…T]he top Democrat on the committee, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, condemned Kennedy’s potential confirmation as a “grave threat to the health of the American people”.
“Mr. Kennedy has given us no reason to believe he’ll be anything other than a rubber stamp for plans to gut Medicaid and rip healthcare away from the American people, and be a yes man if ordered by [Elon Musk] or [Donald Trump] to take an illegal action,” Wyden said…
Senator Wyden needs to take a firm grasp on reality. Unlike nearly all industrialized countries (and many which are not), the United States does not have universal health care. It has a pay as you go system that limits medical care to those who can finance it. And medical advances outside America are unknown within it. (Cf. Fior+Gentz Neuroswings, high tech ankle-foot-orthoses for people who have difficulty walking.)
Kennedy has publicly announced that he is opposed to Big Pharma. As his website notes, The pharmaceutical mega corporations are by far the most heavily fined and criminally prosecuted companies in America, yet also some of the most powerful. His nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, has long been a key crusader against the corruption of this industry and its influence in government.
Yet, normally reliable publications, such as Wired (a magazine devoted to technology and its effects on society), viciously attack Kennedy. He is described as “An environmental lawyer with no medical or public health training…” and as someone “spreading vaccine misinformation, and embracing conspiracy theories…” Additionally, Wired remarked “…more than 75 Nobel Laureates signed a letter urging the Senate to oppose Kennedy's nomination, saying he would “put the public’s health in jeopardy...”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sounds like a man we need in high office. It would be a change from the usual dolts and timeservers.
Some Background. Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard is Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, succeeding the Jew Avril Haines, whose loyalty to the U.S. was always in doubt. (The Director of National Intelligence serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community [sic—better said, Services], overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security.”)
According to former Congressman Tulsi Gabbard’s website:
We will stand up for what’s right and speak out against corruption and injustices. We will serve and protect people in their time of need. We will support victims of natural disasters. We will honor heroes and selfless community leaders. We will research important issues that affect everyday Americans and educate the public so that individuals may make informed decisions on matters of interest to themselves and their families. We will work to uphold the US Constitution to protect the American people’s rights and freedoms enshrined therein. We will combat efforts to infringe on the wellbeing of others.
Such comments do not sit well with the Establishment and its media lapdogs. Mrs. Gabbard, currently a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, spent time with the military in Iraq, and Kuwait. She also became a Congressman, representing Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District as a Democrat. In the past, she was severely critical of Democrat Icon Barack Obama’s foreign policy. She also traveled to Syria, meeting with government officials there. (Something which the U.S. Department of State refused to do, even though that is one of the organization’s purposes.) Furthermore, she dared to say in a 2019 interview with MSNBC, "Assad is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States."
N.B. I visited in Syria in the late 1980s when Bashar’s father, Hafez Assad ruled the country. It was clear to me then that Syria was not and could not be a danger to the United States.
Now. Tulsi Gabbard is under attack.
The Washington Post, ever the mouthpiece of the U.S. “government” and its “intelligence” services, reported on January 31, 2025 “…Senators repeatedly pressured Gabbard to label Edward Snowden a ’traitor’ for exposing sensitive U.S. surveillance programs more than a decade ago….Instead, she credited him with exposing ‘egregious illegal and unconstitutional programs that are happening within our government…” Particularly offensive to the Solons was her refusal to label Snowden a traitor.
NBC News, on February 1, 2025, commented that “even Republican senators openly question[ed] whether she should be put in such a critical role…”
Worse, for all the Merchants of Death dependent on Uncle Sam’s largesse, U.S. News & World Report wrote on January 28, 2025: “She has repeatedly blasted U.S. support for Ukraine, saying Ukraine’s desire to join NATO has put global security in jeopardy by antagonizing Russia. She has also labeled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as corrupt.”
Not being an “intelligence insider”, as Amaryllis Kennedy was (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s daughter-in-law), may well be an advantage. (Amaryllis, formerly a CIA official, had been severely critical of the Agency in a Tucker Carlson broadcast. Spook pressure nixed her proposed appointment as Deputy Director.)
An outsider, not beholden to any grouping or outlook, sounds like a benefit. If Donald Trump wants to overhaul the security services and cleanse the Deep State, an outsider sounds like an advantage. You’re part of the solution, not the problem.
Additionally, the AP wrote on November 13, 2024, that “Citing her military experience, she argued that U.S. wars in the Middle East had destabilized the region, made the U.S. less safe and cost thousands of American lives. She blamed her own party for not opposing the wars. During one primary debate, she criticized then-Sen. Kamala Harris’ record as a prosecutor.” Harris, thunderstruck, then dropped out of the race for president.
COMMENT. What do we want? More of the same? Or, for once, a choice, not an echo, as Barry Goldwater one said. Kennedy is an insider with an intimate knowledge of a profoundly corrupt and dangerous American medical system. Gabbard is an outsider with absolutely no ties to a dysfunctional, unworkable intelligence system that has been heavily politicized and responsible for a series of disastrous wars in South and West Asia as well as North Africa.
It's time for a change.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.