Well-sourced reports today state that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent campaign for the White House has settled on 39-year-old attorney, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Early indications are that Shanahan could be a formidable pick who would enhance RFK Jr.’s already dramatic impact on the coming election.
(RFK Jr.’s rumored pick as a running mate, Nicole Shanahan)
It is time to start taking Kennedy’s impact on the coming election seriously, and the selection of Shanahan is looking like a solid move. Corporate media is ignoring RFK altogether, with late-night talk show hosts (always a sound barometer of what mainstream media wants the public to believe) endlessly singing the “two-man race” refrain of Trump vs Biden. Meanwhile, Kennedy is consistently polling above 20% in respected polls - which would make him the most formidable third party candidate in over a century, on a par with Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party Run in 1912 which split the GOP and handed the White House to Woodrow Wilson. Neither George Wallace in 1968/1972, nor Ross Perot in 1992 ended up with the potential impact of Kennedy, which seems likely only to grow as Trump’s slow implosion rolls on. The inevitable question arises - who will he damage more, Trump or Biden? And is there even a remote chance of a national upheaval in the next eight months which might position him for a historic upset?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The “Anti-Vaxx” Conspiracy Theorist Tag - True or False?
As one who has threaded his way through enough elite propaganda distortions to have earned this epithet myself, I am able to recognize a well-organized, cherry-picking smear campaign by vested interests when I see one.
Kennedy has successfully gone up against corporate interests as an environmental activist attorney for decades, and his success has been due to tenacious and detailed casework based on carefully documented evidence - that is why he is feared by the moneyed interests. He has consistently addressed the anti-vaxx label in reasonable, evidence-based statements in which he supports genuine vaccines in their appropriate place, while condemning the liability-free, massively harmful carte blanche enjoyed by Big Pharma (in alliance with the corporate media platforms which are controlled by the same interests) to foist obscenely profitable and largely unnecessary, if not outright harmful, vaccines on the American people.
His book on the Covid pandemic (“The Real Anthony Fauci”) is a bestseller, again revealing solidly documented facts about Anthony Fauci and the unfolding of CV and the vaccine mandates which you will never hear about on corporate media, much less late-night comedy. As documented vaccine injuries skyrocket worldwide while death-from-all-causes and cancer frequency are raising alarm in the actuarial tables of life insurance companies, Kennedy’s support is positioned to grow as the elite agenda is exposed.
So Why Does the Kennedy Clan Disown Him?
The Kennedys in their heyday were a formidable blend of idealism and political cunning. JFK won the White House in 1960 with the crucial help of the Democratic Machine in Chicago, with 1st Ward Syndicate ties helping tip Illinois’ electoral votes into the Kennedy column to secure the Presidency. When Robert F. Kennedy Sr, then aggresively went after Mob interests as Attorney General, evidence indicates that organized crime elements conspired (yes, conspired - Congress in 1974 concluded that JFK was killed by a conspiracy, not a lone gunman) with rogue CIA and elite banking interests (threatened by JFK’s plans to rein in both Langley and the Federal Reserve) to carry out the events of November 22, 1963.
(President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962)
There was, of course, no way that those same interests would let RFK Sr. anywhere near the White House in 1968.
Thereafter, the Kennedy family legacy was carried through for decades by liberal lion, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, as other members of the family became thoroughly embedded in the DNC elite, guarding the magic of the family name.
RFK Jr. is now openly invoking the magic of that name, and it is frightening to the family interest.
The Kennedy Clan is now thoroughly identified with the Democratic establishment, to whom any revelation of the elite corruption behind Big Pharma, the pandemic, and the vaccine injuries is absolute anathema. To even hint that there might be substance behind this evidence is to invite defamation and ostracization, and the effective end of one’s political career.
RFK Jr., on the other hand, has never been a politician. He has been a passionate and successful environmental activist attorney, who has likely made more actual difference and improvement in people’s lives that most of his cousins combined.
The pandemic and the vaccines have divided many families, my own among them. To my eyes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be the last Kennedy standing when it comes to the courageous stands taken by his martyred father and uncle in the 1960s.
So Who is Nicole Shanahan?
Shanahan’s up-from-hardship childhood and success as an entrepreneur, added to her cutting-edge resume in Artificial Intelligence issues and fluency in Chinese, give her a potentially broad appeal for someone who is an unapologetic Progressive. On vaccines, she echoes RFK’s own stance - she is not “anti-vaxx” but has questions about Big Pharma’s practices. While a Wall Street Journal article claims she had an affair with Elon Musk while still married, both she and Musk dismiss the story as baseless. And given her feminist record, fertility struggles, and personal history as a #metoo victim, any attacks on her for the Musk rumor would very likely backfire.
Safe prediction from me: she will be mocked on late night TV for meditation, Musk, anti-vaxx stance (without clarification of the facts, of course) and for celebrating a New Age-style “Handfasting Ceremony” with her current partner. This will cost her the Far Right Christian votes which she was not likely to earn anyway. But corporate media is increasingly out-of-step with most Americans on these cultural issues, most of whom will either shrug or dig it.
Bigger News - Corporate Media’s Power is History
Twenty-five years ago CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and the still dominant network news outlets still held considerable sway over the shaping of public opinion in America. Now the splintering of media into a dozen sharply differing “silos” of news and editorial sources has severely reduced that power. A remarkable article from Axios details the revolution in media which has split America into as many as twelve different subsets of news and opinion sources - with major impact on the coming election. Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon can mock RFK and Shanahan till the cows come home - while their support solidifies in the awakening sectors who no longer pay attention to the former propaganda powerhouses.
And Does RFK Jr. Have a Chance?
2024 is shaping up to be a revolutionary year. It is possible that Trump will be in prison soon. It is possible that Biden’s health may suffer a decline, leaving his very weak VP in the spotlight as a huge liability. It is possible that the skyrocketting vaccine injuries and facts behind the Covid Pandemic will break through the corporate blackout to become an unignorable campaign issue. All these factors could potentially alter the landscape drastically enough to bring RFK’s currently long-shot campaign into increased viability for a stunning upset.
But in the meantime, he’s already a potentially decisive factor as potentially the most formidable third-party candidate in a century - even as the two-party system looks ready to suffer a historic implosion.
Bottom line - he can no longer be ignored.
The Sacred Activism Thing - Is There a Spiritual Factor?
RFK Jr. is not nor does he pretend to be a saint, joking about how he has enough skeletons in his closet for a Halloween party. But there’s no news there, no revelations, no headlines. What his life actually attests to is a passionate reverence for the Sacred in Nature, for the fundamentals of American democracy, and an effective record of making a difference for the people while exposing elite corruption. End the forever wars. Bring the troops home. Support non-partisan science (i.e., science that has not been funded by Pig Pharma to enable obscene profit). And restore the values on which the country was founded. He doesn’t just talk it. He’s been doing it all his life.
And he’s just chosen a smart, accomplished, and formidable woman for Vice President. This story is poised for enormous impact.
blessings,
Michael
Great article Michael! I am excited about Nicole.
Thank you. I’ve come to know that divine governance will birth in the USA and although I do not follow the political situation there, my body fully resonated on looking at the photo of Nicole. 💜🕊️🌞