https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-paper-of-record-fronts-for-the-deep-state_5316261.htmlBy Jeffrey A. Tucker
June 6, 2023
Poster's notes:
This is an article about more than the NYT. Here's what Mr. Tucker has to say about RFKjr:Excerpts:There was hardly time in the day but I simply could not pull myself away from the discussion between Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., yesterday on Twitter Spaces. I was there mid-afternoon with nearly 70 thousand others listening to a live conversation on every topic from foreign policy to economics to civil liberties to guns. It was engaging and super intelligent, which is rather the last thing one expected in politics.
It began with a surprising turn. RFK congratulated Elon for emancipating Twitter from government control and wondered what gave rise to his love for free speech. Elon was taken aback and took a while to realize that he was the one being interviewed! It was a nice and patrician-like turn because it established that RFK would not use this platform for the usual purposes but rather speak as a real but highly intelligent and warm human being with a passion for public affairs.
When the questions finally turned on RFK, he handled them with both mastery over topics he knew well and humility over that which he did not know well. He fears no questions at all, so each time he gave a memorable answer that shattered all the usual suppositions and categories.
On the issue of pharmaceuticals, he really knows his stuff, which is to say that he knows where all the bodies are buried. On vaccines, he said that he doesn’t want to make it a campaign issue but if someone asks him about the topic, he will certainly answer any question at all. But then he expects his answer not to be censored, as happened last month on television.
Even on guns, he had an intriguing answer. He has doubts that the Second Amendment was really intended to protect all individual ownership but he said that he accepts the Supreme Court opinion that it does. He further pointed out that any attempt to restrict or regulate much less confiscate firearms today would only contribute to the feeling that government is attacking the whole of the Bill of Rights.
This was a deeply honest answer that makes sense of his old position but gives some feeling of comfort to those who worry that he would govern like a typical gun grabber. But here is where it became really interesting. He pointed out that the United States has far more school shootings than any other country. He wants to know the role of psychotropic drugs in all this. He would start an immediate investigation concerning what drugs these kids had been prescribed and sound the alarm.
See what I mean? He has this way of cutting through all the ideological nonsense and speaking directly to what we might call common sense! Even on issues of monetary and fiscal policy he was fascinating. It’s not really his area but he pointed out that his uncle John F. Kennedy was working toward reigning in the Federal Reserve with a silver-based rule. I think I know something about this topic but that was news to me. I will research more later.
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