Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., went to a bank of microphones in Phoenix on Friday afternoon to announce the suspension of his presidential campaign and a strategic alliance with Donald Trump. What he said and did at that press avail was quite possibly a whole lot more consequential than anything the Democrats put forth in the four days they spent coronating Kamala Harris as their nominee.

Kennedy hasn’t become a conservative. He’s still very much an outsider figure in American politics, and furthermore, he leans left on most issues — the ones where he and Trump have found common cause are only “conservative” in the sense that they’re issues that the Democrat Party has run so far away from the national mainstream that a liberal like Kennedy can only find an alliance with Republicans. (READ MORE: Anti-Democratic Skullduggery Against West, Stein From the Democratic Party)

Kennedy outlined three such issues in announcing the suspension: Chronic disease and the corruption of public health and food bureaucracies, the war in Ukraine, and political censorship and electoral corruption.

He stressed that it’s a suspension and not a withdrawal. In non-competitive states, whether deep red or deep blue, Kennedy will remain on the ballot. But he’s pulling himself out in about 10 swing state contests and allying with Trump. Based on polling in those states, if Kennedy’s support moves fully to Trump an electoral landslide may be in the offing — between them, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Virginia (if I’ve gotten these correct as the states Kennedy will be dropping out in) control some 110 electoral votes, and if Kennedy’s votes throw over to Trump in those states he could be looking at 329 electoral votes with no further movement in the race.

It turns out, also, that Kennedy’s three issues are good ones to run against Democrats on. While none of the three are as compelling with voters as immigration and the border, inflation and the economy, and crime and public safety, the things Kennedy identified in his speech work to Trump’s advantage.

Kennedy’s Issues Are Popular With Trump Voters

The public doesn’t want to see Russia swallow Ukraine, but we’ve largely established that isn’t a likely outcome of the war. The conflict will certainly come to a close at some point via peace negotiations. Trump has said he would end it, Kennedy has endorsed a negotiated solution, and the public backs a negotiated peace in Ukraine. It may not be a huge driver of votes, but the fact is that Kamala Harris — whose conduct in the immediate runup to the Ukraine War in 2021 was catastrophic; you’ll remember that as Russian tanks massed on the border she went to Munich and stressed the desire to have Ukraine join NATO, which the Russians had repeatedly said was a casus belli — cannot credibly speak to this issue.

The electoral corruption and censorship issue has been a Republican talking point that the legacy corporate media has been shouting down since November 2020. If you expressed the sentiment that the 2020 presidential election was stolen or even that it was irregularly held given the multiple violations of state election laws committed with COVID given as the excuse, you often found yourself “fact-checked” or even de-platformed for your trouble. Trump certainly was, and for his trouble of running for re-election, he’s had Democrat prosecutors concoct cases based on “novel legal theories” to attack him in a fusillade of lawfare both civil and criminal, with some 16 states attempting to remove him from their ballots. (READ MORE: Tim Walz Lied About IVF)

It turns out that Kennedy has run into the same kinds of shenanigans on the part of the Democrat Party, and the two are joined by Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who has been attacked via Democrat lawfare for committing the sin of trying to get on the presidential ballot in various states. In Michigan, the same thing has been done to Cornell West, another left-leaning independent candidate.

The Democrat Party Is at War With Democracy

This is no longer a conspiracy theory trafficked in by rednecks in MAGA hats. It’s an unassailable, clear fact: The Democrat Party is at war with democracy and it’s actively working to rig the electoral process in unprecedented ways. The Democrats even deposed their own nominee, disenfranchising some 14 million of their voters who chose Joe Biden in the primaries, to give Harris their imprimatur. Given that Kennedy was denied Secret Service protection and Trump has been effectively denied it — especially given the hinky circumstances of his miraculous survival in Butler, Pennsylvania last month — you simply can’t deny that the people in charge of the Democrat Party don’t respect the rules of the game.

This leaves chronic disease, an issue that neither political party has done much with in previous election cycles. Here, Kennedy arrives with a not-perfect pedigree, having been tarred as a charlatan for his anti-vaccine stances and other outside-the-mainstream advocacies. That said, there is no denying that the American people are grossly unhealthy. Obesity rates have skyrocketed and now bring ruinous costs in both public health and productivity, they negatively affect military recruitment and our ability to maintain a proper defense, our susceptibility to diseases which used to be nearly unheard of is at unprecedented levels and our national quality of life, based on health issues, is a significant driver of two-thirds of us pegging the country as being on the wrong track. (READ MORE: Planned Parenthood Mobile Clinic Provides Abortions and Vasectomies at DNC)

Almost everybody sees this. It hasn’t entered the public policy conversation because it’s been seen as impossible to make headway on. But like with so many of the false-consensus status quo issues, we’re now in such straits that we have little choice but to put the structure of our national health on the table. What we spend on health care at a time when life expectancies and fertility rates are collapsing is an absurdity, and Kennedy’s voice no longer sounds like such an outlier.

All three of these issues seem to be symptoms of something larger, and Kennedy’s alliance with Trump fundamentally changes the race as a result.

This Presidential Election Is a Referendum on the Deep State

This isn’t a popularity contest between Trump and Harris, though the superficial and corrupt legacy corporate media would like to frame the race that way. Nor is it any longer a particular ideological showdown. At some point, we need to have such a dustup, but from the perspective of the Right, it’s likely better to spend some time better preparing the battlefield and “de-rigging” the rules of the game before that fight.

Instead, it’s something much larger.

What matters now is that this election will be a referendum on the Deep State and the corrupt, hyper-mendacious ruling class in this country which has run up $35 trillion in debt, plunged us into wars not in our interest, shredded our civil society, destroyed American childhood and declared war on reality itself in pursuit of some top-down utopian vision imported here from overseas.

The ruling class gave us the Ukraine War, through a series of moves that made it inevitable. Harris’ stupid touting in Munich of Ukraine as a future NATO member just before the balloon went up was only the final Jenga piece being removed.

The poisoning of our politics and media is a product of a government-media-complex oligopoly everyone has seen coming for the last 15-20 years, and the truth has been its primary victim. The censorship Kennedy decries is simply an inevitable symptom of it.

And the shambles our public health bureaucracies and other government agencies have made of their missions, such that our currency is debased, our life expectancies have collapsed, our educational institutions are all but defunct in serving their core missions, and so on — all at a time when spending on the missions of those agencies has skyrocketed — is solely the fault of the ruling class who control those institutions and, in so many cases, weaponize them against us.

Kamala Harris might have attempted to present herself as an All-American girl from working-class Oakland, but there is utterly no question that she is the tool and beneficiary of that ruling class. Indeed, in every way possible Harris is its avatar — unaccountable, unserious, overrated, shockingly corrupt, and thoroughly divorced from the traditions and standards on which America was built. The fact that Harris’ campaign had to lie to the American people that Taylor Swift or Beyoncé would appear at the United Center Thursday night as a ploy to boost TV ratings for her substance-free acceptance speech was a perfect illustration of who she is and what she represents.

Kennedy’s endorsement makes this very clear: Like Trump or not, he is your only alternative to that ruling class.

We found out in Butler and the revelations thereafter, that Trump no longer has a choice but to destroy and replace it as president. His life can be credibly said to depend on completing that project, because it’s the ruling class, which the Democrats are unquestionably the party of, or it’s Trump. There is now no compromise to be had between the two, and Trump must either drain the swamp or be drained by it.

So whether you like Trump or not, you can either get behind him or you’re with the ruling class. It’s now a binary choice. It may not be the one you want, but it’s what you have. Evaluate your interests and act accordingly.

That’s what Kennedy’s announcement on Friday means. This is a different presidential race than you’ve been sold, and it’s certainly different than what you were presented in Chicago.

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Anita Dunn and other senior members of the Biden campaign made the disastrous decision to put the mentally incompetent Joe Biden in the earliest presidential debate of modern times. The debate revealed Biden’s cognitive decline to such an extent that he was forced to pull out of the race.

Now, Dunn is trying to save face. She claims that the problem wasn’t the fact that Biden was put into the debate — or even that he performed badly. No, she says, the problem was the way the media and leaders of the Democratic Party reacted to his performance. 

In an interview with Politico that was published today, Dunn says that there wasn’t “much movement whatsoever” in the polls following the debate. Voters who had watched the debate, she asserted, “hated Donald Trump” and “very much liked a lot of the second half of the debate for Joe Biden.” The Biden campaign’s strategy of holding an early debate, she said, “absolutely worked” insofar as it reminded people of how much they really don’t like Trump. 

Dunn argued, “What did change [the race] was 24 days of unremitting negative, horrible attacks on Joe Biden.”

In addition to the media, Dunn blames Democratic leaders including Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer for the demise of the Biden campaign. These leaders, she asserted, decided to drive Biden out when “it looked like we were reaching a point where we would fight our way through it.” Had those leaders not decided to go public against Biden, she claimed, the race would have gone on relatively unaffected by Biden’s debate performance. 

Dunn said that she had no doubts about sending Biden out to debate Trump and claimed that she believed it “would help the campaign enormously.” The president, she said, was “fairly well prepared” after his debate prep, and she saw nothing to suggest that he would perform the way he did in the debate. 

Considering everything we’ve observed about Joe Biden, it’s inconceivable that Dunn could have been unaware of the enormous risk involved in placing Biden on the debate stage. This is the man who, when he called a press conference after the special counsel report described him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” referred to the president of Egypt as “the president of Mexico.” Biden routinely slurs through his speech, trails off suddenly, and forgets what things are called. His debate performance was an absolute disaster of confused and jumbled speech, but it was hardly unforeseeable. Before the debate, I wrote, “The debate will put Biden’s diminished mental alacrity on full display…. [T]he debate could very well reveal the extent to which Biden has fallen, forcing him to end his campaign.”

Anita Dunn messed up big time in an entirely foreseeable way — and she’s blaming everyone but herself. 

Of course, if Anita Dunn had any degree of patriotism, she would have spoken up long ago about Biden’s cognitive decline and unfitness for office.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, earned the title of “most liberal” senator in 2019 from GovTrack. According to 270toWin.com, she’s also polling behind Trump nationally and in all swing states. Plans to change America’s diet may have contributed to those numbers.

2020 Presidential Race

In 2019, during a CNN climate change town hall before Harris dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, she was asked “[i]f elected, will you be supporting a change in [USDA] dietary guidelines, and then how will you plan on implementing the changes so that people effectively change their diets?” (READ MORE: Kamala’s Anti-Semitism Problem)

Her answer? “We have a problem in America… The answer is yes.”

In her response to the question, she advocated for ensuring that the American public is “educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment. We have to do a much better job at that, and the government has to do a much better job at that.”

Later during the town hall, Harris was also asked by CNN’s Erin Burnett about changing dietary guidelines and the food pyramid to specifically reduce red meat consumption, to which Kamala responded “Yes, I would.”

Although ordinary Americans don’t typically follow the USDA dietary guidelines, new guidelines would affect many federal-based food assistance programs, military menus, and school lunches. Health professionals often rely on the recommendations put out by the USDA as well.

2024 Presidential Race

The topic, particularly on red meat, has resurfaced since Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency. (READ MORE: Kamala Almost Slid Into the White House by Disguise)

John Grenci, an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention, told The American Spectator that restrictions on red meat consumption “would be like prohibition. There’d be an uproar in the streets.” He also expressed doubt that restrictions would come to fruition. “It could never happen,” he said. Nevertheless, this is yet another example of a politician’s needless attempts to interfere in everyday life.

Supporters of Harris have also pointed out that Harris is not in favor of explicitly banning red meat, but rather in favor of using government-created “incentives” to reduce red meat consumption. These viewpoints are shared with other leaders such as Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Elizabeth Warren who also support eliminating factory farming by 2040.

Harris has not responded to the debate surrounding her diet-inducing policies, nor rescinded her stance on the issue. 

READ MORE: Left-Wing Media Outlets Rewrite Kamala’s Role as ‘Border Czar’

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On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed Res. 165, which aims to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule, on a party-line vote of 210-205. 

Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The new rule, issued on April 19, 2024, extends what qualifies as discrimination based on sex to include gender identity. (READ MORE: Title IX Expansion Is Rejected By the States)

The bill will advance to the Democrat-controlled Senate. If it becomes law, it will invalidate the Biden administration’s new rule and prevent future administrations from making any similar rules. The White House has promised that President Biden will veto the bill if it lands on his desk.

Democrats claim that the bill would harm LGBTQ+ students and encourage discrimination. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) called the bill “shortsighted, petty, and cruel.” Republicans championing the bill worry the new Title IX rule will take away hard-won athletic opportunities and endanger women when they are forced to share private spaces with biological men. 

After the bill was passed, its sponsor, Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) declared on X, “It’s a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces & athletics.”

The House just passed my bill to protect girls’ sports by blocking Joe Biden’s radical Title IX rewrite. It’s a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces & athletics. pic.twitter.com/SGyH3ITls4

— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) July 11, 2024

The new rule for Title IX is also being fought by the states. Twenty-six attorneys general are fighting the rule and 14 states have temporary injunctions blocking it. In addition, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Education cannot enforce the rule in schools across the country with students who are members of Young America’s Foundation or are children of members of Moms for Liberty.

The rule is set to go into effect on Aug. 1. 

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Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walters announced in a board meeting on Thursday that public schools will incorporate the Bible into the classroom. The superintendent’s letter to all school districts said that the state would provide teaching materials and that they should comply with the policy immediately.

Walter’s decision to incorporate biblical instruction follows recent actions that encourage religious education in public schools. In early June, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill allowing students to be excused during the school day to receive religious instruction. Additionally, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation in May that would allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. 

Once implemented, the letter from the superintendent states that Oklahoma public schools will be “required to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments.” The Oklahoma attorney general also noted that state law already supported Bibles in the classroom and that teachers can utilize them. 

“In the Oklahoma academic standards under Title 70 on multiple occasions, the Bible is a necessary historical document to teach our kids about the history of this country, to have a complete understanding of Western civilization, to have an understanding of the basis of the legal system,” Walters stated at the board meeting. 

Oklahoma kids will learn that the Bible and the Ten Commandments are foundational for western civilization. The left is upset, but one cannot rewrite history. pic.twitter.com/iZKhv9tKoc

— Superintendent Ryan Walters (@RyanWaltersSupt) June 27, 2024

The Oklahoma Board of Education’s meeting also discussed the recent Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that prohibited state funding for St. Isidore of Seville, a Catholic charter school. Walters called the verdict a “horrendous decision” and stated that the board would fight back to “continue to provide an opportunity for students to send their kids to high-quality schools.” 

Critics are appalled at Walter’s decision, deeming it unconstitutional. “Public schools are not Sunday schools,” Americans United for Separation of Church and State CEO Rachel Laser said. “His latest scheme — to mandate use of the Bible in Oklahoma public schools’ curriculum is a transparent, unconstitutional effort to indoctrinate and religiously coerce public school students.”

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