Who knew? RFK Jr. will be campaigning in Jackson Hole a few days from now.
Why hasn't local media informed us? Should I pony up $3,300 to attend the event?
This morning I woke up to a text from an old friend informing me that RFK Jr. will be attending a campaign event in Jackson Hole on February 8th. Today is February 5th. I’m grateful that somebody let me know, am considering attending, and am pondering why this is the first I’ve heard about it.
You’d think that the algorithms would have notified me weeks ago: surely our all-seeing digital overlords are well aware that I love happy hours and RFK Jr. Perhaps the algorithms decided that it would be better to leave me — and folks like me — in the dark.
Almost a year ago I donated to RFK Jr.’s campaign and signed up to receive notifications. Those come in the form of text messages from a wide variety of phone numbers. I assume unique sources are used in an attempt to avoid censorship. Sadly, most of those welcome messages have ended up buried in my overflowing spam folder where no notification of their arrival pops up. Are we spotting a trend yet?
Not surprisingly, the mere mention of RFK Jr.’s upcoming event has not found its way into our shameful local media: a quick search of buckrail.com reveals that they have never — not once— made mention of the man. A search of jhnewsandguide.com reveals their last documented mention of “Robert Kennedy”, “Robert F. Kennedy”, or “RFK” was this short AP news brief reprint almost ten months ago on April 6th of 2023:
Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country’s most famous political families, is running for president.Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. The 69-year-old’s campaign to challenge incumbent President Biden for the Democratic nomination is a long shot.
Kennedy, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy, was once a bestselling author and environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water.
But more than 15 years ago, he became fixated on a belief that vaccines are not safe. He emerged as one of the leading voices in the anti-vaccine movement, and his work has been described by public health experts and even members of his own family as misleading and dangerous.
His effort intensified following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and development of the COVID-19 vaccine. His anti-vaccine charity, Children’s Health Defense, prospered during the pandemic, with revenues more than doubling in 2020 to $6.8 million.
Kennedy released a book in 2021, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” in which he accused the U.S.’s top infectious disease doctor of assisting in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy” and promoted unproven COVID-19 treatments such as Ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites, and the anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine.
A news brief filled with disinformative slander and smear — ten months ago — is all they’ve had to say about RFK. Well, actually, that is not entirely true. A while back they published a ridiculous AP reprint accusing RFK of antisemitism, but that story seems to have been scrubbed from their archives. Perhaps my pointed Letter to the Editor at that time had its desired effect, but their slanderous propaganda had already made its way into print.
It is sad to see that the local media in Wyoming’s wealthiest, most left-leaning, and environmentalist-lip-service-spewing county has chosen to simply ignore the most progressive, environmentally-responsible, and important political campaign in recent American history. They bash Trump every day, praise Biden at every opportunity, and choose to simply ignore the very existence of RFK.
I consider RFK the best possible option — by far — in the upcoming Presidential election. Of course, the American electoral process is rigged, and a recent poll showing RFK leading the pack in favorability among voters doesn’t mean he’ll even be allowed on the ballot in most states.
In my opinion, the broader bureaucracy and societal inertia pretty much guarantee that no major changes will take place until after the American Empire collapses. That said, RFK’s overall message has already — truly — saved many American lives from unsafe, ineffective, irreversible medical interventions. His decades of lawyering in defense of public and environmental health has done a great deal of good as well. His mere existence and dogged persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity and indifference has helped maintain some semblance of national sanity — and hope — amidst the inevitable swirling shit storm that eventually engulfs all civilizations that stray too far from their founding principles and the actual truth.
The good news is that $1500 tickets to attend the event are sold out despite the fact that most people don’t even know that RFK is coming to town. The bad news is that $3300 tickets are still available, and I am tempted to buy one. Realistically, I need a reliable truck more than I need a photo of myself standing beside a truly great American. I did recently get approved for a new credit card offering no interest until July of 2025, so it is actually doable. Surely the money would be going to a great cause.
What do you think?