Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins the show to discuss the assassination of his father, Robert Kennedy Sr., and the impact it has had on his life and legacy. He also talks about his own journey with chronic disease, and why he decided to take on some of the biggest drug companies in the world. He also discusses the recent assassination attempt on his father and how the left is directly responsible for his death, and how they are using his legacy to further their political agenda. This is one of the most important episodes we've done in a very long time, and you won't want to miss it! Triggered is a show that focuses on the intersection of politics, economics, history, and pop culture. It's a place where we discuss current events and discuss how they impact our everyday lives and the world around us. Triggers can be found on all major podcast directories, including Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Pocketcasts. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to bit.ly/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code TRiggered to receive 10% off your first purchase when you place an order of $10 or more! Subscribe to our new monthly, and receive $5 or more when you become a patron! You'll get 10% OFF your first month and receive FREE shipping when you sign up for the Birch Gold and Silver membership when you shop at The Birch Gold Group! FREE PRICING when you enter the program! Use promo code: TRIGgered. That means you'll get 20% off the offer starts next month! and receive 5% off of $50 or more, and get 5% OFF when you buy a 3-piece promo code "Triggered! at $99 or more than $99.99 or $99 gets you get 4 months get 5 VIP & get FREE 3 months and get 4 VIP & 4 VIP membership when they receive 4 VIP access when you get a VIP discount when you use the 4-piece membership gets 4-months VIP & 3-months get 4-AVOIL + 1-place discount when they get my 4-place get my offer? and they also get my FREE 3-place promo code TRAINING PRICOTION AND 2-place that starts in-depth pricing starts starting on the show starts in two weeks and get an ad-only offer starts starting at $49 or $5 PRICED?
00:06:08.000They just change out the garbage ingredients.
00:06:12.000So we're going to discuss health policy, chronic disease, philosophy, his own personal story about why he decided to take on some of the biggest drug companies in the world.
00:06:28.000Obviously, an incredible show of unity.
00:06:32.000I mean, honestly, a year ago, who would have ever had a Kennedy Endorsing, and more importantly, not just endorsing, but working with, a Trump.
00:06:41.000One of the great Democrat family legacies in American politics.
00:06:45.000With, maybe I'll be a little bit biased here, one of the great conservative legacies.
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00:09:07.000And now, guys, before we get to RFK Jr, let's take a look at some of today's top headlines.
00:09:16.000As I said earlier this week, many on the left are purposely fanning the flames to put my father's life in even more danger following yet another assassination attempt.
00:09:28.000Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, the Democrat members of Congress have all repeatedly used terms like a threat to democracy to describe the Trump campaign.
00:09:41.000There's no doubt that this is directly tied, directly tied to the continued political violence we are seeing coming from the left.
00:09:52.000There is no other explanation at this point.
00:09:55.000And this week, the White House press secretary, Corinne Jean-Pierre, was asked about the use of this violent rhetoric.
00:10:03.000And her response, shockingly, She claimed that asking her that question is quote, incredibly dangerous.
00:10:11.000Asking her the question about the language that they're using that calls my father every name in the book and incites some of the lunatics on their side to actually go out there and try to kill him is incredibly dangerous.
00:10:29.000Two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again.
00:10:35.000And you're here at the podium in the White House briefing room calling him a threat.
00:10:39.000How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and the vice president
00:10:45.000and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than threat?
00:10:48.000Peter, if anything from this administration, I actually completely disagree with the premise
00:11:00.000of your question. The question that you're asking.
00:11:03.000It is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you're asking it, because American people are watching.
00:11:11.000And to say that, to say that from an administration who has consistently condemned political violence, from an administration where the president called the former president and was thankful, grateful that he was okay, from an administration who has called out January 6th, called out the attack of Paul Pelosi, called out and said we need to lower the temperature after the Butler incident, And now for you to make that kind of comment in your question, because your question involved a comment and a statement.
00:11:52.000And, you know, that is also incredibly dangerous.
00:12:01.000Because, like clockwork, you know, none other than Hillary herself, Hillary Clinton, showed up on MSDNC and actually encouraged the media to intensify their rhetoric about my father.
00:12:18.000And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
00:12:28.000You know, the late, great journalist Terry Evans, you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity.
00:12:40.000And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object.
00:12:43.000Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump.
00:12:48.000Hillary knows exactly what she's doing, guys.
00:12:58.000Just like her endless lies about Russia collusion, she will use her media lapdogs to lie, to smear, to put a literal target on my father.
00:13:10.000She's never got over her loss in 2016, and she never will.
00:13:15.000So she lashes out with despicable comments like that.
00:13:19.000And folks, just like I've been telling you, it's always those who preach civility and tolerance, the ones that scream about the most, who are the first ones to spew nonstop hate and rage against anyone that challenges their reckless pursuit of power.
00:13:40.000And that's exactly who this would-be assassin Ryan Routh is.
00:13:45.000Because get this, back in 2022, Ralph was interviewed in Kiev, where he talked about how much he was committed to kindness, generosity, and altruism.
00:14:01.000How we all needed to just stand up to hate.
00:14:18.000...represent the civilians that are here fighting.
00:14:21.000It doesn't represent the government, but we are keeping account of all the civilians that are here fighting, that have come from their own countries.
00:14:29.000They've sold everything they've owned.
00:14:31.000They've sold their vehicles, their cars, their motorcycles, everything to come here and support Ukrainians.
00:14:40.000What these kids and adults have done as far as getting here on their own dime and spending their own money to come here and fight with the Ukrainians.
00:15:40.000We cannot let the interest in this war drop off to nothing and leave the Ukrainians stranded and leave me stranded here for the next 10 years.
00:16:50.000While all of these same people lavish praise on Hollywood moguls like P. Diddy, who this week was arrested on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
00:17:04.000We should check out this clip from Jimmy Kimmel wanting to be P. Diddy's vice president.
00:17:09.000These are the people they look up to, folks.
00:17:12.000According to the indictment, Diddy bust, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct, laying out allegations of drug-fueled freak-offs and criminal sexual abuse.
00:17:32.000Back in 2020, Kamala Harris was thanking Diddy for hosting a town hall.
00:17:37.000Quote, Thank you Diddy for hosting this town hall last night.
00:17:40.000There's a lot at stake for our communities right now and it's critical we bring to the forefront how coronavirus, can't make it up, is perpetuating racial inequality and health disparities.
00:17:55.000And now, how will ABC News try and fact jack that one?
00:18:02.000I'm guessing, I'm going to go out on a limb here, folks.
00:18:05.000I'm going to guess they're going to do it by pretending it doesn't even exist.
00:19:10.000But yet, to these people, Trump is the bad guy for wanting to secure our border, lower our costs, educate our kids, stop the wars.
00:19:20.000It really makes you think about just how deep and corrupt the swamp really is.
00:19:26.000And rather than hold any of these far-left Democrat lunatics accountable for their behavior, the media is too busy trying to once again tell everyone, everything's gonna be okay.
00:19:37.000If we just keep voting for the Democrats who put us in this mess in the first place.
00:19:43.000Look at this new peaceful Paul Krugman in the New York Times that's titled, and I quote, We beat inflation.
00:20:34.000Because, guys, the new data this week actually shows that American workers' wages are still losing to the pace of inflation.
00:20:44.000In fact, the data from the Labor Department shows that the past 16 months of real wage growth has not been enough to offset the past four years where prices rose disproportionately quicker than wages.
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00:25:21.000Okay, guys, this is one, again, I'm super excited about.
00:25:25.000Joining me now, lawyer, former presidential candidate, truth teller, brilliant all-around guy, actually.
00:25:33.000And, you know, I'll say this, you know, Bobby Kennedy, you know, a couple of months ago, when we were kind of competing, I wasn't so sure, but in the last few months, I've gotten to know the guy, and he's actually amazing.
00:25:44.000Super excited to have him on the team, part of sort of, let's call him the Avengers, Bobby Kennedy Jr.
00:25:52.000Bobby, thank you so much for being here.
00:27:12.000Yeah, I mean, I've collected specimens my entire life.
00:27:17.000And I have a very, very big collection.
00:27:19.000And my daughter, Kik, gave an interview in 2012, and she talked about something that happened when she was two or three years old, where we were at the beach and, you know, and found a baby.
00:27:32.000And, well, it was really a rotting carcass.
00:27:36.000She couldn't tell what species it was.
00:27:44.000And so now, and she gave that interview in 2012, talking about that experience.
00:27:49.000And now the NIMFS, National Marine Fishery Service, has notified me that they've opened up an investigation at the request for the Center for Biological Diversity.
00:28:07.000The Center for Biological Diversity is an NGO that essentially is a subsidiary of the Democratic Party.
00:28:13.000They're doing advertising almost every day for Kamala Harris.
00:28:16.000Before that, they did it for Joe Biden.
00:28:18.000You can go to their website and see pictures of leading Democrats.
00:28:28.000I'm saying, first of all, the investigation is a joke.
00:28:33.000It's 25 years after the statute of limitations has, even if I did something wrong or, you know, crime, the federal statute of limitations is five years.
00:29:02.000And yeah, it's interesting you talk about these NGOs.
00:29:04.000It feels like all these NGOs are all shills of the Democrat Party.
00:29:08.000There's no conservative NGOs out there.
00:29:10.000I guess it's just a way to hide taxpayer funds from what's really going on through FOIA requests, because they basically money launder it through the NGOs, and all of a sudden it's now private money that they can't figure out what's actually being done.
00:29:32.000I'm particularly interested in talking to you because one of the things that I've discovered about you over the past couple of months of getting to know you is what a devoted, dedicated environmentalist and conservationist you are.
00:29:48.000And I've watched what's happening now to the environmental movement, including many of my closest friends, people that I've traveled all over the world with, people that I've been in litigation with on hundreds of cases, and condemning me initially because I ran against Joe Biden, taking a full-page ad against me.
00:30:11.000But I see something now happening to the environmental movement where We're seeing these enormous whale kills now happening.
00:30:24.000109 whales have died in the last two years on the East Coast.
00:30:30.000Something like this has never happened before.
00:30:33.000And it's all in the vicinities of these new wind farms that are being put up.
00:31:02.000I mean, I go spearfishing off of them up.
00:31:05.000And between Montauk and Block Island, there's a big farm there.
00:31:08.000And I know there's been some whales washed up there.
00:31:10.000The whales coincidentally only wash up In the vicinity of these things, right?
00:31:15.000There's a very clear cause and effect, but it feels like science isn't science anymore.
00:31:20.000Science is, you know, the methodology to virtue signal for whatever it may be, but not actually ever backed by science these days.
00:31:30.000Yeah, and, you know, but it's interesting this split in the environmental movement, because you have 17 environmental groups that have asked NIMS to do an investigation, and NIMS has refused.
00:31:42.000And NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over these whale kills, And the Marine Mammal Protection Act has also refused to do this investigation.
00:31:55.000Not only that, and I want you to understand this, the owners of these wind farms are almost all foreign governments or large, giant, multinational corporations based in other countries.
00:32:57.000North Dakota is the windiest place on earth at sea level.
00:33:01.000Montana, Me or Canada's building, you know, these platforms all over the place and you can make it very cheap for about 11 cents a kilowatt hour.
00:33:13.000The average price of energy in this country is between $0.11 and $0.15 a kilowatt hour.
00:33:18.000So it makes economic sense to build onshore wind.
00:33:21.000The offshore wind is just a boondoggle.
00:33:24.000And nobody would do it except with vast government subsidies.
00:33:28.000So a third of the cost of these wind farms, billions and billions of dollars, is being paid by tax breaks.
00:33:39.000That are given in the Inflation Reduction Act, which is Joe Biden's signature environmental legislation.
00:33:45.000That is the legislation by which he stakes his claim to be on this side of the environmental movement.
00:33:51.000And the Inflation Reduction Act is a giant, giant boondoggle to these kind of projects.
00:34:00.000The foreign companies and foreign governments cannot take advantage of U.S.
00:34:05.000tax breaks, so they go for financing to BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Morgan, Citibank, and Wells Fargo.
00:34:18.000These are all democratically aligned entities.
00:34:22.000That, um, you know, DNC party contributors and huge influence in the DNC.
00:34:29.000And they are the ones who are making money and financing these things and they have a, they essentially have immunity.
00:34:40.000Well, by the way, one of the other things, I mean, two of the points on the wind farm that I noticed, you know, most of the components are made in China.
00:34:45.000They're not made in an environmentally friendly way.
00:34:47.000The eventual disposal given sort of the usable life of them, you know, it's sort of an environmental disaster in and of itself.
00:34:55.000But I notice when you talk about NOAA, NOAA, I think, is the same group that
00:35:00.000wanted to stop all recreational boaters from going over 10 miles per hour inside of the international limits
00:35:10.000because they're worried that boats may hit.
00:36:58.000The local town is angry because they can't do anything about it.
00:37:03.000And they, you know, it's done this tremendous damage to To their economy, so the whole thing is a mess.
00:37:12.000Nymphs even wrote a letter saying that if you talk, you know, I spent my 40 years representing commercial fishermen, the commercial fishermen are telling me universally up and down the East Coast and anywhere where these wind farms are that fish disappear.
00:37:29.000The The gospel was that the fish would actually be attracted to the wind farms.
00:37:36.000And NIMS has, because the wind farms off of New England and the Gulf of Maine are in the spawning habitat for the cod, NIMS has warned about the collapse of the cod fish tree as a direct result of these wind farms.
00:37:56.000In the Gulf, the same regulatory agencies, if an oil rig, if a whale dies within 50 miles of an oil rig, they have to shut down the activities, the survey activities, the seismic activities, the drilling activities, they have to shut it down.
00:38:16.000They've waived that rule for the wind.
00:38:19.000And we're watching up and down the East Coast these massive whale gills Of large whales, of pilot whales, of humpback whales, and right whales.
00:38:34.000Maybe it was the right whale was what I was talking about with the NOAA and the boat speed thing.
00:38:39.000And the New York Times recently said in an article that said that That blame the whale kills on Amazon because Amazon has all these cargo ships.
00:38:50.000And, you know, we've talked to the people on the cargo ships and they've said, you know, we are really careful about the whales.
00:38:56.000Some of them are literally crying because they love the whales.
00:38:59.000And they're saying, you know, we watch the whales are smart.
00:39:03.000They know how to get out of the way of these giant ships.
00:39:08.000And they're being blamed for it because nobody wants to point to offshore wind because it's such a centerpiece for the Inflation Reduction Act and the environmental movement unfortunately has embraced it.
00:39:20.000Now it's only the big environmental groups, the Inside the Beltway, Sierra Club, my old group NRDC, all of these big groups that you would think the people who join those groups in the 60s, 70s and 80s were doing it to save the whales.
00:39:39.000And now everything's about carbon reduction.
00:39:44.000And the amount of whales in the last two years, the NIMF's own data show that they're now allowing about over 100 seismic and survey ships on the East Coast.
00:40:00.000The prediction is 460 takes, okay, of right whales alone.
00:40:09.000All of these whales, the Seywhill, Minke Whale, Well, there's only 358 of them left in the world.
00:40:16.000but the date number predicted by NIMS documents for right whales is over 400.
00:40:24.000Well, there's only 358 of them left in the world.
00:40:27.000There's only 70 breeding females left in the world.
00:40:31.000And then we've extinguished this iconic species.
00:40:35.000And the environmental movement, the large environmental groups inside the Beltway
00:40:41.000are sitting around on the sidelines trying not to talk about this.
00:40:45.000Meanwhile, on the ground, the local environmental groups, there's 17 of them that have been asking since 2018, demanding that NEMS investigate this.
00:40:54.000They investigated me a week after I, you know, we joined the unity party with your dad.
00:41:00.00011 days after that, They just launched an investigation of me.
00:41:06.000And it only took them that short time.
00:41:12.000They investigated 30-year-old specimen collection from a dead whale.
00:41:44.000The other thing that I'm fighting on the Inflation Reduction Act is these giant carbon capture projects.
00:41:50.000And again, the same companies, you know, Goldman and BlackRock are building these pipelines across the Midwest that are tearing up thousands of acres of the prime agricultural land in this country to do something carbon capture that is very dangerous.
00:42:11.000And that dangers and dangerous local communities.
00:42:14.000And that is, of course, developed, you know, it's benefiting the oil companies, it's benefiting the methane companies, it's benefiting big ag.
00:42:24.000And it is destroying the small farmers in this country.
00:42:29.000Woods Hole now has a proposal because they've been given money under the Inflation Reduction Act to dump 100 metric tons of sodium hydrochloride, which is highly acidic, it destroys DNA, into the ocean off Nantucket.
00:42:49.000Environmental movement is gone, but the big environmental groups are supporting this dumping of highly toxic material into the ocean under the pretense that it's going to help climate change somehow, which it is not, and it's going to reduce carbon, which it is not.
00:43:08.000And they're ignoring the protection of habitat, the protection of iconic species, The protection of the marine environment is all just being put on the waste bin.
00:43:22.000And, you know, the environmental movement is walking away from partisan politics.
00:43:29.000Yeah, I mean, listen, I love how, how much detail you get into it.
00:43:33.000I mean, your passion, it shows through, you see that.
00:43:37.000I mean, we then get into like, obviously, you know, the health side of things, what you've taken on major drug companies, you've taken on the major food processing companies.
00:43:46.000I mean, I love this whole notion of, you know, Maha, you know, make America healthy again.
00:43:54.000You know, talk about that and how the drug companies have been able to get away with this nonsense.
00:43:58.000I mean, I think this is so important for so many parents.
00:44:01.000I mean, you know, again, you're right.
00:44:03.000You know, people say, oh, I'm not an environmentalist because I'm a hunter, but I, you know,
00:44:10.000This is the legacy I want to preserve.
00:44:11.000I want my children to be able to do these things.
00:44:13.000You know, I want to protect these things, and so much of it has been bastardized.
00:44:17.000But when I look at the stuff that we feed our children, and I spend time traveling all over the world, and you know, whatever it may be, XYZ cookie here and XYZ cookie in Europe, they're not even the same ingredients.
00:44:29.000They taste basically the same, but they won't even let You feed the poison that we give to our kids each and every day anywhere else in the world.
00:44:39.000You talk about that because it's amazing.
00:44:42.000It's amazing to me that in the United States of America with all these groups and the FDA and HHS and all of these things, you know, that we've been allowed Frankly encouraged to poison our children for decades.
00:44:56.000And honestly, you're one of the few people that has raised it to a level, and I hope my father can do that with you in the next administration, to be able to understand just how bad this all is.
00:45:08.000Can you talk about that and what it means to make America healthy again?
00:45:14.000Because it's not like you're talking about it like a soundbite.
00:45:17.000Like, I'm at the level in talking to you for the last few months, hey, I can hit the soundbites, but like, you understand what's going on to a level that I think's irrefutable.
00:45:25.000And if other people saw that level of detail, I think we could put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
00:45:33.000Yeah, I mean, and the Maha movement is gathering steam with Democrats, Republicans, Independents all over this country.
00:45:41.000And we are, I mean, the baseline is, We're now the sickest country in the world.
00:45:46.000When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease.
00:45:50.000Today, the last time NIH actually did a study, they've now stopped publishing these data.
00:45:59.000The last time they did a study, we were at 54 percent. This was in 2006. 54 percent of kids
00:46:06.000now have chronic disease, and it's probably up to around 60 percent today.
00:47:15.000People, you know, 80 years ago, if you were obese, you were put in the circus.
00:47:20.000And today, 74% of Americans are obese or overweight.
00:47:30.000And then we have these other giant categories of chronic diseases and neurological diseases that I never saw as a kid.
00:47:39.000I had 11 siblings, about 71 cousins, We didn't see ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, sleeping disorders, tics, Tourette syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, autism.
00:47:52.000These were things that we didn't even know about.
00:48:17.000And by the way, like I noticed, you know, I know we've had this conversation before, but if you look at certain communities that don't expose themselves to the garbage and don't expose themselves to, you know, the excessive vaccination, and that doesn't mean that some aren't great, but they, you know, you look at the Amish communities.
00:49:00.000Yeah, I mean, there's a journalist who did a study on Lancaster, Pennsylvania and the Amish community there.
00:49:08.000And it's not a peer-reviewed study, but he did a survey of the health clinics there, of all the health clinics that treat the Amish.
00:49:18.000And they were able to, there should be, if it followed national trends, there should be about 2,200 kids with autism in the Amish communities.
00:49:39.000He went and did a study in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
00:49:44.000And they were able to find only three kids in the Amish community with autism.
00:49:50.000And all three of them were people who were children who had been adopted by the Amish after receiving their vaccines.
00:49:56.000This doesn't mean vaccines is the only Our kids today are swimming around a toxic soup, coming mainly from their foods that operate along the same biological pathways.
00:50:12.000But some of it's coming from pharmaceutical drugs.
00:50:15.000Some of it's coming from, most of it's coming from our food.
00:50:20.000And we're poisoning our kids, as you pointed out.
00:50:22.000But anyway, he was only able to find three and none of them among Amish who were not adopted.
00:50:30.000So that's, you know, it's not again, it's not a peer-reviewed study, but it is something that many, many people have observed in these populations that do not expose themselves to pharmaceutical drugs, to pharmaceutical interventions, and To poison food.
00:52:08.000You get flooding now in the Midwest when there's a couple of inches of rain.
00:52:13.000It seems like the only people saving money are big food, but the American taxpayer then gets stuck with, you know, clinical health issues, excessive flood damage because, again, you've eroded the soils.
00:52:27.000I imagine, you know, the stuff that holds all that stuff together.
00:52:30.000I mean, you know, that seems like a big problem.
00:52:34.000Only the big corporate conglomerates are saving a little bit of money while poisoning our children and sending that expense to someone else, namely the American taxpayer.
00:52:43.000Yeah, and then you also get the dead zone in the Gulf and dead zones all over the world that are directly tied to processed foods and these bad agricultural processes and pesticide and chemical farming.
00:53:01.000And then we pay for it with the healthcare cost, which is now the biggest thing on our budget and the fastest growing thing on our budget.
00:53:07.000As I said, the total cost is about 4.3 trillion a year.
00:53:12.000You have this raft, as I said, of neurological disease, but also an explosion suddenly.
00:53:18.000In the early 80s, autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile diabetes.
00:53:24.000When I was a kid, the average pediatrician We've seen one case of juvenile diabetes in his lifetime, over a 40 or 50 year career.
00:53:33.000Today, one out of every three children who walk through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic.
00:53:40.000And the cost of treating diabetes and other mitochondrial disorders is now larger than our military budget.
00:53:47.000This is like, this is the biggest threat to our country.
00:53:50.000And people are beginning to notice it.
00:53:59.000And now people are finally starting to talk about it and recognize that this is the number one issue.
00:54:06.000If we want to have a resilient nation, if we want to have a prosperous nation, if we want to have a happy nation, we got to begin by fixing the food system and fixing the pharma system and getting the corruption out of USDA, out of NIH, out of CDC and FDA.
00:54:23.000and restoring the health, actually getting to focus on public health rather than the profit aspirations and the mercantile ambitions of the pharmaceutical companies and big ag and the big processed food companies.
00:54:39.000Yeah, I mean, I think without question.
00:54:41.000I mean, obviously that's somewhere I'd love to see you handle that because, you know, you need someone who can break through the corruption, who can break through that noise, who actually understands the facts.
00:54:50.000But in a lot of those positions who also has the platform, I think, which you've done an incredible job of creating, of having Americans now buy into this, actually understand what's going on.
00:55:01.000I think they've been kept in the dark for so long.
00:55:04.000I know you recently posted about, really, the need to spotlight even the dangers of things like seed oils.
00:55:11.000You know, we've discussed sort of the broader state of the farming sector and especially the struggles of small and mid-sized farms.
00:55:17.000I mean, they're getting wiped out so that big agriculture can, you know, do their thing and big agriculture is going to do what big corporate does and, you know, I mean, Thomas Jefferson said that American democracy is rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds owned by family farmers, each with a stake in our system of government, each with a stake in our communities.
00:55:37.000Thomas Jefferson said that American democracy is rooted in tens of thousands
00:55:44.000of independent freeholds owned by family farmers, each with a stake in our system
00:55:48.000of government, each with a stake in our communities. And you know, he was
00:55:53.000contrasting this with the European model, which is essentially a feudal
00:55:59.000model, where the agricultural lands were all owned by large oligarchs.
00:56:05.000And we're moving back toward that system now in our country.
00:56:13.000In the 1990s, I began suing These big industrial hog operations, and this is a model of agriculture that was started in North Carolina.
00:56:29.000It was actually introduced by chicken industry first.
00:56:34.000We had about 2 million, 2.2 million chicken farmers in this country, independent chicken farmers, and there were three men, Bo Pilgrim of Texas, Frank Perdue, and John Tyson.
00:56:45.000Who revolutionized that industry, and they said they figured out a way to take chickens off the farm, raise them in warehouses, put a million birds in a single warehouse, keep them in battery cages, which are these tiny little cages where the chicken literally can't stand up.
00:57:03.000It can't turn around, and they dose them with antibiotic and hormones that cause them to literally lay their guts out over a short, miserable life.
00:57:13.000And so it's bad food, and it's bad for the animals.
00:57:18.000It's a kind of cruelty on an industrial scale that ultimately is gonna infiltrate the morality of our whole nation if we treat sentient beings with this kind of cruelty.
00:57:30.000There has to be a spillover to the morality of our country.
00:57:34.000Those three individuals went out of business virtually all the 2.2 million independent chicken farmers in our country and they made themselves billionaires.
00:57:44.000There was a guy in the early 1980s called Wendell Murphy who was a state legislator from North Carolina and he looked at what those three men had done with chickens and he said, I can do the same thing with hogs.
00:58:00.000He used his position on the Agricultural Committee in North Carolina to pass 28 laws that made it almost impossible to sue an industrial agricultural outfit and to give all kinds of subsidies for that activity.
00:58:17.000He created a building called a Murphy 1100, which can shoehorn 1100 hogs again into these tiny little cages And they never see the light of day.
00:58:28.000They poop through slats in the floor, which manure is collected and discharged, usually into the environment illegally.
00:58:39.000But he had changed the law so nobody could be prosecuted for it.
00:58:44.000And a hog produces 10 times the fecal material by weight as a human being.
00:58:52.000So one of these facilities with 10,000 hogs would produce the same amount of fecal material as a city of 100,000 people.
00:59:02.000And a city of 100,000 people would have to invest a lot in the sewage treatment system.
01:00:09.000Smithfield built a factory, a slaughterhouse in North Carolina that slaughtered 30,000 animals a year and then dropped the price of hogs from 60 cents a pound to two cents a pound.
01:00:22.000And it cost a hog farmer 37 cents a pound to raise that animal to kill weight.
01:00:29.000Wiped out about every single hog farmer in the state except those that either were owned and operated by Smithfield Or that signed a contract to them.
01:00:38.000And those contracts, the farmer is no longer a farmer.
01:00:43.000He's an indentured servant on his own land.
01:00:46.000Smithfield can take that contract away from him at any point and put him out of business.
01:00:53.000And Smithfield now controls the landscape.
01:00:57.000Because they dropped the price of hogs so much, they had all other states like Iowa, big hog producers, Had to adopt the same methodology or die, and they reluctantly did so.
01:01:09.000And today Smithfield owns about 35% of hog production in the country, and then they sold themselves to China.
01:01:21.000It was a colonial model from the outset when the corporations owned it, but now it really is a colonial model.
01:01:27.000You have a foreign country that is hostile in many ways to the United States.
01:01:33.000That is owning our landscapes and our food production.
01:01:37.000And anybody who doesn't see the danger of that is not a sentient person.
01:01:42.000Yeah, I mean, there seems to be good pushback on at least on China and the ag stuff, but we actually have to get something done because like, you know, that that's not just jobs and environment.
01:01:51.000That's that's like national security to me.
01:01:53.000But what are some of the specific examples, you know, so people can understand, you know, just the magnitude of the the differences, you know, between, you know, food that's processed here in the United States and say food in Europe.
01:02:10.000What should mothers or whoever's shopping for the family be looking for, you know, in nutritional facts when they're at the grocery store?
01:02:17.000Because I think, you know, that's one way to start.
01:02:19.000You know, I will say you can vote with your wallet.
01:02:21.000You know, it's not always easy, right?
01:02:23.000Because obviously the people who are doing it right, there's probably going to be a cost associated with that.
01:02:28.000But, you know, I think it's the kind of place that if you have some excess income to spend, you know, that's probably a great place to start.
01:03:03.000I have a carb fest here and like, I feel like crap for two days.
01:03:06.000You know, it literally the same foods, uh, you know, no difference in, you know, quality other than, you know, that, that I can perceive or taste.
01:03:14.000But you know, in Europe, I feel like I can eat stuff that would make me as, especially as I get older.
01:03:19.000And I started noticing these things a little bit more, uh, feel very differently.
01:03:23.000Yeah, I have two kids who've lived in Italy, and one of my sons had eczema from when he was little, you know, and I'm sure I know where that came from, but he had bad eczema, and when he ate any kind of pasta in this country, he would get these terrible, terrible outbreaks, you know, really agonizing.
01:03:47.000And he moved to Italy and he lived off of pasta for a year and a half and he'd never get a case of it.
01:03:53.000And then as soon as he comes back here and he eats the pasta in this country, he gets eczema again.
01:03:59.000And you know, they don't have the glyphosate like we do that is sprayed on the wheat at harvest time.
01:04:07.000And like I said, there's a thousand ingredients that are now used in our country that are banned in Europe.
01:04:15.000The food in this country is just poison.
01:04:17.000And you asked me what I would recommend to people.
01:04:21.000I'm not a doctor or a nutritionist, but somebody told me years ago, a rule of thumb that I've lived with for many years, which is never eat packaged food.
01:04:43.000Almost everything that we eat contains really bad poison.
01:04:48.000High fructose corn syrup, all kinds of dyes, red dye, yellow dye, blue dye, they're all poison.
01:04:55.000Red dye is directly associated with ADHD.
01:05:00.000There are study after study that shows if you take kids off of red dye, the ADHD diminishes significantly and many kids disappears.
01:05:11.000The, you know, and we also know diabetes can be treated with food.
01:05:16.000Diabetes is a treatable condition and you put somebody on an all meat diet and 60% of the diabetes case go away.
01:05:26.000And other, the other diabetes case that don't go away completely are, are diminished dramatically.
01:05:33.000So, um, You know, if you're eating sugar, if you're eating high fructose corn syrup, I'll give you an example about how bad this is.
01:05:47.000We're now, the medical system in this country, which never deals with food.
01:05:53.000Doctors in medical school are discouraged from studying nutrition.
01:05:58.000And the people who are making the food don't study the health effects.
01:06:02.000The people who are studying health effects don't study the food.
01:06:06.000And the, but we now have this dramatic increase in diabetes and the recommendation of the AMA and the CDC is to begin treating children who are eight, nine, 10 years old with Ozempic.
01:06:26.000Ozempic has all kinds of catastrophic side effects.
01:06:48.000Yeah, I mean, the biggest, the most valuable asset today in the United States of America The insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, is a sick child.
01:07:00.000And for hospitals and our whole medical system.
01:07:02.000So they're not treating the cause of the illness, but they're prescribing these pharmaceutical interventions.
01:07:09.000And let me give you just, you know, finish this story.
01:07:13.000Ozempic is owned by the ninth biggest company in the world, Novo Nordisk.
01:07:18.000It's the number one biggest company in Europe.
01:07:21.000If you look at all of its own securities data, they say that 90% of the value of this drug, which is their biggest asset, is from sales in the United States.
01:08:39.000The cost of this bill will be three trillion dollars a year.
01:08:44.000For a tiny, tiny fraction of that, we could buy organic food for every man, woman, and child in this country, and cure them from diabetes, but that's not the solution.
01:08:56.000Yeah, well listen, it's much easier to take a shot once a week, or whatever it is, than it is to actually change your habits, and you know, wow, three trillion dollars with a T. Three trillion, if everybody takes advantage of it, that will be the cause, you know?
01:09:15.000All right, so, you know, clearly there's a lot more money in sickness than in health.
01:09:21.000You know, and money seems to be driving all of these things.
01:09:23.000I mentioned earlier, you know, there's a lot more money in war than in peace, which also seems to be driving a lot of our decision-making process.
01:09:30.000So if we're shifting gears a little bit and we look abroad, you and I this week, Co-authored a piece in The Hill about the Harris-Biden administration being really eager to allow Ukraine to use American and NATO provided long range precision weapons against targets
01:09:55.000You know, what do you want Americans to understand, to intrinsically know about what this means and how close we are to World War III?
01:10:04.000Because, I mean, you know, the saying goes, don't poke the bear, but man, this seems like we're really poking the bear here.
01:10:15.000Yeah, and you know, the problem is we have a national security establishment that is almost childlike, and they're not listening to Russia.
01:10:28.000They're not listening to what Putin, and you know, my uncle, John Kennedy, was able to avoid a nuclear, he was surrounded by people in his intelligence apparatus, in his military, who wanted a war with the Soviet Union.
01:10:42.000And today there are the same people, we call them neocons, Yeah. Whose primary ambition is war with Russia. They want
01:10:50.000to fragment Russia and, you know, and then take over the, you know, Russia's the greatest
01:10:58.000natural resource of any nation in the Ukraine has... Well, they want to own the farmland.
01:11:03.000It's like a Black Rock commercial, right?
01:11:05.000It's like, we'll get rid of them, we'll kill all the peasants, and then we'll go take it over for pennies on the dollar and control the world food supply.
01:11:11.000It's like a James Bond movie, but like, there's no other plausible explanation for it.
01:11:16.000So now we're doing something really insane, which is we are signing off on the use of missiles Long-range and intermediate missiles to hit targets deep inside of Russia.
01:12:35.000It has an electronic warfare capacity that is a generation ahead of ours, and they've demonstrated that in Ukraine.
01:12:45.000And we now have told the Russians, if we ever had a war with the Russians, because we've shown this extraordinary stupidity and recklessness and profligacy of giving the Ukrainians, which is a second-rate, third-rate army, The use of our best weapons, the attack of missiles, etc., the glide missiles, we've begun using those there.
01:13:12.000And the Russians now have de-encrypted all of them.
01:13:18.000The Russians say, it takes us about six weeks to understand before we capture some of these missiles, we dismantle them, we figure out strategies for dealing with them.
01:13:29.000Our national defense was based upon the fact that we could unveil all of these new weapons and for six weeks we have domination of the battlefield.
01:13:38.000We've given that advantage away in Ukraine.
01:13:42.000The Ukraine war, as you know, we've been lied to again and again about that war.
01:13:47.000We've been told, Kamala Harris said it this week, that this is part of Vladimir Putin's ambition to be like Hitler and walk across Europe There is nothing in reality to that comic book supervillain story that they give us.
01:14:39.000Gorbachev did that because he was interested in humanity.
01:14:42.000He wanted to end the Cold War and he sacrificed himself and his career and his reputation in Russia to do that for the world.
01:14:51.000He said the one thing that he wanted, he told John Major of Britain, George Bush in the United States, the one thing I want is assurance from you that you will never move NATO to the east.
01:15:03.000And James Baker, the Secretary of State famously told him at that point, we will not move NATO one inch to the east.
01:15:10.000Well, the neocons then came to power in 1996 during the Clinton administration.
01:15:17.000And they began this process of moving NATO 1,000 miles to the east, 14 nations.
01:15:26.000And you had mentioned before about war making money for people.
01:15:31.000And let me explain to you one of the reasons we did this.
01:15:35.000When a new nation signs up for NATO, If the contract requires it to adopt its weapons purchases to NATO specifications, so they have to conform them to NATO specifications.
01:15:51.000Well, that means, and NATO specifications are virtually all weapons from Raytheon, from General Dynamics, from Boeing, from Lockheed, from the big US weapons manufacturers.
01:16:02.000So every time there's a new country added to NATO, They get a multi-billion dollar trap market.
01:16:08.000And so there's this drive that is financed by those companies that are all owned by BlackRock, which is one of the big, you know, donors of the Democratic Party, to keep moving NATO to the east.
01:16:21.000And they said from the beginning, we're going to move it into Ukraine.
01:17:16.000They're three and a half minutes from the Kremlin.
01:17:21.000We could decapitate the entire Russian leadership in three and a half minutes with no warning.
01:17:27.000And this is dangerous for the whole world.
01:17:29.000It destabilized the world because it puts everybody on a hair trigger.
01:17:33.000And the Russians said, do not do this to us.
01:17:37.000Not only did we do that, but at the same time, we walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons missile treaties with the Russians.
01:17:47.000We had signed an agreement that said, and Reagan did this, we will not put long-range missiles in Europe because we know that destabilizes.
01:17:56.000And by the way, when Russians tried to put long-range missiles in Cuba, when my uncle was president, We were going to go to war.
01:18:05.000Yeah, well, by the way, we gave them every excuse.
01:18:07.000I talk about it on the show all the time.
01:18:08.000They're like, oh, you're being apologist for Putin.
01:18:10.000I'm like, I'm not saying he's a good guy, but like, this has been a longstanding 60 year sort of, that was the buffer zone.
01:18:30.000I mean, yeah, your uncle and obviously, you know, your father.
01:18:33.000I mean, maybe talk about that for a second.
01:18:36.000I know you have a little bit of an out.
01:18:37.000We're running around the whole country doing all of this.
01:18:40.000But, you know, talk about that mission legacy of your father and your uncle.
01:18:44.000I mean, Well, the difference you see today, you know, I mean, they were legends of the Democrat Party, and yet I sort of feel like, you know, if they looked at today's Democrat Party, they'd be ashamed of what's going on.
01:18:57.000I mean, your uncle, your father, they promoted a real sense of pride and accomplishment in America, but Today's Democrat Party would rather apologize for America.
01:19:09.000They would rather bend a knee to despots all over the world.
01:19:14.000And how did it relate, perhaps, to your decision to endorse my father?
01:19:18.000Again, I don't think a lot of people ever had that on their bingo card if you were looking at sort of American history.
01:19:24.000And yet, you know, I mean, the decision is obviously, I think, you know, as clear as day.
01:19:29.000And I think it's resonating with so many people.
01:19:32.000Yeah, I mean, you know, my uncle, Was asked at one point by one of his best friends, Ben Bradley, who was the editor of the Washington Post, what do you want on your gravestone as your epithet?
01:19:44.000And my uncle, without skipping a beat, said he kept the peace.
01:19:58.000His brother-in-law died during World War II.
01:20:03.000And he understood how terrible war was and he didn't want it.
01:20:09.000And he said the primary job of the President of the United States is to keep the country out of war.
01:20:13.000And he was able to not, during his administration, despite tremendous pressure to send US troops into Laos in 61, to send them into Berlin in 62, send them into Cuba in 61 and 63.
01:22:15.000And we're doing things in Europe that are insane.
01:22:18.000My uncle always said, if you want to keep the country out of war, You've got to understand your adversary, and the CIA's portrayal of Khrushchev and the Kremlin as a monolith of warmongers who wanted to take over the world.
01:22:36.000My uncle just said that couldn't be true.
01:22:38.000It has to be like Boston, where they're all at each other's throats, where people have their own agendas.
01:24:36.000And he began exchanging these very personal private letters with Khrushchev.
01:24:42.000And Geordi Bolshoi would fold them into a New York Times and hide them and then pass the New York Times to my dad, who would give them to, or to Pierre Salinger, who would give them to my uncle.
01:24:53.000And it is extraordinary correspondence where they talked about their children and their grandchildren and about how these were kids who, they did not have the right.
01:25:05.000It would be a failure, their failure, if they took away the capacity of children to write poems, to participate in politics themselves, to vote, to play sports.
01:25:17.000And, you know, these kids had nothing to do with international conflicts.
01:25:23.000Rushev and my uncle let them down by starting a nuclear war that would incinerate 130 million Russians and 30 million Americans in the first week.
01:25:38.000Now we're facing the same thing again.
01:25:57.000You know, I look at the similarities, you know, even that, right?
01:25:59.000When my, you know, my father got criticized for, you know, meeting with, you know, Kim Jong Il.
01:26:04.000He meets with Kim Jong Un over in Korea.
01:26:07.000Well, everyone says he's doing it wrong, but I was like, no one else had a conversation with the guy.
01:26:11.000Like, isn't it important to have that communication?
01:26:14.000You know, I guess it was, what was it?
01:26:16.000You know, in Helsinki, he meets with Putin, and he doesn't get up on a world stage and say, this guy's a piece of garbage, he's a piece of crap, the media... Because he's like, you know, maybe it gets me some points with our media that otherwise hates me and whatever, but...
01:26:55.000There's a difference, and again, I talk about it quite often on the shows.
01:26:59.000I say, hey, I guess we're one of the more politically persecuted families in American history other than yourselves, and it seems Really, all for the same reason.
01:27:11.000We're not just gonna do what the military-industrial complex says so some general can get a board seat at Raytheon and, you know, that's his retirement package.
01:27:18.000You know, so the lobbyists continue to get funded while sending, you know, not their kids, but our kids, you know, off to wars that we can't articulate what victory even looks like anymore.
01:27:30.000It's a sad state of affairs that it seems to be history repeating itself.
01:27:33.000And now that there's been two attempts on my father's life in the last two months, man, those similarities really resonate.
01:27:45.000Yeah, I mean, I love what you're saying, and I think that's right.
01:27:51.000It's almost childlike, the way that they're behaving in Washington.
01:27:54.000And, you know, I saw Kamala Harris give this extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention that was just, it was just neocon garbage.
01:28:05.000It was all about, you know, this belligerence of, you know, world domination.
01:28:10.000And then she's proceeded directly on the shows, this inversion that's taken place, this realignment between Democrats and Republicans.
01:28:41.000The Democrat Party, the leader of the Democrat Party is really excited that Dick Cheney, the person that they call the greatest warmonger of the last 30 years, is for her.
01:28:53.000What, what bizarro world are we living in?
01:28:56.000I mean, you know, I said this was the greatest trade in the history of the world.
01:29:46.000You know, Americans for the first time in our history began openly torturing people.
01:29:52.000Something that Washington and Lincoln and all these presidents have warned against.
01:29:57.000We're not, that's not who we are as a country.
01:30:00.000He, he gave us the surveillance state, you know, the allowing unleashing the CIA to spy on the American people with the, With the Patriot Act, he gave us extraordinary renditions.
01:30:13.000And then the Iraq War, which was the biggest foreign policy cataclysm in American history.
01:30:21.000And Dick Cheney and John Bolton, 225 other neocons, endorsed Kamala Harris.
01:30:28.000They're not endorsing Kamala Harris because they've changed.
01:30:31.000They still think the Patriot Act is the right way to go.
01:30:34.000They still think the war in Iraq was a great triumph because we got rid of Saddam Hussein and destroyed this country that was the bulwark against Iran.
01:30:42.000Well, we destabilized the entire Middle East.
01:30:44.000I mean, I'd say there's a pretty credible argument that there are a lot of people in that region Uh, dead because of that.
01:30:50.000Uh, you know, I'm not saying Saddam was a good guy by any means.
01:30:53.000Uh, but, you know, just understanding geopolitics and understanding the way things have transpired there.
01:30:59.000I don't think it's actually worked out for anyone over there.
01:31:01.000I don't know that they're at a better place.
01:31:03.000No, it, it, it, it's not just the Mideast.
01:31:07.000We killed more Iraqis, many more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein.
01:31:30.000We drove 4 million refugees into Europe, destabilized every democracy in Europe.
01:31:36.000We ended up with Brexit as a direct result of the Iraq and Syrian invasions,
01:31:43.000you know, Britain lost the European community.
01:31:47.000And now you're seeing the rise of totalitarianism and censorship all over Europe.
01:31:52.000And it's a direct result of the Iraq war.
01:31:54.000And these guys still think it was a good idea.
01:31:57.000Dick Cheney is still- I didn't even actually think of that, but you're right.
01:32:00.000I mean, the, the, the, I mean, Europe in many, I mean, many people would say that, you know, Europe's basically over because of the crazy influx of mass, you know, mass migration.
01:32:10.000They're unvetted people, unwilling to culturally even adapt a little bit.
01:33:04.000And he was talking about the importance of collective bargaining.
01:33:07.000This is not, you know, there's been a complete aversion.
01:33:10.000And I'll say this, in 2020, about half the country Voted for Donald Trump, about half voted for Joe Biden, but the half that supported Donald Trump represented only 30% of the wealth in this country.
01:33:26.000The half that voted for Joe Biden represented 70% of the wealth.
01:33:31.000The Democratic Party has become the party of the billionaires, the party of the rich, and Donald Trump chased the billionaires out of the Republican Party.
01:33:39.000The Republican Party has now become the party of working class, working poor, Regular Americans, cops, firefighters, there's been a total inversion.
01:33:50.000And you know, it's now the party of environmentalism.
01:33:52.000And the Democratic Party has become the party of this uni, you know, this, this focus, this narrow focus on carbon renewal.
01:34:03.000And as it turns out, it is an issue that immensely benefits The elements of totalitarianism who want to clamp down patrols and the super rich billionaires who want to, like Bill Gates and BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, they want to build these big geoengineering projects that make no economic sense and are absolutely destroying the environment.
01:35:25.000I know we're going to be on the road together.
01:35:27.000Uh, you know, a couple of times and, uh, once we get through November 5th, we'll have to do some fun stuff in the outdoors as well.
01:35:33.000Because whether it was Tucker or me, you know, a bunch of our other sort of mutual friends, they said that you guys together in the outdoors, you'd be like best friends.