This Was the Most Important Part of RFK Jr.'s Convention Speech

This Was the Most Important Part of RFK Jr.'s Convention Speech

Matt Margolis  

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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage Thursday night in Dallas, it was a historic moment: a member of the Kennedy clan addressing a Republican convention. On top of that, the Secretary of Health and Human Services delivered a brutal takedown of the Democrat Party.

Kennedy, 72, said that for 70 years of his life, he would have bet against ever addressing a Republican convention, given his family's decades-long identification with the Democrat Party.

He said a lot in his speech, but the most important part was his unflinching assessment of what his party has become. It's hard to overstate the significance of the son of Robert Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy, standing in front of Republicans and trashing the Democrat Party.

Kennedy reminded the crowd that his uncle ran for the White House in 1960 on a platform of "tax cuts, strong defense, and fighting Communism."

"Does that sound familiar?" Kennedy asked.

It should. Today, that’s the platform of the Republican Party.

The old Democrat Party Kennedy referred to was entirely different from the one currently obsessed with Donald Trump. It previously stood for labor, supported the Bill of Rights, and backed “unbridled free speech.” It opposed both crony capitalism and socialism and preferred competition, meritocracy, and excellence to grievance. Kennedy said it drew a clear distinction between “the endless wars which it opposed and those wars necessary for protecting our national security, which we must never hesitate to defend.” It promoted physical fitness, protected women’s sports, and opposed illegal immigration.

Then came COVID.

According to Kennedy, the Democrat Party "turned against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party." A party that once styled itself the guardian of the Constitution, he said, "systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights" during the pandemic.

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Kennedy highlighted the way in which the Democrats censored Americans who questioned COVID policies, thereby undermining the First Amendment’s protections for free speech. They closed down churches while allowing liquor stores and large retailers to remain open, deeming them "essential," which was an attack on the freedom of worship.

Kennedy brought up how Biden ordered Facebook and Instagram to delete his accounts just 37 hours into Biden's presidency, cutting off public debate before it could start. “I’m not complaining about what happened to me,” he said, “but it was a bad thing for our country." Democrats gutted the right of assembly by means of social-distancing orders, which Kennedy described as “completely unscience-based.” They also undermined the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial by providing pharmaceutical companies with liability shields, a protection so absolute that, in Kennedy's words, "no matter how negligent they were, no matter how reckless, no matter how toxic the ingredients, no matter how grievous your injury, you could not sue them."

Democrats violated the Fifth Amendment by shutting down three million businesses with no due process and no compensation, Kennedy said, and they trampled the Fourth Amendment by forcing Americans to disclose private medical information before they could exercise their constitutional rights. "In a single year, my party obliterated 250 years of constitutional guarantees," Kennedy said. "The only bill of rights that they left unscathed was the Second Amendment, and probably only because there is a Second Amendment."

Kennedy's speech was pretty much an obituary for his party as it once was.

He followed up by pointing out that the only thing holding the modern Democrat Party together is a single unifying obsession: hatred of Trump. Every value his father and uncle stood for got traded in for it. "I ran for president, hoping to summon my party back to its bedrock values, but the Democratic Party had lost faith in American voters," Kennedy said of his own 2023 campaign.

"I mourn the fact that neither my father nor my uncle would recognize the Democratic Party of today," Kennedy said.

The divide in this country, he argued, was never really about left versus right. "It was about sane and insane," Kennedy said. "It was about common sense and Communism."

Brutal. Accurate. Epic.

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One More Try: Trump Proposes Limiting Census to Citizens, Permanent Residents

One More Try: Trump Proposes Limiting Census to Citizens, Permanent Residents

Ward ClarkFollow @TheGreatLander

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This isn't a new issue, but President Trump hasn't given up on it; on Wednesday, the administration proposed, once more, some significant reforms to how the United States census is conducted. The proposal would change the practice to count only American citizens and permanent residents in the census, which would have a significant effect on things like House seat apportionment. 

This has been and will be hotly opposed by the left.

The Trump administration proposed Wednesday changing the national census to include only U.S. citizens and permanent residents, a move that could significantly change how much political representation and federal funding each state receives.

The U.S. Census Bureau submitted the proposal just over a year after President Donald Trump ordered its parent agency to craft a new census that would block immigrants in the U.S. illegally from being counted. The bureau will conduct the next full census in 2030.

There's a good argument to be made for including permanent residents along with citizens, but those are the only people who should be counted, at least for the purposes of apportionment of congressional districts and dissemination of federal funds based on population. These are things, both political representation and treatment by government, that are for Americans; illegal aliens and even people on student visas should not, must not, be included. American citizens and permanent residents, it stands to reason, should be the only ones counted for these purposes.

The proposed rule changes would exclude even more immigrants from the census, ⁠such as those in the U.S. on a temporary lawful basis. The proposed changes would also eliminate parts of the questionnaire that seek information on race or ethnicity, which have been included since the ⁠first census in 1790.

The proposal is open to public comment for 30 days.

Drawing congressional districts based on eligible voters, not just gross population, is a good idea, but it will face court challenges.  The Constitution mandates the census but doesn’t mandate how districts are drawn; theoretically, that is up to the several States. But there are still constitutional issues.

The catch may lie in the 14th Amendment, which states in part:

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Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. 

The "whole number of persons in each state" can and probably will be defined as all persons physically present in a state, regardless of their immigration status. Expect that to be the Left's primary argument in opposing this. 

Here's the thing: When the 14th Amendment was written, nobody anticipated two things about our modern world: First, the ease with which people can now come from anywhere in the world to enter the United States, and second, the massive influx of illegal immigrants across our largely unguarded borders, as happened from 2021-2025. 

This act would also affect things like welfare, especially in cities with high immigrant populations - like Minnesota.

The effort could have "earth-shattering" effects, leaving cities and states that have relatively high immigrant populations with insufficient federal aid and political representation, said Meeta Anand, senior director of the census and data equity program at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Sorry, but plenty of people will see that as a feature, not a bug. Reducing the incentive for people to flood into the United States to take this kind of advantage of our taxpayers, that alone would make this worth doing.

Enacting this vital reform may take a constitutional amendment. If so, then it's still worth the attempt.

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Bessent Demolishes Biden and Newsom, Delivers Banging Indictment Against the Radical Left in Dallas

Bessent Demolishes Biden and Newsom, Delivers Banging Indictment Against the Radical Left in Dallas

Nick AramaFollow @nickaramaOG

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I don't know that we've ever had a Treasury Secretary as active or as well-regarded as Scott Bessent.

He walked out to rousing applause at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday.  

He laid out the obligation to the American people and said no one was working harder to achieve that than President Donald Trump. 

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"Our obligation begins by making this country work again for the very people who sustain it [...] No one works harder for YOU, no one fights harder for you, and no president has asked his team and of himself to put American families BACK at the center of the American economy — than DONALD J TRUMP!"

Then he demolished Joe Biden, pointing out the incredibly positive change from Biden to President Donald Trump. 

"In 15 months, we've gone from autopen to overdrive," he explained. "From a president who couldn't stay awake to a president who refuses to sleep." People loved that; it was right on target. 

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"Across this country, President Trump's policies are reaching the very people they were designed to serve. He signed the largest tax cuts in history, rebalanced trade in favor of our working families, reclaimed our position as the world's energy superpower. And where his predecessors created debt and dependency, this president is creating assets and expanding ownership through Trump accounts." 

We just saw some of that work in the great jobs report with 162,000 new jobs iand the increase in private sector jobs in August, while the federal government jobs were being reduced. That's a major achievement. 

Then he eviscerated the radical Left for their socialist policies, saying they wanted to "remake America" in the image of all the failed socialist hellscapes of the last century.

"To import the misery of failed workers' paradises like the Soviet bloc, Caracas, and Havana, to repackage the discredited ideals of the past as the moral cause of the future." But he added, it would end, as it always does, in failure.

"Their big government giveaways would end as they always do, always do, ain food shortages, deadly delays in medical care, and squalid housing," Bessent said.

"Exhibit A is Sparkle Beach Ken's California, from which a taxpayer flees every 2.5 minutes!" he asserted. "Sparkle Beach Ken" is a great name for California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Now that's a great indictment by Bessent, in just a few sentences, of the stark contrast, what a failure the Democrats have been, how much worse they would make things, and why it's so important to vote to put the right people in office. 

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NYPD Commissioner Strikes Back at Mamdani During 9/11 Event in Moment We've Been Waiting For

Sister ToldjahFollow @sistertoldjah

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Whenever I see NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at an event alongside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, I always get the distinct impression that she's grinning and bearing it, as though she'd rather be anywhere else than near the man who has willfully and deliberately made such a mockery of the suffering his city went through during and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

That certainly seemed to be the case last Friday when Mamdani signed two 9/11-related executive orders at City Hall, and then promptly asked Tisch, who is Jewish, to pass the ceremonial pen on to his chief legal counsel, Ramzi Kassem. The attorney, as RedState previously reported, "spent years representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay" - including Saudi al-Qaeda member Ahmed al-Darbi, who is the brother-in-law of one of the 9/11 terrorists, Khalid al-Mihdhar.

For those who missed the moment, watch:

The New York Post noted in the aftermath of the executive order signings that "Tisch awkwardly handed it to Mamdani’s chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who just snuck into the press conference, before she hurried out of the Blue Room — the first official to exit the press conference."

And who could blame her after such a repugnant display from the same mayor who has insisted on attending official remembrance ceremonies on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the attacks, despite pleas from some family members to stay away?

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On Wednesday, however, Tisch had the opportunity to give a speech at an NYPD 9/11 memorial event and, with Mamdani in attendance - sitting nearby - she made the following statement:

Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity. The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.

Watch:

She didn't have to say Mamdani's name, nor Kassem's, to conclude that she had them in mind when she firmly stated those words.

Just to emphasize the importance of her taking a stand on this issue, let's take a look back at what Kassem had to say about the 9/11 terrorists just three days after the attacks:

"The resentment these terrorists felt towards the United States was rooted in political realities shaped by our country's policies. Our government has supported dictatorial and repressive regimes across the Middle East and elsewhere for years, in total disregard of the aspirations and better interests of the indigenous populations of those regions. This oppressive political reality is lived by millions, and only an infinitesimal few decide to go to the horrible extremes we had the misfortune of witnessing last week. It is to these populations' credit that they didn't dehumanize us the way we have dehumanized them. Thousands of Palestinians across the West Bank lit candles, grieving in solidarity with Americans, despite the fact that they suffer on daily basis from violence not unlike what we have had to endure, because our government arms the government that occupies their land."

At the time Mamdani appointed Kassem to be chief legal counsel, he proclaimed that "I will turn to Ramzi for his remarkable experience and his commitment to defending those too often abandoned by our legal system," which apparently includes admitted terrorist co-conspirators and terrorist group sympathizers.

Mamdani has also consistently tried to portray Muslims as the real victims of the 9/11 attacks. Case in point: the speech he gave in 2025 as a mayoral nominee about "Islamophobia" after 9/11 and how his purported "auntie" was supposedly too afraid to take the subway "because she did not feel safe in her hijab."

Not surprisingly, his story fell apart quickly after scrutiny, with Mamdani having to clarify that the alleged woman in question wasn't actually his aunt. Incredibly but not surprisingly, he accused those who caught him in the lie of... you guessed it, Islamophobia.

Mamdani has also infamously been anti-police to the extent he repeatedly called for defunding the NYPD... until he began his run for mayor.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be a New Yorker who doesn't support him but who has to endure his empty platitudes, moral preening, and insulting twists on the facts about American history and Islamic terrorism -- especially on a somber week like this one.

My hat is off to Commissioner Tisch for finally "going there" - in her own way - in defense of her city and its heroes, all while Mamdani sat stone-faced just a few feet away.  If he's ultimately going to be just a one-term mayor, we need more of this speaking out, not less. Enough is enough.

Marxist University Profs Spew Tone-Deaf Calls for Violence Ahead of 9/11, Charlie Kirk Anniversaries

Marxist University Profs Spew Tone-Deaf Calls for Violence Ahead of 9/11, Charlie Kirk Anniversaries

Ben SellersFollow @realbensellers

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The first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10 and the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks the day after make the next few days a particularly poignant time to reflect on the scourge of political violence and extremist rhetoric in America.

They also make it a remarkably callous time for radical leftists — be they supporters of the Trantifa movement, sympathizers of Islamic terrorism or those otherwise predisposed to a Bolshevik mindset — to issue open exhortations for further incivility.

But lo and behold, some California academics didn’t get the memo.

Case 1 involved Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Speaking at La Defensa Del Pueblo Summit, sponsored by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Abdullah, a co-founder of L.A.’s chapter of Black Lives Matter, allegedly doxxed an ICE agent and called on audience members to “f**k him up,” as first reported by the Manhattan Institute’s Stu Smith.

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Abdullah also called on the crowd to read “Blood in My Eye,” a 1971 manifesto by Black Panther member George L. Jackson, who was killed days after its completion in an attempted prison break.

In praise of the work, the group Socialist Alternative wrote, “George Jackson’s affinity to Mao’s politics flowed from the guerilla tactics and character of the peasant army Mao led that dismantled capitalism in China.”

Abdullah urged participants to familiarize themselves with the Black Panthers’ brand of violent Marxism and, accordingly, to “study guerrilla warfare.”

Not to be outdone, however, a separate video emerged showing Butch Ware, an associate history professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, telling attendees at the recent Marxism Conference in Chicago to prepare for “war in the streets.”

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He touted his bona fides as a former hoodlum in his profanity-laced diatribe.

“Some of these clickety-clack revolutionaries have never been in a f**king gunfight, but some of us that grew up in the hood know what guns are like,” Ware said.

He then invoked the almighty wisdom of Big Boi and André 3000.

“OutKast said it best: ‘N***as ranting and raving about gats; n***a, they made them gats.’ They got some s**t that will blow out our backs.”

He further chided audience members on their lack of preparation for what lies ahead.

“You are ready for war in the streets? No, you ain’t,” Ware said. “Y'all ain't nowhere near ready for a war in the streets. You better get ready for both kinds of war.”

Despite the chilling call to arms, conservatives may take some solace in knowing that they will also have a line of useful idiots to back them up in the form of moderate Democrats, and even those currently considered to be on the party’s fringes.

Ware dropped the names of controlled-opposition figures like Democrat Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (DSA), and former President Barack Obama as examples of the red herrings sent to placate the masses and distract them from their intended uprising.

“They are there to contain radicalism,” he said.

“They’re there to destroy it and to defuse it and to coopt it and to purchase it,” he continued. “The Democrats cannot be reasoned with. They must be destroyed.”

In spite of his efforts to divert the overthrow of America, Mamdani was also criticized for his tone-deaf decision to give the ceremonial pen for a resolution honoring New York’s 9/11 victims to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who represented an al Qaeda operative whose brother-in-law, Khalid al-Mihdhar, was one of the 9/11 terrorists.

Meanwhile, in Portland, Antifa radicals were plotting to protest an ICE facility by dressing up as zombie versions of Charlie Kirk, complete with a red dot on their necks, investigative journalist Andy Ngo reported.

But after being highlighted on social media, the event was reportedly canceled according to Pam Hemphill, the left-wing activist and self-declared “Ex-MAGA granny” who claimed to have switched sides after her arrest for the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol.

Turning Point USA, the organization co-founded by Kirk, announced plans to hold a rally at Utah Valley University, the school where Kirk was speaking when he was publicly gunned down by a sniper bullet last year.

The rally is set to feature conservative pundits Glenn Beck and Michael Knowles, as well as Christian spiritual leader Frank Turek.

But several far-left student organizations, led by UVU’s Students for a Democratic Society, had plans to protest the event.

In an open letter to the UVU administration, the group complained that Kirk’s efforts to engage those with opposing viewpoints in open debate made them feel embarrassed.

“We remember Charlie Kirk as someone who represented the opposite of consideration,” it said. “His career was centered around constant attempts to humiliate naive students who disagreed with him rather than have sincere discussion.”

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