'I'm Going To Tell You A Little Bit About Nicole...': RFK Jr. Presents Running Mate Nicole Shanahan

[Music] [Applause] okay hi everybody thank you for being here [Music] today oh my gosh I am so excited that you're here to help us celebrate another Milestone on Bobby's campaign to the presidency yes and I just want to take a moment to say as we move through our day let's think about the people in Baltimore um who are experiencing their tragedy and we want to keep them in our thoughts in our hearts and our prayers today um yeah so you're probably here to hear what Bobby has to say today it's a very exciting day and you will not be disappointed uh one of the things that I love about Bobby there are a lot I won't spend the day naming them but but one of the things that I I truly respect about him I have watched him and continued to watch him inspire people of all different parties to come together for the greater good of this country yeah so when you look around you you're probably going to see Republicans Democrats Independents all gathered together to see what we have in common and how we can work together and that's what Bobby's all about and that's who he is and that's what he's doing and America is listening and is [Applause] inspired all right I think we should just do it are you ready to hear from Bobby are you at all interested to hear from the new VP pick okay okay well let's let's make a lot of noise I want to really hear how enthusiastic you are about this please ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for my love for the next president of the United States Robert F Kennedy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jr thank you all very [Applause] much thank you all very much thank you thank [Applause] you and I want to start out first of all for thanking all of you and thanking Oakland and thank all of you for being here today I also want to thank the um the the the tribal Chiefs the muon tribe and the chairwoman of the tribal council for endorsing me today for putting their faith in me and they know the MMA olone tribe oh and they know very much they uh that the that this struggle for indigenous rights has consumed a lot of my life my personal and my professional life and that this work is going to continue when we were in the White House the M malonis are one of the many tribes that were that were desertified during the 1950s and 1960s and these tribes need to be de reli imized and that's something that I will do as soon as I get in the White House I I want to say something about Oakland my father spent a lot of time doing hearings in Oakland on the poverty issues for the poverty Committee in 1967 when he was United States Senator and then he came back here in 1968 on the presidential campaign and during that presidential run he made an unscheduled visit to Oakland's Taylor Memorial Church and he went there with Willie Brown who as you know later became mayor of uh San Francisco but at that time he was an assembly man and he came to meet with a lot of local activists here in Oakland in a very very violent turbulent time he met with the nacp and the Black Panther Party and it was a very ranous meeting he was advised by the local police chief not to go I he attended with two of his companions John Glenn the astronaut one of his best friends raer Johnson who had been the decathlon champion in 1960 and was one of my father's closest friends and the meeting was so ranous and vitriolic at at that at one point rayer and John clenon advised my father to leave people were insulting him people were threatening him and my dad refused and he said this is between me and them I need to hear them out I need to hear what they're going to say the ne and he waited he he stayed throughout that meeting and the next day all of the people who at that meeting signed up to join his campaign and the Black Panther Party provided his security detail here in Oakland and continued continued to provide security for him later on in the campaign during in his convoys and there was a lesson that I just wanted to share with you because it's a lesson all of us need to learn at this point in our history and we need to start listening to each other even when it's difficult we we need to sit through the anger we need to sit with each other other and listen to the feelings and not walk away and not see each other as enemies but learn to love each other even through that anger and vitrio we need to start coming back to each other as Americans again the last time I was in Oakland was when I served on the trial team in the Monsanto cases and we so we tried two of the three cases in this city we won uh we won an we won a 289 million in the first and then the third one which we tried here we want we asked the jury for a billion dollars and an Oakland jury gave us 2.2 billion dollars and that that brought Monsanto to the to the negotiating table we we settled that all 40,000 cases but I lived here for several months during that trial and I got to really love the city the Monsanto case was the latest in a lifetime of battles for me to get poisons out of our food and out of our farms and to restore our soils the effort that effort has consumed a lot of my life and I wanted a vice president who shared my passion for wholesome healthy foods chemical free for regenerative agriculture for good soils and I found exactly the right person and among other things she has used over the past several years cuttingedge technology including AI to calculate the catastrophic Health consequences of toxins in our soil our air our water and our food technology has been a lifelong passion for my future vice president this is important because I also wanted a vice president who shares my indignation about the participation of big Tech as a partner in the censorship and the surveillance and the information Warfare that our government is currently waging against the American people and that's why I'm bringing on someone with a deep inside knowledge of about how big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public I want a part with strong ideas about how to reverse those dire threats to democracy and to our freedoms I managed to find a technologist at the Forefront of AI she has spent the last decade relying on neural networks artificial intelligence and cuttingedge science to identify abuses in our government she understands that the health of every American is a national sec security issue and a national security risk her work has proven time and again that Health drives our economy that it is the foundation of our mental health our national happiness our ability to lead the world in Innovation and prosperity and in peace I also wanted someone who was an athlete who could help me Inspire Americans to heal to get them back in shape and I'm happy report that my vice president is an Avid [Applause] surfer who attend who attended school on a softball scholarship I want right here in Oakland I wanted someone who was Battle tested able to withstand criticism and the controversy and all the defamations and Slanders and perjuries that are thrown against anyone who embark works on a presidential campaign I wanted an advocate who has seen Corruption of our Regulatory Agencies firsthand who shares my indignation about the way it allows regulated Industries to commoditize our food our wildlife and our children I wanted someone who would honor the traditions of our nation as a nation of immigrants but who also understands that to be a Nation we need secure borders I I wanted a partner who is a gifted administrator but also possesses the gift of curiosity an open inquiring mind and the confidence to change even her strongest opinions in the face of contrary evidence I wanted someone with a spiritual Dem ion and compassion and idealism and above all a deep love for the United States of America I found all of those qualities in a woman who grew up right here in Oakland the daughter of immigrants who a overcame every daunting obstacle and went on to achieve the highest levels of the American dream so that is why I'm so proud to introduce to you the next Vice President of the United States my fellow lawyer a brilliant scientist technologist a fears Warrior mom Nicole Shanahan oh I'm going to tell you a little bit about Nicole before we bring her out here we're going to see a video Nicole's personal story began in Oakland she was the daughter of impoverished immigrants she grew up on food stamps and Welfare in this city beset by many many other unique challenges all of which she overcame her very very American journey took her to a career as a pattent attorney and as a Silicon Valley Tech entrepreneur and as a Stanford University fellow like many of us Nicole assumed our government was working for our people that our defense and intelligence agencies wanted peace that public health agencies wanted us to be healthy that the USDA supported Wholesome foods and Family Farms that the EPA would stand up for clean air and clean water that the FED wanted prosperous America that the Democratic party was on the side of the middle class the Working Poor and Main Street small businesses that scientists were Incorruptible and that that science was a search for ex an exalted search for the truth and that the president of the United States could always be counted on to defend free speech I too used to believe those things do you remember those days and she'll tell you that she now understands that the defense agencies worked for the military industrial complex that Health agencies work for big Pharma at the USDA works for big a and the processed food cartels at the EPA is in cots with the polluters that scientists can be mercenaries that government officials sometimes act as sensors and that the Fed works for Wall Street and allows millionaire Bankers to pray upon on Main Street and the American worker and that's why Nicole and I both left the Democratic party our values didn't change but the Democratic party did the things that we love are still the same we love our families our children and our faith we love clean air and clean water and productive soils and good food we love the Wilderness and our purple mountains majesty and above all we love our country we we want America to live up to her highest ideals we want her to be an exemplary Nation again a global leader in Freedom opportunity and responsible government we want America to be a peacemaker a moral Authority we want our children to grow up as I did in a country for which they feel love and pride we want them to feel safe and to have every opportunity for dignity prosperity and Community we want them to have confidence in their Futures we want them to have the best education we want America to be friendly to Farmers and entrepreneurs we want America to honor its veterans and its teachers we want scientists to stand up for Science and for truth and we want our government to defend our right to free speech Nicole and I share all of these values and you know what despite the artificially orchestrated divisions nearly all Americans share the same values that we do and I'm grateful that Nicole has put her self-interested side and made the momentous and very very difficult decision to Embark with me on this extraordinary crusade to win back our country and I was most importantly looking for a partner who is a young person and Nicole is only 38 years old and I wanted that because I want Nicole To Be A Champion to the growing number of Millennials and genz Americans who have lost faith in their future and lost their pride in our country many in our generation have stopped believing that older people who have been running our government for so long understand them or represent their interests that older generation that now dominates Congress the Supreme Court and the White House is the same generation the same people who ran up the $34 trillion debt and Millennials and jenz and their children will shoulder the burden it was my baby booom generation that unleashed the epidemic of chronic disease that has many America has made America the sickest country in the world the only response This calamity to This calamity by government officials today is to Gaslight us into pretending that it's all normal that it's not really happening Nicole and I both share doubts about the corporate captured unip party and that it can produce leaders capable of imagining a different version of America a hopeful version of the future we both have doubts that either the Democratic or Republican party nominees are capable of dealing with the complexities and fulfilling the great promise of a technology driven economy in the right hands technology can be America's salvation it can give us the path out of dead chaos out of environmental ruin out of the chronic disease epidemic but we both fear that in the wrong wrong hands technology can turn its power against humanity we don't think that either president Trump or President Biden understands the promise or the Peril of technology sufficiently to direct its trajectory toward freedom and healing and prosperity and we're now witnessing this dismaying contest between the two oldest presidential candidates in history those two men during their terms as president both worked to close our Main Street businesses for a year 3.3 million businesses with no due process no scientific citation no public hearings no environmental impact statement they just told us to shut them down those policies that both of them engineered transferred $4 trillion do from the middle class to this new oligarchy of billionaires they created 500 new billionaires in 500 Days a billionaire day today they together they ran up a greater debt than all previous presidents combined since George Washington two men with a single single term in office each now they don't want us talking about those things they want us instead hate each other to fear the other guy but to Young Americans they look like two sides of the same coin if we vote for either of them again we can expect and we will deserve more of the same the annihilation of our middle class the further impoverishment of Working Poor more chronic disease more epidemics more environmental destruction more debt more war and fewer constitutional rights I've asked Nicole to use the platform of the vice presidency to speak for all not just young people but all the invisible voiceless Americans who feel let down by our government as you vice president Nicole will represent Working Poor who feel forgotten who sink every day deeper into debt she's going to fight for all those Americans who know what it's like to skip meals to pay for gasoline and who watch food prices Spike ever higher and wonder how in the world they're going to make it through the grocery store checkout line I want her to stand up for the children who are receiving substandard educations and for the veterans who are feeding their families in soup kitchens and for the 1.1 million American children whose parents served in Afghanistan and Iraq and who silently struggle with PTSD and with traumatic brain injury I want I want her to represent the mothers who struggle to protect their children from bad chemicals bad Pharmaceuticals and bad food as vice president she will stand between them and the big a big Pharma the chemical industry the processed food industry the government Regulators who are colluding to poison our kids for profit and as vice president she's going to stand with me against the military industrial complex and the niacon interventionist and all of their forever Wars in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt appointed my grandfather Joseph Kennedy to run his brand new Securities and Exchange Commission my grandfather had been a stock manipulator on Wall Street and FDR wanted a a chairman who understood the stock market inside and out as the only person who could reform it in a similar vein Nicole will stand up to Silicon Valley which she knows inside and out and she's going to stand up to Wall Street to the big Banks the Larson's K Street lobbyists the regulatory Zars the unbridled central bank money printers the crony capitalists and all of the other people who have turned our country from a democracy and to a corporate kleptocracy these are the people their cupidity drives our corrupt campaign Finance system which is nothing more than a system of legalized bribery this is a system that has put agency capture on steroids and made our government Regulators sock puppets for the industries that they're supposed to regulate the corrupt merger of state and corporate power now straddles our nation's capital like a mythical Harpy sucking the economic social and moral Vitality out of the nation's poity of free citizens gorging itself on the bleaching bones of the American middle class Nicole is going to help me free our country from that predatory cabal our independent Run for the presidency is finally going to bring down the Democratic and Republican duopoly had gave us this ruinous debt chronic disease endless Wars lockdowns mandates agency capture and the same Trump Biden unip party that has captured an appropriated democracy and turned it over to Black Rock State Street and Vanguard and the other corporate donors Nicole Shanahan will help me rally support for our Revolution against the unip party rule from both ends of the right and left political Spectrum now let me tell you what Nicole and I are up against and what we need to do to win and how we're going to do it the New York Times this week published an article estimating that the Democratic party War chest will ultimately be which is 1.1 billion today already the largest in history of any political party within a few months it's going to be three billion dollars and the Democratic party is not going to use that war chess to amplify President Biden's voice is using it to stop its opponents from getting on the ballot and to turn Americans against each other and and inundate us with fear incidentally the Republican party will raise about the same amount does anybody here think that these big money donors who are giving all that money are acting out of a patriotic impulse do you think they're acting out of a humanitarian impulse no of course they're not for them this is an investment and they expect a return on that investment and they expect a very very big return the campaign Finance system has transformed our government from a model democracy into a into a corporate kleptocracy so we're up against Power F powerful this campaign is up against the most powerful financial interest in history we also face a determined campaign to keep us off the ballot by fair means or foul evidently the Democrats have little faith in their candidates ability to win in the oldfashioned way at the voting booth we are going to overcome these financial and legal challenges but I want to talk about another obstacle that's even more important is the Obstacle of cynicism it's the Obstacle of fear it's the deeply ingrained habit of voting for someone you have little passion for because he is the lesser of two evils because you are so afraid that the other guy will win well don't you want to vote for someone this time and not just and not just against someone don't you want to vote for a candidate and a country that you can be proud of I know you do because 70% of Americans say that they don't want to have to choose between president Trump and President Biden they don't want to choose between the lesser of two evils again they especially don't want to choose between the two men who brought us the $34 trillion debt the endless Wars the censorship the corrupt merger of state and corporate power Republicans and Democrats have taken turns in office for 30 years now and all of these problems have just gotten worse that's why those same polls show the my approval ratings are far above those of President Trump and President Biden now both the Democrats and Republicans are looking at those poll results and they're devising ways to keep me off the ballot they don't want to give you the choice you know when I was a a kid the Democratic party was fighting its primary fight was to make sure that every American had the right to vote and none of us were disenfranchised but today's Democratic party is doing the opposite it's working to disenfranchise any Americans who who don't who they don't think will vote again vote for their agenda the principal technique is to call me a spoiler and instill fear in Americans at voting for me will will get some other terrifying candidate elected our campaign is a spoiler I agree with that it it's a it's a spoiler for President Biden and for president Trump it's a spoiler for the war machine it's a spoiler for Wall Street and big EG and big Tech and big Telecom and big Pharma and the corporate own media and all the Pol corrupt politicians and corporations that's why they're trying to keep me off the ballot and to frighten you into choosing between the two tired and unpopular heads of the uni party million millions of Americans are not going to vote at all if they're not given another Choice they're simply withdrawing from American democracy well Nicole and I are going to give those Millions another Choice the Democrats and Republicans are trying to divide America they tell us to hate each other to mistrust each other to accuse each other of treason to warn us against these Apo in apocalyptical terms that democracy itself is doomed if the other side wins they turn families against each other they turn neighbors against each other and Friends against each other they're trying to divide America but Nicole and I will United and that's our path to Victory that's that's how we're going to win that's how we're going to forge an Unstoppable Coalition of homeless Democrats and homeless Republicans who are ready to to look at the universal values that unite us all and that and and that and that every conscience American wants the same way Nicole wants it and I wants it all those things things that I described our love our children good food good soils moral Authority around the world the end of the Warfare State an Incorruptible government all those things we all want if we can only persuade enough Americans to vote out of Hope rather than of fear we're going to be in the White House in sep November now we've all had the advantage of seeing what president Trump and President Biden can do for our country do any of you want more of the [Applause] same if you want more of the same you should vote out of fear if you want genuine change and you need to take a risk and join team Kennedy and join the new American Revolution what that means is to vote from your conscience vote from your heart vote out of idealism vote out of optimism for this country refuse above all to Flo from Fear you know in 1776 there was a generation of Americans who believed in democracy in something that didn't exist anywhere in the world something that was so improbable so implausible so impossible and most people thought it was a joke and yet they R they took a risk not a little risk not the little risk that you're taking today by going through a voting booth they risk their lives and many of them lost it they they risked their properties they risk their reputations and they gave us the Democracy that we have today the model democracy for the whole world so they acted out of fear and if you vote out of fear on this election you are dishonoring that generation of Americans and the and the other and the thousands and hundreds of thousands of Americans who gave their lives in the civil War and World War II and World War I and all of the other times that people went and risked their lives to defend our country if Nicole and I can get Americans to refuse to vote from Fear we're going to be in the White House in November Nicole and I are running to help heal the symptoms of an ailing America to heal our divisions to heal our economy to heal our mental health and our spiritual and our pH physical health but we can't do it alone we need you and now I have a governing partner who will fight for you and for your family until the last corporate Kickback from our government the last toxin is cleared from our water and our [Music] soil until the last American child gets to live a healthy life and to pursue their own happiness in the land of the free until the last censor is gone from our government I'm I'm confident that there is no American more qualified than Nicole Shanahan to play this role so I'm proud to introduce to all of you the next Vice President of the United States of America Nicole shanan thank you all very much

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Published: Tue Mar 26 2024