On April 5, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his intention to challenge the demented and incompetent incumbent Democrat [[Joseph R. Biden]] for the [[Democratic party]] presidential nomination in the [[2024 presidential election]]. Bobby Jr. said in making the announcement,
On April 5, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his intention to challenge the demented and incompetent incumbent Democrat [[Joseph R. Biden]] for the [[Democratic party]] presidential nomination in the [[2024 presidential election]]. Bobby Jr. said in making the announcement,
{{quotebox-float|"The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom's new alliances with [[China]] and [[Iran]] are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[neocon]] strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of [[military]] power...China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, [[economic]] power...The [[Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the neocon's short-lived American Century...The neocon projects in [[Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[middle class]], made a laughingstock of [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military power]] and [[moral]] authority, pushed China and [[Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the [[dollar]] as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance [[democracy]] or win friendships or influence.”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-neocon-projects-iraq-and-ukraine-have-made-laughingstock-us-military-power-and</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"The collapse of U.S. influence over [[Saudi Arabia]] and the Kingdom's new alliances with [[China]] and [[Iran]] are painful emblems of the abject failure of the [[neocon]] strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of [[military]] power...China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, [[economic]] power...The [[Ukraine war]] is the final collapse of the neocon's short-lived American Century...The neocon projects in [[Iraq]] and [[Ukraine]] have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our [[middle class]], made a laughingstock of [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. military power]] and [[moral]] authority, pushed China and [[Russia]] into an invincible alliance, destroyed the [[dollar]] as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance [[democracy]] or win friendships or influence.”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rfk-jr-neocon-projects-iraq-and-ukraine-have-made-laughingstock-us-military-power-and</ref>}}
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While he was speaking at the Plaza Hotel in Boston about how [[China]] is building roads and bridges while the U.S. [[military industrial complex]] has been bombing them into rubble, the fire alarm went off at the packed event. “Nice try” he quipped after the alarm continued, prompting the crowd to roar with approval.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-rfk-jr-tells-deep-state-nice-try-fire-alarm-interrupts-his-presidential</ref>
Early polling of [[Dem]]s shows that "14 percent of Biden's 2020 supporters said they would vote for Kennedy."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chances-beating-biden-polls-1795430</ref>
Early polling of [[Dem]]s shows that "14 percent of Biden's 2020 supporters said they would vote for Kennedy."<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chances-beating-biden-polls-1795430</ref>