In an apparent move to stir up greater support from the hardline leftists in the progressive movement, RFK Jr has announced 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan as his Vice-Presidential running mate.
The move appears to be an effort to appeal to the Bernie Sanders, ecology-centric, radical leftist, earth-saving environmentalist wing of the Democrat base voter. Positioning the ticket to carve out a younger voting bloc and stir interest amid the Sanders/AOC crowd.
Shanahan had previously donated $4 million to the SuperPAC supporting Robert Kennedy Jr and given thousands of dollars to the Soros funded progressives in politics and activism circles. Shanahan was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the wealthiest men in the world; the financial windfall from their divorce funded her ability to contribute heavily to far-left causes.
(Via CNN) – As a video introducing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, played to supporters in Oakland on Tuesday, the campaign crystallized the partnership by distributing “Kennedy/Shanahan” signs to the crowd.
Kennedy named Shanahan as his vice presidential pick Tuesday, introducing her as “my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan.”
Shanahan’s selection will accelerate Kennedy’s attempts to gain ballot access in as many states as possible. She will also be tasked with broadening Kennedy’s appeal and potentially helping to raise money for his big-spending campaign.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he was “most importantly” looking for a young person as a running mate and picked 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan because he believes she can speak to the “the growing number of millennials and Gen Z Americans who have last faith in their future.”
“Many in your generation have stopped believing that older people who have been running our government for so long understand them or represent their interests,” Kennedy told supporters gathered for his vice presidential announcement in Oakland, California.
Kennedy, 70, attacked President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the respective presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees, for their age, while suggesting it may contribute to what he says are poor policies on technology regulation and the economy. (read more)
(Via Politico) – […] Kennedy has been searching for a vice presidential candidate to join his independent bid since quitting the Democratic Party primary last October. The short list was wide-ranging, including NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and ex-Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
Now that he’s named the 38-year-old Shanahan as his running mate, the campaign can begin collecting ballot access signatures in about 20 more states.
Shanahan said she’s passionate about fighting chronic disease in the U.S. by eliminating toxins in food and water and electromagnetic pollution as well as doing different studies on pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
“There is only one candidate who takes the chronic disease epidemic seriously, and it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I will be his ally,” Shanahan said.
Shanahan said Kennedy will be focused on corruption in government agencies while she applies her skills as a technologist to the issue.
Shanahan, who is also a fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, has a long history of political giving, backing progressive California Rep. Ro Khanna’s campaigns as well as making a contribution to President Joe Biden and a five-figure donation to the Democratic National Committee in 2020 after supporting Marianne Williamson’s long-shot bid during the primary. The tech entrepreneur also donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016. (more)
Asian studies major. Patent specialist. She supported LA DA George Gascón, Pete Buttigieg, and Marianne Williamson. Progressive. Exchange student in Singapore. From her bio, she was married to an investor, met Sergey Brin at a yoga retreat, then dumped the investor and married Brin.
They want Bernie Sanders supporters.
So, she’s a gold digger leftist.
Will take from Joe, not Donald, and is not a serious campaign for the office, nor serious as one of those “running to make a point” campaigns, either which leaves it pretty much a joke.
As the machine have calculated that any ‘3rd party’ campaign, hurts Joe and so helps PDJT, Jr. has put himself forever on the outs of ‘the machine’.
He is mbaking himself a minor footnote to history, soon forgotten.
RFK Jr. truly doesn’t need Secret Service protection now!
On the contrary. I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden’s people try to take a shot at him
Exactly. He should have picked a woman who is more well known, an influencer, someone who gets people’s attention, who isn’t afraid of stirring things up, a beer drinking type, someone with balls. Perhaps Dylan Mulvaney?
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Or Big Mike Obama
Comment of the day award to YOU.
Carly Fiorina is still around…
Does anybody care?????
Definitely an attention getter
She’s just like Jill Biden in the gold digger regard.
Looks like she had/has a nine-pound hammer.
And there ends the flirtation of the right with RFK Jr, at least as far as politics goes. I read his book about Fauci and Gates, which was absolutely brutal and accusatory (and he hasn’t been sued for it), and I’ve seen his interviews where he attacks the USIC, and I am convinced that he has good bones in his body. But he still believes in the superstition of ‘climate change’ and that on its own is disqualifying. But I think he has been useful in that he has given cover to some D’s to move to the right, and I personally know a couple who have been persuaded by him.
I’m with you right up to the point of, “and I am convinced that he has good bones in his body.”
I don’t. I think he’s a con man right down to every last bone.
Thing is that Bernie’s lost a good chunk of his coalition to Trump. Of what remains, targeting them could only be good news for us
I’m relieved actually. If he’d actually picked Aaron Rodgers or Tulsi Gabbard, that might’ve taken a decent chunk of Trump-leaning ‘true’ independents
They can have Bernie’s people all day long and twice on Sunday! They were not voting for Trump anyway so it really doesn’t matter.
re: “They were not voting for Trump anyway”
Memories SO short … I give you Joe Rogan.
Brin and Elon Musk ended their friendship when Brin ended his marriage.
She has denied the rumors of an affair with Musk.
She evidently does not have a husband now, just a “partner”.
really? all 5 of them?
What they both want is the adulation of other people. They both want to be seen as “brave” and “virtuous” in the eyes of their fellow elitists.
Kennedy is a climate change nutcase. He said those skeptical of man caused warming should be in jail. So much for free thought and free speech eh Kennedy?
SamFox
Did the climate change again? Oh my!
Let him squeak all he wants about the climate scam. He won’t squeak by PDJT.
Welcome to the Eddy Minimum the third Grand Solar Minimum since the 1600’s. Currently projected to last to 2055 or about three decades. What does a Grand Solar Minimum look like?
Bitter Cold, Extremely Hot, 1000 Year Floods, Huge amount of Snow and Ice some locations, Droughts, High Winds, Very Large Hail, Huge to almost Complete Crop Losses, Starvation, Disease, Loss of Life, Social Upheaval, Human Migrations, Fall of Governments, Electromagnetic Displays, Increased Large Earthquakes, VEI 3 to VEI 7 or greater, Volcanic Eruptions, Atmospheric Compression, and High Cosmic Ray Environment.
“Elliott” the recent Winter Storm is the new normal. Get yourself prepared.
Since the early2000’s, the thesis that it’s the Sun, not us, that’s responsible for global “climate change” has been enormously strengthened by the research of astrophysicist Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK. Her research of the causes of cycles of solar activity shows the Sun has a “dual dynamo” mechanism coupled with a “quadrupole” magnetic component resulting in three solar cycles:
*The standard magnetic cycle = ~22 yrs (the full 11 year cycle from high to low, then 11 years low back to high)
*The Gleissberg cycle = ~90-110 yrs, avg. 100 yrs
*The ‘Grand’ cycle = ~350-400 yrs
Moreover, we are now at the minimum of all three, particularly the Grand, which she predicts will last from ~2020 to ~2053 (this is the approximate length of the Grand’s minimum out of the 400 years for the full cycle). Meaning we have entered a three decade-long period of Global Cooling, the opposite of Warming.
She explains this in her paper: Modern Grand Solar Minimum Will Lead To Terrestrial Cooling.
This is a science paper published in PubMed Central, but she explains clearly why and how we are headed for another Maunder Minimum (1645-1710) during which the Thames River in London and the Po River in northern Italy froze regularly, and all of Europe and North America went into a deep freeze.
What could we do about it? We could put a lot more CO2 in the air to begin with. .
Meanwhile – it should be of some solace to those millions of Americans shivering in the cold and dark that at least it’s Mother Nature causing their suffering, and not some depraved evil monster shelling with artillery their electricity grid.
Perhaps at this point we should note the irony that Dr. Zharkova is Ukrainian, graduating from Kiev National University and gaining her Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the Main Astronomical Observatory in Kiev.
References: Dennis Delaurier “Surviving the Super Grand Solar Minimum”
Jack Wheeler “The Point News”
Dennis DeLaurier “Surviving in a complex World”
I’m waiting for Gen Flynn to come out of the shadows bringing formality to his Presidential run with Robt Kennedy Jr as his “uniting” VP… It’s starting to show it’s ugly face – even on Alex Jones interview this morning where he connected via Zoom on his cell phone making sure to position himself in front of a huge banner for Flynn movie “Deliver the Truth. Whatever the cost” and at times even cutting off the lower portion of his face to keep full view of the banner. Shannahan is but a blip on the screen.
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Thanjk you. Me, too.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-running-mate-young-153402596.html
“Indeed, according to a source familiar with Democratic research on Kennedy, when voters are informed that Kennedy family members oppose his presidential bid and that a megadonor backing Trump has put money into his effort, they see these as serious strikes against him.”
https://www.aol.com/rfk-jr-sister-worries-taking-235543541.html
https://fox59.com/hill-politics/democrats-ramp-up-attacks-on-rfk-jr-he-should-be-ashamed-of-himself/
Leftist former wives are a threat to the Republic – the widows/exes of Jobs, Bezos, Brin, et al. are all doing great evil in the world using their former hubby’s cash.
It’s exactly how the CIA set it all up.
YES!!
How could you forget the biggest one of all? Mrs Gates, with $2 billion now of Bill’s money and God knows how much more off the books because she’s got compromat on Bill and she’s too high profile to be whacked.
That one will be a terror, same as her sociopathic husband
I just heard a ‘rumor’ that RFK Jr. has been reading the comments here on CTH, has been deeply moved, especially by all the grace and Christian kindness shown him here despite being a political adversary, and is now going to drop his VP choice, and name as his new VP pick whoever a majority here choose.
So, for those who may have thought you were just crying in in wilderness, I guess you were wrong.
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The only person ever consistently wrong around here is YOU!
And our Christian “candidness” is better than any Israeli lies spouted by you.
And ain’t any of us crying about anything like you and the plight of poor, poor victimization.
Sounds like you hate Christians as much as Muslims.
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Yeah,…not a fan, eitherIf I could do a bullseye, I would BK.
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
~ Joseph Goebbels, Jesuit educated
“Three important characteristics of propaganda are that
( l ) it is intentional and purposeful, designed to incite a particular reaction or action in the target audience;
(2) it is advantageous to the propagandist or sender which is why advertising, public relations, and political campaigns are considered forms of propaganda; and
(3) it is usually one-way and informational (as in a mass media campaign), as opposed to two-way and interactive communication.”
― Nancy Snow, Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11
“For those of us who have a firm understanding and certitude of our positions, word manipulation has little sway. Only those who give themselves over to the authority of others are compelled to act and think mindlessly.” ~EM
I believe the entire RFK split with the democrat party is as orchestrated as that short Fl governor’s “anti-establishment” behavior during convid. I expect him to be the D candidate on Election Day. I know many here see his supposed anti-vax stance as a deterrent, but as the RINO’s have proven, words mean nothing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but RFK’s focus and choices seem to hurt Biden a lot more, right? I mean it’s, all considered, a good thing?
That was my thinking, as well. Initially, we thought RFK jr. might hurt Trump by attracting moderates, but this move definitely appears to peel off Biden voters.
Excellent!
This will bleed off the PC-Prog vote from Biden, reducing his totals.
Hopefully no Normal Americans will continue to consider voting for Kennedy. Good on covid does NOT counter-balance all his PC-Prog insanity–global warming, etc, etc, etc.
Her parents are Chinese immigrants?
Spook?
The Chinese have worked hard to ensure their diaspora serves their interests.
Considering she is a Red Widow, spending profligately the proceeds of her billionaire divorce on Leftist causes, it would appear she is in that orbit.
Furthermore, her schooling is in not only China stuff, but also in patents, which is an area the Chinese have massively exploited as intellectual property theft is part of their war on the West, so she definitely appears to be one of theirs.
Her mother immigrated from China but her father was a “white man with mental illness.” This is straight from the Politico article, I swear. 🤣
Don’t ALL white men have a mental illness, in the “gospel” according to Obola?
Will Biden even last long enough to be the Democrat candidate?
Ain’t I been sayin it?
Unless he croaks, Joe will be the D nominee.
Shanahan is RFK Jr.’s best option to become the Convention call out DNC candidate
People can change for better or worse for any number of reasons,kooky hardcore leftists just get worse.
I can’t wait for the first rally they do together.
RFK: “Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for, I am excited to introduce you to my new running mate…Human Wallet! Get out here Human Wallet!”
He just sunk his campaign but picked up a bunch of Biden voters so I am happy.
His campaign was sunk, well before now.
The intention was for him to take from both; PDJT because of the Vax, and Joe because people don’t really like Joe, they just dislike PDJT, and so to be a ‘somebody else’ candidate.
That was the plan, but like other splitters RDS and Nikki, the more people actually LOOKED, the less they LIKED.
Ends up even Umiparty recognises Jr. only takes from Joe.
RFK Jr. was pushed out by the club. He’s fake. His entire existence is fake.
In hindsight, his appearance on the Presidential candidacy stage has me wondering if all those lawsuits he’s been involved in in the past against big companies and industries has been a big Psyop.
Was he simply the paid actor paid by those big companies and industries to own the other side of the legal argument? If he sues them and he’s their guy, does that control/limit other real opposition from suing them?
No Secret Service protection doesn’t sound like a club member.
As absurd as this is, I sure hope it gains traction. As stated by wizer folks than I, Do not interfere with your enemies when they are helping you.
She has every look of a filthy, stinking, radical Marxist progressive whose world view is so far removed from reality that her head is up her rectum irretrievably. She’s another disciple of her father Satan, and she’d f–k up America even more that it already is. People of her kind should never gain any office at all. Her kind is what’s destroyed America. Her kind should be rounded up, have their citizenship revoked for seditious conspiracy, and be deported to one of the communist hellholes they’re turning America into.
Wow, phrenology has come a long ways!
Are you saying he’s wrong, or not wrong?
Neither.
What’s not to like? This peels away Biden support which is good
They had a pre-nup, but then she sued seeking just $1 Billion of his then $92 Billion fortune. For a few years of marriage.
Sociopathic.
Okay, but you have to admit. IF. A big IF. If RFK Jr.’s whole intent was to actually siphon votes from Biden, and he is actually being run by a white hat OP, then…this is the perfect pick for that OP. He definitely isn’t taking more Trump votes than Biden votes now. Right?
I have no dog in this fight. It’s just an observation as I have seen the theory floating around that RFK was in fact an OP to help wake people up to things, and then ultimately take votes from Biden. Maybe they are wrong. But this is a data point in their favor in my opinion.
Any of you follow the Rattletrap 1776(His Telegram account handle)(Real Derek Johnson) Content?
I wish Sundance would do a writeup on that topic specifically. I have never seen anyone bring the data points to a remedy other than what he has explained on his channel. In other words, even if Derek is wrong with his assertions(I hold no solid opinion)… his facts from which he extrapolates are indisputable. Perhaps his extrapolations are off. I leave that to you. But if you want to dismiss his claims, you still need to reconcile the facts to whatever view you take.
I have yet to see anyone properly explain all of the datapoints(Executive Orders, Trump made himself a wartime President, rewritten Law of War Manual, national emergency federalizing the National Guard is still active, establishment of Space Force, Foreign Militaries operating out of US airports on a daily basis in airports that have NO military contingency, The Doomsday plane command and control center is in the sky every single day since the Biden Presidency Began, recent flight of callsign EXEC1F Call sign only used when President’s family on board. Flew to Puerto Rico on March 17h. There is no MSM reporting of Jill Biden in Puerto Rico that day, etc.)
His main data points are the Law of War Manual, and the Executive Orders passed by Trump that automatically expire after 2 years by law…instead…they were all extended…by Biden…multiple times. Why?
I love Sundance’s work, and don’t doubt his exceptional analysis, been here for over 15 years for it. But I wish he would look through the full claims of The Continuity of Government arguments being proposed elsewhere. I don’t see it as Hopium. I just see it as a claim being made, that I have yet to see validly refuted. Although I am quite busy and possibly missed legitimate refutations…but either way…all the data points are still very curious. Imo.
All good points.
Same here, I can’t confirm all that has been cited by Derek Johnson.
What I did see was the Dr. Jan Halper-Hayes interview on GB News back in August which supports much of what Derek talks about. Between that interview and several others, she’s put a lot of info out there.
Don Jr. posted her interview on Truth Social. President Trump reposted it from his Truth acct, thanked Don Jr. for getting it out and commented that Dr. Jan did a great job schooling the GB News guy. General Flynn also commented about Dr. Jan and that interview.
I’ve posted that interview here a few times, but it doesn’t seem to get much response here.
Posting the interview: keep trying. People still watch/read even if they don’t comment. It helps to draw them in by quoting some passages.
Other than the bridge disaster/sabotage, lots of positive news! Trump Media stock a success, RFK Junior-wit making about as pro-Trump a choice for running mate as is possible to make, and Collagen McSpaniel getting a nice down payment on her just desserts. Putting 3/26 in the win column. 👍
Collagen McSpaniel? Best nickname ever!
Don’t think she will siphon many fence-sitters away from PDJT, but she surely blew up Biden’s hopes of keeping his greenie-left. Biden has nowhere to go, except out.
Wrong choice,
Trump is Best 2024.MAGA,
And let’s not forget that RFK’s daughter in law and campaign manager has direct links to the CIA. He’s surrounding himself with some really questionable people.
As far as I’m concerned, BOTH are “…ecology-centric, radical leftist, earth-saving environmentalist wing of the Democrat…” Party
Perhaps her entry will help reduce voter fraud in Democratic States.
This Kennedy, like all Kennedys, is a Democrat. Anyone shocked by this VP pick doesn’t understand the Kennedys are Democrats.
I’m shocked that he truly doesn’t seem to know how bad it is.
You look at the people who attend his rallies, a lot of them seem normal, and just people who have become disenchanted with both political parties.
There was no call for this.
I figured that when he started talking about that peace and unity crap. That stuff sounds good on paper, but there can be no peace and no unity with people who want you dead, and make no mistake that Biden and his gang of criminals want Kennedy dead just as bad as they want Trump and his supporters dead for nothing more than challenging the orthodoxy one too many times.
Also, he said that he was glad Trump likes/liked him but never once said that he likes/liked Trump in return. At his core he’s just another lefty. Can’t be seen to like Trump or think of him as a human being, even though his uncle Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer all used to count Donald Trump as among their friends
She doesn’t even seem completely on board with RFK Jr.’s stance on vaccines.
A VP doesn’t need skill to fight chronic disease issues.
Those are hired skills.
A VP is supposed to be ready to step in and run the country should something happen to the president.
In theory. In practice the VP position has often been used to get politicians with clout who might otherwise be a nuisance onside. See: Bush Sr, Cheney, Biden, Traitor Pence (if you consider the person to get onside to be the GOPe itself), Harris. Going back further, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, even Teddy Roosevelt I believe.
Thing is that VP is a completely useless, ceremonial position, unless something actually happens to the President
Once a leftard progressice, always a leftard progressive. RFK Jr’s stance on the bioweapon vaxx just proves the wisdom of the broken clock adage.
The sunshine in this storyt is that RFK Jr will likely now take zero votes away from Trump.
It’s not surprising that commenters here fail to speak to the issues RFK and Shanahan talk about, all of which are eminently reasonable. Like most people, even highly reasonable treepers would rather emote than address the very real issues of toxins in our environment. The main reason it’s not surprising is that no tv network will cover what RFK is actually saying, which is quite reasonable. The networks inevitably cut RFK off and begin interviewing their own pundits. It’s all emotional after that….
……and calling names may seem clever…….but after a while, reading such comments gets old.
C’mon Treepers….you gotta be better than that. Toxins in our environment actually affect you, unlike almost all the other “issues” you cite. Don’t remain ignorant. Go online and get the entire picture. Watch their entire speeches, or read their transcripts. Then comment about the issues that are important, that really affect you.
re: “would rather emote than address the very real issues of toxins in our environment.”
Born yesterday were you? Maybe you should research before you post on any given subject. You probably don’t remember when the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio caught on fire … hasn’t done that for some number of decades now.
Hahahahaha! He’s running left to Biden. Good luck Democrats!
So Shanahan basicly purchased the Position from Kennedy. Shows he has NO integrity nor intellectual awareness of where the nation is. Kennedy proves he’s no better then Obiden when it comes down to selling his soul to Soros
I think he did that when he dropped out of the Democratic Primary. He could have really given Biden a black eye, like his uncle did to Jimmy Carter, and then built his independent campaign from that. But instead he folded like a cheap suit
Oh dear. I think that’s the death knell for Kennedy’s campaign.
All about the Benjamins–period.
I trust zero techies. Period. Full Stop.
Is there anyone less qualified for the office than Nicole Shanahan?
re: “Is there anyone less qualified”
At this point in time, its a tough call looking at Biden and Harris …
Good news in that this tilts that ticket to strip more votes away from Obama than Trump than previously thought.
Armageddon scenario:
No one gets 270 electoral votes. Democrat-led Congress installs Obama for a fourth term. Republicans continue to play the role of Washington Generals, fundraising and wailing, with Jim Jordan giving a very stern interview on Hannity. Democrats continue to exercise power.
RFK jr is Tilting at Windmills. He thinks he can change the world; just another rich celebrity with a savior complex.
Shanahan is on the ticket to stroke her own ego by exploiting her un-earned riches. She got too rich too easily. Now she will throw away millions just to flatter herself.
In actuality RFK is also merely stroking his own ego by exploiting his own un-earned riches and fame. He just doesn’t fully realize that is all he is doing. He is more delusional than she is.