Health and Human Services is still a disaster being led by a madman, Robert Kennedy Jr. Just this month, there were widespread resignations at the CDC (which Kennedy oversees) and widespread calls for Kennedy to step down. Every American institution is being destroyed from within, at least that’s how it feels this year. Well, instead of stepping down, RFK attended a ceremony honoring Charlie Kirk. Kennedy not only attended, he spoke about how he and Kirk were “soulmates” and Kirk facilitated Kennedy and Donald Trump’s association.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. felt a special bond with Charlie Kirk. The 71-year-old health secretary commemorated the 31-year-old conservative media pundit — who was fatally shot on Wednesday, Sept. 10 — during a Sunday, Sept. 14, ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. RFK Jr. opened his speech with an anecdote about his 17-year-old niece getting ready to attend college in Europe. He said that she packed a Bible and told her mom that she wanted “to live like Charlie Kirk.”

“There are millions and millions of kids around the country who he inspired who now want to live with Charlie Kirk. And that’s a great thing for our country,” RFK Jr. told the cheering audience.

He continued by recalling when he met Kirk and saying that they rapidly became “soulmates.”

“I think we approached each other with a lot of trepidation at that time,” he admitted, adding that it didn’t last long. “We were spiritual brothers, and we were friends.”

After crediting Kirk for being “the primary architect of my unification with President Trump,” the politician shared a serious conversation that they had about death and the risks of living in the public eye. He said that they “were talking about the danger that we both faced from challenging entrenched interests. And he asked me if I was scared to die. I said to him, ‘There’s a lot worse things than dying,’ ” adding that “chief among them is losing our constitutional rights and having our children raised in slavery. And I said to him at that time, I said, ‘Sometimes our only consolation is that we can die with our boots on. We can die fighting for these things.’ ”

RFK Jr. highlighted Kirk’s dedication to “free speech,” saying that he viewed it as “intertwined” with his faith.

“He thought conversation was the only way we were going to heal our country, that we had to learn to talk to each other without vitriol, without poison, without anger. We had to be able to listen to ideas. We had to be able to say what we mean without being mean and to talk to each other across this divide. It’s the only way to end the polarization that’s driven now by these algorithms and by all these other forces in our society,” he said.

[From People]

The past week has felt like a Twilight Zone episode. I knew that the white-supremacist cult was really far gone, but it’s been astounding to watch them canonize Kirk as some deep Christian thinker and free-speech advocate. You have to understand, people are currently being fired from their jobs for simply expressing indifference to Kirk’s death, or for pointing out Kirk’s actual beliefs and/or quoting him accurately. I also had no idea that Kennedy and Kirk were “soulmates” or that Kirk helped the Kennedy-Trump alliance come to fruition. Anyway, this is all one big Orwellian nightmare, words don’t even have meaning anymore.

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