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I voted for Obama twice. In 2016 I didn't vote for president because I was mad about drone strikes, Bernie, the bailouts, etc. Trump is repugnant and narcissistic. He also seemed to pick a bad team once in office. I thought not voting Clinton would send a signal and they wouldn't run an establishment stooge the next time. I was primed to be radicalized into actively supporting the right-wing when I saw Santa Monica turn into a shit hole the 10 years I lived there. There is no excuse for letting addicts throw needles in the street and build tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. For all the talk about Trump being uncouth and uncivilized he's not advocating for policies letting people shit in the street. The covid policies, along with the 2020 riots have destroyed what used to be a beautiful, clean luxury shopping area along the coast. It still sits about 50% empty and about half the tourism traffic from 2019. From the evidence democrats seem to support ugliness and turning every civilized area into a dystopian hellscape where any critical talk which could fix it is censored by bureaucratic hall monitors. The mRNA treatment which had never worked in the previous 10 years of research being forced on an entire population under threat of losing a job and no long term studies across the population was just I was having my first kid when that went down and had zero risk of infection since I was remote. A treatment for a disease that had the median death of 82, which was known since at least April 2020, was not worth any unknown risk in other populations (particularly the young). It was amazing to see regulatory hurdles get removed to get it to market, but forcing anyone to take it when the mantra of the left had been "my body my choice" for the last 20 years is unbelievable. The incentive for fraud is too great when that much money is at stake to capitalize on having everyone buy a product. "Show me the incentive and I'll show the outcome". The left seem to completely ignore incentives. If I had to rank it: 1) Covid policies 2) The FED (Vance has paid this lip service, Elon had engagement with Ron Paul on Twitter. I am hopeful, but realistic) 3) Wars (I expect we leave the Ukraine quickly, and hope the Israel/Iran situation gets resolved, Pompeo being brought out the final campaign is a bad sign, but still hopeful) 4) Getting a lecture about being upset a homeless person was masturbating on the Muni in front of my Mother in Law. "NOT HOMELESS UNHOUSED"

People in power don't get attacked and get 34 legal charges for missing documents (which could easily have been one charge). Just because someone has money doesn't mean they are powerful. Trump is powerful today, after the election of 2024. Given the alliances he picked up this election, it's clear he now formidable.

When someone bucks the powers that be the powers that be will attack you. Just as true for Galileo, Socrates or whoever does the bucking. This is true independent of whatever moral standing the person doing the bucking has.

I actually don't care about any of those issues.

I voted Obama twice, I sat out 2016 and did third party. I predicted a win this time and voted for Vance, Elon and Vivek more than I did for Trump. Everyone here still talks like the Republicans are the party of 2012. They are not. Cultural and political forces have totally changed the landscape, even over 2020. It sucks trump had to be there to bring the boomers along but misery makes strange bedfellows.

I was referring to the phrase luxury belief system. You whataboutismed right back to Trump, but the phrase luxury belief system is central to why the entire electorate just voted someone like Trump into office.

It's a dig on economists not mathematicians.

Should definitely take it seriously and not listen to people fighting the system when they have charges from the establishment: King was jailed several times. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him. In 1964, the FBI mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.[3]

You should really try to understand what he's saying. Its pretty key to understanding the world in 2024.

I agree with this take: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/epitaph-for-pure-wind Trump definitely influenced what happened, however, it was not an insurrection and the media trying to push that idea definitely helped him. President Xi is not going to be negotiating with Viking guy. Viking guy, if he was still in the Capitol after dark, would have been dead when Pelosi called in a strike team from her bunker. Trump had no elite support in 2020 to pull off an insurrection.

https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1854895075802689798 Here's a haiku based on your text: War-mongering eyes Judge us, while hands bleed nations Truth, a bloody lie Quote : "They deserve it. And it's not just that they lie about everything. It's like they lie about everything and then they have the nerve to morally judge us. Like if you just watch even just the last few weeks of the Trump election, they're not in the business of reporting the news. They're totally just in the business of making you feel like you're a bad person. If you don't fall in line with the regime, America has this giant war machine, right? Like we're just always at war. We're the most war hungry country in the world. Even if we're taking a little bit of a break from a war, we'll fight two more proxy wars while we do that. America looks back at the 90s, Bill Clinton, as the time of peace and prosperity. We call it peace because we only fought a war in like Serbia and had a blockade around Iraq and were like bombing the crap out of Iraq with a few other military interventions in there too. The UN estimated that Bill Clinton's sanction and bombing regime of Iraq, okay, everyone just thinks of George H.W. Bush's war and W's war, but Bill Clinton was bombing Iraq his whole time. He had a full blockade around the country. The UN estimated that 500,000 children died of starvation or malnutrition due to the blockade. Now I've heard people argue, by the way, that that number is exaggerated. Maybe it wasn't 500,000, maybe it was only 100,000. Let's say it's an iron town. So that's the time that we consider peace when we were just starving 100,000 children to death in Iraq and you, everybody in the corporate media, are in the business of every single one of those wars. You've sold them. Everyone, my entire life, the media has sold those wars and you're gonna morally look down on me? You're gonna judge me? Motherfucker, you're in the business of baby murder. Get the fuck out of here. You're looking down judging an American because I, maybe I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump or maybe I dare to question the results of the last election? Fuck you, dude. I just..."

Orwellian. Light is dark! Dark is light! One group stood up to firing if they espoused right-wing beliefs in the work place for the last decade. The other group got internal employee groups and "STUNNING AND BRAVE" cheerleading. Also one side had assassination attempts, while they other had support of the corporate world, the media, and the universities.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/why-trump-may-stage-greatest-comeback-us-history-7dfr8tzrq When asked to name a weakness she had that she might overcome, she went full David Brent: “I mean, I’ve … I’ve made many mistakes. And they range from, you know, if you’ve ever parented a child you know you make lots of mistakes to, in my role as vice-president? I mean, I’ve probably worked very hard at making sure that I am well-versed on issues and I think that is very important. It’s a mistake not to be well-versed on an issue and feel compelled to answer a question.” The entire event was a disaster: a near parody of why normal people hate the way politicians talk. Every answer seemed to be a form of damage control. And her body language … Well, it is not reassuring to think a person who cannot crisply answer a straight question will have to make split-second life-and-death decisions as president. She seemed like a party functionary — maybe a decent low-level cabinet member. But president? Sorry, but it didn’t and doesn’t add up. Most honest Democrats I know feel the same way. The Democrats also missed a critical new reality in American politics: it’s about class, not identity. The Biden-Harris messaging was directed to women, “queers”, African-Americans and “Latinx” people. Trump messaging was about how well working-class people did before Covid, and how they could prosper again. “Harris is for they/them. Trump is for you” was a potent message. And if the polling pans out, Trump could assemble the most multi-racial coalition since Nixon, winning record numbers of black, Latino, Muslim and gay votes.

That's because we have kids and saw what they were teaching kids, dealt with lock downs, and had to worry they would test pharmaceuticals for a disease with a median death age of 82 on our babies.

Nassim Taleb. Also: An economist is a mixture of 1) a businessman without common sense, 2) a physicist without brain, and 3) a speculator without balls

Daniel Kahneman Nobel winning economist, David Hume, Jonathan Haidt would beg to differ. Read Propaganda by Bernays and Alchemy by Rory Suderland.

Those with brains no balls become mathematicians, those with balls no brains join the mafia, those with no balls no brains become economists.

No one uses facts to vote. Facts and logic are used as a justification to others and yourself for why you made a decision.

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1854189406946558447?s=46 > Texas swung so far to the right that it might've picked up MAJORITIES of Hispanics and Asians. All the gays and Asians I know that fled California in the same time frame I left were pretty based. Seems similar in Florida. People used to be concerned about us voting wrong, they are not concerned anymore.

If you don't change the attack nothing changes. For a third time, if you call people racist over and over it's not going to work. Look at the Hispanic numbers and the black vote. It increased over 2020. Attack, but for God sakes don't make it whateverism.

I didn't say attacks don't work. I said THOSE attacks don't work.

https://x.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1854156674178633795 No one believes you, it was obvious if you followed any of the discourse not controlled by the legacy media. That's all I'm saying, whether he is or is not, or what I believe he is or is not. People do not believe the attacks and are tired of being called racists/misogynist/whateverist. GET BETTER MATERIAL IF YOU WANT TO WIN

Octavian drug Antony through the mud about courting Egypt thousands of years ago and Cicero wrote about swaying the public in the same era. Propaganda has been the defacto way to influence people for at least two thousand years. There were even writings about it that survive to this day. Bernays wrote "Propaganda" in 1920. The truth world never existed it's a phantom.

Calling him racist and misogynistic is not going to win any races. The public sees through the act and are sick of it. Find a new tactic that persuades the public.

All Democrats employed in the government must immediately report for duty at their local third wave coffee shop. If there are no coffee jobs you have to report to the cobalt mines. Thank you, DOGE