cgod. Hang in there, pal. Always rooting for you from afar.

Congratulations Veen! Cheers to many happy and healthy years for you both. Pro tip- take up tennis together. I love Spain so much. I could live in Sevilla. I know BLOB_CASTLE is/was there. An amazing country.

Don’t stress re the election. It will all be over soon. Both options suck. Nothing will change. But I will focus on the things I can control.

Can’t stress the tennis thing enough. So good for a couple.

Onward!

Awesome update. Congrats on taking your life into your own hands. The love will come. Best of luck with the startup’! It is not for the faint of heart but it can be very rewarding. Onward!

Godspeed

Dude. Go take a walk outside. Breath. Eat some fresh blueberries. Dip your toes in a cold lake. Feel the breeze on your face. Remember, X is not reflective of the left or the right. It’s bombast. People have way more in common than not. Trump is not the devil. Kamala is not the devil. Both have areas for concern. One more than the other, for some.

But control the things you can. I’ve largely turned off X at this point. I was way too involved there.

Chin up.

Onward!

Who was this? Hard to know. But no matter, all the best to you. This place is only as interesting as the people here. If/when you come back, bring some interesting pals. The infrastructure is here. It has the potential to be a cool place. Wishing you well!!

Godspeed!

It's hard to really know what the context for the "bloodbath" comment was.

I'm no lib, I'm an independent, probably socialist-dem, who feels that the most effective way to defeat the fascism element is voting dem right now

One of the key tenets of fascism is the forcible suppression of opposition. Right now the DNC that you’re supporting is litigating to keep Kennedy and Cornell west off of the ballot in my state. The board of electors here is all dem. They’ve agreed to not certify the signatures for Kennedy and west. They have certified the ability for the right leaning independent candidates though. Odd. Also, they’ve denied Kennedy secret service protection even though he has double digit support, credible threats to his safety etc. Furthermore they agreed to debate outside of the purview of the debate commission, colluding with CNN to set criteria for exclusion tailored to keep indoor dent candidates off of the stage.

Furthermore, they ostracized any candidate that dared to primary Biden, effectively ending any opposition. Thereby stealing your right to choose your democratic candidate. Now, I suspect, they will wait until the last minute to choose their candidate (with no input from you or any other constituents).

Who are the facists here?

Biden may come across as a gentle grandpa but he’s a war monger. And he’s senile. A dangerous combo.

I feel amazing re my support for Kennedy. At 19% nationally now. The tide will turn. And if it doesn’t, I’ll remain proud of my support for him. To vote for either Biden or Trump is to vote against your own personal liberties.

I think this place is letting its tds make it dumber by the minute.

Two things can be true at the same time. Biden can be cognitively impaired and Trump can be abysmal. The left still has time to put up a better candidate. My guess is that it will be Kamala and Whitmer. Kamala still has access to the money they’ve raised and Whitmer brings Michigan and strengthens them on their strongest issue: women’s reproductive rights.

I was called crazy by family and friends for arguing strongly that the Dems needed to hold a robust primary. “You can’t primary a sitting President. He’s not too old…” was their reply. If Dean Phillips or RFKJ were the nominees Trump would be toast.

Biden/Harris have four years of baggage and they can claim that inflation is getting better and they’re creating jobs etc, but people don’t feel that. People feel like inflation is out of control, interest rates are bonkers and that they’re underemployed. Meanwhile, they see billions of tax payer money flying out the door to support foreign wars/countries while our border remains porous, our country is addicted, depressed and diseased.

The Dems used to be the anti-corporate corruption party, anti Wall Street, anti war, first amendment absolutists party. All that has gone away. The two party system is obsolete. Shades of grey.

Biden has never met a war he didn’t like. I am afraid he will bring us to ww3. The question should be, Can Biden be our president in 3 years time? I think we all know he will be mush by then.

For what it’s worth, I think trump is worse. But at least with Trump, crypto has a home in the United States. Biden/Warren’s anti crypto crusade is truly bonkers. Protecting nobody but traditional finance/banks. The Dems have lost their way and their leader is beyond too old.

Let’s see what happens. This is the first time in my life I’m rooting for the Dems to lose. Following the Kennedy campaign and how the DNC is keeping him off of ballots, colluding with CNN to keep him out of debates, denying him secret service protection (latest polls have him at 19% nationally) has been eye opening. Fuck the DNC! They denied us a primary and have made their bed. Now they must lie in it.

The guy is a recovered addict. At the outset of his campaign he let his team, and all of us know that he has a lot of skeletons in his closet. He has worked hard to reform them. Truth is, I don’t give a shit about his behaviors 20, 30, 40 years ago. I care about his current judgement and his policy proposals. Biden has sexual harassment charges from 40 years ago, trump has many. Wipe all of those away and look at their policy proposals, look at what they perceive to be the greatest challenges worth overcoming for our nation. I find it hard to believe anyone wouldn’t choose Kennedy’s vision for America.

I’ve never watched Cenk’s program so I can’t speak to it but I’ve never found a long form interview with Kennedy to be boring. But we do live in a sound-bite world. Which is why lying and saying someone ate a dog in Korea can have legs. That Vanity Fair article was a steaming pile of propaganda.

With he exception of FOX News, and even they’ve been more anti-trump the past year, every msm outlet has been very much reporting about the dangers of trump since 2016. The difference is, people don’t buy it. The media landscape has changed so much. People have figured out how it works. For example, he mentioned that if he isn’t elected there would be an economic bloodbath (as related to Chinese auto imports particularly) and the MSM just segmented the, “bloodbath,” part. Out of context it is scary stuff. They do this A LoT!

To be clear, the right does this too. Recently Joe Biden looked like he was confused and couldn’t find a chair or that at worse he was defeating in his pants. The right had a field day online with this.

People are disillusioned with the entire system. Our media has failed us. Our candidates are atrocious. Biden is not mentally fit for the job. I don’t care if it, “comes and goes.” Xi, Putin, Netanyahu and other leaders are sharp as a tack. We deserve the same. You couldn’t pay me to vote for Trump or Biden. I don’t think I will ever vote for another RNC or DNC candidate. I’m done. I will work hard to get a third party candidate elected. This cycle and beyond. All else is Stockholm syndrome. The parties are remarkably similar. Both run up the debt to unforgivable levels and rarely mention it as the threat that it is. We need to be rid of Citizens United. We need ranked choice. We need a cap on campaign spending. We need term limits in Congress. We need to dismantle the revolving door between private and public sector. For example, the head of the FDA during Covid is now on Pfizer's board. We are a mess and thinking either party will change that, or even wants to is ridiculous.

Prior to the debate Kennedy was polling at 15% in CNN’s own poll. Most polls have options listed as:

Biden

Trump

Other

Then, when you click on, “other,” you get:

Kennedy

Stein

West

When the poll is

Biden

Trump

Kennedy

Not surprisingly, Kennedy’s numbers are even higher. My assumption is that he is around 20% nationally, post debate. This will continue to inch up until the second debate. If Kennedy makes the stage, he can win.

He held a shadow debate wherein he answered all of the same questions as the other candidates. It’s worth watching. You get to see all three answer:

mk, creator of this place is a medical physicist. Does that count? Once in an article they called him, “Mr.,” and me, “Dr.” for a brief moment I too was a PhD ;-)

Just saw that the Democratic Party in Nevada is suing to keep RFK Jr. Off of the ballot even though he gathered enough signatures by more than 2x. They're saying that he cannot be on the ballot as an independent since he is still a registered democrat. If it works, other states will try too.

I am so disgusted by the DNC. Disgusting behavior. Out of one side of their mouths they say they're the protectors of democracy and the other side does all it can to suppress it. Shameful. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. We deserve so much better. On a positive note, saw Wilco the other night. Held my wife and daughters in my arms as they played a beautiful version of Jesus Etc. Was a cool moment that I will not forget.

Congrats. We bought a house too. We tore it down and we are building one from scratch. If all goes well we should move in in about 11 months. My wife is largely driving this train, but I do have autonomy over the detached music studio. It's not huge, 400 sq ft. But it will be my sanctuary. I look forward to exiting FL in the next 2-3 years and spending retirement making lots and lots of subpar music :)

I think of the FDA as biggest culprit re poisoning our country. The way we eat/consume pharmaceutical products in this country is insane. The FDA is supposed to be safeguarding us. Also, I like the, "Here be dragons," warning. Perfect.

Sadly, not all of them. But don't fret, we can't all be engineers turned PhD's. The world needs people to waive, "hello," at Walmart's too.

You can't blame a dude for deaths because he met with someone that was an anti-vaxer. That's like saying Clinton, Trump and anyone else that has met Epstein, raped little kids. RFK has met with a lot of people to try and understand the potential harms of vaccines.

I don't know much about the Samoa situation but from what I quickly gathered: "Vaccine rates had plummeted after two children died in 2018 from a measles vaccine that a nurse had incorrectly mixed with a muscle relaxant. The government suspended the vaccine program for months."

Also, every talk and interview I see with Bobby Kennedy he emphatically states that he is not anti-vax but rather pro vaccine safety. Big difference. He himself is fully compliant with the vaccine schedule, as are his children. But he wants to lift the protections Pharma companies get when producing vaccines. It's literally impossible to sue a pharma company for vaccine injuries. They're shielded from any liability. This is wrong. Pharma companies aren't pure evil but they're also in pursuit of double digit earnings etc. It's profit driven. When there is a man trying to upend your apple cart, you will call him crazy, make him appear to be irrational etc. It's remarkable how effective they have been in getting us all to come to their aid and vilify anyone that dares to question if a vaccine is fully safe or not? Wild to me. Fwiw, my kids are vaccinated but not all of the vaccines. There is literally no reason my kids need to be vaccinated for Hep B for example. Yet, it's on the schedule now. This is a disease largely transmitted by IV drug use and risky sexual behavior.

Anyways, I would be willing to bet that RFK had very little to do with a measles outbreak in Samoa. But it makes people dismiss him easily. It's nice to be able to do that. It means you don't have to look into nuance. Much easier to paint someone as "good," or, "bad," or in this case, "conspiratorial."