Leo Gura

If you can't see how dangerous this whole situation is then you are so blind, biased, or naive that it doesn't make sense to explain anything political to you.

My energy has always been abnormally low from health problems. So I could not go out and work full time. I had to priortize one or the other. But this is not the case for most people. My work is also very intellectually demanding and tiring. Don't know what that means.

It's actually an under-reaction. People are treating this whole thing as a joke or just a repeat of Trump 2016. People are not taking seriously that Trump will go full dictator mode. You think he's wouldn't dare. But you don't appreciate the monster that he is. He will absolutely go full dictator if he wins. How stupid can people be? He literally said it. He's not joking. If he wins he will never leave and the Republicans and the courts will rubberstamp all his crimes. You guys still think he's some kind of okay guy. He's a criminal dictator. Pain and simple. This is what happens when you do false equivalency: "Oh, Trump and Biden are both lairs, all the same." No, they are totally different beasts. If you keep doing false equivalency you will end up electing a dictator as though he were a normal politician.

Yes, that's where the real trouble is. The polls paint a grim picture.

In fact, the extreme right blocked Biden's border bill. Typical right-wing projection and BS.

As I said, the US needs to back off Russia's doorstep.

I've gone out for long periods of time. Once you're in the groove and build up momemtum and it's your full-time job, it's not so hard. But I can't get inside Owen's head so I could be wrong.

I don't see Ukraine as existential. The US has way too much influence in that region where it doesn't belong. The US is overreaching and causing needless trouble for itself. Backing off with NATO is the wisest course of action. There is no threat to the US or NATO from Russia. That is paranoia.

Never cite national polls, they are irrelevant. You must only look at polls in swing stages.

Owen in an introvert. Or so he says. Of course pickup is designed for extroverts.

I have enough to live on but I also need to make for the future and to fund other business ideas of mine. My biggest expense is my other business ideas. I have plans to spend of $1M cash on a new biz.

The Heritage Foundation is directly working with Trump. They pick all the judges for his appointments. Heritage is just an arm of the Christian Nationalists. Their plan is Trump's platform.

LEVEL 0: Chocolate-dipped turd.

There is no good answer to that. Look around you. Survival is a nasty bitch. In general, higher values require harder and smarter work and more time. Which is why people don't do them.

Trump will appoint the most incompetent and corrupt people in every major position in government. That cannot end well.

That too. There's a lot of people selling pipe dreams. Then again, big success is always possible with hard and smart work. So don't get discouraged.

Deregulation leads to pillaging of the economy until eventually it collapses. That's what we saw with Bush in 2008.

@Hardkill Of course all political talk has some influence on the center of gravity of the culture. But the culture is also reactive. It counter-balances any attempt to shift it in any direction. Bernie had his influence, but it wasn't enough to usher in a progressive president.

Why isn't murdering the therapist an option? Real men think outside the box!

Bernie's radicalness is what makes him authentic, which makes him appealing over everyone else who is just a group-thinking corporate stooge. Focusing on practical working class issues is exactly what makes you radical. Because the radical is the one who is a real threat to power. And power is business as usual and exploitation as usual.

Bernie has unique qualities which no other politician has. But even so, he is still incapable of winning a primary. The reason Bernie isn't president is because people refused to vote for him. That's the bottom line.

Those radical leftist movements will never have mainstream appeal because they challenge normie culture too much. Leftist culture is the problem. It's deeply offputting to traditional people. To them leftists appear like dirty pedophile Communists. You're not going to win them over by fighting with even more zealotry. The solution is not more TYT vibes.

People don't vote on issues, they vote on culture, Spiral stage, and vibes. There is no issue that Dems can give to stage Blue people to get them to abandon their culture and Spiral stage. This is a political strategy mistake. You can't buy a Christian's vote with higher minimum wage and wealth tax. They are too ignorant and brainwashed to care about such things.

That's not really a serious way to make money. It takes too long and requires lots of money to begin with to matter. ETF will earn you 12% per year at best, but then subtract 4% inflation from that.

@Hardkill I would literally happily vote for a baboon over Trump. At least the baboon will not errode democracy from within.