Leo Gura

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.

Not really. Progressives like TYT offer a bold leftist vision but conservatives and Stage Blue hate and demonize that even more than Biden. The reality is that many of these brainwashed ignorant Stage Blue people are too far gone to be ameniable to any form of Stage Green. A Christian Nationalist is not want of a bold progressive vision. Fundamentalism is precisely a reactionary movement against progess. These people want a patriarchal state run by a strongman who puts anyone in line who steps out of the orthodox line. This is what many people crave. They want a Christian hierarchy of elites which in their view is ordained by God. They are too ignorant, closedminded, and under-developed to compromise on that. If anything, bold progressivism scares normies off to side with Blue. All that trans stuff and drag shows have scared off normies. Normies are deeply attached to traditional culture.

Or, just not having any other option. I live with physical pain every day, all day. Hard to even remember what no pain feels like.

I just saw a guy on Instagram who buys small businesses that have proven cashflow from retiring Boomers and then hires a manager to automate the biz. He pays 2.5x annual cashflow for a business like carpet cleaning or AC repair. So if biz brings in $100k/yr profit he buys it for $250k. But he gets a small business loan from the bank for 80% of that cost and just puts 20% down. He owns 7 such businesses and makes $750k/yr and it's mostly automated.